EL Education
El Education: A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration
A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration depicts European world-wide exploration and exploitation through a collage-style book of text, hand-drawn and water-colored illustrations, maps, timelines, and diagrams. The book chronicles...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: The Mediterranean World
This website contains information about the people using the Mediterranean during the Renaissance. Mentions cultural diversity, humanism, economics and port cities. Includes the setting, cultural diversity, and changing order of the...
Rice University
Galileo Project: A Tour of Florence
This website from Rice University contains information about one of the major cities in the Tuscany region; Florence. This site provides detailed information about the city, business and trade, the people and images of architecture.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: The Impact of Luther and the Radical Reformation
Review history with this site to see how Luther attracted a following to form Lutheranism. Learn how Luther's teaching came at the right time and made people leave the Roman Church. Understand that Luther preached peace and didn't...
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: Origins of Math
The lesson examines the origins of mathematics. Strings of symbols, the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, Arabian scholars, and the Renaissance are discussed.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Culture in the 1920s
The First World War had a crippling effect on any notions of positivity in the artists, writers, and intellectuals of that time and they became known as the Lost Generation. This page discusses this group of people, the emergence of jazz...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Flannery O'connor
Flannery O'Connor is featured in this biography for her contributions to literature through many short stories, in most of which she created rural southern characters. See "Flannery O'Connor Activities" for related materials.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
A collection of primary texts that describe the experiences of people who lived during the Bubonic Plague in medieval Europe, and how they tried to deal with it. For example, through avoidance of contact with infected people, and by...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: John Webster
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of the playwright John Webster. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, and works.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Ben Jonson
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of the poet and playwright Ben Jonson. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, and works.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: John Donne
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of the poet John Donne. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, and works.
Duke University
Shuffle Along Orchestra
This section focuses on the people created the hit musical, "Shuffle Along," which helped to spur the Harlem Renaissance. Other information on the site about the importance of other black theater during the period.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Galileo Galilei
Read a short biography about astronomer Galileo, one of the most significant people in the history of science.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1500s Food
View a series of extracts from sixteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people ate during Tudor times. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the period, including the foods eaten when...
Curated OER
Medieval and Renaissance Food: Sources, Recipes, and Articles
A large collection of references for researching the types of food people ate in medieval and Renaissance times, and how they prepared it.
Other
Brandeis University: Author Biographies: Niccolo (Di Bernardo) Machiavelli
A detailed biography of Machiavelli, including discussions of his major works and his ideas about the nature of political power, prepared for a university-level philosophy course.
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Walter White
An encyclopedia article about Walter White,a man influential in the quest for civil rights in the 20th century.
Other
Saudi Aramco World: New Voices: New Afghanistan
With the fall of the Taliban in 2001, many Afghans believed that, after 23 years of war, their country would be at peace again. Although recent increases in violence have dampened that spirit, there is nonetheless a small population of...
My Hero Project
My Hero: Langston Hughes
This introduction to the life and writing of Langston Hughes profiles the poet who emerged with the Harlem Renaissance to earn "a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced."
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Burkina Faso: Culture
Although brief, this article is packed with information about the culture of Burkina Faso. Read about the ethnic groups, their art, and religion. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.