History     

General Websites
Awesome Stories -- Primary source materials
Best of History Web Sites -- Categorized links to hundreds of evaluated sites
History Net -- From About.com
History Reference -- From the Internet Public Library

Specific Aspects

Local History
Oral History Project -- Collection of transcripts, from UCSC
Santa Cruz County Local History -- Over 300 articles

U.S. History
Africans in America Resource Bank Index -- From PBS Online and WGBH
American and British History Resources on the Internet -- From Rutgers University
American Indian History and Related Issues -- From CSU Long Beach
American Memory Project -- Historical collections; from the Library of Congress
Avalon Project -- Documents in law, history, & government for U.S.; from Yale
Civil Rights Digital Library--The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
From Revolution to Reconstruction -- American history site, from Rutgers
History Matters -- U.S. History survey course, from CUNY and George Mason Univ.
Making of America -- American social history from antebellum through reconstruction.
POTUS -- Presidents Of The United States, from the Internet Public Library

International History
American and British History Resources on the Internet -- From Rutgers University
EuroDocs -- Primary historical documents from Western Europe
HLAS -- Handbook of Latin American Studies, from Library of Congress
Internet Resources for Latin America -- From New Mexico State University Library
Labyrinth -- For Medieval studies; from Georgetown University.
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe -- Covering every 100 years from AD 1 to AD 1700
Perseus Project -- For classical studies; from Tufts University

Page last updated 5/10 by Madeline Britton, Librarian