History Sources on the Web
updated 8/24/2004
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See also Chicago History Websites
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| Advertising in America 1850-1920 | Duke University -- 9,000+ images, with database; early history of advertising | |
| Alex Catalogue | UC-Berkeley catalogue of electronic texts | |
| American Historical Assoc. | principal professional organization; see AHR on-line | |
| American Experience | WWW companion sites for popular PBS series on U.S. history | |
| Charles Babbage Institute | Center for the history of computing (with on-line resources) | |
| Atomic Audit | Brookings Center study on cost of atomic weapons since 1940 | |
| Bartleby.com | Many reference volumes e.g. Cambridge History of English and American Literature; dictionaries; quotations; Strunk's Style | |
| Business History | Coverage of U.S., U.K., Germany, The Netherlands, Japan & Korea. See also the WWW Virtual Library on Labour and Business History resources. | |
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CIA World Fact Book | spooks' view of the world |
| Constitution Community | on-line images and resources from the National Archives | |
| Digital Archive of Am Architecture | at Boston College: 17th-20th centuries; homes to skyscrapers | |
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Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 | 600,00 super-detailed fire insurance maps (GL has Illinois only) |
| Digitizing History | guide to creating digital resources | |
| Documents Room | U.S. history | |
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Edison Papers | a treasure trove e.g. 13,000 Edison clippings indexed; see "The Undiscovered Edison" Atlantic Monthly (12/95). |
| EuroDocs | Western European primary historical documents | |
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ExplorePA | Hyperlinked stories on Pennsylvania's history: see stories, substories, and detailed marker essays -- anthracite to jazz |
| FindLaw | find US Code, constitution & amendments, state laws | |
| Galvin Library E-journals | See Journal of Historical Geography and Explorations in Economic History (find under Academic Press--Social Sciences); see also 40 full-text journals in Project Muse. | |
| GIS Data Depot | "The largest FREE geo-spatial data repository on the web!" | |
| Guide to Science Studies | Worldwide guide to STS programs | |
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Gutenberg e-texts | Vast collection of plain-vanilla e-texts |
| H-NET Reviews | On-line book reviews in all fields; see also H-HISTMAJOR | |
| HABS/HAER | Searchable files of Historical American Engineering Record | |
| History of Science WWW | Wide-ranging links on history of S&T (U Oklahoma) | |
| History Matters | Resources for teaching U.S. history survey | |
| Historic Pittsburgh | On-line 19-20th C books and (detailed) plat maps | |
| H-Sci-Med-Tech logs | searchable archive of on-line discussion, announcements, book reviews | |
| HyperHistory Online | 3000 years of history | |
| International Urban History Bibliography | (sub-section on the modern city [post-1800]) | |
| Internet History Sources | great list from Tennessee Tech | |
| Invention & Technology | American Heritage's popular magazine | |
| Lemelson Center | Resources on the history of invention; also many links | |
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Library of Congress | "American Memory" collection; see e.g. Railroad maps 1828-1900 |
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Library of Congress country studies | Online books on 100 countries: Albania to Zaire |
| Making of America (UMich)
Making of America (Cornell) |
primary sources in 19th C American social history: 1,600 books and 100,000+ journal articles | |
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Modern History Sourcebook | simply a gold mine |
| NASA Historical Archive | Serious book-length works & images -- Project Mercury to Space Shuttle | |
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National Gallery of the Spoken Word | Multi-institution effort: early Edison recordings, Martin Luther King speeches ... Nixon Watergate tapes, and more |
| NCSU STS Links | Extensive science & technology studies resources | |
| NYU History Links | wide range of links from New York University | |
| OAH links | U.S. history sites | |
| OED Online | search the definitive English dictionary | |
| PCL Map Collection | Extensive set of maps and links | |
| Presidential Libraries | Links to presidential libraries (Hoover to Bush) | |
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Resources for Economists | Excellent links--data series from BLS, DoJ, Census, etc.; see also ECONlinks |
| RLG database | Comprehensive history of S&T bibliography: a/c: Y6.G67 pwd: davinci | |
| SHOT | Society for the History of Technology; Technology & Culture on-line | |
| Scholar's Guide to WWW | High-quality links to history, area studies, maps, e-texts | |
| UCSB Humanities pages | History resources on WWW: prehistory onward | |
| US Patents | All US patents (1790 - last week) on line as TIFF images | |
| UT Online | Many e-books and e-texts; see also CMU's Universal Library. | |
| Valley of the Shadow | Univ of Virginia's superb historical resource on the Civil War | |
| Vincent Voice Library | On-line snippits of presidents (Cleveland [1892 campaign speech] to Clinton) | |
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Virtual Library Museums | museums on the WWW: see "industry", "technology" |
| whowhatwhen | Date finder plus 14-dimension timelines | |
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What did it cost in 1789? | Compute relative values of U.S. currency (1789-present): see also UK values (1830-2002, before/after decimalization in 1971) |
| WWI Documents Archive | ||
| WWWVL history of STM | High quality web sites: from "A History of Apple Computers" to "Zwerdling Nursing Archives" | |
| Yahoo International News | E.g. Czech newspapers, Romanian radio stations | |
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