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Nelson Mendela Archive
In partnership with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, the Google Cultural Institute has helped to bring Nelson Mandela's archive online. The multimedia archive includes Mr Mandela’s correspondence with family, comrades and friends, diaries written during his 27 years of imprisonment, and notes he made while leading the negotiations that ended apartheid in South Africa. The archive also include the earliest-known photos of Mr Mandela and never-before seen drafts of Mr Mandela's material for his book "Conversations with Myself,” the sequel to his autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom.”
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials. The scope is international and multi-lingual.
Atlast of Global Inequality
The mission of the UC Atlas of Inequality is to provide online teaching resources and tools to enable student exploration of global change. Aspects of 21st Century global integration and inequality present great challenges to university teaching. The UC Atlas of Global Inequality attempts to address these challenges using the Internet, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and new graphical capabilities of digital media to enhance learning in Geography, Sociology, Economics, Health, Te
Europe Portal
The Europe Portal
Europe History Interactive Map: See important events against the backdrop of an interactive map, complete with mouseover buttons for more information on each event. Toggle back and forth between major time periods.

Detailed European History Timeline: Significant events throughout European history, laid out in chronological order. Includes several maps.

The Formation of European Nations: How each "nation" of people (nationality), and nation-state (country)

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