Resource Guides & Bibliographies

Explore the links below to find suggested books, films, lesson plans, websites, and news sources for teaching and learning about global education and world regions, cultures, and histories. Most items listed in guides are in the Primary Source Library collection.

Africa

• Africa
• African Places, African Stories: A Guide for Elementary Teachers
• Egypt

Asia

• Ancient China
• Afghanistan
• Asians/Asian Americans in the United States
  
• Burma
• Cambodia
• Chinese New Year
• China and the Olympics
• East Asian Literature (NEW!)
• Japan
• Korea
• The Silk Roads
• South Asia
• The Three Gorges Dam Project
• Understanding Modern China
• Vietnam

Global Education

• The Environment: A Greener World
• Global Education
• Global Literature
• Reading Nonfiction: A Global Approach to the Common Core (NEW!)
• Service-Learning
• Teaching the Millennium Development Goals

Latin America

• Latin America
  
• Brazil
  
• Cuba
• Haiti
• The Maya
• Mesoamerica Bibliography
• Mexico
• Social Movements in Latin America (NEW!)

Middle East

• 9/11: Resources for Teachers
• A Century of Conflict and Resolution in the Middle East
• Afghanistan (NEW!)
• Egypt
• Gender and the Muslim World
• The Ottoman Empire (NEW!)
• Iran
• Middle East Videos in the Primary Source Library
• Unmuddling the Modern Middle East

United States

• 9/11: Resources for Teachers
• African American History in New England
• American History in International Perspective
• Antebellum Reform Movements and the Coming of the Civil War
• Asians/Asian Americans in the United States
  
• Civil Rights
• The Colonial Era
• Democratic Vistas: Civic Life, History, and American Art (A Picturing America Guide)
• The Early Republic
• Immigration, Migration, and Race
• Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements, and the Law
• Massachusetts History
• Native Americans in New England
• A New Look at the Old West
• Reconstruction & The Gilded Age
• Resources on 19th Century Immigration to America: Two Perspectives
• Slave Narratives in the Primary Source Library
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery in New England
• War and Society from the American Revolution to the War in Vietnam

Interconnected World

• Crossroads of Culture: The Islamic World, 750-1400
• The World History Collection