History on the Internet
Internet Sites
McMichael, Andrew, Michael O'Malley, and Roy Rosenzweig. Historians and the Web: A Guide.
O'Malley, Michael and Roy Rosenzweig. Brave New World or Blind Alley: History on the World Wide Web.
Smith, Carl. Can You Do Serious History on the Web?
Currently this is a listing of the internet sites of possible internest to historians. In the future the sites listed here will only be comprehensive sites. Sites that are subject or content specifi c (ie. statistics, etc) will be listed in their respective places in the guide.
European Register of Microform Masters
http://www.brzn.de/eromm/gbvero-e.htm
Browseover 350,000 records of reformatted books held by European Libraries. More
than half of these items were published between 1850 and 1950. Copies of the books
can be purchased.
The Historical Text Archive
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History
Maintained by Mississippi State University. It started as one of the first FTP sites
for historians on the Net and is now massive, searchable and organized by continent
and country.
HyperHistory
http://www.hyperhistory.com:80/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Presents 3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines,
timelines, and maps.
Making of America Project
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/moa-main_page.html
The Making of America (MOA) Project is a multi-institutional initiative (University
of Michigan and Cornell University) to create and make accessible over the internet
a distributed digital library of important 19c materials (primarily books and journals
of the period) on the history of the United States.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
Links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are
transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical
happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political,
economic, social and cultural history).
American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
Byzantium 1200
http://byzantium1200.org/
Byzantium 1200 is a project aimed at creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine
Monuments located in Istanbul, TURKEY as of year 1200 AD. Created by A. Tayfun Oner
and Albrecht Berger.
Byzantine Studies on the Internet
http://www.bway.net/~halsall/byzantium.html
Scholarly site with links to other sites as well as primary documents and encyclopedic
discussions of issues. Aimed at students and teachers.
Perseus Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Perseus Project is digital library of resources (textual and visual materials ) for
the study of the ancient world and beyond. The site also includes full text copies
of major reference ressources for the classical scholar.
Duke Papyrus Archive
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of
1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
Diotima
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html
Diotima explores gender issues in the ancient Mediterranean. The site includes course
materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography (with an emphasis
on recent work), and links to many on-line articles, book reviews, databases, and
images. Ross Scaife and
Suzanne Bonefas launched this project in early 1995.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm
A comprehensive "encyclopedic" site with discussions and links about the
regions of the world and their ancient cultures.
Electronic Resources for
Classicists
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html
Comprehensive listing of databases, bibliographies, web sites and course materials
for classical scholars in Greco-Roman civilization.
Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient
and Medieval Internet
http://argos.evansville.edu/
Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide
Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds. Argos searches
a small set of Associate Sites and all the pages to which they link.
RASSEGNA
DEGLI STRUMENTI INFORMATICI PER LO STUDIO DELL'ANTICHITÀ CLASSICA
http://ecn01.economia.unibo.it/dipartim/stoant/rassegna1/intro.html
Italian index to the ancient world.
Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
http://odur.let.rug.nl/arge/
ARGE is an ordered collection of hypertext links pointing to current archaeological
communication and information resources across Europe. Links are accessed by country,
by subject, by period, or by a database search. ARGE aims to present information
in its original language, and is currently working on the implementation of multilingual
access and searching.
Ancient World Web
http://www.juden.net/aw/
Includes topices before 700 AD, to 1000 AD. Also includes non-wesetern ancient culutres
such as, the Aztecs, the Olmecs, the Inca, the Navajo, the Mohawk.
Tables of Contents of Journals
of Interest to Classicists
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tocs.html
Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient
and Medieval Internet
http://argos.evansville.edu/
Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide
Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds. Argos searches
a small set of Associate Sites and all the pages to which they link.
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://orb.rhodes.edu/
Excellent site, still under development. See the encyclopedia and the primary documents.
Also includes syllabi
The Labyrinth
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to
electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown
University. Labyrinth will include a full range of new resources: an electronic library
(including primary texts), on-line forums, professional directories and news, on-line
bibliographies, an on-line "university" of teachers and scholars available
for electronic conferencing, and an archive of pedagogical tools. THIS IS THE PLACE
TO START!
Netsurf
http://netserf.cua.edu/
Interesting and extensive collection of papers, online reference resources and databases
for medieval studies.
Medieval
Feminist Index (MFI)
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/whatis.html
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality,
and gender during the Middle Ages.
Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
http://odur.let.rug.nl/arge/
ARGE is an ordered collection of hypertext links pointing to current archaeological
communication and information resources across Europe. Links are accessed by country,
by subject, by period, or by a database search. ARGE aims to present information
in its original language, and is currently working on the implementation of multilingual
access and searching.
Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/misc/credits.html
Begun as a class project, this site is a scholarly compilation of primary and secondary
documents as well as web sites concerning Victorian Britain.
Vietnam War Bibliography
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html/
Ed Moïse has compiled this lenghthy bibliography of books about the Vietnam
War. The site does include some government documents and microfilmed collections,
but excludes journal articles.
United States
American and British History Resources Review:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html
Electronic texts and library information on American and British history from ancient
to modern times were compiled by three men at Rutgers University in New Brunswick,
NJ. A few links are resticted to the Rutgers University community.
United States Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
The mission of the center, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, is: to locate,
index, and / or make available all appropriate private and public data regarding
the Civil War, and to promote the study of the Civil War from the perspectives of
all professions, occupations, and academic disciplines.
Index of Native American Resources
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/misc/NAresources.html
Links to historical and present-day sources. Includes bibliographies, oral histories,
links to activist groups.for material.
ABZU: GUIDE TO RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AVAILABLE ON
THE INTERNET: A project and publication of The Research Archives of the Oriental
Institute, Chicago
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML
Indexes research projects as well as internet sites.
Ecole Initiative
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/index.html
Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church history.
Alexander Palace Time Machine
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/
History Reviews
http://www.depauw.edu/~dtrinkle/hrol.html
History Reviews On-Line is an electronic journal devoted to reviewing books on all
fields of history. It is supported by the DePauw University and is issued three times
a year--Fall, Winter, and Spring/Summer.
Historical Social, Economic and Demographic Data (US)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. The data displayed here were inititally created by ICPSR. Data can be browsed,
but not downloaded.
History Departments Around the World
http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts
Most of these links to history departments are from the U.S., although there are
a few entries that push this site into the "international" arena.
Archives and Archivists
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/harlanjohnb/archives.html
A mass of links to online archival exhibits full of raw data. It's also and archivist's
dream: Discussions of how the Internet effects the preservation and dissemination
of archival information. Using the resources here you can visit university sites,
private and commercial Web archives. Miami University CWIS John Harlan, maintains
this site.
Organization of American Historians
http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/index.html
Links to web sites for the history profession, especially other history associations.
Voice of the Shuttle
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
A HUGE master index for the humanities.
WWW Sites for Historians
http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/hist.html
Gateway to World History
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/gateway/
An eclectic collection of historical resources on the web
Horus
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html
University of California-Riverside's attempt to organize history sites. See the index
section. http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-tools/indxs.html
WWW Services for Historians
http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/hist.html
From George M. Welling in The Netherlands. The main page is about the Association
for History and Computing, an international organization promoting the use of computers
in historical teaching and research.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html
Historians can peruse the limited number of links here to find various history indices,
conferences and newsgroups on historical subjects.
Michigan Electronic Library
http://mel.lib.mi.us/humanities/history/HIST-index.html
Master index of lots of history sites.
World History Compass
http://www.lexiconn.com/lis/schcomp/whl/index.htm
History news and links by country.
HISTORY WWW-VL (University of Kansas)
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html
Ugly, but very comprehnsive listing of historical sites.
INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/ihr0101.html
Provides a bbs service and acts as a gateway to historical sites.
Historical Maps: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_main.html
Premire map collection. See the historical section for maps througout the world.
Also look at their links to other historical map collections.
Map History
http://www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/
Bibliography, locations of collections and activities for historical catographers.