This website is designed to help students explore one of the greatest disasters of 19th-century Europe, a disaster whose ripple effects were felt in North America and throughout the world: the Great Irish Famine. The Famine killed approximately one million people, about 1/8 of the population of Ireland. This proportion is greater than the population losses suffered by Third World countries in well-known famines of recent times. Another one and a half million Irish fled their country of birth, fi more...

This Unit gives you the opportunity to practise good study techniques using the theme of commemoration and memorials. It will help you to begin to think about how form influences meaning in the arts and how ideas influence approaches to the humanities. This online full course published under Creativer Commons license is made available by Openlearn, an OER dedicated Web site released by the Open University in UK.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use. On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented, when available, without making prejudgements about what is "African". Africa is both the most clearly defined of continents - in its geography - and the hardest to pin down in historical terms. Human beings originated in Africa and, as a res more...

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is a companion to the Internet Medieval Sourcebook and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Ancient History Sourcebook goal is to provide and organize texts for use in classroom situations. Links to the larger online collections are provided for those who want to explore further. The distinctive feature of the Sourcebooks' layout remains here - the avoidance of images and multiple "clicking" to find texts. This site focuses on online texts, which, f more...

Cosmos and History is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of natural and social philosophy. It serves those who see philosophy's vocation in questioning and challenging prevailing assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world, developing new ways of thinking about physical existence, life, humanity and society, so helping to create the future insofar as thought affects the issue. Philosophy so conceived is not exclusively identified with the work of professional philosophers, and the j more...

The American West virtual collection of the CDL will assemble a consortium of material pertaining to the social and ecological diversity of the American West. The project started in January of 2004 and is scheduled for completion in 2007.

This subject surveys the main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. This course features links to many downloadable readings and a complete set of lecture notes.

This course focuses on main currents in contemporary German literary and visual culture. The course uses as its starting point the work of Nietzsche's, though it will also survey the dialectics of tradition and modernity in Germany and neighbouring nations. Lectures notes (in PDF) will be easily downloadable from the site.

This course will examine some of the native developments and foreign influences which most affected the course of Russian history. Particular topics include the rise of the Kievan State, the Mongol Yoke, the rise of Muscovy, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, relations with Western Europe.

This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major social, economic, political, and religious trends. Notable areas of focus are Homer, Aristotle, Macedonia, and Hellenism. The course features an exensive reading list.