Global Studies

  • Cultural Jambalaya: Cultural Jambalaya’s DVDs (free online with login) use photography as a creative teaching tool for educators in the classroom to broaden world views of students by illustrating our diverse cultural backgrounds. Cultural Jambalaya also works with multicultural businesses and organizations as part of their diversity initiatives, and marketing or employee programs.

  • Google Earth: Go to http://earth.google.com Click “Get Google Earth free version”. The following link has lesson plans you can use with Google Earth; http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001672.shtml

  • Maps That Teach

  • National Geographic Magazine

  • Scanned Maps of Connecticut, 1676-1900 – The University of Connecticut Libraries historical map collection consists of 287 digitized maps of Connecticut, Long Island Sound, New England, the Northeast Atlantic region, and the United States from the period 1676-1919.   

  • Asia for Educators Online features classroom materials and teaching guides on Asia for use by faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. Search for content by subject area, document type, or time period. AFE Online also features several multimedia and image-based units on various Asia-related topics, as well as maps, timelines, primary source readings, and a searchable database of recommended teaching materials from other publishers. AFE Online is an initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.

  • The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: reports and resources