History

• The Association for History and Computing

  Maintained by the Association for History and Computing, this site contains, among other resources, a set of links to Web servers of interest to historians (subdivided into general links, announcements, regional history sites, lists of historical listservs, and private homepages). Links are provided to teaching materials and educational institutions, databases, and other general history resources. Good resource base and jumping-off point, particularly for finding Web pages of history departments around the world.

  
  

• EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents

  Part of the Argus Clearinghouse directory, this site is an excellent jumping-off point to primary resources on the Internet. Particularly strong on medieval and modern European links, as well as individual European country history documents. Links are well annotated, with the vast majority pointing to primary documents. Good jumping-off point to major primary historical resources on Europe.

  
  

• Hanover College History Department: Texts and Documents

  Organized by the History Department of Hanover University, the Hanover Historical Texts Project has been scanning primary documents and other texts and making them available online. Site also has collection of links to texts stored in other servers around the world. From this site, however, the access to online documents and texts is most impressive--particularly European texts and documents, which are divided into ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern. In this one subdivision of the site, one can find the works of Aristotle, Euclid, Gregory VII, Cardinal Richelieu, and nearly everyone in-between. An amazing project and a useful resource.

  
  

• Horus' History Links

  Best jumping-off point for history resources. Frames make it cumbersome initially, but massive set of links make it an indispensable resource. Awesome collection of links to primary resources, documents, and every imaginable historical topic. Links to the works of various periods and regions are comprehensive.

  
  

• History and Historiography at Carnegie Mellon University

  Site provides a lengthy set of links to various topics ranging from eighteenth century studies to Baltic history, feudal terms, neolithic war, and Woodrow Wilson. Links themselves offer mixed results, ranging from massive annotated directories of Internet resources to single online discussion papers. Lack of annotations is major drawback of site. However, its eclectic set of links might make it a useful jumping-off point for resources that might be unavailable elsewhere.

  
  

• Resources for History at the University of Glasgow

  Site maintains annotated links to large resource collections, individual projects, searchable history indexes, and information about electronic discussion lists. Good secondary jumping-off point.

  
  

• Index of Resources for Historians

  Site is a massive collection of history links, organized as one large 185K file. There are over 1,700 separate links to history topics, with a particularly strong concentration in individual country and regional history links that might be difficult to find elsewhere. Links are not annotated, but comprehensiveness of site makes it a worthwhile jumping-off point.

  
  

• The Labyrinth Homepage

  See "ORB-Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies" entry for more information.

  
  

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook

  See "ORB-Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies" entry for more information.

  
  

• ORB-Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

  Useful resource base and jumping-off point for IR theorists interested in the Middle Ages. Labyrinth Homepage, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and ORB-Online are all comprehensive, with Labyrinth particularly strong on professional directories, online bibliographies, and archives of pedagogical tools; Medieval Sourcebook strong on online electronic texts and primary documents; and ORB especially useful for essays and bibliographies, as well as online texts and primary documents. Together, the three sites make a comprehensive collection of links and resources on the Middle Ages.

  
  

• World War II Resources on the Internet

  Maintained by Miami University Libraries, sites includes links to general history and World War II resources, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Bomb, the Holocaust and the Jews, the United States and World War II, photographs, films, audio files, and other primary sources. The links within each category are clearly annotated, with the general and primary resources being especially useful. A good jumping-off point for World War II historical materials, listservs, and general links.

  
  

• The World War I Document Archive

  Organized and assembled by members of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L), site is excellent source for online conventions, treaties, official papers by country, memories, and personal reminiscences, biographical dictionaries, image archives (including flags, medals, maps, and photographs), commentary articles and links to other related resources on the Web about World War I. Invaluable resource base for World War I primary documents.

  
  

• Ecole Initiative Early Church Documents

  Comprehensive source for Internet resources and primary documents on early Christianity and other religions of the ancient/early medieval period, including Judaism, Islam, and various "heresies," as well as materials and links to information on the Hellenistic philosophical schools. Well-annotated links. Many of the primary documents are translated.

  
  

• The Internet Classics Archive

  Interesting resource base for almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with an easy-to-use layout. There is an interesting feedback/commentary feature, in which those who wish to do so can send in comments via e-mail on specific texts that others can then read.