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History Resources On The Internet

Using Primary Sources on the Web

The History Resources are divided into these groups: 

Links to Many Sites
Associations
Special Collections/Texts
War
 Civil War
South
Afro-American
West
 Texas
Misc-Journals
Presidents
Foreign Texts
British and Medieval
 Celtic/Viking/Pirates
Greek/Roman/Classical/Archaeology
Latin American
Asian


Links to Many Sites

American & British History Resources
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Index of Resources for Historians---Lynn Nelson-University of Kansas
HISTORIC EVENTS & BIRTH-DATES---Site which tells events, etc. for any day/year
History Buff's Page
The History Channel
History Net---National Historical Society
Smithsonian History Databases
TimePage History Links
VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE---Maintained by Alan Liu-excellant history resources
World History Compass---Links to History Sites on the Web the World Over

Associations

American Association For State and Local History--- The Association serves individuals and institutions from local to national in scope, including but not limited to historical societies, museums, historic organizations, schools, colleges, and other education institutions
The American Historical Association
American Association of University Women
Special Collections & Archivists
Association for Documentary Editing
Association for History and Computing
National Council for History Education
National Council on Public History
Oral History Association
Organization of American Historians
Social Science History Association
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Society of American Archivists

Special Collections

Special Collections Page---English version
Archiving Early America
Charters of Freedom---National Special Collections
Colonial Records Project
Historic Documents and Resources-U.S.
Historical Text Archive
Historical Texts By Date-Us and Foreign
National Special Collections and Record Administration---United States
Open Society Special Collections
Repositories of Primary Sources---A listing of over 3400 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, Special Collections, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
U.S. Historical Documents

War

Bibiliography on Vietnam and Related Topics
Center for Military History--- Contains full text books and documents as well as bibliographies.
CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers
German Propaganda Special Collections
Index of Civil War Sites
Index of Cold War Sites
Korean War Project
Korean War Web
Korean War Web Site
Maps of twentieth-century U.S. Wars
Military History--From Olive Drab
Military History-War
Vietnam War Declassification Project---To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files
War---From the Historic Text Archive
War Times Journal
Wars and Conflict Resolution---Resources from Michigan Electric Library
World At War, 1939-1945
World War I-Document Archive
World War I: Trenches on the Web
World War II Documents---Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Valley of the Shadow-- Civil War-era experiences of two communities

Civil War

American Civil War Homepage
American Civil War Resources
American Civil War Resources
Civil War Maps---From the Library of Congress
Civil War Resources---Rutgers University
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Civil War Women
U.S CIVIL WAR-WESTERN THEATER,1861-1865
National Civil War Association
Reconstruction
The U. S. Civil War Center---Louisiana State University
Yahoo-Civil War Resources

South

American South Internet Resources
Documenting the American South
First Person Narratives of the American South 1860-1920
Narrates Of Former Slaves---University of Virginia
Slaves Voices---From the special collections library-Duke university
U.S. South

Afro-American

African-American History, Culture, and Black Studies Resources---A comprehensive source/guide and gateway African and African American history, culture and society
African American Issues---Articles on African American trailblazers
African-Americans in the West---WestWeb
African Studies
African Studies WWW---University of Pennsylvania
Special Collections of African-American Music and Culture
Black Cultural Studies
Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History
Black History at Harpweek ---explores various themes using text & illustrations from Harper"s
Black Quest---Power Resources Link
Museum of Afro-American History---Boston
Race and Place: African American Community Histories---From the University of Virginia
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Vibe---VIBEonline-electronic version of Vibe magazine
Yahoo--Afro American Resources

West

American West--Links from Academic Info
America's West---History and Development of the American West, from the Frontier and Pioneer days with the wild west to todays modern west
Lewis & Clark
Links to the West
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny 1841-1848
Oregon Trail-CyberBee
Western History Collections Photo Special Collections---University of Oklahoma Libraries
Wild West
Wild, Wild West
Zane Grey's West Society

Texas

Alamo
Birth of the Lone Star State
Dallas Historical Society
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
History of Texas Gopher Site--From Rice University
Institute of Texas Cultures
Sam Houston
Shared Past---Texas and the United States Since Reconstruction
Spanish Exploration, Colonization, and Anglo Settlement--Gopher site
Texas Archeological Society
Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Foundation
Texas Historic Sites Atlas
Texas History
Texas History and Social Studies
Texas History Resources
Texas State Historical Society
Texas Studies Information and Instructional Resources
TEXIAN History Resources

Misc-Journals

American Immigration Project
American Memory Collection---Library of Congress
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
Guide History Journals Online
History Journals Guide
Immigration History
Mayflower Web Pages
National Park Service--Links to all national parks and ressource links
National Women's History
WPA Life Stories---Library of Congress

Presidents

American Presidents
George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia
George Washington papers at the Library of Congress---Library of Congress is making available on line the Washington papers
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
Presidents of the United States

Foreign Texts

BRITISH HERALDIC ARCHIVE
EuroDocs:Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
History of the United Kingdom:Primary Documents
National Special Collections-Canada
National Special Collections of Ireland
The National Special Collections - Museum of the History of France
Provincial Special Collections Manitoba---Hudson Bay Company History
Soviet Special Collections Exhibit
Texts and Documents:Europe

British and Medieval

British History Links
Development of the English Castle
Electronic Beowulf: A Guide
English Monarchs Since 1066
History Resources on the World Wide Web
History of the Medieval World
Information on the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Invasion
Institute of Historical Research---British
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Internet Medieval Sources
Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present
Labyrinth:WWW Server for Medieval Studies---Georgetown University
Medieval and Renaissance Fact and Fiction
Medieval Feminist Index
Medieval History
Medieval History
Medieval Literature and History Page
Medieval Sourcebook
Medieval Studies Text, Image, and Archival Databases
NetSurf
Online Reference Book For Medieval Studies
Portico---The British Library's Online Information Server
Resources for the Study of Medieval History
THE RICHARD III AND YORKIST HISTORY SERVER
WWW Medieval Resources

Celtic/Viking/Pirates

Celtic Culture
Pirates
Viking Home Page
World of Vikings

Greek/Roman/Classical/Archaeology

Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
ArchNet---WWW Virtual Library-Archaeology
Bryn Mawr Classical Review---Gopher site
Digitial Mummies
Egyptology Resources---Cambridge University
Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey
Indigenous Peoples' Information for the Online Community
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Anicent Rome
Later Roman Emperors
POMPEII FORUM PROJECT
Roman Emperors---An Online Encyclopedia
Scrolls From the Dead Sea
Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors

Latin American

Diecioch---Online journal
Hispanic America USA
Hispanic Pages in the USA---Links to all Hispanic countries
Latin American Resources
Latino Web-History
Organization of American States
Spanish History and Heritage Page
Web de Anza---"Web de Anza provides students and scholars with primary source documents and multimedia resources covering Juan Bautista de Anza's two overland expeditions from the Sonoran desert to northern California, leading to the colonization of San Francisco in 1776."

Asian

Asian History Resources
Asian Studies--- World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Castles of Japan
Empires Beyond the Great Wall
Korean History
Japan History---Gopher Menu
Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library
VietGate
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan  Last update January 2005
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