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.