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Internet Sites
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| British Library Online Gallery | Here you can browse images of maps, photographs, historical documents, and illustrations in books. |
| Center for Military History | Center for Military History of the United State Army. |
| Cold War International History Project | Provided by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and "disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War." |
| Costume and Textile Collection | Locate over 50,000 artifacts from the mid 18th-century to the present dealing with period clothing. |
| CriticalPast.com | Collection of video & still photos of declassified U.S. government films. |
| Digital History | Explore online textbooks, primary source documents, historic newspapers, landmark documents, social history, court cases, multi-media resources and more from a multi-ethnic viewpoint. |
| Provides access to collections of primary sources related to American Women's history. Topics covered are broad and range from the 17th to the 21st centuries. | |
| Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy | From The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. |
| Early Americas Digital Archive | This text-based website is user friendly with material dating back to 1492 through the 1800s, all written in or about the Americas. This rich resource offers online, free of charge, the original words of the first people to explore and settle the Americas. |
| Eighteenth-Century Resources | Maintained by Jack Lynch at Penn. |
| EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe | Based at Brigham Young University. |
| European Film Gateway | Large collection of Europe's historical film documents. |
| The European Library | Free service offering access to resources of 48 national libraries of Europe in 35 languages. Resources can be both digital (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.) and scholarly. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 48 collaborating national libraries of Europe. |
| European Navigator | Database that provides access to documents and multimedia files on the development of European integration from 1945 to present. Visitors are able to search for files from five different categories. |
| Gallup Poll | Gallup has studied human nature and behavior for more than 70 years. Gallup's reputation for delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel is the cornerstone of the organization. |
| Getty Research Portal | local digitized art history texts, rare books, and literature in the public domain in support of art history. |
| GPO FDsys | This online catalog is the finding tool for federal publications and provides direct links to documents available electronically on a wide variety of subjects. It includes descriptive records for both historical and current publications. To access only electronic documents, click on the Advanced Search tab, then select Internet Publications from Catalogs to Search at the top of the screen. |
| Harry S. Truman Library & Museum | Materials relating to former President Harry S. Truman. |
| Historical Text Archive | U.S. and World history texts. |
| Imperial War Museum collections on-line | This is a digital repository of items in the Imperial War Museum's collection. |
| Index to Military Periodicals | Covers 92 English-language periodical titles, including government publications, professional journals, and newsmagazines. |
| The Internet History Sourcebooks | Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use and compiled by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. There are sourcebooks in the following areas: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet Medieval Sourcebook and Internet Modern History Sourcebook. |
| Keesing's World News Archive | An archive of articles covering world events from 1931-present. It is different from daily newspaper content in that it provides high-quality, comprehensive, objective articles on historically important events. |
| London Lives 1690 to 1800 | Locate a wide variety of primary source documents from eighteenth century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners. Conduct historical research on poverty, crime, illness, and social conditions using institutional records, such as those of the courts, parishes and hospitals. |
| The Modernist Journals Project | Provides primary source material from 1890 to 1922 concerning the modernist period. |
| Mountain West Digital Library | a variety of historical documents and media. |
| National Archives | National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. The National Archives has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently released to the public. |
| The Reel History of Britain | Historical films about British history. |
| Social Explorer | This is the free version of Oxford's premium e-resource by the same name. It is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to modern and historical census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface facilitates the creation of fast, intuitive, and illustrative maps and reports that aid visual analysis and understanding of demography and social change throughout history. The site currently includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to 2000, all annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008, original Census tract-level estimates for 2006 and 2007, the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2000, and 2002 Carbon Emissions Data from the Vulcan Project. You can customize, save, print, and email maps and reports, and export them to a variety of programs and statistical packages for further analysis and use. This free version is scaled down from the subscription product, but you will still find access to hundreds of maps and reports. |
| Southeast Asia Visions | A collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia with online access to 130,000 pages of text from the the John M. Echols Collection at Cornell University. There are also about 10,000 images, as well. |
| The Timeline of Art History | A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Timeline now extends from prehistory to 1600 A.D., and will continue to expand in scope and depth. |
| Timelines: Sources from History | This collection features several hundred images accompanied by annotations from the British Library, such as an illuminated page from the Gutenberg Bible. The Timeline begins in 1210 and ends in the 2000's. |
| Turn of the Century Posters | Features posters between 1890 and 1905. |
| The USGen Web Project | Provides links to genealogical websites & information and links to archival records, cemeteries, etc. It is categorized by state and county. |
| Using Primary Sources on the Web | "Users of web resources must now consider the authenticity of documents, what person or organization is the internet provider, and whether the electronic version serves their needs." Written by the Instruction and Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association. |
| A Vision of Britain Through Time | This is a digital scholarly project utilizing GIS technology and brings together a great deal of data from historical maps, census records, descriptive gazetteers and election results. There is a thematically arranged statistical atlas where you can find data about employment and poverty among other subjects. Coverer age dates are from 1801 to 2001. |
| Wonders: Images of the Ancient World | View around 1,800 artistic images of the ancient world in the Mediterranean area. |
| WWW-VL European History Primary Sources | An index of scholarly websites offering online access to digitized primary sources on European history. Websites listed on EHPS are not only meta-sources but also include invented archives & born digital sources. A short description is offered for each website listed, which are categorized according to country, language, period, subject & source type. The portal can be searched in a variety of ways. Listed websites can be accessed for free; some require registration. EHPS is a work in progress; new content is regularly added. Stay updated on new entries or specific categories in which you are interested by subscribing to RSS feeds or by following EHPS via email, Twitter & Facebook. Registered users can create a personal list of bookmarks, leave comments & suggest new resources to be included via our webform. |
| WWW-VL The History Index | This Index's original author, Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas, launched this site in 1993. It is now maintained by Serge Noiret and Inaki Lopez Martin at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. A USA Mirror is also available. |
| WWW-VL History Central Catalogue | European University Institute, Florence, Italy: find historical materials and finding aids for worldwide historical subjects. |
| Yahoo's History sites | A directory to sites relating to history. |
Africa |
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| Africa: South of the Sahara | A detailed site of internet resources maintained at the Stanford University. |
| Voyages | The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
United States |
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| AMDOCS | Documents for the Study of American History. |
| American Memory | Historical Collections for the National Digital Library from the Library of Congress. One of the most important sites for primary documents. Tutorial |
| Black Abolitionist Archive | Find over 800 speeches and writings and around 1,000 editorials by African American abolitionists in the antebellum period. |
| Discovering Ameran Women's History | A guide provided by Ken Middleton, Reference and Microforms Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University, provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. |
| Archiving Early America | Historic Documents from 18th century America, such as the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, etc. Also includes portraits of key individuals and even crossword puzzles for history buffs. |
| A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation | Brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Journals of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication with the 42nd Congress in 1873. |
| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers | Presented by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the Library of Congress. Search a directory of 23,000 American Newspaper titles from 1690 to present. Search and view digitized content from regional newspapers, comprising 226,000 pages and 36 titles published between 1900 and 1910 in California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, and Washington D.C. |
| Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents | Provided by the University of Oklahoma Law Center. |
| Civil Rights Digital Library | The University of Georgia digitally publishes this collection of primary source material featuring unedited film archives of WSB-TV in Atlanta and WALB-TV in Albany and other educational resources. |
| Documenting the American South | The Southern Experience in 19th Century America is a project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. |
| Gammel's The Laws of Texas | Provided by the University of North Texas' Government Documents Department. Nineteenth century Texas law online. |
| University of Michigan's MOA Project | The Making of America Project (MOA) is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. It is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. |
| Cornell University Library's MOA Collection | |
| Founders Early Access | Find thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders in this free online resource. Includes letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. |
| Liberty and the American Revolution | This is the digital version of a rare book collection donated to the University of Princeton by Sid Lapidus.This collection includes 180 primary sources. |
| The New Deal Network | find materials and teaching resources related to The New Deal, which took place from 1933-1941. |
| Ohio Memory | Find here a variety of digitized historical resources, including 30,000 plus primary sources. These encompass government documents, newspapers, oral history videos, manuscripts, cookware, photographs, portraits, costumes, artifacts, and handmade quilts. |
| Peace Corps Digital Library | This site offers a searchable collection of select electronic Peace Corps materials from 1961 to the present. It is a work in progress that is updated on a regular basis. Here you will find volunteer photos, stories, speeches, letters, and essays as well as other types of documents. |
| The Presidential Timeline | The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century consists of documents, graphics, and audio files from the presidency of Herbert Hoover through that of Bill Clinton. |
| Resources Related to Early American History and Independence | A list of hyperlinks to primary source documents that are freely available on the Internet, relating to early American history. |
| Westward by Sea | A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 is a selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels. The unique maritime perspective of these materials offers a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences associated with the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest. |
| Voyages | The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
Texas |
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| Handbook of Texas Online | A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. Provided by the Texas State Historical Association in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin. |
| Texas Beyond History | Archeological and historical research concerning the cultural heritage of Texas. Covers prehistoric Native Americans; Spanish, French, Mexican, and Anglo explorers, missionaries, settlers, soldiers, and traders; German farmers; African-American freedmen; Mexican-American laborers; and others. Tips on use are provided. A joint project of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory of the Univ. of Texas at Austin and the Texas Archeological Soc. |
| Texas Historic Sites Atlas | Over 200,000 historical site records include data on historical markers and the National Register of Historic Places in Texas. Search by county name, historical marker text, site name, or address. Limit by site types. Information includes everything from structural data for buildings to the development of businesses to the wording on historical markers. Location maps included. |
| Texan Cultures | Online information is available on the Anglo-American Texans, the Danish Texans, the Dutch Texans, the Filipino Texans, the Lebanese and Syrian Texans, the Norwegian Texans, the Scottish Texans, the Spanish Texans, the Mexican and Tejano Texans, the Swiss Texans, and the Wendish Texans through the Institute of Texan Cultures. |
| Texas Archive of the Moving Image | The Texas Film Round-Up (Also known as the Texas Moving Image Archive Program, the ground-breaking public service initiative to discover, preserve, digitize and disseminate moving images of Texas) offers free digitization services for Texas-related films and videos that are incorporated into an online library of streaming video as well as educational resources and events celebrating Texas media history. In its first two years, the program has digitally preserved and provided access to thousands of Texas-related moving images serving individuals and institutions across the state. Round-Up programming continues in the 2010 - 2011 fiscal year with programs in the West Texas and Gulf Coast regions. |
Medieval Studies |
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| This is a catalogue of almost 1,000 digitized medieval manuscripts from Europe, Australia, North America, and Japan. | |
| Corsair | A fine collection of digitized medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including beautiful illuminated manuscripts. |
| The Labyrinth | Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a clearinghouse site maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson |
| Medieval Studies: A Stanford University Library Guide | This guide will help you in your Medieval research studies, providing links to primary source materials, encyclopedias, dictionaries, manuscripts, indexes and abstracts, biographies, authors, texts, ejournals and etexts. |
| The Middle English Compendium | The Middle English Compendium, developed at the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, provides easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. Hypertext links offer quick connections between, e.g., an MED citation, bibliographical information about its source, and an electronic version of the source, if one is included in the collection, with the hope that eventually electronic versions of all the source texts will be available. |
| ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies | This is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web. |
| People of Medieval Scotland | Locate information about 21,000 people referenced in 8,600 documents between the years of 1093 and 1314. |
| The Soldier in Later Medieval England | This online database contains 250,000 service records of English soldiers who saw active duty in the latter phases of the Hundred Years War during the later 14th and 15th centuries. |
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Various Style Manuals may be used in the field of History. Check with your professor to determine which format you should use for a particular class. Whether you're using Chicago, Turabian, or some other style, you will find instructions on our Style Manuals link and and from print copies of various style manuals on Abell Library's Reserve Desk.
