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(A P after an entry denotes that the site contains primary source material. Entries with a G are gateway sites; they consist of links to other sites.)
General History Sites
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (P)
- Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe (G)
- Art of Empire
- ATHENA - Literature, Books, Lists (P)
- The Avalon Project. Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (P)
- 4,000 B.C
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (P)
- Creating French Culture
- Documents Related to the History of International Relations Prior to 1914 (P)
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University (P)
- Early Modern Women (P, G)
- Early Modern Resources (G)
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History to the present
- European History Primary Sources (G)
- Categories include: country, language, period, subject, and type of source.
- European History Sources (G)
- Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
- A Gateway to online collections about different cultures around the world.
- The Great Books (P)
- Hanover Historical Texts (P)
- Internet Archaeology Home Page
- IPL Online Texts Collection (P)
- Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics (P)
- Literary Resources on the Net (P, G)
- Monastic Matrix: a Scholarly Resource for the Study of Women's Religious Communities from 400 to 1600 CE (P)
- Project Gutenberg (P)
- Secrets of Lost Empires
- World Civilizations (P)
- World Civilizations Reader (P)
- World History Sources (P)
Ancient Civilizations
Near East
- Abzu
- Scholarly secondary writings
- Ancient Scripts
- Catalogue of Sumerian Literary Texts (P)
- The Code of Hammurabi (P)
- EAWC - The Ancient Near East (P, G)
- Etana (P)
Egypt
- Akhet - The Horizon to Ancient Egypt
- Duke Papyrus Archive (P)
- EAWC - Ancient Egypt (P)
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead (P)
- Egyptian Museum
- The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
- Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
- Reeder's Egypt Page (G)
- Secrets of the Pharaohs
- Theban Mapping Project
- Tutankhamun - Anatomy of an Excavation (P)
Greece
- The Ancient City of Athens
- Diotima Women & Gender in the Ancient World (P, G)
- EAWC - Ancient Greece (P)
- The Greeks
- Metis
- Perseus Project (P)
- The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
- University of Chicago Excavations at Isthmia
Rome
- Ancient Rome (G)
- Capitolium.org - Imperial Fora Official Website - Rome, Italy
- The Christian Catacombs of Rome (P)
- The Corinth Computer Project
- Diotima Women & Gender in the Ancient World (P, G)
- EAWC - Ancient Rome (P, G)
- Hechingen-Stein. A Villa Rustica from Roman Time
- LacusCurtius (P)
- Ostia - Harbour of Ancient Rome (P)
- Perseus Project (P)
- Pompeii Forum Project
- The Roman Empire in the First Century
- VRoma (P, G)
Europe
- The Cave of Lascaux
- The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
- WWW Links to Prehistoric Art in Europe (G)
All Regions
- Ancient History Sourcebook (P, G)
- Ancient History Sources (G)
- Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World (P)
- Archaeology Magazine
- Art History Resources on the Web (G)
- Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman Wolrd
- Classics Collection (G)
- Electronic Resources for Classicists (G)
- Images of Women in Ancient Art
- The Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
- The Internet Classics Archive (P)
- The Museum of Reconstructions
- Okeanos (G)
- Oriental Institute (G)
- Traditions of Magic
- Voice of the Shuttle -Archaeology (G)
- Voice of the Shuttle - Classical Studies (G)
Medieval Civilization
- The Aberdeen Bestiary Project (P)
- Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485) (P)
- The Black Plague (P, G)
- Bracton's De Legibus (P)
- The Camelot Project
- EAWC - Early Islam (P, G)
- EAWC - Medieval Europe (P, G)
- The End of Europe's Middle Ages (P)
- Exhibits Collection -- The Middle Ages (P)
- Feminae, Medieval Women and Gender Index
- Geoffrey Chaucer (P)
- Guide to Early Church Documents (P)
- History of the Crusades
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (P, G)
- The Labyrinth, Resources for Medieval Studies (P, G)]
- Mapping Margery Kempe (P)
- Medieval Architecture in France
- Medieval History (P, G)
- Medieval Page (G)
- Medieval Women, Interactive Exploration (P)
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library (P, G)
- ORB--Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (P, G)
- Paris at the Time of Philippe-Auguste
- Penn Special Collections-Schoenberg Exhibit
- Teams Middle English Texts(P)
- Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
The Reformation
- Reformation (P, G)
The Renaissance
- The Age of King Charles V (P)
- Cely Papers (P)
- Columbus and the Age of Discovery
- DPLS Archive_ Catasto Study, 15th Century Italy (P)
- Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance
- The Galileo Project
- Latitude - The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation
- Medici Archive Project (P)
- Online Catasto of 1427 (P)
- Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (P)
- Rome Reborn - The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
Seventeenth Century
- DPLS Archive: French Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790 (P)
Eighteenth Century
- Eighteenth-Century Studies (P,G)
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (P)
- The Napoleon Series (G)
- PBS: Napoleon (P)
Nineteenth Century
- Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
- The Siege and Commune of Paris (P)
- The Victorian Web (G)
Twentieth Century
- 1914-18 War - Art of the First World War
- Decoding Nazi Secrets
- First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One (P)
- First World War Poetry Digital Archive (P)
- German Documents (P)
- German Propaganda Archive (P)
- The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
- Italian Life Under Fascism
- League of Nations Photo Archive (P)
- Learning Curve: The Great War (P)
- Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe (P)
- The Marxists Internet Archive (P)
- The National Archives Learning Curve: Cold War (P)
- The National Archives Learning Curve: Home Front (P)
- Revelations from the Russian Archives (P)
Holocaust
- A Cybrary of the Holocaust (P)
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (P)
- Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress (P)
- The Holocaust Chronicle
- The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
- The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945 (P)
- Nuremberg Trials Project (P)
- The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (P)
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online (P)
- To Save a Life, Stories of Holocaust Rescue (P)
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute (P)
- Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive (P)
- Voices of the Holocaust (P)
- Witnessing the Holocaust (P)
British History
Early Britain
- Aberdeen Bestiary Project
- Anglo Saxon Culture (P)
- Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England (P)
- The Camelot Project (P)
- Domesday Book Online (P)
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University (P)
- The English Medieval Castle
- Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
- Geoffey Chaucer (P)
- Geoffrey Chaucer: an Annotated Guide to Online Resources (G)
- Labyrinth (P)
- Life of King Edward the Confessor (P)
- Mapping Margery Kempe (P)
- Medieval English Towns (P)
- Medieval Women (P)
- Vindolanda Tablets Online (P)
Renaissance and Reformation
- Cely Papers (P)
- Calendar of State Papers, Foreign: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth (P)
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare (P)
- Diary of Henry Machyn - Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (P)
- Elizabeth I (P,G)
- The End of the Middle Ages (P)
- English Emblem Book Project (P)
- Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes (P)
- Gunpowder Plot
- Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII (P)
- Life and Times of Elizabeth I
- Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) (P)
- Center for Thomas More Studies (P)
- Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
- Trial of the Earls of Essex and Southhampton (P)
- Tudor England: 1485-1603 (P,G)
- Tudor History (P)
- Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow (P)
- The Works of the Bard (P)
- World of Mary, Queen of Scots (P)
17th and 18th Centuries
- Diary of Samuel Pepys (P)
- Eighteenth Century Resources (G)
- Gulliver's Travels (P)
- Internet Library of Early Journals (P)
- Parliament and the British Slave Trade: 1600-1807
19th Century
- Child Labour
- Dictionary of Victorian London
- Greenwood's Map of London, 1827
- Internet Library of Early Journals (P)
- Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
- The Penny Magazine (P)
- The Union Makes Us Strong (P)
- Victorian Britain
- The Victorian Times
- The Victorian Women Writers Project (P)
- The Workhouse (P)
2oth Century
- Battle of Britain (P)
- Imperial War Museum Collections (P)
- The National Archives: The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977 (P)
- World War I Document Archive (P)
Multiple Time Periods
- BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (P)
- British and Irish History (G)
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute (P)
- British Isles (G)
- British History Online (P)
- Contains primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern time periods.
- British History
- British History Sources, 1500-1900 (P)
- federated search to several digitized sources of British history from the 1500 to 1900.
- British Library Online Gallery (P)
- History: British Isles (G)
- Luminarium (P)
- Monastic Matrix (P)
- National Archives (P)
- Outlaws and Highwaymen (P)
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey (P)
- The Tower of London
- Uniting the Kingdoms
Ireland
- Cain: the Northern Ireland Conflict
- Celt
- Irish literary and historical culture. (P)
- Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama (G)
- Irish Penal Laws (p)
- Views of the Famine (P)
Scotland
- Scottish Archive Network (P)
Russia, Eastern Europe and Soviet History
- America, Russia and the Meeting of Frontiers (P)
- Documents in Russian History (P)
- Eastern Europe Since 1945 (G)
- EurasiaNet
- Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (P)
- Illustrated History of Russia and the Former U.S.S.R (G)
- The Marxist Internet Archive (P)
- REENIC (G)
- REESWeb (G)
- Revelations from the Russian Archives (P)
- Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (P)
- Russia on the Web (G)
- Russian and Eastern Europe (G)
- Russian Revolution (P, G)
- Stalin Digital Archive (P)
Balkan States
- Armenian Research Center
- Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo
- Serbian Government
- Focus on Kosovo
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (P)
Ken Orenic, Reference Librarian
630-942-2338
orenick@cod.edu
September 2012
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