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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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Jewish Virtual Library: Use this site for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism. Designed and maintained by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.

Primary Sources: Use this site, prepared by the UC Berkeley Library staff, to learn what Primary Sources are and where to locate them whether they are in a library or on the Web.

Research and Documentation Online: Online version of "Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age" by Diana Hacker. It contains research guides to Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences.

Smithsonian Encyclopedia: The Smithsonian Institute has developed an A-Z encyclopedia that includes information in the following general categories: Art; Design; History; Culture; Science; and Technology. Search over 2 million records, with 210,500 images, video and sound files from dozens of Smithsonian museums, archives, and libraries.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: A very excellent website to view a wide range of information on the remembrance of the Holocaust including The Holocaust Encyclopedia.

Using 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. Users of primary sources have always needed to examine their sources critically, but now with the proliferation of electronic resources from a wide variety of Web site producers, evaluation is more important than ever before. This guide is written by the Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association."