Guides and Directories
- Guide to History on the
Web
Take a look at this guide to history sites covering all places and eras. Produced by the Center for
History and New Media at George Mason University.
- Virtual Library's History Central
Catalogue
Virtual Library provides gateways to numerous countries as well as eras and topics. It also
provides links to libraries, archives, and instructional materials.
- Yahoo's History Links
Yahoo's history Web sites are numerous and well organized.
Global or International
- American
and British Sources on the Internet
This extensive directory organizes its documents by time period or subject. It also provides
links to reference sources, archives, and library catalogs.
- Avalon Project
This simply organized but powerful site offers documents on law, history, economics, politics,
diplomacy, and government--presented both chronologically and by topic. It concentrates on
the 18th through the 20th centuries in America and Europe.
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
With global reach, this site offers documents on the social, political, economic, and human rights
situations of the world's indigeneous peoples. It includes essays, position papers, resolutions,
treaties, UN materials, speeches, and declarations.
- Global Gateway: World Culture
and Resources
This gateway site offers access to excellent sources selected by Library of Congress subject
specialists. See "Portals to the World" for items on particular countries.
Organizations, Departments, Museums, List Servers
- American Historical Association
The AHA includes historians who study any subject or time period, not just American history.
Its site includes an online version of its informative newsletter.
- Organization of American Historians
The OAH is for historians—of any nationality—who study American history. Its site
has a list of history Web pages.
- History Departments
Home pages of over 1,200 history departments are accessible here.
- H-Net Home Page
This site is one of the most interesting in the whole field of the humanities, not just in history.
Click on e-mail lists to see the sites for over 80 academic discussion networks. Subscribe if
you want.
- The Historical Society
A new organization of historians dissatisfied with trends at the AHA and OAH.
History by Continent and Country
Africa
- AdmiNet's African Resources
Based in France, AdmiNet provides an excellent gateway to internet resources in French, English,
and other languages. It lists general sites as well as those by country and selected topics.
- Africa South of the
Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
Developed by a subgroup of the African Studies Association and operated by Stanford University
Libraries, this metasite organizes items by region, country, and 35 various topics. It also
offers links to book dealers, discussion groups, libraries, and archives.
- African Studies WWW
Virtual Library
Maintained by Columbia University, this gateway has links to electronic journals and newspapers,
an international directory of African Studies scholars, bibliographies, libraries, and organizations.
It also organizes links by region and country.
- Afrique francophone
Although based at Lehman College of CUNY, this site is in French and concentrates on Francophone
Africa. Its sites are organized by topics and countries.
- Digital Imaging Project of South Africa
Based at the University of Natal, this project provides online access to three journals central
to the struggle against Apartheid between 1960 and 1990—Clarion Call,
Pro Veritae, and Sas. Digitizing of additional journals is
planned.
- ELDIS'S African Resources
Operated by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK, ELDIS
provides links to documents produced by research instiutes and international organizations.
In addition, it lists organizations, news sources, bibliographies, and libraries.
- H-AFRICA Home Page
This site is maintained by H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online based at Michigan State
University. H-Net supports numerous List-Servs, including the 7 on Africa accessible through
this home page. These List-Servs promote international discussion through e-mail.
Asia
General and Transnational
- Asian Studies WWW
Virtual Library
This comprehensive site is an excellent place to begin any online research on Asian subjects. It
conveniently breaks down its material by regions and individual countires.
- AsiaSource
The Asia Society has built a comprehensive source for news and
resources on Asian culture, business, politics, and history.
Historians should consult its "AsiaLinks" and then "Society & History."
- Association for Asian Studies
The largest organization of academics studying Asia, the Association provides an online gateway
to the field. Be sure to click on the "Bibliography of Asian Studies Online"
and "Links & Resources."
- PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet
Resources
Supported by three large mid-western university libraries, this catalog of internet resources
offers sophisticated search options. All entries are annotated, and users can save entries and
email them to themselves.
- National Bureau of Asian Research
The Bureau is a non-profit organization promoting research on policy-relevant issues in Asia.
Its site has a searchable index of over 300 Asia-related research institutions as well as a fair number
of full-text publications.
Central Asia
- Central Asia Caucasus Analyst
Published by an institute affiliated with Johns Hopkins, this online journal aims to "link
the business, governmental, journalistic and scholarly communities." Each issue has short
articles, reports, and news.
- Harvard Forum for Central Asian
Studies
The Forum concentrates on the Central Asian countries formerly part of the Soviet Union. Be
sure to click on its gateway to the field located at the bottom of the first page—"The
Central Asian Studies World Wide Website."
East and Southeast Asia
South Asia
Europe
General and Transnational, Including Medieval and Renaissance
- ABSEES:
American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
Based at the University of Illinois-Urbana, this site covers North American scholarship on Eastern
Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It indexes journal articles, books, book chapters,
reviews, dissertations, and selected government documents.
-
Cold
War International History Project
Supported by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, this site publishes transcribed
versions of documents from previously inaccessible archives in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China.
- Eighteenth-Century Resources
This multi-disciplinary site provides a window into the culture and history of eighteenth-century
Europe and America. You can search it by key word or explore subject categories such as
art, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and science.
- Encyclopedia of 1848
Revolutions
Compiled by Prof. James Chastain of Ohio University, this site contains articles written by scholars
from around the world on the European upheavals of 1848. Entries include bibliographies.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents
from Western Europe
This site organizes its documents by two large sets--"Medieval and Renaissance" and
then "Europe as a Super-national Region," followed by chronological listings for the
continent's several countries. No country is missing, not even the Vatican, but the holdings
on each varies greatly.
- IEG Maps: Digital Maps on German and
European History
The Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany, provides free downloadable historical
maps on modern central European history.
- ITER: Gateway to
the Renaissance
A bibliography of scholarly materials on the Renaissance (1300-1700) and the Middle Ages
(400-1500) published in over 300 journals since the 1840s. The site has ambitious plans for
expansion.
- Labyrinth
Georgetown University's sophisticated guide to medieval studies allows searching by key words
and subject categories. It also has links to bibliographies, pedagogical resources,
professional organizations, and online texts and images.
- ORB: On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Created by teachers, "ORB" includes an encyclopedia of peer-reviewed articles, as well
as sources and guides for teaching, links to related Web sites, and primary sources especially
useful in teaching.
- World
War I
The BBC has put up this huge, multi-media site. Of special interest are primary sources in the
form of letters, radio clips, and newsreels.
- World War II: Primary Documents
Southern Methodist University offers this collection of over 500 government documents on
World War II. The site has a sophisticated search utility. Includes links to other
sites.
France
- Cataloque Collectif de France
Supported by the French Ministries of Culture and Education plus the Bibliotheque National de
France, the CCFR allows searches by institution and by document. Currently information on
3,900 institutions is provided, and over two million documents can be searched.
- Histoire de France: The WWW Virtual Library
This gateway is an excellent place to begin research. It organizes over 600 sites by historical
periods, themes, and types of sources, such as gataeways, search engines, and databases.
It also has links to libraries, archives, museums, and journals.
- H-France Home Page
One of H-Net's many listservs, H-France offers e-mail discussion, course syllabi, bibliographies, links
to Web sites, and a searchable archive of its discussions.
- Napoleon Series
The International Napoleonic Society offers an attractive site with three major sections.
"Military" provides encyclopedic coverage of battles. "Research" has
bibliographies and articles. The third section reviews publications of all types, including
electronic, on Napoleon.
Germany
- H-German Home Page
In addition to its ongoing discussion, this listserv provides reviews, links to relevant sites, including
archives, and some primary documents.
-
History of Germany: Primary
Documents
Based at Brigham Young University, this site has an extensive set of primary documents, some
translated into English. Its coverage begins with the fall of the Roman Empire.
- Holocaust Memorial Museum
This well organized site by the United States Memorial Museum has an impressive number of
archival materials available for downloading, including photographs. It also includes valuable
teaching materials.
- Primary Sources in German
Research Libraries
This site provides links to freely accessible primary sources put on the Web by German Research
Libraries. It is sponosred by the libraries of the University and State of Goettingen.
- Virtual Library Geschichte
The most comprehensive gateway to German history, this site organizes its links by epoch,
geography, and theme. Also included are descriptions of periodicals, a guide to history
departments, and a database of the contents of journals and collections of essays.
Great Britain
- British History From 1800 by
BUBL Information Service
Maintained at Strathclyde University in Scotland, this gateway provides an annotated list of
excellent sites from libraries, museums, universities, and organizations of educators.
Highlights include an index to the Quarterly Review and a collection of over 52,000
images.
- British Library
This homepage of The British Library introduces you to its catalog and other services.
- British Newspapers Online
The British Library plans to offer selected portions of its immense historic newspaper
collection to the public online. It started with seven dailes, such as the Daily
News and Manchester Guardian. There's more to come.
- British Official Publications Collaborative
Reader
This collaborative project of numerous research libraries provides a catalog of 16,000 key
official documents from 1833 through 1983. The project plans to provide locations and
abstracts for all its documents as well as reproduce selected ones full-text.
- H-Albion Home Page
Besides its ongoing e-mail discussion list, this site provides reviews, announcements, course
syllabi, and links to related sites.
- Victorian Web
This encyclopedia of 19th-century Britain offers essays, primary sources, time lines, bibliographies
and images. Its excellent search engine makes it easy to use. See also the
"Victoria Research Web" listed on the BUBL site noted above.
Italy
- H-Italy Home Page
Like other H-Net groups, H-Italy offers its discussion listserv plus reviews, links to historical web
sites, and sources on literature, art, and architecture.
- Medici Archive Project
This project is putting the archives of Medici Grand Duke Cosimo on the Web. Occupying almost a
kilometer of shelf space, this huge archive has never before been catalogued or indexed.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library - Italian
History Index - Home Page
This site offers a wealth of sites organized by chronoloogy, geography, and topic. There are
also guides to Italian search engines, libraries, universities, and maps.
Russia
- H-Russia Home Page
Like other H-Net groups, H-Russia offers teaching aids including bibliographies, reviews, guides to
links, and a searchable archive of its discussions.
- Russian and East European Network
Information Center
Based at the University of Texas at Austin, this site organizes its sources by country and type of
information, such as Current News, Libraries & Archives, and Databases. It is excellent
for the newly independent states formerly included in the Soviet Union.
- Russian and East European Studies
(REESWeb)
Comprehensive and well-maintained, this gateway based at the University of Pittsburgh offers
information by type, country, and discipline, such as Government and Politics, Business, Economics,
and Law.
Near East and Mediterranean Including Ancient
History
- Diotoma: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Both students and scholars can profit from this well-designed site, which includes bibliographies,
essays, translations of texts, visual images, and couse syllabi on women and gender in the ancient
world.
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures
This site provides introductions to the Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient
China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. Its essays and
bibliographies are good overviews for undergraduates.
- Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
Prof. Alan Godlas of the University of Gerogia provides scholarly resources divided into twelve
subject areas, such as maps, women, history, the Qur'an. He annotates his links.
- MENALIB: Middle East
Virtual Library
Over six international libraries, coordinated by the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt-Halle,
provide this virtual library of materials on the Middle East and North Africa. Promises to be a
major gateway.
- Oriental Institute: Map
Series
The University of Chicago's prestigious Oriental Institute has put up maps of the ancient Near
East including Egypt, Sudan, The Levant, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. The maps include
archaeological sites, modern cities, and river courses.
- Oriental
Institute: Recommended Readings on the Ancient Near East
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has set up a bibliography of introductory
readings on the Ancient Near East. They are grouped under Ancient Egypt, Ancient Nubia, and
Ancient Mesopotamia.
- Perseus Project
This highly-regarded site provides a gateway into classical studies, with a concentration on
ancient Greece. Its resources include guides to Greek art and archeology as well as to
ancient Greek texts and scholarly literature.
- Roman Empire in the First
Century
This companion site to a PBS series provides information on everything from Roman divorce and
marriage laws, to Caesar's murder to Ovid's poems. Also contains a timeline and lesson
plans.
North America
Canada
- Canadian Encyclopedia
This reference work includes over 10,000 articles as well as interactive elements, such as
multimedia presentations of key historical events.
- Canadian History from the
WWW Virtual Library
This gateway organizes links by chronology and topic. It also has links for reference works,
maps, bibliography, biography, associations and institutions, and timelines.
- Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
Maintained by St. Francis Xavier University, this site provides an extensive bibliographical essay
on Canadian Studies with hyperlinks.
Mexico
- Mexico History Directory
This comprehensive site includes links to sites on major events and personages in Mexican
history, as well as documents, including the constitution of the federal government and
individual states.
- United States-Mexican War
Created to accompany a PBS series, this site includes text and images and links to related Web
sites.
United States
- African-American Mosaic
The Library of Congress's gateway into its collections on African-American history provides acccess
to books, periodicals, prints, photographis, music, film, and recorded sound. Its sources
cover 500 years of history.
- American Family Immigration History Center at
Ellis Island
This massive government-supported site contains the records of 22 million passengers and ship
crew members who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. Free registration is
required to use the database.
- American Indian History
and Culture: H-AMINDIAN
A joint project of H-NET and Arizona State University, this site offers a gateway into its subject,
incliding links, discussion lists, book reviews, and news of the field.
- "American Memory Project" of the
Library of Congress
This huge database includes photos, sound recordings, film, and texts on American history from the
Library of Congress's unparalleled collections. The various collections in American Memory
are individually catalogued in MARQCAT.
- American Revolution: National Discussions
of our Revolutionary Origins
Created by H-NET to complement a PBS series, this site offers a selected bibliography, scholarly
essays, maps, images, documents, and secondary sources. Also includes links to colonial
history.
- American Women's History:
A Research Guide
This is an excellent bibliographical guide for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Contains citations for sources only in print as well as links to Web sites. It also has sections
on strategies for finding additional material.
- Annotated
Constitution
Contains annotated references to Supreme Court decisions about the meaning of the constitution,
arranged by constitutional provisions.
- Asian-Americans: Ancestors in the
Americas
This companion to a PBS series provides sites on the history of Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino,
Korean, Pacific Islander, and Southeast Asians who settled in the New World.
- Census Data Browser
The University of Virginia Libraries have created an easily browsed site providing census data on
the people and economy of each state and county from 1790 to 1960.
- Center for Military History
The army's extensive site has a well organized bibliography on all aspects American military
history. Also included are finding aids and references to related Web sites.
- Century of Lawmaking for a
New Nation
The Library of Congress plans to provide access to documents and debates of Congress from 1774 to
1875.
- Children in Urban America
A project based at Marquette's History Department produced this site. It provides primary
sources from over 150 years on children in Milwaukee. Bibliographies are also included.
For scholarly and general users.
- Civil War Center at LSU
This comprehensive site on the American Civil War provides access to archives, biographies,
documents, and other Web sites.
- Documenting the American South
Based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this site offers primary source materials
"documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of
Southerners." It includes diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, travel accounts, and
narratives on slavery.
- Gilded Age and Progressive
Era
The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (H-SHGAPE) provides a gateway to
American history between 1877 and 1918. Its links are to both primary and secondary
sources.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History
Paul Halsall of Fordham University provides links to general history pages, collections of textual
material, museums, and archives. Some of this material is difficult to find on most U.S.
history sites.
- Literature and Culture of
the American 1950s
Designed to support a course at Penn State, this site provides an excellent collection of 1950s
literature and iconography. Its resources range from posters to court cases, all of which can be
searched by key word.
- Making of America: Cornell University
Offering primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction, this site includes nineteenth-century books and journal articles on education,
psychology, history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. These are different
sources from MOA below.
- Making of America: University of
Michigan
Offering primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction, this site includes nineteenth-century books and journal articles on education,
psychology, history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. These are different
sources from MOA above.
- National Archives
Gateway to the vast holdings of the Archives. Many
items can be retrieved electronically.
- National Security Archive
Sponsored by George Washington University, this extraordinary site publishes digital versions of
declassified government documents. This is not a U.S. government funded
project.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
This is a Web version of the standard resource for finding manuscript materials. Its more
up-to-date than the print edition.
- NativeWeb
NativeWeb addresses the history and culture of indigenous peoples in the Americas, Europe, New
Zealand, and Australia. Information is arranged by subject, geographic region, nation/people,
language, education, law and legal issues, and literature.
- Naval History Bibliography Series
The Naval Historical Center provides six bibliographies on all aspects of the U.S. Navy's history,
including Desert Storm.
- New Deal Network: the Great Depression and the Roosevelt
Administration
Columbia University Teacher College has developed this guide for undergraduate research. It
provides 700 articles, speeches, and letters organized by subject, date, and author. Also
includes over 4,000 images.
- Sixties Project and Viet Nam
Generation
An excellent introduction to the sixties for undergraduates, this site offers a wide range of
secondary and primary sources. The latter include an extensive set of personal narratives.
- Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the
American Civil War
This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon
line during the era of the American Civil War. It combines a narrative and an electronic
archive of the sources on which the narrative is based.
-
Vietnam War: Ed Moise Bibliography
This is a comprehensive annotated bibliography on all aspects of the Vietnam War, organized into
broad subject cateogries. Its coverage begins in World War II.
- Virtual Library: United States
History
This excellent gateway sponsored by the University of Kansas provides an overview and guide to US
history. Its numerous sites are divided into Research Tools, Historical Topics, and Chronological
Periods.
- Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975
This site contains invaluable primary documents, some of which are difficult to obtain any other
way. It also includes bibliographies and descriptions of Vietnamese geography, history,
and culture.
- Wisconsin Electronic
Reader
This site is brimming with primary sources and information on the history of Wisconsin. It is
produced by the State Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin in honor of the state's
Sesquicentennial.
- Wisconsin Labor History
Bibliography
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Labor History Society, this site provides an introduction to research on
workers, unions, and work in Wisconsin. The bibliography can be arranged by author, title,
subject, or location.
South and Central America
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
A standard resource since the Library of Congress began publishing it in 1935, the Handbook
provides entries on anthropology, art, economics, geography, government and politics, history,
international relations, literature, music, philosophy, and sociology. The entire run of the
Handbook is available on this sophisticated site.
- H-LatAm
H-LatAm is "an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History."
Its site includes book reviews; online resources such as research papers, bibliographies, and syllabi;
and a set of links to related Web sites.
- Latin American and
Caribbean Government Documents Project
Maintained by Cornell University's library, this site "organizes and describes the many Latin
American Caribbean official documents appearing on the Internet." It lists them by country
and type of information and document.
- Latin American Network Information Center
This gateway to Internet sources on Latin America links the user to reference information, full-text
periodicals, library catalogs, books, other Web sites, and more. It has an excellent set of sites
organized by country.
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