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Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
The Abraham Lincoln papers at the Library of Congress web site provides online access to material held by the manuscripts department of the Library of Congress. |description|



Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/




American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digial Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
The American memory web site aims to provide electronic access to holdings at the Library of Congress which relate to the United States. |description|



An American Time Capsule: Three centuries of Broadside and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
The American Time Capsule web site has been developed by the rare books and special collections division of the Library of Congress to provide access to printed ephemera held by the Library of Congress. |description|




Anarchist Archives
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html

Work on the site started in 1995 with the aim of providing an online history of anarchists and anarchist movements, as well as the online provision of the collected works of major anarchists. A large part of the site is devoted to influential anarchists. |description|




Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

The Ancient History Sourcebook, created by Paul Halsall, forms part of the Internet History Sourcebook Series. This site concentrates on bringing together primary source material relating to the Ancient World. |description|



Anglo-American legal tradition
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT.html
The Anglo-American legal tradition (AALT) website is a project of the O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center in the United States. The AALT provides free access to digitised versions of legal documents of medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London. |description|



Austrian Primary Historical Documents: Eurodocs
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/austria.html




Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project aims to provide access to documents relating to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government over the World Wide Web. |description|




British Cartoon Archive
http://library.ukc.ac.uk/cartoons/
The British Cartoon Archive was established in 1973 as a research centre and picture library which is based upon an archive of over 85,000 pieces of cartoon artwork. |description|



British Library of Political and Economic Science: pamphlet collection
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/pamphlets/
This section of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) website provides information and access to the full-text of its pamphlet collection. There are over 90,000 pamphlets in the collection, mainly published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |description|


British Pathé
http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm
The British Pathé offers access to 3,500 hours of news footage spanning almost a century, from 1896 until 1970. |description|


By Popular Demand: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
By Popular Demand: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures web site, from the Library of Congress, provides access to thirty-eight pictures relating to the women's suffrage movement in the United States between 1850 and 1920. |description|



Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/





Canadian Constitutional Documents: A Legal History
http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/index.html
The Canadian constitutional documents web site was created by William Maton in order to provide free access to relevant documents. |description|



Canadian Illustrated News
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/1/index-e.html




Castro Speech Database
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html

The Castro speech database contains full text English translations of a selection of speeches, interviews and press conferences by Fidel Castro. |description|


CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt

The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent scholarly site, still growing, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English). |description|



Charles Booth's 1889 Descriptive Map of London Poverty
http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/home.html
Charles Booth's map of London poverty has been reproduced on this site. |description|



The Churchill Era: An Educational Resource
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/churchill_era/
The Churchill Era is an educational web site published by the Churchill Archives Centre, and has been specially designed for teachers and students of A-Level History courses. |description|



Cold War International History Project
http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) was set up at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 1991. |description|


Collage
http://collage.nhil.com/categories/history.html
COLLAGE (Corporation of London Library & Art Gallery Electronic) is an image database created by the Corporation of London and iBase Image Systems. |description|




Comic Art at Princeton University
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/gallery/




Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/cruikshank/




Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1764-1789
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html
This web site provides access to full text documents from the Constitutional Congress Broadside Collection and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection. |description|



DoHistory
http://www.dohistory.org/




Dr Seuss Went to War
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/

The Dr Seuss Went to War web site provides access to political cartoons drawn by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss) for the New York publication PM between 1941 and 1943. |description|



Dscriptorium: Digital Images of Medieval Manuscripts
http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/dscriptorium.html



Early Canadiana Online
http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq



The English Emblem Book Project
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/
The English emblem book project was set up with the aim of making full text emblem books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries available online. |description|



EuroDocs
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

This site contains links to European primary source documents available over the WWW. |description|




Eurodocs: Belgium Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/belgium.html




Eurodocs: Irish Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ireland.html



Eurodocs: Italian Primary Historical Documents http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/italy.html



Eurodocs: Spanish Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/spain.html



Five College Archives Digital Access Project
http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/
The Five College Archives Digital Access Project web site provides access to a selection of material held at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |description|



From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
The From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection web site, compiled by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress provides access to the full-text of 397 pamphlets published between 1824 and 1909. |description|



The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html



Greenwood's Map of London

http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/
This web site provides access to a map of London printed in 1827. |description|


The Gutenberg Bible
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp
The Gutenberg Bible web site from the British Library provides online access to the two full copies of the Gutenberg Bible that the library holds. |description|


History of the Monarchy: Queen Victoria
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page118.asp

These pages form part of the History of the Monarchy site from the British Monarchy web site. The short biography of Queen Victoria features extracts from her published journal, which are in PDF format.|description|


Historical Chart and Map Collection
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/abstract.htm
This site, created by the US Office of Coast Survey (OCS) provides access to historic coastal charts and maps dating mainly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |description|



Historical Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_main.html
Historical maps from the University of Texas provides access to hundreds of historical maps from around the world. |description|




History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/



History of France: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/france.html
The History of France: primary documents site provides links to over sixty documents relating to French history from the ninth century to the present day. |description|



History of Germany: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html
The History of Germany: primary documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to German history from the ninth century to the present day. |description|



The History of Mathematics
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/
The History of Mathematics web site created by, David Wilkins of Trinity College, Dublin, concentrates on mathematicians of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |description|



History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html
The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. |description|



Images from the History of Medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/chameleon



The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index.html
This site, created by Julia Lee and maintained by Robert Schwartz of Mount Holyoke College, presents a wide variety of information on the railway system of nineteenth century England and Wales. |description|


The Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/



Internet African History Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html




Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html



Internet Global History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html




Internet History Sourcebook of Science
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html




Internet Indian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html




Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html



Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html



Internet Library of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
The Internet library of early journals aims to gives access to a twenty year consecutive run of a selection of 18th and 19th century British journals. |description|



Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html




Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
The Interpreting the Irish Famine web site provides a brief outline of the Irish Famine and gives access to primary source material. |description|



James Lind: A Treatise of the Scurvy
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/scurvy.html


The John and James Booker Civil War Letters
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/booker/
The John and James Booker Civil War letters web site provides access to digital facsimiles of twenty-two letters that they wrote to their cousin during the American Civil War. The letters are presented in two different ways. |description|


The Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html
Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase provides access to online Middle English texts. |description|


Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html
The Labyrinth Library: Old English literature provides access to Anglo-Saxon texts. |description|



The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
http://65.107.211.206/history/workers1.html
This site, which is part of the Victorian Web, provides access to primary source material from inquiries into the conditions of industrial workers in the 1830s and 1840s. |description|


Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Making of America is a digital library of primary documents relating to American social history. |description|


Map Collections: 1500-2002
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html


Marxist Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/


McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
The Archive for the History of Economic Thought web site from McMaster University provides access to a variety of material relating to economic history. |description|


Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/medren.html


Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

This site provides access to primary source documents. |description|


Monuments and Dust: the Culture of Victorian Britain
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc/
The aim of this project is to create a visual, textual and statistical representation of Victorian London. |description|


Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/


National Archives and Records Administration: Digital Classroom Exercises and Documents
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html


New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

The New Deal Network (NDN) was lunched in 1996 by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. |description|


The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Print
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html
The Nineteenth Century in Print web site brings together online collections of nineteenth century books and periodicals from the University of Michigan, Cornell University and the Library of Congress. |description|


The Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

The online medieval and classical library (OMACL) is a collection of literary work from classical and medieval times. |description|


Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
The Oxford Text Archive provide access to thousands of online texts. |description|


The Penny Magazine
http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/

This site, from the History Department at the University of Rochester, has copies of twelve issues of The Penny Magazine, a weekly publication produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. |description|


People with a history: an Online Guide to Gay, Lesbian and Trans* History
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/


Photos of the Great War
http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm
The Photos of the Great War site, which is part of World War I document archive from the University of Kansas, currently provides access to 1844 photographs relating to the First World War. |description|


Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
The introductory section of this site briefly outlines the bubonic plague in Renaissance Europe. |description|


Popular Document Collection: Bay of Pigs Reports
http://www.foia.ucia.gov/bay_of_pigs.asp
This web site from the electronic document release center of the CIA in the United States provides access to full-text reports on the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. |description|


Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolridge Era and the Consumer Economy 1921-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
The Prosperity and Thrift web site from the Library of Congress provides access to full-text material that documents the prosperity enjoyed by the United States during the Coolidge years. |description|


Publications of the War
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/pubs/
The Publications of the War web site provides access to digital facsimiles of a selection of publications produced during the First World War. |description|


The Shaping of the Medieval World. Medieval Studies on the Internet
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/


The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/index.html
This site from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University hosts a collection of Images relating to the Siege and Commune of Paris. |description|


Stormont Papers: Northern Ireland Parliamentary papers online 1921-1972
http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/
This site provides free access to an electronic library of full text government reports relating to Northern Ireland during the period from June 7, 1921-March 28, 1972. They include over 92,000 printed pages from 84 volumes of minutes of the Stormont (Northern Ireland devolved parliament). |description|


Talking History: Aural History Productions
http://talkinghistory.org/
Talking History based at the University at Albany, State University of New York 'is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history'. |description|


The Tebtunis Papyri Collection and the Advanced Papyrological Information System Project at the Bancroft Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS


Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
The Thomas Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress web site provides online access to material held by the Manuscripts Department at the Library of Congress. |description|


The Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html
The Victorian Women Writers project aims to provide access to highly accurate transcriptions of works from British women writers from the nineteenth century. |description|


Views of the Irish Famine
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/

This web site provides access to primary source material relating to the Irish Famine. |description|


Virginia Runaways
http://www.uvawise.edu/history/runaways/

Virginia Runaways, created by Tom Costa at University of Virginia's College at Wise, provides an online collection of press adverts for runaway and captured slave and servants in Virginia from 1736 to 1790. |description|


Virtual Jamestown
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html

The Virtual Jamestown project, hosted by the Virginia Center for Digital History, aims to create an online resource on the history of Jamestown, Virginia in the seventeenth century. |description|


Votes for women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/rbnawsahtml/

The Votes for Women web site from the Library of Congress consists of 167 full text items relating to the American women suffrage movement. |description|


The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/
The Wilfred Owen multimedia digital archive aims to improve access to primary source material relating to Wilfred Owen through online provision, and to preserve this material in a digital archive. |description|


William Francis Brand Civil War Letters
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/brand/

The William Francis Brand Civil War Letters web site provides access to digital facsimiles of letters written by Confederate soldier William Francis Brand to his future wife Amanda Catherine Armentrout. |description|


William Hutchinson: A Treatise on Naval Architecture. 1794.
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Medicine/Hutchinson(1794)a.html


Witchcraft in Salem Village
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
The Witchcraft in Salem Village web site provides access to primary source material on the witchcraft trial in Salem Village, (now Danvers) Massachusetts in 1692. |description|



Witness Seminars - Centre for Contemporary British History

http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/icbh/welcome.html
The Centre for Contemporary British History has held over 60 witness seminars. |description|



World War II Poster Collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/index.html

This site from Northwestern University holds over 300 posters relating to the Second World War dating from 1941-1945. |description|


WWI document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/


February 2003