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Some Links to History Resources on the Web

[The following links are mostly to broad-ranging sites or to sites that serve as clearinghouses for more specialized sites.  Links to specialized sites may also be found on some of our faculty home pages.]
 

General Links

WWW-VL.  World History Index and History Central Catalogue.  A comprehensive History site.
The American Historical Association (find also at the site the newsletter of the AHA, Perspectives)
The Organization of American Historians
H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine , "Homepage for a gigantic network of discussion lists related to history as well as bulging archives containing all sorts of bibliographical materials, reviews, and other good stuff. 
The History Net , an on-line magazine published by the Cowles History Group, Inc.
WWW Services for Historians , maintained by The Association for History and Computing
The Center for History and New Media , from George Mason University and CUNY
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe , based at Brigham Young U
University of Texas PCL Map Collection
Voice of the Shuttle: History Page , based at UC Santa Barbara
Documents in Military History, compiled by Dave of Stewart of Hillsdale College
Documents in Law, History, & Government , from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Christian Classics Ethereal Library , based at Wheaton College
Vincent Voice Library , based at Michigan St., 50,000 taped utterances from 100 years of history
The Archeology Data Service, an outstanding online scholarly project originating in the UK, with loads of primary source material for historians:

Ancient Europe

The Perseus Project , based at Tufts University
The Internet Classics Archive , based at MIT
The Ancient History Sourcebook , compiled and edited by Paul Halsall

Medieval Europe

The Labyrinth : Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook , compiled and edited by Paul Halsall
Medieval and Renaissance Studies , a clearinghouse site maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson

Early Modern Europe

The Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West , compiled and edited by Paul Halsall
Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , based at the University of Toronto
The Galileo Project , based at Rice University
Eighteenth-Century Resources , maintained by Jack Lynch at Penn
Voice of the Shuttle: French Revolution , based at UC Santa Barbara

Late Modern Europe

Sites for Modern Europe, Central Europe & Germany, and World War I , compiled by H. Tooley
 

Libraries:

The Abell Library of Austin College
The Library of Congress on-line catalog
 

On-line Reference Works:

The Catholic Encyclopedia