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Historical Document & Speech Sites

• AMDOCS: documents for the study of history U Kansas
• Avalon Project the Yale Law School has provided access to over 150 digital documents pertinent to the fields of history, economics, law, politics, diplomacy and government.
• Classics of American Colonial History selected scholarly books and articles on American colonial history that appear to be of continuing interest. created by Dinsmore Documentation.
• Douglass: Archive of American Public Address This site is a dynamic collection of American speeches organized by speaker, by title, chronologically, and by controversy/movement. There are also links to other relevant websites and to information on Frederick Douglass.
• From Marx to Mao fundamental texts and documents from these two major figures
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress published by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.
• Great American Speeches: 80 years of Political Oratory from PBS
• Historic Audio Archives from Webcorp
• Historical Text Archives mixture of books, articles and weblinks containing texts
• History & Politics Out Loud is a "searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics."
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project Paul Halsall, editor - "collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use." Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, as well as subsidiary sourcebooks on African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Women's, Lesbian/Gay and Global History and the History of Science.
• Marxists Internet Archive primary source material "divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials."
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project Lloyd Benson, Furman U. The project goal is to provide "accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity."
• Online Speech Bank contains [417] active links to 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
• Political Speeches compiled by Wake Forest University
• Presidential Speech Archives Texas A & M Program in Presidential Rhetoric
• Presidents - selected speeches of all the Presidents, with an emphasis on Inaugural and State of the Union speeches, plus writings and biographies, maintained by George M. Welling, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Repositories of Primary Sources A listing of over 4500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
• Speech Archives Hear the Words that Changed the World from the History Channel
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-2000 SUNY Binghamton

War Sites

• AmericanRevolution.org maintained by the History Channel
• www.revwar.com American Revolutionary War page and related links maintained by Michael & Sonja Meals.
• Eye of the Storm a multimedia website of watercolors, a journal, audio and movies based around four tattered scrapbooks containing some five hundred vivid Civil War watercolor drawings and maps by Union Soldier Private Knox Sneden.
• American Civil War Homepage maintained by Dr. George H. Hoemann and includes "hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865)."
• Remember the Maine! History of the Spanish American War maintained by Commander Don J. Williamson, Medical Service Corps, United States Navy (Retired)
• World War I - Trenches on the Web developed and maintained by Mike Iavarone
• Great War Society links to WWI sites
• Old Contemptible's Great War Website maintained by Paul Hinckley, includes military abbreviations, a dictionary of trench slang, a selection of war poetry and other WWI info.
• World War I Document Archive This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L)
• World War II Factbook "searchable chronology of critical military and political events during the war with coverage of special topics such as casualties, ship losses and the Nuremberg trial. Includes bibliography and links to related resources" per Google
• World War II Timeline
• World War II - Directory of Online Resources (academicinfo.net) Sections include: General Links; Online Publications; America at War; Atomic Bomb; Holocaust Studies; Military Campaigns; and Japanese American Internment
• Chronology of World War II Copyright by Ken Polsson
• Korean War Project maintained by Hal Barker
• Vietnam: Yesterday & Today created primarily for students and teachers by Sandra M. Wittman, Professor Library Services, Oakton Community College
• Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975 developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College
• Gulf War Debriefing Book comprehensive look at the facts, figures and faces behind the Persian Gulf War of 1991 maintained by Andrew Leyden

Topical Sites

• Africa: South of the Sahara maintained by Karen Fung, Stanford U. Libraries
• America in the 1930s was created for the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia.
• American Indian History and Related Issues "supervised by Professor Troy Johnson, is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico."
• Ancient World Web maintained by Julia Hayden
• Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, University of Arkansas at Little Rock's, Institute for Economic Advancement (IEA)
• Biography.com entries from the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, A&E, Cambridge Encyclopedia, the Gale Group, and the History Channel, plus related links to info on the web.
• The British Monarchy official web site
• Bucknell Russian Studies Page
• Canadian Encyclopedia online currently available free, may license in the future
• Cold War International History Project established by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
• Conversations with History are produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley with Harry Kreisler as executive producer and moderator of over 200 interviews from 1982 to the present. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists.
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks Library of Congress
• 50states.com starting place for research on the states, commonwealths & territories of the U.S.
• Ethics & Public Policy Center Library includes Center Conversations, Books, and Articles
• Handbook of Latin American Studies Library of Congress
• Historical Graphics Gallery Edited by Jim Zwick, includes historical political cartoons, graphics and posters
• History of American Education Web Project maintained by Professor Robert N. Barger.
• History Place 'dedicated to students, educators and all who enjoy history"
• De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors contents are supplemented by an ancient and medieval atlas, a link to a virtual catalog of Roman coins, and other recommended links to related sites.
• Irish History on the Web designed by Jacqueline Dana as a public service to provide information about Irish history.
• Labyrinth WWW Server for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University)
• Lives, the Biography Resource "largest guide to biography sites on the Web"
• Literature & Culture of the American 50's maintained by Alan Filreis, a "specialist in modern and contemporary American poetry and the literary politics of the American 1930s and 1950s"
• National Women's History Project
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States part of the Internet Public Library
• Sixties Project Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia at Charlottesville
• United States Institute of Peace
• Victorian Dictionary a guide to the social history of Victorian London.
• Victorian Web George P. Landow designed and edited the entire web
• ViVa A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals

Organized Collections of Links

• Academic Info History Gateway - World History - Country Histories - Topical Histories
• American Memory Project, Library of Congress historical digital collections.
• Best Information on the Net, St. Ambrose U.: History Links to all periods of history, covering chronologies, e-texts, organizations, reviews, and multimedia sources.
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet 24,100 links divided into 70 categories.
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century maintained by Matthew White
• History worldwide sites, divided by region, period and topic created by Research Institute for the Humanities-Chinese University of Hong Kong History
• History Guide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history with a
  focus on Anglo-American history and the history of Central and Western Europe.
• Humbul Humanities Hub: History Resources part of the Resource Discovery Network, UK. "The RDN provides effective access to high quality Internet resources for the UK learning and research communities."
• HyperHistory Online timeline, maps and biographies
• Internet Resources in History compiled by Department of History, Tennessee Technological University
  
• Links for Students of History and the Social Sciences Professor Dan Graf's Home Page at Virginia Weslyan College. "small but carefully selected handful of sites ...to help students doing history research find electronic resources as quickly and easily as possible."
• War, Peace & Security Guide maintained by the Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College. Includes the following link collections: Armed Forces of the World, International Organizations, and International Relations
• WWW-Virtual Library for History links to maps, history by country, periods, and topic
• WWW-Virtual Library for Migration & Ethnic Relations

Related Sites

• American Historical Association
• David Rumsey Map Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps
• Editor & Publisher's Media Links online directory of newspaper, radio, tv and media associations
• Electronic Map Collection (U. of Texas at Austin) Links to electronic maps on the Web, includes historical, political, geographical, and city maps.
• Map History / History of Cartography wwwVirtual Library maintained by Tony Campbell, Map Librarian (retired), British Library, London
  1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
• Today in History Library of Congress dynamic site chronicals what happened today in history.
• Twentieth Century Year by Year from Infoplease.com

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