The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

A collection of primary source material from the modern age, explores the 1920s and how it relates to today. Section includes introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links to related resources.

Virtual learning module on the Modern Era, begins the conservative period with the election of Richard Nixon in 1968. Multi-media resourses and links.

The Modern History Sourcebook provides the text by Giuseppe Mazzini on Nationality in 1852.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

Primary resources from 1920s period offers a sense of cultural, social, political and economic thought during that time period. Includes notes, questions for discussion, and links to supplemental material.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

Students investigate the ways in which ancient technologies - six types of simple machines and combinations - are used to construct modern buildings. As they work together to solve a design problem (designing and building a modern...

This site from Fordham University provides Thomas Carlyle's (1795-1881 CE) comments on Walter Scott (1771-1832 CE). This site includes biographical information.

Kwame Nkrumah, a former leader in Ghana, writes his concept of a freedom in Africa following years of European rule on the continent.

An incredibly thorough site which consists of many of the major components of the Spanish language. This online test will accurately determine the amount of Spanish you know and need to learn.

In this textbook unit, students learn about working and living conditions during the Industrial Revolution, the growth of cities, public health issues that emerged, child labor, the impact of factory work on families and on women, the...

Kids learn about the changes in modern warfare that occurred during World War I including airplanes, bombers, tanks, trench warfare, submarines, machine guns, and chemical weapons.

The sources in this primary set document Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica. Includes teaching guide.

This primary source set includes images of Wright's work, excerpts from his writings and speeches, information about his influences, and commentaries on his work. Teaching guide included.

Take a closer look into the modern view of evolution. This article includes many pieces of evidence, all which support the theory of evolution.

Students apply the mechanical advantages and problem-solving capabilities of six types of simple machines (wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane, screw, pulley) as they discuss modern structures in the spirit of the engineers and...

Fordham University provides college-level reading on how the Nationalism of the 19th Century affected the music of the 20th, especially Classical music. These composers lived most of their lives in the 1800's, but are often classified...

This is a CNN profile on Sun Yat-sen. It contains biographical information, quotes, and photographs.

Are we in the midst of a mass extinction? Is Homo sapiens triggering this mass extinction? Four expert panelists have written responses to the aforementioned questions for this highly informative site.

The atrocities committed in Congo under King Leopold revolved around the resource of rubber. He demanded a rubber tax from each villager and began a brutal system of forced labor. Read this description of his brutal reign and how he...

AP World History course unit on the Early Modern World, includes interactive lessons and assessment on Latin America, Africa, Islamic Empires and Asian Transitions.

An excellent set of resources on slavery and the slave trade. Looks at artists' perceptions, interviews with historians and others, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, trade in the Indian Ocean, resistance and abolition, trade in the...

Learn about the models of the atom that have been proposed throughout history. Presents Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and the modern theory of the atom. Sections are accompanied by journal...