World History
Library Databases -- 39 databases of reliable, in-depth, and current information, including ABC-CLIO databases: World History, World Geography, Issues, and History Reference Online e-Book Collection, and much more. Always the best place to start for quality resources. You will need to log in with your regular user name and password. Add " @qsbyin " to your user name.
General Sites
Spartacus Educational -- "Bringing history to life with original sources." A wealth of historical resources on both World and American from a British perspective. |
History Central Catalogue -- A vast amount of information arranged by country, era, and topic. From the
European University Institute, Florence, Italy. |
History Place
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Perseus Digital Library -- Primary and secondary sources on Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, the history of London, and much more. From Tufts University. Another excellent site! |
Year by Year 1901-2001 -- A year by year summary of important events of the twentieth century. Also timelines for world history, American music, fashion, and more. From Information Please. |
Voice of the Shuttle -- "A structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media." |
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Clockworks -- "From sundials to the atomic second." From the Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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Belief.net -- Information on religion of all sorts. |
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Primary Sources
Internet History Sourcebooks Project -- "Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use." Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and more. Edited by Paul Halsall. From Fordham University. |
The Labyrinth -- Resources for Medieval studies from Georgetown University. An excellent resource!
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Perseus Digital Library -- Primary and secondary sources on Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, the history of London, and much more. From Tufts University. Another excellent site! |
Primary Sources Research-- From the Yale University Library.
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Repositories of Primary Sources -- "A listing of over 5300 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar." From the University of Idaho. |
Avalon Project -- Documents in law, history, and diplomacy. From Yale Law School.
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Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University -- "From ancient papyri to records of modern advertising."
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Russian Film Archives Online Gallery -- A vast collection of film, photographs, and other resources.
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British Pathe Film Archive-- "Preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970." Lots of good stuff. |
NARA -- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. |
LibriVox -- "Provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening." mp3 or ogg files. |
WorldImages -- "Access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery." |
Awesome Stories -- "Thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story." Tons of stuff, easy to use. |
World Digital Library -- "Manuscripts, maps, rare books, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other types of primary sources." From libraries, museums, and archives around the world. |
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Ancient History
Exploring Ancient World Cultures -- Near East, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, Islam, and Europe. From the University of Evansville. |
ABZU -- Guide to Resources for the study of the Ancient Near East. Very substantial. From the University of Chicago. |
Egypt Home Page-- Official site of the Ministry of Tourism, Egypt.
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Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology -- From the University of Memphis (the one in Tennessee). |
Pyramids: the Inside Story -- From Nova.
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At the Tomb of Tutankhamen -- From National Geographic.
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Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser -- An archaeological plan of the ancient complex.
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Theban Mapping Project -- "Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes." |
Perseus Digital Library -- Primary and secondary sources on Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, the history of London, and much more. From Tufts University. Another excellent site! |
Ancient Civilizations -- Cities, Religion, Technology, Trade, Writing, Buildings of the ancient world. From the British Museum. |
RomeReborn -- "A digital model of Rome as it appeared in late antiquity." From the Univeristy of Virginia. |
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Medieval and Renaissance History
Exploring Ancient World Cultures -- Near East, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, Islam, and Europe. From the University of Evansville. |
The Labyrinth -- Resources for Medieval studies from Georgetown University. An excellent resource!
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook -- From Fordham University.
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Perseus Digital Library -- Primary and secondary sources on Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, the history of London, and much more. From Tufts University. Another excellent site! |
Islam, 622 AD - Present
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Islam and the Middle East
Exploring Ancient World Cultures -- Near East, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, Islam, and Europe. From the University of Evansville. |
Islam, 622 AD - Present
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MENIC: Middle East Network Information Center -- From the University of Texas at Austin.
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Egypt Home Page-- Official site of the Ministry of Tourism, Egypt.
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MEMRI: Middle East Media Research Institute
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Islamic Art, Music, and Architecture Around the World -- From the University of Georgia. |
Muslim Scientists and Scholars |
Ummah.com -- "The Muslim directory online." |
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First World War.com -- "Intended at a general rather than academic readership." There's a lot here, however -- including primary documents and photographs. |
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Social Studies Resources
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