MIT's Visualizing Cultures: Opening Japan, Opium War

This MIT site "Visualizing Cultures," is a great resource for World History and AP World when studying imperialism. 

The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students to analyze various images. Some of the units include the rise and fall of the Canton Trade System and the First Opium War.

If you click on a unit like the Opium War, you can click on a lesson mini database, which opens up a series of images in a PDF.

I am thinking of incorporating some of these images when we cover the Opium Wars.

The Black Ships and Samurai Curriculum is really cool and includes events from both American and Japanese perspectives. One of the lessons include two letters advising the shogun on how to respond to the Americans who are trying to open Japan to the West with instructions on how to use them.