History & Archeology

• 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
• Columbus Navigation Homepage
• 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

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