HISTORICAL LINKS (POST 1500 C.E.)

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• 911digitalarchive: The September 11 Digital Archive.
• 911 Terrorism Bibliography: Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism & the Attacks of September 11, 2001.
• AMAWAL: Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures from the American Memory Project.
• Amdocs: Documents for the Study of American History.
• American and British History: American and British History resources from Rutgers University.
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• America in the 1930s: America in the 1930s was created in June 1998 for the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia.
• American Memory: American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
• American Presidents: American Presidents, Life Portraits.
• American Women: Unlike most American Memory presentations, American Women is not a collection of digital items, but, rather, it is a gateway--a first stop for Library of Congress researchers working in the field of American women's history.
• American Women's History: American Women's History: A Research Guide maintained by Ken Middleton at MTSU Library.
• AMHOME: Homepage of the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• AMLAW: A century of lawmaking, 1774-1873, from the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• An Gorta Mor: The Great Irish Famine.
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources from the National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162 edited by William Burr.
• Australian History: Australian History on the Internet from the National library of Australia.
• The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from the Yale Law School.
• Battle of Britain Historical Society: The Battle of Britain Historical Society and RAF Fighter Command 1940.
• Best of History: A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts.
• Biography of America: Campanion website to the videoseries.
• Bisbee Deportation of 1917: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States.
• BOB: The Battle of Britain History Site.
• British History Online : Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
• Bunker Hill: To mark the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Massachusetts Historical Society presents this "web exhibition" -- personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved by the participants or found on the battlefield.
• CAHO: Columbia American History online.
• Canadiana: A Canadian Resource Page compiled by Stewart M. Clamen.
• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources by St. Francis Xavier University.
• CAIN: The Northern Ireland Conflict (1968 to the Present).
• CDL: Cleveland Digital Library.
• Center of Military History: Department of the Army site.
• CHNM: Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
• The Churchill Papers: A catalog of the Churchill papers held at the Churchill Archives Centre.
• Civil War Treasures: Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society, part of the Library of Congress, American Memories Project.
• Colonial Connecticut: Colonial Connecticut, public records from 1636-1776.
• CHS: Connecticut Historical society.
• CONSHOME: The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 from the American Memory Project.
• Current History: Online Journal of world affairs.
• CWIHP: Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
• CWIS: Chief George Manuel Memorial Library and Fourth World Documentation Library.
• Dictionary of Wisconsin History: An online dictionary that is part of the Turning Points in Wisconsin History digital project of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
• Digital History: Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning.
• Documents of the Continental Congress: From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• eHistory.com: The Department of History at The Ohio State University is proud to be the new home of eHistory.com consisting of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps.
• The electric Ben Franklin: Introduction to the life and work of ben Franklin.
• EMW: The Early Modern Women database.
• Encyc. of British History: Encyclopaedia of British History: 1500-1950.
• The E Pluribus Unum Project: Site designed for the use of students, teachers, and other researchers who wish to examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life: the 1770s, the 1850s, and the 1920s.
• Eugenics Archive: The unfiltered story of American eugenics – primarily through materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940.
• EuroInternet: Information Resources Related to European Integration in the Internet.
• Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe.
• Famous Trials: Maintained at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School by Professor Doug Linder.
• First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 from the LOC's American Memory Project.
• Firstworldwar.com: A guide to online resources.
• Florida Memory project: The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research.
• Founders Constitution: Hailed as "the Oxford English Dictionary of American constitutional history," the print edition of The Founders' Constitution has proved since its publication in 1986 to be an invaluable aid to all those seeking a deeper understanding of one of our nation's most important legal documents.
• FPNAS: First person narratives of the American South 1860 to 1920, from the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• France in America /France en Amérique: Conceived in partnership with France’s national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France in America /France en Amérique is a bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress.
• Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass papers of the Library of Congress.
• FSM: Free Speech digital archive at Berkeley.
• George Grantham Bain Collection : The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies primarily covering New York City from the 1900s to the mid-1920s with 39,744 glass negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic prints available online.
• German Propaganda Archive: Nazi and East German Propaganda Guide.
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history.
• Hanford Cultural and Historic Resources: Hanford Cultural and Historic Resources Program of the United States Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office with resources include history, both tribal and settler, the Manhattan and Cold War Eras, the built environment, and engineering achievements.
• Harlem History: Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia University about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods.
• Historical Census Browser: Population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960.
• Historical Directories: Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales,
• Historical Maps Online: The intent of the Historical Maps Online project is to publish electronically the images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory. from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.
• History and Historiography: Resources from Carnegie Mellon University.
• History: Central Catalogue: World Wide Web Virtual Library History Central Catalogue maintained at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
• History Guide: The History Guide is an Internet subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history. Resources are described and evaluated with a set of Dublin Core meta-data.
• History: Iraq: Directory of resources from the Virtual Library.
• Historic Events: Historic Events and Birthdays.
• Historymatters: A U.S. survey course on the web.
• History of televised debates: The Great Debate & Beyond: The History of Televised Presidential Debates.
• HPOL: History and Politics Out Loud is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics.
• HUJI: The Jewish History Resource Center with 6000 links to websites in more than 30 categories.
• IISG: International Institute of Social History.
• IMHS: The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.
• In the First Person: Free database with n-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world.
• Interactivepublishing: 9/11 Screenshot archive.
• International Institute of Social History: The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935 and is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular.
• Internet History Sourcebooks: Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented without advertising or excessive layout for educational use by Fordham University, edited by Paul Halsall.
• Irish History on the web: Irish History on the Web was created by Jackie Dana in 1995 at the University of Texas at Austin and has has sixteen searchable categories.
• IWM collections Online: Access to material covering all aspects of twentieth century conflict; includes detailed catalogue information for over 160,000 items from the Imperial War Museum's collecting departments.
• JACAR: JACAR is a digital database of Japan's historical records testifying to its pre-war relations with the Asian countries.
• The James Madison Papers: The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000 items captured in some 72,000 digital images.
• Jefferson: The Thomas Jefferson digital archive.
• Jewish Women's Archive: The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world.
• JFK link: Archive of documents relevant to the "life, administration, death, and legacy" of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
• July 1942: Companion to the Smithsonian's July 1942: United We Stand exhibit.
• Kentuckiana: Kentuckiana digital library.
• Korea: the Unfinished War: Examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century.
• Korean-American Digital Archive: The Korean-American Digital Archive brings more than 13,000 pages of documents, more than 1,900 photographs and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection.
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.
• Life after the Holocaust: "Life After the Holocaust" is an oral history project documenting the life experiences of Holocaust survivors from the end of World War II to the present.
• Life in Elizabethan England: A compendium of common knowledge 1558-1603.
• Lincoln: Lincoln digitization project at NIU.
• The Lincoln Library: The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
• Maine Memory Network: The Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum that provides unprecedented access to over 10,000 historical items from over 160 museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations from every corner of Maine.
• MBC: Museum of Broadcast Communications.
• Middle East: History in the News-Middle East from SUNY Albany.
• MOA: Making of America, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the University of Michigan.
• More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution.
• NADP: This project was begun in 1992 by Prof. E.A. Schwartz to develop methods for making documents of federal Indian policy history accessible by computer.
• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration.
• NAresources: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet from thw WWW Virtual Library.
• National Museum of American History: The National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian.
• Naval Historical Center: Department of the Navy's Naval Historical Center homepage.
• NAWSA - Votes for Women: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 from the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• New American Studies Web: From Georgetown University.
• New France, new horizons: o mark the 400th anniversary of the French presence in North America in 2004, France and Canada are re-creating their singular adventure and sparking new interest in their shared history, by putting documents online, reproduced in their entirety using the latest digitization technologies, and making them accessible to a broad public.
• New York History net: For historians and students of New York history and culture.
• The Nizkor project: The site offers links to Holocaust sites, a vast compilation of ducumentation, and also confronts Holocaust deniers.
• NR: National Register of Historic place names.
• NSA: The British Library National Sound Archive.
• NWTA: Northwest Territory Alliance, Revolutionary War Re-enactment.
• Oklahombres: The Study of Oklahoma Lawman and Outlaw History, an online journal.
• Photographing History: National Museum of American History's exhibit photographs of the Nixon administration.
• Presidential Libraries: The Office of Presidential Libraries or the National Archives and Records Administration.
• Public History Resource Cener: The Public History Resource Center exists to support, promote, and disseminate the scholarly and professional work of public historians.
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey: Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834.
• Radical America: Radical America was a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine long outlived its seedbed and shows something about the effort to place an intellectual stamp on the radical impulses of the late twentieth century.
• Raid on Deerfield: Raid On Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704.
• Radio History: Radio History and links.
• The Rohde to Srebrenica: The Rohde to Srebrenica is the first case study in international human rights reporting to be created by Elements of International Reporting at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
• Samuel F. B. Morse papers at the Library of Congress: Over 6,500 items presented as part of the American Memory Project.
• September 11: September 11 Resources from the University of Arizona.
• September 11, 2001, Documentary Project: The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93.
• September11.archive: September 11 Web Archive.
• September11news.com: Selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the September 11 Historic Internet Collection.
• Sixties: The Sixties Project.
• Smithsonian Institution: Homepage.
• Spartacus Educational: Online historical resources from the U. K's Schoolnet.
• The Struggle for Iraq: BBC News coverage of Iraq.
• Thehistorynet: Historical information and resources.
• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links: 10,000-Link Globe-Gate Supersite organized by topics.
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: A definitive and comprehensive reference work on the Volunteer State cosponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the Tennessee Historical Society.
• Third New York: A revolutionary war re-enactment group in the NWTA.
• This shall be the land for women: Women's Sufferage in the American West, 1860-1920.
• Today in History : Historical events.
• The Television News Archive: Collection at Vanderbilt University.
• USHMM: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• The Valley of the Shadow: The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War.
• Veterans History Project: The Veterans History Project relies on volunteers to collect and preserve stories of wartime service.
• Victorian Database: Victorian Studies on the Web.
• The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.
• The Vietnam Project: Texas Tech University established the Vietnam Center, with the dual missions of funding and guiding the development of the Vietnam Archive and encouraging continuing study of all aspects of the American Vietnam experience.
• Vietnam War Bibliography: Vietnam War Bibliography by Richard Jensen.
• Vietnam War Bibliography: Edwin E. Moïse's Vietnam War Bibliography.
• Voices of Civil Rights: AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all.
• Wars of Vietnam: Covers Wars of Vietnam 1945 through 1975, from Vassar.
• The Whole World Was Watching: An oral history of 1968.
• WOMEN IMMIGRANTS: Women Immigrants 1945 to the present compiled by Eleanore O. Hofstetter.
• Women in American History: From the Encyclopedia Britanica.
• Women Working 1870-1930: provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections.
• Womhist: Women and social movements in the United States, 1775-2000.
• Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers: The Harry Ransom Center's online exhibit of the Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers provides a small sample of the materials found in the collection.
• Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting from the American Memory Project.
• WW I Documents: This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List .
• Worldwar2: World War II Database of historical government publications.
• WWII Oral History: Rutgers' Oral History Archives of World War II.

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