World-Wide Web Resources
History

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Sites Added Since May 25

  • The History Cooperative, nonprofit humanities resource offering online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.
  • Vietnam Project, from Texas Tech University.

    • General Resources

  • ABSEES Online, the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Searchable by ten different fields, including author, title, subject, date of publication, and publisher. Available to University of Kentucky on-campus users and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • American and British History Resources on the Internet, from Rutgers University.

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

  • American Periodicals Series Online (1741 - 1900+), offering scanned and searchable fulltext images from over 1,100 American periodcals. Accessible off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • American Women's History

  • Ancient World Web

  • Arachnion, A Journal of Ancient Literature and History. International refereed journal of classic (Greek and Latin) literature and ancient (Greek and Roman) history.

  • Archival Data Online Repository, from the University of Wisconsin Data and Program Library Service. Includes US riot and civil disorder data from 1961-1968, slave movement during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Russian and French Bureaucracies of the 18th & 19th and 17th & 18th centuries respectively, and the Catasto Study, a census and property survey in Florentine Domains and Verona, Italy, in the 15th century. Each study contains a description, data codebooks and documentation, citation instructions, and, after free registration, the data (UNIX tar.z or DOS self-extracting .exe files) from the study.

  • Atomic Bomb Decision, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, text of declassified documents.

  • Avalon Project, Yale University Law School. Seeks to "mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." The documents are presented both chronologically and by topic (under Major Collections), ranging from the Athenian Constitution to the 1992 European Parliament Resolution on the Situation in Tibet.

  • Best of History Web Sites, provides categorized links to hundreds of "history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness."

  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), coverage from 1991. includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Access via the category home pages (see below), through alphabetical indices (author, subject, title, and institution); and by searching. Materials are divided into the following categories:
  • working papers
  • journal abstracts (with selected fulltext)
  • books
  • policy briefs
  • case studies
  • course packs
  • Scholarly Events in Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  • maps and country data (from the CIA World Factbook)
    • Available on all campus machines and off-campus to UK affiliates via the proxy server; please follow these instructions.

  • Defining Gender, 1450-1910, "Advice Literature for men and women." Access to approximately 50,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets are featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals. Structured into five sections: Conduct and Politeness (Section I) [available as of 3/10/04] and Domesticity and the Family (Section II) [available summer 2004]; the other three will be made available over the next three years: Consumption and Leisure (Section III), Education and Sensibility (Section IV) and The Body (Section V). Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • Diotima, Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.

  • Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada, fifth edition. Sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, Business Archives Section. Reference resource for business historians and researchers. Archive entries include contact information, conditions of access, holdings, and a description.

  • ECHO, Exploring and Collecting History Online: Science & Technology. Centralized guide for those looking for sites on the history of science and technology.

  • 18th Century Resources, a collection of Internet resources related to the 18th century, including literature, art, history, and the history of science. Also includes a complete catalogue of electronic texts from the 18th century, roughly from Milton to Keats.

  • Essays in History, journal published annually by the graduate students of the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. Includes both articles and book reviews pertaining to history. Includes archival issues.

  • Ethnic World Survey, provides links to ethnic, native and national related web sites all over the globe. Allows users to find information on ethnic, native and nationalists affairs in Africa, Americas, Asia/CIS, Europe and Oceania.

  • Eurasia Research Center, contains links to news and other resources on Post-Communist-Post Soviet Eurasia. Subpages deal with the Balkans, Western CIS Countries, Central Asia, the Middle East and South Asia. Includes news and information, human rights organizations and The Eurasia Research Center Document and Image Library.

  • Guides for Washington & Lee History Courses

  • H-GIG, Horus' Web Links to History Resources. Presented by the Department of History, UC Riverside.

  • Historical Abstracts, reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). The database provides annotated bibliographic entries from 2,000 journals published worldwide. Accessible on-campus or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • The Historical Text Archive, from Mississippi State University. Large collection of historical texts, photos, and maps with hyperlinks to resources on other servers.

  • The History Cooperative, nonprofit humanities resource offering online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.

  • History Data Service, collects, catalogues, manages, preserves and promotes the re-use of scholarly digital resources. Free, but requires registration.

  • History Place, including the Abraham Lincoln Timeline, The US Civil War, World War II Timeline, The Rise of Adolf Hitler, and President Kennedy photos. Timelines include photos, speeches, and texts. This site also hosts the Speech of the Week (archived), where you can read important words spoken by prominent world figures.

  • History Resources, from the WWW Virtual Library.

  • History Resources, from Yahoo.

  • History/Social Studies Web Site, for K-12 Teachers.

  • History Universe: Access to Primary Resources (available on-campus and via the proxy server). (Note: to view the .pdf documents in this resource, you will need to click on the link to the document, then hit the RELOAD button of your browser.) Searchable access to microform collection guides. Indexed collections include
  • Confederate Military Manuscripts, Series A
  • Documents of the National Security Council
  • Letters Received by the Attorney General, 1809-1870, Western Law and Order
  • Map Room Files of President Roosevelt, 1939-1945
  • Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation Collection
  • Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1922-1955
  • Minutes of Meetings of the National Security Council
  • Minutes of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor
  • National Security Files
  • Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
  • Papers of George C. Marshall, Selected World War II Correspondence
  • Papers of the NAACP
  • Political Activities of the Johnson White House
  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Office Files, 1953-1961
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files, 1933-1945
  • President Harry S Truman's Office Files, 1945-1953
  • President John F. Kennedy's Office Files, 1961-1963
  • Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
  • Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
  • Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Central Classified Files, 1907-1939
  • Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
  • Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992
  • Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970
  • Records of the Women's Bureau of the US Dept. of Labor, Part 1
  • Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries
  • Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries
  • War in Vietnam: Papers of William C. Westmoreland
  • War on Poverty, 1964-1968

  • H-Net Book Review Project, collection of online academic book reviews, put together by the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Project at Michigan State University. The site contains over 600 scholarly reviews (as of June 30, 1997) on a wide variety of subjects, searchable and sortable in any number of ways, from author and title to ISBN and LC number. Most of the reviews are of books published in the last 3-4 years, and some of them have replies and commentaries by authors appended.

  • Homelands, guide to secession and autonomy movements in America and around the world.

  • International Institute of Social History, documentary and research institution for social history in general and for the history of the labor movement in particular. Includes catalog of the IISH's 2,000 archival collections which hold over one million printed volumes and about as many audio-visual items. Also included are a listing of current books put out by the Institute's publishing house, a digital social history archive of "relevant parts of the Internet," and the online newsletter of the Institute for the International Association of Labour History Institutions. Two other items of interest are a collection of useful social and labor history links and digital editions of recent exhibitions at the IISH.

  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance. non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. The Journals Database includes approximately 230,000 records (as of October 2000) from secondary materials published in over 400 journals, from 1859 to the present. Proxy Access.

  • Kentucky Association of Teachers of History

  • Labyrinth: Medieval Studies, global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a server at Georgetown University. Contains links to medieval texts as well as current research.

  • Medieval History Resources

  • NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources.

  • On-Line Text Materials for Medieval Studies, compendium of extracts and full text documents in Medieval History.

  • Search Argos, search for web sites and documents that cover the ancient world.

  • The Sixteenth Century Journal, encompassing art, literature, and history from 1450 to the end of the 30 Years' War.

  • Sixties, a detailed historical overview, with text, visuals, and sound.

  • The Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., supports social science and history education in schools (K-12).

  • Texts and Documents, a guide to ancient, medieval, early modern and modern works.

  • ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals. Compiled at the International Institute of Social History.

  • The World War I Document Archive, compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L) and provided by Brigham Young University, this site offers a large number of primary documents related to the First World War.

  • WWII Resources, provided by the Pearl Harbor Working Group in an effort to combat "history by sound bites." Holds a large number of primary source materials related to the war. Users will find a large number of speeches, treaties, official declarations and reports and diplomatic documents. Additional resources include timelines, maps, comprehensive information on Pearl Harbor, links to complete online books, and collections of related links.

    • U.S. Resources

  • African American History Archive, from Mississippi State University.

  • 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.

  • America: History and Life, bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 annotated bibliographic entries. Accessible on-campus or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • The American Civil War, 1861-1865: WWW Information Archive.
  • The American Civil War Homepage
  • Civil War Center, Louisiana State University.
  • Civil War Maps, from the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (American Memory Project).
  • Civil War Page, information nexus complete with historic portraits and biographies, author interviews, and excerpts from writings of the period.
  • Civil War Photographs, from the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
  • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors, United States Colored Troops.
  • Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet.
  • Madison County Civil War Roundtable
  • The Papers of Jefferson Davis, includes full-text of a number of Davis' letters and speeches, a bibliography, chronology, family genealogy, FAQ, indexes to volumes 7-9 of the complete edition of Davis' works and papers, and an annotated list of links to other Civil War sites.
  • Valley of the Shadow: The Civil War on Internet. Documents the experience of the Civil War in a single Virginia community. It features both graphic and text layouts and consists of an archive that includes public records, letters and diaries, newspapers, military records, maps and images.
  • Women and the Civil War, manuscript sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University.
  • American Graduate, provided by the Department of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. E-journal of social and cultural history aimed at graduate students in History and related fields. Each issue will include essays written by graduate students, book reviews, news and announcements, and interviews with established historians.

  • American Historical Association

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

  • American Studies Electronic Crossroads (ASEC). Sponsored by the American Studies Association and hosted by Georgetown University, a collection of resources for using technology in American Studies classrooms.

  • American Studies Resources, from the University of Virginia.

  • Appalachian History (History 580), University of Kentucky.

  • Archiving Early America, contains selected facsimiles (in .jpg format) from the Keigwin and Mathews Collection of early American documents. Most of these facsimiles are taken from early American newspapers and magazines and include the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Northwest Ordinance, and Jay's Treaty, among others.

  • Atomic Bomb Decision, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, text of declassified documents.

  • George Bush Presidential Library

  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U. S. Congressional Documents & Debates 1774-1873. From the Library of Congress' American Memory Project.

  • Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents

  • CodeTalk, federal agencies who operate Native American programs sponsor this information-sharing network for, and about, Native Americans. Includes government program information, an electronic consultation feature, and links to other Native American Internet information.

  • Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library. First stage of a larger project to document the cultural history of the American South. The primary sources offered include diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery, and regional literature drawn from the Southern holdings of the UNC-CH library. Materials are encoded using SGML and HTML formats.

  • Documents for the Study of American History, from the University of Kansas.

  • Documents in American History

  • Early America Review, quarterly e-journal produced by DEV Communications, Inc., aimed toward both scholarly and lay readers.

  • Elections U.S.A., database of all presidential elections since 1948 plus gubernatorial and U.S. Senate election results in all 50 states.

  • Elliot's Debates: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.

  • First Kentucky Orphan Brigade, presents historical and genealogical information on the largest unit from Kentucky to serve in the Confederate forces during the War Between the States, 1861-1865.

  • First Nations Histories, project to encompass approximately 240 tribal histories (from contact to 1900) of Native Americans from the lower 48 states and parts of Canada and Mexico.

  • The French and Indian War, history, documents, and data relating to the French and Indian War(1755-1763), especially the French soldiers.

  • The Gulf War, includes information about the Gulf War from PBS in conjunction with their Frontline television special which ran Jan 9th & 10th, 1996.

  • Historical Documents, organized chronologically by century.

  • Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, from "Digital Schomberg" of the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library's Digital Library.

  • Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents, full-text of inaugural addresses from 1789 - 1989. Search "inaugural address of the presidents" in the Bartleby Library.

  • Inaugurations in American Memory, from the Library of Congress.

  • IPUMS, from the University of Minnesota. Provides on-line access to the public-access population database. Composed of national samples of thirteen U.S. censuses from 1850 through 1990. Quantitative source for the study of long-run social and economic change.

  • JFK Assassination

  • JFK Executive Orders, the 214 Executive Orders issued by John F. Kennedy during his Presidency. Made available by the University of Michigan.

  • Kentucky Explorer Magazine, monthly history and genealogy publication.

  • Kentucky Historical Society

  • Korean War Historical Documents

  • Korean War Museum, educational page.

  • LBJ Transcripts and Recordings from the LBJ Presidential Library.

  • Logans Fort, Stanford, Kentucky.

  • Making of America, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. From Cornell University.

  • Making of America, from the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative. A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Web Site, from the Seattle Times. Includes sound files, a photo tour of the Civil Rights movement, an interactive quiz, and an ongoing email exchange between students in Birmingham, Alabama, and Kent, Washington.
  • Martin Luther King Speeches, with files in .wav format.

  • Moise's Bibliography of the Vietnam War

  • NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art. Emphasizes the Eastern Woodlands region. Organized into categories of Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, and Weaving & Cordage.

  • National Archives, United States.

  • North Carolina Division of Archives and History

  • The Ohio Historical Society, nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting evidence of Ohio's past. Includes information about Ohio's historical organizations.

  • Organization of American Historians

  • Political Cartoons and Cartoonists, collection of texts and images detailing the history of political cartooning in America.

  • Presidential Addresses

  • Presidential Elections in Maps: 1948-1992. From the University of Virginia Library Geographic Information Center. Compilation of original map graphics reflecting the Popular Vote outcomes in U.S. presidential contests from 1948 to 1992.

  • Presidents and Presidential Libraries, covers all the U.S. Presidents, with information about presidential libraries if one had been established.

  • Presidents Lists, includes all the presidents, vice presidents, their term in office and cabinets and sorts them into lists such as: party, electoral and popular vote, date of birth, college, religion, number of children, who were related, and who died in office. Also links to the White House Presidential biographical pages.

  • Presidents of the United States, entries include a portrait, vital statistics, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, trivia, and links to relevant Internet resources. Maintained by the Internet Public Library.

  • Reviews in American History Accessible from campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • Sixties, a detailed historical overview, with text, visuals, and sound.

  • Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Stonee's WebLodge, Native American lore, legends, quotes, news, and teachings. Covers cultures and news with Tribes all across America.

  • Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement, from Western University's Department of Political Science. Uses a series of links and pictures to give a reading of the civil rights movement and the role played in that movement by Martin Luther King.

  • Harry S. Truman, thirty-third president, 1945-53.

  • Historical Census Data Browser, data describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

  • Vietnam Project, from Texas Tech University.

  • The Vietnam War History Page, from Hanover College.

  • The Virginia Colonial Records Project, sponsored by The Library of Virginia, provides access to information about historical documents relating to the colonial period in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

  • Washington, George, excerpts from over 135,000 documents relating to George Washington. Collected by the University of Virginia for eventual compilation in the Letterpress Edition of the Papers.

  • Watergate, from the paper that broke the story in 1972, the Washington Post. Includes a chronology, key players, the mystery of Deep Throat, and a searchable index of full-text of selected Watergate stories. includes

  • Women's Liberation Movement Documents, articles, pamphlets, flyers, and booklets from the Special Collections Library at Duke University.

    • Non-U.S. Resources

  • ABSEES Online, the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Searchable by ten different fields, including author, title, subject, date of publication, and publisher. Available to University of Kentucky on-campus users and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • British Historical Maps, created and maintained by the Landmark Information Group. Offers roughly 85,000 images of historical maps of regions of the UK. "The maps are dated between 1846 and 1899, and are of 1:10,560 scale."

  • 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.

  • British Official Publications Current Awareness Service

  • Bucknell University Russian Program, includes a number of links to Russian resources, including the 1993 Russian and 1977 Soviet Constitutions as well as other historical sites.

  • Center for Post-Soviet Studies

  • Centre for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research, at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. Develops general methods and programs, and provides world-wide support, for the use of computers in Egyptology. Notes that activities include developing multilingual thesauri, field lists, and directions for standardizing data input; and developing and releasing publications and computer programs, such as hieroglyphic text processing programs. Provides links to further information about the CCER, products, news, and Egyptological lists and databases.

  • Chinese History Virtual Library, The John Fairbank Memorial Chinese History Virtual Library: Modern Chinese History.

  • Cybrary of the Holocaust

  • 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.

  • Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, from Yale University. Electronic brochure featuring excerpts of testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses, including downloadable video and audio clips.

  • H-German Home Page, home of a discussion list on German history.

  • IHR-INFO: Towards a National and International Information Service for Historians.

  • Jewish History Resource Center, Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  • Latin America Historical Text Archive, from Mississippi State.

  • Latin American Studies Association

  • The Marx/Engels Biographical Archive

  • Medieval Feminist Index, includes citations for journal articles, book reviews, and essays relating to women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 CE to 1500 CE).

  • Medieval History Resources, from Robert Harbison, University of Kentucky.

  • Medieval Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon Britain, from Harvard. A long but not exhaustive list of links to Web sites on medieval Germanic literature and culture.

  • Mexican History

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

  • Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, United Kingdom.

  • Russian Constitution

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

  • 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.

  • Victorian Web, contains concise articles (with links for further reading) on a variety of topics, including gender, science, technology, politics, literature, visual arts, religion, and philosophy.

  • 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.

  • The Wars for Vietnam, covering the military involvement of the United States and France in Southeast Asia. The site offers an overview of the period between 1954 and 1975. The Geneva Peace Accords, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, memos, phone conversations are all included.
  • History Department, University of Kentucky.

    • This page was last updated 13 June 2005. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Judy Fugate at Judy.Fugate@uky.edu.

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