Historical Databases at Moore Library
- JSTOR (full-text)
- Project Muse (full-text)
- History Cooperative (full-text)
History on the Web
Finding primary sources has never been easier. These excellent web sites place history at your fingertips.
Top US History Sites (General)
- American Memory (Library of Congress holdings including Woman Suffrage Movement, American Life Histories from the Federal Writers’ Project (1936-1940), and Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s and much more)
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School (includes colonial charters, the Constitution, the Cold War, Treaties between the U.S. & Native Americans, and World War II)
- Digital History
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (includes the "Amistad" affair and the role of African American troops in the Civil War)
- History Matters (Strong in the WWI period)
- National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults (interactive website makes more than 1,200 items available)
- OYEZ: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia (Features audio files, abstracts, transcriptions of oral arguments, and written opinions from more than 3,300 Supreme Court cases)
Top US History Sites (Early America)
Top US History Sites (Slavery and the Civil War)
- American Slave Narratives
- Africans in America
- Bleeding Kansas
- Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Top US History Sites (Modern America)
- The Spanish American War in Motion Pictures (rare collection of early films reveals how the birth of cinema emerged alongside, and shaped, changing ideas of gender, race, sexuality, and nation)
- The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
- The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
- World War II Resources
- World War II in Posters
- Densho: The Japanese-American Legacy Project (presents 500 hours of video interviews and 8,300 images, providing first-hand accounts of Japanese Americans interned during World War II)
- Civil Rights Special Collection
- Virtual Vietnam Archive (archive offers full text of more 80,000 documents, 60,000 photos and slides, hundreds of interviews with veterans, audio and video recordings, maps, museum objects)
- The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004 (a valuable resource for students of American political history, consumer culture, and advertising history)
Top European History Sites (Ancient)
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
- Ancient Greece
- The Roman Empire in the 1st Century
- From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Top European History Sites (Medieval)
- Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (collection of 11,000 manuscript illuminations drawn from close to 400 manuscripts from France and the Low Countries dating from the 8th -16th centuries)
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
- Decameron Web
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Top European History Sites (Early Modern)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- Project Wittenberg
- Exploring the French Revolution
- Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
Top European History Sites (20th Century)
Top Asian History Sites (East Asia)
- Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
- Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumtsu-Meiji Period (collection of western travel photographs taken during the second half of the 19th century when Japan formed a modern nation-state)
Top Asian History Sites (South Asia)
- Digital South Asia Library (wide range of materials for studying South Asia, including 1,200 Excel spreadsheets of statistical information on British India between 1840 and 1920)
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