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General Travel Sites  //  Atlases  //  International News  // Global Issues //

Databases // Conflict & Rights Issues // Primary Sources // MacFarland--Africa

Databases

Use SIRS, EBSCOhost, Bigchalk, and Student Resource Center Gold in GaleNet, in Catalogs and Databases for magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and Web links!

Also try:

• Facts.com, World news, profiles, maps, pro con articles, graphics, numerical snapshots, source documents, photos and graphics
• ABC-CLIO World Geography  Background, news, maps, biographies
• ABC-CLIO World History in the Modern Era

• Lands and Peoples

• America the Beautiful

• AP Photo Archive Photos from around the world
• World & I See Mrs. Valenza for a password to this online journal

• World Book Online 

• Grolier Online   

• Student Resource Center Gold

• Student Research Center (EBSCO)

• History Reference Center (EBSCOhost)

• History Study Center

• Historical Newspapers

• Gale's Opposing Viewpoints

• Issues and Controversies

• CQ Researcher

• Time Magazine Archive

• CultureGrams--cultural information, maps and statistics for nations and states
• Grolier's Lands and Peoples

Portals to Country Information

• Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/  (Full books on countries!)
• Library of Congress is Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
• State Department’s Background Notes http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
• World Area Studies Internet Resources http://www.wcsu.edu/socialsci/area.html
• CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• Atlapedia Online http://www.atlapedia.com/
• World Statesmen.org http://www.worldstatesmen.org/
• InfoNation (United Nations comparisons) http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp
• NationMaster http://www.nationmaster.com
• Worldwide Gazeteer http://www.gazeteer.com/
• Ethnologue (information about world languages) http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
• Internet Public Library’s Culturequest http://www.ipl.org/youth/cquest/
• Country Reports.org http://www.countryreports.org/
• Economist Country Briefings http://www.economist.com/countries/
• World News.com http://worldnews.com/
• Google Translation Tool http://www.google.com/language_tools
• Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
• United Nations http://www.un.org/english/
• Globalization101.org http://www.globalization101.org/
• GlobalHealthReporting.org http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/
• Watching America (Discover what the world thinks about the U.S. Translated foreign news)

For Mr. MacFarland's Africa Project:

• Africa Online http://www.africaonline.com/
• Africa Action http://www.africaaction.org/index.php
• All Africa http://allafrica.com/
• Yahoo! News Africa
• BBC News: Africa http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/default.stm
• CNN Africa http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/archive/
• Globalization101.org http://www.globalization101.org/
• Washington Post: Africa http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/
• Washington Post: Search the World http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/worldref/country/front.htm
• Washington Post Special Reports (Congo, Nigeria, South Africa) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/special.htm
• World News.com: Africa http://www.wnafrica.com/
• World Press Review: Africa http://www.worldpress.org/africa.htm
• Yahoo: Full Coverage World http://dailynews.yahoo.com/full_coverage/world/

See also International News Sources

Conflict and Human Rights Issues

• Department of State Travel Warnings http://travel.state.gov/travel/warnings.html

• Freedom in the World http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/

• Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/

• Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/hrw/

• INCORE: Internet Conflict Data Service http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html

• GlobalHealthReporting.org http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/

Use the Alexandria Catalog to find books on nations

Primary Sources

• Repositories of Primary Sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

• Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm#General

• University of Texas Historical Maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html

• United Nations Treaty Collection http://untreaty.un.org/English/treaty.asp

• Eurodocs http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html

• In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives http://www.alexanderstreet7.com/firp/

• EyeWitness: History Through the Eyes of Those who Lived it http://www.ibiscom.com/eyindx.htm

• (Eyewitness accounts organized by date starting with Ancient Greece.)

• German Propoganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

• Hanover Historical Texts Project http://history.hanover.edu/project.html

• History of the United Kingdom Primary Documents http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

• Middle East Peace Process Documents http://www.mideastweb.org/history.htm

• National Archives Learning Curve (British documents)  http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/

• Victoria Research Web: 19th-Century Britain http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/

• World History Archives http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html

• World War I Document Archive http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

• World War II Documents http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

Best of the Travel Sites

• Lonely Planet’s Destinations http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations
• CNN Travel http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL
• Expedia http://www.expedia.com/
• Fodors http://www.fodors.com/
• Frommers http://www.frommers.com/destinations/
• Geographia http://www.geographia.com/
• Insight Guides http://www.insightguides.com/
• Planet Rider http://www.planetrider.com/
• PlanetWare.com (travel photos) http://www.planetware.com/slidesho.htm
• World City Guide http://cityguide.lycos.com/
• Yahoo! Travel Countries http://dir.yahoo.com/recreation/travel/by_region/countries/
• Department of State Travel Warnings http://travel.state.gov/travel/warnings.html
• Google Sightseeing http://www.googlesightseeing.com/

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