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War & Conflict  --  "War & Conflict - Past: Present: Future" was created by three high school students during a six month time period for participation in the 1999 International ThinkQuest Competition. Two of these students live in the US, while the third team member lives in Singapore. Collaboration was done entirely through the email, where each of us were capable of learning about each other's unique beliefs and culture.  (Added 02.08.2000)

Cyber Mummy  --  One of the most spectacular artifacts housed at the World Heritage Museum at the University of Illinois in Urbana is this mummy acquired in 1989 from a Chicago antiquities dealer. Unlock its secrets with the help of modern medical imagery, a supercomputer, and an archeologist. You can also watch a video of a CAT scan of the mummy.  (Added 01.14.2000)

Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Added 01.10.2000)

The Ultimate Warriors  --  You might think millennium lists have been exhausted. Not quite. Military History Guide Stephan C. Ural provides an essential primer to the most fearsome soldiers, pilots, and game theorists of the past 1,000 years. (Added 01.10.2000)

Peace Gallery Home Page  --   Since 1961, when the Peace Corps was created by President Kennedy, over 150,000 Americans have served in more than 100 countries around the world. To share the incredible depth of photos and stories from the Peace Corps experience, The Peace Gallery was created. The Peace Gallery is the online location for provocative images from past and present Peace Corps volunteers across the globe. Current special features include a tour of a town in Northern Ghana, Hurricane Mitch, a monthly newsletter, and the interactive contest to win beads from Ghana, West Africa.

Peace Corps for Kids  --  Children can wander and explore within these pages, to learn about places around the world, with Peace Corps volunteers as their guides.

The Culture Concept  --  This unit plan uses four activities to introduce grade 7 students to the concept of culture and to help them acquire and organize information about people and culture.

CMCC - Digital collection  --   "Selected images of Native clothing, musical instruments, and games and toys from the collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization." Also included is brief information about the various native groups including a map of the language family area. Suitable for younger students.

Institute for Research on Poverty   -- Founded to do "research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States," this institute's site consists of organizational information, including current research, and publications. The Poverty Related Resources provides an extensive list of annotated links, organized by general subject, to statistics, other organizations, institutions, and governmental agencies. Subjects range from activism to welfare reform. The site is searchable. Since the IRP is based at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, there is state specific information for Wisconsin as well.

Second Harvest - The Faces & Facts  --  A study of hunger in America, this site looks at the people who are hungry and examines some of the causes and issues involved. Produced by Second Harvest, a hunger relief charity.

European Voyages of Exploration  --  This multimedia tutorial focuses on exploration and conquest in Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Americas, by Spain and Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The economic, political, and cultural circumstances that contributed to exploration, short histories of the two countries, maps, discussions of collateral issues (e.g., slavery, navigation, religion), and an article about Columbus are included. Produced by The Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary. Additional tutorials include The End of Europe's Middle Ages, The Islamic World to 1600, and two tutorials about The Peopling of Canada.

Jesup Exhibition   --  This anthropological exhibition commemorates the centennial of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897 -1902). Included are approximately 1200 archival photographs depicting scenes from daily life; color images of the artifacts collected; biographies on the anthropologists; and field letters.

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