USEFUL WORLDWIDE WEB LINKS FOR HISTORIANS
Compiled here is a partially annotated listing of websites that students and faculty may find useful as they conduct research, or are just "web crawling" for fun. Many excellent resources are available to TAMU-C students and faculty through Gee Library's Electronic Resources homepage. Please report any dead links, and suggestions for other websites to the History Department's webmaster, John_Smith@tamu-commerce.edu. Check back often for new links.
The American Historical Association The scholarly organization devoted to the study of history.
Organization of American Historians The scholarly organization devoted to the study of American history.
American Association for State and Local History
National Council on Public History (NCPH).
Center for the Study of History and Memory at IU-Bloomington.
U.S. GenWeb Project Geneological resources.
H-Net: Humanities Online An international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the site hosts discussion listservs, book reviews, and other resources.
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics This is an impressive compilation of frames of government, from the Code of Hammurabi, to the Magna Charta, to the U.S. Constitution, as well as a number of classic secondary works on constitutionalism from The Prince to The Origins of Modern Constitutionalism; all available in HTML, Plain Text, Wordpad, Adobe Acrobat, RTF, Microsoft Word, and as scanned images of originals.
Perseus Texts -- A Digital Library on Ancient Greece and Rome
Online Medieval and Classical Library Site A great collection of online resources in medieval and classical history.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University. Another good resource for medievalists.
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Historical Maps from around the world at the University of Texas at Austin.
British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate--1638-1660 This is a very well organized site devoted to the English Civil War and the Cromwellian dictatorship that followed. It also has an excellent links page.
Early Modern England Source A wide array of sources and regularly updated list of related conferences and seminars.
American Memory Library of Congress collections and exhibits featuring documents, images, and other media relating specifically to American history.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History Compilation of WWW links for historians.
Making of America (MOA) "Making of America (MOA) represents a major collaborative endeavor to preserve and make accessible through digital technology a significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. . . . The initial phase of the project, begun in the fall of 1995, has focused on developing a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Drawing on the depth of primary materials at the Michigan and Cornell libraries, these two institutions are developing a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Over 5,000 volumes with imprints between 1850 - 1877 will be selected, scanned, and made available to the academic communities at each institution."
New! New York Public Library Picture Collection Online This is an extensive assemblage of over 30,000 images from books and periodicals, including original photographs, prints, and postcards, the majority dating to before 1923, and covering over 12,000 subjects pertaining to nearly every facet of life in the United States--primarily in the nineteenth century.
American Studies Crossroads Project
Southwestern Historical Association
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Texas State Historical Association Online Produced by the College of Liberal Arts and the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin, the TSHA Online offers a rich variety of resources on Texas history, including the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the SHQ Online.
New! Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries This database located at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is a treasure trove of raw data and documentation on eleven topics related to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave trade, including records of slave-ship movement between Africa and the Americas, vessel information from departure/arrival points to numbers and origins of slaves carried. A guide is provided to reading and interpreting the data, but some specialized software is required to do proper statistical analysis.
Center for the Study of the American South Located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Center's mission is "to encourage teaching about, research on, and service to the South [and] to deepen scholarly understanding of the South and to make the University’s best resources available to states and communities facing challenges within the region."
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War An outstanding web site that highlights the Civil War's effects upon Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
New! Documenting the American South This site run out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents aspects of life in the South from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. An excellent resource for students of southern history.
U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index Compiled by Dr. Nick Sarantakes, this is an excellent page of links to web resources for American diplomatic history.
Niskayuna High School FDR Cartoon Archive Now here's something that every 20th century U.S. historian can use: an archive of political cartoons about the FDR administration -- brought to us by the teachers and students of Niskayuna High School in upstate New York.
National Center for History in Schools
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 A rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930.
United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C. Excellent site. Contains abundant resources for educators.
Broadcast Pioneers - the Library of Broadcasting at the University of Maryland Librairies.
Music in Context: The History & Music Group This organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studies the multilayered relationship between history and music of all kinds. The site is still largely under construction.
Living History Re-enactors Net A site devoted to those who recreate the past at living history museums and voluntary societies. Heavily weighted toward the military re-enactors, but nonetheless useful.
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