The Asia Society released this report in August 2010, and it was part of a broader effort "to stimulate new thinking and to identify extant resources than can enhance connectivity between the United States and Muslim communities in Asia." The report takes a close look at the "diverse ways in which stakeholders in cultural development and exchange initiatives in and with Asian Muslim communities...

Civics can be a dreaded word for some students, but things just got a bit more interesting with this rather thoughtful and interesting video workshop created by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Center for Civic Education. Released as part of the Annenberg Media teacher resources, this eight part series helps teachers find ways to teach civics, complete with lesson plans and...

The Institute of Historical Research in Britain has a unique website that focuses on the discipline and profession of historians in Britain over the past years. Although it's not unusual to think of historians as relating, documenting and recording history, they have a history as well. One of the ways to delve into the website is to click on the "Themes" section, which can be found in the middle...

The Making of America (MOA) project at the University of Michigan is one of the oldest collaborative efforts designed to make a wide range of historical journals available online. Started in the fall of 1995, the project has successfully offered access to thousands of pages of journals and books that document American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. With generous...

As more and more scholars and policy experts struggle to determine what makes a successful region (urban or otherwise), there is a growing interest in the notion of cluster strategies and how they may be best deployed. Basically, this economic development strategy states that a group of related firms or companies in close proximity can create a number of productive and competitive advantages for...

1989 was a pivotal year in recent history, marking the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany and other events throughout Europe that consumed the world's attention. This fine collection from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University brings together historical documents in English that "convey the epochal events of 1989.” The collection has three key...

This past Tuesday, East African Indian Sanjay Shah became an official British citizen after 400 days spent in limbo at the Nairobi airport. Shah’s story was documented in the press frequently, and interest in his predicament continued to build after the release of the recent Tom Hanks film, “The Terminal”. Shah’s case highlighted the rather complex way in which the residents of former and current...

This small web exhibition from MoMA shows how an artist responded to a political event in the 1860s. There was photography in the mid-19th century, but making a picture required a long exposure. Because of this process, events were not often photographed as they happened, and the images that were produced were not circulated instantaneously as they are today. Between 1867 and 1869, Edouard Manet...

Tobacco Barns: Stately Relics of a Bygone Era [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6536351 Celebrate Tobacco Barns http://www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us/ctb/ctb.htm Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/vernacular.html Covers to Discover http://www.covers-to-discover.com/gb/ Traffic Signal...

The Manitoba Library Consortium and its partners have created a rich website of historically significant documents and publications so that everyone can learn about Manitoba. Even the name of the website, Manitobia, indicates its high aspirations, as the word Manitobia is the combination of the word Manitoba and utopia. Visitors will find the history of Manitoba divided up by significant events...