History

Africa African-American American Religious History Ancient Arab Countries Asian-American History Atlases Baseball California & the West Canada China Church History Civil War/Slavery/Reconstruction Colonial U.S. Depression Documents & Interviews Early Christian Church Europe

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• VU History/Political Science Guidelines for Writing Research Papers
• VU History/Political Science Footnote & Bibliography Formats

General Gateway Sites

• Directory of Historical Resources
• Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries
• History Departments Around the World
• Voice of the Shuttle: History
• World Rulers

Historiography: Discussion Lists and Reviews

• H-Net
  A gateway to over 100 history discussion lists.

Documents and Interviews

• 19th Century Documents Project
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Archiving Early America
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School
  Documents in law, history & diplomacy
• Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
• Conversations with History
  More than 150 interviews with distinguished people of various backgrounds. Examples include Robert MacNamara, Tom Wicker, Oliver Stone, Daniel Ellsberg, John Kenneth Galbraith, etc. Intervies are available in complete text and partial video formats.
• Core Documents of US Democracy
  Current and historical legislative, legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic documents selected and made available by the Government Printing Office.
• Eurodocs : Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
• Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in African-American, Women’s and US Presidential history
• National Security Council Historical List of Policy Documents
  No full text of documents, thought there are links to some presidential libraries that contain the texts.
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project
  Includes editorials, speeches, and articles relating to subjects such as slavery, early national politics, Dred Scott, etc.
• Historical Text Archive
• Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents
• Making of America
  A digital library of primary sources in US social history from 1850-1877. The U of Michigan has scanned in about 1600 books and ten journals (50,000 articles). Excellent source of obscure materials.

Atlases

• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
  Excellent maps that depict general trends, politics, socio-economics, conflicts, disasters, etc.

World History

• Country Studies
• International Institute of Social History (Labor History)
• World History Archives

Africa

• Africa Web Links (U. Penn)
• U of Illinois Center for African Studies

Ancient

• ABZU : Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East
• Acropolis
  Virtual tour of the Acropolis
• Ancient City of Athens Mainly photos of ruins in Athens
• Ancient Egypt
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
• Papyrus Archives (Duke University)
  Texts and images of papyri from ancient Egypt.
• Electronic Resources for Classicists
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Jerusalem Mosaic
• Julius Caesar
  Annotated guide to resources, timeline of Caesar’s career, etc.
• Maya Civilization Past and Present
• Metis: An Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
  Quick time tours of Greek ruins, such as the Acropolis, Troy, etc.
• Perseus Digital Library
• Project Runeberg
  Classic Nordic literature and art, but much is not translated into English.
• Rome Resources
• LacusCurtius:Into the Roman World

Arab Countries

• ArabNet

Asia

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Korean History Project
  Multimedia version of a 1400 page manuscript on Korean history.

Canada

• Canadian West

China

• The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
• Center for Chinese Studies Library at Berkeley
• The Silk Road
  History and development of the Silk Road, plus information on the Mongols.

Europe

• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
  Collection of articles from over 100 contributors on this subject.

Exploration

• Age of Exploration (Mariner’s Museum)
  Traces the history of exploration beginning with the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and continuing on through Columbus, Magellan, etc. Includes the evolution of steering ships, a timeline, and biographies of explorers. Geared toward high school students.
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery
  Contains over 1100 full-text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, and other materials about Columbus.
• The Silk Road
  History and development of the Silk Road, plus information on the Mongols.

France

• French Studies Web Homepage
• French Studies Web: History
• Paris at the time of Philippe-Auguste
  Daily life in Paris during the reign of Phillip II (1180-1223). Philippe Auguste built the Louvre, paved streets, and walled the city. Some pages have not been translated into English.

Germany

• German History
• German Propaganda Archive
  Primary materials from Nazi Germany and East Germany; organized by a professor of communications at Calvin College.
• German Surrender Documents WWII

Great Britain/Scotland/Ireland

• American and British History Resources on the Internet
• Encyclopedia of British History: 1500-1980
  2000+ entries with narratives, illustrations, and bibliography.
• Irish History on the Web
• Romantic Chronology
• Victorian Political History Overview
• Victorian Web

Holocaust

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Remember.org
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
• Schindler’s List Teaching Guide
• Anti-Semitism and Holocaust
• Holocaust/Shoah Page
• Holocaust Heroes
• Auschwitz Alphabet
• Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights
• Nizkor Project
• Wannsee Protocol
• Glossary of the Holocaust
• Elie Wiesel Interview
• Women and the Holocaust
• Women and the Holocaust: A Cyberspace of Their Own

India

• India WWW Virtual Library
• Manas: India and its Neighbors
  Indian history, culture, geography, social issues.

Japan

• J-Guide Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources

Judaism

• Jewish Encyclopedia
  Complete contents of the 12-volume work, published between 1901-1906.

Latin America

• HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
  “Annotated bibliography of scholary works”
• Historical Text Archive: Latin America Articles
• Historical Text Archive: Latin America Links
• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
• Maya Civilization Past & Present
• Mesoweb: An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures
  Presents information about the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, and Zapotec cultures.

Medieval and Renaissance

• Bayeux Tapestry
• Black Plague
  Good links statistics and responses to the bubonic plague. Includes primary sources.
• Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
• The Camelot Project
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  Includes primary sources.
• La Renaissance Web Museum
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• Medieval English Towns
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Index to articles, essays, and book reviews covering 450-1500 C.E.
• Medieval Literature and History Page
• Medieval Women
  Writings by and about women from the medieval period, with bibliographies and related links; no longer maintained. See also the Labyrinth, Medieval Women page.
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• ORB–Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• The Perseus Project
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

Middle East

• History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources

Russia

• The Alexander Palace Time Machine
  Everyday life in a Romanov Palace
• Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
• REESWeb The Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library
• REENIC: Russian and East European Network Information Center
  Located at the University of Texas, Austin, this site has many links
• Russian Revolution

United States General History

• American and British History
• Biographical Directory of the US Congress, 1774-present
  Information for all who have served in the Congress and the Continental Congress.
• Digital History: excellent site with primary documents, timelines, essays, biographies, etc.
• History Buff’s Home Page
• OYEZ Arguments before the Supreme Court

United States Chronological

Colonial U.S.

• Columbus and the Age of Discovery
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
• The French and Indian War
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project
  Collection of texts, including court records, laws, profiles of colonists, and wills; includes essays on topics such as women in Plymouth, servant-master relationships, house construction.
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
  Role of religion in the colonies and early US history, with digitized images and texts. From the Library of Congress.

Revolution and Early U.S.

• Papers of George Washington
• Archiving Early America
• Federalist Papers
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
  Role of religion in the colonies and early US history, wtih digitized images and texts. From the Library of Congress.
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
  Scanned images of spy letters sent, with background information for each. Also brief biographies.

Civil War, Slavery, Reconstruction

• Civil War Index Page
  Jim. Janke, a finance professor at Dakota State Universty, has an excellent list of civil war sites; updated frequently.
• American Civil War Homepage
• Civil War Photographs : 1118 photographs of the Civil War, many taken by Matthew Brady
• Civil War Resources on the Internet
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
• Digital History: African American Voices
• Documenting the American South
  Contains works in 14 collections: First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920; North American Slave Narratives; and the Library of Southern Literature. Excellent site.
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project
• Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices
• The Underground Railroad
  National Geographic Online presentation. Includes a Time Line covering slavery in the Americas from 1500-1865, plus an interactive account of a runaway slave’s journey on the Railroad and maps of escape routes. Another similar site is provided by the National Park Service.
• U.S. Civil War Center
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
• War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Imperialism

• The World of 1898: the Spanish American War

Twentieth Century

• Ad*Access
  Over 7000 advertisements that appeared in US newspapers and magazines from 1911-1955.
• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
  A site that gives a broad perspective on 20th century art, architecture, music, fashion, historic events.
• American Prohibition
• Berlin Wall
  Contains much information on the Wall–a timeline, photographs, and an archive of documents. Searchable.
• Cold War International History Project
  One of the best Cold War sites, CWIHP includes scholarly articles.
• Cold War Museum
• Cold War Links – Yahoo
• Cuban Missile Crisis Audio files
• Early Motion Pictures: Click on Motion Pictures, right hand menu
• Ellis Island Records
• FDR Cartoons
• Free Speech Movement
• The Gulf War
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
  Excellent maps that depict general trends, politics, socio-economics, conflicts, disasters, etc.
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• National Security Archive
• Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
• The Whole World Was Watching: Oral history of 1968
  Oral history project wherein Rhode Island residents remember Vietnam, women’s issues, civil rights, and politics of the late 1960s. RealPlayer is needed to listen to interviews. Time line of 1968 is included.
• State Department Publications
• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
• Works Progress Administration Life History Manuscripts
• Year by Year 1900-2001

World War I

• African-Americans in Military History: World War I: A Bibliography
• World War I: Trenches on the Web
• The Great War
  An excellent site produced by the BBC to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Armistice. Find information on four battles–Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele. Excerpts from letters and interviews with veterans. Photos from the war.

World War II

• African-Americans in Military History: World War II: A Bibliography
• Armies of the Second World War
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Dad’s War
• Nagasaki Journey : Photographs of post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki
• Holocaust Links
• Homefront Pictures, 1935-1945
• Japanese War Crimes
• Nanjing Massacre, 1937-1938
• The Nizkor Project (Links to various Holocaust sites, including those of Holocaust deniers)
• Oral History Archives of WWII
• Responses to the Holocaust : A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities
• The U-Boat War, 1939-1945
• Wolf Lewkowicz Collection 1922-1939 correspondence between a Polish Jew & US relatives
• We Served America Too! Blacks in the Women’s Army Corps During WWII: A Selected Bibliography
• Women at War: The Redstone Arsenal
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters during World War II
• World War II Archive

Vietnam War

• African Americans in Military History: Vietnam War: A Bibliography
• Battlefield: Vietnam
  Overview of the war by PBS. Includes links to other sources.
• Edwin Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War
• Socialist Republic of VietNam (WWW Virtual Library)
  Less information about the war than about the country, but this site does include many links to Internet resources, including gopher sites.
• Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975
• The Sixties Project and the Vietnam War Generation

United States Topical

African-American

• A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
• African-American Articles Index
• African American Labor History Links
  Links to biographical material and articles on the role of African Americans in the labor movement (A. Philip Randolph, etc.)
• African-American Mosaic : Library of Congress Resource Guide for Black History
• African American Odyssey
  An extension of the Library of Congress Mosaic, this site contains excerpts from rare books, documents, maps, musical scores and the like from over 200 years of African-American history.
• African Americana Webliography (Louisiana State U)
• African Americans in Military History
  Bibliographies of African Americans in all US wars.
• Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
• Malcolm X
  Chronology of Malcolm X’s life, bibliography of his writings, annotated webliography.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (including the “I Have a Dream” speech)
• Negro League Baseball Online
• University of Michigan Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
• Voices of the Civil Rights Era: Historic Audio Archives
• We Served America Too! Blacks in the Women’s Army Corps During WWII: A Selected Bibliography
• Writing Black USA

American Religious History

• Adherents.com
  An excellent source for statistics on world and US religions and denominations. !
• American Religion Data Archive
  Provides quantatative data on churches and denominations, religious groups, etc. Funded by the Lilly Endowment.
• American Religious History Links at Academic Info
• Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College
• Virtual Religion Index: American Studies
  An eclectic list of religion links.

Asian-American History

• Asian-American Resource Listing
• War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
  Searchable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 314 slides. Click on “Container listing.”

California and the West

• Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
• Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906
• Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
  Extensive links and bibliographic resources.
• Old West
  Jim Janke, finance professor at Dakota State University, has an excellent list of links covering many subjects on the West.
• The Oregon Trail
• Union Pacific Railroad History and Central Pacific Railroad History
• Web de Anza
  Diaries and letters, commentaries, maps, timelines, picutres, relating to two 18th century expeditions led by de Anza from New Spain to northern California. Includes a bibliography.

Depression

• Surviving the Dust Bowl
  Companion to PBS series on farming in the Thirties.

Military

• African-Americans in Military History
• Center of Military History (US Army)
• WWI Document Archive
• Naval Historical Center
  Official history project of the US Department of the Navy. Info on war and battles, uniforms, etc., plus photographs from the Center’s archives.

Native American

• Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Indigenous Peoples Archive
• Native American Documents Project
• Native American Resources on the Internet : WWW Virtual Library
• Native American Sites (an excellent site maintained by a librarian)

Presidents

• American Presidents: Life Portraits
  Brief biographical info; interesting feature is the ability to search for sites associated with each president. Produced by C-SPAN.
• POTUS
  This excellent site on the US presidents, maintained by the Internet Public Library, contains background information, events, cabinet members, and links to many other WWW resources.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library

Trials

• Famous American Trials
  Details on 12 famous trials: Leopold & Loeb, Scopes, Rosenbergs, Amistad, Bill Haywood, Salem Witchcraft, My Lai, Scottsboro, Dakota Conflict, Mississippi Burning, Chicago Seven, and Johnson Impeachment. Author is Dr. Douglas Linder of the UMKC Law School.

Western United States

• African Americans in Military History: Buffalo Soldiers: A Bibliography
• Handbook of Texas Online
  Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture, with 23,000 articles and 7200 biographies. From the University of Texas Libraries and the Texas State Historical Association.

Women

• African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
• “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech by Sojourner Truth
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
• American Women’s History: A Research Guide
• Distinguished Women of the Past and Present
• Emma Goldman’s Papers
• First Ladies of the U.S.
• Godey’s Lady’s Book Online
• Guide to Uncovering Women’s History in Archival Collections
  LInks to Web pages of archives, libraries and other repositories that have primary source materials by or about women.
• Women in America, 1820-1842: 19th Century Views of Women
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association Collection
• National Women’s Hall of Fame
  Brief profiles of about 200 notable US women inducted into the Hall of Fame since 1969.
• Places Where Women Made History
  74 historic sites in Massachusetts and New York that are listed in the National Register. Includes essays on women’s achievements in American history and links to other WWW sites.
• Suffrage Biographies
• Western New York Suffragists’ Biographies
• U. of Wisconsin Women’s Studies: Links
• Celebration of Women Writers
• We Served America Too! Blacks in the Women’s Army Corps During WWII: A Selected Bibliography
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940
  Primary documents on specific topics such as women suffragists, the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, Lucretia Mott, etc.
  Women at War: Redstone Military Arsenal
• Women in the Civil War
• WSSLINKS: Sites for Women’s Studies

Religious/Church History

Early Christian Church

• Arianism
• Augustine on the Internet
• Ecole Initiative : Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History
• Gnosis Archive from the Gnostic viewpoint
• Guide to Early Church Documents

Reformation

• Project Wittenberg
  History of Lutheranism, with work by and about Luther, Bach, Melanchton, Walther.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Reformation Europe Primary Documents

Islam

• Islamic History

History of Science

• Internet History of Science Sourcebook
  Provides links to famous texts in the scientific world.

Baseball

• Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
  Exhibit of about 2000 early trading cards, including Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, etc. From the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Historiography Class

• Historical Research using online databases and paper indexes

  Historical Research using the Internet

• Collective Projects: Perseus Oral History Archives of WWII
• Government Information: Library of Congress
• Individual Projects:Vietnam War Bibliography
• Educators:American History 102 World Lecture Hall
  History/Social Studies K-12
• Search Engines: Google
• Evaluation:Authority & Credibility; Accuracy, objectivity & reasonableness; Currency; Coverage
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