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Ancient and Medieval
Ancient and Medieval
The Ancient Egypt Site This award-winning site offers information on history from 3000 B.C. to 535 A.D., language, a browseable subject index, and links to related websites.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures This site is divided into the Near East, India, Egypt, Greece, China, Rome, Islam, and Medieval Europe, with each topic or culture consisting of a chronology, essays, images, Internet links, and texts.
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook The Sourcebook is an extensive site including primary resources and covering Greece, Rome Egypt, Mesopotamia and Byzantium.Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Home Page The starting point for locating primary and secondary sources on Rome, Byzantium, the Crusades and more.
The Labryinth: Resources for Medieval StudiesThis is an easily searchable web site, using either the categories, subcategories, type of material (i.e., images or maps) and/or keyword.
Netsert: the Internet connection for medieval resources
Rome: Republic to Empire Based on a college course, this site contains information on Roman civilization and culture.
European
European
EuroDocs BYU maitains this collection of links to European historical docouments in either transcribed, translation, or digital reproduction format.
Europeana.eu This is a free resource which provides digitized works of art, music, video, texts and recordings drawn from European museums, archives, special collections, and libraries. Use this to research primary source materials.
German Historical Documents These primary source documents from the 16th to 21st centuries are available in English as well as German.
Hanover Historical Texts This collection is strongest in documents from English and French history. Please note the conditions of use!
Perseus Digital Library perseus focuses on primary sources in the humanities, including the Classics and English Renaissance.
Middle East and the Islamic World
Middle East and the Islamic World
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook This is a gateway to primary sources form Muslim Persia, Turkey, pre-Islamic Arabia, Muhammad, the era of Islamic expansion, and the Abbasid Caliphate.
The Islamic World to 1600 The University of Calgary sponsors this site, which provides a history of the Islamic World as well as an introduction to Muslim beliefs and practices.
Israel and the Palestinians This BBC site includes current news, country profiles, maps, historical documents, and profiles of key individuals and groups.
MidEast Web: Middle East History and Resources MidEast Web is a comprehensive web site offering balanced coverage that includes maps, chronology, historical documents, a brief history of the region, biographies, news accounts and discussions of historical topics related to the Middle East.
The Question of Palestine The official U.N. site includes an overview, history, glossary, maps and collection of documents and resolutions.
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest
Historylink.org Historylink is an evolving, online reference for Washingston state history.
Northwest History Database This is a Washington State University project to collect newspaper clippings on Northwest Native Americans; water issues; pollution disputes; and political and social issues.
Pacific Northwest History The University of Washington maintains this subject guide for Washington and a gateway to links on the Pacific Northwest.
Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects This site is maintained by UW History professor and author James N. Gregory.
Washington History Online This site includes digitized versions of significant biographies and histories, historical maps, federal documents and other regional and local information from the Washington state archives.
Primary Source Documents
Primary Source Documents
If you have a card to the King County Library, check out the Access Newspapers Online Database. This database requires a log-in.
The Avalon Project: Documents in law, history and diplomacy
Best Information on the Net O’Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University maintains this major portal for documents relating to U.S., world, and [Catholic] church history. It includes links Civil Rights oral history interviews, Civil War primary documents, Vietnam War primary documents, parchments from medieval Europe, collections of Egyptian papyri, writings of George Washington, digitized Medici archives, and documents from the Nurenmberg Trials.
Marxist Internet Archive This site containes primary sources on the history of the working class. Read and evaluate the "Who we are" and "How we function" sections to make decisions about bias.
World Digital Library "The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." (WDL: About: Mission)
World War I Document Archive The archive contains links to collections of images, books, diaries, and official documents from World War I.
World War II Resources This site includes diplomatic documents from American, British and French governmental sources, transcripts from the hearings following Pearl Harbor, U.S. Congressional documents regarding the declaration of war, and other primary sources.
United States
United States
The American Civil War Homepage The Homepage is an award-winning, comprehensive "gateway" that includes llinks to biographies, battle accounts, documents, images, historical context and more.
American Memory American Memory is a Library of Congress web site with links to African-American History, women's history, military history, Native American history, historical maps, American presidents, and immigration.
Digital History Academicians at the University of Houston have collected a variety of primary sources, i.e., newspaper, letters, multimedia, etc., on topics, issues, and cultural perspectives in American History.
DPLA: Digital Public Library of America is a consortium of museums, libraries and archives that have made available digitized versions of maps, letters, papers and other primary source documents from American History.
Google News Archive Search Google provides access to digitized articles from a range of newspapers, regions, and historical eras. Not all articles are free.
A Guide to World War I Materials The Library of Congress has created a Collection Guide to the digital collections within the library that relate to World War I. The list includes several links to primary source materials.
Making of America MoA describes itself as " a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction ... particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
Penn LIbraries Historical Newspapers Online
Rutgers University Libraries This university site serves as a gateway to U.S. history resources, sorted by subject, including African-American history, history by geography, history of popular culture, and women's history. (Includes links to PRIMARY SOURCES!)
The Vietnam Project The Vietnam Project consists of an archive of primary source materials, from soldiers' letters home to official documents to scholarly papers to oral histories. The site is searchable and is best accessed using Internet Explorer.
World
World
AlternaTime is a collection of timelines.
eHistory This site, maintained by Ohio State University, contains a variety of materials on American and World history topics, including primary sources, maps, timelines, background of current events, links other sources and more.
Great Events in History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events
Guns, Germs and Steel is a PBS series based on the award-winning book by Jared Diamond.
History World contains brief narratives and timelines on various events of world history, with a focus on English history.
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