History Sources on the Web
updated Oct. 2012
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See also Chicago History Websites

  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EuroDocs Western European primary historical documents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"

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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