History & Archeology
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- History Links
- HistoryWorld
- History Matters
- Historical Text Archive
-
Hyper-History Online
- History On-Line
- History Wired
- History Research Online
- Common-place non-academic history magazine
- British National Archives
- National Security Archive
- Historical and Cultural Atlas (requires Shockwave plug-in for interactive maps)
- Wonder Bound Rare books on early museums
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
- WebChron: The WebChronology Project
- Matthew White's Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
- Picture Library Search -- National Portrait Gallery
- Multimedia History Tutorials University of Calgary
- Anglo-American History A guide to Web resources
- Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries
- America's Story from America's Library
- Archeology on the Net
- The Megalithic Portal
- The Piltdown Plot
- Stone Pages
- Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
- Antiquity A Journal of ancient archeology
- Mediterranean Prehistory Online
- Histos: A New Journal of Ancient Historiography
- Pomoerium Classical Studies
- In the Art Bin
- International Institute of Social History
- Smithsonian Online Collections
- National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution
- Argos Search engine for finding Web materials on the ancient world
- Israel Archeology
- Society for Underwater Exploration: Secrets of the Seas
- Waters of the City of Rome
- Capitolium.org The Roman Forum
- African Voices
- Origins and Ancient History of Wine
- A Moment in Time 2-Minute broadcasts dramatizing moments from history
- Texts and Documents: Europe Index to documents on the Web
- Middle Ages aimed at K-12 students
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Renaissance companion site to the above
- Battle of Hastings
- The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
- Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
- Medieval and Renaissance Weddings
- Medieval Women
- Medieval English Towns
- Learning Curve British History
- Age of King Charles V
- Alexander Palace, Russia
- Museum of London
- Gunpowder Plot
- Egypt
- Egypt World
- Cleopatra
- Harappa Glimpses of South Asia before 1947
- History of India
- Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations: Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec & Aztec
- Rabbit in the Moon Mayan culture
- The Maya Astronomy Page
- Exploring Cuba's History Through Postal Stamps
- Trade Products in Early Modern History
- Vikings
- Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
- Napoleon
- Napoleon (PBS)
- Victorian Web
- Victorian London
- National Museum of American History
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Ancient Architects Moundbuilders of the Lower Mississippi Delta
- American Experience (PBS)
- America from the Great Depression to World War II
- History of the American West, 1860-1920
- Witchcraft in Salem Village
- Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
- Lewis and Clark companion to the Ken Burns film
- Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
- The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North
America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- Ghosts of the Gold Rush Story of the Yukon Gold Rush
-
Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne Beautiful presentation of the story
of a Canadian arctic expedition in 1768.
- Andrew Carnegie
- The 1920s The American Jazz Age
- The Smithsonian Museum
- Journal for MultiMedia History
- Making of America--University of Michigan and Cornell University Digital Library
- The Presidents from "The American Experience" series on PBS
- The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
- A Biography of America
- American Treasures: Library of Congress
- The American Century The Whitney Art Museum
- Famous American Trials
- Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
- City Museum of New York
- New York State Archives
- Rediscovering New York
- Old Sturbridge Village
- Liberty! The American Revolution
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
- George and Martha Washington Portraits from the Presidential Years
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and
Debates 1774-1873 Library of Congress
- Thomas Jefferson
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers
- Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library
- The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
- The South Texas Border, 1900-1920
- Unforgettable Letters
- Historic American Sheet Music
- The Centennial Exhibition -- Philadelphia 1876
- The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath (1893 World's Fair, Chicago)
- The Panama Canal
- An Abridged History of the United States by William M. Brinton
- The American Presidential Election
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- Haymarket Affair
- The Dustbowl
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820
- Child Labor in America 1908-1912
- John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company
- American
Daguerrotype Exhibition at the Smithsonian
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present
- Women in America 1820-1842
- Women In American History
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
- Suffragists Oral History Project
- My Century BBC World Service oral history of the 20th Century.
- Picturing the Century
- Time Warp: 1900 vs. Now
- America at Work, America at Leisure Video clips
- Churchill and the Great Republic
- Flights of Inspiration history of flight
- Voices from the Dust Bowl
- Centropa: Jewish Witness to a European Century
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Museum of Tolerance Holocaust multimedia learning center
- Auschwitz and Birkenau
- Holocaust Survivors
- The Holocaust Chronicle
- Voices of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Denial on Trial building a case against revisionism
- Learning About the Holocaust Through Art
- Battle of Britain Royal Air Force
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Eichmann's Diary in German
- History of Slavery, Duke University exhibit
- Dred Scott Case
- Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938
- The Amistad Case
- Death or Liberty: Gabriel, Nat Turner & John Brown
- Tangled Roots Exploring the histories of Americans of Irish heritage and Americans of African heritage
- Afro-American Black History Museum
- Afro-American Almanac
- California Heritage at Berkeley
- Pioneering the Upper Midwest
- Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th Century America
- Lincoln/Net
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- Abraham Lincoln Research Site
- U.S. Civil War
- Civil War@Smithsonian
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Guide to Virginia Civil War Battlefields & Sites
- 19th Century Schoolbooks
- The Lost Museum reconstruction of P.T. Barnum's famous museum
- The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
- Chicago Historical Society
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
- The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
- Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and
Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
- America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from
1894-1915
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
- Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- History and Politics Out Loud
- Amelia Earhart
- Digital Images from the Radicalism Collection Michigan State U.
-
A Giant Leap for Mankind Life Magazine presents the space race
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-42
- A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945
- The Iconography of Hope The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
- World War I (BBC)
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
- Western History Photos
- Early Canadiana Online
- American Radicalism Collection
- Anne Frank
- Italian Life Under Fascism Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
- Tiananmen Square, April-June 1989
- Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
- National Museum of American Jewish History Exhibitions
- Russian History
- The Empire That Was Russia
- The Empire that Was Russia early color photographs
- Chinese Propaganda Posters
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- The Nanking Atrocities
- Korea in the Eye of the Tiger
- The Korean War Project Whistlestop
- Mexico: From Empire to Revolution
- Welcome to Edo
- Battle of Midway
- Atomic Bomb History Exhibit
- Enola Gay and the Atomic Bomb The suppressed Smithsonian exhibit
- Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films
- The Cold War CNN
- Red Files PBS
- Red Scare
- The Berlin Airlift
- The Berlin Wall
- JFK-Dallas, November 22, 1963
- Library of Congress American Memory project
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian
- George Bush Presidential Library, provides access to many documents
- Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991 (U.S. Library of Congress)
- Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
- Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures 185-1920 (U.S. Library of Congress)
- Emma Goldman Papers
- American Immigrant Wall of Honor
- Ellis Island
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum explore immigrant tenements, from 1870s and 1930s
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Siege and Commune of Paris Image library
- History of Economic Thought Huge collection of classic texts by economists
- America From the Depression to World War II
- The Visual Front Posters of the Spanish Civil War
- Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
- World War II Propaganda Posters
- The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
- Art of the First World War
- World War II Poster Database
- Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
- Private Art Private letters of a WW II soldier
- Normandy 1944
- The Penny Magazine Online 19th-century popular magazine
- Godey's Lady's Book Online Popular 19th-century women's magazine
- 1881 Household Cyclopedia
- American Social Hygiene Posters, 1910-1970
- Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 (Library of Congress)
- The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs in Stalin's Russia
- Sputnik
- The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile
Crisis
- Vietnam Project
- Re Vietnam: The effect of the war on various people's lives
- The Vietnam Memorial Wall Name locator and more
- Mayday: Kent State
- 1968: The Whole World Was Watching, An Oral History
-
Berkeley oral history projects
- The Psychedelic Sixties
- The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela (PBS Frontline)
-
Fog of War Analysis of the Gulf War by the Washington Post
- Family Search Mormon geneaology database
- Vital Records Information State Index Aids for genealogists
- Academy of Achievement Information on extraordinary individuals who have shaped the twentieth century
- Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies in black and white
- The Titanic
- Titanic Britannica Online
- What is a dollar worth? Calculator to tell you the value in goods and services of a dollar in any year since 1913
- Concerning Time
- Revealing Things An interactive Smithsonian exhibit
- Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice Get advice from old authorities
- Parks and History Association
- Early Canadiana Online
- From Sideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust
- Tale of Three Cities
- American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 Images from the University of Chicago Library
- Center for Columbia River History
- HistoryLink: The Online Encyclopedia of Seattle and King County
- North by South African-American migration
- American Notes: Travel in America, 1750-1920
- Connecticut History Online
- Florida Heritage Collection
- Washington State Pioneer Life Database
- Virtual Cultural Library Acrobat reprints of UNESCO books about historic places
- Images from the History of Medicine
- AdFlip Archive of print ads from various eras
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
- Australia: Our Nation's Album: The Library's First 100 Years
- The New Zealand Digital Library University of Waikoto
- Cornell Library Historical Monographs
- The Papers of John Jay
- Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
- The National Archives of Scotland
- Picture Australia
These links are no longer being continuously updated. Use them at your own risk. I never add links at the request of anyone who writes to me asking for one. Please do not send me such mail. It will not be answered.
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