African
Studies Resources: "The Columbia University Libraries
maintain an up-to-date, annotated guide for Internet resources
on Africa, a contribution to the World Wide Web Virtual Library."
Ancient
History Sourcebook: The Internet History
Sourcebook Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted
texts in World History. Use the links in each table of contents
to find specific information about a person or time period.
Archive of Texts and Documents: "A
creation of faculty and students in the History Department of Hanover
College. The principal goal of the Archive is to make primary texts
and secondary sources on the Internet available to students and
faculty for use in history and humanities classes."
Avalon
Project: A major collection of full-text digital
documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics,
Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Online documents
are available from late B.C. to the 21st century. This
digital project is sponsored by Yale University.
Biographical
Dictionary: Contains information on 19,000 notable
people from ancient times to the present day. The Dictionary
is searchable by names, keywords, and dates.
Biography
Search Engine: Arts and Entertainment current biography
search.
Electronic
Documents in History: The History Department at Tennessee Technological University has prepared a list of links to many History sites, including newspaper archives amd repositories of primary sources.
English Server:This Database Server offers nearly 50 topical websites plus Online Book Collections available in full-text and free-of-charge. Collection topics range from Literature and History, to Science and Technology. Hosted at the Iowa State University.
European
History by Thomas Shreve of Orange High School:
Internet resources on everything from the Middle Ages
through the Contemporary World.
Exploring Ancient
World Cultures: This has been designed to cover
ancient and medieval history. The quality of research
is controlled by a system of hyperlinked indexes which
are managed by qualified professionals who serve as
the Associate Editors of the project. The same procedures
that govern quality also serve to limit the scope of
research to the ancient world, hosted by the University
of Evansville.
Historical Information
Resources: Over 170 annotated links in alphabetical order
covering all time periods and topics including the history of
money, Richard Nixon, World War II, and the Berlin Wall.
Historical Text Archive:
"The HTA publishes high quality articles, books,
essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for
content, for a broad range of historical subjects."
History Net: Covers
World and American history as well as events such as World War
II and famous battles in history.
History Sourcebooks
Project: A comprehensive site containing thousands of public
domain and copy-permitted historical documents in full-text from
Ancient to Modern History, including indexes to each historical
subsection. Editor, Paul Halsall, has used primary source material
to develop twelve Sourcebooks as part of an ongoing history project
with the intent to serve teachers and students.
Ibiblio: "Home
to one of the largest "collections of collections" on
the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available
information, including software, music, literature, art, history,
science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration
of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North
Carolina - Chapel Hill."
Jensen's Web Guides:
Professor of history emeritus, University of Illinois, Richard
Jensen's guides to history sites.
Jewish History Resource
Center: "This is a ongoing history research project sponsored by the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Use the Resource Index to locate over 5000 links to websites in 25 categories dealing with Jewish History that have been selected by a team of scholars at the Hebrew University."
Latin American Network
Information Center: Resource on everything having to do with
Latin America.
Middle
East & Islamic Studies: Cornell University Library Collection:
Scholarly subject guide to history resources on the Middle-East
from ancient to modern times. Other online resources are available in Middle-Eastern
Literature with special coverage on Arabic, Persian, and Turkish
cultures.
Paper of Record: "This site has made freely available searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form."
Perseus Digital Library-Tufts
University: "An evolving digital library, engineering
interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal
is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience
as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources
for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of
questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people
through the connection of ideas."
Primary Source Documents: "Primary source documents pertaining
to early American history. This is a massive collection of the
literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists'
lives in America." The literature links go to historical works
having the most significant influence upon the American Colonists.
Primary Sources on the Web: "Students
and researchers now have greater
access to primary source materials
for historical research than ever
before. The traditional use of
sources available in print and
microfilm continues to be the foundation
for research, but in some cases
documents, letters, maps, photographs
of ancient artifacts and other
primary material are available
online in different formats from
free websites or subscription services
on the Internet. This guide is written
by the Instruction & Research
Services Committee of the Reference
and User Service Association History
Section in the American Library
Association."
Repositories of Primary Sources: This is a listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Scholar's
Guide to WWW: A metasite of history links and related subjects
organized by Richard Jensen, Professor Emeritus of History at
University of Illinois-Chicago.
World Digital Library Project: The WDL "makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations. "
World History Compass: "Provides
categorized links to hundreds of history sites on the Web. For
students, teachers and historians."
World Wide Web Virtual
Library History Index: "This is a catalogue for indexes to
Historical materials on-line. Concentrates on creating a facility
useful for pursuing historical research on-line."
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