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General Overview
World War I
Between the Fires
World War II

Environmental, Technological, Cultural and Economic Issues
Environmental Issues
Global Economy
International Agencies and Efforts at Peace
Population Concerns
Technological and Intellectual Advances
Culture

Cold War
Rise of Independent Nations

 

 

Environmental , Technological, International and Economic Issues

Mrs. Ruland's US History - WWW Resources - Contemporary Issues

Environmental Issues

Africans Are Already Facing Climate Change
Africa Today in the Electronic Passport
ATSDR-CERCLA - A Top 20 Hazardous Substances List
Bill of Rights in Action - Global Warming, What Should We Do About It?
Bolivians Look to Ancient Farming
The Breathing Earth
The Causes of Tropical Deforestation
Climate Change_ The Burning Issue - antenna
Current Issues Related to Land Reclamation
Desertification - a threat to the Sahel
Desertification of Arid Lands
Desertification
Duck and Cover
Educate Yourself - Chernobyl
Energy and the Environment_ Resources for a Networked World
The Energy Trap
Environment News Service
The Environment: Who Owns the Earth?
EO Library_ Tropical Deforestation Fact Sheet
The EPA Global Warming Kids Page
EPA Global Warming Site
Era of Fosel Fuel Energy Sources
Facing the Future: People and the Planet
Fighting Global Warming with1 Billion Trees
Forest Conservation Portal
Frontline - Loose Nukes
Gapminder
Global Issues
Global Melting: The Big Thaw
Global Warming: A Boon to Humans and Other Animals
Great Wall Across the Yangtze
The Greenhouse Effect
Infinity City
International Rivers
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
Landmines_ A Global Crisis
Lost World of the Holy Land
Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
McDougal Littell NetActivities_ The Environment
National Climate Impact Indicators
NCDC_ Global Warming
Oxfam's Cool Planet, On the Line - exploration
Research Profile Magazine
Waste to Energy
World Resources Institute

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Global Economy

All the riches of the east restored
Average Weekly Food Consumption
Business and Economics Research Advisor - Library of Congress
The Automotive Industry
Globalization
The Oil and Gas Industry
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Consumerism and Self
Cultural Landscapes from Around the World
The Economist - Country Briefings
Educate Yourself - India's Economy
EH.Net - The Econonomic History Services web site
Empowering Young Women
European Integration and the EU Institutions
European Unification
EuroQuest
Exploring Globalization
Frontline - The Merchants of Cool
Gapminder
Global Exchange Sweatshops
Global Issues
Globalization
Globalization Comes to the Table
Globalization: Key Concepts
Globalization 101
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
The History of the European Union: The European Citizenship
Illicit: The Dark Trade - PBS
Inside the Global Economy
International Monetary Fund
LRB | Partha Dasgupta : Bottlenecks
The New Europe
NewsHour Extra: High Food Prices Cause Concerns Worldwide
North-South Divide
OPEC
The Second Industrial Revolution
United Nations Statistics Division
US Census Bureau International Data Base
Wide Angle. Global Classroom. Lesson Plans | PBS
WISE - Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation
The World Bank

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International Agencies and Efforts at Peace and Human Rights

Bill of Rights in Action - Keeping the Peace After the Cold War
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
IWM Online Exhibition - Greenham Common - The Women's Peace Camp
International Monetary Fund
International Organizations and NGOs Project
The Nobel Peace Prize
Non-Governmental Organizations and Human Rights
Prevent Genocide International
Ralph J. Bunche, An American Odyssey
UNICEF
The United Nations
The United Nations (Official Site)
The World Bank
The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Understanding the Darfur Conflict

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Population Concerns

AIDS at 20
Average Weekly Food Consumption
Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
The Demographic Transition
Education and Human Development
Gapminder
Global Issues
Half the World Soon to Be in Cities
Health Care Around the World
THE NEW AMERICANS
NOVA | World in the Balance | PBS
Peopling North America: Population Movements and Migration
Pew Social and Demographic Trends
Race - Are We So Different?
Stop the Hunger
UNICEF - The State of the World's Children
1996 - Children in War
1997 - Child Labor
1998 - Focus on Nutrition
1999 - Education
2000 - Call to Renew Commitment to Our Children
2001 - Early Childhood
2002 - Leadership
2003 - Child Participation - The Right to Be Heard
2004 - Girls, Education and Development
2005 - Childhood Under Threat
2006 - Excluded and Invisible
2007 - Women and Children: The Double Dividend of Gender Equality
2008 - Child Survival
US Census Bureau International Data Base
Worldometers - Real Time World Statistics

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Technological and Intellectual Advances

Academy of Achievement_ Edward Teller, Ph.D. Biography
Aeronautic Nation
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
America by Air
American Experience - The Living Weapon
American Experience - Meltdown at Three Mile Island
American Experience - Race to the Moon
American Experience - Race for the Super Bomb
Amrican Experience - Test Tube Babies
Airline History
The Aviation History On-Line Museum
BBC - Past, Present, Future - History of the BBC
BBC - Radio 4 - Spinning Yarns
Beautiful Minds: Capture the Spirit of Nobel Achievement
A Brief History of Computing
Chernobyl Information
Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bomb Maker
Duck and Cover
From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?
Frontline: Loose Nukes
Frontline - Nuclear Reaction
Frontline: Plague War
Gallery of US Nuclear Tests
Gapminder
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century
The Great Idea Finder Home Page
Health Care Around the World
History of Biomedicine
The History of Computing
History of Global IT and World Telecommunications
History of Medicine
The History Place - Apollo 11
History of Science and Technology on the Yahoo! Directory
HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!
Invent Now
The Machine That Changed the World
Making the Modern World
Medicine History in the Yahoo! Directory
Navy TV: The First Voyage of the USS Nautilus
NOVA - Einstein's Big Idea
NOVA | Spies That Fly | PBS
NOVA | Submarines, Secrets, and Spies
NOVA | Supersonic Spies
NOVA /Top Gun Over Moscow
Nuclear History at the National Security Archive
Nuke Pop
The Ohio Museum of Transportation
PBS - Chasing the Sun
PBS - The Question of God - Freud and Lewis
The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Psychology
The Race to Build the Atomic Bomb
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood
Remembering Nagasaki
Scientific Inventions 1900
Space Race
Submarine History 1945-2000_ A Timeline of Development
Submarine History_ Political, Social and Military
Time Warp - Archive of Vintage Technology Through the Decades
UNIVAC Memories
UNMOVIC - United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
Warship
The Web History of Telecommunications
Whatever Happened to Polio?
Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American History
The World of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
World Clock
World Nuclear Association _ Information _ Chernobyl
World Nuclear Association _ Information _ Three Mile Island_ 1979
The Wright Brothers
YouTube - The Machine is Us/ing Us

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Culture

Africana Collections
Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970
Art and Life in Africa Project
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Chinese Printmaking Today
Cinema India
Close to Home: An American Album
Contemporary Japan: Culture and Society
Cultural Landscapes from Around the World
Cultural Survival
Dada
Face to Face
First American Art
Near East Collections
Pictures for the Press
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937
Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture
Smithsonian Channel - Light at the Edge of the World
Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray
A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization
We Love Hijab
Women Working

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