Research Guide: History
- Getting Started
- Databases & Journals
- Comprehensive Sites
- Primary Sources
- Maps
- Course Guides
World
- The Avalon Project Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Vast array of documents that include links to supporting text.
- In the First Person
- Indexes diaries, letters, oral histories and personal narratives and serves as a portal to these primary sources on the World Wide Web.
- Medieval and Modern Thought Digitization Project
- Interface to thousands of pages being digitized by Stanford University. Requires registration.
- World News
- Provides access to media sources and thematic and regional news sites in many languages.
- BBC News Europe
- For Europe-related news coverage.
- EuroDocs
- Primary sources for European history.
- Britannia.com
- Includes documents dating from 61 AD.
- British Library
- Rich source of primary material.
- Center for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature
- The University of Kent at Canterbury has developed this web page with political cartoons dating back to 1904.
- Internet-Based Primary Sources for British History 1485-2000
- Links to sites by subject, time period, author, and format.
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- Works by various Victorian women writers.
- The Middle East, 1916-2001: a Documentary Record
- Extensive historical and legal document collection, especially on the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
- "American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and cultural developments of the United States."
- Archives.gov
- Web site for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) which is a repository of federal, regional and local historical documents.
- Historical Census Browser
- Selected U.S. Census records from 1790 through 1960. Many ways to view and manipulate data and create tables. To view exact reproductions of selected census publications covering 1790-2000 go to the Census of Population and Housing.
- NYPL Digital Library
- Links to primary source documents on a range of subjects, including New York.
- September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
- Archive of reactions to the events of September 11 initiated by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center (AFC).
- Women Working, 1870-1930
- Primary source material on women's employment during the period of industrialization.
Great Britain
- The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: a Collection of Primary Resources
- Texts, some previously classified, documenting the decision to drop two atomic bombs and Japan's response.
- Imperial War Museum Collections Online
- Includes digitized documents from the museum's collection with a focus on Great Britain.
- Veterans History Project
- Wartime personal stories for 20th-Century U.S. wars.
- Vets with a Mission
- Veterans have combined early history of Vietnam with that of the Vietnam War.
- The Vietnam Project
- One of the richest collections of primary sources dealing with the United States experience in Vietnam.
- Vietnam War Bibliography
- Recommended as the place to start research on the Vietnam War.
- The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975
- From Vassar College, site includes an overview, documents, and related links.
- World War One Document Archive
- Includes treaties, reminiscences, biographies and images.
