History - Early World History: Primary Sources Online

Provides access to online primary source material for a number of branches of history. The project offers a combination of locally hosted material and links (often annotated) to documents on other sites. The three main sourcebooks cover ancient, medieval, and modern history; in addition to these, there are subsidiary sourcebooks, which take a thematic approach.

The World Digital Library, supported by UNESCO, is a project to provide primary sources from other countries and cultures free of charge, and is offered in seven different languages, including Arabic,...

These links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.

Historical texts that range from ancient Greece and Rome through to the Russian Revolution. Geographic regions include Europe, United States, the Americas (outside the United States), Africa, and East Asia.

Resources for studying the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

An interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean.

Provides access to online primary source material for a number of branches of history. The project offers a combination of locally hosted material and links (often annotated) to documents on other sites. The three main sourcebooks cover ancient, medieval, and modern history; in addition to these, there are subsidiary sourcebooks, which take a thematic approach.

Saints' lives are a major resource for anyone concerned with the history of the late ancient world, Byzantium, or the Latin Middle ages. Just as whole genres of ancient literature vanished or diminished, the genre of hagiography became a major form of literary production. Such saint's Lives - or vitae - survive in astonishing numbers. Careful reading of them reveals, as one might expect, a great deal about the religious life of the periods that produced them. Frequently, however, such Lives are

cis Drake, English explorer and naval strategist, circumnavigated the earth from 1577-1580. During these travels, Drake visited the Caribbean and the Pacific claiming a portion of California for Queen Elizabeth and waging battles on the Spanish. This collection comprises important primary and secondary materials accumulated about Drake’s voyages throughout the then Spanish territory of the Americas. Texts are in English, Latin, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and French.

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. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838.

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. A cooperative effort between the National Library of Spain, the Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular of Seville and the Library of Congress, the project is part of the Library of Congress Global Gateway initiative to build digital lib

The National Archives of Australia presents 110 key documents that are the foundation of our nation.

The main page of the BBC History website that relates to British history.

This website gives public access to the National Archives catalogue, which contains "9.5 million descriptions of documents from central government, courts of law and other UK national bodies, including records on family history, medieval tax, criminal trials, UFO sightings, the history of many countries and many other subjects."

Digital versions of primary & secondary sources for the history of the British Isles: parliamentary journals, tax records, church documents, calendars and indexes, directories, Ordnance Survey maps, & volumes in the Victoria County History.

The British Library features a "help for researchers" page, which lets you narrow down your search by topic, time period and resource type.

Description: This recently expanded learning center from the UK Public Record Office (PRO) explores British history with exhibitions, famous documents, special focus sections, and educational activities. The documents, which include the Domesday Book, the Magna Carta, Guy Fawke's confession, Shakespeare's will, the 1805 log from the HMS Victory (Nelson's flagship), the 1936 Abdication Instrument, and several others, are offered as digitized images along with annotations and transcripts. The Snap

Provides a comprehensive general overview of nineteenth century British history and literature. The site is divided into sections on political, social, and economic history. There are also sections on gender matters, philosophy, religion, science, technology, genre and technique, authors, visual arts and Victorian design.

Access to the full-text and digitized images of the accounts of over 197,000 criminal trials that took place at London's notorious criminal court, the Old Bailey, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

Ancient Petitions, Henry III - James I Edward I (Cat. ref. E 368/68) Search and download over 17,000 images from the series of Ancient Petitions which draws together petitions addressed to the king, to the king and council, to the king and council in parliament, to the chancellor, and to certain other officers of state. The petitions include detailed information about the circumstances of the parties involved, and the conditions of the locality. These documents reveal something of the attitude

Internet access to the written history of Scotland.

Introduction to the French Revolution as well as an archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.

Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture. Read about key figures and events, examine famous speeches and other primary sources, and get context from the in-depth timelines. An important feature is the full cross-searchability across all the Infobase history databases for an even more comprehensive view of history.

In wiki form, this page was originally constructed as a web page in 2000 by Seton Hall University. It includes documents from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

This digital gallery from the New York Public Library contains more than 150 albums of photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

RAO is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, illustrations and audio, along with supporting documents and text.