Portals to the World
Selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. Arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories, including history.

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
Prepared by Karen Fung for the Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association.

AfricaBib.Org
Provides access to two African studies databases as well as information on Africa from other sources. The databases are the Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database and the African Women’s Bibliographic Database.

African Voices
This Web site from the Smithsonian dynamically presents cross-sections of the history, culture, and art of Africa.

Aluka
“Building a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.”

Links to Other WWW Resources Relating to Africa
Maintained by the African Human Rights Resource Center, a joint project of the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Center and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.

16th- Early 20th Century Maps of Africa
113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text, collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (or the Africana Library) at Northwestern University.

The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time
More than 120,000 words, over 120 images, and over 40 audio files about Africa.

Yale Africa Guide InterActive
Maintained by the Kamusi Project, Yale Program in African Languages.

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: The Internet Guide to Asian Studies
Maintained by the Australian National University.

East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Maintained by the Asian Studies program at the University of Redlands, this easy-to-navigate directory allows users to access annotated links by country and by political, historical, and cultural topics.

Digital South Asia Library
Includes reference resources, images, maps, statistics, bibliographies and union lists, indexes, books and journals, and links to other Internet resources.

Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
A guide to more than 200 print and electronic sources. Covers all aspects of Canadian Studies. Also provides links to the leading online resources for Canadian Studies in Canada and internationally. Maintained by John D. Blackwell, Brandeis University Libraries, and Laurie C.C. Stanley-Blackwell, Department of History, St. Francis Xavier University.

Historical Statistics of Canada
A digital edition of the print Historical Statistics of Canada, 2d ed. (1983).

Online Resources for Canadian Heritage
Links focus on archaeology, ethnology, history (including military history and postal history), and folk culture.

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
Ten units on Chinese history, culture, and society. Each unit organizes photos, maps, and art around themes including China's geography, archaeology, religion, calligraphy, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, clothing, and the graphic arts.

Gallica
From the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, this site provides access to a wealth of resources relating to the history of France.

French Studies Web (WESSWEB)
Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, this site provides annotated links to scholarly Web resources. Where possible, links to high-quality, scholarly meta-sites are given.

German Studies Web: History
Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, this site is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in German Studies, including all German-speaking countries.

Preußen: Chronik eines deutschen Staates
Timelines, personalities, audio clips, maps, and more; from Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.

History On-line: Britain and Ireland
Sponsored by the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), London.

Irish History on the Web
A metasite which includes hundreds of links to sites and documents on the Web concerning Irish history. Maintained by Jacqueline Dana at the University of Texas.

Irish Resources in the Humanities
Developed at University College, Dublin as a gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
“A comprehensive online guide to writing about British and Irish history.”

Italian Studies Web
Presented by the Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, this site is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies.

Latin American Studies: A Guide to Internet Resources

Middle East Network Information Center (UT-MENIC)
A project of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin. Links to the most important information sources about and from the Middle East.

Jewish Studies: A Guide to Internet Resources [Jewish History and Culture]

Russian History Index
Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

Scandinavian Studies Web
Presented by the Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, this site provides access to scholarly resources in Scandinavian Studies.

Iberian Studies Web
Presented by the Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, this site is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra).

LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
A cooperative project sponsored by the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas, this site presently offers eight out-of-print monographs on medieval Spain, with the goal of digitizing 50 such monographs in the next three years.

Digital Library of Historical Directories
A digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales.

History - American and British
From Rutgers University Libraries.

History On-line: Britain and Ireland
Sponsored by the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), London.

History.uk.com
Includes specialist information and fun history basics.

The National Archives
The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently released to the public. Some documents are available online.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
“A comprehensive online guide to writing about British and Irish history.”

SCRAN
A searchable resource base of Scottish material culture and human history, funded by the Millennium Commission.

The Stormont Papers
“50 years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates online.” Access to the Parliamentary Debates of the devolved government of Northern Ireland from June 7, 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament on March 28, 1972.

Timelines
Presented by BBC Online, timelines for the history of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are available at this site.

A Vision of Britain through Time
Created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project, Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth. Statistical information, 1801-1961; travellers’ tales, 12th-19th centuries; and historic maps, 19th and 20th centuries.

Wales on the Web / Cymru are We
A subject gateway to high quality Web sites about all aspects of Wales.

The Workhouse
Information about workhouses, poor law legislation, and poor law unions. Includes a timeline, glossary, and bookstore.