History Web Resources

History Subject Librarians
Gary Treadway		924-4982	North America, the British Isles, Australasia
George Crafts	509 Alderman Library	924-4984	Continental Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America
History Selectors
Calvin Hsu	535 Alderman Library	924-4978	Far East
Philip McEldowney	507 Alderman Library	924-4987	South Asia

General History	Asia	Latin America	U.S. and Canada
Africa	Europe	Middle East	Journal Indexes &Subject Guides

General History

Historical Text Archive
Besides links to archives, history departments, www servers, e-mail directories, reviews, and more, this site sponsored by Mississippi State University provides access to a large number of full-text documents.

Repositories of Primary Sources
A collection of over 900 links to websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, photographs, and other primary sources.

Online Data Archive
A collection of machine-readable data provided by the University of Wisconsin Data and Program Library Service. A number of the sets contain historical data, on topics such as the 18th and 19th century slave trade, French provincial intendants, 1661-1790, the Russian imperial bureaucracy, 1762-1881, and 15th century catasti for Florentine domains and Verona.

The Avalon Project
This collection of over 150 historical documents ranges from some pre-18th century titles through the 20th century. A "major collections" category contains sets of related documents, such as Franco-American Diplomacy, Papers of the Confederate States of America, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Includes a title and author index to all documents.

History Departments Around the World
A collection of links to the Web pages of history departments around the world.

H-Net Reviews
A source of full text book reviews which encompasses all the humanities, with a particular emphasis on history.

Gender History and Studies
This page links to a number of online resources in women's history and women's studies in general.

International Institute of Social History
The homepage of one of the world's major research institutions for social history. Features of this site include a catalog of the Institute's archival collections, a list of its new publications, digital versions of its exhibitions, extensive links to labor and business history sites, and ViVa, a current bibliography of articles on women's history.

JSTOR journal backfiles
The full text of key journals in history and other disciplines, from the first volume up to the late 1980's or early 1990's. Includes the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, Speculum, and William and Mary Quarterly.

Alderman Library Microforms
This page lists a large number of historical collections held in Alderman's microforms section.

Homepage of the Corcoran Department of History, the University of Virginia

Essays in History
From vol. 33 (1990-91), this journal published by the Corcoran Department of History is available in full text.

 

Africa

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
This site has links to a large number of African Studies electronic resources, including country-specific pages, internet resources, multimedia archives, and news from the African Studies Association.

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
An excellent select list created by Karen Fung for the Electronic Technology Group of the African Studies Association.

African Studies Internet Resources
A large collection of links in African studies produced by Columbia University.

 

Asia

Asian Studies
Part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library, this site is affiliated with the Australian National University. It contains over 600 links to electronic resources in Asian studies.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
An online bibliography of western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters published on East, Southeast, and South Asia from 1971 to the present.

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
Affiliated with Columbia University, this site gives access to electronic books, images, and journals, news, the International Directory of South Asia Scholars, and many other resources of interest to South Asianists.

UVA China Link
A collection of resources on Chinese history created by Professor John Israel.

The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975
Covers the conflicts in Vietnam from the period of French involvement through the growing U.S. involvement, up to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Contains a main overview essay and hypertext links to full-text documents, presidential archives, and other related sites. Also includes a list of additional Vietnam-related links, cultural Web sites, and Vietnam veteran Web sites.

 

Europe

EUROPE IN GENERAL AND EUROPE SINCE 1500
EuroDocs
This site provides a large number of links to Western European historical documents from the Middle Ages to recent times. Mainly primary sources, the documents may be transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.

AHDS History
Based at the University of Essex, AHDS History is a digital collection of over 600 separate studies on historical, social, and economic issues ranging in time from the tenth century to the twentieth.

The Times: Digital Archive 1785-1985
Search the full text of The Times (London) including articles, advertisements, and picture captions. See an image of either just the article or the full page.

Victorian Web
Provides in-depth treatment of the economics, religion, philosophy, literature, visual arts, science, and politics of Britain during the 19th century. "Social Context" leads to an extensive "Victorian History Overview" that provides links to Victorian political, social, and economic history sites, as well as sites about the Empire and international relations of the 19th century.

VL-Deutschland: Geschichte
A gateway to information about historical research in Germany. You can follow links to find out more about German research on a wide variety of historical topics, or focus only on German history.

Magazine Stacks: Tables of Contents of Historical Journals and Monographic Series in German
A site that allows you to keyword search the tables of contents of German historical serials, plus a few British titles. A large number of older journals are included, and the indexing usually goes back to the first issues.

The Jewish History Resource Center
Sponsored by the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this site has links to a large number of sites concerned with Jewish history, plus conference information, grant information, syllabi, bibliographies, news groups, and much more.

The Nizkor Project
A site focused on the Holocaust and Holocaust denial. It includes a FAQ list of Holocaust denial issues and a large FTP archive which is gradually being made available as full-text documents on the Web.

REESWeb
Located at the University of Pittsburgh, REESWeb is a comprehensive index of electronic resources in Russian and East European Studies. Among its many offerings are national homepages, archives of information, and Web servers in the former Soviet Union.

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
A very extensive, well-annotated list of a great variety of resources maintained by Maria C. Pantelia at the University of California, Irvine.

The Labyrinth
Sponsored by Georgetown University, this site contains full text documents (usually in the original language), bibliographies, teaching resource materials, information about professional organizations, and a wide variety of links.

ORB
In addition to full-text essays and bibliographies, this medieval studies site has a large collection of documents in its resources for teaching section ("The Online Medieval Sourcebook").

NetSERF
A good collection of links to Internet resources in medieval studies.

The Medieval Review
A collection of full-text book reviews in all areas of Medieval Studies which goes back to 1993. Formerly known as the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review.

Latin America

H-Latam
This Web site links to the H-Latam electronic discussion group on Latin American history. Access is also provided to academic announcements, book reviews, and course materials.

LANIC
The Latin America Network Information Center page contains a large number of links to Web sites covering different aspects of Latin America.

Internet Resources for Latin America
An extensive list of annotated Latin American links maintained by Molly E. Molloy.

HLAS Online
The Web version of the Handbook of Latin American Studies contains annotated citations of books and articles from the humanities and social sciences disciplines.

Middle East

MENIC
The Middle East Network Information Center page contains a large number of links to Web sites covering different aspects of the Middle East.

Middle East & Jewish Studies
A good collection of links maintained by Columbia University Library and part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.

United States and Canada

UNITED STATES HISTORY SITES

History: American and British on the Internet
One of the most extensive and well-organized general sites for American and British history. Includes access to a large variety of general and thematic sites, historical documents and electronic texts, bibliographies, archival collections, electronic journals, historical associations, and history listservs. A good place to start when looking for historical sites on the Internet.

American Memory Project: Library of Congress
A collection of primary source documents and archives from the Library of Congress pertaining to American history and culture. Includes African-American pamphlets, Civil War photographs, a collection of women's suffrage documents, etc. Users can search the collections by key word or terms. Consists of printed text, collections of photographs, and some scanned manuscripts. Additional collections will be added.

Documenting the American South
Contains primary sources that document the cultural history of the American South from the Southern point of view. Includes diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles about slavery, and regional literature. Emphasis is on the 19th century.

Furman University Nineteenth Century Documents Project
Offers transcriptions of important primary texts from 19th century American history. Includes a large number of newspaper editorials about important issues of the period.

American Civil War Homepage
An excellent site, large and well-organized. Offers access to letters, diaries, and other documents; graphic images; battle histories; combat rosters; state and local studies; etc. The U.S. Civil War Center also provides links to a wide variety of sites, including books and magazines; unit histories; battlefields, cemeteries, and parks; maps; and Civil War-era newspapers.

Civil War Resources on the Internet
Arranged chronologically from the period leading up to the Civil War through Reconstruction (1830-1890).

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Searchable full text database of diaries and letters written by participants in the American Civil War.

Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania
Traces two communities, one Southern and one Northern, through the American Civil War. A hypermedia archive of relevant newspapers, letters and diaries, photographs and maps, church records, military records, and population and agricultural censuses.

United States Historical Census Data Browser
Allows you to manipulate population census data for any census year from 1790 to 1960. After selecting the year, choose from the lists of variables based on the questions asked in the census that year.

African- American Newspapers, 1827-1860 (UVA only)
Provides searchable full-text of the major 19th century African-American newspapers.

Civil War Era: A Newspaper Perspective (UVA only)
Searchable full-text of The New York Herald, the Richmond Enquirer, and the Charleston Mercury from November 1860 through May 1865.

Harper's Weekly: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)(UVA only)
The full-text and images contained in Harper's Weekly. Browsable by date. Searchable indexes are also provided.

Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (UVA only)
One of the major newspapers of its period. Articles are browsable by year, or the entire database can be searched.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search and see full text of articles from the New York Times (1851-1999), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1995), and the Washington Post (1877-1987).

Academic Info: African American History
An extensive annotated directory of internet resources on African-American history. Includes links to general guides and directories; digital archives and collections; museums and libraries; and special topics (slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, etc.)

African-American History and Studies
Provides links to a wide variety of African-American history sites, professional associations, archives, and research centers, and special contemporary issues relating to African-Americans.

Civil Rights Movement Sites
Provides links to digital collections of primary sources, museums, and projects about the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
The web site of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, located at Stanford University. Includes links to articles, and full-text documents and speeches by King.

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Provides extensive citations to print, electronic, and primary source materials related to American women's history. There is a topical subject index, regional sources arranged by state, and the guide to finding primary sources includes links to digital collections.

Women's Studies Research Guide
A guide to selected electronic and print resources in the University of Virginia Library.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Searchable full text database of American and Canadian women's letters and diaries written from the Colonial period until 1950.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Organized around various collections of primary documents that deal with specific reform issues and movements involving American women between 1830 and 1930.

History Resource Center
Integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. Includes references from resources such as Scribner's Dictionary of American History and the Dictionary of American Biography. Complete full-text coverage of approximately 65 scholarly periodicals.

Historical Newspapers Online
Provides indexing for The Times of London for 1790-1980; access to full text articles in the London Times for 1785-1870; and indexing to the New York Times from 1851-September 1922. Every word of the indexes can be searched, and searches can be refined by Boolean and proximity operators.

Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia
A full text database of guides and finding aids describing the archives and manuscripts of eleven repositories in Virginia.

ArchivesUSA
A current directory of over 5,000 repositories and more than 120,000 collections of unpublished primary source material, with holdings and contact information. Includes the entire National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections from 1959 to the present, as well as the Index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources.

 

Other Specialized Subject Sites

American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
National Archives and Records Administration
Afro-American Sources in Virginia. A Guide to Manuscripts
Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Presidential Addresses: Inaugural, State of the Union, Farewell Addresses
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia

 

Canadian Sites

Canada
Includes a link to the Canadian Museum of Civilization, covering the period from 1000 to 1890. Historical and constitutional documents are included, as well as indexes and abstracts of articles in the Canadian Journal of History.

Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
A general guide to sources on Canadian Studies, including history, politics, and relations with the United States.

Canadian Museum of Civilization: Online Resources for Canadian Heritage
Links to sources that deal with Canadian archaeology, history, ethnology, and folk culture.

Journal Indexes & Subject Guides

America: History & Life
Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present. Covers material published since 1964. Indexes journal articles, books, dissertations, and book reviews, but not articles in books.

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of all the world except North America back to 1450 CE. Covers material published since 1954. Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations, but not book reviews or articles in books.

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Multidisciplinary. Valuable for its coverage further back in time than America History and Life and Historical Abstracts, and for its links to full text. Coverage extends back to the first issue of each journal indexed. Includes book reviews.

L'Année philologique sur Internet
The standard index for ancient Greece and Rome.

International Medieval Bibliography
The standard index for the European Middle Ages.

Diary Research: A Guide to Selected Library and Web Resources

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