University of Calgary: European Maritime Superiority

Greek Revival architecture and the Civil Rights Movement? Sure! Examine how the Lyceum and Circle, two historic buildings located on the campus of the University of Mississippi, relate to integration and the 1962 riot on the university...

The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...

The University of Calgary provides scanned microfiche of The Book of Saint John that covers the history, the industry, and the culture of Saint John, New Brunswick.

This award-winning website from the University of Calgary's History Department is both impressive and extensive. It focuses on Portuguese and Spanish expeditions of the 15th and 16th centuries (the sitemap provides a good outline of...

This map, which is provided for by the University of Calgary, displays the extent of the territories governed by the Roman Republic in 86 BC.

This useful tutorial includes information about the economy, feudalism, the Holy Roman Empire and other important topics pertaining to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a time of transition in European history. Easy to...

Description of how the Mongols invaded Iraq and Syria and the effect these invasions had on these countries and Islam.

A description of the trade routes established and used in the twelfth and thirteenth century. Gives a list of goods that were traded and reasons for the trade.

This site provides a discussion from the University of Calgary of the extensive maritime voyages taken during the Ming dynasty. A map is included.

This University of Calgary site defines Hellenism. It also discusses Hellenism and its relationship with Judaism. Descriptions of Maccabees as Hellenists are included.