Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Point Atkinson Lighthouse: Maintaining the Light
The Point Atkinson Lighthouse,built to protect the shipping trade of a growing Vancouver, is profiled. This is the history of the lighthouse ..from early, isolated days to the lives of the keepers of the lighthouse and their families to...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Romantic Revival Austen
From the Cambridge History of Literature, provides analysis of the life, novels, and early works of Jane Austen.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Barbados Virtual Tour
Presents a brief summary of Jewish history in Barbados starting in the early 17 century with British settlement.
Curated OER
Hesquiaht Woman From the Central Nootka Tribe, British Columbia, 1916
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: Voices of the Powerless: Plantation of Ireland
This site explores how and why the British government created the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century. Content includes an analysis of the Plantation itself, the English desire to banish Gaelic law and control, and the 1641...
Other
All the News? American Revolution & Maryland's Press
Explore this collection of digitized historical newspapers and broadsides from the 1760s about pre-Revolutionary topics. Requires Adobe Reader.
Other
Langley Centennial Museum
This museum provides access to a database of over 4,000 historical photographs and 8,500 artifacts about Langley, BC and the Fraser River Valley.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Bede, the Venerable
Encyclopedia entry for the English scholar who wrote a history of the early centuries of Anglo-Saxon England and an encyclopedia which consisted largely of excerpts from Pliny the Elder.
University of Oxford (UK)
Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum,...
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Western Concepts of God
This site from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides an overview of how people viewed God from the time of the Roman Empire until today.