LibGuides: World History: Web Resources

Internet Resources for World History

Archive.org
Use archive.org to find primary source documents for history that are not easily located. Includes web-based resources, audio and video files and texts from the Google book project, Project Gutenberg, etc.
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
Chinese History Virtual Library
Provides sources of modern Chinese history for the People's Republic of China, the Republican Era and the Qing Dynasty.
DScriptorium
Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Includes selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of key historical events within medieval and renaissance Europe and Europe as a supranational region within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history.
Historical Text Archive
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
History Computerization Project
Reviewed as "the best index for finding history resources, history department home pages, and history teaching materials on the Internet" by the Archival Outlook of the Society of American Archivists (May, 1996).
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
From Fordham, a large collection of primary sources, online texts, visual and aural materials relating to the periods of human origins, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, the Hellenistic World, Rome, Late Antiquity and Christian Origins.
Medieval Academic Discussion Groups
Addresses of listservs for medieval discussions on particular subject areas.
The National Archives
The National Archives of the United Kingdom is one of the premier archives in the world, and it's website provides an impressive portal for online entrance. The site contains digitized copies for over 5 percent of the entire National Archives' record holdings dating back 100 years. Special features include a Find an Archive discovery tool that retrieves records not only from the National Archives but also dozens of other collections.
Online Medieval & Classical Library
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
From Georgetown University, this site provides organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies, including links to databases, services, texts, and images. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web.
The Victorian Web
A multi-disciplinary web site which includes overviews of Victorian history, philosophy, literature and visual arts.
Visual History Archive Online (VHA Online)
Sponsored by the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation, the VHA Online is a resource for educators, researchers, students, and the public interest in survivor's stories of the European Holocaust, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38. The world's largest digital collection of its kind, it provides access to data and video for over 51,000 testimonies.

Google Search

Use Google Web Search to find additional Internet resources for U.S. History. To make your searches more effective, try using a site: search. You can use site: to look for webpages from a specific site or top-level domain (TLD).

For example, a search for site:.edu reformation will only return results containing reformation from .edu websites. Similarly, a search for site:www.gonzaga.edu history will only return results containing history from www.gonzaga.edu.