Resources: History

Selected Web Sites: History

The American Civil War Homepage: This site features links to well over 300 sites, providing access to time lines, photographs, diaries, official documents, and more.
American Memory Collection: From the Library of Congrress, look here for primary source, media, posters, music, letters, diaries, books and many other digitized items.
AsiaSource: Basic data on Asian/Pacific countries: maps, statistics, latest news stories, business protocal, arts, culture, government, history.
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: Primary documents from ancient and medieval eras through the 21st Century. Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.
Best of History Web Sites
: Award-winning portal to history resources, from prehistory to present, including maps.
Background Notes: Information on countries and international organizations. By U.S. State Department.
Classics in Washington History: This digital collection of full-text books brings together rare, out of print titles for easy access by students, teachers, genealogists and historians. Visit Washington's early years through the lives of the men and women who lived and worked in Washington Territory and State.
Country Studies: Describes and analyzes political, economic, social, national security systems and institutions, and history of 91 countries. By the Library of Congress.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.: Includes course materials, announcements, bibliographies, links to book reviews, databases, online articles, and images. There are several search tools available.
Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation: A very well organized introduction to classics resources on the Internet written by Maria C. Pantelia of the University of California, Irvine. Items are grouped by type of resource.
European History: Historical Text Archive: National histories, primary documents, map sites.
EuroDocs - Primary Documents: Primary sources in European history. Documents are available in the original languange, and many non-English documents are translated into English. Documents are available for all countries and most time periods.
Historic Newspapers in Washington: Washington's earliest territorial newspapers, including The Vancouver Register, 1865-1869.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Public domain and copy-permitted historical texts from Fordham University.
Labyrinth: medieval history: Excellent subject menu. Also includes bibliographies, music, manuscripts.
Library of Congress Links to Classical and Medieval History Internet Resources.: "Resources for Classics and certain related disciplines (Mediaeval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Patristics, etc.) on the Internet."
Making of America: Digital Archives from Cornell University: Search the full-text of nearly two dozen periodicals and 267 monographs, all related to American social history from the early/mid 1800's to 1900 or so. Pages are actual scans from the sources.
Modern History Sourcebook: Thousands of links to secondary and primary sources, many full-text. Explore the links on the left bar and along the top as well. Edited by Paul Halsall, Professor at Fordham University.
NetSERF: Internet Medieval Resources: From the Dept. of History at Catholic University of America. Miriad of information on Medieval history. Links to Arthur information, archeaology projects, and much more.
Korean War Project: This site includes access to a number of eyewitness accounts of the Korean War, as well as an enormous amount of facts and figures, FAQ's, photographs, maps, and related general sites. Also, it has some special features including a searchable "KIA/MIA" (killed- or missing-in-action) database, containing the names and profile of over 33,000 soldiers; reproductions of newspaper articles; and information on veterans' memorials.
Oregon Historical Society: The Oregon Historical Society's collections and exhibits. Includes the online finding aid for many documents in the library's manuscript collection.
Perseus Project: Digital library on Ancient Greece and Rome from Tufts University.
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today: An excellent gateway to Vietnam information. It links to documents, articles, photographs, and diaries, as well as to most of the key web projects available on the Internet, including a database of casualty names, an oral history and folklore project, plus sites concerning veterans' memorials.
World Digital Library: The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
World War I: Trenches on the Web: In addition to providing access to documents, maps, time lines, poetry, and more, this site boasts an excellent search engine. It also uses new technology well; in the "media room," one may listen to the songs of the war such as "Keep the Home Fires Burning." From the "experimental" "VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Hall," weapons can be viewed in 3-D, and the images can be manipulated by the user.
WWW Virtual Library: History: History resources page from the WWW Virtual Library. Covers ancient history through modern times