Curated OER
Eye Witness: The Black Death, 1348
This EyeWitness to History site, which illuminates the past through personal narratives and other first-hand sources, provides a general overview of the black death, including the signs of the disease, reactions to the disaster, the...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: The Renaissance, 1300 1600
Find a selection of readings to enhance teaching humanism and the Italian Renaissance and follow up with some of the questions available through MIT.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Europe on the Brink of Change
From a chapter on "The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492," this section describes the European societies that engaged in conversion, conquest, and commerce and discusses the motives for and mechanisms of early European exploration.
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: Voices of the Powerless: The Plague in England
This site explores the effect that the arrival of the plague had on the lives of common English men and women in the 16th and 17th centuries. Content includes an analysis of the plague's origin and spread, and the reactions of the...
BBC
Bbc: Paston Family Letters
The Paston letters are the first record of private correspondence to survive in Britain. Use these letters to take a peek inside a family that battles the plague, and fights for their rights to the Caister Castle in order to cement their...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pre Colonization European Society
The Church, disease, and large urban centers dictated societal structure in European societies before the colonization of the New World. Read more about Europe during the Middle Ages.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: A New Civil Rights Movement
A very brief overview of the inception of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, its successes and failures into the 1960s, and a prediction of despair in the 1970s.
Curated OER
Dissecting a Victim of the Plague.
This site explores the effect that the arrival of the plague had on the lives of common English men and women in the 16th and 17th centuries. Content includes an analysis of the plague's origin and spread, and the reactions of the...
Curated OER
An Image of the Graveside.
This site explores the effect that the arrival of the plague had on the lives of common English men and women in the 16th and 17th centuries. Content includes an analysis of the plague's origin and spread, and the reactions of the...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Charles Clinton Spaulding
Brief account of the life of Charles Spaulding, American business leader who built the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company into the nation's largest black-owned business by the time of his death, when it was worth about $40...
Curated OER
Macmillan/mc Graw Hill: The World, Vol. 1: Culture & Change: Lesson 2 Quiz
Short quiz tests your knowledge of culture and change in the Middle Ages.
Other
The Official George Crumb Home Page
The official site, with sections devoted to his life, compositions, recordings, writings, and news. The news section has internet links, and the site has a search function!
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Josh Gibson
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Josh Gibson, an American professional baseball catcher who was one of the most prodigious home run hitters in the game's history. Known as "the black Babe Ruth," Gibson is considered to be...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: John Marshall Harlan
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features John Marshall Harlan, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal. His best...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Emmett Till
Biographical details on Emmett Till, the African-American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement.