Helpful Links
General Resources
- History
Departments Around the World
- Searchable online database of history departments. Useful for students
interested in pursuing graduate studies.
- H-Net
- Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Contains discussion networks,
book reviews, and other resources grouped by specific disciplines and
fields of study.
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- Collection of primary documents and readings from all periods of history.
Links to Medieval, Ancient and Byzantine Sourcebooks.
- Internet Resources in History
- Extensive list of history-related links.
- Library of Congress
- Searchable catalogue of the Library of Congress plus other research
tools and historical imagery.
- Map Machine
- National Geographic Society page containing a wide variety on-line and
printable maps. Includes historical and blank maps.
American History
- National Archives and Records
Administration
- Information on the holdings and activities of the NARA. Includes prototype
online database of written and visual materials.
- Smithsonian Institution
- Links to museums and research centers of the Smithsonian including the
National Museum of American History.
- History Matters
- This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials
for teaching U.S. history.
- Famous Trials
- Doug Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School maintains
this page on primarily American trials, with links on world trials, constitutional
issues, and more.
Classics
- The Perseus Digital
Library
- An evolving digital library of sources, including Greek and Roman classics,
papyri, English Renaissance and other collections, located in the Department
of Classics, Tufts University.
- Combined Caesarea Expeditions
- Archeological Expeditions at Caesarea Maritima, Israel
European History
- Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
- Lynn Hunt of UCLA and Jack Censer of George Mason University are the
principle authors and editors of this site, itself a collaboration of
the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the
American Social History Project (City University of New York).
- Marxists.org Internet Archive
- Extensive site devoted to the history of Marxism. Contains links, full
texts of Marxist writers, and reference aids.
- The Victorian Web
- Web site at Brown University dedicated to literature, history, and culture
in the age of Queen Victoria.
- United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
- Online exhibitions as well as information regarding the collection and
activities of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
History of Medicine
- The Asclepion
- History and imagery of ancient medicine with links to other online sites
relating to the ancient world.
- History of
Race in Science
- Bibliographies and other useful information pertaining to historical
and contemporary problems of race, science, and medicine.
- National Library
of Medicine
- Home Page of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library
of Medicine. Contains rich collection of images as well as useful information
and links for researchers.
- National Reference Center on Bioethics Literature
- Includes annotated bibliographies on eugenics, euthanasia, and the human
genome project, as well as links to other sites concerned with bioethics.