History Websites
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[edit] General History
A collection of Flash-based maps created from satellite images and secondary websites. Highlights the history of war, as well as related topics. Also includes maps on the spread of religion and democracy.
Array of useful websites for researching the ancient world.
[edit] American History
Provides links to web guides created by the Library of Congress listing research information on topics such as Civil Rights, the American Revolution, the Mexican War, the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.
A digital collection of materials located at The Massachusetts Historical Society detailing Massachusetts role in the debate over slavery. The collection includes photographs, paintings, sculptures, engravings, artifacts, banners, and broadsides.
Provides links to digital materials related to Polk both within and outside of the Library of Congress collections.
- The American Left Ephemera Collection A digital collection of ephemera (flyers, buttons, leaflets, etc.) from the Socialist Party of America (SPUSA), Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Provides background information as well as links to information on the Civil Rights Movement including historical news footage.
A guide from the Library of Congress to information on the U.S. Civil War.
- American Founders Online
The digital resources described in this guide provide online access, in varying degrees, to the personal papers and/or publications of the major founders of the American Republic—that is, those men who served in roles of national political leadership between 1765 and 1815—and members of their families
- The Vietnam Center and Archive
Contains a digital archive as well as an oral history project of the Vietnam War.
[edit] Medieval/Renaissance
[edit] British History
A collection of 500 broadsides from the years 1707 to 1891 in Britain. These items were sold at public executions, most detailing the crime, the trial, and the punishment.
A blog consisting of the transcripts of letters written by British soldier William Henry Bonser Lamin during World War 1. Letters are being posted on the blog 90 years to the day that they were written.
[edit] Asian History
- Sidney D. Gamble Photographs of Historical China The collection includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932.
[edit] African History
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
Produced by the University of Wisconsin Libraries this site provides access to over 3,000 slides, 500 photographs, and 30 hours of sounds from 45 different African countries as well as full-text documents relating to the study of Africa.
- African Activist Archive
This project is preserving records and memories of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.
- South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
This resource presents first-hand accounts of this political movement. Interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narratives tell this remarkable story.
- Community Video Education Trust
The Community Video Education Trust (CVET) in Cape Town is building a digital archive of videos taken in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- African National Congress Historical Documents Archive
Contains documents that were either produced by the ANC, about the role of the ANC and its allies in the struggle for liberation or directly concerned with the ANC.
