Resources
History Links
- General References
- African History
- American History
- Ancient History
- Asian History
- European History
- Women and Gender
General References
Search Engines:
- Webcrawler is a searchable directory of internet resources.
- Yahoo is another searchable directory of internet resources.
Reference:
- JSTOR A full text website with dozens of academic journals online, including the American Historical Review from the early 1900's to 1995. It also has a very powerful search engine.
- The Virtual Reference Desk is a listing of dictionaries, thesauri, zip code directories, and other reference works.
- The World Lecture Hall is an index to on-line courses available internationally, including history syllabi, classes, and lectures.
- H-Net is the site of Humanities OnLine, an internet resource for scholarship and teaching in the Humanities.
- History Library at UIUC This is a link to the excellent History and Philosophy Library [424 Library] that serves the History Department. Their web page has a link to History Today.
- History Departments Around the World is an alphabetical listing of links to history department home pages in the US and other countries.
- Illinois History Resource Page is a listing of Illinois State History and Government resources.
- The American Historical Association contains general information about the association and its awards and prizes.
- The Organization of American Historians site contains job, fellowship, and conference announcements, policy papers and ethical statements of the organization, links to other historical internet sites, and general information about the OAH.
- American Universities contains an alphabetical listing of links to home pages of American colleges and universities.
- Center for History and New Media contains the Roy Rozensweig article from The Journal of American History 81.4 (March 1995).
- The Library of Congress Home Page contains previously unpublished sets of documents with searchable indices, farm security administration photographs, and other photographic, sound recording, and film collections.
African History
- African History on the Internet from Stanford University.
- Center for African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania has current and past news clippings and links to African studies sites.
American History:
- The American Civil War Homepage is a collection of documents and images and a guide to other links about the American Civil War.
- The World of Benjamin Franklin contains a short biographical movie and overviews of his many contributions to science, technology, and politics.
- History Matters "A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history."
- Inaugural Aliresses of the Presidents of the United States contains inaugural aliresses from George Washington to William Jefferson Clinton.
- Mark Twain on the Philippines is a site that contains Twain's satirical criticism about American imperialism in general and specifically America in the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902.
- The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia is Edward Ayer's collection of original documents appropriate for teaching the history of the American Civil War.
Ancient History
- Duke Papyrus Archive provides searchable electronic access to texts about and images of papyri from ancient Egypt.
- Perseus Project Home Page contains a searchable indices of texts and images from Ancient Greece.
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World site contains documents, maps, and illustrations of the seven wonders of the Ancient World compiled by Professor Alaa K. Ashmawy at Purdue University.
Asian History:
Japan:
- Japanese Studies Resources Guide (From Duke University: A superb guide to bibliographies, articles, manuscript collections, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. If you only look at one site this should be it.)
- Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at U of I
- Stanford Japan Guide
- MegaList of Japan Topics
- Japan Information Network
- Library of Congress Japan Page (highly recommended)
- National Museum of Japanese History
- Washington Post Japan Page
- Yomiuri Newspaper
- Asahi Newspaper
- Japan Documentation Center
- The Japan Foundation
- Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties
- Nara National Research Institute of Cultural Properties
- The National Language Research Institute
- National Institute of Japanese Literature
- International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- Historiographical Institute: The University of Tokyo
European History
General:
- EuroDocs provides links to historical documents of Western European history from the Medieval period to the Present.
- Maps of Europe contains more than 230,000 current maps of continents, regions, and countries.
Germany:
- H-German Reviews from 1996 forward, discussion lists, plus links to websites of interest to German historians.
- Kaiserreich, 1871-1918: Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung Opinion Poll (1899) Bismarck and the Polish Question (1886) Bismarck's Fall (1890) Class' "If I Were the Kaiser" (1912) Die Internationale (1888) General Friedrich von Bernhardi, "The Next War" (1914) Hitler on Antisemitism in Vienna (1925) Hitler's First Antisemitic Writing (1919) Helmuth von Moltke (the Elder) on War (1880) Rosa Luxemburg, the Junius Pamphlet (1916) Wilhelm II Speaks to New Army Recruits (1891) Wilhelm II and the German Interest in China (1900)
- National Socialist Era, 1933-1945: Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau on the Ideological Mission of the German Army in the Soviet Union, October 1941; Hitler Signs an Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany, October 1939; The Wannsee Conference Protocol, January 1942.
- Nazi and East German Propaganda: A very good collection of material dating from before 1933 to the Cold War era. The site on Nazi propaganda includes an impressive array of pamphlets and art, including anti-Semitic propaganda. Speeches by East German politcal leaders, especially dealing with the Berlin Wall. Links to other materials on Nazi and East German propaganda.
- Nachrichtendienst für Historiker Crispinius (a wide-ranging guide to all history resources on the Internet, including in newspapers and on TV)
- Women in Germany
- Richard Koebner Center for German History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Conference Group for Central European History
- Kommission für Zeitgeschichte, Bonn (political and social history of German Catholicism from the 19th century to the present)
- German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
- German Information Center, New York City
- Germany Institute, Amsterdam
- German Studies Association Home Page
- Court TV Documents from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946
- German Virtual Library: History Research Sites (Deutsche Datenquellen: Geschichte), University of Heidelberg
- Internet Resources for Germanists
- German Virtual Library: About German History (Deutsche Datenquellen: German History), University of Heidelberg
- German History and Politics Web Page
- Bobst Library Links to German History Resources on the Internet, New York University Library
- (NYU Austrian History Links | NYU Swiss History Links)
- University of Düsseldorf -- Historisches Seminar
- FrauenInfoNetz, University of Bielefeld
- Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
- Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
- American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C.
- Eurodocs -- Primary Sources Stored at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- Eastern German Studies Group -- Stored at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
France:
- H-France: Part of the H-net project, this is the best site for links related to French history.
- Bibliothèque Nationale de la France: Available in French and English, the BNF has a search engine for its documents collection as well as some online verisons of primary documents.
- Primary Sources
- Eurodocs: Primary documents related to French history. Dating from the medieval period to modern France.
- Special Collections - The Siege and Commune of Paris A searchable index to the Northwestern University archive of 1200 photographs of the siege of the Paris commune in 1871.
- ARTFL: (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This is a subscription based service. ARTFL contains a searchable bibliographic database, many online texts, and is currently constructing an online version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie.
- The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919: A full-text version of the treaty, including links to related material such as politcal cartoons, photos, maps, and other WWI documents.
- Links to Other Sites for French Studies (source: H-France)
French Revolutionary Pamphlets - Histoire et Civilisation Française: An Illustrated History of France
- History of France--Primary Documents from The EuroDocs Project at Brigham Young University
- Les Capétiens et les Croisades
- Radio Libre--Clandestine French Radio during WWII
- Saint-Pierre et Miquelon: A Historical Examination
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
- The Bayeux Tapestry
- The History of Science, Medicine and Technology Page at John Hopkins University
- The Napoleon Guide--Popular and Scholarly Information with Good Links
- The Republican Calender--History and Conversions
- The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Slavic Studies:
- REESWeb is an interdisciplinary directory which contains original documents as well as links to other Russian and East European sites.
- The Slavic Review is the internet version of this journal of East European and Russian history, and contains the same contents as the print journal with the exception of book reviews.
Women and Gender:
- Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World is an on-line text book for the study of women and gender in the ancient world that includes images, documents, bibliography, and syllabi.
- Feminist Majority Foundation contains information about current events, a bibliography, and photographs.
- FrauenInfoNetz University of Bielefeld's interdisciplinary center for women's studies.
- Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net is a directory of interdisciplinary resources for European and American history and literature in the eighteenth century.
- Women's Studies Resources is a University of Maryland data base which contains recent course syllabi, calls for papers, announcements about conferences, and general information for teachers of womens studies.
- Women in German: "Women in German provides a democratic forum for all people interested in feminist approaches to German literature and culture or in the intersection of gender with other categories of analysis such as sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity."
- Essays in History is an electronic journal of historical essays on any topic published by graduate students at the University of Virginia's Department of History.
- Galaxynet History is a searchable directory of history resources around the world.
- IPUMS contains the data and documentation for the Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), a database consisting of 23 samples of the U.S. Census from 1850 to 1990.
- The Victorian Web is maintained by the Brown University Department of English. It is an encyclopedia of Victorian British history, literature, and society.
These links were compiled and annotated by Prof. Elizabeth Pleck and Toli E. Larson