Annotated Web links, academically oriented and other, on the subject of history. The primary though not exclusive focus is North American history, including Native American.

General Resources

Over 1,700 history-related links are provided in this Index of Resources for Historians, with links arranged alphabetically by subject and then by site name. Includes links to libraries world-wide. Easily scrolled as well as searchable. Originally a joint project of the faculties at the Universität Regensburg and the U.Kansas, now maintained by Lynn H. Nelson at the University of Kansas as the World Wide Web Virtual Library History Project.

The Argus Clearinghouse is the premier collection of subject-arranged Internet guides. It was established by University of Michigan librarians in 1993 as the Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides, and it is presently maintained by Argus Associates. Each site on the over 1,000 guides is rated according to set criteria, and each broad subject section can be searched using your own words. The history section contains links to a number of specialized guides on this subject.

American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. "The National Digital Library Program is an effort to digitize and deliver electronically the distinctive, historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures." A massive and growing online collection, searchable.

American Ethnic Studies Web.

Do History "a site that shows you how to piece together the past from fragments that have survived."

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World-wide to 1492

Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World "This web site, in operation since early 1995, serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world." Includes many links to bibliographies and course materials, as well as to unique resources such as to the Bible Browser (by Richard Goerwitz, Brown University) and other Bible search engines. Created by Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas, University of Kentucky.

The World of the Vikings: "The definitive guide to Viking resources on the Internet." Extensive set of links, in categories such as saga's, runes, museums, re-enactments, mead, and retail. Academic category recently added. Created in U.K.

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1492 - 1800 (Americas): the settlers

1492: An Ongoing Voyage:an online exhibition from the Library of Congress. "The exhibition describes both pre- and post-contact America, and examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600."

Huichol Indians
Colonial Williamsburg Home Page
A Brief History of Jamestown
The Jamestown Rediscovery Project
Jamestown Society
Virginia Company of London
America's Homepage!! Plymouth,MA
The History of Thanksgiving
Wampanoag Tribe
William Penn
Smithsonian Institution
The French and Indian War (Syracuse U.)
WWW Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies

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United States: 1800-1900

Archiving Early America

Center for Migration Studies of New York, Inc.

The Early America Review

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic at the Library of Congress

Ethnic Studies - The Balch Institute

Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)

International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship

Slave Narratives

Smithsonian Institution

Making of America

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United States: 1900's including Civil War

Valley of the Shadows: the American Civil War seen through "every available piece of information" in original and other documents from Confederate Augusta County, VA and Unionist Franklin County, PA, from 1858 to the end of the war. "Augusta and Franklin Counties are 200 miles apart in the Shenandoah Valley, the corridor of rich farmland in which some of the fiercest battles of the Civil War were fought. [The two counties were more alike than different in every sense, yet] when the war broke out, the counties fell in line with the states'-rights and Unionist causes. Why?" Edward Ayers, U.of Virginia.

Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections. Scanned images and transcripts of correspondence and newspaper clippings of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate spy, and diary of Alice Williamson, then a 16-year old TN girl who gives a detailed description of Union occupation of Gallatin, TN in 1864. Planned additions include the papers of four African-American women. Duke U. Library.

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Before and after photographs of locations throughout the city, including a 360-degree panorama based on Alexander Hesler's 1858 photographs; archival newsreels, excerpts from 1871 editions of Harper's Weekly and The Nation; personal recollections along with historic overview. Recommendation: read full essays before following embedded links.

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Second World War & the Holocaust

Nizkor: a Holocaust Remembrance. "Dedicated to the almost twelve million victims [of the Holocaust." Includes massive digitized collections of primary Nazi-era documents, film, and statistics from government archives world-wide, and of writings by Holocaust-deniers. The contents of the archives can be searched by keywords.

Simon Wiesenthal Center: "International center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people." About the Los Angeles center and its activities. Includes some related links.

Holocaust Collection, College of the Holy Cross Library, Worcester, MA: Information on the more than 5,500 books, photographs, films and tapes in the Frances and Jacob Hiatt Collection of Holocaust Materials. Listings of Jesuits killed during the Holocaust. (Chr.H.Ed. 10-25-96) Includes links to other Holocaust sites.

Yad Vashem: the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority: the website of the Jewish people's memorial to the Holocaust victims in Jerusalem. Provides searchable access to selections from the memorial's archives and exhibits, including photographs, diaries and letters, testimonies, maps, artwork, artifacts, etc. Also includes access to the Central Database of Shoah (Holocaust) Victims' Names, a continuously growing database containing (as of winter 2004) approximately 3 million names of Holocaust victims.

Zundelsite http://www.zundelsite.org/ This site supports the "Holocaust denial" movement. The site is the work of Ernst Zundel, and its stated mission is "the rehabilitation of the honor and reputation of the German nation and people." Includes related links.

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Vietnam War (North America, 1960's & 1970's)

The Sixties Project, a collective of humanities scholars, together with the Viet Nam Generation, Inc., have compiled this comprehensive collection of essays, personal stories, bibliographical resources, and links to related sites such as the Musical Festival Page (Woodstock, Monterey etc), the People's Park Site, and Robert Altman photographs.

Vietnam War: personal accounts of how it changed people's lives. A PBS site intended to complement the Point Of View program "Regarding Vietnam: Stories since the War." Contributions from veterans, refugees, school children, others. Includes related links.

American elections: process, parties, candidates, etc.: links.

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Special topics

Women's history links on this library's Women's Studies page.

Black history: links on this library's African American resources page.

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