General General history links are sites that collect
links to history sites.
Historical
Text Archive
This award winning site lists articles, eBooks and links to
primary and secondary history resources.
The History Guide This excellent resource was authored by Dr. Steve Kreis and
is aimed at high school and undergraduate students of history. Probably
of most interest are Resources for Historians and the lectures which are
informative documents with links to more information.
History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers and students
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 guides
to analyzing historical evidence. Special interest: Many
Pasts, Making
Sense of Evidence, WWW.History.
VoS:
History
From the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This well organized site is one of the most comprehensive in its collection
of links to sites that are history related. It includes prehistory,
general history links, European,
Asian, US, Latin American, economic, military, journals and much more.
WWW
Virtual Library: History
This excellent resource has a wealth of links and is nearly comprehensive
in its coverage of history.
Yahoo!
History
Browse by region or by categories too numerous to list here.
Primary Sources
Primary sources are records from the past, recorded by people who were
present at the time such as letters, diaries, government documents, photographs,
oral histories, artifacts. .
eserver.org:
History and Historiography
Based at the University of Washington, this is an extensive, award
winning site. This portion of the site contains full text documents of
historical interest.
EyeWitnesstoHistory.com
Read first hand accounts from those who witnessed his troy, from ancient
times to the present day. This award winning site also includes historical
audio and images.
EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
This noteworthy resource from Brigham Young University has links to primary
documents from western European history. Some of the documents included are:
Joan of Arc's Letter to the King of England, The Prince by Machiavelli, Columbus'
Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Churchill's "We
shall defend our island" speech. Note: Not every resource listed here
is in English.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
Based at the University of Evansville, Indiana, this multi-award winning site
covers the Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China,
Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. It includes
maps, links to related web sites, and primary texts archived at the site, such
as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Genesis, The Papyrus of Ani (The
Egyptian Book of the Dead) and more.
Hanover
Historical Texts Project This award winning site from the History Department at Hanover
College, links to primary and in some cases, secondary, texts in history.
Areas of history covered include: The United States, The Americas Outside
of the U.S., Africa, Europe, The Middle East, India and South Asia, East
Asia, and Southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceana. These main categories
are then further subdivided. Find such documents as: Robert C. Weaver's
The Negro as an American, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and selections form the
correspondence of Francesco Petrarca. Note: This is a work in progress,
and not all categories are yet covered.
History and Politics Out Loud
HPOL is the acronym for History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) is a collection
of invaluable audio materials some available for the first time on
this website capturing significant
political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century.
The materials range from formal addresses delivered in public settings
to private telephone conversations conducted from the innermost recesses
of the White House.
History
Matters: Many Pasts
Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey
courses, this portion of the site features first-person primary documents.
The Labyrinth
This site is sponsored by Georgetown University and
is nearly comprehensive in its coverage of Medieval history on the Internet.
It includes links to Medieval and Renaissance documents
archived on the Internet, journals and more.
The Online Medieval
and Classical Library (OMACL)
Browse this resource from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
by Title, Author, Genre or Language. Access Medieval and Classic
literature and historical documents such as The Anglo Saxon Chronicle,
Troilus and Criseyde, or The Fall of Troy.
Perseus Digital Library
Hosted by Tufts University, this site is also sponsored by Harvard University,
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Grant program and many others.
Perseus has received many awards for its outstanding coverage of Greek and
more recently Roman, literature, history, art, and archaeology. This digital
library continues to evolve and now includes many other full text resources,
such as English Renaissance works, and the scientific journals of Robert Boyle.
Reading
About the World: A Reader for the Study of World Civilizations
This site from Washington State University is a virtual
textbook divided into two volumes: Reading About the World, Volume
1, A Reader for the Study of World Civilizations from Ancient Mesopotamia
through the Southern European Renaissance and Reading
About the World, Volume 2, A Reader for the Study of World Civilizations
from the Northern European Renaissance to the Present. Links to the
full text where available. Some of the linked documents include:
Pericles' Funeral Oration, Ono no Komachi's The hue of the cherry,
and Thomas Paine's Profession of Faith.
UH: Digital History
From the University of Houston. The Digital History project provides
first hand accounts of historical events with contextual narrative.
In addition there are resources for instructors, multimedia, timelines
and more. Special interest: Ethnic
Voices.
The
World War I Document Archive
From Brigham Young University. This site offers official
documents, personal reminiscences, a WWI Biographical Dictionary,
a WWI Image Archive, special topics articles and links to other
WWI resources.
World
War II Resources: Primary source materials on the Web
This resource based at the University of North Carolina
includes links to the French Yellow Book, the British War Blue
Book, Time Line of WW2, Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings, speeches
of FDR, related sites and more.
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are accounts of the past written after events have
taken place and generally give overviews or interpret history.
CNN:
Millennium
From CNN. Designed to accompany CNNs critically acclaimed series, this multi-media
site covers the millennium by each century. Each century has a timeline, maps,
profiles of important historical figures, a multimedia recap and more. Note:
Requires the free Macromedia
Flash player.
History World
This interactive site features histories, timelines and articles.
Newseum
The online version of the physical museum, the Newseum archives
online
"Today's" front pages from newspapers around the world. The CyberNewseum archives
front pages from significant historical events, such as 9/11 as well
as
some photojournalism
collections.
PBS Online: History This outstanding resource includes well designed informative
pages to accompany PBS' many history programs. Main categories include
American history, world history, history on tv, biographies and in the
classroom.
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