African Voices - A permanent Smithsonian exhibition that examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples and cultures over time.
American Women's History: A Research Guide - Over 1600 citations to Internet and print sources (digital collections of primary sources, archival collections, bibliographies, and biographical sources.
Artefacts Canada: Humanities - A database of approximately 4 million object records and images, where available, based on the collections information provided by contributing museums and galleries.
Best of History Web Sites - An award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts.
British History - Comprehensive survey of British history. Also see Timelines -- British history in chronological form, broken down into discrete time periods.
Capital and the Bay, The: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 - Comprises 139 books selected from the Library of Congress's General Collections and two books from its Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The collection includes first-person narratives, early histories, historical biographies, promotional brochures, and books of photographs that capture in words and pictures a distinctive region as it developed between the onset of European settlement and the first quarter of the twentieth century. The fourth in a series of local history collections presented by the National Digital Library Program as part of American Memory, joining "California As I Saw It", Pioneering the Upper Midwest, and Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age. Together, these online collections make up a virtual local history bookshelf.
Chicago History Museum - Cares for, showcases, and interprets millions of authentic pieces of Chicago and U.S. history.
Choices Program, The - A national education program that seeks to engage students at the secondary level in consideration of the historical roots and current realities of the most pressing international concerns of our day.
Collect Britain - Maps, views, prints and drawings, early photographs, advertising ephemera, dialect recordings, the whole run of the Victorian 'Penny Illustrated Paper' - you'll find them all among the 90,000 gems collected here.
Digital History - Enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
Famous Trials - Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous trials, including the Leopold & Loeb Trial, Scopes Monkey Trial, Andersonville Court Martial, Scottsboro Boys Trials, Haymarket Trial, Lincoln Assassination Trials, Manson Trial, My Lai Courts-Martial, Kelly Michaels Trial, the Hauptmann (Lindbergh Kidnapping) Trial, and more.
H-BOT - Automated historical fact finder search engine.
H-Net - Resources in the arts, humanities and social sciences maintained by an international consortium of scholars and teachers.
Handbook of Texas Online - Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin.
History Commons - A tool for open-content participatory journalism.
History Cooperative - Online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.
History Guide - Subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history with a focus on Anglo-American history and the history of Central and Western Europe.
History in Focus - Provides original articles, book reviews, and links to historical resources. The site is provided by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.
History Matters - Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
History On-Line - Directory to historical research resources.
History On-Line (UK) - Over 40,000 records providing details of books and articles, UK university lecturers, UK current and past research, and evaluated links to on-line resources.
History Place - Fact based approach to the presentation of history prepared by writers and historians.
HistoryMakers - Dedicated to preserving African American history as the missing link in American history. Focused on American history, oral history and education in general and more specifically on African American history, education, music, law, the arts, science, technology, media, medicine, entertainment, fashion and beauty, business, the military, politics and sports.
HyperHistory Online - HyperHistory presents 3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Images from the History of Medicine - Access 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Imperial War Museum - The Imperial War Museum is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present day. The Museum spans a huge range of activities not only at its main London location but also at its three further branches: the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall, the historic ship HMS Belfast, moored in the Pool of London, and Imperial War Museum Duxford near Cambridge.
MATRIX - As H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online's host, MATRIX houses and supports over 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters ("listservs"), edited by scholars in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.
National Park Service: History - More than half of the 390 park areas administered by the National Park Service have been set aside as symbols and evidence of our history and prehistory. Sections of this site are devoted to:
People's History Museum - A national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain.
Real History Archives - Offers a vast array of documents, articles and links to additional materials to aid serious researchers find the truth about our history. Collections include: Kennedy Assassination, Martin Luther King Assassination; Robert Kennedy Assassination; Malcolm X Assassination; Watergate; Iran-Contra; Inslaw/PROMIS; Alger Hiss; Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; Anastasia; TWA Flight 800; OKC Bombing; KAL Flight 007; Waco; Gulf War Syndrome; CIA, Contras and Crack Cocaine; October Surprise; Freeport McMoRan, Cuba and Indonesia; Jose Basulto, Cuba and Helms-Burton; Chase Bank: "Eliminate the Zapitistas "; and Iraqgate: The Illegal Arming of Iraq.
Rulers - This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country entries), as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately.
Virtual Exploration Society - Paddle down the Amazon with Percy Fawcett. Drive a dogsled to the North Pole with Peary and Henson. Go to a mysterious isolated island with the Burden Expedition to capture a living dragon. Risk an ancient Egyptian curse with Howard Carter as he opens the Tomb of King Tut.
World History Sources - A guide to 200 of the best online primary source archives in world history. Eight genre-based guides written by leading world history scholars on analyzing particular genres of evidence and documentation, namely: music, images; objects; maps; newspapers; travel narratives; official documents; and personal accounts.
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