October 10, 2006
- America: History & Life is a bibliographic database covering historical scholarship on North American history from pre-history to the present.
- American and British History Resources is a gateway to history on the web. The site includes links to documents, maps, bibliographies, e-journals, links to listservs and associations. Accessible by period and subject.
- American Indian History and Related Issues web site “…is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico.”
- American Memory is a gateway to online primary source materials from the Library of Congress relating to the history and culture of the United States.
- American Studies Recommendations by Richard P. Horwitz, University of Iowa is organized by topic.
- American Studies Web is the largest biliography of web-based resources in the field of American Studies.
- Black Thought & Culture is a collection of approximately 100,000 pages of primary source materials including non-fiction writings covering 250 years of history, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, oral histories, interviews, periodicals and trial transcripts.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873 is part of the Library of Congress’s American Memory project. It is a collection of primary source material including U.S. Statutes at Large for the first through the seventeenth Congress, Senate and House Journals, Journals of the Continental Congress, and more.
- The Feminae: Medieval Women & Gender Index is a searchable database covering journal articles, book reviews and essays in books about women in the Middle Ages.
- The Historical Abstracts database indexes the literature of history covering the time period 1450 to the present; it covers world history excluding North America.
- Historical Statistics of the U.S. is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. Data are fully searchable and downloadable, and users can graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets.
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies is an excellent site devoted to medieval studies with links to other sites, bibliographies, e-lists, etc.
- Search the Smithsonian Online Collections. Over the past few years the Smithsonian has been digitizing its catalogues and has been appending images to these records. Use this portal site to locate and browse the Smithsonian’s treasures.
- ViVa: A Bibliography of Women’s History is a fully searchable bibliography of citations to articles about women’s history in historical and women’s studies journals.
- Women & Social Movements is a collection of primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, web site reviews and teaching tools focusing on women’s activism in public life. The Scholar’s Edition also incorporates Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary plus other data, statistics and publications.
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