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African-American History
  • The African American Mosaic
    Includes letters, newspaper accounts, documents, photographs, and slave narratives. (Library of Congress)
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html


  • Africans in America
    America's journey through slavery, spanning from 1450 through 1865. Includes narrative, images, primary documents, biographies, and commentary. In 4 parts, with teacher's guides.(PBS)
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html


  • American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
    A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 WPA interviews with ex-slaves. (Greenwood via NCLive)
    http://www.nclive.org/


  • The History of Jim Crow
    As a companion site for The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, this site provides historical resources and teaching ideas for educators.
    http://www.jimcrowhistory.org


  • In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    400 years of history. Search or browse by migration, geography or timeline. Rich with source materials including images, texts, and maps. Includes links to web resources and lesson plans for middle and high school in 12 subject areas, such as geography, history, language arts, math and performing arts. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
    http://www.inmotionaame.org


  • Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
    Information about MLK, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated, including text of major speeches and sermons, biographical information, chronology, and articles. (Stanford University)
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/


  • Remembering Jim Crow
    Read and listen to personal histories of segregation -- black and white Americans remembering life in Jim Crow times. (American RadioWorks)
    http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering


  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
    An exploration of segregation from the end of the civil war to the beginnings of the modern civil rights movement.(PBS)
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow


  • Valley of the Shadow
    Transcripts of original slave narratives, links to other original documents such as registers of free blacks, letters and newspaper accounts from the period prior to the Civil War. (University of Virginia)
    http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/contents.html


Ancient History
  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures: An Introduction to Ancient World Cultures on the World Wide Web
    Images, texts, bibliographies, primary sources. Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Isam, Europe. (Anthony Beavers, University of Evansville)
    http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm


  • Who's Who in the Classical World
    Search the full text of this Oxford University Press publication. (Oxford Reference Online)
    http://www.oxfordreference.com


Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & E-Books
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
    Access to the full text of over 1,180 scholarly electronic books of major importance to historical studies. (American Council of Learned Societies)
    http://www.humanitiesebook.org


  • Evans Early American Imprints
    Digital editions of more than 37,200 works -- "virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over 160 year period." Subjects include government, history, economics and trade, literature, philosophy, religion, theology, science, society. (Readex)
    http://infoweb.newsbank.com


  • Oxford Reference Online: History
    Search the full text of 28 Oxford sources including A Dictionary of British History, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History and A Dictionary of World History. (Oxford Reference Online)
    http://www.oxfordreference.com
European History
  • EuroDocs
    Primary historical documents from Western Europe. Selected transcriptions, facsimiles, and translations. Documents are listed chronologically when possible in the following arrangement: Medieval and Renaissance Europe; Europe as a Supernational Region; Country by country arrangement.(Richard Hacken, Brigham Young Univ. Library)
    http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu


  • The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
    (Georgetown University)
    http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu


  • The Victorian Web
    An encyclopedia of 19th century Britain. Signed essays, primary sources, timelines, and images in categories that include literature, art and design, philosophy and religion, science and technology, politics and history, and social history. Searchable. (George Landow, Brown Univ.)
    http://www.victorianweb.org


  • WESSWEB
    Annotated links to resources for regional, historical, and contemporary Western European studies. Includes a collection of literary texts and historical documents. (Western European Specialist Section, Assoc. of College & Research Libraries)
    http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page


Gateways & General Resources
  • Best of History Web Sites
    ward-winning, searchable directory of 700+ sites. Sites are ranked using a 5-star rating system and are arranged into the following categories: Prehistory; Ancient/Biblical; Medieval; U.S. History; Early Modern European; 20th Century; World War II; Art History; General; Maps. Find sites best suited for research or lesson plans and activities. (Thomas Daccord, Noble and Greenough School)
    http://www.besthistorysites.net


  • Voice of the Shuttle: History
    Links to scholarly sites related to history, area and regional studies, classical studies. (Alan Liu, University of Calif. at Santa Barbara)
    http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2713


Genealogy
  • Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
    Over 226,000 sites are organized into 180 categories.
    http://www.cyndislist.com


  • HeritageQuest
    A unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™, and other expanding collections.(ProQuest via NCLive)
    http://www.nclive.org


  • USGenWeb Project
    Geneaological sources for all 50 states, designed and maintained by volunteers.
    http://www.usgenweb.org/


History Teacher Resources & Lesson Plans
  • 50States.com: States and Capitals
    Facts about all the states, including the motto, flag, and song.
    http://50states.com


  • Ben’s Guide to US Government for Kids
    Tools on how the government works for K-12 students, parents and teachers. (Superintendent of Documents, GPO)
    http://bensguide.gpo.gov


  • DigitalHistory: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
    Provides access to primary sources for American history, and teaching aids for K-12 teachers. (Dept. of History & College of Education, Univ. of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, and Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History)
    http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu


  • The Learning Page
    Site for educators to use in conjunction with American Memory project . Provides a contextual framework, as well as tips for using the collection, teaching ideas, activities, and lessons.
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu


  • National Museum of American History: Classroom Resources
    Virtual exhibitions, resources for teachers, timeline. Searchable.
    http://americanhistory.si.edu/educators/resources.cfm


  • Teaching 9-11
    A compilation of resources for teachers of kindergarteners through college students; includes lesson plans and links to authoritative sites on the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. (Dickinson College)
    http://www.teaching9-11.org/


Indexes
  • JSTOR
    A searchable archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.
    http://www.jstor.org


  • North Carolina Periodicals Index
    Indexing to periodicals published in NC, about NC. (Joyner Library, East Carolina University)
    http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/ncc/scope.cfm


  • Project Muse
    Indexing and abstracts to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Refer to Periodicals & Newspapers page to determine full-text availability.
    http://muse.jhu.edu


Latin-American History
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies
    A selective, annotated bibliography on Latin America. Provides citations to books, chapters of books, and journal articles beginning with 1935, covering the social sciences and humanities. (Library of Congress)
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas


  • History in Latin America
    Links to scholarly web sites from LANIC, the Latin American Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
    http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/history


Middle Eastern History
  • History in the News: Middle East History, Society and Culture Resources
    Annotated links for the study of the Middle East, organized into such categories as History (from pre-Islamic to the Arab-Israeli conflict); Culture; Society; Religion; and Politics. (Hsiao-pei Yen, Dept. of History, SUNY-Albany)
    http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east


  • The Jewish History Resource Center
    6000 links in 30 categories relating to Jewish history, ancient times to the present. (Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History : Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem and Ministry of Education & Culture of the State of Israel)
    http://www.dinur.org


  • The Middle East and the West, A Troubled History
    6-part series by Mike Schuster on the history of Western involvement in the Middle East, from the Crusades to the wars in Iraq. Includes timelines, biographies, maps, photo galleries, and links to related NPR stories. Broadcast August 2004.(National Public Radio)
    http://www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/the_west


  • Middle East Studies Internet Resources
    (Columbia University Libraries)
    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm


September 11, 2001
  • Screenshots of Online News Sites, September 11-12, 2001
    Screen shots from over 200 web news sites from around the world. Searchable, or browse by country, news agency, or time of day.
    http://www.interactivepublishing.net/september/


  • The September 11 Digital Archive
    Attempts to collect the stories and thoughts of the general public concerning the terrorist attacks. Provides links to additional web pages. (City University of NY and George Mason University).
    http://911digitalarchive.org


  • September 11 News.com
    Front pages of 500 world newspapers in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
    http://www.september11news.com/WorldNewspapers.htm


  • September 11 Web Archive
    An on-going, collaborative project of the Library of Congress,The Internet Archive, and WebArchivist.org.
    http://september11.archive.org/


Southern History
  • Documenting the American South
    A digitized collection of primary source materials on Southern history, dating from the Colonial period to the 1920’s. Includes the full text of over 500 monographs and 4,000 images (illustrations, title pages, manuscripts, maps, currency, letters, broadsides, and other materials), organized into the following projects: First Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community. (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
    http://docsouth.unc.edu


  • Southern Studies Jumpgate
    An annotated list of sites for the study of the South – the region, its history, and its culture. (Center for the Study of the American South, Univ. Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
    http://www.ibiblio.org/sostudies/jump.htm


United States History
  • American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
    A searchable collection of over 100,000 pages of diaries and correspondence written in the period around the American Civil War. (Alexander Street Press)
    http://www.alexanderstreet.com


  • American Life Histories
    Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940. 2,900 previously unpublished WPA interviews. (Library of Congress)
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html


  • American Memory
    The National Digitized Library, consisting of historical materials from the collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress. Provides public access to over 5 million historical items, organized into over 80 thematic collections. Includes documents, photographs, film and audio recordings. Searchable.
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html


  • A Biography of America
    Features 27 periods of American history, each section containing resources about key events, interactive maps, a transcript of the original PBS television program, and links to additional web resources. Designed as an on-line college-level course and includes interactive activities and exercises.(Annenberg/Center for Public Broadcasting)
    http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica


  • Documents for the Study of American History
    A collection of links to primary documents in American history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the current presidency. (George Laughead Jr., manager, WWW Virtual Library, United States History)
    http://www.vlib.us/amdocs


  • Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
    A searchable collection of over 85,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs documenting the lives of early inhabitants and visitors to North America from 1534 to 1850. (Alexander Street Press)
    http://www.alexanderstreet.com


  • Famous Trials
    Transcripts, images, primary documents, and essays on famous American trials, 18 of which are presented in great detail. Coverage includes the Nuremberg Trials, The Chicago 7, Salem Witchcraft, Johnson Impeachment, Lindbergh Kidnapping, Scopes, OJ Simpson, Armistad, My Lai, and Scottsboro Boys. (Doug Linder, Univ. of Missouri Law School)
    http://www.umkc.edu/famoustrials


  • History Matters
    An extensive, searchable gateway for high school and college teachers of US History survey courses. Includes an annotated web guide, web-based lesson plans, primary source documents, examples of student projects, articles and resources that provide a historical perspective to contemporary issues, strategies of master teachers, and annotated syllabi that incorporate new technologies. (City Univ. of NY, George Mason Univ.)
    http://historymatters.gmu.edu


  • Index of Native American History Resources on the Internet
    Annotated list to sites, organized into the following categories: Oral history; Written History; Northeast; Southeast and Caribbean; Midwest; Southwest; Northwest; Alaska; Canada; Mexico; Timelines. (Karen M. Strom)
    http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAhistory.html


  • Making of America
    Primary source materials on American social history, from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction. (Univ. of Michigan)
    http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/


  • The National Archives and Records Administration
    Primary source materials from the collections of the National Archives.
    http://www.nara.gov


  • Native American Sites
    Provides access to home pages of individual Native Americans and Nations, and to other sites that provide solid information about American Indians. Topics include individual nations, organizations, languages, media, mascot issue, powwows and festivals, music and art, business, and military. (Sara Mitten)
    http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html


  • The New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
    A searchable collection of over 30,000 digitized images from the collection of the New York Public Library. Images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923; organized into 28 broad categories. Particularly useful for research in fashion and history.
    http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco


  • Nineteenth Century Documents Project
    Primary texts from 19th century American history from the collections of Furman University.
    http://history.furman.edu/benson/alpha/www/docs/index.htm


  • Normandy 1944
    Extensive resource on D-Day and the Normandy Invasion. Includes articles, personal histories, radio broadcasts, film clips, web links, extensive collection of primary source documents, and maps. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
    http://new.search.eb.com/dday


Women’s History
  • American Women
    "A gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States." (Library of Congress)
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml


  • American Women's History: Digital Collections of Primary Sources
    Links to digitized collections, arranged into more than 70 subject areas, as well as links to 50 state history collections. Subjects include American Indians, civil rights, clothing, education, film, immigrant women, music, politics, religion, scientists, sports and writers. (Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University Library)
    http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-digcoll.html


  • Britannica's Guide to Women's History
    Profiles of 300 women who infludenced the course of history, from antiquity to contemporary times. Primary sources, essays, video clips and learning resources. (Encyclopedia Britannica))
    http://www.nclive.org


  • By Popular Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage 1850-1920
    Portraits, photographs and cartoons commenting on the suffrage movment. Includes a timeline. These images are a companion to "Votes for Women: Selections from the American Woman's Suffrage Movement" (see below). (Library of Congress, American Memory Project)
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html


  • National Women’s History Project
    Links to US women’s history web sites, contact information for women’s history organizations.
    http://www.nwhp.org


  • North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
    A searchable collection of the full text of over 150,000 pages from American and Canadian women’s diaries and correspondence. From the Colonial period to the 1950's, representing the famous and unknown, all age groups, life stages and ethnicities. (Alexander Street Press via NCLive).
    http://www.nclive.org/


  • Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
    Digitized collection of 167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts in the collection of the Library of Congress.
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html


  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-2000
    1000+ full-text primary source documents, arranged into broad topic areas including Peace and international; Politics and public life; Sexuality, reproduction and women's health; Work and production; Race and Gender. (State Univ. of NY, Binghamton)
    http://womhist.binghamton.edu


World History
  • The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
    Searchable, digitized collection of primary documents in law, history, and diplomacy, from the Code of Hammurabi to the Wye River Memorandums. (Yale Univ.)
    http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm


  • Cold War International History Project
    Articles from the CWIHP Bulletin and its Working Paper series. High quality collections of documents, generally drawn from former east bloc countries. (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
    http://cwihp.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home


 

In place: March 2001; Last updated: 9/1/2008
Bev Robertson
brobertson@mhc.edu
Renfro Library, Mars Hill College