A map of Africa shortly after the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. These European and independent boundaries include Algeria and the Saharan Sphere of French Influence,...

A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...

A map of Africa after the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. This map shows the Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish claims, and the Turkish...

Roosevelt spoke to 21 nations of the Americas about common ideas aimed against acquisition of territories in the Northern Hemisphere by "any non-American power." This led to Roosevelt's development of the Good Neighbor Policy.

A map using comparative map projections of Asia, as part of a hemisphere and on a Mercator's projection, to illustrate European misconceptions of land claims during territorial colonialism. In the 19th century, European powers were...

Region of the Western Hemisphere depicted on the Frankfort Globe.

A map of the British Isles from 1906, showing the terrain, rivers, and coastal features of Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Major cities are shown, and the map includes an inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, a locator map...

A map of the British Isles in 1902, showing Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. The map shows cities, towns, and ports, primary and secondary railways, canals, heads of navigation on major rivers, isotherms of averaged annual...

Shiretoko Peninsula is located in the north-east of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. The site includes the land from the central part of the peninsula to its tip (Shiretoko Cape) and the surrounding marine area. It provides an...

One of four surviving examples of Russian Colonial Style architecture in the Western Hemisphere.

First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere.

This thorough site provides clear facts, pictures, and sounds of the largest duck in the Northern Hemisphere. A menu of topics highlights the following: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and...

This thorough site provides clear facts, pictures, and sounds of the largest duck in the Northern Hemisphere. A menu of topics highlights the following: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and...

This thorough site provides clear facts, pictures, and sounds of the largest duck in the Northern Hemisphere. A menu of topics highlights the following: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and...

This thorough site provides clear facts, pictures, and sounds of the largest duck in the Northern Hemisphere. A menu of topics highlights the following: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and...

A variety of paintings and drawings that display European images of their first encounters with the land, plants, animals, and native peoples of the western hemisphere.

Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia (1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms (1858-1861 as interim), (1861-1865), (1865-1867), (1867-1871), and (1871-1872), as President of Mexico. For resisting the French occupation, overthrowing...

Christopher Columbus (between August 25 and October 31, 1451 - May 20, 1506) was a Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean-funded by Queen Isabella of Spain-led to general European awareness of...

This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.

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Artists' rendering of the left and right hemisperes of the brain.

A comprehensive study of the slave trade in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.

Why do people move? This curriculum unit tackles the complex questions about the causes of individual versus large-scale migration as well as the global effects of migration. Clear lesson plans and objectives are included.

In much of the social studies-especially courses focused on world history, geography, and culture-there has been a long-standing awareness that the experience of women has been left out of the narrative. Recent changes in state,...