World History WWW Resources
African National Congress: Historical Documents
This site provides digitized copies and transcripts of historical documents from the African National Congress (ANC). "The ANC is a national liberation movement. It was formed in 1912 to unite the African people and spearhead the struggle for fundamental political, social and economic change."African Studies Center
The University of Pennsylvania's African Studies Center authors this list of African World Wide Web Resources.American and British History Resources on the Internet
Librarians from Rutgers University Libraries have created links to scholarly Internet resources about American and British history.Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek edits this page of Asian information sources. The site is part of the WWW Virtual Library. Author information is provided at the bottom of the page.The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
This "is a bilingual, multi-format English-Dutch digital library that tells the story 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 collection is intended for use by students, scholars, and researchers worldwide. The goal of the project, which is part of the Library's Global Gateway initiative, is to digitize and present important collections of books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials that relate to the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands over the last four centuries. The initial focus of materials is the colonization and settlement of New Netherland up to 1664."The Avalon Project
"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." This project is a part of the Yale University Library.BBC History
This site includes timelines, digital tours of historical sites, and biographies of historic figures.Best of History Web Sites
"The bulk of the research for this site has been done by Thomas Daccord (B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Universite de Montreal), history teacher and instructional technology consultant at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts." Areas covered include prehistory, Biblical history, ancient history, medieval history, U.S. history, early modern history, 20th Century history, World War II, art history, general resources, and maps.Charles Booth Online Archive
This collection includes digitized maps of the poverty areas of London in the latter 19th Century. "The Charles Booth Online Archive is a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science) and the University of London Library. The archives of the British Library of Political and Economic Science contain the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in London, dating from 1886-1903."Center for Jewish History
"The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision of a unique central repository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people. The Center embodies the unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Center will serve the worldwide academic and general communities with combined holdings of approximately 100 million archival documents, a half million books, and thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings and textiles - the largest repository documenting the Jewish experience outside of Israel. The Center's dynamic program of exhibits, cultural events and intellectual gatherings will interest all who wish to explore the richness of the Jewish past and the promise of the Jewish future."Current Cites
This is a service of the Berkeley Digital library SunSITE. In this site "[a] team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for a free publication. The resulting issue of 10-15 annotated citations of current literature is E-mailed to a mailing list. The user can dynamically create their own Bibliography On-Demand. The items that are freely available on the Internet are also retrieved and indexed so that the user can perform an Article Search of the full-text of these items."Digital Asia Library
"The Digital Asia Library (DAL), a joint offering from The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, consists of a catalog of Internet resources related to Asian studies. Users can browse, keyword search, or perform an advanced search for resources. The latter allows fielded searching (Subject, Title, Summary, Author, and Publisher) and the use of limits (subject categories, regions, countries, resource types, or languages). All entries are annotated, and users can save entries that most interest them and email them to themselves. DAL is not a new resource but a must-bookmark for Asian Studies scholars."Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
Many exhibits on international themes are accessible through the Library's Exhibitions Web site. . . . The Portals to the World section includes electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts."Hanover Historical Texts Project
Hanover College's History Department has created a site that provides links to full-text primary documents.Historic Cities
"This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web." "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is 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."Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource
Interactive maps help students study cultural and historical changes.Historical Maps: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
This University of Texas at Austin Library Web page provides links to historical maps in electronic format.Historical Text Archive
The HTA, maintained by Don Mabry, Associate Dean and Professor of History at Mississippi State University provides original material, links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books about human history.History
This page, available via the Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville Web site, provides links to pages about history under the following categories: Best of History Web Sites; Canadian History; Cold War; Cuban-American Relations; DoHistory Web; Historical Documents; Historical Renaissance; History and Politics Out Loud; History as Literature by Theodore Roosevelt, 1913 (Bartleby); History Channel; The History of Eating Utensils (Anthropology Department,
California Academy of Sciences); HistoryNet; Irish History; League of Nations; Marshall Plan (NARA); New Zealand History; Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm); Short History of the World by H.G. Wells (Bartleby.com); Titanic; Treasure Trove of North American Exploration; United Kingdom History; United States History; Vietnam War; Welsh History; Women's History; World War I; and World War II.The History Channel.Com
Use the search box to locate sources on the History Channel's Web site.HistoryWorld
"World History consists of some 400 separate Histories AND 4000 tagged events. Choose HISTORIES to read a chosen subject, and to move seamlessly from one History to another. Try TOURS to travel through time on your own selection of interconnecting trails. Use WHATWHENWHERE to discover what was going on at any moment." This site is part of Great Britain's Virtual Teacher Center.Internet Archives
"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections."Intute: Arts and Humanities
This site, supported by Oxford University, provides links to several full-text history resources. The staff of the site are professional philosophers, librarians, and social scientists. Areas of emphasis include Archaeology; Classics and Ancient History; English Studies (and American Studies); History; Linguistics; Modern Languages and Literatures; Philosophy; and Religion and Theology.HyperHistory Online
This resource includes timelines covering more than 3,000 years of world history. Separate timelines list people, history, events and maps.International Institute of Social History
This site includes a digital archives and virtual exhibitions related to social history.Latin American Network Information Center
The Institute of Latin American Studies, from the University of Texas at Austin, offers a comprehensive set of links for Latin American research.Law in Mexico Before the Conquest
"Law in Mexico Before the Conquest was originally prepared by Michael Widener (Head of Special Collections, Jamail Center for Legal Research) for exhibition in the atrium of The University of Texas School of Law in Fall 1992, in connection with the Columbus Quincentenary. The web adaptation of the exhibit was prepared by Eric Glass, the Jamail Center's Reserve Room Supervisor, in Spring 2003." The site shows ancient drawings that illustrate law in Mexico prior to the Spanish conquest.League of Nations Photo Archive
At this site, readers will find "a digital copy of The Illustrated Album of the League of Nations, which includes a very concise overview of the League plus other photos and diagrams. [Another source found here is] [t]he League of Nations: A Pictorial Survey [which] also includes numerous photos. Another useful book [located on this site] is The Aims, Methods and Activity of the League of Nations, published by the Secretariat in 1935. It provides a basic introduction designed for the general public about the origins, organization and achievements of the League."Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
This site "provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs. Lynn Hunt of UCLA and Jack Censer of George Mason University both internationally renowned scholars of the Revolution served as principal authors and editors. The site itself is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities."Literature of the Holocaust
Visit this page created by Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania for links describing Holocaust literature and history.Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
"The vision of Moving Here is to explore, record and illustrate why people came to England over the last 200 years, and what their experiences were and continue to be. The site mainly looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities."New France-New Horizons
The French and Canadian governments are collaborating to create this archive of material relating to the French settlement of North America, beginning in the 16th Century.. "This portal provides access to a virtual exhibition and a database containing more than one million images. It will continue to grow and be enriched through contributions from national and local institutions that conserve archives related to the history of Canada."Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection
"The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity. To preserve the contents of these documents--which are now too fragile to be handled--and to provide expanded access to this material, the Library has begun a digital project to create and present images or full-text versions of its Nuremberg documents on the Internet, along with analytical information about each document and general information about the trials."The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
These peer reviewed resources include full-text selections, bibliographies, links to World Wide Web sites and reference materials. The site includes a search engine.Oriental Institute Electronic Resources
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago provides links to online Oriental resources. Author information is listed on the Web site Information and Statistics page.Picture Sheffield.com
"Sheffield Archives collects, preserves and lists records relating to Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and makes them available for reference and research. The records date from the 12th century to the present day and include: - business records; ecclesiastical records; family and estate records; local government records; local public records and records from individuals."Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources
Tulane University's archival Web site offers links to archives, sites to help archivists, archival search tools, and professional resources for archivists. The credits for this site are listed on the front page.REESWeb: Russia and Eastern Europe Studies Internet Resources
Electronic history resources available at this site. REESWeb is brought by Center for Russian & East European Studies, University Center for International Studies and University of Pittsburgh.Repositories of Primary Sources
This University of Idaho Library worldwide directory includes more than 5,000 Web sites for locations where primary sources are available.Revelations from the Russian Archives
The exhibit, available on the Library of Congress Web site, includes digitized documents from the Soviet era of Russian history.The Sociosite/ICAAP Journals Database and Distribution Centre
"Criteria for inclusion in this database are stringent. Only quality, full text and inexpensive (usually free) scholarly resources are included. All items are categorized by the type of peer review (standard, editorial, peer commentary, student reviewed, or none), type of resource (scholarly journal, compilation or index, magazine or political pamphlet), language and country of origin. The elimination of those resources which are thin attempts to advertise paper versions, and the strict categorization of resources by type, makes this database an invaluable resource for scholars, librarians and students." A number of history sources are linked from this site.Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
This organization videotapes and archives interviews with Holocaust survivors. Links to repositories of the interviews are included.United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This site provides an introduction to the museum in Washington, DC, suggestions for Holocaust educational programs, guidelines for teaching about the subject, links to archives, and information on Holocaust organizations and historical sites.Vindolanda Tablets Online
"The Vindolanda writing tablets, written in ink on post-card sized sheets of wood, have been excavated at the fort of Vindolanda, immediately south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Dating to the the late first and early second centuries AD, the formative period of Roman Britain’s northern frontier, they were written by and for soldiers, merchants, women and slaves. Through their contents, life in one community on the edge of the Roman world can be reconstructed in detail."Voice of the Shuttle: History
"VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors)." This site includes a number of links to U.S. History sites, as well as world history sites.War Museum.ca: Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
"During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war."WESSWEB
Librarians specializing in Western European studies recommend the links at this site. The Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries maintains it.
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