History Resources on the Web

General Sources: 
American History

Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts -- By Michael Plunkett. Published by the University of Virginia. The guide is a descriptive listing of manuscripts in collections throughout Virginia.

ALEX: -- A catalog of electronic texts available in many archives throughout the Internet. Title, author, subject, and keyword searchable.

American Studies -- Electronic Texts project by the University of Virginia. Includes classic texts (e.g., Democracy in America by Alexis DeTocqueville and America in the 1930s).

American Civil War Homepage -- Multitude of sources including links to documentary records, histories, bibliographies,state and local studies, specific battles, and rosters and regimental histories

American Studies Web -- An interdisciplinary collection of Internet connections including a sections on Historical Studies, Archival Resources,and General History Resources.

Archives of the West -- Images and full-text of selected items, produced as a supplement to a PBS series.

Archiving Early America -- Explore the world of early America through newspapers, maps, magazines and writings of the period. Included are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the Whiskey Rebellion, and more. The Digital Library contains thumb-nail images of portraits, places, maps, documents, early-day ads, and other images.

Berkeley Digital Collections -- A showcase of digital initiatives undertaken by Berkeley, including some full-text documents. Includes the American Heritage Project, a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia. A prototype "virtual archive", integrating into a single source, hundreds of archival finding aids describing and providing access to a large body of primary source materials from collections documenting American culture and history held by four major academic research libraries

Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals -- Current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German, and Dutch are selected from more than ninety European, American, and Indian journals.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present -- A search engine that locates by name, state or position.

The Center for Electronic Text and Image at the University of Pennsylvania -- Text, audio and graphic resources related to a variety of topics.

Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities -- A variety of electronic texts,as well as resources related to text encoding. via Rutgers University

Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 -- Library of Congress: Annals of Congress; Journals of the Continental Congress; Elliot's Debates; Statutes at Large; House Journal; Senate Journal; Senate Executive Journal; Maclay's Journal; and Register of Debates.

Chronology of US Historical Documents -- An assortment of documents beginning with the Magna Carta (1215)  and ending with Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address. via University of Oklahoma Law Center

Civil War Information Available on the Internet -- A Meta-index (over 6,000 sites) of networked resources. Includes pointers to bibliographies, images, and organizations. Compiled by the U.S. Civil War Center, Louisiana State University.

History and the WWW -- A misleading title that is a wonderful index of primary documents and images from various sites around the world.

Constitution of the U.S. -- Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.  Site prepared by the Congressional Research Service.

Constitution of the U.S. -- National Archives and Records Administration page features the biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention and a transcription of the complete text of the Constitution. This page also provides hyperlinks to biographies of each of the 39 delegates who signed the Constitution.

Documenting the American South -- Collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. via University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy -- Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.

• Pre 18th Century Documents
  18th Century Documents
  19th Century Documents
  20th Century Documents

Electronic Texts from Center for Computer Analysis of Texts  -- A gopher site supported by the University Of Pennsylvania.  An assortment of documents primary from early U.S. History.

Electronic Texts from the University of Virginia Library -- fInteresting collection of ull-text documents, some illustrated, related to the history of the United States and the South.

Excerpts From Slave Narratives -- Narratives related to the capture,transport, treatment, and emancipation of slaves.  via University of Houston.

H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online:Content Gateway -- H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Gateways include: Arinet, Migration and Ethnicity, and Film as History.

Historical United States Census Browser -- Instructional Computing Group of Harvard University, in cooperation with Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, has made a subset of historical data from U.S. decennial censuses from 1790 to 1970 available for forms-based querying on the web.

Making of America -- Collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University to select and scan approximately 5,000 primary materials with imprints between 1850 - 1877 documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) -- National Archives and Records Administration's holdings in Washington, DC, the regional archives, and the Presidential libraries.

Nineteenth Century Documents Project -- Collection of nineteenth century United States primary source material, including documents, editorials, speeches, and articles. Sections include: Early National Politics; Slavery and Sectionalism; Nebraska Bill; Sumner's Caning; Dred Scott Decision; John Brown and Harper's Ferry; 1850s Statistical Almanac; 1860 election; Secession and War; and Post Civil War.

Presidents of the United States -- Background information, election results, cabinet members, and notable events,interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site.
See also: Presidents and First Ladies via the White House

Selected Historic Decisions of the US Supreme Court -- Cornell Law Legal Information Institute

Supreme Court Decisions -- FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text.

University of Virginia Hypertexts Project -- Hypertexts include literature, political writings, and WPA slave narratives.

Virtual Library -- Links to full text books, pamphlets, newspapers and historical documents on the World Wide Web.  via National Archives and Records Administration

Witchcraft in Salem Village -- Complete 1692 Salem Witchcraft Papers and related documents. Created by the Danvers Archival Center, the local history, rare book and manuscript department of the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers, Massachusetts, with the support of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.

General Sources: 
European History

ARTFL -- American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language. Resources in French language, literature, and culture. ARTFL, a cooperative project of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the University of Chicago, offers a full-text database of nearly 2,000 works in French dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Included are works of literature, literary criticism, history, philosophy, and economics.

Byzantine Studies -- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection research links and publications. Includes information on Pre-Columbian Studies.

Classics, Archaeology and Ancient History -- Resources on Ancient History compiled by LSU's Steven K. Ross Assistant, Professor of History.

Electronic Resources for Medieval Studies -- Internet Resources via The Electronic Text Center, Rice University. Includes links to journals, texts, projects, and dictionaries.

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -- Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations organized by nations and then chronologically. via Brigham Young University Library

European Studies - Regional and Historical Resources -- The Western European Specialists Section of the American Libraries Association's Association of College and Research Libraries have developed comprehensive links to internet resources that include:

• French Studies
  German Studies
  Medieval and Renaissance Web
  Social Sciences and History (Includes links such as Migration Studies, Gypsies, Women's Studies, etc.)

Internet History Sourcebooks -- collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts.