History resources

The short course: This Day in History (a History Channel site) or Today in History (a Library of Congress site).

Longer courses are available from a variety of sources. These include:

• the Penn Library history links
• the University of Rochester history links
• James B. Ross's WWW History Research Links
• Historical Studies Sites (Paul Halsall/Fordham University)
• the Institute for Historical Research (University of London)
• generally, see the websites for the American Historical Association
• . . . and for the Organization of American Historians
• . . . as well as for the jointly-sponsored AHA/OAH History Cooperative.

See, in addition, the websites at Penn for its Early Modern group and its Ethnohistory Program.

More specific sources include (inter alia) the following, listed in roughly chronological order:

1. Ancient World Web

2. Perseus ("an evolving digital library on ancient Greece and Rome," Department of Classics, Tufts University)

3. Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology (University of Michigan)

4. Classics at Oxford

5. Pomoerium: Internet Resourssen für die Altertumswissenschaften

6. Rome Project (Dalton School, New York, NY)
   including a map of the Roman Empire

7. Episteme Links (a site devoted to the history of philosophy, from the ancient world to the present; this site is a source of books in the subject, as well)

8. Worlds of Late Antiquity

9. Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit

10. ARGOS: A Limited Areas Search Engine of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

11. Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity; related are the The Witchcraft Bibliography Project and the Salem Witch Museum

12. COMERS: Institute for Classical, Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

13. ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (University of Toronto Library)

14. Georgetown University's Medieval Labyrinth

15. Collage, "an image database of works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery, London"

16. TMR: The Medieval Review

17. ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

18. Lesley Hall's Web Page is devoted to the history of gender and sexuality, feminist science fiction and fantasy, and her work as a professional archivist (at the library of London's Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine) and as an addicted acquirer of books; a particular strength is work on women and medicine. Hall's Recent reading recommendations are worth checking.

19. the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Victoria University, the University of Toronto)
    FICINO, "an international electronic seminar and bulletin board for the circulation and exchange of information about the Renaissance and Reformation," is one product of the CRSS

20. Renaissance Society of America

21. Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages (CRLV) (Université de Paris-Sorbonne [Paris IV])

22. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage

23. EarlyModernItaly.com

24. Rome: The City Reborn

25. A Virtual Tour in the Historical Venetian Sources and VENIVA: Venetian Virtual Archive

26. Sybils: An Interactive Exploration of Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

27. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

28. Jeffrey R. Watt's Suicide in Early Modern Europe (University of Mississippi; bibliographical information)

29. Jeffrey Merrick's Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; bibliographical information)

30. The Warburg Institute (University of London)

31. Reformation Studies Institute (University of St. Andrews, UK)
    • Other Reformation centers and resources

32. Renaissance Forum (University of Hull)--this site links to many additional resources

33. Albion (English and Irish history)

34. Early Modern England Source

35. Richard III Society (Laura Blanchard's site)

36. Maggie Secara's Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603: Elizabethan Commonplaces for Writers, Actors, and Re-enactors

37. Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage (Greg Lindahl); another site devoted to late medieval and early modern food and drink; and another food and drink site (Marijah Jan Scrozynski). See also What Guy Fawkes Would Have Eaten. Here is a bibliography.

38. The John Dee Society

39. Currency values in Elizabethan England, one of several historical references for the Elizabethan period in English history; see also Roy Davies' Current Value of Old Money

40. The STAR Project (Scotland's Transatlantic Relations, University of Edinburgh)

41. Splendors of Versailles (a travelling exhibition)

42. History--The Eighteenth Century

43. S. Morgan Friedman's The Inflation Calculator (running from 1800 through 1995)

44. the History Computerization Project

45. British Voices from South Asia (an exhibition from Hill Memorial Library, Louisana State University)

46. Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 (from the University of Virginia)

47. CROMOHS: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography

48. International Institute of Social History

49. Centennial of the War of 1898 (i.e., the Spanish-American War)

50. The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (a PBS documentary website)

51. World War I: Trenches on the Web

52. World War I literature

53. First Call: American Posters of World War One from the collection of Roger N. Mohovich (Georgetown University)

54. Canada and World War I

55. James Rogers McConnell papers (a site at the University of Virginia that remembers a dead American aviator)

56. The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish Civil War (from the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego; catalogue by Alexandra Vergara, with Kevin Ingram, Enrique Sanabria, and Theresa Smith). See also:

    • "They Still Draw Pictures": Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the Spanish Civil War, circa 1938 (another exhibition from the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego)

    • Spanish Civil War: The Posters of the Spanish Revolution (also from the University of California at San Diego, which provides as well several pages of thumbnails of such posters)

    • Spanish Civil War Collection, Brandeis University, Special Collections

    • Eugene W. Plawiuk, "The Spanish Revolution & Civil War"

    • The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (let's hear it for Phil Frankfeld!)

    • other Spanish Civil War links

57. Military History: World War II (1939-1945) (from the Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College, Department of National Defence, Canada)

58. Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II

59. Battle of Britain -- 1940
60. The Dutch Interbellum and Occupation Bibliography

61. Center for Jewish History
    
    

    German soldiers brutalizing a Jew

62. Holocaust and Antisemitism links (from Maven: The Virtual Know-It-All)

63. Cybrary of the Holocaust

64. Shoah Visual History Foundation

65. Voices of the Holocaust (requires speakers and RealAudio)
66. A Guide to Jewish Lodz Website (in Polish; an English-language version is allegedly coming)

67. Essays in History (a graduate student-run history journal, University of Virginia)

68. Chronicon

69. Links to the Past--National Park Service

70. American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (The Library of Congress)

71. Avalon Project, Yale Law School (digital historical documents relevant to law, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government)

72. The University of Michigan's Digital Library and its Making of America project, sponsored jointly with Cornell University, from whom additional materals for the Making of America are also available (the project, a collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan funded primarily by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, focusses on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction)
73. National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)

74. American history (from George Welling); and see also Liberty! The American Revolution (a 1997 PBS documentary series)

75. George Washington Papers at The Library of Congress (American Memory Project)

76. see also:
    • the American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown University)

    • its associated reference tool, the American Studies Web

    • Innovistas, its associated electronic journal for a variety of primary sources in the teaching of American history

    • Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

    • Interroads Archives (e-archives for an American culture discussion group)

    • the American Studies Working Group

    • the American Studies Program, University of Virginia (resources here include such sites as American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology)

    • American Studies Program, Indiana University

    • British Association for American Studies

    • The Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin

77. The Columbus Navigation Homepage

78. Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th Century America (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library)

79. "Death or Liberty: Gabriel, Nat Turner, and John Brown" -- an exhibition concerning anti-slavery revolts, from The Library of Virginia, Richmond

80. Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

81. The American Civil War Homepage. Additional Civil War resources include:
    • Time Line: The Civil War, 1861-1865 (from The Library of Congress; photographic images)

    • The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

    • Poetry and Music of the War Between the States

    • The Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA)

    • Abraham Lincoln Online

    • See also the 1997 Penn Reading Project site devoted to Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg (1992)

82. Archives for Research on Women and Gender (University of Texas at San Antonio)

83. Women's Studies Resources (Duke University Libraries); also at Duke is the Women's Liberation Research Network

84. African American Women (Duke University Libraries)

85. Women in America 1820-1842

86. Edited Collections of Primary Sources in U.S. Women's History (a bibliography)

87. Medical History on the Internet

    • See also the recent articles (with hotlinks) by Russell C. Maulitz, Netnotes: Medical History on the Internet: Burn This Book?, and Netnotes: Medical History on the Internet: Graphical Materials Online (Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 71.1 and 2 [1997], 112-119, 316-319)--this site available only to subscribers to Project MUSE

    • This link takes you to a growing list of Women Physicians' Autobiographies

88. The West:
    • WestWeb (Catherine Lavender's comprehensive catalog of western-related web sites)

    • Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark (an exhibition from the University of Virginia's Alderman Library)

    • Discovering Lewis and Clark

    • The Illustrating Traveller: Adventure and Illustration in North American and the Caribbean 1760-1895 (an exhibition from Yale University's Beinecke Library)

    • New Perspectives on the West is a PBS site for its 1996 Ken Burns-Stephen Ives series, The West); see also The West, the same site, here maintained by the show's corporate sponsor

    • PBS also mounts a Lewis and Clark site, based on the 1997 Ken Burns documentary series

    • The West and the Frontier in American Culture, an ALA site derived from a Newberry Library travelling exhibition
      • See also the related exhibition site mounted by the Danville, IL, Public Library
      • the University of Washington Library site
      • and the supplementary Washington site, Northwest of the West: The Frontier Experience on the Northwest Coast

    • The American West

    • The National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center

    • The Museum of American Frontier Culture

    • The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum

    • Shadows of the Past

    • Some highly specific western history sites include:
      • Mountain Men and Fur Trade
      • Mormon History Resource Page
      • Women in Tennessee History
      • Kansas Pioneers Project
      • The Webb Site: Center for Studies in Texas History
      • Women in Canadian History
      • California Heritage (digital image project)
      • Resources for Research on the American West (Jody Seim Timmins's list of on-line resources for state and local histories in the American West)
      • Explorers of the West Sketchbook Series (a site dealing primarily with the Canadian West)

89. The Great Chicago Fire (of 1871, a web exhibition curated by Professor Carl Smith; this site also takes you to the Chicago Historical Society)

90. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911 (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University, in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees)

91. Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro

92. The 1920s (University of Louisville)

93. New Deal Network (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University)

94. Life History Manuscripts from The Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project 1936-1940

95. A New Deal for the Arts (an exhibition mounted by the National Archives)

96. Al Filreis's Literature & Culture of the American 1950s

97. See also Welcome to the Fifties (Joseph M. Sherlock)

98. In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945 (An On-Line Exhibition with Materials Contributed by California State University, Northridge, University Library, Department of Special Collections and Archives; The Museum of Tolerance; University of Southern California Libraries, Department of Special Collections)

99. "'Remembering the GI Bulge': An exhibit honoring the students who attended S.U. under the GI Bill" (from Syracuse University Archives and Records Management)

100. The Northern Ireland Conflict (1968 to the Present) (from the University of Ulster, the Queen's University of Belfast, and the Linen Hall Library, Belfast)

101. Environmental History

102. The Thomas Reid Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities, Sciences and Medicine (University of Aberdeen)

103. Robert A. Gross's home page

104. Secret No More (a subject guide to thousands of FBI files (and their file numbers) that are now publicly accessible)

105. Franklin Delano Roosevelt cartoon archive

106. Ron Enfield's Personal Web, which includes a retrospective view (with photographs) of the Free Speech Movement (University of California at Berkeley, 1964)

107. The Sixties Project (Kali Tal, et al.; see also Kali Tal's New WORD Order ("Web design for smart people"))

108. The Psychedelic '60s (exhibition from the University of Virginia's Alderman Library)

109. The Sixties (Lisa Thomas)

110. Kent H. Manno's Sixties Bibliography

111. Malcolm Farnsworth's Watergate site

112. Vietnam Veterans Home Page

113. The Vietnam War Newsgroup

114. Vietnam Resource Collection

115. Radical History and Politics

Traister's history of books and printing page provides links to a special category of history for which Traister maintains some highly specific resources.