Websites for Advanced Placement European History

Compiled by Alexandra Siemon

Dana Hall School
2001-2005

 

 

Current Events

http://news.bbc.co.uk/
A good place to start looking for international news

http://www.cafebabel.com/en/
CafeBabel: The European Magazine

 

AP Websites by Teachers—these are useful sites developed by other AP Teachers across the country. Some have massive links organized by subject as well as their own syllabuses, assignments etc. Sometimes interesting to compare

http://thecaveonline.com/APEH/

http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/ap/apeuro.html

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/sandersonAP/

http://www.homestead.com/chaffeyaphistory/european.html
Another teacher site with links much like the others and links to the others

http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/APEuro_Main_Weblinks_Page.htm
This teacher (Sue Pojer) has done a lot of work collecting links that we are welcome to use

http://www.azstarnet.com/~qpriest/Courses/APEH/APEH_Home_Page.htm
This teacher is very active sharing his ideas and concerns about AP history

http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/s090/lloyd/european_history_index.htm

 

Textbook sites

http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kagan/
This is the site for our text. Has pages for each chapter with links, practice tests, vocabulary.

Might be useful to some of you.

http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/public_html/pubbooks/kagan4/
This is the site for the seventh edition of our text. Very similar to the above

http://worth.sohonet.com/
This is the textbook site for the Western Civilization textbook

 

General Sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webguide/schools/subcat.shtml?europeanstudies/1618/0
BBC - WebGuide - Schools

A rich site with good materials on the European Union and more.


http://www.eurunion.org/
European Union

This is a web site designed for Americans who want information about the European Union. Very helpful and not too overwhelming.


http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1x.html#Early%20Italian%20Humanism
This source book is a great place for primary sources from all times in history and most places—this particular link is for Humanism, but you can move around from there

http://www.wga.hu
Art image site

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures.html
This professor has kindly put up his lectures on most of the topics we study

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
Metropolitan Museum

A terrific art site done for the Metropolitan Museum. It has a time line of art related material and great images. There is a lot here.


http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-main1.html
This art site is the National Gallery which is very easy to use. This particular page starts you with the Renaissance.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/
The Voice of the Shuttle is an excellent place to begin result on any historical time or place

 

Historical Sites

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html
A high school site with good general discussions.

http://www.r3.org/
Richard III didn’t do in those poor boys—find out why

http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/beginlst/renaiss.htm

http://www.apostles.com/thomasmore.html
Web site for St. Thomas More

http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/
Another More site

http://www.lukehistory.com/resources/ecwpubs.html
A good site on 17th century England and the Civil War

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html
Primary source site for 16th century ballads, interesting for a research topic

http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/BCP_1559.htm
If you are interested in the Reformation and the English Church in particular, this is a nice look at the Book of Common Prayer of 1559

http://users.aber.ac.uk/ssh95/earlymodern.htm
This is a great site. Sharon Howard at the University of Wales is interested in Early Modern Europe and gender history. Check out her special month site picks—great.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/emedd.html
A very specific site for Renaissance scholars looking to understand word meanings in Renaissance literature

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
An amazing site on the French Revolution. I am going to try to save the whole site somewhere because it has EVERYTHING

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/
"A project of the Center for History & New Media, George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles for the American Historical Review" the website provides images, scholarly analyses and debates on the French Revolution.

http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/blackdeath/blackdeath.html
This is the "fun" site on the Black Death

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
Some contemporary descriptions of the Black Death

http://www.writingonhands.org/
This is a FASCINATING interactive site about memory in Early Modern Europe. Definitely worth a visit.

http://www.stupidity.com/erasmus/eracont.htm

A bit cute, but long website that appreciates Eramus. Long essay on Folly

http://www.televisual.net/uffizi/index.html
Take a tour of the great Florentine Museum, the Uffizi

http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~mcogan/Humanities/Sistine/
See the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/florence.html
Essays and some links on the Renaissance. Working through this site you can move to other historical periods.

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Student_Work/Florence96/
A set of links organized by topic on Renaissance Florence

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/coldwar/default.htm
Looks like a great site for cold war!

http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/women_state_leaders.htm

http://www.buckyogi.com/footnotes/
Countries that no longer exist.

http://www.historytoday.com/dt_links.alphabetically.asp?gid=30179&g30179=x&g425=x&g21011=x&g19965=x&g19963=x&amid=30202282&menu=y
History Today student links.