If you have any suggestions for additional links of interest (or if you know of any updates to existing links) to add to this page, please send them to mwilliamsen@carleton.edu for consideration. Thanks very much.
American, African American, and Native American History
- African American History, Harvard – W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, 1818-1907 – Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., American Memory project.
- Africana Resources – very impressive collection of excellent Africana resources created by the librarians at the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections
- American Indians – index of Native American Internet Resources
- American Travels – Travels in America, 1750-1920
- American Women’s History: see the Women’s and Gender History section below.
- Antietam on the Web – content for those interested in this particular U.S. Civil War engagement. Totally dedicated to the battle of Antietam, highly recommended by S.J. Ramold, Virginia State University.
- Aviation History
- Black Culture – Schomburg Center for Research
- Booker T. Washington papers
- U.S. Census Archives of 1940
- Center for Jewish History – The center houses the libraries and resources of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Some collection catalogs available on-line. Site offers special resources on Jewish women, including Women in Daily Life (found in the Educator and Teacher Resources section).
- Center of the American West – Energy policy, economic theory, land usage, and social interaction in various contexts of western history
- Civil War: The Last Full Measure – Library of Congress Civil War Photograph Collection
- Civil War: Race and Place – Civil War, Carter Woodson links
- Civil War – Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Claudio Saunt’s digital history work: Invasion of America and Pox Americana
- Connecticut Historical Society
- Cornell University’s Samuel Mays Antislavery Collection
- Declassified Documents – Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
- Dohistory.org – Harvard and George Mason University collaboration. A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Case study: Martha Ballard diary (A Midwife’s Tale)
- The Duluth Lynchings Online Resource – Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN.
- Eugenics Archive: Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
- Famous Trials, from Socrates (399 BCE) to Trayvon Martin (2013)
- The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Website, Department of Justice.
- French and Indian War – this U.S. Historian Milestones Page was maintained through 2016, and still includes a lot of information, but it is no longer kept up.
- The French in American History Website
- The Friend of Man – a newspaper published weekly 1836-42 by NY State Antislavery Society, gave voice to black & white abolitionists from rural Upstate New York, by Cornell University’s Dept of Digital Consulting & Production Services
- The Gilded Age
- The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- History News Network (George Mason University). Discussions of current events within a historical framework constructed by historians of differing views. Includes varietyof information: blogs, editorial pieces, topical articles, discussions of books, resource guides to written and digital sources. Mainly focuses on modern history.
- JIM CROW: Remembering Jim Crow
- John Jay Papers, Columbia (from Brandon County, ’00)
- Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection: Harvard University Law School’s digitized collection of 1,400+ documents & correspondences + 100 photos of Joseph B. Keeenan, chief counsel of the International Prosecution Section at the Intl Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo War Crimes Trials)
- Kentucky digital library, includes topics Civil War, coal mining, tobacco, & audio oral histories
- Library of Congress, All Exhibitions Directory
- Library of Congress Traveling Exhibits Loan Procedures
- Massachusetts Historical Society: Massachusetts Maps
- Minnesota Historical Society’s resource on the US-Dakota War
- Minnesota Humanities Center’s Why Treaties Matter virtual exhibit
- Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, check site for current events, too
- National Congress of American Indians
- Newberry Library Digital Collections
- Northfield History Collaborative
- The Oregon History Project: Oregon Historical Society (from Devon McCurdy, ’05, 1/8/04)
- Smithsonian: Celebrate History and Heritage Months
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Knowledge 360
- The Supreme Court Historical Society
- U.S. Women Working, 1870-1930 – documents related to women’s employment in the US, both professional and industrial workers highlighted in thousands of digitized documents, from government reports, personal papers, advertisement circulars, periodical articles and thousands of images.Impressive and important resource.
- Voices of Civil Rights – Profiles activitists from the 1960s including African American Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement, Chicano, gay rights, environmental, and women’s movements. Well organized and easy to navigate, user-friendly even for inexperienced browsers.
- Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice, and Settling the Land — A Historical Whodunit
The Atlantic World
- Brown University: Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice
- John Brown’s Slave Ship Sally papers, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
Cartography, Geography
- Map History – the history of cartography
European History
- The Esternay Project Archive – Directed by Professors Carl Weiner, Scott Carpenter and Daniel Ringrose, the current site’s 800 plus transcribed letters and hundreds of scanned originals and translations centers on three generations of the Poirrier family of notaries in the town of Esternay not far from Paris providing a window into the personal and public lives of French men, women and children in the nineteenth-century
British History
- A Vision of Britain Through Time
- British History Online
- Bibliothèque nationale de France French National Library
- Bodleian Archives: 20th Century International Archives, Oxford University
- Bodley Blogs Archives and Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Catholic Heritage Archives: Catalogue info available from seven archives spread across four European countries, amounting to 35,378 catalogue entries, and over 350 collections
- Declassified Documents, Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
- Dictionary of National Biography, The Million Books Project
- Euro Docs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe – Transcriptions, Faxes, Translations, Brigham Young University.
- French History and Rare Manuscripts: Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France – includes Monarchs & Monasteries (late 8th-late 15th c.), the Path to Royal Absolutism (end of 15th-first half 17th c.), The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy (second half 17th-end of 18th c.), From Empire to Democracy (1799 to present) (Library of Congress)
- French Studies at Carleton
- Heidelberg Historical Archives
- IBIS British-Irish Studies: Clearinghouse for Internet resources.
- The Internet Archive and Open Library
- MAPS of England and Australia (from SO)
Ireland
- American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS) links:
African History
- African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
- African Studies The Norwegian Council for Africa
- The South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET) with weblinks to the South African Archives, the Archival Project at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, German anti-apartheid activities, Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa, The American Committee on Africa (ACOA), and the South African and Cooperation Center
- South African Second Boer War 1899-1902 – links to Anglo-Boer War Centenary, War Museum, Concentration Camps, Military History Journal, Original and Contemporary Sources, Why Australia became involved, Siege of Elands River Post, and more
- SULAIR, Index of Africa, South of the Sahara, substantial list of U.S. and International Organizations and Programs, Stanford
Central Asia – see Middle East and Central Asia
Asian History
General Asian History (East, Central, South)
Asia for Educators, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University: includes timelines and histories of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and South Asia for students and educators
Asian Studies Bibliography – excellent resource from the Association for Asian Studies. Includes 870,000+ citations that can be searched within seconds, easily downloaded and printed; state-of-the-art discovery system with simplified searching and facet-based browsing; and over 400,000 citations from 1992 to the present, plus full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies from 1971–1991.
AsiaRecipe.com (just for fun)
Asian Studies – WWW Virtual Library
Association for Asian Studies: Publications
Castles in Asia: World’s Most Famous Medieval Castles in the Middle East and Asia
Center for Middle East Studies Studies, U. Wisconsin, Madison
Primary Sources in Asian History, Bowdoin
China
- China and Europe, 1500-2000 and Beyond
- Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
- History of China, timeline historical overview, history contents, maps, by Leon Poon, University of Maryland
East Asian
- Bibliography of Asian Studies – excellent resource from the Association for Asian Studies. Includes 870,000+ citations that can be searched within seconds, easily downloaded and printed; state-of-the-art discovery system with simplified searching and facet-based browsing; and over 400,000 citations from 1992 to the present, plus full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies from 1971–1991.
- The East Asian Library and the Gest Collection, Princeton University Library
Japan
Korea
- Korea Web, Frank Hoffman’s (Harvard)
- South Korea, brief history
Vietnam
- Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience: SEAAdoc. The University of California has initiated what has become the single best archival collection on Southeast Asian refugees and their descendants in the US with the Southeast Asia Archive. Some of their material is available here. There are brief overviews of the six main Southeast Asian ethnic groups: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Hmong, Iu-Mien, and ethnic Chinese. These visuals are comprised of color photographs and primary documents, but there is an absence of links to contextual information which limits use for the general public. However, users can obtain instant images of significant historical events and social landmarks in various Southeast Asian American communities, and the site is recommended for all levels and libraries.
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South Asian History
- Bibliography of Asian Studies – excellent resource from the Association for Asian Studies. Includes 870,000+ citations that can be searched within seconds, easily downloaded and printed; state-of-the-art discovery system with simplified searching and facet-based browsing; and over 400,000 citations from 1992 to the present, plus full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies from 1971–1991.
- The Ames Research Library of South Asia at the University of Minnesota
- Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- The Ramayana
- Background on The Ramayana
- Hymns from the Rig Veda
- Harappan Civilization
- Digital South Asia Library
- Digital Colonial Documents – rare 19th century documents of colonial India.
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: India Maps
Latin American History
- H-net discussion group for Latin American history
- The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
- Latin American Studies Association, Pittsburgh
- Library of Congress HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Environment, Science, Technology and Health History
- Environmental History resources, global environmental resources site of Dr. Jan Oosthoek, Environmental Historian, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Environmental History websites, American Society for Environmental History
- History of Diseases – Medical Library Association
- History of Health Sciences links – Medical Library Association
- History of Science and Technology resources, History of Science Society
- Infectious Diseases resources – Public Health.org
- Public Health resources – HRSA (government agency: Health Research and Services Administration)
- The United States Environment and Climate Change Timeline
Medieval History
- Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC)
- Animated Bayeux Tapestry
- The Labyrinth Library, Georgetown University
- Medieval English Towns – Massive and unique web site covers all aspects of medieval urban communities. Should be your first stop on a research tour of medieval cities and towns!
- Rare French manuscripts
Middle East and Central Asia
- Afghanistan Online: Afghan History
- Middle East History In the News – Guide to resources available on the WWW for those interested in Middle East culture and history
- Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
- Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
- World Wide Resources for the Study of Central Eurasia – Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Women’s and Gender Studies
- Discovering Women’s History Online – Research Guides
- Center for Jewish History – the center houses the libraries and resources of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Some collection catalogs available on-line. Site offers special resources on Jewish women, including Women in Daily Life (found in the Educator and Teacher Resources section).
- Women’s Studies at Carleton
- Women & Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
- The National Women’s History Project
- The Women’s International Center- History of U.S. Women
- Feminist History Research Center
- U.S. Women Working, 1870-1930 offers a plethora of documents related to women’s employment in the US, both professional and industrial workers highlighted in thousands of digitized documents, from government reports, personal papers, advertisement circulars, periodical articles and thousands of images. Impressive and important resource.
Public History / Digital History / Digital Humanities
- Carleton College History Department Public History Thread
- Center for Digital Humanities and Public History
- CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
- Digital History Links – University of Houston
- Digital History Resources – AHA Guide
- Digital Humanities Resource Guide
- Scope Program: Northfield Community Engagement Program for History Majors.
- National Council on Public History (NCPH) – Student Resources and Internships
- Archives and Public History Internships, NYU
Other History Internet Resources
- Film History: Archiving the Avant-garde, article w/ film history links
- Digital archive of the Princeton Blue Mountain project. This collection contains fully searchable issues of important periodicals of the European avant-garde. This collection contains 3,748 issues comprising 80,997 pages and 86,126 articles.
- Cornell University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- National Archives
- National Archives Office of Presidential Libraries
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- Library of Congress
- History Cooperative
- Smithsonian Institution
- United States Capitol Historical Society
- White House Historical Society
- Supreme Court Historical Association
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
- ABC-CLIO History Resources. A source for History references.
- The Journal for Multimedia History, from the Department of History from SUNY, Albany — a peer-reviewed electronic journal that presents, evaluates, and disseminates multimedia historical scholarship.
- The Best History Web Sites
- Cite Link – How to Cite Internet Sources
- H-NET, Humanities Online
- Project Gutenberg (free e-books)
- Digital Book Index – free e-Books, e-texts and Historical e-Documents
- The Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- J-Stor – The Scholarly Journal Storage Archive
- Library of Congress
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Naval History: Naval History – http://www.naval-history.net/ – Concentration on WWI, WWII, and Falklands War, mainly British, but includes US, French, Japanese, German and Italian navies, with detailed lists, statistics and summaries of naval military history, naval vessels, merchant ships lost at sea, campaign chronologies, outlines of the navies of WWI and ship profiles. Good table of contents format and site search engine make site easy and effective.
- On-Line Books Page
- Public Libraries of the World
History Fun, Games, and Prizes
- ELIE WIESEL PRIZE IN ETHICS, prize in ethics essay contest is an annual competition for college students. Full-time juniors and seniors in the U.S. are welcome to enter the Essay Contest and compete for $10,000 in prizes. Guidelines & Entry forms. December deadlines.
- BBC History Pages
- U.K. teens History games
- Have Fun with History
- History Channel Games
- History Fun Quizzes and Trivia
- Best History Games – Animations:
- Ancient History Games and Animations
- Medieval History Games and Animations
- Early Modern History Games Early U.S History Games
- Nation-Building U.S. History Games and Animations
- Modern U.S. History Games and Animations
- Modern World History Games and Animations
- Animated Maps
- Animated Timelines