List of Primary Source Web Sites
[Use the comment link at the bottom of the page for suggestions for new links or to notify us of broken ones.]
European
BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
“Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier”
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
Early Modern Resources
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/
Women’s Religious Communities, 400-1600
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/
Digital Medievalist Project
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
World
Library of Congress’s Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
World History Matters
http://worldhistorymatters.org/
Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html
United States
Library of Congress -- http://www.loc.gov/
American Memory -- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Thomas (Legislative Information) -- http://thomas.loc.gov/
Exhibitions -- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/
American Women -- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/
National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
“Making of America” – Social History Primary Source Collection
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Library of Virginia (aka Virginia State Library)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/index.htm
Projects at the Virginia Center for Digital History
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/research.html
History Matters -- Primary sources in American history
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/
Martha Ballard’s Diary Online
www.DoHistory.org or www.DoHistory.com
United States Historical Census Data Browser, University of Virginia
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
History of the American Eugenics Movement
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
Tennessee State Library and Archives
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/
Historic Diary Excerpts from the Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/diary/
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Talking History – Oral History Archive
http://www.talkinghistory.org/index.html
UMW Library Guide to Women
http://www.library.umw.edu/womenstud.htm
WWW Virtual Library of Women's History
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivalink.html
Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html
General History Sites
UMW Library’s collection of history links and sources
http://www.library.umw.edu/history.html
Library of Congress’s Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
“Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier”
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html
“In the First Person” – Indexing of thousands of letters, diaries and oral histories (not all online)
http://www.alexanderstreet7.com/firp/
Historic Cities: Maps and Documents
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html
The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Project Gutenberg – Over 16,000 online books
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Bartleby.com – “Great Books Online”
http://www.bartleby.com/
“Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction on the Web”
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/12043.html
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
Reference Links
Google Print – Search within thousands of books
http://print.google.com/
Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
CHNM Digital History Tools
http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
“Making Sense of Evidence”
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/
The Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
Advice on Finding Book Reviews – UMW Library
http://www.library.umw.edu/bookreview.html
“Where To Find Free Images And Visuals”
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/01/where_to_find_free_images.htm
Online History Journals
HISTORY NOW from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.historynow.org/
AHA
http://www.historians.org/
Career Information
The American Association for State and Local History’s Career Center
http://www.aaslh.org/jobsonline.htm