History

The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity.

Represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the e

This website is an original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space. EHW includes entries that concern geographical-cultural areas lying beyond the borders of the Hellenic nation-state.

Excellent collection of webpages devoted to various aspects of Roman history, culture and literature.

An excellent and extensive sourcebook for copy-permitted material for ancient history and civilization courses.

A major site on Roman antiquity, including a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, the complete Latin texts of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Quintus Curtius' Histories of A

An on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453).

A virtual forum for teaching and learning Latin and ancient Roman culture and an informational web site of on-line resources with links to other sites. Site retired March 2020 but some material archived.

The automobile’s impact on American life is everywhere, for the car is much more than a means of traveling from one place to another. This web site explores some of that vast impact. It is designed primarily with college students and faculty in mind, but students and educators at other levels, as well as the general public, will find it of interest.

A highly useful collection of websites that provide ways to determine the historical prices in various countries and eras.

Part of the WWW Virtual Library History Network, this site provides information on all aspects of business and labor history both in the United States and internationally.

This well-designed page provides students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. The articles are written by experts and carefully edited.

Gateway to resources in the field of economic history. Includes abstracts, book reviews, course syllabi, a calendar of events, electronic mailing lists, and links to scholarly organizations.

A comprehensive gateway to Byzantine studies resources. Includes an historical introduction as well as course outlines, reference documents, bibliographies, scholarly texts in translation, image and music files, and links to discussion lists. From Fordham University.

A project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History. This site contains access to over 6000 links to websites in more than 30 categories dealing with Jewish history.

This is an extensive listing of genealogical sites categorized & cross-referenced.

Searchable electronic access to the immigration records of Ellis Island and Port of New York between 1892 and 1924.

U.S. State Department information about countries, their people and the United States' relationship with them.

This well-organized site provides full profiles covering the history, politics and economic background of countries throughout the world. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC Archives.

Covers the activities and collections of the International Institute of Social History, including access to the library catalog, archival indexes, and information on exhibits. Some archival materials, exhibits and selected publications are available onlin

Provides an annotated list of nearly 2,000 of the significant islands of the world and provides basic geographical information as well as data on climate and human habitation activity.

This extensive and valuable site contains their archives of the League of Nations which includes official records as well as portraits, paintings, caricatures, original artworks and unique objets d'art.

Sheila Kasperek's guide to countries and cultures in print and on the Internet.

Site of National Geographic magazine

A collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacek

Represents over 2,000 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics.

Includes exhibits, syllabi, a library catalog, a visual archive, a newsletter, and information about grants, meetings, and publications. Documents the history of physics and related sciences such as astronomy, geophysics, and optics.

The Darwin Manuscripts Project was founded in 2003 at Drew University to create Charles Darwin's Scientific Manuscripts, an online historical and textual edition of the large body of manuscripts that document Charles Darwin's life's work as a scientist.

ECHO (exploring and collecting history online) has created an extensive metasite for materials relating to all aspects of the history of science, incorporating the WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine.

Broad-based chronological and geographical survey of the history of science with extensive links.

Electronic version of Ms. Gal. 72, folios 33r-194r, which contains notes, drawings, and calculations related to material published in Galileo's Discorsi.

Selected images, with informative captions, from the Smithsonian's Science Service Historical Image Collection relating to the development of uses for electricity in the 20th century; can be browsed by subject. Includes search engine.

This broadly conceived site contains a list of Web sites containing materials relevant to the study of history of mathematics. Some of these sites are specifically devoted to history of mathematics while others are part of larger sites.

Includes biographies of famous mathematicians, and articles on the development of mathematical ideas, cross-referenced to the biographies.

Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London

Access to more than 4,000 digitized medieval manuscripts.

Conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the us.

Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.

Provides historical information about cities and towns in England during the Middle Ages, with particular but not exclusive emphasis on medieval boroughs of East Anglia and on social, political and constitutional history.

An online source book of copy-permitted, although not necessarily copyright-free, source material for Medieval Studies. It is an extensive collection of online resources for medieval and Byzantine textual sources.

Collection of original essays, on-line texts, resources for teaching, and links to other medieval-studies sites. Includes search engine.

Links to resources including medieval documents, secondary literature, professional organizations, bibliographies, archives, and topical sites.

A large collection of digital facsimiles of historical documents relating to the life and career of Alan Turing.

Accesses the published versions (in PDF format) of 39 among the 934 digitized manuscripts, as they appear in the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein in the original language edition with annotations. Provided are also 22 English language translations.

Collection of links dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the English naturalist, evolutionist, and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).

Collection of electronic resources relating to the study of Galileo (1564-1642).

A searchable document database lined to document images for Parts I-III (1847-1898) of the Edison Papers, which are on microfilm.

The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents, including correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, and drawings.

Collection of brief biographical essays on prominent biologists since the time of Aristotle.

Contains biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians, some with color photos. Accessible through an alphabetical index and a chronological index. Also featuring the first Ph.D's by women before 1930, and prizes, awards and honors.

This site is primarily comprised of a list of women mainly from the pre-20th century period. Provides a very brief description of contributions these women have made to science.

This guide is designed to introduce researchers to the enormous opportunities for discovering American women's history and culture at the Library of Congress.

Offers a wealth of Web resources related to women in respect to the roles they have played in history. Site offers access to several organizations and institutions devoted to promoting the importance of the contributions which women have made.

Interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the women's suffrage movement. Includes Jeannette Rankin's memories of Carrie Chapman Catt.

Books, pamphlets and other artifacts on the women's suffrage campaign in the U.S. donated by Carrie Chapman Catt.

An organized collection of primary sources, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contains biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians, some with color photos. Accessible through an alphabetical index and a chronological index. Also featuring the first Ph.D's by women before 1930, and prizes, awards and honors.