• The CSLA History Department Home Page is a good place to learn about the CSLA History faculty, undergraduate and graduate programs, and related organizations. These pages also provide links to History related sites.

General Internet Resources | Primary Sources | Libraries / Archives / Repositories | Institutions | Listservs and Discussion Groups

General Internet Resources

• History Matters a highly regarded gateway to web resources as well as a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence for students and teachers of American history.
  
  
• Best of History Web Sites provides categorized links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness. Sites with engaging content and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included. General resources and research-oriented sites included. There are also links to information about Teaching with Technology.
  
  
• Digital History provides learning and teaching resources from online textbook, primary sources, ethnic voices to special topics and reference materials on all periods of United States History.
  
  
• History - Librarians' Index to the Internet provides links to useful historical resources including directories and timelines. There are separate pages covering ancient,  medieval, and the United States history.  

• History Ready Reference Guide - Internet Public Library provides links to history resources covering Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, and South Pacific. Access by region. 
• H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public.
• HyperHistory Online   presents 3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.

• Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Great place for primary sources from ancient times to topics such as gay and lesbian history.
  
  
• Project Gutenberg
  The Project contains free eBooks or etexts. There are more than 10.000 eBooks in the present collection. Most of these eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.

• WebChron: The Web Chronology Project is ongoing project contains a series of linked chronologies that depict world, regional, and cross-cultural history. There is a major World History Chronology, and Regional Chronologies that range from Africa South of the Sahara to India and South Asia to North America. Cross-Cultural Chronologies include Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Western Civilization, and Technology.
  
  
• World History Sources reflects three approaches central to current world history scholarship: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilizations in isolation; a focus on contacts among different societies and the economic, social, and cultural consequences of those contacts; and an attentiveness to “global” forces that transcend individual societies or even societies in mutual contact—forces such as technology diffusion, migration, disease transmission, extension and realignments of trade routes, or missionary outreach.

Primary Sources

• African American Biographical Database is an electronic collection of biographical information on African Americans from 1790-1950. It includes photographs and illustrations for African Americans, from the famous to the everyday person. The database also includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans.
• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History comprises a list of documents for the study of American history. It covers documents from 15th century to present.

• American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History is an invaluable collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals. Its massive collection of the literature and documents are most relevant to the colonists' lives in America.
• American Memory consists of collections of primary sources and archival materials relating to American culture and history.  The site offers more than 5 million items from more than 90 historical collections including African American, Civil War, conservation movement, continental congress, farm security administration, architectural history, early motion pictures, woman suffrage, portraits of the presidents and first ladies, and more. 
• The Avalon Projet Historical Documents contain digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. It is a project at Yale Law School.
• California Heritage Digital Image Collection is an online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Selected from nearly two hundred individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history. The Collection is part of the Online Archive of California, a compilation of finding aids, or guides, to archival collections at more than 30 institutions.
  
• Lives, the Biography Resource is an extensive, annotated collections of links to biographical resources, primary biographical source material such as images, diaries, memoirs, correspondence, interviews, oral histories, etc., and good biographical dictionaries. 

• Making of America  a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
• North America Map Archive created by the University of Oregon contains interactive maps which show changes over time. The map collection covers maps from Territorial Expansion of the United States 1783-1898 to slavey through 1860. It requires Shockwave Plug-in to view.

• Supreme Court Decisions on Lexis/NexisFrom the Library Web's Database page, select Lexis / Nexis. It includes full text opinions of all Supreme Court cases since 1790.  In addition, all dispositions of cases that were appealed to the Supreme Court are included.

• United States Historical Census Data contains census information about  people and economy of the U.S. for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

Libraries / Archives / Repositories

• Douglass--Archives of American Public Address
  Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University.
  
  
• Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States is based on a paper version with the same title compiled by Robert B. Matchette et al in 1995. This version incorporates descriptive information about federal records acquired by the National Archives after the 1995 paper edition went to press, and it is regularly updated to reflect new acquisitions of federal records.
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent Federal agency, is America's national recordkeeper. It houses captured German records, census records, Charters of Freedom, Congressional Records, court records, Federal Regulations, genealogy, government employment records, laws military records, presidential materials, treaties, United States Code, etc.

• Online Archive of California is a statewide digital resource that integrates into a single, searchable database, finding aids to and digital facsimiles of the contents of primary resource collections throughout California.
  
• Repositories of Primary Sources list over 4600 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. Access is by region or by an alphabetical index of state, province, or country. 

Institutions

• The American Historical Association is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. Its web site provides information on teaching history, publications among other useful information.
• History Departments Around the World is a searchable database linking to roughly 1,200 history departments around the world.
  
  

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Listservs and Discussion Groups
• H-Net Discussion Networks provide a list of listservs related to history research, teaching, and discussion.