GENERAL
Archive
for the History of Economic Thought
Supported by McMaster University this archive is an attempt to collect in one
place a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought,
and includes representative texts of all of the major thinkers and schools of
thought; and most of the sub-fields of economics.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/%7Eecon/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
Making
Sense of Oral History
This
site is aimed at students and teachers to help them begin working with oral history
interviews as historical evidence. Topics covered include: constructing interviews,
interpretation, bibliographies, and finding oral histories online.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/
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.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
AFRICAN
African
History Guide
Powered by the History Net this guide on About covers all aspects of African History.
http://africanhistory.about.com/
AMERICAN
Avalon
Project at the Yale Law School
Primary documents relevant
to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. The compilers
of this site intend to link to supporting documents expressly referred to in the
body of the text, and to use hypertext means of annotating and indexing the texts.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History
Primary
documents pertaining to the study of American history. Documents span the fifteenth
to the twentieth centuries.
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
Civil
Rights Movement Veterans
"In addition to documenting
the Southern Freedom Movement by telling it like it was and testifying to what
we did and what it meant to us, the website is also a place to begin renewing
the ties that once bound us together in a beloved community, a place for finding
lost friends, and a tool for helping fellow veterans in need. And it is a living
memorial for our fallen comrades."
Documenting
the American South
Primary source materials documenting
the cultural history of the American South from the
collections of the University
of North Carolina. It features diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, travel accounts,
titles on slavery, and regional literature.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Founders
Constitution
Complete copies of the United States Constitution
and the Bill of Rights together with commentaries and criticisms.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
History
of the American West, 1860-1920
Part of the Library of Congress' American
Memory Historical Collections, this site has more than 30,000 photographs
from the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library. Various
photographs documented daily life in Colorado, 1860-1920, depictin. e.g., celebrations,
farming, mining, Wild West Shows. The site includes numerous photographs of members
of American Indian tribes. The collection is searchable by keyword and browsable
by subjects and names. Results can be viewed in "list view" or "gallery
view." Gallery view shows thumbnails and is useful in selecting photographs.
The record for each photograph gives detailed information: title, subject headings,
photographer, etc. Links to oyher pertinent collections from the Denver Public
Library and American Memory are given.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
Historical
United States Census Data Browser
The data presented
here describes the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state
and county
from 1790 to 1970.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
The
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
The center is dedicated
to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of
the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. Site contains primary documents,
essays, and bibliographies related to all aspects of the Atlantic slave trade.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/
Lewis
and Clark 200.gov
For general readers, this site is most useful for its list of upcoming events
along the trail of the Coprs of Discovery. It is also useful as a bureaucratic
record for those who seek "the partner" list of agencies involved in
the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration, want to read federal agency news
releases related to the bicentennial, or seek grant funding for bicentennial events.
A daily quotation from the Lewis and Clark journals, is a nice touch.
http://www.lewisandclark200.gov/links/index.cfm
Making
of America
A fully searchable, digital library concerned
with American social history. Contents include
scanned images of approximately
8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction.
Among the magazine sources are Ladies Repository
(1841-1876), Princeton
Review (1831-1882), Southern Quarterly Review (1842-1857), and
Vanity Fair (1860-1862).
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Milestone
Events - Archiving Early America
Documents representing
significant events in eighteenth century America are presented here in their original
formats as they actually appeared in the 1700s. Includes treaties, pamphlets,
proclamations and more.
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/index.html
National
Archives Online Exhibit Hall
A series of online exhibits
highlighting specific areas of the collections of the
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/index.html
National
Archives & Records Administration.
Selected holdings may be searched through NARA's prototype online catalog, NARA
Archival Information Locator
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
.
New
Deal Network
The New Deal Network is an educational
guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The site contains primary documents,
articles, and images.
http://newdeal.feri.org/
New
York State Archives & Records Administration
The
official repository of New York State Government records with permanent legal
and
historical value. It has custody of legislative, judicial and executive
agency records.
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
Nineteenth
Century Documents Project
When completed this collection
will include accurate transcriptions of many important and
representative
primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis
on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in
regional identity.
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
Picture History
Digital library of high
quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history.
This site has indexed still images of maps, postcards, photographs, cartoons,
stero cards, periodicals, and more in addition to video and audio clips.
http://www.picturehistory.com/
Virtual
Vietnam Archive
A searchable database of images and documents
related to the Vietnam War held in Texas Tech Universities Vietnam Archive.
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/
Thomas
Jefferson Digital Archive
The
most complete collection of electronic information on the third president. The
scope of the site is comprehensive containing about 200 digitized items-from letters
to complete volumes-written by Jefferson, also an online cyclopedia of quotes
and numerous bibliographies.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/
History
Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
History Matters
is a gateway site to Web-based materuals about United States history. A search
engine, as well as broad topical links, provide access to primary documents, images,
audio files, and secondary articles that connect the user to people and places
through out United States history. Students can also find links to quality resources
for guidance on research standards, citing material, analyzing primary sources,
and evaluating Web sites.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
ASIAN
Coins
and history of Asia
Information and images of over 2100
coins, from the Near East, Persia, India, Central Asia and China (600 BC to 1600
AD).
http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/coins.html
Mao
Tse-tung (Zedong) Internet Library
A searchable full text archive of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Vol.
I-V; 1926-1957). English translations based on the second Chinese edition.
http://ptb.lashout.net/marx2mao/Mao/Index.html
Silkroad
Foundation
Dedicated to the study and preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and
the Silk Road. Resources provided include: articles, bibliographies, chronologies,
maps, and more.
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html
CLASSICAL
Bryn
Mawr Classical Review
A journal containing timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of
classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive
of BMCR's publication, from 1990 to the present.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/
De
Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
An online encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD
14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). Entries are in essay form and prepared
by scholars in the field. The biographical essays are supplemented by an ancient
and medieval atlas.
http://www.roman-emperors.org/
Duke
Papyrus Archive
The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic
access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
Electronic
Antiquity: Communicating the Classics
An
electronic journal (1993 - 2001) containing scholarly articles covering all aspects
of classical civilization.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/
Translations
of Classical Authors, University of Saskatchewan
Translations
of many classical works provided by the University of Saskatchewan.
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/depttransls.html
EUROPEAN
British
History 1700-1950
The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
currently contains over 2,000 entries and is an attempt
to show the history
of Britain through the eyes of people from all levels of society. Each entry
includes narrative, illustrations, primary sources and bibliography. Far ranging
and
comprehensive.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html
Catasto
Study: Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains
This site provides access to the raw data and documentation files for the Census
and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth
Century Italy, also known as the Catasto study.
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Catasto/
Cely
Papers, The
Cely Papers cover 1475-1488, and are a marvelous mirror into the lives and lifestyle
of a very wealthy family of English wool merchants, members of the Staple of Calais
and owners of business and residential property in London as well as some estates
in Essex.
http://www.r3.org/bookcase/cely/
Digital
Scriptorium
An image database of dated and datable
medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into
an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into
a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists,
art historians, textual scholars and other researchers.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/
Dscriptorium
DScriptorium is
devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
http://www.byu.edu/%7Ehurlbut/dscriptorium/
Fathers
of the Church
Biographical essays, church councils,
and writings of early Catholic Church Figures.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
Feminae:
Medieval Women and Gender Index
A free bibliographic
index, which covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about
women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/search.html
French
Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790
The data file contains the names of Intendants and periods of incumbency in different
intendances (provinces).
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Province/
Great
Britain Historical GIS Project
This project, compiled
by the University of Portsmouth, maps the changing boundaries of all the major
administrative and statistical reporting areas of Great Britain, and links the
map and historical statistical data (1851-) together with a gazetteer.
http://www.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis/
Greenwood's
Map of London (1827)
An extremely high quality replication of the 1827 edition of Greenwood's famous
map.
http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/
Gutenberg
Digital
High quality scanned images of the entire Gutenberg
Bible and model book.
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm
Index
Berborum: Martin Luther's German Writings
The Index Verborum is a reference guide that accesses over 323 German writings
of Martin Luther, from the critical historical period of 1516 through 1525.
http://luther.bc.edu/default.html
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
Compiled
by the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies this resources is divided
into three main sections: Selected Sources (Excerpts of primary sources selected
for teaching purposes), Full Text Sources, and sources on the Saint's Lives.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
National
Archives (England, Wales, & the United Kingdom)
The agency responsible for the records of the central government and courts of
law of Great Britain, as well as non-governmental materials dealing with British
history.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Online
Catasto of 1427
A searchable web version of tax data
for the city of Florence for the years 1427-29. This
primary source provides
significant information about most inhabitants of the city.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/overview.html
ORB
- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
A cooperative
effort on the part of scholars across the Internet to establish an online
textbook source for medieval studies on the World Wide Web. Of particular importance
on
this site is its listing of primary sources, many in translation.
http://www.the-orb.net/
Russian
Studies
Includes
both English and Cyrillic sites for those interested in Russian history, politics
and
culture.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2000/january001/russianstudies.htm
Siege
and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
This site, hosted by Northwestern University, contains links to over 1200 digitized
photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/
Victorian
Web
Information
on all aspects of life and culture in Victorian England (politics, history, philosophy,
religion, etc.).
LATIN
AMERICAN
Handbook
of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America,
prepared by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, consisting of works
selected and annotated by scholars.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
H-LatAm
An international forum for scholars in Latin American history. The site contains:
bibliographies, essays, papers, discussion boards, articles, and book reviews.
http://www.h-net.org/~latam/
Latin
America Colonial Economic History
The site's focus is on current research on the economic history of Latin America
from 1500 and 1825.
http://www.laceh.com/
TWENTIETH
CENTURY
Alger
Hiss Story
A portal for access to primary information
about Alger Hiss, the Hiss case and the early Cold War years. The site is indented
to act as a online counterpart to the Alger Hiss Papers at the Harvard Law School
Library.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Eth15/home.html
Cold
War International History Project
Includes a Virtual
Archive with dozens of primary and secondary source documents
illuminating many perspectives on the history of the Cold War.
German
Propaganda Archive
The German Propaganda Archive includes
both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists.
The archive contains materials from the Nazi parties beginning through to the
end of the war (Pre 1933 - 1945).
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm
