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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
"Like the long-established Internet Medieval Sourcebook, this project is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history or modern Western Civilization."
By Paul Halsall, Fordham University

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18th Century History
The Age of Reason and Change

Albanians in Macedonia Crisis Center
"This site intends to shed some light on various forms of oppression, aggression and human rights violation the Macedonian government has exercised on the Albanian population since 1991, when Macedonia declared its independence, as well as the years leading towards the breakup of Yugoslavia.

Association of European Migration Institutions

BBC World Service - The Story of Africa [text and audio]
"The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective... Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid."
Sections include: Living History ; Early History ; Nile Valley ; West African Kingdoms ; The Swahili ; Traditional Religions ; Islam ; Christianity ; Slavery ; Central African Kingdoms ; Africa & Europe (1800-1914) ; Southern Africa ; Between World Wars (1914-1945) ; Independence ; Programmes.

C18-L
Resources for 18th-century Studies Across Disciplines
Discussion list home page
"...is an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of 18th-century studies -- that is, the 'long 18th century,' which extends roughly from 1660 to 1830."

  • Selected Readings
     "...is an interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies, covering as many topics in lots and lots of areas as we can manage; SR comprehensively covers the so-called "long 18th century," which means roughly 1660-1830."

Eighteenth Century Resources
"...Milton and Keats are my usual endpoints. The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world in the eighteenth century, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics."
Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania

EuropeanArchaeology
"This list is intended for the MODERATED discussion of European prehistoric and historic archaeology. The time period can range from the Early Palaeolithic through the 1800s. The geographic focus is Europe, which is broadly defined as extending from Spain and Portugal and Ireland in the West, to the Urals in the East."

[European] Immigration to the USA 1740-1960
Includes statistics, biographies, laws, history and more on European immigrant to the United States.
The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia of USA History

European Integration History
"...provides Internet resources on the History of Europe after WWII in all languages."
Sections include: Gateways ; Resources ; Journals ; Archives ; Societies ; Lists ; Institutions.
European University Institute - Florence, Italy

Focus on the Slave Trade
"As European countries debate whether to apologise for the transatlantic slave trade in past centuries, BBC News Online's Tom Housden examines the enforced movement of millions."
From BBC News - Africa (September 2001)

Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies
Sections include: Exploring Our Heritage ; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) [Speak Ladino in an Audio Chat] ; Publications ; History ; Biographies.

  • Portraits of our Past
    The Sephardic Communities of Greece and the Holocaust
    Section of this physical exhibit available online is Background on the Communities.

Gabriel - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries (English, French or German)

Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries - (dead link)
"This project is intended to assist researchers who are planning to use European libraries and archives. The focus is on Western Europe. The intention is to unite both Web-based and printed resources which provide information about European libraries and archives in a single interactive database."
- University of Wisconsin Libraries / University of Wisconsin-Madison - Center for European Studies

History
The Web site of the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
"In addition to the evaluation and cataloguing of on-line resources in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, HISTORY provides high quality information about the history profession including books, articles, theses, seminars and historians (searchable as HISTORY On-Line)."

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

Humbul Humanities Hub - History
Sections of this high quality directory include: Projects/Organization ; Primary Sources ; Research Related ; Secondary Sources ; Teaching/Learning Related ; Bibliographic Sources.
- A service of the Resource Discovery Network funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and is hosted by the University of Oxford

Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) - Mainz

James Ford Bell Library
"The James Ford Bell Library is a collection of 15,000 rare books, 2,500 maps, and 2,500 manuscripts from the period 1400-1800, documenting the expansion of Europe."
Includes information on their print collection and a link to The James Ford Bell Library Catalog
University of Minnesota

Kosova Crisis Center
"With the start of the Serb massacres in Kosova in February 1998, the KCC (Kosova Crisis Center) and KCC-NEWS were established. The purpose of KCC and KCC-NEWS is to keep the world informed with the facts from the ground about the Serb atrocities committed against women, children and elderly people, as well as the oppression against everything Albanian in Kosova."

Online Resources For Historians
Sections include: Searching the Internet ; Primary Sources Online ; Library Catalogues ; Maps & Images ; Historical Societies, Associations, Archives, Web Guides ; History Websites ; Journals & Periodicals ; Bibliographies ; On-line Reference Works ; Publishers' Websites.
Includes resources in English, French, German, and Other Languages.
- University of Oxford - The Faculty of History

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Center for European Studies

Virtual Library History - Early Modern History
 Maintained by Stephanie Marra

Witches on the Web: A Review of Some Scholarly Sites on Witches
By Fabienne Baider and Anita Liang
"This page consists of a single but scholarly essay that examines the current state of scholarship on gender and the European witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It also suggests some directions for further work such as the mirror image of the saint/witch female icons."
World Wide Web Reviews (Fem. Coll. v.20, no.2, Winter 1999)

A WWW Data base of European nobility
"There are now 9300 English, 6350 Italian, 2100 French, 200 Scottish, and 500 Spanish people of ducal families accessible."
WW-Person

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