I will be adding to this page with new sources often, please check back for additions. Feel free to comment with sources you find, and I will add them to the lists; to do so, simply go to the comment section below and add any additional resources you come across that would be helpful to your fellow students.

Please include the name and an active link to the resource as well as a description of the site/archive including but not limited to topic, time period, types of sources.

Historical Research and Studying History Tips

• Guidance for Blogging and Writing Assignments
• Chicago Manual of Style
• Writing History
• Topic to Draft (1)
• Defining Sources
• California State University, Chico, Evaluating Information — Applying the CRAAP Test,
  • CRAAP_Test_Worksheet
• Historical thinking Chart
• Scholarly Writing
  • Doing research in the area of digital humanities requires searching for scholarly journals and books, as well as exploring scholarly blogs and communities. This page provides a list of books, journals, and sites that are at the core of the DH community.

Digital History

• Introduction to Digital History – with Kalani Craig and Seth Denbo
  • Only need to watch from 2:06 to 23:35
  • This is a video explaining some of the ways historians employ digital media and technology in their work. It is geared towards professional historians.
• Historians, The Digital History Revolution, and the Quest for Immortality
  • A good overview of how historical knowledge can be disseminated through digital platforms
•  Ryan Cordell on ‘What is digital history?’
• Read: Cohen and Rosenzweig, Digital History, “Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History” ♦ Estimated Read Time = 15 minutes
• Read: Douglas Seefeldt and William G. Thomas, “What is Digital History?” Perspectives on History, May 2009   Estimated Read Time = 3 minutes
• Read: Paul W. Bennett, “Historians and Digital History: Why Do Academics Shy Away from Digital History?” Active History: History Matters, 5 June 2015. *Also read comments thread* ♦ Estimated Read Time = 10 minutes

Technology

• What is Slack?
• Reclaim Hosting
• WordPress – This is the full set of resources, so if there is something you want a little more information on “how can I…” this is the place to go.
  • Customizing Your Homepage – Options I created this tutorial based on some of the areas some people got stuck on. It shows three different ways to make your homepage – either with “About Me” info and/or your Blog Posts.
  • How to Easily Embed iFrame Code in WordPress
• Zotero
  • Setting Up Zotero – Step by Step Tutorial
  • Adding Items to Your Zotero Library
  • Organizing Zotero: Collections | Tags
  • Zotero Groups
  • Using Zotero with Word and Google Docs | Adding Citations/Bibliography
  • Bibliographies, Footnotes, and Endnotes
  • Zotero and Chromebook
  • Zotero and iPad
• Thinglink
  • Thinglink tutorial
  • Learning center — ThingLink
  • Creating and adding new users – ThingLink
• HTML/CSS
  • In class Tutorial PowerPoints – Create an HTML page from scratch and Creating a Webpage from Scratch Part 2.1 CSS and Creating a Webpage from Scratch Part 2.2 CSS
  • Introduction to HTML at W3 Schools
  • Tutorials on HTML Dog
  • Sublime Text – Text Editing, Done Right
  • HTML Element Reference
  • HTML Element Reference – By Category
  • Color wheel, a color palette generator | Adobe Color
• Accessibility
  • Color Oracle
  • Viz Palette (color palette)
  • Color Contrast Analyzer (Google Chrome Extension)
• Dublin Core and Omeka
  • Omeka – Metadata and CMS Questions: Complete Tutorial
  • Individual Tutorials:
    • Dublin Core: A Beginner’s Guide
    • Basic Omeka features and definitions
    • Installing Omeka
  • Watch: Getting Started with Omeka – 1
  • Creating an Exhibit in Omeka: Complete Tutorial
  • Individual Tutorials:
    • Dublin Core: A Beginner’s Guide
    • Basic Omeka features and definitions
    • Installing Omeka
    • Creating an Omeka Exhibit
    • What is a Simple Page?
    • HTML Markup
    • Organizing Your Navigation in Omeka
    • Using iFrames to Embed files
    • Omeka: Uploading Plugins and Themes
    • Zotero Import
  • Timelines
    • PowerPoint Tutorial
    • Additional Resources – A Walkthrough
    • Start with the TimelineJS home page
    • TimelineJS: An Exploration
    • Several videos tutorials of TimelineJS are on YouTube
  • StoryMap JS:
    • Lecture- Publishing Spatial Data & Working with Historical Maps: Google Maps and StoryMapJS
    • StoryMap JS Tutorial – light version
    • StoryMap JS Tutorial – full version
    • Full tutorial on using the David Rumsey Collection for a custom map option in StoryMap JS
  • Google Maps:
    • Google Maps Tutorial (Webpage) 
    • If you are feeling adventurous, here is a tutorial for Google Earth

Resources for Historians

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Digital Archives, Primary Sources, and Datasets

• ABZU Extensive and well-conceived guide to Internet resources for the study of the Ancient Near East. (Oriental Institute Research Archives, Chicago)
• Ad Hoc Excellent faculty-library initiative to support and coordinate those resources for teaching and research relating to the history of Christianity (Yale Divinity School)
• Age of Exploration
• American Historical Periodicals
• American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress. Photographs, prints, documents, films, maps and sound recordings.
• The Avalon Project Excellent collection of digital documents including links to supporting documents, relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. (Yale Law School)
• Bexar Archives Online
• Chronicling America: historic American newspapers
• A Chronology of United States Historical Documents A comprehensive site which gives pointers to important United States historical documents that can be found on the Internet. (Oklahoma)
• Cushman Photograph Collection
• De Imperatoribus Romanis This Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors, an international scholarly endeavor, contains some of the most detailed biographies you’ll find anywhere online. (Salve Regina University)
• Densho Archives
• The Digital Librarian: History Massive list of historical resources chosen by librarian, Margaret Vail Anderson.
• The Digital Public Library of America – Use both the map and search.
• Digital Schomburg: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg
• Documenting the American South: https://docsouth.unc.edu/
• Documents of World War II Extensive collection of documents pertaining to World War II — broadcasts, letters, debates, maps, treaties — it’s all here (Vincent Ferraro, Mt. Holyoke)
• Documenting the American South Outstanding digitized collection detailing the Southern experience in 19th century America from the viewpoint of Southerners. (UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Duke Papyrus Archives the Archive provides electronic access to texts and images of more than 1300 papyri from ancient Egypt. (Duke)
• EarlyPrint
• Eighteenth Century Resources Comprehensive collection of resources on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics and philosophy in the eighteenth century, defined as the period falling in between Milton and Keats. (Jack Lynch)
• Einstein Archives Online Collection of Albert Einstein�s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• EuroDocs Outstanding collection of links to Western European historical documents. (Richard Hacken)
• FamilySearch
• Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress): https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-papers/about-this-collection/
• Frontera Archive
• Getty Virtual Collections
• HathiTrust
• Historical Restaurant Menus
• Historical Text Archive A collection of original material, links and electronic reprints of books organized by geography/nations and topics. (Don Mabry)
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook The third in a series of absolutely wonderful history resources dedicated to history students engaged in the study of western civilization, pre-history through late antiquity. (Paul Halsall)
• The Internet Classics Archive A truly outstanding collection of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and “reader’s choice” Web sites. (MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook A truly outstanding collection of primary sources in medieval history as well as links to Internet resources. (Paul Halsall)
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook Excellent collection of primary sources intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college European or western civilization history courses. (Paul Halsall)
• Lectures in Medieval History Lynn Nelson’s excellent series of more than fifty lectures
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Los Angeles City Data
• Making of America MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. (Michigan)
• Media History Digital Library
• National Archives
• The National Archives Learning Curve An excellent online teaching resource containing a varied range of original sources including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings. (Public Records Office)
• National Museum of African American History & Culture
• The Perseus Digital Library Phenomenal digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world, specifically Archaic and Classical Greece. (Tufts)
• Omar Ibn Said Collection, LOC: https://www.loc.gov/collections/omar-ibn-said-collection/about-this-collection/
• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies ORB is a cooperative effort of scholars to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies. (Rhodes College)
• Photographs of Turkey in 1880
• Photos of the Great War Excellent World War I image archive containing nearly 2000 images. (Kansas)
• Presidential Digital Recordings
• Reveal Digital Initiative–Independent Voices
• Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
• Spartacus Educational A mind-boggling online encyclopedia of British history, medieval Europe, the Nazis, US Civil War, the Vietnam War and more.
• Spotlight at Stanford
• Texts and Documents Excellent collection of primary texts for students and faculty for use in classes. (Hanover College)
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• UCLA Digital Library
• The Viral Text Project: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines
• Woodrow Wilson Papers

History Projects

• The 1619 Project – The New York Times
• After Slavery Project Launched in 2006 by three historians working in the fields of labor, southern and African American history, the After Slavery Project seeks to draw together some of the most exciting developments in the study of the post-emancipation US South, and in particular to encourage and promote a gathering consensus among historians that this period can best be understood as an important chapter in American labor history.
• Bentham Project
• British Empire and Commonwealth Museum Shockwave-enhanced site that provides a “national forum for preserving, exploring and studying Britain’s cultural heritage associated with the former Empire and today’s Commonwealth.”
• British History, 1700-1920 The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia of British history is a wonderful collection of more than 1000 entries covering the history of Britain as seen through the eyes of people from all levels of society. An excellent resource. (John Simkin, editor)
• British History Online
• Çatalhöyük Living Archive
• Charles Darwin’s Library
• Chinese Railroad Workers in North America
• City Nature
• Colored Conventions Project
• Community Curation
• Constructing the Sacred
• Digging into Early Colonial Mexico
• Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting
• Digital Harlem
• Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World Outstanding interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors. (Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas)
• The Don Quixote Exhibit An extremely well-done virtual tour of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote de la Mancha. (Johns Hopkins)
• Enchanting the Desert
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures An online course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval world. Outstanding. (Evansville)
• “Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:” Quantifying Kissinger
• The Galileo Project Hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. (Rice)
• Geography of the Post
• Grand Tour Project
• Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
• Her Hat Was in the Ring
• Histories of the National Mall
• HistoryPin
• Hitler’s Third Reich and World War II in the News Well-done daily edited review of Third Reich and WWII news, providing thought-provoking collection of WW2 information.
• Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
• A Hypertext on American History A project in collective authoring, this hypertext covers the period from the colonial period through modern times.
• Imagine Rio
• Kindred Britain
• LacusCurtius: into the Roman World An excellent collection of resources dedicated to the study of Roman history. (Bill Thayer, UChicago)
• Language of the State of the Union, Mapping the State of the Union, and The State of the Union in Context
• Locating London’s Past
• London Lives
• The Lost Museum
• Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe A substantial collection of high-quality primary sources, multimedia interviews and lesson plans and document-based questions for teaching the history of 1989. (George Mason University)
• Mapping the Republic of Letters
• Mapping Ottoman Epirus
• Martha Washington: A Life
• Mining the Dispatch
• Modernist Archives
• Mozilla Digital Memory Bank
• New Deal Network the NDN is an outstanding database of more than 20,000 photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents) from the period of the Depression and the New Deal. (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
• Noh as Intermedia
• The Newton Project
• Old Bailey Online
• Orbis & Orbis version 2
• Pancakes and Silver
• Papers of the War Department
• Perseus Digital Library
• PhilaPlace
• Procedural Magnesia
• The Public Record Office Virtual Museum Outstanding virtual exhibit of numerous treasures of the PRO specific to one thousand years of British history.
• Quijote Interactivo
• Railroads and the Making of Modern America
• Reconstructing Citizenship | National Museum of African American History and Culture (si.edu)
• Redlining Richmond
• Rescuing Lost History: Using Big Data to Recover Black Women’s Lived Experiences
• Robots Reading Vogue
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
• Sapping Attention
• September 11 Digital Archive
• Serendip-o-matic
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
• Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860
• Survey of Scottish Witchcraft
• Tales of the Early Republic An organized collection of essays, original sources, and reference material about the Early American Republic. (Hal Morris)
• Talking About Race
• Trenches on the Web An excellent starting point for an understanding of the Great War, 1914-1918.
• The United States Civil War Center A well-organized collection of all public and private data to promote the interdisciplinary study of the Civil War. (LSU)
• Valley of the Shadow
• Victorian Books
• The Victorian Web Excellent overview of the culture of Victorian Britain.
• Virginia Secession Convention
• Virtual Paul’s Cross
• Visual Culture in Spanish America
• Visualizing Emancipation
• Voting America
• Wearing Gay History
• Women Writers Project
• World’s Columbian Exhibition Everything you need to know about the last 19th century World’s Fair. Outstanding example of what the WWW can become.
• World Trade Center Memorial Elevator
• World War II and the Human Experience A collection of diaries, letters, memorabilia, and comparable materials relating to the everyday experiences of the participants in World War II. (Florida State University)
• Worlds of Late Antiquity A collection of materials relating to the culture of the Mediterranean world in late antiquity, c.200-700 C.E. (James J. O’Donnell)