GEOGRAPHY
Historical
Africa: Mali
http://www.africapositive.co.za/historicalafrica.html
The Islamic philosophy of the empire of Mali took shape in the 14th century
under Mansa Musa and his brother Mansa Sulayman, who inspired the building of
mosques and the development of Islamic learning.
Indian
History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
The ultimate guide to the history of India.
Medieval
Sourcebook: Ibn Batutta
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/batuta.html
Ibn Batutta was the Arab equivalent of Marco Polo, traveling the world and writing
about the people he saw. See this site to learn about the travels of Ibn Batutta
in Asia and Africa of the 1300's.
ART
Kyoto
National Museum. Kyoto, Japan
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/
Here you will find exhibits of Japanese ceramics, Chinese and Korean ceramics,
sculpture from China, India, and Pakistan, Buddhist painting, ink painting,
handscrolls, paintings, calligraphy, textiles, lacquerware, and metalwork.
LITERATURE
The
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
This site provides texts and graphics on Chaucer and life in the Middle Ages.
SCIENCE
Museum
of History of Science Florence Italy
http://www.imss.fi.it/emuseo.html
This site displays the two floors of the Castellani Palace, which contains the
Medici Collection and the Lorraine Dynasty Collection. These valuable collections
contain such scientific items as the telescope of Galileo, the first model of
the application of the pendulum to the clock, a thermoscope, an inclined plane,
and a machine to raise water.
RESEARCH
Top
Humanities Websites
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/websites-lit.htm
This is your guide to many highly rated sites on the Internet.
The
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/
Look up topics from around the world and through history, including African
American History, American Social and Cultural History, Asian History and Culture,
Astronomy, Folklife, Geography, Information Technology, Inventors, Military
History, Native American History, Political History, Textiles and Quilts, and
Transportation History.
The
Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/
Any other sites you have not found? Try the oldest catalog of the web, started
by the original web creators.