History Sources on the Web
updated Oct. 2012
= special value
Advertising in America 1850-1920 | Duke University -- 9,000+ images, with database; early history of advertising | |
American Historical Assoc. | principal professional organization | |
American Experience | WWW companion sites for popular PBS series on U.S. history | |
Atomic Audit | Brookings Center study on cost of atomic weapons since 1940 | |
Bartleby.com | Many reference volumes e.g. Cambridge History of English and American Literature; dictionaries; quotations; Strunk's Style | |
Charles Babbage Institute | Center for the history of computing (with on-line resources) | |
CIA World Fact Book | spook's view of the world | |
Digital Archive of American Architecture | at Boston College: 17th-20th centuries; homes to skyscrapers | |
Edison Papers | a treasure trove e.g. 13,000 Edison clippings indexed | |
EuroDocs | Western European primary historical documents | |
ExplorePA | Hyperlinked
stories on Pennsylvania's history: see
stories, substories, and detailed marker essays --
anthracite to jazz, including Misa's "Making
Steel" |
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FindLaw | find US Code, constitution & amendments, state laws | |
Guide to Science Studies | Worldwide guide to STS programs | |
H-NET Reviews | On-line book reviews in all fields; see also H-HISTMAJOR | |
HABS/HAER | Searchable files of Historical American Engineering Record | |
History Matters | Resources for teaching U.S. history survey | |
Historic Pittsburgh | On-line 19-20th C books and (detailed) plat maps | |
H-Sci-Med-Tech logs | searchable archive of on-line discussion, announcements, book reviews | |
HyperHistory Online | 3000 years of history | |
Library of Congress | "American Memory" collection; see e.g. Railroad maps 1828-1900 | |
Library of Congress country studies | Online books on 100 countries: Albania to Zaire | |
Making of
America (UMich) Making of America (Cornell) |
primary sources in 19th C American social history: 1,600 books and 100,000+ journal articles | |
Modern History Sourcebook | simply a gold mine | |
National Gallery of the Spoken Word | Multi-institution effort: early Edison recordings, Martin Luther King speeches ... Nixon Watergate tapes, and more | |
Online Library Networks | Catalogue of electronic texts | |
PCL Map Collection | Extensive set of maps and links | |
Presidential Libraries | Links to presidential libraries (Hoover to Bush) | |
Resources for Economists | Excellent links--data series from BLS, DoJ, Census, etc. | |
SHOT | Society for the History of Technology | |
US Patents | All US patents (1790 - last week) on line as TIFF images | |
UT Online | Many e-books and e-texts; see also CMU's Universal Library. | |
whowhatwhen | Date finder plus 14-dimension timelines | |
What did it cost in 1789? | Compute relative values of U.S. currency (1789-present) | |
Yahoo International News | E.g. Czech newspapers, Romanian radio stations | |
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