\ Jensen's Scholars' Guide to Humanities & Social Sciences: , Political Science, Religious history Sociology, Area Studies; ; demography religion on-line books October 2007

SCHOLARS' GUIDE TO WWW

Feb 2008
by
Richard Jensen
Jensen is a scholar with many books and articles; he was professor of history for over 35 years at several schools, including the University of Illinois, Harvard, Michigan, West Point, and Moscow State University. Write him at rjensen@uic.edu

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  1. Search the WWW
    1. GOOGLE recommended as best of the search engines; caches items that others have been erased; Google-scholar searches content and footnotes of scholarly articles;
    2. searches for images
    3. Google Print search and read full text of many books
    4. America: History and Life Abstracts of 400,000+ history articles from ABC-CLIO; 1950-present; campus subscription required (check with Librarian) recommended some of the journals are available online in JSTOR or Project MUSE
    5. Historical Abstracts Abstracts of 400,000+ history articles from ABC-CLIO; campus subscription required (check with Librarian) recommended some of the journals are available online in JSTOR or Project MUSE
    6. JSTOR complete text online of all articles; also includes major journals in political science, economics, demography; free access if your school subscribes. List of JSTOR schools
      recommended recent issues of these journals are online at History Cooperative American Historical Review; Journal of American History; History Teacher; Law and History Review; Western Historical Quarterly; William and Mary Quarterly
    7. Dissertations International search last two years of PhD dissertation abstracts; option to purchase for $32 each; backlist available through campus library
    8. Search major newspaper archives from Google. recommended
    9. Time Magazine archives 1923-2006 complete text; searchable recomended
    10. Guide to citing WWW sources
    11. Encyclopedia Britannica complete text of monumental 11th edition (1910); excellent source for all topics as of that date; recommended
    12. The Encyclopedia of World History Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Sixth Edition (2001) recomended
    13. Voice of the Shuttle Large guide to humanities resources, from Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara
    14. H-Net 140 scholarly discussion lists in humanities and social sciences;
      searchable logs; H-Net now has over 170,000 subscribers
    15. H-Net web pages
      16.

  2. Area/Ethnic Studies
    1. History of Nations brief histories all nations
    2. Postcolonial studies
    3. Africa
    4. African Studies Assoc from U Pennsylvania
    5. 'A-Z of African Studies
    6. Teaching about Africa
    7. Africa south of the Sahara from Stanford
    8. Timeline and links
    9. colonial atlas
    10. American
    11. Theory & Method in American/cultural studies by T. V. Reed; good guide to scholarship Studies from Georgetown U. Crossroads Project
    12. Asia
    13. Regional
    14. Syllabi in East Asian Studies
    15. Asian studies from Coombs@Australian National University
    16. Digital Asia comprehensive collection of links
    17. Asian History links
    18. East Asian Language and Thought strong on religion
    19. Afghanpedia encyclopedia of Afghanistan
    20. Afghanistan On-Line
    21. China
    22. WWW-VL Guide from Heidelberg U.
    23. Timelines
    24. Classical Historiography by Benjamin Elman recommended
    25. History from U California-- San Diego
    26. The Civilization of China popular study by scholar Herbert A. Giles (1911)
    27. Ancient China
    28. India and South Asia
    29. Timeline
    30. Virtual Library: South Asia: Sarai
    31. Pakistan WWW-VL
    32. Bangladesh WWW-VL
    33. Tibet WWW-VL
    34. India: A Country Study long encyclopedia article from Library of Congress
    35. Digital Buddhist Library and Museum
    36. Maps
    37. Bibliography
    38. Iraq
    39. Iraq War 2003-
    40. Post Invasion Iraq
    41. Iraq Insurgency
    42. Japan
    43. JGUIDE to Japan from Stanford University US-Japan Technology Management Center recommended
    44. Timelines
    45. History of Japan by Stefan Schauwecker; in English and German
    46. Samurai Archives on medieval military history and culture; many maps
    47. Maps: 16c
    48. Japanese studies, K-12
    49. Korean History project
    50. History of the Philippine Islands By Dr. Antonio de Morga (1907)
    51. Australian Studies Network
    52. A Short History of Australia by Ernst Scott (1916)
    53. Canada
    54. Canadian Encyclopedia excellent starting point
    55. Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources recommended
    56. O Canada basic information
    57. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. excellent scholarly biographies of Canadians who died before 1921. Recommended
    58. Historical Statistics of Canada (1983) spreadsheet format recommended
    59. Quebec history recommended short scholarly essays
    60. links esp bibliographies
    61. culture
    63. Digital Library
    64. Early Canadiana Online 1.3 million pages
    65. Key constitutional documents annotated
    66. Mackenzie King Diaries complete text of major source for 20c political history
    67. Canadian Encyclopedia standard reference
    68. Historical Atlas of Canada projects
    69. Quebec by Claude Bélanger
    70. Manitoba primary texts, biographies, photos
    71. Saskatchewan history original newspaper stories
    72. Eastern Europe
    73. SSEES East Europe and Slavonic Studies
    74. Russia & East Europe from U. of Pittsburgh
    75. Russian Studies excellent links, from Hokkaido University
    76. Russian history & culture from Bucknell U. recommended
    77. Russian military history esp pre 1815 1880 biog by Schuyler
    78. Serbia
    79. Western Europe
    80. politics--links
    81. William H. McNeill; The rise of the West: a history of the human community 1963
    82. British history mostly pre 1500
    83. Election 2005 from BBC
    84. French Revolution recommended from George Mason U.
    85. French culture, HAPAX
    87. Documents & primary sources
    88. German History 1879-1945 online text by Colby College professor
    89. German colonial atlas
    90. Irish Studies
    91. Latin America
    92. Latin American Studies from U Texas
    93. Latin American History links from U Texas
    94. William R. Shepherd, The Hispanic Nations of the New World (1919) full text of short book by leading scholar
    95. United States and Brazil : Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures recommended
    96. Un Debate Histórico Inconcluso en la América Latina (1600-2000) An Inconclusive Historical Debate in Latin America (1600-2000). Four centuries of Struggle in the Peruvian and River Plate Colonial Space and in Modern and Contemporary Argentina, by Eduardo R. Saguier
    97. Puerto Rico documents from late 19c and early 20c, from Library of Congress
    98. Middle East
    99. Links
    100. Middle EastGenWeb Project designed for genealogists, but many uses
    101. syllabus, maps by David Yaghoubian
    102. Middle East from U Texas
    103. Ancient Near East important archaeology reports from U Chicago Library
    104. Islam
    105. Islam 101 basics
    106. A Dictionary Of Islam: Being A Cyclopaedia Of The Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, Together with the Technical and Theological Terms, Of The Muhammadan Religion by Thomas Patrick Hughes (1896)
    107. Islam: Empire of Faith from PBS
    108. Islamic world
    109. Islamic religion
    110. early Islamic Studies
    111. Life of Mahomet classic 1861 biography by William Muir
    112. The Caliphate (1924 edition) classic history by William Muir
    113. The Origin Of Islam In Its Christian Environment (1925) By Richard Bell
    114. Judaism And Islam by Abraham Geiger (1896)
    115. Koran older studies by western scholars
    116. scholarly essays on roots of 9-11 recommended

  3. Demography, Sociology, Ethnicity
    1. E. A. Wrigley, Population and history (1969)
    2. Sociology Links from McMaster U.
    3. Sociology SocioSite links from U Amsterdam
    4. World Population Links by Richard Jensen recommended
    5. Demography & Population Studies The Internet Guide to Demography and Population Studies from Australia recommended
    6. Sociology Timeline from 1600 key dates & texts by Ed Stephan
    7. US Census
    8. Current data
    9. US Census: includes ICPSR census data on all counties, 1790-1970
    10. US Census reports current data on many topics recommended
    11. Race & Ethnicity Statistics US social & economic data, 1950-1995
    13. US Census of 1850 complete text
    14. Demographic resources an excellent guide from Coombs project in Australia
    15. Demographic statistics OPR at Princeton, with historic data
    16. Population Index abstracts of articles, 1986-1999, searchable and browsable
    17. Essex Social Science Data Archives Leading British data archive, with much historical data
    18. comprehensive guide to social science data archives from UC San Diego
    19. Geographical resources links from Western Connecticut U.
    20. American Ethnic Geography
    21. General Social Survey Annual poll of USA; superb guide to social science citations & abstracts of all studies that used this major data base. The complete GSS can even be downloaded
    22. online crosstabs of survey data from GSS and other great databases, from UC-Berkeley
    23. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
    24. International population data
    25. Social, Economic and Political Change sophisticated review of sociological theories, with good links
    26. African-American
    27. CIS History Universe: Access to African American Studies online access to short scholarly articles; check with campus Library
    28. African-American Mosaic Library of Congress collections, texts & photos
    29. Af-Am history in photos from Arkansas
    30. African American Perspectives 19c pamphlets from Library of Congress
    31. A-A newspapers 19th century
    32. Afro-American autobiography 10 curriculum units
    33. History of race by leading historian Eric Foner
    34. Jim Crow
    35. racial stereotypes from Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
    36. essays
    37. Slavery
    38. Encyclopedia of Slavery in American South recommended
    39. curriculum unit focus on New York state
    40. timeline and history with links
    41. Wahl, Jenny B.. "Slavery in the United States." EH.Net Encyclopedia economic history
    42. America's Journey Through Slavery from PBS; recommended
    43. Slave Narratives from U. of North Carolina
    44. Slavery in British America and United States historiography from Dade County schools
    45. Slaves & the courts, 1740-1860 100 books & pamphlets from Library of Congress
    46. Emancipation & Freedmen
    47. Freedom Project documents on Emancipation from 1860s
    48. Harper's Weekly original reports on Black America, 1857-1874
    49. "First Plans for Emancipation," by Nicolay and Hay (1889):
    50. "Emancipation Announced," by Nicolay and Hay (1889)
    51. "The Edicts of Freedom," by Nicolay and Hay (1889)
    52. "The XIIIth Amendment, by Nicolay and Hay (1889)
      53.
    53. Booker T Washington & His era
    54. Booker T Washington Era major site from Library of Congress
    55. Booker T Washington Papers complete text of major multivolume collection; searchable; recommended
    56. Up From Slavery BTW's famous autobiography
    57. W.E.B. DuBois
    58. bio
    59. Ohio documents
    60. religious conditions among Negroes from standard 1908 Protestant encyclopedia
    61. Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops (1963), excellent official US Army history of WW2; full text recommended
    62. Post WW2
    63. Martin Luther King project  at Stanford
    64. Papers of MLK complete texts (through 1958) recommended
      65.
    65. civil rights links
    66. The Brown Decision, 1954 curriculum unit by Henry A. Rhodes
    67. Invisible Man novel by Ralph Ellison
      68.
    68. American Indians
    69. American Indian Resources by Will Karkavelas
    70. Plains Indians historical documents, ethnological reports recommended
    71. articles by James Mooney excellent articles on major tribes by leading ethnoilogist, in Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 recommended
    72. Chinese in America scholarly book
    73. Germans
    74. settlement in Wisconsin
      origins of Wisconsin settlers
    75. Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869
    76. German-Americans in Indianapolis: 1840-1918
    77. Hispanic
    78. Hispanic Heritage
    79. A History of the Mexican-American People by Julian Samora and Patricia Vandel Simon (1977); standard text
    80. Hispanics in US links
      81.
    81. Irish
    82. Irish diaspora (1910)
    83. Irish in America PBS
    84. Irish emigration to the United States: what it has been, and what it is. 1873 tract to get irish to move to farms
    85. Molly Maguires terror in the coal fields
    86. Irish
    87. "No Irish Need Apply: A Myth of Victimization" scholarly article by Richard Jensen
    88. Irish in 19c cities scholarly article by Patricia Kelleher
    89. Italians in USA (1910)
    90. Poles in USA (1911)
    91. Slavs in America (1912)
    92. Jews
    93. Jewish Encyclopedia major 1906 reference with 15,000 articles; recommended; strong on most aspects, esp. geography
    94. Internet Jewish History Sourcebook many ancient & modern documents; well-edited by Paul Halsall recommended
    95. Jewish Virtual Library
    96. World Jewish Congress
    97. Jews in Europe early 20c
    98. Antisemitism bibliography
    99. Antisemitism brief history (19c Europe)
    100. Dreyfus Case France 1900
    101. Holocaust teaching resources recommended
    102. Holocaust research from Museum of Tolerance
    103. Migration & Ethnicity
    104. links from H-ETHNIC
    105. Ethnicity, migration EDCOMER - the European Documentation Centre and Observatory on Migration and Ethnic Relations
    106. Race & Ethnicity Statistics US social & economic data, 1950-1997
    107. American Ethnic Geography

  4. Economics and Business History
    1. Resources for Economists on the Internet edited by Bill Goff recommended good starting point
    2. EH Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History excellent scholarly essays
    3. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics excellent scholarly essays
    4. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE) libertarian
    5. economics--schools of thought recommended
    6. Business History
    7. Business history links; world perpective recommended
    8. general guide to resources in business history
    9. American Economic History brief textbook
    10. Business history from Ohio State
    11. Business History large corporations with some historical materials on their website
    12. Labour & Business History esp useful for Marxist links, from The World Wide Web Virtual Library
    13. "Historiography of Business History" useful paper by undergraduate Daryl Williams
    14. "How Much Is That Worth Today?" current & constant dollars & pounds, 1600 to 2000
    15. "Putting 'Capitalism' in Its Place: A Review of Recent Literature," by Michael Merrill in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2. (Apr., 1995), pp. 315-326. in JSTOR. Historiography of pre-1840 America
    16. Industrial Revolution
    17. Industrial Revolution from Wikipedia
    18. An Introduction to the Industrial History of England By Abbott Payson Usher (1920) recommended
    19. Mining books
    20. Industrial Revolution: France
    21. Lalor ed, The Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States (1881) recommended reference book
    22. Labor
    23. "An Historical Sketch of the Knights of Labor" scholarly article by Carroll D. Wright The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Jan., 1887), pp. 137-168. from JSTOR
    24. lumberjacks 1893
    25. machinists, 1893
    26. sailors 1893
    27. "The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers," by Carroll D. Wright The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 7, No. 4. (Jul., 1893), pp. 400-432. JSTOR
    28. Chandler, Alfred. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977) the most influential single book in business history; online through ACLS History E-Book
    29. "The Beginnings of "Big Business" in American Industry" by Alfred DuPont Chandler pp 62ff
    30. short review by David Landes
    31. Richard John, "Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler's The Visible Hand After Twenty Years" Business History Review, (1997) Vol.71 #2 p.151-200 recommended
    32. Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (1997) review
    33. Railroads
    34. Jensen's Guide to Railroad History recommended links
    35. John Moody, The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States (1919) very good, short book by scholar
    36. links to online resources re specific US roads
    37. Cornelius Vanderbilt & eastern roads
    38. British Railroads from Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
    39. France
    40. Invention
    41. Holland Thompson The Age of Invention (1920) full text of semipopular, short book by a scholar
    42. Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison, His Life and Inventions (1910) full text biography
    43. Thomas A. Edison Papers
    44. "Development of Large-Scale Organization: Electrical Manufacturing Around 1900" by Harold C. Passer, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 12 #4. (Autumn, 1952), pp. 378-395. JSTOR
    45. History of computers the MouseSite
    46. Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?
    47. "Entrepreneurial Leadership Among the "Robber Barons": A Trial Balance," by Chester McArthur Destler, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 6, Supplement: (May, 1946), pp. 28-49. JSTOR
    48. "American Historians and the Business Elite" by William Miller The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 9, No. 2. (Nov., 1949), pp. 184-208. JSTOR
    49. "The American Business Elite: A Collective Portrait, by C. Wright Mills The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 5, Supplement: (Dec., 1945), pp. 20-44. JSTOR
    50. Burton J. Hendrick, The Age of Big Business (1920) full text history by scholar
    51. "Jackson, Biddle, and the Bank of the United States," by Bray Hammond The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 7, No. 1. (May, 1947), pp. 1-23. JSTOR
    52. Andrew Carnegie, Steel & Philanthropy
    53. Carnegie as entrepreneur recommended
    54. Bio from PBS transcript of program; original documents; teacher's guide
    55. links
    56. Carnegie Libraries
    57. Andrew Carnegie's essays
    58. industrial history of Pittsburgh
    59. John D Rockefeller & Standard Oil
    60. Rockefellers by PBS transcript of program; original documents; teacher's guide
    61. Tarbell, History of Standard Oil complete text of influential 1904 Muckraking expose
    62. Development of Large-Scale Organization: The Standard Oil Company" (Exxon) by Ralph W. Hidy, in The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 12, (1952), pp. 411-424. JSTOR
    63. Timeline and bibliography world oil history
    64. 19c advertising from Harper's Weekly
    65. Archive of Classic Print Ads
    66. "Trusts and Public Policy," by Charles J. Bullock (1901)
    67. US Industry, 1900-1930
    68. Auto Industry, 1920s
    69. Enron, 2002
    70. Labor
    71. Samuel P. Orth The Armies of Labor (1920) full text of semipopular short book by scholar
    72. "The Organization of Labor" 1882 essay by T. V. Powderly, head of Knights of Labor
    73. Homestead Strike by PBS
    74. "The Homestead Strike. I. A Congressional View" 1892 article by William C. Oates
    75. Fredeick Winslow Taylor & efficiency movement
    76. Canadian labour history
    77. Economic History
    78. JSTOR: Journal of Economic History 1941-2000
    79. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2005)
    80. Abstracts in Economic History from Cliometrics Society
    81. EH.net Encyclopedia of Business & Economic History new scholarly essays
    82. Book Reviews from EH.net recommended
    83. Lalor ed, The Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States (1881) solid old reference book
    84. US economic change 1900 to 1930
    85. NBER Macro-Economic History Database
    86. 20c Record of Inequality and Poverty in the US 1998 paper by Robert D. Plotnick, Eugene Smolensky et al. recommended
    87. The Environment in American History
    88. Economic Thought
    89. Economics annotated guide to resources, from Georgetown
    90. Archive of Economic Thought texts of major and minor economists; from McMaster U. recommended
    91. Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics complete 1903 edition
    92. Thorstein Veblen books and essays
    93. Social, Economic and Political Change sophisticated review of sociological theories, with good links
    94. Economic Data
    95. State of Economy current data & charts
    96. Statistical Abstract of the US best starting place for current US demographic, economic & social data; also back volumes from 1878
    97. Historical Statistics of the U.S.: Colonial Times to 1970 best resource for historical data; in PDF format
    98. Budget & Report of Council of Economic Advisors macroeconomic data for US
    99. Statistical abstracts for US states
    100. Essex Social Science Data Archives Leading British data archive, with much historical data

  5. Education
    1. college & university web pages worldwide
    2. Videos and cd-roms many subject areas
    3. college classes on WWW from World Lecture Hall, U of Texas
    4. Graduate students Only
    5. Education World omnibus site for K-12
    6. Education statistics USA
    7. WEB66 using Internet in K-12; from U Minnesota Ed School
    8. Sociology of distance education
    9. History of Education
    10. [ Syllabus and bibliography on history of American Education, by Carl Kaestle (2005)
    11. short 1918 scholarly history of education in US
    12. Richard Hofstadter and C. Dewitt Hardy, eds; The Development and Scope of Higher Education in the United States'' (1952) [ online edition]
    13. Knight, Edgar W. and Clifton L. Hall, eds. Readings in American Educational History (1951) recomended
    14. The History Of Education: Educational Practice And Progress Considered As A Phase Of The Development And Spread Of Western Civilization By Ellwood P. Cubberley (1920) full scale history
    15. Bibliography of American educational history by leading scholar Jurgen Herbst
    16. School Master 1894
    17. child labor cartoons, books, photos from Progressive Era
    18. child labor Hine photographs
      19.

  6. History: General
    1. The Encyclopedia of World History Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Sixth Edition (2001) recomended
    2. General Links
    3. WWW Virtual Library Lynn Nelson's excellent guide to 2500 links.
    4. World History links
    5. World History links
    6. Hyperhistory timeline and maps
    7. Military history 1000 annotated links, by Richard Jensen recommended
    8. Armed Conflict Events Data very good encyclopedic coverage 1800-2000
    9. Historical Atlas of 20c clever thematic maps
    10. The decline of the West by Oswald Spengler (1922) famous pessimistic interpretation of history
    11. Original Texts
    12. Historical texts and documents, a very ambitious approach at Hanover College [Indiana] to putting translated documents and secondary works on-line for undergraduate history classes
    13. Historical Text Archive equally ambitious; worldwide, esp Latin America, from Mississippi State U., By Donald Mabry
    14. Avalon Project large collection of primary documents on international affairs, 16c to 20c, from Yale.
    15. Foreign Policy Documents and commentary from Mt Holyoke
    16. Great Speeches in World History strong on Britain, Ireland, USA
    17. Australian books
    18. Articles:
    19. The History Net full text of articles from popular history magazines
    20. History Today good semipopular articles & book reviews
    21. The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas edited by Philip P. Wiener (MY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74) 5 vol. recommended
    22. Ancient History
    23. Links
    24. Bryn Mawr Classical Review scholarly book reviews
    25. exploring ancient cultures
    26. Egypt scholarly essays
    27. Perseus Project classical Greek and Latin resources; pioneer in computers recommended
    28. Greek History from Perseus
      29.
    29. Roman Empire
    30. Early Church encyclopedia from U. Evansville
    31. The Ancient World conflict, attitude and changing religions sophisticated textbook by Frank E. Smitha
    32. Chinese History Virtual Library by Robert Gray, U Michigan
    33. Cold War visuals, interviews, texts from 1998 CNN production
    34. Discoveries
    36. Discoverers Web recommended site by Andre Engels; global coverage of links & summaries
    37. Columbus and Age of Discoveries by Thomas Tirado, Millersville U.
    38. "Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise to the Indies: Scholarship of the Last Quarter Century," by Delno West in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Apr., 1992), pp. 254-277. in JSTOR
    39. Medieval
    40. Labyrinth Medieval Studies, from Georgetown U.
    41. ORB Medieval Studies from Rhodes College
    42. Internet Medieval Sourcebook maps & original texts, by Paul Halsall
    43. Crusades
    44. Crusades major article from 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia with maps & links to many articles on leaders, religious themes, countries & locations recommended
    45. Kenneth M. Setton, ed. The History of the Crusades (1969-89), standard 6 vol scholarly full-scale history; recommended
    46. Europe
    47. Cambridge Modern History very detailed surveys by scholars, written 1900
    48. complete list at Google
    49. Renaissance
    50. Reformation
    51. 18th century
    52. Renaissance Annenberg project
    53. Eighteenth-Century Resources by Jack Lynch
    54. Early Modern from Paul Halsall
    55. Cartoon history of 19th century lots of fun
    56. Museum of Communism more links
    57. England
    58. Gardiner's Atlas of English History recommended; includes some world history; 1892 atlas
    59. Medieval England links to essays
    60. Adams, George Burton, History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John, 1066-1216 (London, 1905) survey by scholar
    61. Tout, T.F., The History of England From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377) 1905 survey by scholar
    62. Medieval era online textbook
    63. Anglo- Saxon era
    64. Sources of English Constitutional History good set of documents from 601 AD to 1937
    65. Pollock & Maitland, History of English Law great classic; 1898 ed.
    66. Medieval era links
    67. Elizabethan England guide to ordinary life
    68. England under George III (1760-1830) good on politics, documents recommended
    69. British history in the nineteenth century (1782-1901 George Macaulay Trevelyan
    70. English Romanticism
    71. Romantic Circles chapters from new books
    72. Victoria Research Web19c Britain. from Indiana U.
    73. Victorian Britain Handbook
    74. Victorian Web coordinated by George Landow. Brown U. recommended
    75. Irish Famine links
    76. Irish Famine
    77. Online sources for 19c Britain by Michael Nie
    78. Peel Web, 1830-1850 recommended
    79. James Bryce, William Ewart Gladstone old classic
    80. Victorian Britain Handbook
    81. John A. Hobson, Imperialism (1902)
    82. Lloyd-George
    83. Winston Churchill
    84. biography
    85. WW2 in Britain good BBC site
    86. 85,000 British cartoons don't miss David Low
    87. France
    88. Medieval period links
    89. French Revolution
    90. French Revolution from Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (1910)
    91. Napoleonic Wars links
    92. Statistical abstract of Napoleonic era
    93. France GenWeb useful genealogical resources; includes historical maps, census data and many other resources for each province
    94. Germany
    95. German history by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kaelble, Humboldt U., Berlin
    96. Early Medieval
    97. Medieval Cultural studies
    98. German History Sources texts of political documents, 19-20c by Richard Weikart
    99. Germany Gen Web useful genealogical resources; includes historical maps and census data on each province
    100. German colonial atlas
    101. H-German discussion threads & books reviews
    102. Holocaust from Paul Halsall recommended
    103. Holocaust teaching resources recommended
    104. Medieval Italy
    105. Norwegian Historical Association many European links
    106. Russia
    107. Russian history sites
    108. Beyond the Pale History of Jews in Russia
    109. Spain
    110. Medieval Spain
    111. The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel by Mark D. Meyerson 1991 scholarly study
    112. Israel official site
    113. Mexico
    114. Mexico from Don Mabry's shop
    115. Border Studies US-Mexico
    116. Mexican Revolution documents, ed. Don Mabry
    117. Mexican Revolution photos from Runyon collection
    118. Digitising History textbook for quantitative history
    119. Science-Medicine-Technology-Environment
    120. History of Science & Technology documents, from ancient to present, ed. Paul Halsall
    121. History of Science/Technology/Medicine  from Johns Hopkins U.
    122. History of Science, Technology & Medicine by Tim Sherratt
    123. History of science comprehensive links
    124. A History of Science 1904 4 vol compendium by Henry Smith Williams
    125. history of astronomy links from U of Michigan-Detroit Observatory
      126.
    126. history of mathematics several full-length books
    127. Environment in American History
    128. Environmental history links from U California Berkeley
    129. Galileo's World and early modern science, from Rice U.
    130. Medical History
    131. Medical History on the WWW by A. J. Wright
    132. Leonardo's World from Corbis
    133. history of Western science annotated bibliography by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
    134. Steam engines: histories & documents
    135. Engines of Our Ingenuity transcripts of 1500+ short radio talks on history of technology, by John H. Lienhard
    136. Slavery studies bibliographies and autobiographies, by Steve Mintz and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
    137. Historic Speeches in Real Audio, from History Channel Time Machine
    138. Roads from Seneca falls guide to women's history recommended
    139. Distinguished women short biographies
    140. Women's Emancipation in Britain Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
    141. World War I
    142. World War I documents, from Brigham Young U.
    143. World War I links , from U. Kansas
    144. World War I links by Richard Jensen
    145. WWI-Britain from Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
    146. The Economics of WW1: Overview scholarly article by Broadberry & Harrison (2004)
    147. World War II
    148. World War II links recommended by Richard Jensen
    149. WW2 encyclopedia from Spartacus
    150. World War II Resources
    151. lesson plans
    152. Multimedia good slide shows
    153. brief history of entire war from Canadian perspective

  7. History: USA
    1. Reader's Companion to American History (1991) excellent short scholarly articles recommended
    2. primary documents and useful essays; edited by Oscar Handlin (1963 recommended)
    3. History Matters online sources and syllabi, from George Mason U.
    4. links to US topics from McGraw Hill
    5. lesson plans good links
    6. Military and Diplomatic history textbooks
    7. Jensen's Guide to Military History recommended
    8. Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, For the common defense: a military history of the United States of America, (1984) recommended textbook
    9. Matloff, 'American Military History (1989)
    10. Alexander DeConde. A history of American foreign policy1963
    11. Political History textbooks
    12. Charles Edward Merriam, A history of American political theories 1936
    13. advertising slide collection by Roland Marchand recommended
    14. Political History
    15. "Historiography of American Political History" long scholarly article by Richard Jensen
    16. presidential history detailed guide to WWW, by Richard Jensen recommended
    17. American Presidency major exhibit from Smithsonian
    18. Political Graveyard remarkable biographical guide to 81,000 politicians, living and dead recommended
    19. Elections 1860-1912 as covered by Harper's Weekly; news, editorials, cartoons (many by Thomas Nast)
    20. Speeches
    21. Speeches full text, from Northwestern U. Douglass Project
    22. Inaugural speeches; annual messages by Rick Matlick
    23. Presidential speeches short audio excerpts, Harrison to Clinton
    24. American Religious Experience from West Virginia U.
    25. biographies good links
    26. African American
    27. Colonial, Early National
    28. Gilder-Lehrman guide to American History, to 1865. how to read and analyze primary documents recommended
    29. Colonization
    30. Ethnic & religious diversity
    31. Seven Years War
    32. Age of Revolutions
    33. Creating a New Nation
    34. Antebellum
    35. Civil War
    36. American Colonists' Library documents recommended
    37. colonial histories very good scholarly books, pre 1923 (now in public domain); recommended
    38. George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent. 10 vol 1837-60
    39. Provincial America, 1690-1740 very good 1905 overview by by scholar Evarts Boutell Greene
    40. The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution excellent 1968 collection of scholarly essays ed by Jack Greene recommended
    41. Stamp Act see the cartoons
    42. The Early America Review  full text of semi-popular articles
    43. History of New England classic 5 vol history by John Palfrey (1859-90)
    44. Benjamin Franklin links by R. Jensen and classic short scholarly biography by Carl Becker
    45. American Revolution: timeline, biographies from Claremont Institute
    46. Founder's Constitution links to sources of US Constitution recommended
    47. First Congress 1789-91
    48. Max Farrand, The Fathers of the Constitution (1920) full text of short book by leading scholar
    49. A Constitutional History of the United States (1935) Pulitzer-winning textbook by leading scholar Andrew McLaughlin
    50. New Nation teachers guides; stress on politics & religion
    51. Jefferson--Man of Millennium by Richard Jensen, with links
    52. New Nation original founding documents, 1770s-1790s, from from Library of Congress
    53. 1800-1850s
    54. Cartoon history of 19th century lots of fun
    55. Martha Ballard midwife in New England 1780s-1810s
    56. SHEAR bibliography US history 1800-1860
    57. Revolution to Reconstruction textbook plus documents;
    58. Growth & Expansion of Early Nation good graphics
    59. Tales of the Early Republic ambitious collect of texts and encyclopedia entries on Jacksonian Era, by Hal Morris
    60. Tocqueville's America texts from Virginia
    61. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
    62. Brooklyn Eagle major newspaper, 1841-1902
    63. Civil War Era
    64. Jensen's Guide to Civil War online sources recommended links
    65. James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918) best of older histories of the war years; strong on politics recommended
    66. scholarly essays 1966 collection ed. Charles Crowe
    67. Antislavery Literature Project recommended collection or primary documents
    68. Civil War Center at LSU
    69. causes of Civil War documents
    70. Civil War full text of political documents from Furman U.; focus is 1850-1861
    71. Ransom, Roger L.. "The Economics of the Civil War." EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples, August 25 2001 scholarly essay
    72. Words and Boundaries in a Secessionist Age Interactive course on 1850s by Lloyd Benson, Furman U.
    73. 1861 Crisis class exercises, from Richard Latner Tulane U.
    74. Lincoln's complete works searchable recommended
    75. New York Times 1860-66 complete text
    76. Brooklyn Eagle major newspaper, 1841-1902
    77. Lincoln bio, timeline, videos, texts to 1861
    78. Civil War images original prints from NY Historical Society
    79. Overview of Confederate homefront by leading historian J F Rhodes, pp 366-397 recommended
    80. Walter Lynwood Fleming, The Sequel of Appomattox, A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States short 1920 book by leading Southern white scholar
    81. D. S. Freeman "Lee" great 4 vol biography (1934)
    82. Harper's Weekly Recommended
      150 cartoons on elections 1860-1884
      plus Reconstruction topics, Chinese exclusion & American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766-1876
    83. Gilded Age, Progressive Era
    84. American Social History Project US 1877-1946
    85. Brooklyn Eagle major newspaper, 1841-1902
    86. Elections 1860-1912 as covered by Harper's Weekly; news, editorials, cartoons (many by Thomas Nast)
    87. Nativism & anti-Catholicism bibliography
    88. anti-Catholic books online 19th century US
    89. Progressive Era annotated links by Amanda Howenstein
    90. Gilded Age & Progressive Era Cartoons, industry, labor, politics, prohibition from Ohio State
    91. Gilded Age documents and books
    93. photographs
    94. original images
    95. Immigration
    96. Higham, John Strangers in the land: patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925. [1957] outstanding history of nativism; online via ACLS History E-book
    97. Immigration History Research Center at U. Minnesota
    98. Images of immigrants
    99. Anti-Chinese San Francisco
    100. Anti-Chinese Movement from Harper's Weekly
      101.
    101. C Vann Woodward "The Populist Heritage and the Intellectual" pp 214+
    102. 1890s from Bowling Green State U.
    103. Historians discuss War of 1898 recommended
    104. TRoosevelt Timeline with links
    105. Temperance & Prohibition
    106. Woodrow Wilson from PBS with some documents recommended
    107. links recommended
      108.
    108. Robert H Wiebe, "The House of Morgan and the Executive, 1905-1913" pp 252+
    109. H102 Stanley Schultz's course on Civil War to Present at U. Wisconsin,
      with outlines, texts, biographies, photos, etc.
    110. 1920s
    111. links from Montgomery College
    112. links from Kingwood College Library
    113. more links from Kennesaw College
    114. links
    115. 1920s original documents from Library of Congress
    116. Scopes Trial, 1925
    117. Middletown (1929) book by Robert & Helen Lynd
    118. Harlem Renaissance lesson plans
    119. 1950s course, & excerpts examplar course, from U of Pennsylvania
    120. 1980s lots of popular culture & some politics
    121. New Deal, WW2
    122. New Deal Homepage One of best history resources; from Columbia U. and FDR Library; many photos and documents recommended
    123. New Deal links
    124. photos from Great Depression
    125. lesson plans
    126. New Deal Cartoons delightful research resource; original cartoons 1933-45, selected and edited by high school class recommended
    127. Farm Security Administration thousands of photographs from 1930s, some in color
    128. World War II Links by Richard Jensen
    129. WW2 photos
    130. WW2 posters n=337
    131. ads & posters
    132. American oral histories
    133. Ethnic
    134. Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the US: 1850-1990
    135. Chinese American History Time Line
    136. German-American Ethnic Experience short overview by leading historians
    137. Hispanic
    138. Hispanic Heritage
    139. Latino Culture
    140. Hispanic Reading Room from Library of Congress
    141. Urban
    142. H-Urban web links
    143. Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005) Recommended
    144. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History best online source for any city recommended
    145. Cleveland Digital Library primary sources
      146.
    146. Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. online from ProQuest Information and Learning; check with Librarian;
    147. Pittsburgh texts and maps recommended
    148. NYC 1905 documents
    149. Seattle
    150. studying urban history [Guelph, Canada]
    151. Aerial views 19c US cities must see
    152. Chicago maps & buildings
    153. Urban planning, 1794-1918 by John Reps
    154. Chicago extensive collection of online materials; strongest for 1919 from Chicago Metro History Education Center
    155. Labor History syllabus, documents & links, by Gerald Zahavy; emphasis on radical left
    156. South
    157. Tennessee Encyclopedia Online recommended
    158. John Shelton Reed, My Tears Spoiled My Aim geography of South
    159. Encyclopedia of Georgia (2004) recommended
    160. Documenting the American South from U. North Carolina
    161. Library of Virginia 600,000 images in colonial history & WW2 photos
    162. Chesapeake region many full text historic books and documents re Virginia, Maryland area before 1870
    163. Valley of the Shadow social history of Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1850s-'60s, by Ed Ayers, U Virginia
    164. History of Appalachia lecture notes by Ron Eller
    165. WPA Tennessee Guide famous 1938 guide
    166. The Handbook of Texas best guide to any state; multivolume 1996 encyclopedia
    167. Hurricane Katrina 2005
    168. overview
    169. Vietnam War
    170. Annotated bibliography with links, by Richard Jensen
    171. The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975 with documents, by Robert Brigham, Vassar College
    172. Foreign Relations, 1969-1976 Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969-1972 official documents; interpretive emphasis; recommended
    173. West & Frontier
    175. annotated links by Mike Madin
    176. Multicultural West from Washington State U.
    177. WestWeb scholars' guide to Western USA by Cathy Lavender
    178. documents
    179. American Indian Resources by Will Karkavelas
    180. biographies
    181. photographs
    182. Lesson Plans from PBS
    183. New Perspectives on the West from PBS; texts, biographies, timeline
    184. travel accounts full text, pre 1877
    185. H H Bancroft the great multivolume history of the West; v 17 (Arizona & New Mexico) recommended
    186. California
    187. online archive
    188. California 1849-1900 documents
    189. San Francisco history
    190. Shaping San Francisco
    191. Midwest
    192. Encyclopedia of Chicago wonderful guide to city's history (2004)
    193. midwestern frontier documents from Lincoln/Net
    194. Frederic Austin Ogg, The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond (1919) short book by scholar
    195. Kansas history
    196. Cutler history of Kansas, 1883 excellent
    197. WPA Minnesota Guide famous 1938 guide
    198. Andreas history of Nebraska, 1882 excellent
    199. Wisconsin documents
    200. Dictionary of Wisconsin History 1000 short entries with bibliography
    201. H H Bancroft the great multivolume history of the West; v 29-30 (Oregon) recommended
    202. Pacific Northwest historical documents and old histories of Oregon & region recommended
    203. The Handbook of Texas best guide to any state; multivolume 1996 encyclopedia recommended
    204. Encyclopedia of Utah History excellent resource
    205. western photos 1860-1920 n=30,000 from Denver Public Library
    206. books & travel accounts of 19c California esp 1849
    207. Women
    208. American Women's History: A Research Guide
    209. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
    210. American women 1870-1930 massive collection of primary documents from Harvard U Library
    211. The Women's Rights Movement 1848 - 1998
    212. Woman Suffrage documents and study guide, from National Archives
    213. Notable Women of History useful short bios, links & texts; recommended
    214. texts famous books and pamphlets by women
    215. Prominent women short biographies
    216. Women's Archives primary documents, from Duke U.
    217. Nurses

  8. History Journals/ Departments/ Research Institutes/ Associations/Textbooks/Historiography
    1. AHA Perspectives newsletter articles
    2. Canadian Historical Association
    3. Center for History & New Media George Mason U.
    4. Historical Research in Europe : A Guide to Archives and Libraries bibliography with many links
    5. global list of all history depts
    6. History On-Line recommended re UK teachers, research projects, books, articles, conferecnes
    7. recent theses in British universitites
    8. NCSS National Council for Social Studies; high school teachers
    9. State Historical Society Journals
    10. Kansas
    11. Ohio
    12. Southwestern Historical Quarterly major scholarly journal for Texas History
    13. West Virginia
      Online Textbook Supplements (graphics, maps, documents, questions)
    1. Garraty: US
    2. Nash: US
    3. Kishlansky: Western Civ; very good maps
    4. McKay: World History primary sources & web links
    5. WebCT links to publishers
    6. Historiography
    7. Historiography recent major articles; recommended
    8. Historiography annotated bibliography by T. V. Reed
    9. Famous historians brief critical essays on 20 major figures
    10. History Under Debate mostly in Spanish
    11. Historiography Major French and British books from ELIOHS project by Guido Abbattista & Rolando Minuti
    12. historiography syllabus & links by Dr Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University
    13. Foucalt
    14. Orientalism
    15. "Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge" By Philip J. Ethington recommended

  9. Humanities
    1. Humanities Organizations
    2. ACLS homepages and links to 75 affiliated learned societies in USA
    3. Scholarly Societies all fields, from U. of Waterloo
    4. NCC: National Coordinating Committee weekly reports on US government & humanities
    5. National Endowment for Humanities; NEH activities by state; Humanities valuable magazine from NEH; not copyright
    6. Voice of the Shuttle Large guide to humanities resources, from Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara
    7. Art History
    8. Art History links recommended
    9. Getty Information Institute databases for art history
    10. UNESCO World Heritage List, pictures 720+ properties
    11. Art Museums
    12. World Museums from International Council of Museums
    13. Literature Literature, best guide to literary WWW sites, by Jack Lynch recommended
    14. Modern Russian Writers
    15. Heath anthology of American Literature recommended
    16. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes scholarly compendium, published 1907-21; recommended for its 11,000 pages of factual detail
    17. International Women's literature bibliographies
    18. PAL: Perspectives in American Literature 300 pages of scholarly bibliographies by Paul P. Reuben
    19. Southern Literature texts from U. of North Carolina
    20. Great Writers & Poets by Piet Wesselman
    21. Shakespeare
    22. T-AMLIT American Literature , from Georgetown U.
    23. A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry, by Cary Nelson recommended
    24. The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States 1921 classic by H.L. Mencken Mencken links
    25. Romantic Circles English Romantic poetry
    26. Philosophy, Psychology & History of Ideas
    27. Philosophy Links good starting point
    28. Hippias search the web for philosophy
    29. Philosopher's Index recommended links to etexts
    30. Philosophy from U. of Bristol
    31. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    32. Guide to philosophy departments
    33. Philosophical Gourmet Report Leiter's ranking
    34. it's naughty to rank
    35. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy original articles recommended
    36. Ethics Updates by Lawrence M. Hinman
    37. The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas edited by Philip P. Wiener (MY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74) 5 vol. recommended
    38. Ralph Waldo Emerson
    39. John Stuart Mill original texts
    40. Mill's philosophy
    41. texts by and about JSM
    42. George Herbert Mead American 20c philosopher; texts; also W.I. Thomas and other social scientists of early 20c
    43. History of Psychology Archives recommended
    44. Classics in the History of Psychology original texts, by Christopher Green; includes James, Dewey, Freud, Jung, and more recommended
    45. Gender
    46. Women/gender studies
    47. Feminist theory
    48. Suffragists Oral History full-text of interviews
    49. Women's Studies valuable guide from U. Maryland

  10. Libraries and Bibliographies
    1. OPAC (On-Line Public Access Catalogs) Most major library OPACs are available. (Yahoo tracks them)
    2. MELVYL One of the best OPACs is the U of California system, with vast holdings and the ability to email searches back to you. recommended
    3. INGENTA searchable tables of contents to 11 million articles in 26,000 journals; (coverage from late 1980s to last month); formerly called CARL recommended
    4. Dissertation Abstracts abstracts of all PhD dissertations; searchable; guests have access to last 2 years; many colleges have full access on campus
    5. British academic libraries
    6. British Library
    7. US National Archives
    8. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) in U.S.A.
    9. Archives USA Chadwyck-Healey's product
    10. IBSS International Bibliography of Social Sciences, restricted to UK universities

  11. Full Text On-Line Magazines, Books, Documents pre 1920s
    1. Digital Libraries
    2. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography By Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
    3. Reference books
    4. Quotations
    5. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 9th ed. 1901 -- with better citations than recent editions
    6. more recent quotations
    7. Roget's Thesaurus both 1995 and 1922 editions
    8. Mencken, The American Language (1921) classic
    9. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes scholarly compendium, published 1907-21recommended for its 11,000 pages of factual detail
    10. Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
    11. OneLook Dictionaries 4 million words indexed in more than 700 online dictionaries
    12. Columbia Encyclopedia excellent brief, modern
    13. Wordsmyth Dictionary
    14. Century Dictionary full text of monumental English dictionary, cyclopedia & atlas of 1890s recommended
    15. Merriam Webster's Unabridged 1913 edition; the superb 1961 edition is available on cd-rom
    16. The Oxford English Dictionary is available online at many colleges
    17. Encarta useful encyclopedia
    18. French Reference [in pdf format]includes Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) by Pierre Bayle
    19. Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers [1751-1765]- 16 vol
      20.
    20. Books
    21. Project Gutenberg over 10,000 books online--strongest in 19c literature recommended
    22. annotated guide from Georgetown U Library
    23. E-Texts 7500 full texts from Internet Public Library
    24. US History recommended
    25. State & Local US History recommended
    26. Cleveland Digital Library primary sources
    27. Kentucky Digital Library hundreds of titles on Kentucky
    28. Pittsburgh
    29. Public Domain HTI Modern English Collection recommended
    30. CARRIE
    31. Project Gutenberg Major collection of literary and historical texts
    32. African American
    33. African American Writers from ISLMC
    34. African American Perspectives 19c pamphlets from Library of Congress
    35. 19c American Lit 70 full texts books by major writers
    36. Documenting the American South many full-length Southern books, 19c; major resource
    37. Kentucky Digital Library books and pamphlets
    38. Archive of Economic Thought texts of major and minor economists; from McMaster U.
    39. "Graphic Witness" caricatures in history European and American political artists
    40. Library of Congress American Memory Project; many miscellaneous collections
    41. Classics in the History of Psychology original texts, by Christopher Green; includes Wundt, James, Dewey, Binet, Yerkes, Freud, Jung, Terman, Watson, Skinner and more
    42. NY Times authors & book reviews
    43. Time Magazine full text all issues, Jan 1994- present
    44. New York Review of Books full text many issues, 1963-2002
    45. 19c periodicals online recommended starting point
    46. New York Times complete text of every issue 1854-1924, searchable highly recommended
    47. Making of America Cornell MOA project is putting online the full text of these magazines.
      The texts are searchable. The project now includes 908,000 pages of text from 267 books and 955 volumes of magazines.
    48. another link
      1. American Missionary (1878 - 1901) strong on African-Americans in South
      2. The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901) major intellectual magazine
      3. Century (1881 - 1899) major intellectual magazine
      4. Harpers New Monthly Magazine (1850-1899) major intellectual magazine
      5. Harper's Weekly online and indexed 1857-1877; superb illustrations; available at 500+ academic libraries recommended
      6. Literary Digest unfortunately not on-line
      7. Littell's Living Age (1844 - 1900) reprints European magazine articles; recommended
      8. The Nation on-line by subscription, 1865- present this was the leading intellectual periodical 1865-1910
      9. Niles Weekly Register best weekly news magazine, 1811-1849; available on cd-rom at some large academic libraries; unfortunately not on-line
      10. North American Review (1815 - 1900) major intellectual magazine
      11. Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
    49. 19c Books full text is searchable; each page in gif format recommended
    50. 19th century books, full text from MOA at U. Michigan; full text searching; images of pages recommended. Includes 634,000 pages from 4,100 books and magazine volumes.
    51. Making of America Full text (in bitmap) of thousands of 19c books and the following magazines, from U. of Michigan:
      1. Catholic World 1865-1901
      2. DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index Major resource for South
      3. Princeton Review 1831-1882 major conservative religious journal
      4. Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index
      5. Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857
    52. Internet Library of Early Journals English journals
    53. 18th Century
    54. Gentleman's Magazine
    55. The Annual Register 1758-1778
    56. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
    57. 19th Century
    58. Notes and Queries
    59. The Builder
    60. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
    61. British Library 19c British newspapers full txt, searchable

  12. On-Line Maps
    1. Odden's Maps links recommended
    2. Perry-Castañeda Map Collection recommended
    3. Century Dictionary full text of major Cyclopedia & Atlas of 1890s recommended
    4. Europe
    5. Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe every 100 years from 1100 to 2000
    6. Historical Atlas (1923) by William R. Shepherd excellent for Europe
    7. Gardiners Atlas of English History recommended; includes some world history; 1892 atlas
    8. British Historical GIS Programme
    9. Atlas of Europe 1882
    10. Historical Atlas of 20c clever thematic maps
    11. World History maps
    12. maps for German history
    13. good on ancient & Europe
    14. Russian Empire 1882 atlas
    15. History of Poland
    16. Balkans 1882 atlas
    17. USA
    18. Textbook maps US History (Garraty)
    19. Textbook Maps US History (Nash)
    20. Perry-Castañeda Map Collection recommended
    21. Statistical Atlas US, 1870-1880-1890, also 1970 recommended
    22. Animated time series of demographic and political data. mostly USA
    23. 20c maps thematic, recommended
    24. David Rumsey Collection 7000+ wonderful original maps; worth the trouble recommended
    25. Using Maps and Gazetteers In Your Research by Dave Obee
    26. Hyperhistory timeline and maps
    27. National Geographic Society Maps also available on cd-rom from Amazon.com
    28. Great set of links to many maps  from U Maryland-Baltimore
    29. Historical maps U Texas collection
    30. Historical and Cultural Atlases Uses Shockwave to create overlays; from U. of Oregon
    31. History of Cartography by Tony Campbell of British Library
    32. free classroom outline maps
    33. National Atlas of Canada
    34. maps from Canadian Encyclopedia
    35. Historical Geography from Association of American Geographers
    36. Cities
    37. city plans and maps
    38. Aerial views 19c US cities
    39. Chicago maps & buildings

  13. News, newspapers, magazines, radio
    1. AJR NewsLink links to several thousand newspapers, broadcasters, on-line news services, and other useful sites.
    2. AJR links to magazines
    3. Media & Communications Studies from U. of London
    4. US National Public Radio, with real audio
    5. US Network TV News archives detailed, searchable abstracts of major news shows, 1968 to 2008
    6. New York Times complete text of every issue 1854-1924, searchable recommended
    7. reporters, 1893
    8. country printers 1893 by W. D. Howells
    9. Voice of America from US Information Agency [daily news]
    10. Washington Post [daily news]

  14. Political Science, International Relations
    1. Guide to Political Research On-Line from Richard Jensen recommended :)
    2. Political Science Virtual Library resources and departments; from Cal Poly
    3. Political Science research from U. of Denver
    4. Political Theory Daily Review links to serious discussions; updated daily recommended
    5. Encyclopedias
    6. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics excellent scholarly essays
    7. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE) libertarian
    8. Americana Encyclopedia articles on US politics
    9. Diplomacy, International Relations
    10. more links
    11. H-DIPLO links to Diplomatic History
    12. International Affairs Resources 1400+ links, by Wayne A. Selcher, Elizabethtown College
    13. Avalon Project large collection of primary documents on international affairs, 16c to 20c, from Yale.
    14. Foreign Policy Documents and commentary from Mt Holyoke recommended
    15. U.S. Diplomatic History Resources excellent links
    16. US State Department documents Foreign Relations of US series, 1960s
    17. Cold War International History Bulletin new documents from Communist archives; major resource
    18. scholarly essays on roots of 9-11 recommended
    19. Supreme Court
    20. Oyez: Supreme Court famous cases, by Jerry Goldman; listen to the lawyers
    21. Supreme Court all decisions since 1893; full text; free from FindLaw
    22. more links
    23. The Founders Constitution excellent collection of documents
    24. Politics, Polls
    25. Yahoo Guide to Politics
    26. Washington Post Guide to US Government
    27. Almanac of Policy Issues convenient guide to all policy areas recommended
    28. Election 2008
    29. Yahoo Guide to Politics
    30. Real Clear Politics current polls 2008 election
    31. Crystal Ball Predictions anlysis by Prof Larry Sabato, who usually is on target recommended
    32. web sites
    33. Green Papers good daily briefing
    34. ABC News coverage don't miss the daily "The Note"
    35. AllPolitics spot news from CNN
    36. Election 2008 from U Michigan recommended
    37. Election 2004 from U Michigan
    39. US Elections to 1880
    40. Annotated guide to ICPSR, from U California San Diego
    41. National Election Studies/ICPSR, 1948-2000
    42. Roper Center polls, worldwide, 1935- present
    43. Real Clear Politics current polls 2008 election
    44. Public Agenda Online nonpartisan evaluations of polls
    45. Thinkers and Theorists
    46. Political Theorists links from Yahoo!
    47. economics--schools of thought recommended
    48. Antonio Gramsci
    49. Karl Marx complete texts
    50. Sidney Hook, From Hegel to Marx: studies in the intellectual development of Karl Marx (1962) history of ideas
    51. Social, Economic and Political Change sophisticated review of sociological theories, with good links
    52. Herbert Spencer from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    53. anthropologists
    54. George Herbert Mead American 20c philosopher; texts; also W.I. Thomas and other social scientists of early 20c
    55. John Stuart Mill original texts
    56. Thorstein Veblen books and essays
    57. Cases & Materials on American Federalism
    58. Philosophy Texts complete texts by Aristotle, Derrida, Hume, Kant, Mill, Plato, Popper, Rousseau, and others
    59. Conservative Political Thinkers Roger Scruton (1944-) Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
    60. Philosophy from U. of Bristol
    61. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy original scholarly articles

  15. Popular Culture, Cinema, Museums
    1. Art Museums
    2. art history by Chris Whitcombe
    3. World Museums from International Council of Museums
    4. artists thousands of excellent JPG images
    5. French Ministry of Culture
    6. Library of Congress "American Memory" photos, sound, film, not copyright
    7. Popular Culture, from Popular Culture Association
    8. Radio history & radio ads
    9. train travel & ads
    10. Visual Images
    11. finding images on WWW
    12. art history by Chris Whitcombe
    13. online visual images
    14. Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) 60,000 images
    15. Medicine and Madison Avenue ads, 1911-60
      16.
    16. Web Guide to Art biogs & commentary on famous paintings
    17. Local History, Preservation, Architecture
    18. Historic preservation
    19. Digital Archive of American Architecture recommended
    20. Great Buildings 3-D models & photos
    21. Living history; re-enactments
    22. Cinema
    23. Internet Movie Database
    24. Film Studies from U. of London
    25. Asian films
    26. The Silents Majority silent films
    27. Film History excellent course syllabus by Steven Schoenherr
    28. early films GIF format
    29. Early films Library of Congress
    30. 20c Europe in Film rentals from Penn State
    31. Culture Studies
    32. African American
    33. Multicultural West from Washington State U.
    34. The Raced Celt, 1840-1890 stereotypical images of the Irish
    35. Chicano/Latino West
    36. Comics
    37. Google's Links recommended
    38. Index of comic art from Michigan State

  16. Religion
  17. Rutgers links
  18. contemporary religious movements from U. Virginia
  19. James Hastings, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics classic scholarly reference book from 1914
  20. APS Guide to Resources in Theology
  21. annotated links by Mike Madin
  22. World Religions useful encyclopedia
  23. religion-online.org 4000+ texts by recognized religious scholars recommended
  24. Sacred Texts </