Download Web Guide for AP World History

Web Guide for AP World History
Prepared by Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia College and State University; and Peggy McKee, Castilleja
School; with support of the World History Center, Patrick Manning, Director.
Web Guide Overview
This guide offers teachers and students a way to begin to explore the enormous amount of material on the
World Wide Web relevant to world history. Of the nearly 500 sites listed in this guide, most focus directly on
world history topics. A smaller number, while not expressly world history sites, do take a world history
perspective. All of them offer materials useful to the AP World History curriculum.
Because the Web offers a rich, but disorganized, array of historical materials, it will be up to teachers and
students to locate the connections, parallels, and contradictions among the materials. They can then use
their interpretive judgments of these materials to develop their own coherent interpretations of the global
past.
Introducing Students to History on the Web
The Web Guide begins with section I. The Great Exchange -- Atlantic Slave Trade Assignment. This
assignment, where students will investigate the slave trade and its effects, will serve as a useful introduction
to using the resources available on the Internet. The remainder of the Web Guide has been separated into
sections by time period, with each time period further divided into relevant topics. For example, the
Foundations section provides links to helpful and interesting sites on topics such as the basic features of
world geography; economic systems; crises in the third and fourth centuries; the collapse of empires; and
key cultural and social systems.
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I. The Great Exchange
II. Foundations: to 1000 CE
III. AP Themes: 1000-1450
IV. AP Themes: 1450-1750
V. AP Themes: 1750-1914
VI. AP Themes: 1914-Present
World History Meta Sites
A number of meta-sites exist that contain many links and cross-references on trade, migrations, religion,
gender issues, state structures, continuity and change, comparisons between empires, and the like. In
particular, the following are clearly laid out and easy to navigate to find the information or images required:
University of Calgary: The Applied History Research Group: Multimedia History Tutorials
North Park University History Department/The Web Chronology Project
Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Brooklyn College Core Web Pages: Core 9: Chinese Culture
Organizations That Support the Teaching of World History
The following organizations have Web sites that may be of general interest to scholars of world history:
H-WORLD
World History Association
American Historical Association
National Council for Social Studies
National Center for History in the Schools