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World History
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Selected Internet Sites
Encyclopedias
Gateways/Directories
Best of History
Contains links to over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Includes links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
WWW Virtual Library: History: Central Catalogue
Search this directory by countries and regions of the world or eras and epochs.
e-History (from Ohio State U. )
Consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content (timeline events, battle outlines, biographies, images & maps), including primary documents.
World History Matters (George Mason U.)
A portal to world history on the Web. Includes two databases: World History Sources and Women in World History.
Primary and secondary sources: What are they? How to use them
Identifying Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Primary Resources for Historical Research
Using Primary Sources on the Web
Making Sense of Evidence
Primary Sources on the Web
Primary Sources
Repositories of Primary Sources
EuroDocs : Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Statistics
- WorldMapper provides "equal area cartograms, otherwise known as density-equalising maps" that "re-size each territory according to the variable being mapped"
Middle Ages
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham U.)
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown U.)
NetSerf
The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
WWW Virtual Library: Medieval Europe
Victorian Era
British History
Exhibitions (online): British National Archives
European History
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History (selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations)
European Navigator (15,000 documents on European integration from 1945-present--includes photos, audio, video, maps, and more)
The Middle East
Global Connections: The Middle East (PBS)
Cold War
Cold War International History Project
Cold War International History Project: Virtual Archives
Electronic Books & Periodicals
History E-Book Project (U. of Michigan) (a collection of high quality history books recommended and reviewed by historians)
Internet Library of Early Journals: 18th & 19th Century (full text of 6 key early British journals)