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(A P after an entry denotes that the site contains primary source material, but do not assume everything on those sites is a primary source. Entries with a G are gateway sites; they consist of links to other sites.)
Africa
- Africa Focus, Sights and Sounds of a Continent (P)
- "This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries, as well as a large number of difficult to find texts that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study."
- Africa Portal
- Focuses on critical issues: conflict resolution, energy, food, health, migration, and climate change.
- Africa: South of the Sahara
- Gateway site at Stanford University to all aspects of African history and civilization
- African Studies Internet Resources (G)
- African Timelines (G)
- American Museum Congo Expedition
- Ghosts of Rwanda
- Historical Documents Archive (ANC) (P)
- Internet African History Sourcebook (G, P)
- Sub-Saharan African History (P,G)
- Sudan: A Nation Divided
Asia
- Asian History Sources (G,P)
- Digital South Asia Library (G)
- East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources (G)
- UCLA Center for East Asian Studies: Asian Documents (P)
China
- China WWW Virtual Library (G)
- The Government of Tibet in Exile
- Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History (P)
- The U. S. Tiananmen Papers (P)
- A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
- Images to support the study of Chinese civilization.
Japan
- Stanford Guide to Japan Information: History (G)
Islamic World
- Arab-Islamic History
- Includes some information on pre-Islamic times.
- Arab World (G)
- Maintained by the Higher Colleges of Technology, this site provides links to topics of interest.
Ken Orenic, Reference Librarian
630-942-2338
orenick@cod.edu
September 2012
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