Taiwan Documents Project is a privately funded, non-partisan entity, and is not affiliated with any other organization. Taiwan Documents Project is based in Los Angeles, United States of America.
The political status of Taiwan has been in direct dispute since the Chinese Civil War, and issues surrounding its sovereignty continue to be relevant to U.S. foreign relations—especially Taiwanese objections to the “one-China” policy.
Though this website claims to be a “non-partisan” entity presenting objective information related to the political status of Taiwan, the secondary sources it offers favor Taiwanese independence. Nevertheless, it presents a cache of documents that allow users to explore important themes in world history, such as Cold War relations, American foreign policy and expansion into the Pacific, Japan’s role as a colonizing power, and the rise of Taiwanese nationalism. “Documents” forms the core of the website, providing more than 150 conference declarations, United Nations materials, joint communiqués, United States laws and legislative activities, and treaties.
Materials range in date roughly from the treaty signed between Koxinga and the Dutch in 1662 and a Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People’s Republic of China in 1978. Several maps and an extensive bibliography serve to contextualize these materials, making the site valuable for students and teachers alike.
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Selections are made by Kelly Schrum, Director of Educational Projects for George Mason's Center for History and New Media and Website Review Editor for HNN.
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Twenty-seven iconic images in American history are presented on this website, designed specifically to encourage educators to use images as primary source documents in the classroom. The images range in time from 17th-century depictions of the Catholic mission in San Antonio through the contemporary art of Washington, D.C., native Martin Puryear. Also included are the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington, "Washington Crossing the Delaware," and Hiram Powers's statue of Benjamin Franklin, as well as works by artists such as Grant Wood, George Catlin, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Edward Hopper, and by photographers Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. All images are accompanied by a brief annotation providing historical context, a biography of the artist, and a list of online resources with further contextual information, lesson plans, and classroom activities. Images enlarge to full screen, and are searchable by artist and theme: Leadership, Freedom & Equality, Democracy, Courage, Landscapes, and Creativity & Ingenuity.
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These materials, covering legal, social, and cultural aspects of segregation, black community life, and black resistance to the Jim Crow way of life, allow visitors to experience the contrast between African American and white remembrances of Jim Crow. Older whites in one southwestern Louisiana town, for example, remember race relations to be more peaceful during Jim Crow than they are now, while blacks recount lynchings, insults, and thievery at the hands of whites.
The website also includes roughly 130 photographs, 16 of these taken by Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee in southwestern Louisiana. Transcripts of the original radio documentary, a sampling of segregation laws, a 41-title bibliography, and 100-word introductions to each of six thematic website sections provide a contextual framework for the documentary material.
Read a more in-depth review of Remembering Jim Crow written by Joseph Crespino of Emory University.
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To do so, the website presents more than 75 “classroom ready” lesson plans that include maps, primary source readings, photographs and other images, discussion questions, activities, and projects. The lessons—geared toward middle school students, but easily adaptable to high school or college survey courses—cover most of American history, but are particularly strong from the Civil War through the Civil Rights movement. Lesson plans can be browsed by location, theme, time period, skill (such as design/building oral history or historical preservation), and national standards for history.
“Professional Development” offers resources to enable educators to better train teachers in teaching about place, such as a list of upcoming workshops and presentations and a 150-item bibliography.
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This news feature is just one of more than 5,400 historical and contemporary resources relating to approximately 250 separate nations primarily in the Americas—but also including groups in Africa, New Zealand, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Russia. In addition to the topics above, resources address the environment, religion and spirituality, sports and athletics, food, genealogy, education, and much more. The website links to approximately 1,000 sites with information on books, videos, and music, and more than 40 “hosted pages” for a variety of organizations. The entire site is searchable.
Read a more in-depth review of NativeWeb written by Roger L. Nichols of the University of Arizona.
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Her story is just one of nearly 70 audio clips draw from oral history interviews with descendants of millhands, and others involved in the Southern textile industry, available through this website. Through these interviews, along with essays that contextualize them and roughly 15 photographs, the website charts changes in southern textile mill towns from the 1880s to the 1930s. Interviewees describe the work done in the textile mills and life in the company mill towns built to house the millhands, shedding light on the agricultural roots of the rural south, changes in farm labor after the Civil War, and economic factors that caused the South’s transition from agriculture to mill work in the late 19th century. Others discuss labor protests of the 1920s and the formation of unions in the mills.
Read a more in-depth review of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World written by Adina Black of New York University.
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This cloak is the centerpiece of this website devoted to the forensic drama surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. More than 100 images of artifacts, documents, photographs, and lithographs, in addition to more than 50 quotes from contemporary testimonies, illustrate how examining of a variety of types of evidence can help to illuminate this event. The website also includes two videos on techniques for examining material evidence; audio recordings of tunes from the period and a musical tribute to Lincoln that was performed at his Chicago funeral; and a virtual tour of the Chicago Historical Society's Conservation Laboratory. This website will be of particular interest to students of the Lincoln assassination, the history of museums and Americana collectors, and to those intrigued by the use of material culture to help answer questions about the past.
Read a more in-depth review of Wet with Blood written by William G. Thomas, III, of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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This website forms part of that initiative, making available roughly 300 classic texts of Japanese literature representing a broad sampling of the Japanese literary cannon. Most texts are available in Japanese only, making this website especially useful for scholars. These include Murasaki’s 11th-century The Tale of Genji, Chikamatsu’s 18th-century drama Love Suicides at Sonezaki, and Futabatei’s Floating Clouds.
Some valuable texts are also available in English. These include a selection of poems from two of Japan’s ancient poetry anthologies, the Kokin Wakashu, which is accompanied by English-language commentary, and the Hyakunin Isshu, as well as a selection of 13 Noh plays, and a sampling of poems by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), a poet who adapted traditional poetic forms for a modern audience. Accompanying these materials is a Japanese-English dictionary.
Read a more in-depth review of the Japanese Text Initiative written by Brian Platt of George Mason University.
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These pages are drawn from the digitized texts of 1,174 books and 401 journal volumes. Topics range from “child care” and “home management” to “teaching and communications,” and include materials such as published surveys of wage-earning women, difficult-to-find journals such as the Journal of Home Economics, the American Food Journal, and the Journal of Social Hygiene. To access these materials, visitors may use the search engine, look through the Subject index, or browse alphabetically by author, title, or year of publication. Together, these materials demonstrate the major role that home economists played in the Progressive Era, the creation of the welfare state, the rise of scientific medicine, and the popularization of research on family health and economies.
Read a more in-depth review of the Home Economics Archive written by Jessamyn Neuhaus of SUNY Plattsburgh.
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This collection presents approximately 14,000 photographs, most of which document the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Subjects include the architecture and interiors of government, commercial, and residential buildings; views of streets and neighborhoods; images of work and leisure; and events such as the 1932 Bonus March and the 1933 World Series. Horydczak's photographs also shed light on the growth of the District's suburbs, documenting the building of bridges and major arteries as well as the development of tract housing designed to accommodate an influx of bureaucratic personnel in communities such as Greenbelt, Maryland, and Fairlington in Virginia. This visual documentation of official and everyday life in the nation's capital and its environs fits well into larger American histories of urbanization and the growth of suburbs.
Read a more in-depth review of Washington As It Was written by Zachary Schrag of George Mason University.
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On the morning of August 15, 1815, 18-year-old Louisa Sarah Collins of Colin Grove, Nova Scotia"picked a basket of black currants." That afternoon, she"sewed a little while and then went out and raked hay.""I shall retire early tonight, for I feel quite tired after my days work," she wrote, on this second day after she began keeping a journal that summer. Before the end of January 1816, she would write close to 25 more entries totaling 8,000 words.
This website includes transcriptions of Louisa's diary, accompanied by eight images, 16 maps and plans of Louisa's surroundings, biographical information on the people mentioned in the diary, and additional historical information contextualizing Louisa's life. These materials open a window into the daily life of an uneducated young, rural woman from the 19th-century Maritimes, providing insight into women's roles, class issues, public events, attitudes towards work, leisure, birth and death, religious practice, and personal relationships. They also present the opportunity to contrast Louisa's views with those of Lucy Maud Montgomery's early 20th-century Anne of Green Gables.
Read a more in-depth review of Louisa's Worldwritten by Nora Jaffary of Concordia University.
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The heterogeneity of Latin America can come to life for students in a variety of ways--by exploring images, objects, and documents, as well as through quantitative evidence. Analyzing data on gross domestic product (GDP), life expectancy, illiteracy, and education spending from various countries can reveal the diversity of the continent, and allow students to probe the extent to which various countries have prioritized social spending in different periods.
This database contains a wealth of statistical information on Latin American economies and societies in the 20th century in an easily searchable format. It focuses on demographic, social, and economic statistics from 20 countries. Data is available on population and demographics, the labor force, trade, industry, transportation and communications, tax revenue, government spending, and prices. To access data, users select a country or countries, specify the date range, and select a statistical series. A click of the mouse produces an easy-to-read chart that can be viewed on-screen, printed, or downloaded as a CSV file. Used wisely, this website can serve as an introduction to Latin American economic history and to the practice of interpreting statistics.
Read a more in-depth review of Oxford Latin American Economic History Database written by Matthew Karush of George Mason University.
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Declassified documents produced by the U.S. government provide an illuminating look at the structure and behavior of the Guatemalan military during that country's decades-long civil war. There are 48 documents included here in a briefing book entitled The Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal.
This briefing book is part of a larger archive dedicated to making available U.S. documents declassified by the Freedom of Information Act. In fulfilling this mission, it contains hundreds of government documents, primarily collected in briefing books that include detailed scholarly introductions and an annotated collection of primary sources. These materials offer the chance to explore the difficult nature of policymaking, which is often shaped by pre-existing attitudes and incomplete intelligence. Holdings on Latin America and Europe are particularly strong. It is important to note that the archive's materials have been selected carefully by the National Security Archive, whose aim is to blow the whistle on U.S. malfeasance. Still, the archive is hardly an extremist organization, and its interpretations are generally reasonable.
Read more in-depth reviews of the National Security Archive written by Wayne Hanley of West Chester University, Matthew Karush of George Mason University, and Chester Pach of Ohio University.
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This vast collection of Canadian periodicals, official publications, parliamentary debates, records of early governors general, and documents on the Hudson Bay Company, is one of the most exhaustive online resources for studying Canada’s early political history.
Though buried within the Search the Collections section, the website also includes a substantial amount of information on women's history in 19th-century Canada. It provides access to nearly 700 texts, including diaries, novels, travel writings, recipe books, histories, parliamentary acts and debates, medical and religious tracts, and sermons, allowing users to reconstruct the types of experiences that (largely middle-class) women underwent during this period of Canada's national development. Materials could be used to study the construction of both feminine virtue and vice within a particular historical context. Also accessible through the Search section is information on Canadian literature, French Canada, and native studies. A subscription is required to access the browse list and several other collection features, but many resources are available at no cost.
Read a more in-depth review of Canadian Women's History and Early Canadiana Online written by Nora Jaffary of Concordia University.
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Read a more in-depth review of New Deal Stage written by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff of the University of South Carolina.
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In addition to Kennedy-era sources, this archive includes formal and informal diplomacy (official reports, correspondence, and transcriptions of Presidential tape recordings), charting major U.S. foreign policy decisions from the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon-Ford administrations. The bulk of the material covers the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, with special emphasis on Israel, Egypt, and Iran. Other prominent topics include the Vietnam War, Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Foreign Economic Policy, China, and the Soviet Union. Pairing these documents with media reports would allow for an interesting examination of the parallels and disparities between public awareness and government considerations in the construction of foreign policy.
Read a more in-depth review of Foreign Relations of the United States written by Nancy Stockdale of the University of North Texas.
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These sheet music covers, published between 1840 and 1900 primarily in the British Isles, provide a unique view into Victorian life and culture, illuminating the everyday lives of music hall artists, women, children, the royal family, and soldiers, as well as the towns and seascapes they traversed. In addition to lives and landscapes, the covers also depict Victorian sports and pastimes (e.g.,"polo"), animals, natural history, military events, and exhibitions (such as the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851). Browsing is available, as is an Advanced Search. Each record is accompanied by the name of the artist or lithographer, composer, writer, and date.
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Several photograph collections document Alaskan lives and landscapes in the early 20th century, capturing the activities of native peoples, miners, and fisherman, as well as stunning panoramas of Alaskan wildlife and wilderness. Other photograph collections highlight the lives of natives and American expatriates in Siberia through town panoramas, churches, factories, picnics, and other festivities. Twenty-five full scores of popular songs sung by Siberian native peoples and Russian settlers in the late tsarist and early Soviet periods shed light on criminal activity, weddings and other aspects of day-to-day Russian life, and are provided in high-quality resolutions, allowing viewers to read the notes and play the music. A virtual exhibit provides historical context surrounding exploration, colonization, development, national identity, and perceptions across the border.
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Read a more in-depth review of the Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative written by Nancy Stockdale of the University of Central Florida.
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The majority of these women were nobility, but writings from other women are also available. These include the works of Sei Shonagon, a prominent literary figure and attendant at the Japanese court in the 10th century, and Rabi’a al-’Adawiyya, of Basra, Iraq, who may have been a freed slave living in the 700s. Available texts include drama, prose, poetry, biography, visionary literature, history, memoirs, and letters that shed light on how women viewed such diverse topics as war, crime, class, sexuality, sex roles, and especially religion, in the particular contexts in which they lived. The website offers a biographical portrait of each writer with pertinent facts, though little additional historical context is provided.
Read a more in-depth review of Other Women’s Voices: Translations of Women’s Writing Before 1700 written by Nora Jaffary of Concordia University.
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