Resources for World History
These materials were developed by me for use in my courses. Order is roughly chronological. Feedback is always welcome. I don’t claim great originality for most of them — usually I develop these because I’m trying to clarify the textbook material in some way — but they did take some work and have been useful. Fair use and standard requests for credit where credit is due apply.
If no link appears, then I haven’t yet posted the material.
- Basic principles of Buddhism
- Persian Empires
- Basic terms and definitions from classical Greek society
- Schools of thought and thinkers from ancient Greece
- The Confucian Great Learning
- Basic terms and definitions of Islam and important figures in classical Islamic culture
- Quran: Surahs 1 and 2
- A comparison of Japan and Korea to 1500
- Basic thinkers and principles of Neo-Confucianism
- Chart showing elements of the Columbian Exchange
- A sampling of Renaissance Art
- Comparison chart of late medieval Islamic Gunpowder Empires
- A chronological bibliography of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
- A Chronology of the French Revolution and Napoleonic eras
- A comparison of 18-19c North and South American political and economic conditions.
- Chronologies of 19c Russian and Ottoman empires
- Chronology of the period leading up to and during WWI
- Chronology of Japan’s Imperialistic Age
- Chronology of Korea’s colonization by and liberation from Japan
- New technologies of WWI and WWII
- Chronology (and some definitions) from the Cold War era
- My HNN piece on Reagan and the 1980s Coalition
- Pictures
Some outside resources:
- Map of the world
- Per capita alcohol consumption map
- Graphics explaining Ptolemaic epicycles.
- Video history of surgery (warning: real surgery)
- The 1689 English Bill of Rights
Administrative and Teaching Resources
- Plagiarism: Definition, Warning, Policy
- Paper Grading Standards
- Silly Citation Standards
- Heather Cox Richardson’s advice for college students of history: Richardson’s Rules of Order
- Student Information Form
