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DIRECTORIES/GENERAL

Best of History Websites
Over 700 sites in 10 historical categories, reviewed for quality and accuracy

The History Net
Many full-text articles from the Weider History Group, "the world's largest publisher of history magazines"

HistoryWorld
    
    

AFRICA -- SEE AFRICAN STUDIES: HISTORY
    
ANCIENT WORLD

SEE ALSO African Studies

The Ancient City of Athens

Exploring Ancient World Cultures

The Perseus Project
         
        

CONTRA COSTA COLLEGE

Contra Costa College Archives
    

EUROPE

Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe

Keele Guide to European Government and Politics on the Internet
    

LATIN AMERICA

Latin American Network Information Center
    

MIDDLE EAST

History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources

MENIC: Middle East Network Information Center (University of Texas at Austin)
    

UNITED STATES

American Memory Projects  (Library of Congress)

American Slave Narratives

America's Historical Documents (National Archives)
 
See also their Online Exhibits for historical photographs

America's Story

The Amistad Case

Amistad Research Center

BlackPast: Remembered and Reclaimed (Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington)
Covers six centuries of African American history. Includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African America, along with full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the eighteenth century to the present.

Chicano / Latino West & Borderlands Sites

CNN Cold War

The Dred Scott Case

Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport

The First Measured Century 
Provides timelines, some data, even transcripts of programs and interviews in effort to look at our country’s history through the use of social indicators 

Free Speech Movement Archives

Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998

Martin Luther King, Jr. Directory

Multicultural American West

National Archives Online Exhibit Hall

19th Century United States Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Online

Online Archive of California
Database of finding aids to primary sources (letters, diaries, photographs, maps, etc.) and their digital facsimiles

Rosie the Riveter Memorial: Honoring American Women's Labor During WWII

San Francisco Bay Area History from the Berkeley Historical Society

September 11, 2001 and Terrorism sites on Hot Topics page

Timelines related to the history of slavery (from Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport)

The Valley of the Shadows: Two Communities in the American Civil War 

Vietnam Online (PBS: The American Experience)

The West in Popular Culture and Folklore

Women & the West
         

WORLD

Country Studies/Area Handbooks

Internet History Sourcebooks Project  (edited by Paul Halsall)
Main areas: Ancient, Medieval, Modern / Subsidiary sections:  Africa, East Asia, Science, and more

Yad Vashem - Holocaust Memorial and Archive
    

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