History and Political Science: Webpages

A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, it links to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry.

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, Chronicling America allows you to search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922. You can also use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Best of History Websites serves as a portal to over 1200 sites covering all aspects of history, including world history, American history, art history, ancient and Biblical history, medieval history, and military history. There are also lesson plans for K-12 history classes, history guides, activities, games, and quizzes.

Kyleidoscope is an initiative of the Kentucky Virtual Library’s Kentuckiana Digital Library that seeks to create convenient avenues for educators to access primary sources regarding the history of Kentucky.

Teachinghistory.org is a site that provides teaching materials and resources designed to enhance history teaching in grades K-12. The History Content section provides links to primary source resources.

EuroDocs provides links to primary sources in European political, economic, social and cultural history. Most sources have been transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Some links include video or sound files, maps, photographs, imagery, databases, and other documentation.

Founders Online makes available historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. It includes thousands of records and documents from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison detailing the beginnings of the Republic. This website is produced by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the National Archives in cooperation with the University of Virginia.

Contains over 600 primary source documents on the French Revolution. Sources include essays, images, documents, songs, maps, timeline, and glossary.

The Hanover Historical Texts Project includes links to digital copies of historical documents scanned by the Hanover College History Department.

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue is a portal to numerous sites and links on all aspects of history around the world. This site was begun during the early days of the Internet by a University of Kansas History professor. It is now maintained by the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook provides links to primary sources in modern European history, American history, Western Civilization, and world cultures. This site includes links to sourcebooks in ancient history, medieval history, Byzantine history, and several special topics.

Internet Sites with Primary Sources for History provides links to major history resources and is produced and updated by a Librarian at Bowling Green State University.

The Liberty Fund website includes over 1.700 scholarly titles (books, articles, pamphlets, audio, plus more) and 1,211 essays on individual liberty and free markets. Liberty Fund, Inc. is an educational foundation that focuses on encouraging the study and discussion of ideas pertaining to liberty and free thought. The Liberty Fund is educational and does not participate in any political action.

The Library of Congress provides digital access to documents, images, film clips, newspapers and other resources.

The Library of Congress primarily serves as the research arm for the United States Congress and “to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people.” Their website offers a number of resources online.

The Massachusetts is an independent research library that includes a large number of online resources and primary sources covering many aspects of American history, life, and culture.

The Roy Rosenzweig Center of History and New Media at George Mason University uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding. There are several online collections of primary source materials in the Teaching + Learning and the Collecting + Exhibiting tabs.

The British Library contains a copy of every publication from the UK and Ireland. It includes manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, sound recordings, and patents. There are some digitized materials available online.

The Virginia Historical society is a repository for history relating to Virginia. About 5 percent of the collection has been digitized and is available online. The collection also includes a collection titled, "Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names." This collection contains the text of over 8 million unpublished manuscripts which reference African Americans who have lived in Virginia over the centuries.

The Digital Public Library of America serves as a portal to documents, artifacts, maps, images, and other items from America’s libraries, archives, and museums. Searching can be done by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, subject, and partner.

Database of collected oral histories.

Database of historical newspapers, book, images, and maps from libraries in state universities in Kentucky. Collections and subsets of collections selected for inclusion relate directly to Kentucky history and culture and have a broad appeal on geographic, content and study levels

Kyleidoscope is an initiative of the Kentucky Virtual Library’s Kentuckiana Digital Library that seeks to create convenient avenues for educators to access primary sources regarding the history of Kentucky.

Manuscripts, images, maps and more related to all time periods and aspects of American history and culture.

The Library of Congress provides digital access to documents, images, film clips, newspapers and other resources.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a produced by the Library of Congress and provides access to primary source materials form all countries and all cultures.