History, World: Related history websites

General

History -- American and British (Rutgers University Libraries)

History Gateway at the University of Kansas

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue

Yahoo! list of History resources

Library of Congress and other U. S. Agencies

American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
American Memory consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history. These historical collections are the Library of Congress' key contribution to the national digital library.

Foreign Relations of the United States
Selected volumes from the administrations of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, are available online.

Make the Dirt Fly!
Smithsonian Institution Libraries exhibition on the building of the Panama Canal.

National Archives' Digital Classroom

Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
"The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents.  This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world."

World War II

Historic Government Publications from World War II

RJLR Nuremberg Project
". . . personal papers and records kept by Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals . . ."

Rutgers Oral History Archives: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War

Untold Stories of D-Day

As yet unclassified

Battle for Chechnya: Special report (BBC)

Conversations with History
"Lively and unedited interviews . . . produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley."  You will need the RealPlayer plug-in to view and hear these interviews.

DoHistory
"DoHistory invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film "A Midwife's Tale," which were both based upon the remarkable 200-year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard."

Jefferson Digital Archive

MERLOT
"MERLOT . . . provides high quality digital learning materials to faculty members who are using the world wide web for both traditional and distance learning courses."

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (edited by People's Daily Online)

Talking History
Listen to interviews and programs on a wide variety of historical topics.  Requires RealPlayer.

Teaching the Journal of American History
"Teaching the JAH uses online tools to bridge the gap between the latest scholarly research in U.S. history and the practice of classroom teaching. JAH authors demonstrate how featured articles might be taught in a U.S. history survey course."

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