PBS
Pbs: Geography of Music the World in the Age of Revolutions
This interactive map helps illuminate the relationships among the various composers as well as connections between music and its historical and cultural context. It also illustrates the importance of the physical and cultural...
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: Thomas Paine the Age of Reason (1794)
Presented is the complete text of Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason written in 1794.
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Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization [Pdf]
A lesson covering detailed historical accounts of the Neolithic Revolution. The PDF includes key terms, maps, and means for assessment.
University of Chicago
Teach the Middle East: The Neolithic Revolution
In this article you will learn about the chronology of the Neolithic Revolution. Stages include the Paleolithic age, a time of nomadic hunter-gatherers roamed the globe and the Epipaleolithic age, when sedentary hunter-gatherers...
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Learning module in which students study the Scientific Revolution and explore the dramatic change in the way people thought about the world during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Unit includes videos, unit guide and primary sources.
Other
H2 G2: Neolithic Revolution: How Farming Changed the World
Peruse this article featuring the ways discoveries and establishments of agriculture, government, social class, etc. during the Neolithic Revolution altered the future for all civilization.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
The American Revolution fomented change throughout the trans-Atlantic area. Read about the revolution's influence on the French and their overthrowing of their king, and the slave revolt which brought about the second republic in the New...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Thomas Carlyle
This Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) portal gives access to biographical information about this Victorian social and polticial historian's life and work, such as his importan history of the French Revolution.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Industrial Revolution & Immigration
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson has notes covering the American Industrial Revolution and famous leaders of the industrial age. Also includes the need for immigrants to supply the factories with workers.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Trans Atlantic Crisis: The French Revolution
A look at the French Revolution and how it was interpreted by members of the ruling members in the new United States. What occurred in France tempered the way politic opposites viewed each other in America.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Living in the Information Age
Read about the technological advances that brought on the information age at the beginning of the 21st century. The internet, e-mail, and the spread of fiber-optic cables revolutionized the amount of information available to the ordinary...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dynasty, Revolution, and the Classical Age
Welcome to Britain, home to one of the biggest empires in history and a rich artistic heritage. We'll start in the 16th through the 18th centuries, years that saw the establishment of Britain and British art as we know it. As you travel...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Poet of the American Revolution: Philip Freneau
One poet, Philip Freneau, incorporated the new stirrings of European Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Print Revolution
As the American population became more literate, there was more available to read. See how newspapers adapted to the thirst for news and other topics, and read about the new magazines that reached a reading public.
Other
Wired.com: The Age of Paine
An article from Wired Magazine describing Paine's use of the media to support the Revolution and comparing it to use of modern media such as TV, radio and the Internet.
PBS
Pbs: Age of Hope
Read and listen to two eyewitness interviews from people who have lived through the 20th century. What were their hopes for the world when they were young? Site includes detailed lesson plan.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Global Industrialization
Europe and America were far from alone in the quest for industrialization. This unit explores just how far the age of industry impacted the world.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Rationalism
This is an introduction to a unit on Rationalism, also known as The Age of Reason or Enlightenment, was set during the American Revolutionary period. It focuses on the belief that the power of reason and science would further human...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Smith, Marx, and Keynes
Spanning three centuries of history, from the dawn of the industrial age to modern times, three diverse thinkers developed their own landmark theories on commerce, labor, and the global economy. The three economists profiled in this...
Other
The Napoleon Series
This site is dedicated to research and scholarship on the age of Napoleon Bonaparte and provides links to articles on the military history of that time.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Wright of Derby, a Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
Joseph Wright of Derby's painting, "A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery", encapsulates in one moment the age of Enlightenment. View pictures and read details of this painting in this essay.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Perspectives on the French and Indian War
A collection that uses primary sources to explore perspectives on the French and Indian War.
Other
International World History: Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization
Read here about the Neolithic Revolution and the development of early Stone Age humans into an Agrarian society. Causes of the agrarian transformation are addressed as well as the domestication of plants and animals. The spread of the...