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Center
for History and New Media
Gateway of information hosted by George Mason University.
Don Mabry's
Historical Text Archive
Mega site of links by country and topic covering all areas of
history. Includes choice of access through web links or
articles, books, documents, and photographs.
History Guide
"Subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in
history with a focus on Anglo-American history."
History
Web Sites
Directory maintained by Princeton
University.
In the
First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and
personal narratives
Indexes collections from around the world including such
materials as civil war diaries and letters, British and Irish
Women's letters and diaries, and North American Women's letters.
Hugh database that is updated on a regular basis.
Schmoop
A website still in Beta mode that provides study materials in
literature and history. The content and added web 2.0
features invite learning.
World
Civilization Virtual Library
Created to support the understanding of college world
history courses from Georgia College and State University.
WWW-VL
History Central Catalogue
Outstanding collection of history web sites maintained by the University of
Kansas.
American
Cultural History: the Twentieth Century
American
Cultural History: the Nineteenth Century
This resource brings together both the
historical and cultural elements of the times. Easy to
navigate with plenty of links that lead to mega information!
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
A Biography of America
"Companion"
website for a college-level history course.
Flag
of the United States of America
Everything you ever wanted to know about the American flag.
Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Offers full-text laws and
treaties relating to the North American Indian tribes.
Ancient Egyptian Culture
Exhibit
Simply organized by categories of daily life, art, military,
architecture, hieroglyphs, religion, government, maps, history,
and archeology.
Ancient
History
Selected links categorized as prehistory, general ancient,
ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Near East, and ancient
Rome.
Ancient World Web
Menu page of links divided by categories including art,
daily life, history, science, and law & philosophy.
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Designed to assist in the teaching of Ancient history.
Web site by the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies
and History Department.
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
Designed to assist in the teaching of Medieval history.
ORB: The Online Reference Book
for Medieval Studies
Scholarly site devoted to the historical and literary study
of medieval times.
Perseus Digital Library
Collection of historical material about the classical world.
Ancient
City of Athens
Photographic collection of the archaeological remains in
Athens by Indiana University.
The
Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP)
This site includes information on the Giza Plateau, the
construction and function of the Sphinx, the Great Pyramids, the
associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom.
Pompeii Forum Project
Involves the study of classical urban life as revealed
through the archaeological study of Pompeii, the Italian city
destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Theban Mapping Project
Excavation detailed on this page about the largest
archaeological finds in Egypt.
University of Memphis
Institute of Art and Archaeology
Institute's homepage with its focus as the study of the art
and culture of ancient Egypt. Includes a virtual tour of
the antiquities housed there.
American
Civil War Homepage
Selected internet resources divided by subject that includes
biographical information, state studies, battles &
campaigns, rosters & regimental histories, images, and
more.
Civil
War Resources on the Internet Abolitionism to Reconstruction
(1830s-1890s)
Rutgers' Civil War menu of links.
Civil
War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
Library of Congress collection.
CWSAC
Battle Summaries
Brief overviews of all the battles of the Civil War
searchable by state or campaign.
Selected
Civil War Photographs
Outstanding digitized Library of Congress page.
United States Civil War Center
Outstanding web page developed by Louisiana State
University. Includes an index of links, cemetery database,
people of Civil War era, virtual exhibits, and more.
The Valley of the
Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Outstanding website with primary resource material representing
both North and South.
Age of
Exploration
Menu of links.
Columbus and
the Age of Discovery
A compilation of full-text articles from journals,
newspapers, and other sources.
Cyndi's List
The mega site of genealogy web links that is categorized and
cross-referenced.
Family
Tree Maker
One of the largest commercial genealogy web sites that
includes great useful information much of which is free.
MELO's Genealogy Web Links
Online handout of genealogical sources.
U.S.
GenWeb Project
Mega site with a wealth of
genealogical information. Organizes different types of
records by county and includes birth, marriage, and death
records. Cemeteries and public notices are included if
available.
Gulf War
Links and timeline.
Whirlwind
War
"The United States Army in operations DESERT SHIELD and
DESERT STORM." Thorough information about the 1991
war complete with text, maps, charts, tables, and illustrations.
Korea+50
Joint project page of the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D.
Eisenhower Presidential Libraries.
United
States Army in the Korean War
Online book of first year of Korean War by James F. Schnabel,
U.S. Army Center for Military History.
British
Archaeology
"All the latest archaeology news from around the
world."
Academic Info:
Middle Eastern Studies & North African Studies
Another valuable menu page developed by Academic Info.
The Middle
East
A collection of select links in the areas of economics,
religion, culture, society, politics, news media, and maps that
relate to the Middle East. Does not include information on
the Sudan or Maghsreb. Developed by the University of
Albany's History Department.
Civil
Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Searchable database of unique archival materials pertaining
to race relations in Mississippi. Maintained by the
library and archives at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Mississippi
Department of Archives & History
Provides contact information for the state's archives
library which houses government documents, manuscript materials,
and books relating to Mississippi.
Mississippi
History Now
An electronic publication about Mississippi history produced
by the Mississippi Historical Society.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
Links pertaining to modern history with an index that shows
categories and sub-categories.
America
in Caricature 1765-1865
Indiana University caricature collection
depicting American history. Divided into the areas of
Colony & Early Republic (1765-1798), War of 1812, and
Abraham Lincoln (1860-1864).
American
Memory
Library of Congress collection of
graphics, photos, film, and sound. Contains more than 7
million digital items from over 100 historical collections.
Archiving Early America
A digital library of selected 18th century American
documents that include original newspapers, maps, and
writings.
The
British Library Newspaper Project
The British Library Online
Newspaper Archive from 1851 to 1918.
Center for Oral
History and Cultural Heritage
(University of Southern Mississippi)
"Its purpose is to document, preserve, and present traditions
and folk culture of the U.S. South's pine hills (or piney woods)
region; to build and maintain a network of academics, public
programmers, lay scholars, community leaders, and folk artists;
and to serve as a regional archive, a place for exhibits, and an
information clearinghouse."
Civil
Rights in Mississippi
USM digital archive featuring manuscript
papers, photographs, and oral history transcripts. A
collection of unique archival materials that are now compiled in
a searchable database reflecting a significant period of race
relations in Mississippi.
Declassified
Documents and Other Sources for Secrets
Digitized collection of declassified government documents on
many subjects. Web site created by Michigan State
University Libraries.
The Making of America
Electronic library of primary sources relating to America's
social history.
Map
Collections: 1500-1999
Library of Congress digitized collection divided into
categories of cities & towns, conservation &
environment, discovery & exploration, military battles &
campaigns, transportation & communication, cultural
landscapes, and general maps.
New York Public Library
Picture Collection Online
Over 30,000 images taken from the library's
collection. Searchable by keyword, creator/author,
subject, and source.
Rare
Map Collection
Digitized map collection of 800 original maps spanning a
time period from 16th century to early 20th century and now
housed in the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
University of Georgia.
Southeastern
Native American Documents, 1730-1842
Digitized project of original documents
pertaining to Native Americans in the Southeast. Documents
include letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial
papers, and archeological images taken from the collections
found at the University of Georgia, University of Tennessee
(Knoxville), Frank H. McClung Museum, and the Tennessee State
Library Archives.
Words
and Deeds in American History
Library of Congress page of original historical documents
which include papers of presidents, scientists, political
activists, inventors, writers, and other important manuscripts
taken from the 15th century to the mid 20th century. Library of Congress page of original historical documents
which include papers of presidents, scientists, political
activists, inventors, writers, and other important manuscripts
taken from the 15th century to the mid 20th century.
Renaissance
Billed as a site that explains 'the cultural and
economic changes' that inspired this age.
Documenting the
American South
An important collection of southern history that includes
first-person narratives, southern literature, slave narratives,
and other sources from the Colonial period to the 1920s. A
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) site.
HyperHistory
Online
Detailed timeline covering 3,000 years of world
history.
Web
Chronology Project
This web site was developed by the history department of
North park University and is arranged by both regional and
cross-cultural chronologies.
Battlefield
Vietnam
Overview of the war that includes a brief history, detailed
timeline, guerilla tactics, air war, siege of Khe Sanh, and
related web links.
POW/MIA
Database
Government site that provides access to names of the Vietnam
U.S. military personnel that are unaccounted for.
State-Level
Lists of Casualties from the Vietnam Conflict
Searchable by name or location.
The
Vietnam Conflict
"An academic information portal for education and
research" maintained by De Anza College.
The Vietnam Center and
Archive
Of particular note on this site is the oral history project
that includes online transcripts of interviews with Vietnam
veterans.
The
Wars for Vietnam
Excellent web page developed in support of a college seminar
by Vassar College.
The
Great War
Interesting WWI page created by BBC News. Multimedia
segments require RealPlayer.
The Great War and
the Shaping of the Twentieth Century
PBS web page. +search
engine
Railway
Women in Wartime
Splendid British collection of war time photographs of the women
rail workers who helped the war effort by working in the jobs
left by men gone to war. Includes both WWI and WWII.
The
Versailles Treaty
Complete text of treaty plus related web links, suggested
readings, and maps.
World War I Document
Archive
This collection of primary source documents is
international in scope. The page can be searched by year,
conventions, treaties, and official papers and includes memoirs,
biographical dictionary, and image archive.
Dr.
Seuss Went to War
Collection of political cartoons created by the remarkable
Dr. Seuss from 1940 to 1943. They were originally
published in a New York newspaper and are arranged
chronologically.
The Holocaust
Chronicle
This full-text electronic book tracks the history of the
holocaust and is complete with 1,800 images.
The Holocaust
History Project
"A free archive of documents, photographs, recordings,
and essays."
Last
Expression/Art from Auschwitz
Collection of art in the World War II concentration camp of
Auschwitz with biographies and interviews by survivors.
Life Interrupted
A
well-researched and presented history that covers the period in
American history during World War II when Japanese Americans
were relocated to camps in Arkansas.
Normandy 1944
Topics for this Britannica web site are the buildup,
invasion, fighting inland, breakout, and Normandy in
memory.
Railway
Women in Wartime
Splendid British collection of war time photographs of the women
rail workers who helped the war effort by working in the jobs
left by men gone to war. Includes both WWI and WWII.