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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
History - American and British:
General History Portals
- - Access Foundation
- - A strong gateway to many full text book sites, book sellers, and much more.
- - Alex: a Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet (UK)
- - America: From the Great Depression to World War II from the Library of Congress-American Memory project
- - Thousands of photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection
- - American History 102
- - Instructor, Prof. Stanley K. Schultz, Producer, William P. Tishler , University of Wisconsin
- - American Memory Collections from the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
- - American Social History Project
- - at the Center for Media and Learning of the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
- - American Studies Electronic Crossroads from Georgetown
- - American Studies at the University of Virginia
- - Anglo-American History Guide
- - "A Special Subject Guide/SSG-FI at the State and University Library Goettingen" This is a major site, featuring powerful searching, including boolean and keyword, based on a very sophisticated system of cataloging internet sites, utilizing the concepts of the "Dublin Core." Sites are described and evaluated as well. And, coverage is excellent.
- - Arts and Humanities Data Service
- - "a national service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK's Higher Education Funding Councils to collect, describe, and preserve the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the humanities."
- - Argus Clearinghouse
- - Selective guide to sites offering quality guides by subject to the net
- - Art & Letters Daily
- - Connections to "articles, new book notices and reviews, and essays and opinion pieces in all fields of the humanities."
- - BBC Education - Modern World History
- - Berkeley Digital Library
- - Links to Digital Library Collections, software for building electronic Libraries, and much more
- - Bibliomania, The Network Library
- - Britannia
- - Documents, Biography, and Much More
- - The British Empire
- - Includes maps, biographies, articles, and timelines
- - British Parliament
- - Links to both the House of Common and the Lords
- - Bulletin Board for British Libraries(BUBL): History Section
- - CELT: Irish Electronic Texts from the University College, Cork
- - COLLAGE
- - "An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. By the Corporation of London and iBase Image Systems."
- - Include many historical images such as the Great Fire, Cades Rebellion (1450), the Gordon Riots (1780) and etc. In effect offersa visual history of London.
- - California Digital Library
- - Much is restricted but still offers access to items available to all, such as texts and images relating to California
- - Canadian Government gateway
- - Canadian Government Information
- - Centre for Metropolitan History
- - Resources for the study of Urban history.
- - Citizen's Guide to the Treasures of the U.S. Government
- - Columbia University: Project Bartleby
- - Concordances of Great Books
- - Includes historical text, such as the Federalist Papers, Gibbon (Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Grant's memoirs, and Thomas More, as well as literary texts)
- - Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
- - Cornell Law Library Web site
- - One of the best sites to search for any aspect of law, including historical information. Also includes connection to InSITE,an annotated guide to useful law sites on the WEB.
- - Curriculum Development Timeline Website (1780+) from Boston College Lynch School of Education
- - Duke University's The Digital Scriptorium
- - Items digitized from their Rare Books division
- - EDSITE
- - A good current awareness resource containing descriptions of some of the "best" Humanities sites on the WEB, including history.
- - Early Canadia Online (ECO)
- - Primary sources online covering Canadian history from the first settlers through the late nineteenth century.
- - Eagle Byte Historical Research
- - Miscellaneous radio scripts, time lines, and links, dealing with many aspects of history, with some emphasis on New York State
- - Electronic Books From OBI
- - Online Book Initiative-WWW
- - Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities
- - English Server from Carnegie Mellon
- - Includes many British and American Historical Texts
- - E-TEXT Center from the University of Virginia
- - FBI Headquarters Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Home Page
- - FBI records dealing with individual from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- - Federal Documents Guide form LSU
- - Galaxy History Web Page
- - Groningen Historical Electronic Text Archive
- - (GHETA)
- - Guide to Law Online: Directory of Guide to United States Law from the Library of Congress
- - Guide to Law Online: United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland from the Library of Congress
- - Guide to Law Online: Ireland from the Library of Congress
- - Hanover Historical Texts Project
- - Etexts organized by region of the World.From the History Dept. of Hanover College
- - History Channel
- - History Channel (United Kingdom)
- - History of Education and Childhood (Nijmegen University, Netherlands)
- - History Links on the Internet
- - Resources Arranged By Geographical Location.From NYU.
- - The History Net
- - History News Service, 1996+
- - "an informal syndicate of professional historians who seek to improve the public's understanding of current events by setting these events in their historical contexts"
- - HISTORY ON-LINE from the Institute of Historical Research UK)
- - This is a major website and includes searchable access to a listing of books, articles(abstracts available for some), UK theses since 1900, teachers of history in the UK, current research and links to much more.
- - Historical Philosophy Texts
- - via Philosophy Dept. Valdosta State University
- - Historical Text Access via Rice University
- - Historical Text Access via Virginia Tech
- - The Historical Text Archive
- - World history resources via Mississippi State Univ.
- - History Matters: (American Social History Project)
- - A resource for high school and college teachers of US history survey courses. Includes primary documents, syllabi, and teaching strategies.
- - History Today's website
- - House of Commons Library Research Papers
- - Hyper-History Online
- - In effect a combination time line/encyclopedia of world history
- - Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Research Reports
- - Includes access t the sixth annual series of research reports, containing online textand graphics from an array of primary source online projects, e.g. Michael Levenson, "Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London", which in turn includes full-text of London: A Pilgrimage by Dore and Jerrold and Henry Mayew's London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. I and extracts from the London Times, London Mortality Statistics, and London Population Statistics
- - Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University (Paul Halsall)
- - Gateway to numerous documents and texts in all periods of history, designed to support deployment of the Internet in teaching.
- - Irish History on the WEB by Jackie Dana
- - Irish Serials in the Boston College Libraries
- - Legal Materials Related to England
- - Via--LLRX -- Guide To European Legal Databases
- - Library of Congress Home Page
- - Library of Congress Learning Page
- - Teaching Guide to History on the Net
- - Literary and Some Historical Texts
- - via the ETEXT Web Server which now includes the Web version of the Gutenberg Project
- - Master Works of Western Civilization
- - Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) "Humanities Collection"
- - NZ History (New Zealand)
- - National Archive and Record Administration's (NARA) Archival InformatioLocator (NAIL)
- - Includes access to documents from President Kennedy's National Security Files, and documents and photos from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- - National Library of Canada Electronic Collection
- - New York Public Library: Online Library Collections
- - North Carolina State University Gopher-History
- - Northern Ireland :CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet)
- - Ohio State University History Home Page
- - Oliphant's Anthem: Political and social cartoons by editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant from the mid-1960s on.
- - The Oxford Text Archive
- - PBS History
- - PORTICO:The British Library
- - Rice University History Gopher
- - The Scottish History Tour
- - Extensive guide and links to Scotland and Scottish History
- - Sites for historians
- - An H-net project.By Richard Jensen
- - Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia--British History: 1700-1920
- - Study of the U.S from the United States Information Agency
- - Powerful gateway to historical societies, institutes, libraries, documents, and research in general in American Studies
- - Tarlton Law Library Guide to Legal History Resources on the Web
- - Ten (10) Downing Street
- - British Prime Ministers and Other Cabinet Officials and Gateway to British Government WEB Pages
- - UK Official Documents from the Stationery Office
- - University of Kansas History Home Page
- - University of Maryland: Reading Room
- - University of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative
- - University of Rochester
- - University of Waterloo Web-History
- - U.S. Government Documents Ready Reference Collection from Columbia University Libraries Documents Service Center
- - The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
- - Web sites for Historical Profession
- - Organization of American Historians links to sites, news on the internet.
- - Yahoo: Connections to Many History Resources and Texts
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