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As there are a plethora of history-related web sites out there, we have selected for inclusion on this page a list of "Librarian Approved" sites useful for research purposes. If you are aware of any that we have overlooked, please send in your suggestions via the Ask-A-Librarian email form.
General
- Avalon Project Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Yale Law)
Dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We intend to add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. We also intend to provide as many internal links within a document as are necessary to facilitate study and navigation.
- Country Studies (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress)
Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
- World History Index by the World Wide Web Virtual Library
Offers the Internet regarding history divided up by topic, by country, by continents, by era, and by types of materials offered by the sites. This site (WWW-VL) was created in 1993 by a professor at the University of Kansas, and is now maintained by volunteers at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
- The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Contains several sections of online materials for research including an encyclopedia, full-length textbook library, essential tools for the medievalist, resources for teaching, electronic medieval texts, the reference shelf, and external links of interest.
- Feminae: Medieval women and Gender Index
Includes journal and essay indexing (no articles, but citations) for all things medieval regarding women and gender studies. Housed by Haverford College's Margaret Schaus.
Wars
- Korean War
Dedicated to information on the Korean War, this site offers brief descriptions for all countries involved in the war, for special operations, for books on the subject, for aircraft and other aspects of the air war, and a time line of events and operatives.
- American Radioworks' Korea: The Unfinished War
To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended fifty years ago this summer. John Biewen and Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century. Listen to the hour long radio broadcast or read the entire transcript online.
- The Vietnam Project (Texas Tech Univ.)
This site, dedicated to the education and research of the American expercience in Vietnam, has three main functions: collection and preservation of pertinent source material; education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of scholarly research through exchanges, publishing of noteworthy research, symposia, and financial support.
- The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975
This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents. Brigham was the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. Included here are his translations of some of the Hanoi documents, offered for examination and study.
Regional
- REESWeb Russian and East European Sites
Browse REESWeb's annotated links to Russian and Eastern European web sites using any combination of subject, geographical region, culture, time period.
- LANIC Latin American Network Information Center
Its purpose is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region.
- EuroDocs (selected by the Western European Studies Section of the ACRL)
EuroDocs links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.
American
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
- American Women (Library of Congress)
Contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001). In addition to the Research Guide, the gateway home page also provides information regarding preparing to do on-site research at the Library of Congress; tips on searching for women's history resources in the Library's catalogs; guidance on finding materials relating to women within the Library's American Memory collections; and helpful orientations to women's history sources in the Library's online exhibitions and audiovisual Web broadcasts of lectures, readings, and symposia.
- American Women's history
Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources. Of note, there are 1200+ links to Internet sources, 500+ links to Digital Collections of Primary Sources, 75 subfields are covered in the "Subject Index to Research Sources," and the site is updated frequently (at least monthly since 1998).
Product descriptions on this page are incorporated from online reviews and site descriptions from various sources.
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Created by Lana Wilson, Reference Librarian
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