Resources for History

Internet directories

Best of History Web Sites -- Over 700, includes maps.
Center for History and New Media -- From George Mason University. Outstanding and comprehensive resource useful for absolutely all historians.
History Gateway -- Good collection of web sites, arranged both by country/region and topic.
History Guide - InformationsWeiser Geschichte -- From Göttingen State and University Library. Searchable and browseable by region, time period, and subject.
History Research Online -- A collection of resources for graduates, undergraduates, teaching assistants, and other researchers.
Map History / History of Cartography -- "All the worthwhile information about old maps can be found here, or from here."
UNESCO Archives Portal -- Searchable international gateway to information for archivists and archive users.
The WWW Virtual Library: History Central Catalog -- Large and good-quality links for historians.

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Organizations and institutions

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) -- Association of museums, history professionals, and volunteers working in historical societies, museums, parks, libraries, and schools.
American Historical Association -- Links to American Historical Review and Perspectives.
Center for Jewish History -- Online access to the central depository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people.
Cherokee National Historical Society -- A private non-profit corporation designed to preserve the history and culture of the Cherokee people - past, present, and future.
Chicago History Museum -- Devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the history of Chicago and Illinois, as well as selected areas of American history, to the public through exhibitions, programs, research collections, and publications.
Connecticut Historical Society -- Sections on Arts and Artifacts, Manuscripts, Printed Materials, African American memorabilia, and Civil War.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History -- Emphasis on late-18th, 19th, and early-20th century.
History Departments Around the World -- Look in on or locate colleagues, conduct historical research, or help out with a graduate or undergraduate application.
International Institute of Social History -- One of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular.
Medieval Academy of America -- Oldest and largest association of medievalists in North America.
Organization of American Historians -- Links to Journal of American History, OAH Magazine of History, and OAH Newsletter.
Renaissance Society of America -- The leading organization in the Americas for the interdisciplinary study of the late medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods.
Scholarly Societies Project - History -- Links to websites of scholarly societies in History.
Tennessee Tech Internet Resources in History -- Excellent university history website.
United Kingdom: Institute of Historical Research -- University of London website with links to history resources.

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Libraries, archives, and resources

The American Colonist's Library -- A massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not available online anywhere.
American Women's History: A Research Guide -- Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources -- From the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School -- Documents in history, law, and diplomacy.
BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) -- Searches British government publications over the period 1688 -1995. Records include abstracts and subject headings.
La Bibliothèque Nationale de France -- Includes online catalog.
Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities -- Based on Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, and other sources.
Clio Online -- Gateway to Historical Resources on the internet, provided by a network of German libraries and research institutions.
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) -- A scholarly site, located at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington, DC.
Communist Party of the United States of America Collections -- From NYU. One of the most important collections in the United States documenting the history of Communism, Socialism, Marxist theory and practice, the cultural left, and the history of the varied movements that have struggled for progressive social change in America.
Digital History -- Contains primary source material, interactive timeline, subject guides, lesson plans. From University of Houston.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke University, Special Collections) -- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The documents are browseable by subject categories and searchable by keyword.
Documents on International Relations -- Impressive collection of documents covering many aspects of international relations. Go to webpage, scroll down to "Documents" section.
Dred Scott Digital Project -- From Washington University, collection of digitized documents relating to one of the most famous of U.S. Civil Rights cases (1857).
Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Links to eighteenth century information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, and philosophy, from around the world.
European Digital Library Treasures -- Images of rare and precious books, illuminated manuscripts, bookbindings, drawings, prints and decorated papers.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History -- Links to European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. From Brigham Young University.
Foreign Relations of the United States -- 1861-1960. The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.
Genealogy Home Page -- Links guides, world-wide resources, maps and photographs, religious resources, software, societies, events, and more.
GeoHistory Americas Map Folio -- A complete historical review of the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. There are 300 separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America, Central America and South America history.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online (HPSSS) -- Collection of 700 interview transcripts conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War is a source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s. Contains data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions compiled in English and organized according to a rigorous social science framework.
Historical Inventions -- Webpage of sites that cover the history of inventing with indexed alphabetical listings. Included are timelines and specialized information on different types of famous inventions.
Historical Research in Europe -- Web-based and printed resources which provide information about European libraries and archives. From University of Wisconsin.
The Historical Text Archive -- Large collection of resources arranged topically and geographically.
History and Politics Out Loud -- Searchable archive of politically significant audio materials.
History in the News: Middle East History -- Good collection of links from the History Department at SUNY Albany.
The History Journals Guide -- A web directory for history journals (all periods, all regions and all fields); provides information about the contents, editors, publishers, frequency, ISSN etc. of each journal.
History of Spain: Primary Documents -- From Brigham Young University. Primary source material relative to the history of Spain plus links to other relevant sites.
HyperHistory Online -- Over 2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world history, plus hundreds of history links to the web.
Images of American Political History -- A collection of over 500 public domain images of American political history. Easy retrieval, and absolutely no restrictions on use.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 -- Online materials from Harvard libraries. Includes books, pamphlets, photos, and manuscripts. Materials are browseable and searchable.
Internet Resources on American Foreign Policy -- A comprehensive collection of links provided by the Middle East Review of Foreign Affairs.
Islamic and Islamic Studies Resources -- Dr. Alan Godlas, professor of Religion at the University of Georgia, provides a scholarly overview of Islam and related subjects.
Libro: The Library of Iberian Resources Online -- Full-text monographs.
The Louisiana And Lower Mississippi Valley Collections -- Catalog of one of the nation's premier repositories for materials relating to the antebellum plantation, Civil War, and Reconstruction South, from Louisiana State University.
The Making of America: Cornell Site U. of Michigan Site -- Digital libraries of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Full-text.
Maps: Rare Map Collection from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia -- More than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century. North America, with emphasis on Georgia and the Southeast.
Meeting of Frontiers -- Library of Congress. Bilingual, English-Russian project that chronicles the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers, and the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It features rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, music and other materials from libraries in the United States and Russia.
The National Archives Information Server -- The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency that preserves our nation's history by overseeing the management of all federal records.
Nazi and East German Propaganda -- Top quality, searchable site: from essays by Hitler and Goebbels to posters and postcards.
The Nizkor Project -- Dedicated to the refutation of Holocaust denial, and to providing Holocaust education resources.
Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP) -- Formerly Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Since its establishment in 1999, the project has collected thousands of pages of material (formerly secret governmental documents) on security-related issues of the Cold War.
Research Guide: Oral History & Family History -- This guide lists resources that will help you find information on conducting family history research and oral history from books, periodicals, and Internet resources.
Scripp's Library and Multimedia Center (Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia) -- Specialized library collection with focus on American politics and history, especially American presidency. Collection of presidential speeches covers 60 years, audio and transcripts.
Secession Era Editorials Project -- Collection of newspaper editorials dealing with three events: Nebraska, Dred Scott, and Harper's Ferry. From Furman University in South Carolina.
SunSITE Digital Collections -- Documents collections at UC Berkeley.
Tangled Roots -- The Tangled Roots project seeks to investigate the history of American slaves and immigrants from Ireland and to consider the links between them. From Yale University.
United States Library of Congress -- Top level page for LOC. Searchable catalog, legislative and copyright information, exhibitions, and more.
U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 -- Full text from the Library of Congress. Includes Congressional Globe, Annals and Register of Debates, Senate and House journals, statutes and documents, and more.
The Vietnam Project -- At Texas Tech. Contains good collection of primary materials for the study of the Vietnam War. Archive presently contains over 771,000 pages of documents.

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Selected papers

American Life Histories -- Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940.
Thomas A. Edison Papers -- A searchable document database from Rutgers.
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 -- Largest collection of original Washington documents in the world. Document types include correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes.
Papers of George Washington -- University of Virginia. Project will eventually contain complete edition of Washington's correspondence.
Emma Goldman Papers -- A major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism from the University of California, Berkeley.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project -- At Stanford University. Site contains secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life.

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Ancient and medieval

Ancient World Mapping Center -- Links and downloadable maps. University of North Carolina.
Columbus and the Age of Discovery -- Contains over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes.
DScriptorium -- Digital images of medieval manuscripts.
Egyptology on the World Wide Web -- Collection of WWW pages for students of Egyptology.
ETANA :Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archive -- Housed at Vanderbilt, this is the comprehensive internet site for the study of the Ancient Near East (ANE) and Egypt.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index -- Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook -- Fordham University. Selected sources, full text sources, and saints' lives.
Labyrinth -- Provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University.
Medieval English Towns -- Massive site covers virtually all aspects of English medieval towns. Contains both information and links.
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources -- Large collection of sites covering all aspects of Medieval Studies.
ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies -- Cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web.
Rome Project -- Large collection of WWW resources concerning classical Rome.

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Asia

East Asia -- A variety of resources from the Vanderbilt EAS program webpage.
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources -- This annotated directory serves as a window on Internet resources for the political units of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).
South Asia -- The Digital South Asian Library from the Center for Research Libraries.

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Europe

ARTFL Project (Project for American & French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) -- Includes 2,000 French texts - from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics - stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
British History Online -- Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the University of London's Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
Carnegie Moscow Center -- Contemporary military, political, and economic policy issues, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Encyclopaedia of British History: 1500-1980 -- Topics are arranged both chronologically and by category.
History of Germany: Primary Documents -- From Brigham Young University. Primary source material relative to the history of Germany plus links to other relevant sites.
History of Spain: Primary Documents -- From Brigham Young University. Primary source material relative to the history of Spain plus links to other relevant sites.
Holocaust: Meyer's Holocaust Links, 9th edition -- Links to many Holocaust sites.
The Holocaust Chronicle -- Examines the Holocaust chronologically, beginning with its pre-Nazi roots in Europe and devoting a chapter to each year from rise of the Nazis to power in 1933 through the Nuremberg trials in 1946. The text can be searched by date, and available photographs can be examined in thumbnail or larger versions.
Holocaust Memorial Museum, U. S. -- America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
Libro: The Library of Iberian Resources Online -- Full-text monographs.
The Nizkor Project -- Dedicated to the refutation of Holocaust denial, and to providing Holocaust education resources.
Si Spain -- Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs site promotes free exchange of information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development.
United Kingdom: Institute of Historical Research -- Part of the University of London's School of Advanced Study. Site contains large number of high quality links.
Virtual Library Eastern Europe -- Provides extensive specialist academic information on the history, culture, politics and society of the countries and regions of Eastern Europe.

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United States/North America

1492: An Ongoing Voyage -- This Library of Congress exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600.
1755: The French and Indian War Homepage -- Syracuse University site dedicated to the French soldiers who came to New France between 1755 and 1760 to fight in the French and Indian War.
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts -- First book to be published on the Internet by a university press focuses on Virginia's extensive African-American history records.
The American Colonist's Library -- A massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not available online anywhere.
The American Folklife Center: the Library of Congress -- Purpose is to preserve and present American folklife.
American Indian Studies Homepage -- This site offers a number of documentary resources on American Indian History as well as annotated links to other sites with a similar focus.
American Indians: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet (WWW Virtual Library) -- Organized into 32 categories, including archaeology, culture, language, history, and movies.
American Memory -- Historical collections from the Library of Congress for the National Digital Library.
The American South Internet Resource Center -- Scholarly Internet resources for the study of the American South.
American Studies Web -- Comprehensive scholarly site from Georgetown University.
Online Resources for Canadian Heritage -- Focuses on Internet resources pertinent to Canadian heritage in archaeology, ethnology, history and folk culture as well as other resources that further the study of Canada and Canadians.
Center for the Study of the American South -- From University of North Carolina. Primary documents from Southern Historical Collection, musical and oral tradition materials from Southern Folklife Collection, photographic archive, and American South Collection.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture -- University of Mississippi site is a focal point for innovative education and research on the American South.
The Cold War History 1945-1991 (WWW Virtual Library) -- Arranged chronologically, topically, geograpphically. Topics include McCarthyism, Korean War, the Rosenbergs, Cuba, and collaspe of the Soviet Union. From the University of Kansas.
Communist Party of the United States of America Collections -- From NYU. One of the most important collections in the United States documenting the history of Communism, Socialism, Marxist theory and practice, the cultural left, and the history of the varied movements that have struggled for progressive social change in America.
Documenting the American South -- A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Foreign Relations of the United States -- 1861-1960. The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.
The Founders' Constitution -- Anthology of primary documents that are fundamental antecedents to the 1789 United States Constitution. Searchable. Online version of the five-volume printed work.
Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training -- Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel, mostly with Foreign Service Officers but also some with political appointees and other officials. While some 1920s-, 1930s-, and World-War-II-era diplomacy is covered, most of the interviews involve post-World-War-II diplomacy, from the late 1940s to the 1990s.
GeoHistory Americas Map Folio -- A complete historical review of the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. There are 300 separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America, Central America and South America history.
Geography of Slavery in Virginia -- From the University of Virginia. A digital database of runaway and captured slave advertisements from eighteenth-century Virginia newspapers.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistence, and Abolition -- Yale site containing documents, essays, links, and bibliographic information.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History -- Emphasis on late-18th, 19th, and early-20th century.
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory -- A virtual exhibition created by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University.
Guide to African-American Documentary Sources in North Carolina -- From the North Carolina African American Archives Group.
Historical Census Browser -- Allows examination of state and county data (taken from U.S. Census of Population and Housing) for 1790-1960 censuses. From University of Virginia.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 -- Online materials from Harvard libraries. Includes books, pamphlets, photos, and manuscripts. Materials are browseable and searchable.
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- The leading weekly newspaper of its time, HarpWeek presents exclusive online access to Harper's Weekly coverage of the historic 1868 Johnson Impeachment.
Jewish Women's Archive -- Captures the lives of hundreds of Jewish women in the US from its founding to the present.
Lewis & Clark: A Journey -- Full text of the 1814 Biddle edition of the journals and other materials.
Political Prints, 1766-1876, from Library of Congress -- Electronic version of Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.'s annotated catalog of the LOC's collection of American political prints.
POTUS: Presidents of the United States -- Links to all US presidents, including biographies, documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites. By the Internet Public Library.
Presidential Elections, 1860-1912 -- Political cartoons from US presidential elections between 1860 and 1912.
Rare Map Collection -- Digitized images from the University of Georgia.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive -- Offers a number of primary documents and other materials related to the Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692. From University of Virginia.
The Smithsonian Institution -- Online guide to "an independent trust instrumentality of the United States" holding some 140 million artifacts and specimens for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge".
Southern Historical Collection -- From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints -- From the New York Public Library, this collection of over 800 prints and drawings visually documents a 400-year sweep of American history.
The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975 -- This site was developed around the course materials for a senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College.
Historic Government Publications from World War II -- Searchable digital library collection of 6,000 pages from pamphlets, posters, booklets and photos. From SMU.

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U. S. Civil War

The American Civil War -- Collection of links on all aspects, from Dakota State University.
American Civil War Collections -- This Electronic Text Center contains a variety of primary source material on the American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers. Letter collections include searchable transcriptions as well as digital images of the manuscripts. From the University of Virginia Library.
The American Civil War Homepage -- At the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). Gathers together hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War.
Antietam on the Web -- Voluminous content, not a collection of links.
Civil War Maps, 1861 -1865 -- Searchable collection from the U.S. Library of Congress.
Civil War Women -- Links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War.
Eye of the Storm -- Materials from the Eye of the Storm, which details in watercolors, maps, and journal entries, events from the Civil War as witnessed by Union soldier Private Knox Sneden.
Freedman and Southern Society Project -- University of Maryland. 50,000 documents on the topic of emancipation from the National Archives of the U.S.
Lincoln and the Civil War -- From HarpWeek. Searchable collection of 14 illustrated newspapers.
Ulysses Grant Memoirs -- Digitized version of the E. B. Long edition of 1952.
United States Civil War Center -- At LSU. Mission is to locate, index, and make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War; to promote the study of the Civil War from all the perspectives of all professions, occupations and academic disciplines.
Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook -- By the Tennessee Historical Commission. Based on over 7,000 entries from diaries, period newspapers, official Civil War records, ship deck logs, letters, and historical articles.
Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications: Soldiers and Widows -- Searchable database from the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia -- Interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War.

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