100 Milestone Documents
Access to 100 milestone documents compiled by the
National Archives and Records Administration. The documents chronicle
United States history from 1776 to 1965.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American
History
(University of Kansas)
Directory of primary documents available on the
Web. Materials include inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties,
letters, speeches, and more. Content coverage dates back to 1492 and
continues to the present.
American Civil War Collections
(University of Virginia)
Offers a variety of primary source material on the
American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers. Letter
collections include searchable transcriptions as well as digital images
of the manuscripts.
American Memory
Digital collection from the Library of Congress
relating to the history and culture of the United States. Includes
multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded
sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library on Congress's
Americana collections.
American Memory: A Century of Lawmaking for a New
Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
Features the text of documents, journals, and
debates of the Continental and Federal Congress from 1774 to 1875.
American Memory: Documents from the Continental
Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789
Contains documents relating to the work of
Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items
include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions,
proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions
of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
The Avalon Project
(Yale Law School)
Project to make available digital documents
relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government.
Best of History Web Sites
Access to history-oriented resources online in a
wide range of categories. From the site: "BOHWS has been designed to
benefit history teachers and their students, but general history
enthusiasts will benefit from the site as well."
Chinese History to Qing Dynasty
(University of Southern California)
Collection of Internet resources on the history of
China from prehistory through the Qing Dynasty that ended in 1911. The
resources are provided by the East Asian Library at the University of
Southern California.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Find more than 10,000 maps online. From the site:
"The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South
America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the
World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented."
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from
Western Europe
(Brigham Young
University)
Select from listing of countries to find Western
European historical documents that have been transcribed, reproduced in
facsimile, or translated.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
From the site: "A structured vocabulary of more
than 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical
names, coordinates, and place types, focusing on places important for
the study of art and architecture."
The History Cooperative
From the site: "The History Cooperative is a
pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online
history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains
collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be
reproduced in the print versions of some articles." Titles such as
Western Historical Quarterly, Environmental History, and
The Oral History Review are included in indexing.
Internet History Sourcebooks
From the site: "Collections of public domain and
copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising
or excessive layout) for educational use." There are 3 main sourcebooks
(Ancient, Medieval, Modern) and 9 subsidiary sourcebooks (African, East
Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, History of Science, Women's
History, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History).
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the
French Revolution (George Mason
University)
Archive of some of the most important documentary
evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a
number of maps and songs.
The Making of America Project
(Cornell University)
The Making of America Project
(University of Michigan)
Digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction; a
joint effort of the University of Michigan and Cor7nell University.
According to the site, the Michigan collection focuses on education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and
technology, while Cornell focuses mainly on digitizing general interest
periodicals.
National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA)
The National Archives of the United States reflect
and record more than 200 years of American development. Records in the
National Archives document the government's policies, define how those
policies are carried out, and offer insights into the experiences of
individual Americans.
netSERF
Almost 2,000 links to sites on the Middle Ages
categorized by subject (archaeology, architecture, art, Arthuriana,
civilizations, culture, drama, history, law, literature, music, people,
philosophy, religion, science and technology, and women).
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection
(University of Texas)
Historical maps of Africa, the Americas, Asia,
Australia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, polar regions and
oceans, Russia and the former Soviet republics, the United States, and
the world.
Perseus Digital Library
Digital library of resources for the study of the
humanities; includes texts relating to ancient Greece, Latin text and
tools, and Renaissance-related materials. Also includes materials on the
United States' westward expansion and other materials of early American
history including the American Civil War.
REESWeb Russian & East European Studies Virtual
Library (University of Pittsburgh)
Provided by the Center for Russian & East European
Studies and the University Center for International Studies. Browse
subject lists or search by keywords.
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Online presentation of primary source documents
describing Soviet rule as presented for an exhibit at the Library of
Congress.
Sher's Russian Index
Meta site with an extensive list of links to
Russian-related Web sites arranged by subject.
Subject Research Guides: History - American and
British (Rutgers University)
Extensive listing of Web sites organized by
subject and period.
U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH)
The Center traces its lineage back to the work of
those historians under the Secretary of War who compiled the Official
Records of the Rebellion. In recent times, CMH has produced detailed
series on the Army's role in the Korean and Vietnam Wars and is
beginning a series on the U.S. Army in the Cold War.
Western European Studies Section (WESS)
From the site: "WESS is professionally involved in the acquisition,
organization, and use of information sources originating in or related
to Western European countries. Our aim is to promote the improvement of
library services supporting study and research
in Western
European affairs from ancient times to the present."
Miller Center-Scripps Library and Multimedia
Archive (University of Virginia)
Features audio
files of Presidential speeches, secretly recorded White House
conversations, and oral histories regarding the American presidency.
