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Pulitzer Center for Global Affairs

An easy title for a website: Global Issues

Civil War Recruitment Posters From the Atlantic Monthly (thanks Michelle!)

World Population Perspectives on one of Michelle's SiteHoovers

World History Matters

When We Were Three

Best History Websites Database

Women in World History resources

FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. STARTER RESOURCES AT: • [|AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth.gov]• [|Federal Resources for Educational Excellence]• [|African American Heritage – National Archives]• [|National Museum of African American History and Culture]• [|Census Bureau Facts and Figures about African Americans]

TEACHING THE MIDDLE EAST designed for teachers by the University of Chicago

Let Freedom Swing Conversations on Jazz and Democracy

[|Primary Source] is an excellent cultural education site

WOW! Check out this Google Earth Tour of the Nile!

And also a Tour of the Yangtze!

The United Nations Cyber School Bus allows you to research a lot of the information that the CIA World Fact Book also has, but in addition, it permits the user to make simultaneous comparisons of up to SIX nations. Pretty nifty....

Mission US ESPECIALLY FOR 8TH GRADE TEACHERS!

// Mission US // is a free, new interactive adventure game series designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8. The project website ncludes a vast suite of classroom resources.

Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?" helps players understand the social, political and economic conflicts that led to the American Revolution by having them step into the shoes of fictional Nat Wheeler, a young printer's apprentice in colonial Boston.

Missions are standards-based and can be easily incorporated into existing history classes and curricula. Learn more about how to incorporate the games into your classroom from the Mission US National Educator of the Year at the 2011 Celebration of Teaching and Learning.

S tarting September 21st, play //Mission US // online -- a revolutionary way to learn history.

iCivics FROM FORMER JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR AND GEORGETOWN LAW SCHOOL is an excellent resource site for civics and government education, but mainly specializes in the rule of law and the operation of the judiciary.

Many resources available from the National Archives Docs Teach

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