History Guides
A bibliography of works in the
collection.
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History Web Sites
Directories
and MetaSites
Avalon Project
at Yale
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Full text documents in law, history and diplomacy. Also includes links
to Project Diana, housing archival materials on Human Rights. This
is a very useful site.
Carrie: A Full Text Electronic
Library
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/
Searchable site of thousands of full-text documents, including works
of classic literature, essays and historic documents. Another wonder
from the University of Kansas.
 Center
for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/index1.html
"Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has
used digital media and computer technology to change the ways that
people--scholars, students, and the general public--learn about
and use the past." More than just an index of over 5,000 pertinent
websites, the Center for History and New Media provides many other
resources. Use the History Matters link for a survey course
offering primary documents in text, image, and audio, and guides
for analyzing primary sources. View the History News Network
online magazine to find articles by historians who discuss current
events in a historical perspective. There are links to very detailed
sites covering the French Revolution, and the Declaration of Independence,
as well as Echo, "an exciting new project designed to promote
and improve the history of science and technology on the Web".
This award winning site is maintained by George Mason University.
Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Links
An extraordinary site listing hundreds of web links to sites covering
all holocaust and genocide issues. In addition their are documents,
narratives and a virtual museum available.
Cybrary
http://remember.org/
Directory of the Holocaust. Full search database supplying articles,
text sources, graphics and images, archival documents and more.
Edsite
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
National Endowment for the Humanities site.
EuroDocs:
Primary Historical DocumentsFrom Western Europe Selected Transcriptions,
Facsimiles and Translations
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
A major index of primary documents created and maintained by Brigham
Young University. Information is organized by location (country
index) and period (medieval and renaissance.)
Europa: The European Union Server
http://europa.eu.int/
Official documents, information resources and current issues of
the European Union. (EU)
History Guide -
http://www.historyguide.de/
A directory of over 1600 sites. (Europe, America, Asia, Africa,
Australia)
Historical Text Archive
http://historicalaltextarchive.com
Comprehensive directory of historic resources.
Holocaust
and Jewish Studies Site
http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm
Directory of History sites about the Holocaust created by Professor
Dan Graf at Virginia Wesleyan University.
Holocaust
Museum Site - Web Links
http://www.ushmm.org
This page of very useful links is provided by the United States
Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Click on the Museum home page
for history information, museum exhibitions and other materials.
Intute Arts
& Humanities
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
The academic search engine created at Oxford University.
In the First Person
http://www.alexanderstreet7.com/firp//
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500
collections of oral history in English from around the world. This
database is provided by Alexander Street Press.
The
Jewish Virtual Library - Holocaust Studies
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html
This site was created by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise,
a research and study organization. Extensive links to articles,
including chronologies.
Librarians Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
Links to sites everywhere provided by the Library of California.
Updates weekly.
Perseus Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
The primary goal of this database of full-text materials "is
to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience
as possible." Created by Tufts University, every possible resources,
from Papyri to Renaissance works to Civil War Documents and even
an article entitled Disambiguating Geographic Names in a Historical
Digital LibraryElectronic is included here.
PBS American
History Project Directory
http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/
Directory of all American History subject online programs.
Portals
to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Sites chosen by the library staff at the Library of Congress.
University
of Washington History Gateway
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Subject/History/
Extensive links to historical and documentary materials.
World
Civilization Virtual Library -
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/dvess.shtml
History links organized by historical periods, from ancient times
to modern
WWW Virtual Library - History
http://vlib.org/History
Main history page to this vast site of links to hundreds of academic
history sites.
WWW VL - History
Central Catalog
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Amazing compendium of web sites by country for all periods and all
areas of the world. Created by the University of Kansas.
General
History Sites
A
tale of Three Cities
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities/
An interactive exploration of three cities : Alexandria, Egypt (1
AD), Cordoba, Spain (1000 ad), New York, USA (2000). Allows participants
to contrast, and compare the similarities and differences of these
locations and societies.
Cold
War International History Site
http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_
A scholarly site created by the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars, these pages provide access to historical records on
all sides of the Cold War including archival records from former
communist bloc countries
Eye Witness -
http://www.ibiscom.com/
First person narratives from all historic periods.
History of
Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html
Originially published between 1861- 1880 by Braun & Schneider
- c.1861-1880 this online edition of the original book has 500 plates
of historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century.
Internet History
Sourcebooks Projects - Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Comprehensive site for modern history with links to ancient and
medieval history pages. Thousands of links and lots of scholarly
information.
World History Compass
http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/
A website with links to world history sites.
WWW Gateways
for History (Yale)
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/american/www.html
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