Online Journals:

, a not-for profit organization, has made back issues of numerous scholarly journals available in an online format: general history journals such as the American Historical Review, American Quarterly; journals related to African-American Studies, Asian Studies are also represented, as well as ecology, economics, education, mathematics, political science, sociology, among others. (choose the BROWSE THE JOURNALS option)

Comprehensive Sites:

For ancient to modern European history the , maintained by , has links for (and more!)

A Little Local History:

Students at Saint Michael's College created a website  illustrating the history of the College's "North Campus" - Fort Ethan Allen, a former military base.

Saint Michael's students have also created a website illustrating the history of the Winooski Mills, former textile mills along the Winooski River (in the greater Burlington, Vermont area).

Interested in the Civil War - and Vermont's part in it?  is a wide-ranging site (use the drop-down menu in the upper right corner to navigate) that includes biographies of Vermont soldiers, Vermonters serving in the Confederacy, Canadians in Vermont units, Civil War women; a nice selection of vintage photographs; a cemetery database; books and reviews; current events pages; genealogy sources; ability to register descendents and opportunities to ask questions or submit information/research.

You might also like Vermont Civil War: Two Soldiers' Stories, an online presentation from the Vermont Historical Society.  Contains biographical material, transcriptions of soldiers' letters, and a diary covering the period May 12, 1864 through August 18, 1864.

American History:

Adams Family Papers: An electronic Archive - read transcriptions and see actual images of Correspondence (between John and Abigail); John's diary; and his autobiography, at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Searchable!

Making of America (MOA) - University of Michigan's "digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily 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."  Contains books and journals; fully searchable; viewable as page images, pdf, and text.

Gallica, la bibliothèque numérique at the Bibliothèque nationale de France - thousands of online books, digitalized texts, images, maps and more.  Includes several "Dossiers" as well, including La France en Amérique/France in America, a bilingual project "conceived in partnership with the Library of Congress."  The project "explores the history of the French presence in North America."

Documenting the American South - the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's collection of e-text documents focus on "First-Person Narratives of the American South"; "Southern Literature"; "North American Slave Narratives"; "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865"; and "The Church in the Southern Black Community."  As of March 1, 2004, DAS includes 1,266 books and manuscripts.

See also the Civil War link, above.

Robert and Cynthia McCausland's transcribed Diary of Martha Ballard, which covers the period from January 1, 1785 to May 12, 1812 in the life of a midwife in Maine (and served as the basis for the book A Midwife's Tale), can be found online at the fascinating DoHistory.org.  Read the transcription - or better yet, try to decipher Martha Ballard's writing yourself!

If you're well up on deciphering handwriting, give a look at the George Washington Papers, from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress -- available here (via search and browse) in photo images.  The complete Washington Papers collection consists of approximately 65,000 documents.
Print copies of these documents are available in Durick Library; see The Writings of George Washington [37 vols.; call number E312.7 1931], and The Papers of George Washington [the 10-vol. "Colonial Series" (1744-75); the 6-vol. "Confederation Series" (1784-88); current holdings of 12 (out of 14) vols. in the still-to-be-completed "Revolutionary Series" (1775-83); and current holdings of 9 (out of 11) vols. in the still-to-be-completed "Presidential Series" (1788-97). call number E312.72; current holdings do not include the 4-vol. "Retirement Series" (1797-99)] .

The Early American Fiction Collection, from the University of Virginia Library, offers full-texts of novels, other works, and even some manuscript materials.  Large, readable document images and full transcriptions, bibliographic and biographic information make this a useful collection.  Most (if not all) e-texts are also available as page images from an actual copy of the book.  Authors run from Louisa May Alcott to Theodore Winthrop (note: e-texts available to the public form only a part of a more extensive "library" restricted to UVa users).

Canada:

Life on the frontier with two English sisters: Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) and Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) both wrote about their experiences in the backwoods of what is now Ontario.  The National Library and Archives offers a nice introduction to the pair; writings available online at A Celebration of Women include Susanna's popular Roughing It In The Bush (1852) and Catharine's seminal The Backwoods of Canada (1836).

Experience life in an 1860s community, Upper Canada Village, on the Ontario shores of the St. Lawrence River.

Women's History :

Civil War Women: On-line Archival Collections at Duke University provides digital access to the papers of "Wild Rose" Greenhow ("a leader in Washington society, a passionate secessionist, and one of the most renowned spies in the Civil War"); Sarah E. Thompson ("worked alongside her husband...assembling and organizing Union sympathizers in a predominately rebel area.... After he was killed in 1864, she continued to work for the Union"); and a small, 36-page diary kept by schoolgirl Alice Williamson of Gallatin, Tennessee from February to September 1864; the Gallatin area was occupied by troops under Gen. Eleazer A. Paine (It opens February 19, 1864: "What a negligent creature I am I should have been keeping a journal all this time to show to my rebel brothers.") (Site also includes links to other Women and the Civil War websites.)

Also at Duke, Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters: ten letters from 1783 that "are unusually frank for this time period[;] they reveal much about the relationships between husbands and wives in this era, and shed light on medical practices that were often kept private."  Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement. African-American Women - which includes an 85-page memoir of the life of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, and her "own ambivalence about her place as an African-American in society"; slave letters of two house slaves, Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson; and a letter from an elusive voice: Vilet Lester, a woman who, except for this letter, would have disappeared from recorded history.

The From History to Herstory Archive: Celebrating Women's History presents Yorkshire women's lives from 1100 to present, and includes some online, primary source material.  The Anne Lister (1791-1840) is a fascinating introduction to the diarist - transcriptions and visuals of actual diary entries, her use of code, and biographical information on Anne, her circle, and her home, Shibden Hall (this online project is by two women who "know" Anne well: authors Helena Whitbread and Jill Liddington); the Brontë Sisters features some background information and many documents (no transcriptions) of Charlotte.

Those interested in e-texts should check out A Celebration of Women Writers (you can even volunteer to transcribe your favorite women authors' texts! [of works in the Public Domain]), hosted by UPenn, as well as the link (above) at the University of Virginia.

Germany :
(includes sites concerning the Holocaust and Nazi-era Germany)

Visit the official site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C.

Take a  in Nürnberg, Germany - some background history in text and photographs, as well as what remains today (in German and English).
Nürnberg's city web also provides information on this era - see "Nürnberger Prozesse" (mainly in German).

"Women and the Holocaust: A Cyberspace of Their Own" is dedicated to all women of the Holocaust.  Includes tributes, testimonies, and bibliographies.

Bildarchiv für Kunst und Architektur in Deutschland - a massive site of 1.6 million archival black-and-white photographs.

Sites with Links:

History-related links (research, archives, museums, journals, employment information and opportunities, and much more) are to be found on the History Department,  University of Florida webpages. [April 2004 note: click on the tab marked "teaching resources" to find "links"; comprehensive list of sites, but not a clickable list.]

From Africa to Wales, the WWW-Virtual Library History Index has links ranged geographically and topically.  Interested in military or maritime history?  Perplexed by developments on the World Wide Web?  Fascinated by the Celts or Ancient Egyptians?  This one site has links related to research, book-buying, libraries, languages, employment information, scholarly exchange, travel, and much more - reportedly almost 4,000 links!

The official site of the American Historical Association, while offering a wealth of information for professional historians who are members of the AHA (including weekly updates of current positions available), also offers items of interest to students of history - including the online articles Why Study History (P. Stearns), Why Become a Historian (R. Acuna, et al), and a links page, The AHA and Teaching.

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