Web Resources - History

General History Resources

• American Memory Project, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.

• The History Channel
   
• Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive

United States History

• African American History Resources, from Academic Info.

• African-American Pamphlets, spans almost 100 years, with heaviest coverage between 1875 and 1900. The collection includes sermons on racial pride and political activism, biographies, slave narratives, and documents on the colonization of Africa by freed slaves. From the Library of Congress's Daniel A. P. Murray Collection.

• United States History - An Index of Resources for Historians
  -- http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/
  
  A compiled list of hyperlinks detailing specific places and events in American history.

• The Declaration of Independence
  -- http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/independ/declar.html
  
  The Declaration of Independence in its original context.

• Index of Civil War Information
  -- http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm
  
  Perhaps the most extensive index of information of the Civil War available via the internet with over 2100 links comprising such topics as specific battles, uniforms, and governments.

• Presidents of the United States
  -- http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

• United States Historical Documents -- From the University of Oklahoma Law Center

European History and Western Civ

• British History (Britannia), includes timeline of British history from 2300 BC to the present. Many entries have links to further information concerning the geographic place or historical event mentioned. Additional sections include: monarchs of Britain, historical documents of England and Wales, history resources and maps, and sketches of the Prime Ministers of England.

• The Camelot Project
  -- http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/CPHOME.stm
  Provides detailed information regarding legends of King Arthur and Camelot.

• Remember.org   - Cybrary of the Holocaust

• Russian Constitution

• Victorian Database Online, allows you to search over 70,000 records containing bibliographic records of books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1970 to 1999 dealing with nineteenth-century British studies. Accessible from UK campus machines.

• Victoria Research Web, hosted by Indiana University. Designed to assist researchers, teachers, and students studying nineteenth century Britain.

• Viking Culture and Norse Civilization, list of resources related to Viking history and compiled from the Internet. Maintained on behalf of Labyrinth by The World of the Vikings Project. Covers research projects, museums, mailing lists, networks, databases, and collections.

World History - Non Western Civ

• Egyptological Bibliography, published annually by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for the Near East.

• Encyclopedia of the Orient, encyclopedia of all cultures in North Africa and the Middle East. Many of the listings in this alphabetical collection of countries, customs, and phrases are linked to more in-depth summaries and articles.

• Mexican History

• Middle East Network Information Center, from University of Texas.

• UN Information System on the Question of Palestine, UN documents dating from 1922 to the present.

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