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Africa Asia Economics Geography Ancient History 
Human Rights 
Latin America Middle East Native Americans 
US History World History Primary Sources

AFRICA

• Africa South of the Sahara 
• African Studies Internet Resources 
• Africaresource.com 
• AOL Black Voices 
• Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport 
• The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela 
• Slave Trade Archives 
• University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center 

 

ASIA 

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (Australian National U.) 
• A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization 

 

ECONOMICS 

• Bureau of Labor Statistics 
• Center for Global Development 
• EconData 
• Economic Indicators.gov 
• The Economy at at Glance (BLS) 
• GeoHive: Global Statistics 
• Global Distribution of Poverty 
• International Monetary Fund Country Information 
• Liber8 
• Onlinenewpapers.com 
• Resources for Economists on the Internet 
• Social Science Research Network 
• Statistical Abstracts of the United States 
• Trendwatching.com 
• Wall Street Journal Markets Data Center 
• White House Economics Statistics 
• Yale Center for the Study of Globalization 

 

GEOGRAPHY 

• BBC Dimensions 
• Map Collection (U. of Chicago Library)  
• Historical Maps Online 
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (U. of Texas, Austin)
• The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century 
• U.S. Gazeteer--Geographic Name Server (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Yale University Map Collection 

 

ANCIENT HISTORY 

• Ancient History Sourcebook 
• Ancient World Mapping Center 
• Ancient World Web 
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World 
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures 
• Perseus Project 
• Roman Daily Life 

 

HUMAN RIGHTS 

• United States Institute of Peace 
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library 
• Women's Human Rights Resources (U. of Toronto)
• American Women through Time 
• Understanding Prejudice 

 

LATIN AMERICA 

• Latin America Network Information Center (LANIC) 
• Library of Congress HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies 
• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown U.)

 

MIDDLE EAST 

• ArabNet 
• History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources 
• Iraq: the cradle of civilization at risk--cultural heritage and historical monuments 
• Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC) 
• The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide 
• Iraq: Conflict in Contex 
• Harvard University-Center for Middle Eastern Studies 

 

NATIVE AMERICAN

• NativeWeb 
• Index of Native American Resources on the on the Net 

 

U.S. HISTORY

• African-American Odyssey 
• America in the 1930's 
• American Heritage -- 50 years of full text articles
• American Presidency Project 
• AmericanPresident.org 
• American Presidents: Life Portraits 
• American Women's History: Research Guide 
• American through Time 
• Center for History and New Media 
• Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks 
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA) 
• Constitution (CRS Annotated)
• Constitution (Justice Learning)
• Discovering American Women's History Online 
• Discovering the Civil War 
• Documenting the American South 
• Encyclopedia of Chicago 
• E Pluribus Unum Project 
• Gilder Lehrmann Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition  
• Hall of Black Achievement 
• History of the Supreme Court 
• Historic Government Publications 
• Historic Jamestowne 
• Historical United States Census Data Browser 
• History of Jim Crow 
• The History Makers 
• Jamestown Rediscovery 
• Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center: Jamestown Settlement 
• Jamestown Virtual Colony 
• The Jewish Women's Archive 
• Jazz Age 
• The Library of Congress 
• Library of Southern Literature 
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's 
• Malcolm X Project 
• Martin Luther King Jr. 
• National Civil Rights Museum 
• New American Studies Web 
• A New Nation Votes 
• Pew Global Attitudes Project 
• Political Cartoons 
• Photograph- Free Source 
• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century 
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 
• The Sixties Project 
• Virtual Jamestown 
• Voices of Civil Rights 
• Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 
• Werowocomoco Research Project 
• The Whole World was Watching: An oral history of 1968 
• Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1820-1940
• The Zinn Education Project  

 

WORLD HISTORY 

• Ancient History Sourcebook  

• Australian History on the Internet 

• Best of History Web Sites 

• Country Studies on the Web (Library of Congress)

• Foreign Government Resources on the Web 

• The Great Hunger: Irish Famine 

• The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization 

• Guide to History Resources on the Web 

 

• Histpop-The Online Historical Population Reports Website 

• Hyperhistory 

• The Industrial Revolution 

• The Jewish History Resource Project 

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies 

• Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Knowledge 

• Medieval Sourcebook 

• MIT Center for International Studies  

• Modern History Sourcebook
   

• New York Times Black History Month 

• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies 

• Renaissance--Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits 

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 

• Slave Trade Archives 

• U. S. "Tiananmen Papers" 

• Yale Center for the Study of Globalization 

PRIMARY SOURCES

          EUROPEAN HISTORY: Primary Sources

• Creating French Culture        
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe 
• Europa Film Treasures 
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project 
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: French Revolution 
• Vatican Exhibit 
• The Victorian Web 
• Views of the Famine 

 

                U.S. HISTORY: Primary Sources

• African American Mosaic  
• Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive 
• American Memory (Historical Collections from the National Digital Library)
• American Women's History: A Research Guide 
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School 
• Chronology of United States Historical Documents 
• Connecticut's Heritage Gateway 
• Delaware History Explorer 
• Digital History 
• Documenting the American South 
• Duke University Special Collections Library 
• Early American History Archive 
• Handbook of Texas Online 
• HistoryLink.org: The Online of Washington State History 
• Historical Voices 
• IEEE History Center 
• Making of America (MOA) - Digital Library of Primary Sources 
• Martin Luther King Jr. Newspaper Archive 
• National Archives 
• National Security Archives 
• Ohio History Central 
• Primary Sources for U.S. History 
• Teaching with Primary Sources 
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture 
• U.S. Foreign Policy Documents 

 

                          15th - 18th Century

• American Journeys - Eyewitness Acounts of Early American Exploration 
• APUSH: The American Revolution -- Primary Documents 
• Archiving Early America 
• The History Carper 

 

                          19th Century

• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition - Online Documents 
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project (Furman U.)
• Temperance and Prohibition 

 

                          20th Century

• The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive 
• The Korean American Digital Archive 
• The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers 

 

                                    Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive 
• The American Civil War Homepage 
• Civil War Resources on the Internet 
• Valley of the Shadow 

 

      World War I

• The Great War: Interviews 
• World War I and Weimar Republic 
• The World War I Document Archive 
• World War I Posters 

 

                                     History of the Automobile

                                                      •  America on the Move 
                                                      •  Automobile in American Life and Society 
                                                      •  Car of the Future  
                                                      •  Horatio's Drive - America's First Trip                         

      
                                       
                                     World War II 

• • The Atomic bomb and end of WW II 
  • The Holocaust 
  • National Socialism and World War II 
  • U-Boat War   
  • World War II Resources                     

   

   

 

    Vietnam War

• The Vietnam Project               

 

Gulf War

• Frontline: The Gulf War           

 

WORLD HISTORY: Primary Sources

• Historical Text Archive 
• Country Reports on Terrorism 
• Repositories of Primary Sources