Humanities II: Selected Web Sites:

Anarchy Archives:

   http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/index.html

Great archive with pages on the Paris Commune and the Spanish Civil War that would be especially useful for students.
 

Art: Paintings, artists, movements:

   http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html

Very useful site for images and information.  A bit cumbersome to navigate at first.  Provides links to many different museums throughout the world.  Could be used in class through the internet, if you plot out your path carefully.

Chateau of Versailles

   http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/210.asp

Includes information on Louis XIV, paintings, life at Versailles, comments of famous persons on Versailles such as de Gaulle, maps and plans of the palace, etc.

Cold War:

   http://www.coldwar.org

Excellent site that organizes images and documents by decade.
 

Creationism and the National Academy of Sciences:

   http://books.nap.edu/html/creationism

A very useful site that lays out the arguments against creation science from the perspective of the national Academy of Sciences.

 

English Civil War:  17th Century Reenacting and Living History Resources:

   http://www.lukehistory.com/resources/index.html

Lots of original source material, including ballads and religious documents, and some wood block prints, though not visually very rich.

European Royal residences: Fifteen palaces. 

   http://www.europeanroyalresidences.com/

This is an interesting series of photographs that launch from a map of Europe.  Each residence is identified by a hotlink on the map.  Descriptions are brief, but useful.  (Requires Macromedia Flash).

Galileo and the Scientific Revolution:

   http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoionc/Galileo/

The Galileo Project is a  source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. The project is supported by the Office of the Vice President of Computing of Rice University. It has pages with information and some images of his villa, his experiments, his trial, culture of the times, and of course his daughter.  Some of the pages are put together by Rice students and are therefore only selectively informative.

Giuseppe Garibaldi:

   http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/hist/garib/garib.html

 The Anthony P. Campanella Collection.  Excellent site with original sources.  Though must of them are in Italian, facsimiles of posters and pamphlets from the 1848 revolutions and annotations in English are quite nice.

Hiroshima Site:

   http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/indexE.html

Moving series of images from the atomic bomb explosion.  (Does not require downloading of a language pack.)

Holocaust Museum:

   http://www.ushmm.org/

Powerful series of texts and images regarding the Holocaust from the Unites States Holocaust Museum.  While nothing on line can equal an actual tour of the museum, the personal stories on this site are truly moving.
 

Musee du Louvre:

   http://www.smartweb.fr/louvre/

A virtual visit to the Louvre.  Lots of pictures.  Difficult to use if looking for a theme such as romanticism or realism, but worth the visit. 

Webmuseum, Paris.

   http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/

Site on the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich with decent reproductions of his more important paintings.  Also great site on any artist, Courbet, etc.

World War 1:

   Document Archive:

      http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

      Very complete collection of original sources.

   Trenches on the Web:

      http://www.worldwar1.com/

      A very comprehensive site with art and poetry as well as chronology and biography.

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