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Canadian Confederation / La Confédération Canadienne
This exhibit from the National Library of Canada focuses on the role of the American Civil War on Canadian confederation.
Expositions Virtuelles
Virtual exhibits, including “Voyage en Orient,” “L'Art du livre arabe,” “Brouillons d'écrivains,” “Contes de fées,” “Graphisme(s),” and others, produced by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
An exhibition at the Library of Congress.
Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher
Sponsored by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this site explores the voyage of Englishman Martin Frobisher to the New World in his efforts to find the Northwest Passage to Asia.
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries
Presented by the Texas Humanities Resource Center, this online exhibit offers over 100 images with accompanying text examining the art and culture of Mexico.
Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order?
An educational exhibit in the Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online site. A series of five essays examines and explains the changes which occurred in the Renaissance during the fourteenth through the
sixteenth centuries. The essays are: Out of the Middle Ages; Exploration and Trade; Printing and Thinking; Symmetry, Shape, Size; and, Focus on Florence. This interactive site also allows inquisitive users to become
spice traders in a role-playing game, or to take a hands-on approach to the Fibonacci sequence through a learning module called Numbers in Nature.
Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change
A traveling exhibit of The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology that illustrates how the craft of glassmaking was influenced by historical events and changing social values in the Roman world.
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
Online exhibit presenting some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and mapsmany of which played a key role in
the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. The exhibition presents the untold
story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political
and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance.