Selected Resources

Comprehensive Historical Resources | North American History | European History | World History | Medieval History | African Studies | Asian Studies | Latin American Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Historical Text Archive | Court Cases & Trials | Primary Sources | Citing Electronic Resources | Statistics


Comprehensive Historical Resources

• Biographical Dictionary of Notable People ( Over 28,000 entries )
• AHA WebSite
• Using Primary Sources
• HistoryCentral (primary sources)
• In the First Person
• What is a Primary Source?
• This Day in History

• Guide to Searching the National Archives
• History Matters (gateway to web resources)
• Making of America ( primary sources, antebellum - reconstruction )
• POTUS: Presidents of the U.S.
• Yale Avalon Project Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy
• The King Center (MLK Papers)
• Martin Luther King Papers Project
• Civil Rights Digital Library
• Digital Collections & Services (Library of Congress)
• Civil War Women
• American Women's History: a research guide
• Canadian Encyclopedia Online
• Facts for American Holidays (U.S. Census Bureau)
• State Digital Resources
• Primary Documents of American History (Library of Congress)
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States

• Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Free fulltext)

• World Civilization Virtual Library

• Medieval Sourcebook
• Labyrinth Home Page

• African Journals Online (world's largest collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals)
• Ibrahim Index of African Governance (2011)
• African Studies
• African Studies
• Bibliography of Women in Africa

• Asia-Studies Humanities (citations only)
• Indian History Sourcebook
• Asia since 1900
• China and Japan
• Japan Headings
• Japan Collections at LOC
• Japan Search Suggestions
• World Digital Library (UNESCO)

• Latin America

• Middle East

• American Memory Project - Library of Congress
• Benjamin Franklin Portal

• Historic Court Decisions
• Famous Constitutional Cases
• Jeeves
• Famous American Trials
• Famous Trials

• Primary Sources (Guide Sheet)
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• Primary Source Sets (LOC)
• Lancaster Newspapers (19th century)
• Apollo 11
• Primary Documents (worldwide)

• Chicago Style
• Citing Historical Electronic Resources

• Historical Statistics of the United States: : earliest times to the present