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Academic Info: World History Gateway
Consists of links to World History Resources, as well as Country & Regional Histories, European History, Topical Histories, and Additional Sites of Interest.
Best of History Web Sites
Portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts, containing annotated links to over 1000 history Web sites.
Digital Librarian
A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the Web: History.
Guide to History on the Web
Searchable and indexed database of more than 5,000 US and world history sites.
History (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
“History resources which have been selected, evaluated and described by subject specialists. Our target audience is lecturers, researchers and students within UK higher and further education.”
History Guide
Maintained by Wilfried Enderle, of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Goettingen, Germany. From the main screen, you can either browse by subject or source type or else search in simple or advanced mode. There is also a Web submission form. Each record has lines for source type, keywords, URL, and level of audience as well as one to five ratings for contents, clarity, index, and links.
History On-line
Maintained by the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), London.
HistoryWorld
Consists of some 400 separate histories and 4000 “tagged events.”
H-Net Content Searches
Search for H-Net discussion list logs, H-Net web pages, and other H-Net areas. H-Net began as a small consortium of scholarly e-mail lists for historians. This original group has grown to include over eighty academic discussion networks spanning a variety of disciplines and fields of study.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use, maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. Consists of three primary Internet History Sourcebooks (Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and Internet Modern History Sourcebook) and nine Subsidiary Sourcebooks (Internet African History Sourcebook, Internet East Asian History Sourcebook, Internet Indian History Sourcebook, Internet Islamic History Sourcebook, Internet Jewish History Sourcebook, Internet Women's History Sourcebook, Internet Global History Sourcebook, Internet History of Science Sourcebook, and People With a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History).
Voice of the Shuttle: History Page
Maintained by Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara. Extensive directory of history resources. Covers general history, prehistory, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and Mexico, and North America.
World History Compass
The goal of this site is to provide links to history sites anywhere in the world.
WWW-VL History: Central Catalogue
Maintained by European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
AlternaTime
A collection of timelines on the Web.
Calendars through the Ages
Links to calendars and desciptive histories.
HyperHistory Online
Timelines of people, areas, and events.
Timelines
Part of the BBC Online: History Web site.
Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning
Project
Maps, graphs and text based on the printed Historical Atlas of Canada, redesigned for online, interactive viewing. Optimized for Internet Explorer 4.0 or above.
IEG-MAPS: Server for Digital Historical Maps
From the Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany, this site focuses on historical maps of Europe, particularly Germany.
Mapping History: The Darkwing Atlas Project
A multidisciplinary project of the University of Oregon, this cultural and historical atlas features both static and interactive maps designed to enhance students' learning. The links, primarily North American and European, are broken down by region. The North American maps concentrate largely on (but are not limited to) the territorial expansion of the United States and the status of slavery at different times (to 1860). The interactive maps require Shockwave software, downloadable from the site.
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
A library and research center devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. Sponsored by Victoria University within the University of Toronto.
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford University)
History Departments Around the World
Maintained by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.
History News Network
From the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, this site provides information about history and historians in the news: “Among the many duties we assume are these: To expose politicians who misrepresent history. To point out bogus analogies. To deflate beguiling myths. To remind Americans of the irony of history. To put events in context. To remind us all of the complexity of history.” Visitors to the site can leave comments about articles.
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
An international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. H-Net sponsors scores of history-related electronic discussion groups.
MLA Style
MLA documentation style, typically used by historians, is one of the “big three,” along with the guidelines published by the American Psychological Association and the University of Chicago Press. The Modern Language Association does not publish its documentation guidelines on the Web. Examples of the most common types of citations are provided in a PDF file prepared by the University of Delaware librarian.
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students
This Day in History
From the History Channel.
Today in History
Part of the Library of Congress’ American
Memory site. Search by keyword, search a specific day, or browse by month.
Using Primary Sources on the Web
A brief guide designed to provide students, teachers, and researchers with information to help them use and
evaluate the quality of primary source materials that can be found on the Web.