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The World
Wide Web Virtual Library: History
http://vlib.iue.it/history/
The most important gateway to history resources on the Internet. This
site was maintained by the University of Kansas as part of the WWW Virtual
Library until May of 2004. It is now maintained at the European University
Institute in Florence, Italy. The site arranges 3000 links alphabetically
by subject and name.
History
On-Line
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/search/welcome.html
Established by the Institute of Historical Research at the University
of London in 1993, this site provides access to valuable links for UK,
European and World History. Included are full-text seminars on a variety
of historical topics, a database of 30,000 records including books in
print by academic history publishers in the UK, journals and articles
and 90% of history theses completed in the UK in the twentieth century.
Historical
Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Originally housed at Mississippi State University this was the first File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) site for historians established in 1990 by Don
Mabry, a Professor of History. Arranged by region, topic or resource.
Led to the creation of the Virtual Library. Winner of numerous awards
for content.
Social Sciences
Virtual Library
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/socsci/
This University of Florida site tracks online resources in various disciplines
in the social sciences. It was developed by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek (1994-1997)
a pioneer in the development of electronic services.
Voice of
the Shuttle: History Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp
This is the history section of a massive collection of humanities links
maintained by Alan Liu at University of California at Santa Barbara.
History
Departments Around the World
http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historydepts/departments.php?function=find&keyword=
A detailed list of history departments both national and international
maintained by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
American
Historical Association
http://www.theaha.org/
Provides general information about the activities, programs and publications
of the AHA.
Organization
of American Historians
http://www.oah.org/
The official home page of the OAH with information on programs, activities,
professional opportunities and resources.
The History
Journals Guide
http://www.history-journals.de/journals/index.html
Published
online since
1997, this is the most complete guide to history journals. They are arranged
chronologically, geographically, and lingually.
African
Studies WWW (U. Penn)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
Important website on African Studies maintained by the African Studies
Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/index.html
A vast guide to resources in American Studies created by David Phillips at Georgetown. The site is now maintained by The American Studies Crossroads Project. The history section includes studies, archival resources and general history resources. Check SiteScene for monthly reviews of new Web Sites.
Asian Studies
WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
This is the most important Asian Studies site on the WWW maintained by
Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek at the Australian National University. Searches
can be done by region or country.
Canadian
Information By-Subject
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/ecaninfo.htm
An information service developed by the National library of Canada to
provide links to information about Canada from Internet resources around
the world.
Latin American
Network Information Center
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/
The LANIC Home page is an important point of departure for those seeking
information about Latin America. Its directory covers 30 countries and
45 subjects with links to 5,000 information resources.
UT-MENIC
(Middle East Network Information Center)
http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/
Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this site is maintained by the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas. Subject categories
range from ancient history to science/technology. Searches can also be
done by country from Afghanistan to Yemen.
REESWeb
(Russian and East European History, Geography and Sociology)
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/
Also part of the WWW Virtual Library, REESWeb is sponsored by the Center
for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Pittsburgh.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
http://eawc.evansville.edu/
Coverage includes ancient Near East, ancient India, ancient Egypt, ancient
China, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, early Islam, and medieval Europe.
Includes and anthology, chronology, essays, maps, quizzes and links.
Labyrinth
Home Page
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
This is the principal site for Medieval Studies sponsored by Georgetown
University. Subject Menus include National Cultures, International Culture
and Special Topics.
U. S. Civil
War Center-Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm
One of the most important sites focusing on the U. S. Civil War maintained
at Louisiana State University with 2,400 links.
The American
Civil War Home Page
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
The other major civil war site maintained by George Hoemann and Mary Myers
at the University of Tennessee. Massive number of links.
The History
Ring
http://members.tripod.com/~PHILKON/ring.html
This ring is dedicated to Internet sties which feature historical information.
At last count it had 1089 linked sites. You can search the sites in the
History Ring by using keywords.
The Book
Review Tutor
http://hist.ucalgary.ca/review/review.html
Developed by the Department of History, The University of Calgary, this
site is designed to teach you how to write a historical book review and
help you understand how historians think about historical problems.
Department
of History Essay Guide
http://hist.ucalgary.ca/tutorials/essay/default.htm
Provides students with basic knowledge necessary to plan and write history
essays.
| Style Manuals |
| Links to major style guides at WKU and the Bowdoin College Library. |
Reference
Old Dominion
University Library Digital Services Center
http://www.lib.odu.edu/services/dcenter/dscresources.shtml
ODU Library tracks selected Digital Library projects in the U.S. and maintains
a collection of links to sites related to Digital Libraries.
General (covering all periods of history)
Avalon Project
at the Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
This massive project includes digitized documents relevant to law, history,
economics, politics, diplomacy and government. For ease of use they are
organized into Pre 18th Century and then by century from the
18th to the present. Recent additions range from the Dayton
Peace Accords to Inter-American Agreements to Medieval Documents to Palestine:
1916-1998.
NYPL Digital
Library Collections
http://digital.nypl.org/
The New York Public Library has many digital projects under way. These
include collections on African American Women Writers, Views of Manhattan,
The Romanovs & The Louis Armstrong Oral History Project among many
others.
Ancient
Perseus
Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
The Perseus digital library provides a variety of resources on the ancient
world from primary texts to site plans.
Renaissance
Renaissance
Women Online
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/project/rwo/RWOoverview.html
This project at Brown University involves making available electronic
versions of primary works in English by women writers from the period
1500-1670.
Twentieth
Century
Cold War International History Project
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409
The CWIHP Document Library at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars includes
a major collections of original documents including secret Russian and
Chinese internal memorandum. The entire collection is searchable by keyword.
World War
II Resources
http://metalab.unc.edu/pha/
Another ongoing project at the University of North Carolina. The goal
is to provide original documents on all aspects of the war.
General (all periods & regions)
American
Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
With 43 collections and over 1 million items online this is the largest
project underway in the world. You can click on collection finder to select
a collection or group of collections and search for items across collections.
Ongoing projects range from African American pamphlets to Early California
to Civil War photographs to Votes for Women.
| Making of America | |
| MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles from the University of Michigan and 114 books and 24 journals form Cornell University. Major collections already available include the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (Series I, (Vol. I) is scanned and Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series I, (Vol. 1) is available for online viewing. The complete collection of books/articles is searchable by keyword. |
Civil War
The Valley
of the Shadow Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/choosepart.html
A project of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University
of Virginia. It examines a hypermedia archive of sources for two communities,
one Northern (Franklin County, Pennsylvania) and one Southern (Augusta
County, Virginia).
Regional: The South
Documenting
the American South Beginnings to 1920
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
The DAS project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
is a full-text database of primary resources on Southern history, literature
and culture from the colonial period through the early 20th
Century. The three major projects underway include: slave narratives,
first-person narratives, and Southern literature. A fourth based on Confederate
imprints is forthcoming.
Regional: California
California
Heritage Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
This is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's
history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at UC
Berkeley. The CHC is part of the Online Archive of California, a compilation
of finding aids to archival collections in more than 30 institutions.
Dr.
Brian E. Coutts
Fall 2005
The image of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt at Yalta is from "Images of History," and is believed to be in the public domain. http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm
Copyright 2005 Brian E. Coutts
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