| History--General and World Focus | Additional Information |
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| The Avalon Project at the Yale School of Law: | Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 
sub-titled: Pioneering the global think tank |
| Center For World Indigenous Studies | formerly Fourth World Documentation Project |
| Center for History and New Media | 
George Mason University |
| Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences: Spatial Resources for the Social Sciences |
A superb Web site which offers one-stop shopping for anyone who wishes
to learn about the fundamentals of and the advances in the use of geographic
information systems (GIS) in the human sciences. |
| Cold War International History Project |
Woodrow Wilson Center |
| Digital History | Based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its purpose is to educate scholars and interested members of the general public about an emerging academic field. Web site is clearly organized, easy to navigate and quick loading. |
| Early Modern Women Database | University of Maryland |
| ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative |
University of California; beautiful, entertaining and educational;
at the same time, it is a complex site, and that means it is essential for
prospective users to read over the home page carefully in order to take
advantage of the many options available. |
| Encyclopedia Mythica | An Encyclopedia of Mythology, Folklore and Legend; mythology section is divided into six geographical regions; the folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and world folk tales |
| Forced Migration Online | supported by the Oxford, Dept of International Development; Intended for practitioners and academic researchers the site provides instant access to online sources about people displaced by either conflicts or natural disasters |
| H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online | |
| Hanover History Texts Archive | This site has narrowed its focus to the Early Modern and Modern Europe--the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the French Revolution--and small text collections for the History of the Americas. |
| Historical Journals On-Line | on-line, means the journals are "born electronic" (online or open access) titles; an alphabetical list is provided |
| The Historical Text Archive | a long-standing labor of love by historian Don Mabry; the site houses 694 articles, 71 books, and 7,664 links |
| History Guide | Goettingen University; thematic and subject guides available |
| History On-Line | supported by the Institute of Historical Research, London; currently (2009) over 40,000 records providing amongst other resources professional evaluated links to history-related web sites |
| Humanities E-Book Project | Originally confined to history texts, in 2007 the collection was expanded to all of the Humanities; there are now more than 2,200 scholarly works published electronically by the ACLS; access restricted to currently enrolled UTPB students. |
| INCORE: Internet Country Guides | Focuses on international conflict research by providing country specific thematic guides |
| International Institute of Social History | based in the Netherlands |
| intute: best of the web:: Arts & Humanities |
supported by universities in the UK, has a distinctly European outlook;
see Voice of the Shuttle below, for a similar but North American
focused site housed at the Univ. of California-Santa Barbara |
| Jewish History: An Academic Guide to Major Print and Internet Scholarly Resources | |
| Library of Congress: Country Studies | |
| Life After the Holocaust |
stories of holocaust survivors after the war |
| Making the History of 1989 | Web site on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe; includes 300 primary sources which are downloadable as pdf files. A brief analysis accompanies each document; documents can be found using keyword searching or by browsing the teaching modules and case studies. |
| Meeting of Frontiers | Library of Congress; emphasis is on Russian and American frontiers |
| The Migration Information Source | |
| Mother of All Art and Art History Links |
University of Michigan |
| The Nizkor Project | A prime site for Holocaust research; Nizkor is a Hebrew word which means We will remember |
| Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping | the help page on this very large site, explains how best to find information. |
| Portals to the World | Library of Congress; selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information on nearly 200 countries |
| SYMBOLS.com: Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms | has a graphic index, as well as a word index |
| Terrorism |
U.S. Navy Department Library, Navy Historical Center |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibits | |
| Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research |
Offers thematic links to Area and Regional Studies, Classical
Studies, Cultural Studies, Cyberculture,
History, and numerous other areas |
| WWW Virtual Library: History Central Catalogue | THE premier history web site; includes extensive links to individual country history web sites |
| WWW Virtual Library: Film History | WWW Virtual Library: Historical Auxiliary Sciences |
| WWW Virtual Library: Map History :: History of Cartography | WWW Virtual Library: US History |
| WWW Virtual Library: Women's History | |
| Section Updated: 1 August 2009 | Section Created: 7 July 2000 |
| History Resources--Africa, The Middle East | Additional Information |
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| 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa | Northwestern University |
| Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources | Stanford University |
| African Studies Internet Resources |
Columbia University |
| African Studies | U. Pennsylvania see the Resources menu along the right hand side |
| afrika.no | formerly Index on Africa |
| The American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, 1909-1915 | |
| The Ancient Egypt Site | |
| Digital Egypt for Universities | |
| Eternal Egypt | predynastic times to the present; in English, French or Arabic; requires QuickTime |
| Giza Archives Project | Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston |
| Reading Women Writers and African Literatures | Specializes in
Francophone African literature South of the Sahara |
| Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative | UCLA and the
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives | Funded by the Mellow Foundation and the National Science Foundation, this cooperative effort aims to develop a "comprehensive internet site for the study of the Ancient Near East (ANE)". An on-going project, only 3 of the 7 proposed "projects" are in production. |
| History in the News: Middle East History, Society & Culture | SUNY-Albany |
| The Jewish History Resource Center | |
| Middle East North Africa Internet Guide | Utah |
| Middle East Network Information Center: MENIC | University of Texas,
Austin |
| Middle East Studies Internet Resources |
Columbia |
| MEMRI: The Middle East Media Research Institute | non-profit |
| Section Updated: 31 July 2009 | Section Created: 6 July 2000 |
| History Resources--Asia, Oceania | Additional Information |
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| Asian Studies: WWW Virtual Library | |
| Australian Dictionary of Biography | |
| Australian History: Selected Websites | |
| Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders | |
| Dictionary of New Zealand Biography | |
| Digital South Asia Library | Center for Research Libraries & the University of Chicago |
| East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources | archived site; ceased updating 2006 |
| Edwin Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War | Clemson |
| The Mongols in World History | Lavishly illustrated, this Web site is prepared by the Asia for Educators Project at Columbia University; the intent of the project is to create online curriculum materials on Asia to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and high school level. |
| PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resources | University of
Wisconsin |
| The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library | |
| The Vietnam Center and Archive | Texas Tech |
| A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization |
The creator of this Web site is Patricia Buckley Ebrey, who is also the
author of numerous books on China, including the Cambridge Illustrated
History of China and Women and the Family in Chinese History;
an educational site which provides thoughtful, open-ended questions for
students and well-designed guides for teachers. |
| The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975 | Vassar |
| WWW Virtual Library: Pacific Studies | |
| Section Updated: 31 July 2009 | Section Created: 6 July 2000 |
| Europe and Eurasia--Overviews, Ancient & Medieval | Additional Information |
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Historical Research
in Europe
HRE attempts to "unite both web-based and printed resources which provide
information about European libraries and archives in a single interactive database." Retrieved records are listed alphabetically by title, and can not be
re-organized by the user. |
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| WWW Virtual Library: History Central Catalogue select by continent, era, topic, country; extensive European resources. | |
| The Ancient Egypt Site | |
| Ancient World Mapping Center | the Center based at
UNC, has a long scholarly tradition of ably communicating knowledge of, and
enthusiasm about this subject; neatly organized, mostly textual, although the
JPEG images aptly complement the text. |
| The Beazley Archive | the premier online source of serious scholarly research in classical art and archaeology; collections consist of Pottery Database, Englarged Gems and Cameos, Sculpture Database, Antiquaria Database, and Inscriptions on Athenian Pottery, c.625-300 BC. Included are a dictionary of terms, bibliographies, an album function (that can be slow) that can retain specific images for users' reference, time lines, and links to related resources. |
| Britannia: | subtitled: The Roman Army and Navy in Britain 55 BC - 410 AD |
| Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet | part of Internet Medieval Sourcebook |
| Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents | Oxford University;
resource for Greek and Latin epigraphy; links to other sites with images of
papryi; the site is clear, fast, and easy to use--providing you understand
the concept of epigraphy. |
| Classical Myths: The Ancient Sources | Images & Texts; also acts as an index to eight other Web sites, including the Perseus Project at Tufts, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and the Vatican Museum. |
| Classics Unveiled | good overall introduction to those unfamiliar with the area; however, does focus far more on Rome than Greece |
| Digital Roman Forum |
UCLA; easy access to and exploration of detailed reconstructions of the
Forum Romanum. |
| Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient world | large textual
archive of materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient
world; primarily an archived site, i.e. no longer updated |
| Exploring Ancient World Cultures: An Introduction | |
| Metis |
similar to Rome Reborn 1.0, Metis is devoted to the
Greeks; the site is organized by city names or archaeological dig names. |
| Perseus Digital Library 4.0 | Tufts University
Library; funded by nearly $3 million in grants since 1998 |
| The Prehistoric Archaeology Sites of the Aegean | Dartmouth |
| Rome Reborn |
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; University of
Virginia coordinating; Rome Reborn is an international initiative
whose goal is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban
development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age
(ca. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages
(ca. A.D. 550). |
| WWW Virtual Library: Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe | |
| Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts | UCLA |
| De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History | A major benefit of the site is the Medieval Warfare Online (Resources Section) which lists books, articles,primary sources, and book reviews sorted by place and subject, varying from Anglo-Saxon Warfare to the Siege of Constantinople. |
| Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index | hosted by the
Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship |
| Internet Medieval Sourcebook |
Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies |
| Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies | Georgetown University |
| Medieval English Towns | also
SCOUT Report Selection |
| Medieval Text Compendium | Harvard |
| NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources | |
| ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies | thematic and subject
subdivisions |
| Princeton Dante Project | |
| TEAMS Middle English Texts |
part of The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester |
| WWW Virtual Library: Medieval Europe | |
| Section Updated: 31 July 2009 | Section Created: 6 July 2000 |
| Central, Eastern & Western Europe, UK, Eurasia | Additional Information |
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| The Battle of Britain History Site | Britain's "Finest Hour" and period of greatest danger in the 20th century was the July-October 1940 aerial battle that followed Dunkirk. |
| British History Online |
The University of London's Institute for Historical Research and the
History of Parliament Trust developed this digital library.
The majority of the sources are from the 17th to 19th centuries, but the
Victoria County History volumes included in the collection contain a
significant amount of information about medieval local history. |
| British Newspapers 1800-1900 |
Originally part of the British Museum's Collect Britain: Penny Illustrated
Papers exhibit; the exhibit was rewritten as part of this new site.
More difficult to navigate than the original, the site still contains
unparalleled access to 19th century British newspapers. |
| British Museum Collection Database | |
| The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977 (UK) | |
| Early Modern Resources | an informal hub for free sites on many topics set in the early modern period (c. 1492-1800) in Europe. The content is not closely vetted, so that the quality c an be somewhat uneven. A site with similar scope, but somewhat more heavily edited is Early Modern Resources at the University of Michigan. |
| Encyclopaedia of British History, 1500-1950 | A segment of Spartacus
Internet |
| Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia | |
| EuroDocs: Primary Historical Docoments from Western Europe | |
| EUROPARL: The European Parliament On-line | the primary
portal offers access to the site in 20 languages; a useful resource
for supporting research in recent and developing European affairs |
| European Union Center of Excellence: European Studies Center | U. Pittsburgh |
| Gathering the Jewels: The Website for Welsh Cultural History | |
| German History 1890-1949: WWW Virtual Library | materials in a mix of German and English |
| German Studies |
Berkeley, primary focus on language and literature |
| Germany: National Socialism and World War II | EuroDocs |
| Guide to Slavonic and East European Internet Resources | The British Library; described by the New York Public Library staff as the best vetted and organized site on Slavic, Baltic, and East European interent resources |
| Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860-1945 | NYPL: New York Public Library |
| Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online | |
| Historical Directories | Local and trade directories published in England and Wales from 1750 to 1919, such as Post Office Directory of Worcestershire,Kelly's Berkshire Directory, and so on. Extremely useful primary sources for historians. |
| Historical Research in Europe |
HRE attempts to "unite both web-based and printed resources which provide
information about European libraries and archives in a single interactive database." Retrieved records are listed alphabetically by title, and can not be
re-organized by the user. |
| Imperial War Museum Collections On-line | easily navigated,
excellent organization, the site is a digital repository of items in the
Imperial War Museum's physical collection. |
| Ireland: 1916 Rising: Personalities & Perspectives | |
| Naval-History.net | an extensive amount of reference information on naval history, with a concentration on WW I, WW II, and the Falklands War; primary focus is the Royal Navy and British maritime history, but the site does provide information on other combatants |
| Nazi and East German Propaganda |
Obviously the work of a dedicated scholar, this ongoing, frequently
updated Web site makes a meaningful contribution to the study of the subject. |
| National Archives of Great Britain | complete list of online exhibitions. |
| The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674 to 1834 | |
| REENIC: Russian and East European Information Center | (U. of Texas) |
| REES: Russian & East European Web Site | University of
Pittsburgh |
| Royal Historical Society Bibliography | In association with
Irish History Online and London's Past Online |
| Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: British History 1700-1950 | |
| Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links, 2nd edition |
In spite of its flashy name an exhaustive gateway to the French-speaking
world on the Web |
| Uniting the Kingdoms? 1066-1603 | National Archives UK exhibit. |
| Victorian Studies on the Web | every important publication from 1945-2008 in every field of Victorian Studies |
| Victorian Web | |
| WESSWEB: Western European Subject Specialists | |
| West European Studies | Woodrow Wilson Center; focuses on current politics and thought |
| The World War I Document Archive | Supported by the World War I Military History List (WWI-L); |
| WWW Virtual Library: History Central Catalogue | select by continent, era, topic, country; extensive European resources. |
| WWW Virtual Library: France | |
| WWW Virtual Library: Spanish History Index | |
| WWW Virtual Library: Contemporary Spanish History | |
| Section Updated: 10 August 2009 | Section Created: 6 July 2000 |