Outside Resources
Miscellaneous Materials
- Map of the world
- Per capita alcohol consumption map
- WorldMapper, wealth in year 1, wealth in 1500, population in 1500
- Fordham Internet History Sourcebook
- SDSU’s South Asia Project Document Collection
- Graphics explaining Ptolemaic epicycles.
- Sita Sings The Blues, an animated interpretation of the Ramayana by Nina Paley
- Video history of surgery (warning: real surgery)
- The classic Charles Minard map of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia and battle sites of the Peninsular War
- Recovery and Recreation of the Civil War Rebel Yell
- Historical Distribution of European Printing and Intellectual Centers
- Byzantine History and Maps
- Visual History of the Tomato, Black Pepper and Coffee
- Frontline’s From Jesus To Christ online
- Stanford University Orbis Roman Travel and Transportation Calculator
- This Old Pyramid: Video and Transcript
- Canned Dreams: Finnish documentary about a can of ravioli
Educational Resources
- Heather Cox Richardson’s advice for college students of history: Richardson’s Rules of Order
- How to Read History by Caleb McDaniel
- “The 9 C’s (and one S) of Historical Thinking” by Tim Lacy
- Ten Good Reasons to avoid Wikipedia as a source
- Silly Citation Standards
- How College/University is different from high school
- “Dear Student: I Don’t Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life” by Art Carden, Forbes (12 Jan 2012)
- Student Information Form
Grading
- Rubric: Curiousity and Wonder
- Elements of a Good Book Review (and Letter of Recommendation) by John Barton
- Plagiarism: Definition, Warning, Policy
- Paper Grading Standards
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