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Internet History Sourcebooks Projects
"...are collections of public domain and copy-permitted
historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or
excessive layout) for educational use."
His various sourcebooks include some of the largest collections
of subject specific online textual sources.
Edited by Paul Halsall, Fordham University
Cornell University Library - Historical Monographs
"...is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from a variety of disciplines. These were monographs that were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue ...Our collection [that is available for viewing] consists of 456 General monographs ; 576 Math books ; 691 New York State Historical pamphlets and monographs."
Historical Text Archive
By Don Mabry
History Journals On-Line
Tennessee Tech History Site
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
"This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."
- A Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Access: History
"...is a refereed [electronic] journal produced by the University of Queensland Department of History in association with the University of Queensland History Graduatesí Association.
AfricaFocus
Sights and Sounds of a Continent
"The immediate goal of this project is to provide the general public with a selection of the images and sounds that have been contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the hope that this will enhance the study and understanding of the many facets of the African continent. It brings together images captured on slides and in photographs as well as sound recordings on reel-to-reel and audio cassette that have been reproduced and stored on digital files accessible by any computer of a reasonable minimum capacity. This allows for patrons of the electronic library to experience these materials directly, or to use them to create presentations using a common digital format. It enables the academic and non-academic audience alike to move beyond the blackboard and the book as the primary means of conveying information and engenders an understanding that goes beyond the printed word."
ALEX
A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
Athena Review: Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration
The Atlantic Online
Online version of The Atlantic Monthly.
Attending to Early Modern Women
"This gateway provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 but also includes some medieval and nineteenth-century resources...Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings."
Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries
Book History Online (BHO)
International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
"BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries."
The British Library
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire - (dead link)
It is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal of international stature published at the University of Saskatchewan since 1966. The Journal publishes high-quality articles, historiographical articles, review articles, and reviews concerning all countries and periods of history - excepting the history of Canada.
Cemetery Records Online
Cemeteries and Genealogy
"Here you will find online records from over 1,800 cemeteries all over the world."
Center for World Indigenous Studies
"Our goal is to present the online community with the greatest possible access to Fourth World documents and resources. The Fourth World Documentation Project is an online library of texts which record and preserve our peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community."
Includes Tribal and Inter-Tribal Resolutions and Papers; African Documents; U.N. Documents; Treaties; and documents from each region throughout the world
Cornell University Library - Windows on the Past
"...is a grouping of selected historical materials which have been digitally scanned and are available for on-line browsing and searching."
Sections include: Historic Monographs Collection ; Historic Math Book Collection ; New York State Historical Literature ; International Women's Periodicals [restricted to Cornell University community] ; Ezra Cornell Papers ; Witchcraft Collection ; NEH Agriculture Collection ; Other Digital Collections.
Digitising History
A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents
By Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijve
The Dutch East India Company and Early Modern Maritime History in Archives and Libraries (English or Nederlandse)
Includes original sources from the VOC - Dutch East India Company website and datasets from additional collections, especially the Netherlands Historical Data Archive - (dead link).
Electronic Journal of International History
Published by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
ELIOHS
Electronic Library of Historiography
"This electronic library is designed to supply in digitalized version the full text of classics of historiography, works of methodology, theory and philosophy of history, key works of the historiographical debates..."
Available in English or Italian
EnterText
"An interactive interdisciplinary e-journal for cultural and historical studies and creative work."
EuroDocs- Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
Maintained by the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
Center for World Indigenous Studies
"Our goal is to present the online community with the greatest possible access to Fourth World documents and resources. The Fourth World Documentation Project is an online library of texts which record and preserve our peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community."
Includes Tribal and Inter-Tribal Resolutions and Papers; African Documents; U.N. Documents; Treaties; and documents from each region throughout the world
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Israel and the Middle East - (dead link)
"This special report contains the latest on a region that has been particularly affected by the fallout from the terrorist attacks in the US"
Sections include: Latest News ; Interactive Guides ; Audio Reports ; Arafat and Hamas ; Palestinian Attacks ; Israeli Attacks ; Sharon Government ; Diplomacy ; Comment and Analysis ; What the Papers Say ; The Arab World ; Fallout from US Terror Attacks ; Chronology ; Maps ; Weblog ; The Mitchell Report
- History of Conflict: How the Israelis and Palestinians Came to War - (dead link)
A brief but excellent interactive history
- Guardian Archive
- Jewish state is born - (dead link)
"May 15 1948: The Jews yesterday proclaimed in Tel Aviv the new State of Israel."
- Israel: the native generation - (dead link)
"November 19 1948, Arthur Koestler: Each war and revolution produces its lost generation."
- Partition of Palestine
"July 8 1937: British government approves Royal Commission's plan."
Hanover Texts and Documents Project
A very well organized and extensive collection of electronic resources for historians of all levels.
- Hanover College History Department
Historia Constitucional (Electronic Journal of Constitutional History)
Area de Derecho Constitucional, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
By Matthew White
HistoricalVoices.org
"The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics."
- Part of the Digital Library Initiative II
Historische Bibliographie Online
"The online index corresponds to the years 1990-97 of the print index and contains over 80,000 citations to historical monographs, journal articles, and articles in anthologies or collective works. It is possible to search by title keyword, author, historical era, person, locality, journal, volume title, and publisher, and to limit by topical group."
History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL)
"...is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics."
By Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University
The History Guide
"...has been created for the high school and undergraduate student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major in history in college. The purpose of The History Guide is to better prepare yourself for your history classes and to make your time in class more enjoyable and proficient. The History Guide contains the complete content of three undergraduate courses in European history which will certainly be of use to those of you studying such topics at the college level or in A.P. European history classes. Upon its completion, The History Guide will contain more than seventy lectures in European history from ancient Sumer to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989."
By Steven Kreis
The History Journals Guide
"...is an international directory for journals and discussion lists in the fields of history and archaeology...aims to be a starting point for researchers, graduates, students, librarians and other interested persons and intends to provide an easy access to up-to-date information."
By Stefan Blaschke
History House - (dead link)
"The fromUSAlive.com Internet TV Network today premiered History House, a show designed to give a current perspective on historical events. The show is on-demand, which means that all episodes are accessible to the audience at any time...Discussion on the History House centers on topics such as social movements, war, industrial periods, architecture, philosophy, art, historical fiction, and the history of women. Past guests have included Harry Readshaw, from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Professor Perry Blatz, chairman of the History Department at Duquesne University, and Kathy Ayers, an author of historical novels for children, and University of Akron Law Professor Jane Moriarty, an expert on the Salem Witch Trials. The show explores the causes that drove historical events and takes an in-depth look into the backgrounds of the people who made American and world history. David Cook, the host of History House, is a History professor who earned his Master's Degree at Boston College. David specializes in modern European intellectual history, and hopes the show will spark interest in what others often perceive as boring. Everything around you has a history, and my goal is to explain it in an interesting way, he says. I want to get beyond the stereotype that it's just names and dates. History can help inform viewers in lots of ways. It's a road map that can help chart their course."
History of Intellectual Culture
"...is a peer-reviewed academic electronic journal that provides a forum for publication and discussion of original research on the socio-historical contexts of ideas and ideologies and their relationships to community and state formation, physical environments, human and institutional agency, personal and collective identity, and lived experience."
- University of Calgary Press
The HistoryGateway
"the e-Journal for Historians"
"An Internet Tool for Historians, Academics, Archivists, Students, and anyone researching topics of history."
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - (dead link) (1499) (etext)
"...is one of the most puzzling, enigmatic and fascinating books ever conceived. Since its publication (1499), it has surprised its readers with its vast knowledge of architecture and landscape and garden design, but also engineering, painting and sculpture...The book is also a political manifesto defending the right of women to express their own sexuality and the superiority of Eros, beauty and knowledge over aggression and war."
"The editing of the electronic book is based on research published in Liane Lefaivreís Leon Battista Albertiís Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published by The MIT Press and coincides with its release."
IDEA
"...is an electronic journal created for the exchange of ideas related mainly, to cults, mass movements, autocratic power, war, genocide, democide, holocaust, and murder."
Imperium Journal
An International Journal of Media and Postcolonial Studies
"...an online journal dedicated to the study of the postcolonial experience within a diverse range of contexts related to media and postcolonial studies. The rise of the two disciplines in the context of internationalisation and globalisation in the post-war cultural milieu provides the intellectual impulse for the development of the journal."
Internet Archive
"...was founded to build an ëInternet library,í with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
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Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context
"...is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asian region. It stems from Murdoch University's School of Asian Studies..."
Journal for Multimedia History (JMMH)
"...is the first peer-reviewed electronic journal that presents, evaluates, and disseminates multimedia historical scholarship....Based in the Department of History of The University at Albany, SUNY, the JMMH seeks a diverse readership, including academicians, teachers, archivists, museum curators, documentary film makers, and a curious general public. The journal is dedicated to presenting and reviewing historical scholarship focusing on all periods and all nations."
Journal of the Association for History and Computing - (dead link) (electronic journal)
League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents
"...contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents. The League existed from 1919 to 1946. Although Russia and the United States refused to join, its members included countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America. The documents in this digitized collection focus on three areas: the founding of the League, international statistics published by the League, and the League's work toward international disarmament. To promote peace and security, the League reduced national armaments and prevented the manufacture of implements of war. Most of the publications in this digital collection concern disarmament."
- Government Publications and Maps, Northwestern University Library
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
"This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."
- A Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Library of Congress
- The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands (English or Nederlands)
"...explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World-War-II period. The project is the product of ongoing cooperation between the Library of Congress and the National Library of the Netherlands, which has enlisted the cooperation of other leading Dutch libraries, museums, and archives."
- Library of Congress Global Gateway
- Meeting of Frontiers
"...a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest...It is intended for use in U.S. and Russian schools and libraries and by the general public in both countries. Scholars, particularly those who do not have ready access to major research libraries, also will benefit from the mass of primary material included in Meeting of Frontiers, much of which has never been published or is extremely rare."
Model Editions Partnership
Historical Editions in the Digital Age
"The Model Editions Partnership is a consortium of seven historical editions which has joined forces with leaders of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities. The participants have developed a 'prospectus' setting forth editorial guidelines for publishing historical documents in electronic form. They are now developing a series of SGML demonstration models."
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Online Coin Catalog - (dead link) "The Perseus Project and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are pleased to announce the second illustrated Web catalog of ancient art from the MFA. Over 775 ancient coins from the MFA's celebrated collection are now illustrated, with 1,500 pictures, in the Perseus coin catalog."
MuslimHeritage.com
"Through 1000 years of missing history and explore the fascinating Muslim contribution to present day Science, Technology, Arts and Civilisation...Through the advancement in Internet technologies, FSTC has the facility to allow global access to this new Muslim heritage database, including source materials, 3-D recreated models of Muslim technology and an online community of scholars and contributors."
- Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri
- Tempus Fugit: Time Flies
"What is time? Is time a scientific phenomenon that can be universally measured and catalogued? Or do different cultures interpret time in their own unique ways? In this exhibit explore the concept of time in works of art dating from 900 BCE to the present."
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
By E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil
3rd ed.: Completely Revised and Updated, 2002.
Published 2003 by Bartleby.com.
New York Public Library
- The Picture Collection
"The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."
Nova Australia - Science in the News
The Open Video Project (OV)
"The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities."
Genres include: Documentary ; Educational ; Ephemeral ; Historical ; Lecture ; Other.
PastPix - The Source for Historical Images
"The PastPix photo-libary brings you a wealth of original, authentic, photographic subjects from the 1850s onwards ... The Pastpix team spent over two years preparing the collection for use on our website which currently has over fifteen thousand images for educational use."
Reviews in History
"...an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education."
- Institute of Historical Research
Schøyen Collection
Checklist of 222 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 Years
By Martin Schøyen
Compiled by Elizabeth Gano S¯renssen; 16th ed., Internet ed.; Oslo, September 2000.
"The Sch¯yen Collection comprises most types of manuscripts from the whole world spanning over 5000 years. It is the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th century...The whole collection, MSS 1-4517, comprises 12,536 manuscript items, including 2,083 volumes...6,178 manuscript items are from the ancient period, 3200 BC - 500 AD; 3,848 are from the medieval period, 500 - 1500; and 2,510 are post-medieval...This is not a catalogue of the collection. It is a checklist with descriptions of a small selection of 222 manuscripts, or 2,6 %, of the whole of The Sch¯yen Collection. A full catalogue will be published in a few years"
Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
"This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica."
Data and Program Library Service (DPLS), University of Wisconsin
Teaching History with Technology
"...is designed to help middle school and high school history and social studies teachers better integrate technology into their classrooms.
Union Songs
"For 2 centuries people across the world have built unions. This site documents the songs and poems that they made in the process, union songs. It also includes songs and poems that are being written today, as the process of union building continues."
By Mark Gregory
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- The Slave Trade Archives Project
"is concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade...The countries foreseen as participating in the project at this stage are: Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, CÙte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, HaÔti, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Togo."
- World Heritage
- The World Heritage List
"The World Heritage Committee has inscribed the following properties on the World Heritage List. The List is arranged alphabetically by nominating State Party.
- WHTour
"The WHTour is creating a documentary image bank of panoramic pictures and virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by the UNESCO."
University of Calgary - Applied History Research Group - Multimedia History Tutorials
- Old World Contacts
"This tutorial focuses on the travellers of Eurasian and African history between 330 BCE and 1500 CE. It introduces students to the agents of contact: the merchants, military men, missionaries, and others who journeyed far from their homelands."
University of California Press Electronic Editions: Books
"Electronic editions of selected UC Press books are available in the following subject areas: International Studies, Classics, Literature, History, Anthropology, Politics, and Religious Studies. These editions are still in the testing stage and are available for browsing free of charge."
University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History
Using Primary Sources on the Web
"This brief guide is designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online."
Sections include: What are Primary Sources? ; Finding Primary Sources on the Web ; Evaluating Primary Source Web Sites ; Citing Web Sites.
Written by the American Library Association - Reference and User Services Association - History Section.
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
"This exhibition traces how women and men have, over the space of several thousand years of Western culture, imagined, depicted, described, and created new versions of ideal societies. It seeks to show as well that the history of these places is inseparable from the histories of the people, cultures, and periods that gave birth to them. For each individual dream is really the refracted image of a specific moment in time, an imaginary construct in which specific problems of the concrete world are resolved and happiness ó that most elusive of goals ó is attained...Utopia is the result of a collaborative effort between two of the worldís great libraries, the BibliothËque nationale de France and The New York Public Library.
VOAHA: The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
California State University, Long Beach
"This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library - enabling you, the user, to hear the voice, pitch, and rhythm of the narrations as well as the emotions these convey. You will hear the actual spoken words of oral history narrators, rather than seeing a written version of them in the form of a transcript...Presently, more than three hundred hours of Los Angeles basin oral histories in women's, labor history and Long Beach area history are available online, including forty hours of interviews with California women who were rank and file activists in the national suffrage movement."
World History Archives
"A repository for documents for teaching and understanding contemporary world history and the struggle for social progress. These archives are associated with Gateway to World History- a collection of resources for the study of world history, and with Images of World History- a pre-modern image archive."
Hartford Web Publishing
Digital Image Collections
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.
The premier national collection of historic photos, prints, documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound recordings.
1800's Ephemera
"The papers came from a box from the late 1800's which I am currently in the process of postiing to my page. As of now there are 400 images out of 2000 papers."
By Mark Forder
Historical Graphics Gallery
"Exhibits of political cartoons, photographs, advertising, and other 19th and 20th century pictures and illustrations, from Napoleon through the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt."
Edited by Jim Zwick
Historical Map Web Sites
The most extensive online map collection on the Internet.
The Perry-CastaÒeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library
"...a collection of about 800 historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century...All of our maps are available in this Library in digital format, but only a subset of them are on this site."
University of Georgia
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
"A comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources."
General & World History Academic Discussion Lists (a selection)
H-Net Discussion Networks
"...e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion; decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors."
A listing of over 100 E-mail lists spanning various fields of study.
H-Atlantic
"...H-Atlantic is an international online discussion list for Atlantic World History from 1500 to 1800. This an interdisciplinary list for scholars who study colonial North America and the United States, Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and South America in a transatlantic context."
H-History-and-Theory Discussion Network
"H-History-and-Theory is sponsored by the journal, History and Theory, with the objective of increasing and broadening communication among its readers and those interested in the topics discussed in its pages: critical philosophy of history; speculative philosophy of history; historiography; history of historiography; historical methodology; critical theory; time and culture; related disciplines."
H-Peace Discussion Network
"H-Peace is an international electronic network affiliated with the Peace History Society that seeks to broaden understanding about historical and contemporary peace, justice, and disarmament concerns."
H-World
"The H-World discussion list serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history. The list gives emphasis to research, to teaching, and to the connections between research and teaching."
H-DEMOG - Historical Demography
"...is an international scholarly online discussion list on demographic history.'
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