Web Sites

To find primary sources on the Web, go into Search the Web through the Tiger. The two best search engines to use are the Librarian’s Index to the Internet and Infomine. To search on Infomine, click on Infomine and enter your search after reaching the Infomine site. The Librarian’s Index, like the Library Catalog, has a subject link you can click on to find more sites. The sites below are just a few to get started. These sites have either primary documents or links to primary documents.

        Internet History Sourcebooks Project -http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

As a site which contains "collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts," this is great for finding primary historical resources. The three primary historical sourcebooks cover Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History. Additional historical sourcebooks, organized by theme, include African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Women's, Gay/Lesbian, Global History, and the History of Science. In addition to full-text historical documents, one can find links to secondary articles, reviews, discussions, and more Web sites. Maintained and edited by Paul Halsall, Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Florida.

          Especially:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

        Avalon Project at the Yale Law School -http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

This is an on-going collection of documents "relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." The documents are categorized by century, although there is also an Alphabetic Author/Title List of all the Project Documents. They're international in nature and go back to Ancient Greece. Footnotes and references to other texts are linked whenever possible.

        EuroDocs -http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

Descriptive directory of links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents. Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations. Ordered by country and chronologically within each. Also sections on Medieval and Renaissance Europe and Europe as a "Supernational" region.

        World War I Document Archive -http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

Primary documents of WWI, most in English, have been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). Includes conventions, treaties, official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences, and a biographical dictionary.

        World War II Primary Source Document Collection -

The Primary Source Document Collection holds several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII. The Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.

        General History Links

                    Hyper-history   A very general collection with a useful time-line, images, and maps

                    WWW-Virtual Library Network  Shortcut to useful links, including some on modern Europe

                    Horus' Web Links to History Sources   Another set of links organized by country and by
                    theme, including memoirs and other primary sources

        Sources for Intellectual History                   

                    Web Museum   Very strong collection of paintings organized by artist.  Some with explanations

                    Mark Harden's Artchive  Well-organized collection of images from a large variety
                    of artists                   

                    OCAIW  Good collection of paintings

Musee d'Orsay  One of the best collections of Impressionist and early 20th century European art

Surrealism  Paintings from the major proponents of the movement

        Specific Topics

                    Trenches on the Web  An extraordinarily rich collection of images, music, maps, 
                     primary sources and general information on World War I

                    The Great War  The PBS series--some interesting interviews                    

Hellfire Corner   Some good diaries and memoirs.

                    World War II on the Web  Links on aspects of the War including the Holocaust      

                    Cybrary of the Holocaust  Complex collection of visual, audio, and written sources

                    German Propaganda Archive  Good sources on the Nazis and E. German, organized 
                    by Calvin College

                    Women and propaganda  The portrayal of women in Britain in the 1940s in advertising

          Countries          

                    Italian Index  Information and links on modern topics, including bibliographies

                    German History WWW Links  A selection of useful links to sites dealing with German history

                    Histoire de France  Links selected by professors at Cornell University

                    Irish History on the Web  Extensive sources on all periods of Irish history