Selected Internet Resources on History

Africa Research Central (http://www.africa-research.org/mainframe.html)
This site provides information on and links to archives in Africa, Europe, and the U.S. that possess important collections of African primary sources.

After Sept. 11: perspectives from the social sciences (http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/)
The Social Science's Research Council's website offers a variety of academic materials to help students understand world peace, modern warfare, globalization, and fundamentalism. It features lesson plans and a diverse array of mostly newspaper-based websites.

Asian studies WWW virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)
ASVL offers an authoritative, large-scale, subject-oriented scholarly guide to over 10,000 Internet resources in Asian studies around the globe, including archives, library catalogs, documents, bibliographies, electronic journals, registers and mailing lists. It brings together an impressive collection of Asia-Pacific global resources and data on 63 individual countries/territories and 10 regions, with the "Tsunami Disaster in Asia, 2004" as a newer addition.

Australian History on the Internet (http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html)
This site produced by the National Library of Australia provides a comprehensive list of assessed subject sites on the Internet for researchers of the Australian experience.

The Battle of Britain History Site (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html)
This official website contains brief histories of the RAF units in the battle, biographical sketches of opposing commanders, a small gallery of photos, a list of Allied pilots and crews who flew during those horrendous months from July-October of 1940, and technical information and video clips of aircraft from both sides. Also included are the text of day-to-day reports that reveal how desperate the situation was becoming for the battered RAF.

Best of History Web sites (http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml)
An online directory to more than 700 of the best history-related websites. Includes prehistory, U.S. History, Early Modern Europe, WWII, Art History, Maps and Ancient History.

Cold War International History Project (http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409)
CWIHP provides information on the East-West conflict not only from a US perspective, but from sources that dramatize the worldwide component of the Cold War. Key sections such as archives and feature collections afford students helpful access to sources dealing with the Korean War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the conclusion of the Cold War.

Early Modern Women Database (http://www.Lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3)
This database covering c. 1500-1800 covers the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas and includes bibliographic databases and full-text resources enhanced by images and sound recordings.

East and Southeast Asia: an annotated directory of Internet Resources (http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china.html)
From the University of Redlands

Encyclopaedia of British history, 1500-1980 (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/industry.html)
The topics in this site are arranged both chronologically and by category. There are many long articles, although there is no hyperlink for Ireland for this period. For esample: the entry for "London in the 19th Century" is divided into four sections, on buildings and institutions, law and order, commerce and events. Entries are brief and deal with topics like Buckingham Palace, Tyburn Tree, Lloyd's of London, etc.

EUROPARL: The European Parliament On-Line (http://www.europarl.eu.int/)
The primary portal offers access to the site in 20 languages. In addition to information on memebers and parties, this site offers EP press releases, basic information about EP functions, and information about ongoing activities, e.g., plenary sessions, meetings and agendas. There are easily accessible links to websites associated with other European institutions, and, or course, to the European Union website.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.html)
Provides a good range of information on topics and events in U.S. history for the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

Historic Government publications from World War 11: a digital library (http://worldwar2.smu.edu/
More than 200 WW11-era pamphlets in the Southern Methodist University collection are digitized here. Emphasis is on the home front: rationing, civil defense and war work predominate; a few military pamphlets round out this collection.

Historical Statistical Census from 1790 - 1960 http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/hum3000.html)
General history sites as well as lists of sites by country.

International materials(http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html)
From the Library of Congress portal to the world.

The Jewish History Resource Center( http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/)
JHRC is a comprehensive resource offering more than 6,000 links in 30 categories (and many languages) to organizations and internet resources dealing with Jewish history, ancient times to the present. It is updated regularly and is deep with information and resources such as search engines, bibliographies, discussion groups, journals, conferences, documents, maps and more.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/)
This site presents a pleasing overview of the major players and proceedings of the French Revolution. Its strength lies in its comprehensive collection of primary sources, encompassing over 600 texts, songs, maps and illustrations. The collection is searchable by keyword, with limiting allowed by topic and resource type.

Making of America ( http//moa.umdl.umich.edu/)
Over 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles.(Most materials are from the 19th Century)

Map History/History of cartography: THE gateway to the subject (http://www.maphistory.info/)
This is a comprehensive, well-organized, easily navigable Internet site which contains 100+ pages with more than 3,5000 annotated links to vetted URLs. Useful for anyone interested in old, early or non-current maps.

Medieval English Towns (http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html)
This site covers virtually all aspects of medieval urban communities. The Florilegium category is a huge collection of primary sources in translation; it is followed by an equally huge selection of links to other sites subdivided by topic--bibliographies, general urban history, urban economy and society.

The Middle East, 1916-2001: a documentary record( http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm)
This site is part of Yale Law School's Avalon Project, an extensive historical and legal document collection. This site is useful to anyone interested in examining the Middle East through government documents, transcripts of government leaders' speeches, and UN resolutions.

The Mongols in World History (http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/)
A product of Columbia University's Asia for Educators Project, this site intends to create online curriculum materials on Asia to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, art and literature.

National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/
Select Links to the Past - Histories, Cultures and Places. Offers information on how to find grants.

Online Medieval & Classical Library ( http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/OMACL/)
From the Berkeley Digital Library. A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

Russian Studies (http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2000/january001/russianstudies.html)
Provides both English and Cyrillic sites and intends to offer a sampling of valuable internet resources as starting points for those interested in Russia and the former Soviet Republics' culture, politics, and history.

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/)
Primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and include court records, contemporary books, and record books, as well as images of the original court documents, historical maps, literary and secondary sources.

UNLV History Resources (http://www.unlv.edu/Colleges/Liberal_Arts/History/resources.html)
This is the History Department's excellent list of links for U.S. History, history of the American West, general European History and world history sites. Includes sites for those who teach history.

United States Digital Full Text Materials from the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov ).
The site offers more than 7 million digital full text items from more than 100 historical collections. Many primary sources.

United States History Web Sites ( http://www2.tntech.edu/history/usa.html)
From Tennessee Technological University . Lists hundreds of excellent websites by general category i.e. general history sites, diplomatic history, military history, social history, etc.and subject/time periods, i.e. colonial, early national, civil war and reconstruction, Gilded Age, Progressive Era World War I , Great Depression and New Deal, World War II, Cold War, 1960's.

University of Texas at Austin Ruasian and East European Network Information Center (http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic.html)
Most of the information is divided into 2 categories: the country Directory and Web Resources. Once a country is selected, one can choose to access links with numerous information servers or links grouped under various subjects. The site also includes a search engine. Complemented by the University of Pittsburgh site.

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ )
North and South points of view covering the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.

Voices of Civil Rights (http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/)
This is a collaborative effort of the AARP, Library of Congress and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to collect the personal stories of participants of modern civil rights movements from 1945-1975. It includes profiles of activists from African-American Civil Rights Movement; the American Indian Movement; and the Chicano, gay rights, environmental and women's movements.

WWW-VL History: Central Catalogue (http://rmweb.indiana.edu/History/VL/index.html)
A list of over 3,000 sites, arranged by country or topic.


WWW Virtual Library History Index: Medieval Europe (http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm)
This multifaceted site maintained by the Michigan State University Graduate Student Medieval and Renaissance Consortium offers general sites, including ARGOS: Search Engine for Ancient and Medieval Studies and NetSERF, and indexes of medieval resources, geographical sites (i.e., England and France), topical sites (i.e., castles, Vikings, cathedrals, etc.), and On-line Texts and On-line Publications.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History (http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivalink.html)
Another large resource for women's roles in history from Ancient times to the new century. Web resources are arranged in chronological, geographical and topical order. Conference listings and a solid reference section are also listed. New sites include Resources in Chicana and Chicano Studies. Women in Aviation Resource center and others with specialty interest.

American Folklife Center: Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/folklife/)
The web pages of the American Folklife Center (AFC) are the electronic counterpart of the Archive of Folk Culture that resides in the Library of Congress and serve as another means of access to the Archive's collections, which include folk cultural material from all 50 states, programs, and services. This site includes a Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms.

AmericanSouth.org (http://www.americansouth.org/)
The purpose of this resource, established by Emory University and underwritten by the Mellon Foundation, is to "harvest metadata" from the 36 institutions cooperating in its operation. In scope, the collections offer information ranging from the colonial period to modern political leadership.

Center of the American West (http://www.centerwest.org/)
Hosted by the University of Colorado, this site is dedicated to the modern study of the U.S. West. Topics include energy policy, economic theory, land usage, and social interaction in various contexts of western history. Also recommended are the University of Utah's American West Center (http://www.centerwest.org/) and the Center for the Study of the North American West (http://west.stanford.edu/)

Documenting the American South (http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/)
Provides access to printed resources about 19th century Southern literature and history held in the University of North Carolina libraries and historical collections. Includes digitized versions of works in three collections: First-Person narratives of the American South, 1860-1920; North America Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920; and the Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920. This is a well-maintained, quality-controlled database. Searching is easily done by author, title or key word.

First Person Narratives of the American South (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html )
This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It inclueds the diaries, memoirs, travel accounts and ex-slave narratives of prominent people as well as women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

Merrycoz.org : works for children and adults (http://www.merrycoz.org
This site offers transcriptions and images from a variety of 19th century children's books and magazines. It offers commentary and contextual information and supples a timeline of 19th century events, bibliographies of related research material, essays and articles and excerpts from contemporary reviews and material written by the children themselves.

The New Deal Stage( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/)
This is part of the Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program; this site offers an opportunity to view primary source documents of theatrical productions sponsored by the WPA and the FTP (Federal Theatre Project) from 1935-1939. Featured are scripts, stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, and FTP records.

The World War I Document Archive (http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/
This website was constructed by the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). The most useful sections include the file on "Conventions, Treaties and Official Papers" and the extensive "Documents Year-by-Year" collection. There are links to other Great War sites. This collection contains the most important primary source documents of the war.

Africa south of the Sahara: selected internet resources (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html)
This site provides browsing by individual African countries, with regional links a secondary option. "Breaking Africa News" offers BBC World Service--Africa and links to African newspapers by country, ranging from periodicals to Web sites of ministries, aid agencies and universities.

The African American Mosaic (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/African/afam001.html)
A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture. This site presents an overview of materials in the Library of Congress about the African American experience. The Resource Guide is an "introductory text" only, featuring information on four topics: colonization, abolition, migrations after the Civil War and material from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Writers Project of the New Deal. Access to the website is instantaneous and it is easily navigated.

Black Studies (http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html)
This site lists 51 broad subject categories, including Emancipation, The Great Migration, and the Underground Railroad, each subdivided by specific topics. The site includes reproductions of original documents, lesson plans, videos, sound recordings, personal histories, government documents and photographs.

Documenting the American South (http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/)
Provides access to printed resources about 19th century Southern literature and history held in the University of North Carolina libraries and historical collections. Includes digitized versions of works in three collections: first-person narratives of the American south, 1860-1920; North America Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920; and the Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920. This is a well-maintained, quality-controlled database. Searching is easily done by author, title or key word.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition (http://www.yale.edu/glc/index.html)
This website from the Yale Center for International and Area Studies provides teachers, students and researchers with information on the history of Atlantic slavery and its aftermath. It includes over 200 primary documents from 1692 through the 20th century.

Harlem History( http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/index.html
Harlem was the home to generations of creative artists: novelists, poets, musicians and actors. It was also the home to many of the 20th century's African American politicians. Harlem was the inspiration for a high renaissance of culture and art. This Web site will be valuable to all those interested in this watershed of American and African American culture and political activism.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html)
This is a research unit of the New York Public Library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world, with emphasis on blacks in the Western Hemisphere. The Schomburg provides researchers access and reference to domuments, art and artifacts, manuscripts, monographs, photographs, moving pictures, and more.

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web (http://www.lib.unc.edu/stone/webguide/)
This searchable guide to over 600 Web sites is also browsable by 30 subject categories. Topics related to African and African American culture include "Art and Artists", "Dance", "Education", "Films", "Religion", etc. The link of "Photographs and Images" includes a selective list of photographic archives valuable to the African American experience.

The Underground Railway: Niagara's freedom trail (http://collections.ic.gc.ca/underground)
This collection sheds light on aspects of the Underground Railroad previously neglected; it includes biographical sketches of individuals such as Harriet Tubman, photos of African American families, churches, cemeteries, advertisements for slave auctions and runaway slaves.

History of Armenia (http://www.armenica.org/)
This site contains the history of Armenia from 800B.C. to modern times, including the background, implementation and the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide during World War I, complete with maps and other information.

The Jewish History Resource Center (http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/)
This is a comprehensive resource offering more than 6,000 links in over 30 categories (and many languages) to organizations and internet sites dealing with Jewish history, ancient times to the present.

The Nizkor Project (http://www.nizkor.org/)
Nizkor is a Hebrew word meaning "we will remember." This site has various links to Holocaust sites as well as documents relating to the Holocaust. For example, most all the documents from the Nuremberg Trial papers are included. It has thousands of pieces of information about the camps, the killings, the perpetrators, the victims, and a growing bibliography and hundreds of pictures of the destruction of the Jews.

Voices of the Holocaust (http://www.bl.uk/services/learning.html)
Maintained by the British Library, this website includes four basic links: reference, student information cards, teaching resources and a testimony library.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (http://www.ushmm.org/
Well organized, with links to various aspects of the museum. Among its features are archive and library holdings and a photographic archive, all of which can be accessed through a well-constructed query-based system. Also includes teaching materials that can be downloaded.

The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975 (http://vietnam.vassar.edu/)
A useful research tool that includes a brief history of the Second Indochina War (1954-75), Geneva Peace Accords, U.S. presidential support of the war, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, "peace proposals" from the other side and information about Vietnam and its people and tactical maps of the country.

America at work, America at leisure: motion pictures from 1894-1915 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/)
This internet site, part of the Library of Congress American Memory collection, offers and interesting selection of 150 motion pictures from 1894-1915.

First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html)
This website, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries' Documenting the American South makes accessible "first person narratives" highlighting little known individuals.

International Institute of Social History (http://www.iisg.nl/)
This valuable site sponsors and fosters research in the history of the working class. (Originating in Amsterdam).

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834 (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/)
This source provides a searchable, digitized collection of over 100,000 trials at London's central criminal court from 1674 to 1834; this site also provides images of the original pages. Digitized maps permit links to crime locations and defendants' residences.

Radical America (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/radicalamerica/index.html)
Radical America was a magazine launched in 1967 by radical students in Madison, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin. A creative source that devoted issues to comics as cultural artifacts, women's, labor and gay history, it dissolved in the early 90s. Brown University has digitized the first 14 years of the publication. The main value of the site is simply that it makes available entire scanned issues of an extraordinarily rare magazine of cultural criticism, social rebellion and radical politics.

Ancient World Web (http://www.julen.net/ancient/)
Ancient World Web covers from 700 C.E. until about 1000 and is an immense index of resources including websites, listservs, institutions, and organizations. The Meta Index can be sorted by geographical region and topics, including children, music, theater and classics.