Web Sites
Organizations, Institutions, Listservs
Newspapers
General Resources
Africa
Asia
Ethnic America
Latin America
Russia and Eastern Europe
United States
Western Europe
Organizations, Institutions, Listservs
H-Net Includes listservs, job announcements, reviews, etc. A great place to keep up-to-date with the history profession.
American Historical Association The professional organization for all historians.
Historical Research in Europe A guide to archives and libraries in Europe.
Guide to History Departments around the World
Manuscripts Department, UNC Chapel Hill Includes detailed descriptions of materials available in the Southern Historical Collection, the Southern Folklife Collection, and a guide to African American documents in North Carolina.
National Archives and Records Administration The government agency responsible for overseeing the management of the records of the federal government.
North Carolina Division of Archives and History Describes the collections and services available.
North Carolina Echo Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, is the World Wide Web's doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, and museums.
Organization of American Historians Membership information, jobs, journals, web sites.
Special Collections Library, Duke University See what manuscripts are available at Duke. Includes digitized collections of African-American women and women during the Civil War.
Special Collections/University Archives, UNCG The collections include a variety of materials of interest to historians including the Woman's Collections, the University Archives, and the History of Physical Education and Dance, and the Women's Veteran's Collection.
Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript and Archival Collections in Virginia A database of guides and finding aids describing archives and manuscripts in eleven repositories in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Newspapers
The British Library Newspaper Library Information on the newspaper holdings in the British Library.
Library of Congress Newspaper Holdings Lists historical holdings of U.S. and foreign newspapers held in microform and book form.
Newspaper Holdings in Jackson Library Lists the holdings of current and historical newspapers in Jackson Library.
State Library of North Carolina Newspaper Project A list of North Carolina Newspapers available from the State Library of North Carolina.
General Resources
American and British History Sources on the Internet Provides links to archives, documents, primary source material and a wide variety of other materials. Arranged by type of source, subject, and time periods.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy Includes digitized documents through the 20th century with an emphasis on modern US diplomatic sources.
Best of History Web Sites A portal for high quality sites from all time periods. Also identifies sites that are useful for the classroom.
The Eighteenth Century Includes sites from all disciplines related to the 18th century. Emphasis is on England, Europe, and the US but other areas are included as well.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures "An introduction to ancient world cultures on the World Wide Web." Maintained and The University of Evansville.
Internet History Sourcebooks Collections of public domain documents. Maintained at Fordham University.
Historical Text Archive Provides original material, links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books organized by geography/nations and topics. More specific sections of this site are listed under the appropriate headings on this Web page.
HyperHistory Online Presents timelines of numerous topics and historical eras.
Public History Resource Center. Reviews web sites and provides information on public history education and career opportunities.
WWW Virtual Library - History A comprehensive index arranged by research tools, topics, regions, and chronological period. Maintained at the University of Kansas.
Africa
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources Provides topical and regional guides as well as a searchable index to a wide variety of topics on Africa. Maintained at Stanford University.
AllAfrica Global Leading provider of news of Africa from over 80 African newspapers.
Index on Africa A comprehensive index to Africa on the Net.
University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center Maintained by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Asia
Asian Studies Home Page A comprehensive virtual library for Asian Studies from the Australian National University.
East Asian Studies Maintained by the East Asia Library at the University of Washington.
Ethnic America
African-American History A useful meta-site maintained at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Race Ethnicity and Identity From the New American Studies Web. The Community Studies search results page provides a link to Race, Ethnicity, and Identity. Includes information on many ethnic groups of the United States.
Latin America
Latin American Sources From the Mississippi State Text Archive.
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) An extensive virtual library on Latin America maintained at the University of Texas. Includes a searchable index as well as a subject arrangement by country and topic.
Russia and Eastern Europe
REES Web - Russian and East European Studies Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Pittsburgh.
REENIC: Russia and East European Network Information Center Sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
United States
American Civil War Homepage A comprehensive listing of Web sites on the Civil War. Includes numerous primary documents.
American Memory Project Visit the Library of Congress's vast digital library of original documents of American History.
AmericanSouth Digitized collections on the history and culture of the American South from research libraries in the Southeast. Also includes web sites about the South.
Documenting the American South Digitized documents from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Focuses on the 19th century.
Making of America A joint project by the University of Michigan and Cornell University that provides a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes full-text for several important 19th-Century journals and full text for books.
New American Studies Web A guide to American Studies resources on the internet. Maintained at Georgetown University.
Past Portal: Colonial Williamsburg's Portal to American History Includes digitized materials from the Foundation's collections, a selection of reports on the buildings and people of 18th-century Williamsburg and a complete run of the Virginia Gazette to 1780.
United States Historical Census Browser Includes full-text data from 1790 to 1960. Maintained at the University of Virginia.
Valley of the Shadow Original documents from two communities during the Civil War - one from the North and one from the South. Maintained at the University of Virginia.
Western Europe
Eurodocs - Primary Documents from Western Europe Primary sources arranged by country. Also provides links to other sites on Western Europe.
Holocaust Resources A comprehensive listing of web sites relating to the Holocaust.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Maintained at Georgetown University.
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Includes an encyclopedia and teaching aids as well as external links.
The Victorian Web A comprehensive site on 19th century Britain.
