Here are links to other World Wide Web sites of interest to historians.
Center for Academic Integrity
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
National Endowment for the Humanities
Artistic, architectural and archaeological sources (don't forget, these can be
"primary" for historians, too)
African art (objects
used in Central and West African divination rituals)
Detroit Institute of the Arts (artwork from all
historical periods)
Archnet (virtual library of archaeology)
Auguste Rodin (site devoted to the life and works of this French artist, who lived between 1840 and 1917)
Documentary sources and other libraries:
BEGIN HERE: Index of Resources for
Historians (University of Kansas)
OR, HERE: Primary
Sources (University of Idaho links to sources)
Africa,
colonial era (diaries, letters, photographs from nineteenth and twentieth century
missionary activities); see also the archives of the
Billy
Graham Center at Wheaton College, Illinois.
African Studies
American broadcasting (sources
on the history of the American broadcasting industry)
American cultural/social history
(virtual classroom and links to on-line sources, if you scroll to the bottom of the page)
American Memory Documents (documents, photographs,
etc. for the National Digital Library)
American Revolution--documents
Ancient Mediterranean history (interactive maps
with historical and cultural information/sources)
Argos (limited area search engine for ancient
and medieval history)
Beowulf (electronic facsimile project)
Bollandists (Christian hagiography)
British newspaper cartoons (images and
analysis of cartoons printed 1904-1957)
Carrie (a full-text electronic
library...play around here...try the "Electronic texts and proiimary
sources", "Humanities texts and hournals", "History
documents at the English server", and "Hanover historical texts
project" links)
...see also a collection of on-line
books. Carefully searched, this one too can provide primary sources for
historical research.
Catholic/Counter-Reformation
(full texts in translation)
Census information, United States (U.S.
Census data, 1790-1970, as well as historical background section on collection of census
in U.S.)
Cherokee Nation
The Great Chicago Fire
Classical texts (400 Greek and Latin
texts in translation, with links to other sources)
Cold War International History Project (includes
on-line archival materials)
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Duke University Special Collections Library
Early-modern England (early-modern English
primary sources)
Early-modern history,
bibliography (database for bibliographical references)
Edsitement: Humanities on the web (good links to
additional sources)
Edward the Confessor (an illuminated,
mid-thirteenth century manuscript [c.1250] on the life of Edward the Confessor
[1042-1066])
Egypt, New Kingdom sources
(Book of the Dead, tomb maps, images)
Egypt, Tutankhamen
(on-line exhibit of materials related to the 1923 tomb discovery)
European history documents (Brigham
Young University on-line documents, edieval preiod--present)
FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic
Reading Room (declassified documents on a variety of topics)
Freedmen/Southern
Society Project, University of Maryland (documents, narratives on slavery and Civil
War, chronology of emancipation)
The Galileo Project (great primary and
secondary material on Galileo and his life/career)
Georgia (texts and images covering the history
of northern Georgia during the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction
era)
Hanover College, Texts/Documents
(broad range of primary sources, covering most all periods and geographical regions)
Heinz Archives (online collection
of some congressional papers of H. John Heinz III [1938-1991], a member of the House of
Representatives and of the U.S. Senate, from Pennsylvania)
Hippias (limited area search engine for
materials on philosophy)
Historic New Orleans Collection
History of education (site
maintained by the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Holocaust (Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of
Tolerance: sources on Holocaust and World War II, including text files, photographs,
timelines, biographies)
How the other half
lives (hypertext version of the 1890 classic by Jacob Riis)
Indian Affairs (laws, treaties, etc.)
Institute and Museum of the History of Science (museum
in Florence, Italy, includes on-line exhibitions)
Italian studies resource guide
(archives, newspapers, etc.)
Italy: twentieth-century photographs
Jacobs, Harriet (site includes
her narrative of slavery, entitled Incidents in the life of a slave girl)
Jesuits and the
Sciences, 1540-1995
Journal of Southern Religion (on-line version of
journal for the study of religion in the American South)
Labyrinth: resources for medieval studies
(a large digital library of documents and other primary sources on medieval history)
Library and archival
online exhibitions (Smithsonian Institution) Lists sites and links to
exhibitions.
Luther, Index verborum (an electronic word index of the
works of Martin Luther, in German, between 1516 and 1525)
McCarthy
hearings, 1953--1954 (electronic version of the 5 volume collection released
in the spring of 2003 by the Government Printing Office)
Medical history (links to sources on the
history of medicine, including the history of diseases, treatments, and specialized
procedures)
Medieval Sourcebook (full-text
virtual library)
Mozart Project (life and times
of Mozart, including biogrpahical material and catalog of his works)
National Archives and Records Administration,
Digital Classroom (primary sources and document exercises)
National First Ladies' Library (bibliography and
links to sources)
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
(biographical sketches, bibliography, links to other sources)
National Women's History Project
Native Web Resource Center (primary
materials related to native peoples throughout history)
Neanderthal Museum (illustrates new finds,
exhibits bones from the ten sites in Germany)
The New Deal Network (documentary sources for the
study of FDR and the Depression era)
New York Public Library (various on-line sources and
exhibits)
On-line books (including primary
materials for research projects in history)
Palestine (United Nations information
system on the question of Palestine, with primary documents)
Persia net (includes information on the history and
culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran)
Plato (life of Plato, texts and analysis of the
the "middle" dialogues: Republic, Phaedrus, Symposium, Phaedo)
Pompeii Forum Project (site surveys central
forum in the city, escpecially its history between A.D. 62-79, includes building diagrams,
inscriptions and other primary sources)
Precolombian
culture (site covering the Aztec, Mayan and Olmec cultures)
Renaissance database (Renaissance Society of
America's Iter)
The Richard III Society
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (includes
Hayes's diary and letters, also a link to a database of Civil War soldiers from Sandusky
County, Ohio)
San Miniato (Pisa) historical archive
Sixties (on-line exhibit of
materials from the 1960's)
Spanish exploration/colonization (information,
including primary material, on the expeditions of Captain Juan de Anza, and the
colonization of California)
Suffragists Oral
History Project (includes transcripts of individual interviews)
Tufts University Perseus Project (ancient
Greek and Roman sources)
Underground
Railroad (Personal narratives, text of Fugitive Slave Act, links to other sites, etc.)
United States Congress: Dirksen Congressional
Center (Congressional policies and procedures, on-line Constitution, etc.)
United States Congress: documents
and debates, 1774-1873 (documents from the First and Second Congresses)
United States Holocaust Museum
United States Supreme Court Database
University of Michigan Classics
Homepage (more ancient sources)
Valley of the
Shadow (Edward Ayer's project on Virginia and Pennsylvania communities in the Civil
War)
Venetian Virtual Archive
Victorian Women Writers Project
(transcriptions of 19th century texts by British, female authors)
Vietnam (documents, 1945-1975)
Vietnam War,
bibliography
Women's history research guide
(primary and secondary sources)
Women's studies database
(primary and secondary sources)
World biographical index
(searchable sketches on 2.4 million individuals, from the K.G. Saur Publishing Company)
World history documents (Mississippi
State on-line historical documents)
World
War I (comes from a course page from Haverford College, has links to primary material
on World War I)
World War II (online document collection)
Yivo Institute for Jewish Studies
(on-line library, poster images, etc.)
Sites related to elementary and secondary education in history and the debate on
"standards":
National Council for History Education
National History Education Network
Other sites of interest to historians:
ABC-CLIO (on-line Historical Abstracts)
American Historical Association
Center for History and New Media
H-Net (history job guide, discussion lists, etc.)
Journal of the Association for History and
Computing (on-line journal)
Sixteenth Century Journal (electronic version of
an important journal in early-modern history)
Women's Rights Movement (no real primary materials
here at the moment, but a useful narrative history and timeline)
Law and History Review (on-line version of the journal)