History

Recommended Web Sites:

• EASTERN EUROPE
  • EGO: European History Online
  • The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
• GENERAL
  • Expeditions & Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series - International
  • In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
  • North Atlantic Population Project
  • Social Science Data Archives
  • United Nations Development Programme - Partnerships to fight poverty.
• GEOGRAPHY
  • ABOUT Geography If you're interested in studying geography or just want to know more about it, check out this page. It provides links to atlases and maps, weather information, and much more. The site is easy to navigate, with an alphabetical menu on the left. Good source for blank outline maps of states and countries!
• HOLOCAUST
  • Digital Collections, from Yad Vashem
• MIDDLE EAST
  • Middle East Studies Internet Resources - A collection of important electronic bibliographic and research resources relating to Middle East and North African studies.
• SOUTHEAST ASIA
  • The Vietnam Center and Archive - Hosted by Texas Tech University. Materials related to the "American Vietnam experience."
• UNITED KINGDOM
  • Cornucopia: Discovering UK Collections - A database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the United Kingdom's museums, galleries, archives, and libraries.
  • Imperial War Museum Collections On-Line
  • National Archives: The Cabinet Papers, 1915 - 1978 - From the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
• UNITED STATES - CIVIL WAR
  • The American Civil War Homepage
  • Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860 - 1865)- A searchable digital version of this paper provided by the University of Richmond in collaboration with the Perseus Project at Tufts University.
  • The Valley of the Shadow - Chronicles the experiences of Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania residents during the American Civil War.
• UNITED STATES - FOREIGN AFFAIRS
  • AmericanMemory: Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - Transcripts of interviews with American diplomats.
  • Council on Foreign Relations
• UNITED STATES - GENERAL
  • American Memory: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
  • American presidency project - Provides digital access to a large number of primary source documents.
  • American President: An Online Reference Source - "In-depth information reviewed by prominent scholars on each President and administration."
  • American Studies Program at UVA Hypertext Collection- Provides access to three kinds of texts: classic, lost, and full hypertexts. One of the featured sites in this collection is the WPA American Slave Narratives.
  • The Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government with links to supporting documents. This site includes The Papers of the Presidents of the United States.
  • Documenting the American South
  • The Electric Ben Franklin - Focuses on the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.
  • Expeditions & Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
  • Government Documents - Web pages created by VIVA institutions that provide access to government documents.
  • History and Politics Out Loud from the National Archives.
  • History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. history courses.
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series- USA
  • POTUS - (Presidents of the United States) Full text of all inaugural speeches of the U.S. presidents plus information on their cabinets.
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States - Statistics on the political, social, and economic organization of the United States. Click on Adobe Acrobat PDF Files or one of the Selected Features.
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet - Information about federal legislation, including the full text of bills and the Congressional Record.
  • Ulysses S. Grant Digital Collection - The first 31 volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant from Mississippi State University.
• UNITED STATES - SLAVERY
  • Digital Library on American Slavery
  • Free at Last?: Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries
  • Freedmen's Bureau Records
  • The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• UNITED STATES - SOCIAL HISTORY
  • American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
  • American Women's History: A Research Guide
  • Costumer's Manifesto - A comprehensive source for costume and fashion history.
  • Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project - A rich source of primary materials about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Includes text and audio-visual materials.
  • Digital Quaker Collection - Sponsored by the Earlham School of Religion, this site provides access to journals, letters, and monographs pertaining to Quaker theology.
  • Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
  • Harlem History
  • SEAAdoc: Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience
  • Virginia Black History Archives
  • Women Working 1800 - 1930 - Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections.
• WESTERN EUROPE
  • EGO: European History Online
  • Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution - Presents an overview of the major players and proceedings of the French Revolution and includes a comprehensive collection of primary sources.
  • Migne's Patrologia Latina- A collection of texts by Latin patristic authors from the Middle Ages.