Miscellaneous Materials
- Map of the world
- Authagraph World Map
- Map Projections: USGS
- Compare Map Projections project: All Single-view Maps
- Perry-Castaneda Map Collection: World, world.
- Per capita alcohol consumption map
- WorldMapper, wealth in year 1, wealth in 1500, population in 1500
- Uninhabited lands actually discovered by European Explorers
- XKCD’s World Map Dating Algorithm: https://xkcd.com/1688/
- Fordham Internet History Sourcebook
- SDSU’s South Asia Project Document Collection
- Graphics explaining Ptolemaic epicycles. Arguments for and against heliocentrism
- The classic Charles Minard map of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia and battle sites of the Peninsular War
- Historical Distribution of European Printing and Intellectual Centers
- Byzantine History and Maps
- Visual History of the Tomato, Black Pepper and Coffee
- Online resources for teaching Islam by Corinne Blake
- Stanford University Orbis Roman Travel and Transportation Calculator
- The Web Gallery of Art, one of the earliest, and still excellent, online art resources.
- Ukiyo-e.org, a collection of online images of Japanese Woodblock Prints
- US Military Academy at West Point Department of History Atlases of Military History
Videos
- Frontline’s From Jesus To Christ online
- Sita Sings The Blues, an animated interpretation of the Ramayana by Nina Paley
- Video history of surgery (warning: real surgery)
- Color film of WWI combat (actual combat and images of death)
- This Old Pyramid: Video and Transcript
- Canned Dreams: Finnish documentary about a can of ravioli
- Recovery and Recreation of the Civil War Rebel Yell
Educational Resources
- Heather Cox Richardson’s advice for college students of history: Richardson’s Rules of Order
- How to Read History by Caleb McDaniel
- How To Write a Good History Essay By Robert Pearce
- “The 9 C’s (and one S) of Historical Thinking” by Tim Lacy
- Paul Cohen on Experiencers, Historians, and Mythologizers
- 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
- Buster Benson, “Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet“
- Mike Caulfield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/
- T. Mills Kelly, Teaching History in the Digital Age, U Michigan, 2013.
Grading
- Rubric: Curiousity and Wonder
- Elements of a Good Book Review (and Letter of Recommendation) by John Barton
- Brandon Watson on Competent Reviewing and Daniel Dennett on Critiquing with Kindness
- Plagiarism: Definition, Warning, Policy
- Pittsburg State University Writing Rubric
- “Towards aUnified Theory of Grading“
- Paper Grading Standards