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An excellent guide to web-based resources for history is (believe it or not) a book! See The History Highway 3.0: A Guide to Internet Resources, 3rd edition, edited by Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. UNCW Reference Collection D6.117 .H57 2002.

General & International History

Digital Libraries	Archives & Manuscript Repository Guides
Metasites	Research Guides
Online Journals	Organizations/Associations
Maps	Awards

History by Period, Region or Topic

Ancient	Medieval
United States	North Carolina	Africa
Asia	Europe	Latin America	Middle East
Gender Studies	History of Science	Popular Culture

Digital Libraries

Avalon Project The Avalon Project contains digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government (pre 18th century-20th century). Yale University has added value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

Center for History and New Media George Mason University hosts this multi-dimensional site, providing access to digital collections, teaching materials, essays on the use of media in teaching history, and other useful guides. Digital project topics include: September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the French Revolution, the history of science and technology, translations of the Declaration of Independence, the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 and the New York Blackout of 1977, and P. T. Barnum's American Museum. The Center also sponsors the History Matters and World History Matters websites described below.

History Matters and World History Matters are excellent resources for high school and university history teachers, now offering hundreds of primary documents and audio clips, an impressive annotated webliography, sample Web-based assignments, and a useful reference section which links to resources on standards, citing and evaluating Websites, and understanding copyright and fair use laws. Additional sections include guides for analyzing primary sources, annotated syllabi, sample student projects, and teaching tips and strategies. The site may be browsed by section or searched by keyword or advanced options. (from the Internet Scout Report)

In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/firp//
An index to English language personal narratives published or available on the web. It aims to be "the most comprehensive archive of social memory ever created."

Internet History Sourcebooks is "a world wide web project designed to provide easy access to primary sources and other teaching materials in a non-commercial environment. It was developed and is edited by Paul Halsall" (from the website. Dr. Halsall is professor of history at Fordham University.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery 275,000 photographs and manuscripts covering the U.S. Revolution and Civil War, early American maps, medieval manuscripts, Japanese prints and much more.

TheHistoryNet Maintained by the Cowles History Group, Inc., this site contains interviews, eyewitness accounts, an article index, book reviews, pictures, exhibits, etc. Covers world history and a separate section for American history.

Archives & Manuscript Repository Guides

Metasites/Catalogs

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections Access to the archival record in the RLG database (to which our library does not subscribe) is provided by the Library of Congress. Addition archival records can be found in WorldCat (OCLC).

Repositories of Primary Resources Provides a very helpful list enabling the researcher to locate primary sources near them.

Unesco Archives Portal Links to almost 7,000 archival institutions worldwide. Limit your search by type (national, regional and state, municipal, or university and research archives), keyword, region or country. Also provides links to news articles relating to archives.

Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Users can search the digitized information, view current and past exhibits, projects and search the collection (photographs, diaries, journals, sheet music, etc.). There is also information on researching on site (hours, access, etc.). Contains research guides, links to other collections, etc.

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina from the University Press of Virginia Contains links to all libraries and repositories in North Carolina, manuscripts collections, research centers, archives, etc. The text is informative and well organized there are also several illustrations. This is a thorough well organized site for the research of the African- American experience.

National Archives and Records Administration An independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and oversees the management of all federal records. In addition to searching their online finding aid and information about planning a trip to a NARA repository, this site also has an online exhibit area and digital classroom collection of lesson plans and sample document images.

UNC-Chapel Hill Manuscripts Department The manuscript department at UNC-Chapel Hill houses the Southern History Collection. Provides online guides, finding aids, and links to other manuscript collections. You can search their online catalog from the site. Instructions on how to use the collection (hours of operation, viewing the collection, etc.) are also included.

Metasites

Edsitement The National Endowment for the Humanities links to the best of the humanities on the web, with categories of Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language and History& Social Studies. Each category is subdivided into lesson plans (for K-12) and websites.

History Guide This gateway to scholarly websites and digital texts was developed by Goettingen State and University Library and has evolved into a collaborative effort called the Network Subject Gateway History. About 3,000 links are accessible by searching or browsing by region, time period, or subject.

Historical Text Archive And extensive set of links to both primary and secondary sources for the study of all regions and time periods is provided by this site founded by Dr. Don Mabry, Mississippi State University. E-books and articles are also offered.

Institute of Historical Research This site covers British, European and World history. It highlights teaching resources as well as research. There are links to online databases, navigational tools, recent publications, etc. The site itself is a good starting point with its many links and searchable index.

Mr. Jenkins' History Links This page is divided by subject (United States, Latin America, Ancient history etc.) and provides links to other research sites. The page itself is not as scholarly as some, but the list of internet sites you can be linked too are very valuable.

Voice of the Shuttle This site is set up by subject such as anthropology, political science, literature, etc. Each page has several links to resources both at Berkley and elsewhere. It also contains the scholarly work of UC Berkley faculty and students.

WWW-VL History Created by the University of Kansas, this site is a virtual library. The page covers all history, by topic, eras, material type, etc. IT contains pages with links to outside web resources for the selected topic, region, etc. There is also a link allowing the user to search the University of Kansas holdings.

Yahoo: Arts: Humanities: History This page within Yahoo provides many links to good sites such as American Memory. It is easy to use and allows you to select sites by region, time period, and subject. It also lists the most popular history sites. This page covers all aspects of history.

See also U.S. Metasites

Research Guides

Library Research Using Primary Sources This guide from the University of California, Berkeley provides an overview for doing historical research, with an emphasis on using primary sources.

Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide A guide to conducting and preserving oral history interviews from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Using Archives: A Practical Guide for Researchers The National Archives of Canada provides this overview of how archival repositories work, geared for the new user. It discusses how archival repositories differ from libraries in their organizational logic, the "customs" of archives and how to prepare a research visit.

Using Primary Sources on the Web An excellent guide to finding and using primary sources in the web environment compiled by the History Section, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association.

Yale University Library Primary Sources Research The strength of Yale's guide is in its definitions of various types of primary sources and types of bibliographies.

Online Journals

Journal of the Association for History and Computing A peer-reviewed journal reporting on the use of computers in the study of history, use of information technology in history teaching, and reviews of electronic resources.

See also U.S. Online Journals and European Online Journals

Organizations/Associations

Metasite

National Council on Public History (NCPH) Resources Page The NCPH maintains this page of links to listservs, organizations, historical societies, museums and historic sites. It is especially valuable for links to state and regional historical societies.

American Association for State and Local History This organization focuses on the preservation of local history. The site provides membership information, continuing education news, coming events, links to regional, state and national resources, etc.

American History Association Contains information on meetings, conferences, membership as well as providing links to their magazine and journal (Perspectives and the American History Review). There is also a searchable database of dissertations in progress, job and other history sites. While not research oriented it is a good place to keep up with current happenings in history.

Forest History Society Headquartered in Durham, NC, the FHS maintains six databases: FHS image database (4,000 images), Environmental History Bibliography (39,000 entries), Guide to Environmental History Archival Collections (450 repositories), Forests in Fiction Catalog (400 novels), U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection, and the Environment of South and Southeast Asia Bibliography.

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. Contains archives, maps, grant repots, foundation information, and an index. This is not really a research page, it is more geared towards providing information about the Foundation and their goals. There are several links however to many informative pages about Mesoamerican Studies.

Lower Cape Fear Historical Society This web page provides information on the Wilmington-based society, on historic Latimer House, and provides an index to articles in its Bulletin. l Society along with a list of benefits of membership.

Maps

Metasite

Map History This map history gateway is maintained by Tony Campbell, retired map librarian of the British Library. Excellent annotations are added to indicate the value and significance of each link provided.

David Rumsey Map Collection Over 8,800 maps are available with a focus on 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America.

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection Over 5,000 maps are available online from this library at the University of Texas at Austin.

Awards

The Bancroft Prizes

Ancient

Ancient World Mapping Center UNC-Chapel Hill is home to this research center. News about cartography and GIS applications for ancient history can be found here, as well as a collection of free digital maps for educational use.

Ancient History Sourcebook Part of the Internet History Sourcebook Project, this site provides English translations of ancient texts, maps, course outlines and other resources for the study of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Rome and early Christian origins.

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World A rich collection of bibliographies, course materials, essays, and links to images and translations of ancient texts.

Exploring Ancient World Cultures Called by Choice Magazine "one of the richest sites dealing with antiquity." Including materials on the Near East, India, China, Greece, Rome, Islam and Medieval Europe, it provides essays both brief and scholarly, an annotated chronology, links to ancient texts, images and other web sites.

Perseus Digital Library This vast collection of images and texts relating primarily to Greece and Roman history, art and architecture is hosted by Tufts University. The English Renaissance is a new area of interest for the digital library.

Medieval

Metasites

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Browse by category and narrow your search by material type if you wish. Developed at Georgetown University.

NetSerf: The Internet connection for medieval resources.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index A work in progress from the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship at Haverford College, this index covers over 450 journals, for the years 1992 to 2002. It is not limited to women's studies, but indexes articles about gender and sexuality including masculinity and homosexuality during the time period 450 C.E to 1500 C.E (for Russia extending to 1613).

Henry III Fine Rolls Project This ongoing project that will ultimately provide access to Fine Rolls from 1216 to 1272.

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies A peer-reviewed site providing encyclopedia articles, textbooks (copyrighted but available for classroom use), teaching resources (syllabi and classroom handouts), links to bibliographies, images and documents, and transcription/translations of important medieval texts.

United States

American Civil War Homepage This gateway to sites about the Civil War is maintained by the University of Tennessee.

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement Full text images from the Wisconsin Historical Society's collection of rare books, manuscripts and classic travel narratives, this digital library contains ". . .more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later." [American Journeys home page.]

American Memory This historical Collection for the National Digital Library provides access to pamphlets, sheet music, photographs, papers, baseball cards, film, folk history materials and other sources of information about the "American Memory". There are also links to the Library of Congress and the National Archives. A very rich source not to be overlooked when researching any aspect of American history, culture, society, etc.

American Rhetoric A collection of text, audio and some video of over 5,000 speeches.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology Transcripts from WPA slave narratives selected from The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, George P. Rawick, ed., (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).

American Studies Web From the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies at Georgetown University, this extensive bibliography of web resources covers a wide range of historical, social and economic issues.

Baldy Editorial Cartoons A digital collection of political cartoons by Clifford H. Baldowski, this collection includes cartoons about the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Cuban Missle Crisis, Vietnamese Conflict, Watergate, and Georgia politics. "Baldy" cartoons appeared in the Atlanta Constitution, Augusta Chronicle and Miami Herald, 1946-1982, 1997. A project of the Digital Library of Georgia.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle This website provides full-text images of articles published from 1841 to 1902. This was the most widely read afternoon newspaper in the U.S. during the Civil War.

Born in Slavery : Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1938 from the American Memory Library of Congress.

Center for Documentary Studies The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. Among the projects produced by the Center is Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South.

Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 A selection of over 5,000 images from the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News. "The selected photographs depict historically and socially significant people, places, and events, as well as preserve glimpses of everyday life in Los Angeles." [website introduction.]

Chronology of US Historical Documents The University of Oklahoma College of Law provides this chronology with links to full-text of documents significant to U. S. history, from the Magna Carta to George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy Provides the original text of such documents as the Articles of the Confederation, Bill of Rights, and the Constitution. It also includes the congressional record, documents and debates, the federalist papers, United States Code, etc. This site gives not only the original documents but provides some analysis sections and links to current governmental happenings as well.

Documenting the American South UNC at Chapel Hill provides this substantial collection of primary sources on Southern history. The collection is arranged by 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, the North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940, and North Carolinians in the Great War.

Dred Scott Digital Project [MS Word] This site, the first major digital project of the Washington
University in St. Louis Library, takes advantage of a remarkable collection of documents that involve both local history and one of the most significant episodes in Antebellum US history, the Dred Scott Case. The site offers digital images and transcriptions (HTML or Word) of 85 original documents from the Dred and Harriet Scott cases tried in St. Louis courts between 1846 and 1852. In addition to the documents, the site also provides a brief chronology and links for further information. [MD] (from Scout Report - 11/24/00)

First Person Narratives of the American South Diaries, autobiographies and travel accounts from the American South. This award winning site provides a great deal of primary source materials from both prominent figures and inaccessible populations.

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) is the official documentary collection of major foreign relations policy and diplomacy. The early volumes (incomplete, but covering 1861-1960) is available through the University of Wisconsin Digital Library Collection and the years 1945-1968 are archived through the U.S. State Department. The Nixon-Ford Administrations are being issued on a separate web site, also provided by the State Department.

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights The Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland has digitized the USCCR publications in its collection.

History and Politics Out Loud Provides a searchable database of audio relevant to American History from the fireside chats to White House conversation tapes. The index can be searched and browsed. Great source of primary material for some of America's most significant historical events.

History Matters This extraordinarily rich site is a joint project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning at the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It includes primary documents (text, image and audio), and annotated guide to history web sites, research guides, historical essays and forum transcripts, guides to citing sources and copyright issues, teaching strategies, online syllabi and history puzzles.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 One of Harvard University's Open Collections projects, this website provides the full text of selected books, pamphlets and manuscripts, photographs, and maps relating to immigration and the immigrant experience. Search or browse the collection.

Lincoln/Net Searchable database of books, manuscripts, images, maps, and more about Lincoln. Project staff have also reviewed these materials' contents and assembled groups of resources pertaining to eight major themes in American history: frontier settlement; Native American relations; economic development; women's experience and gender roles; law and society; African-Americans' experience and American racial attitudes; religion and culture; and political development. Materials shedding significant light upon any of these themes will be available through a series of lists available via the Lincoln/Net search page.

Making of America There are two collections in the Making of America project. Cornell University's MoA collection includes 22 periodicals, 1815-1901, and 109 monographs. It also provides full-text searchable access to Official Records of the War of the Rebellion (both Armies and Navies series). MoA at the University of Michigan provides online access to approximately 8,500 books and 11 periodicals, 1831-1900.

Miller Center of Public Affairs From the University of Virginia, the Miller Center specializes in the history of the presidency. Of particular interest is the Scripps Library Multimedia Archive, which includes audio files of presidential speeches, oral histories and secret recordings beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

New Deal Network The New Deal Network is an educational web site sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University. It provides lesson plans, online resources on FDR, and primary sources such as photographs, past features, slave narratives and more. The site is searchable containing over 500 articles. A valuable source for teaching and research.

New Perspectives on the America West This website is a companion to the Ken Burns produced PBS series "The West." Includes an archives section of primary source material, a biographical dictionary, maps, chronology and sample lesson plans.

New York Public Library Digital Library The digital collections of the NYPL include several collections from the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, early maps of the Mid-Atlantic region, surveyors of the American West, and performing arts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865 Browse or search 1384 issues of the newspaper from the capital of the Confederacy.

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Using letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, church and census records, this site presents the experiences of two towns, one Northern and one Southern, from John Brown's Raid through Reconstruction. A project of the University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Women Working, 1870-1930 The first collection released by the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program provides access to digital copies of Harvard's library and museum resources. In addition to the roles of women, the collection provides insight into many aspects of social issues and labor history.

U.S. Metasites

American and British History Resources on the Internet This site, maintained through Rutgers, provides links to sites devoted to American and British history. They are organized by subject, time period (ancient, 16th, 17th, etc.), archival guides, net resources such as listservs and associations, documents, maps, journals, book reviews, etc. This site connects the user with much valuable information on many topics throughout history.

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century and American Cultural History: The Nineteenth Century These sites from Kingwood College Library (TX) contain overviews for each decade of the 19th & 20th centuries, covering such topics as art & architecture, business and the economy, books and literature, music and theatre, news and historic events, science and technology, social movements, etc. There are lots of links to other websites, images, subject guides and digital libraries such as American Memory.

American Women's History : A Research Guide The site enables you to search for articles, theses, books, etc. in several different areas including general reference information, biographical resources, a subject index, digital collections of primary resources, etc. There is also a link to the National Archives Archive Locator. This is another very thorough website leading the researcher to quality online information.

U. S. History: Online Journals

Common-Place This online journal is described as "a bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine, Common-place speaks--and listens--to scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested in American history before 1900." [From the "Why a Common-Place?" page.]

History Now The Gilder Lehrman Institute's quarterly American history online journal. The journal's primary mission: to promote the study of American history with articles from noted historians as well as lesson plans, resource guides, links to related websites, and other resources for teachers and students. [From the Editor page.]

The North Star A journal of African American Religious History containing historical research articles, book reviews, a teaching forum, links to related sites, etc. Good starting point for research in this topic.

U.S. Historic Statistics Resources

Historical Census Data Browser Enables the user to select census data from 1790-1970, select variables, graph data, etc. Great source for statistics of a specific time. | Historical Data on the Foreign Born Pop. in the U.S. This source is a working paper containing tables, graphs, etc. of the foreign born population and how it has changed from 1895-1990. another very useful; source for tracking trends over a long time or studying one specific set of people. these two sources used together are very important primary resources in studying the history of America.

North Carolina

Eastern North Carolina Digital Library Nearly 400 texts (including fictional works) and maps pertaining to the history of 41 eastern North Carolina counties were selected and digitized from East Carolina University's Special Collections. The collection is searchable by author, title, subject, and keyword.

North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program Provides text of markers, with GIS maps to show location.

North Carolina Postcards Over 1,000 postcards, at least one from each county. Search or browse by location or subject. Many are from the early 20th century, "the golden age of postcard publishing."

Port City Architecture Online The New Hanover County Public Library, in collaboration with the Historic Wilmington Foundation, created this site. It provides images of Wilmington's historic buildings along with information about the architect, builder, architectural style and historical significance of the site.

Resources Page for H-NC The H-Net H-NC Discussion Network provides this list of resources, including links to bibliographies, archival repositories, museums, and other sites and organizations.

Africa

Africabib.org Sponsored by the Institute of Economic Advancement at the University of Arkansas, this site provides the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database and the African Women' s Database.

Asia

AsiaSource
The Asian Society (NY) provides this resource for Asian arts, culture, politics, business, education, and historical information. The Asia Profiles section describes each country in the region and allows users to compare data on up to five countries.

Vietnam War Bibliography An extensive bibliography of books, articles and documents on the Vietnam War, 1946-1972. Compiled by Edwin Moise, Clemson University.

Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975 Provides and overview, extensive collection of primary documents and links to other Viet Nam websites. Developed by Robert Brigham, Vassar College.

Europe

British Library The library's website includes links to full texts (Treasures in Full), online exhibitions, and a variety of learning resources.

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe Created from Brigham Young University, this page divides its information in to countries, one time period and on theme. Each page provides a list and link to primary resources (such as the Statutes of William the Conqueror). The one draw back is that not everything is translated into English. Very useful for locating primary resources.

Irish History Online Searchable bibliography of Irish history from earliest times to the present. Established in conjuction with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography (see below.)

Proceedings of the Old Bailey Digitized, searchable texts of the central criminal court of London, 1674-1834, "the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published."

Royal Historical Society Bibliography Searchable bibliography of books, articles in books and articles in journals, published since 1900 dealing with the history of the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library The Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh provides this site. Resources can be found by keyword searching or by browsing any combination of subject, geographical region, culture and time period.

United Kingdom Parliament Track bills, get news of activities, and learn about the history of Parliament.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Over 20 online exhibitions about the Holocaust are available. Search the library and photo archives, find teaching and learning activities or plan a visit to the museum.