History Resources

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

World War I archive:
http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/

Cold War International History Project
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School (Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages written by over 2,000 persons, primarily letters and diaries from the Civil War. Also includes biographies and an extensive bibliography.

American Memory
Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

Making of America (Cornell University)

Making of America (University of Michigan)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Includes over 4 million page images, representing close to 13,000 volumes of primary source materials, including books and periodicals.

American Women's History: A Research Guide

The Digital Classroom: Educators and Students
Sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration, this site contains useful information about historical resources and how to use them in the classroom. It includes sections on conducting research and finding primary sources, along with sections on history in the raw (letters, memoirs, dairies, etc.), document analysis worksheet and National History Day.

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Description: Supported by the Australian National Library, this site provides an authoritative, large-scale, subject-oriented scholarly guide to Internet resources in Asian studies. Arrangement is by broad topics, regions, and individual countries.

East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Description: Hosted by the University of Redlands, this directory is intended to be a window on the rich Internet resources available on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Asian Americans. In addition to arrangement by country and region, there is also a "Current Hot Topics" section at the top of the site.