GENERAL RESOURCES
Africa Development Indicators - World Bank collected of data containing over 1,600 indicators, for 53 African countries. Coverage: 1961-current.
Ibrahim Index of African Governance
African Studies Internet Resources Note: Some sources restricted to the Columbia University community.
Selected Resources for African Studies (Note: Some sources restricted to the Yale University community.)
Archives of African Journals The Archive of African Journals site houses digital copies of selected past issues of scholarly African Journals. The African E-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals from the 1970s-2000s.
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources (Note: Some sources restricted to the Stanford University community.)
African Studies Center A gateway to internet resources hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's African Studies Center.
Selected Resources for African Studies (Note: Some sources restricted to the Yale University community.)
Africa Focus Sights and sounds of a continent
AFRICA – MODERN HISTORY
African Activist Archive The African Activist Archive is preserving and making available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.
NEWS
AllAfrica.com Aggregated news from over 130 African news organizations in English and French, with a searchable archive from 1997.
News and Information Services on Africa Links to news sources compiled by the Columbia University Libraries.
The Antiquities Coalition has created the Culture Under Threat Map, which tracks instances of deliberate targeting of cultural heritage for destruction in the Middle East and North Africa.
African Studies Center A gateway to internet resources hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's African Studies Center. More Info: Country Pages - Africa WebLinks
SOUTH AFRICA
South African History Online - Media Library South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history project established in June 2000 aiming to address the biased way in which the history and cultural heritage of South Africans was represented in educational and cultural institutions.
IMBOKODO: Women's Struggle in South Africa
Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory Includes links to the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive, information on the life and times of Nelson Mandela, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives.
Overcoming Apartheid From Michigan State University, South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy presents first-hand accounts of this important political movement. Interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narratives tell this remarkable story.
South African Human Rights Commission Promotes adherence to human rights in South Africa through public education, policy initiatives, and investigations of specific human rights abuse cases.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
In Motion: TheAfrican-American Migration Experience - The website is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation. Each migration is presented through five units: a narrative, about 100 illustrations with captions and bibliographical information, from twenty to forty research resources consisting of essays, books, book chapters, articles, and manuscripts, maps, and lesson plans. There is extensive material covering all migrations of African-Americans from the initial transatlantic slave trade through the return south migration, along with African immigration. All in-text cited articles appear to offer full-text accessibility. The site can be viewed in non-flash version and is fully searchable.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law - ask your teacher or Mrs. Prettol for the login information. It brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject. In total, the collection contains more than 1,000 titles and nearly 850,000 pages.
GENERAL RESOURCES
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History - Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations related to European history.
EuropeanHistory Primary Sources - Index of scholarly websites that offer online access to digitized primary sources on the history of Europe.
Eurostat - European Union demographic, economic, industry and environment data.
Eurobarometer - Website for the Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission.
Digital Irish Famine Archive - Arguably the worst famine to occur in 19th-century Europe, the Irish Famine was also known as the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1849.
European Values Studies (EVS) - Raw and analyzed data from several surveys from 1980 to 2004 in four broad domains: religion and morality, politics, work and leisure, primary relations.
Standard Eurobarometer - Eurobarometer was established in 1973. Each survey consists of approximately 1000 face-to-face interviews per Member State.
Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) - Survey of countries applying for membership in the EU beginning in 2001. The qualitative studies provide an in-depth study of the motivations, the feelings and the reactions of selected social groups towards a given subject or concept.
Central and Eastern Eurobarometer (CEEB) - An annual general public survey carried out from 1990 to 1998 in the central and eastern European countries. Several qualitative studies have been produced using the data.
EuroDocs - Western European Primary Historical Documents
The History Faculty - Free video podcasts by professional historians on key historical periods and questions.
Macrohistory and World Report - Trends across the ages, empirical history with maps, book summaries, country profiles, and a timeline from 60,000 BCE to selected news items one or two days old.
European History Primary Sources
RadioFree Europe Radio Liberty - An excellent source for current events in the region. Also includes information on archival broadcasts in the region.
League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents - The digital collection at Northwestern University contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents. The documents in this collection "focus on three areas: the founding of the League, international statistics published by the League, and the League's work toward international disarmament."
UK HISTORY RESOURCES
The British Newspaper Archive - Explore over 200 years of history
This Hansard corpus - Contains nearly every speech given in the British Parliament from 1803-2005
British Movietone Collection on YouTube
International Data from the US Census Bureau
UNESCO Information Services - List and description of about 68 Information services and Documentation centres located at Headquarters and field offices, as well as virtual Clearing Houses. The database gives access to website, online databases and publications of the service.
Africa Museum Human Sciences collections
Digital NationalSecurity Archive - Declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Documents include presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material. Coverage: 1942 to present.
May Events Archive - Original leaflets, magazines, and newspapers documenting the rallies and demonstrations that occurred in France during May of 1968.
Avalon Project - Documents in law, history, and diplomacy from ancient times to the present.
British Library Online Gallery
Documents in British History (Britannia)
History of the United Kingdom--Primary Documents
Internet Library of Early Journals
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
Vision of Britain through Time
FRENCH REVOLUTION RESOURCES
French Revolution Political Cartoons (Library of Congress)
French Revolution Prints and Photos (Library of Congress)
French Revolution Primary Source Documents (George Mason University
Links on the French Revolution
Paris: Life and Luxury allows one to travel to 18th-century Paris via this Getty Museum exhibit. Material culture objects from the upper classes at this time.
Provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent. It searches archival finding aids available online and then users must go to the home page of the institution holding the material sought. For European cultural and political history.
French Revolution Digital Archive
The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution
Includes coverage and British reactions to the September Massacres, Execution of Louis XVI, and death of Marat.
The French Revolution: The Radical Stage, 1792 - 1794
Lecture 13 from The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European History. Hyperlinks include additional information on the period.
"Devoured by his own creation: a revolutionary who tried to believe in moderate-minded terrorism."
An excerpt from David Lawday's biography of Georges-Jaques Danton and his role in the French Revolution.
Chateau de Versailles: Louis XVI
Includes links to other characters of the court.
The French Revolution - The History Channel
Includes 6 videos about aspects of the Revolution, in addition to biographical information
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: the French Revolution.
Directory of freely-available primary and secondary source material on the Web.
Annotated bibliography of primary source documents on the Web.
Voice of the Shuttle: 18th & 19th Century France.
Another directory of Web resources.
42 images of the French Revolution are available online, along with essays and commentary inspired by and built upon the images. A project funded by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University (CHNM), with additional funding from the Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
With 12 topical essays, 250 images 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a timeline, and a glossary. "This site with more than 600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities."
The French Revolution Collection at Cornell
The portal to the extensive collection of French Revolutionary material affiliated with Cornell University Library, including extensive material on LaFayette (general), LaForte (gunpowder clerk), and Lavoisier (chemist), among others.
Timeline of the French Revolution
A chronology of the French Revolution, from the website of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
WORLD WAR I RESOURCES
Europeana 1914-1918 - Pan-European collection of original First World War source material. Mixes resources from libraries and archives across the globe with memories and memorabilia from families throughout Europe.
MEDIEVAL RESOURCES
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
SLAVIC HISTORY RESOURCES
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies - Non-profit, non-political scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russian and East-Central Europe.
CENTRAL AND/OR EASTERN EUROPE RESOURCES
Central and Eastern European Internet Directory for Human Rights - Comprehensive collection of links with reference to Human Rights Issues focusing on Central and Eastern Europe.
Centropa - The signature project of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, a US-based non-profit corporation with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Goal is to create a window into Jewish history, and current events, in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Federation of East European Family History Societies - Organized in 1992 as an umbrella organization that promotes family research in Eastern and Central Europe without any ethnic, religious, or social distinctions.
Historical Maps of Central and Eastern Europe - Link from the Federation of East European Family History Societies, providing historical maps of Central and Eastern Europe.
Regional and Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe - The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a nonpartisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit international organization with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe.
Transitions Online - Online journal providing coverage of regional post-Communist countries. Also provides alternate and interesting means of communication regarding the region.
PoliticalDatabase of the Americas - Information about Latin American countries' institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, etc. Includes historical and current election results. A non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.
GENERAL RESOURCES
Asia for Educators - Columbia University's source for Asia Studies.
The History Faculty - Free video podcasts by professional historians on key historical periods and questions.
Macrohistory and World Report - Trends across the ages, empirical history with maps, book summaries, country profiles, and a timeline from 60,000 BCE to selected news items one or two days old.
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization - The goal of this "visual sourcebook" is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society.
Fordham University History Sourcebook - Designed by the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University, this web site provides a searchable bibliography of texts that are now available in printed or online editions and translations.
Omniglot Language Index - Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages.
SILK ROAD RESOURCES
SilkRoad Newsletter - Newsletter of the Silk Road Foundation. Full text available 2003 - present.
AFE Special Topic Guide: The Silk Road
International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online - IDP contains information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road.
Kenyon College Silk Road Web Links
Silk Road Seattle - Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century.
International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online - IDP contains information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road. Resources come from collections from Great Britain, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Korea and other countries, providing a wealth of resources and points of view.