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| General |
| Hyper-History:
an information-packed site with a good chronological
table which relates events in globally. |
| Project Gutenberg: a
large number of electronic texts, both books and articles. |
| Michigan Electronic Library:
includes history on a particular day, visual resources, documents,
information on historians and philosophers. |
| History Index: a number of gateways
to countries and to different topics. |
| History
Project: useful source of links on a number of areas specifically
related to the Mediterranean at the European University Institute. |
| Virtual
Religion Index: links to sources on Islam. |
| Gateway to World History: links
to documents, images, and sites. |
| Cartographic
Images: collection of historical maps with explanations. |
| Islamic
Timeline: clear presentation of the complexities of who ruled
where and when. |
| Images |
| WebMuseum: The WebMuseum,
a wonderful collection of paintings from a wide range of artists,
time periods, and places. Good explanations of a number of
paintings. |
| Mark Harden's Artchive: Art
Resources Links: Many paintings, easily accessible.
The WebMuseum and this collection complement each other well. |
| Lycos
Pictures and Sounds: Quite a few interesting historical
images--paintings, caricatures, photos. |
| Web Gallery of Art:
Many images of paintings and sculpture from 1200-1700, often with
biographies and analyses. |
| Paris
Pages Musee d'Orsay Collection Paintings: Mostly Impressionist
paintings from their very rich collection. |
| Photo Archives
Data: the collection gathered by the U.S. Holocaust Museum,
including photos from World War I to the 1950s. |
| Ancient Mediterranean |
| Exploring Ancient Cultures:
a number of links and sites to ancient and medieval cultures. |
| Dead
Romans: a great source of information on all areas of
Roman culture and society. |
| The Ancient World : The Perseus
Project: very rich site including texts, maps,
images, descriptions. |
| Ancient History
Sourcebook : a number of important primary texts to explore. |
| Medieval Mediterranean |
| Netserf: rich site with numerous
links on a range of interesting subjects. |
| Medieval and
Renaissance History: includes some sources on ancient
history as well as key sites for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,
organized by general site and by more specific subject. |
| Labyrinth:
includes resources on special topics, on countries, as well
as articles. |
| Medieval Sourcebook:
original documents, including chronicles of the Crusades and saints'
lives. |
| Islamic
Caliphate page: original sources. |
| Heaven and Earth:
many images and maps of the earth and the skies. In
French, but the images are not. |
| Modern Mediterranean |
| Modern Sourcebook |
World
War I Document Archive: Primary documents of WWI, most
in English, including
conventions, treaties, official papers, personal reminiscences,
and a biographical dictionary. |
| Avalon
Project at the Yale Law School: 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, are international in nature and go back to Ancient Greece.
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