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Useful Links for World History--see also individual chapters for thematic links

Internet History Sourcebooks Project

The History Guide

Internet History Sourcebook Project's Travelers' Accounts

Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930: Women's Studies Digitization Project, University of Minnesota

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World, Sweet Briar College, Virginia

Famous Trials, legal history website at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and DiplomacyYale Law School

Hanover Historical Texts or Renaissance Documents(has U.S. documents as well)

GenderStats, The World Bank Gender and Develepment Group

Marxists Internet Archive

World Religions

Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA)

Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin College

Project Wittenberg, Concordia Theological Seminary, examines the life and works of Martin Luther

Noble Qur'an, Muslim Student Association

Ahlul-Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project, Al-Islam

Reverend Claude L. Pickens Collection on Muslims in China, Harvard University

Urban Dharma, Buddhism in America

World Art and Architecture

General Art History

VADS, Online Resource for Visual Arts

COLLAGE, Guildhall Library, Guildhall Gallery of Art, and Corporation of London

LACMA Collections Online, Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Thinker ImageBase, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

World Art Treasures, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Topkapi Museum, Bilkent University, contains Islamic art of the Ottoman Empire

Art of Asia, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Digital South Asia Library, American Institute of Indian Studies and Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago

Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, Ohio State University

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

Abdul-Hamid II Collection Photography Archive, Library of Congress. 1894 collection of photos from the Ottoman Empire

Getty Digitized Library Collections, The J. Paul Getty Trust

ArchNet, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, University of Texas School of Architecture and Aga Khan Development Network

World Geography and Cartography Links

Interactive Maps

World Atlas

Blank Outline Maps

Historic Cities: Maps and Documents, Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library

Perry Castaneda Map Collection at the University of Texas (tons of great maps

Osher Map Library, Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine

Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportaiton Commission, 1894-1896, Library of Congress, American Memory

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Africa

African Voices, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

The Story of Africa, BBC World Series

Congo Expedition at the American Museum of Natural History

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries

Africa Online Digital Library, MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University

African National Congress, Historical Documents Archive

African Posters, Melville J. Herskovitz Library, Northwestern University

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa, University of Natal

American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915, American Museum of Natural History, Digital Library Project

G.I. Jones, Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture, Southern Illinois University

The Americas

Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820

Oxford Latin American Economic History Database, Latin American Centre, Oxford University

Political Database of the Americas, Georgetown University

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project, University of Oklahoma Law Library and the National Indian Law Library

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, New York Public Library

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820, Rutgers University.

American Family Immigration History Center, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Breaking the Silence, Irish Centre for Migration Studies

Collections Canada, National Library and Archives Canada

Canadian Letters and Images Project, Malaspina University, History Department

Early Canadiana Online

Pauline Johnson Archive, McMaster University

Mysteries in Canadian History, University of Victoria

Mexican-American War and the Media, Virginia Tech University

Mexico: From Empire to Revolution, Getty Research Institute

Frontera Collection of Mexican American Music, UCLA Arhoolie Foundation, Los Tigres Del Norte Foundation

Hispano Music and culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection, Library of Congress, American Memory Project

Castro Speech Database, Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas

Foreign Relations of the United States, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian

National Security Archive, George Washington University

Asia

Pacific University's Asian Studies Resources

SouthEast Asian Images and Texts, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Kyoto National Museum

Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies and Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

Formosa, Reed College, is a collection from 19th century Taiwan

East Asian Collection, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946, Harvard University

Korean American Digital Archive, University of Southern California

Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai, 1931-1937, Columbia University Libraries

Red-Color News Soldier -- Li Zhensheng: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution

Chinese Propaganda Posters, Stefan Landsberger, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Morning Sun, Long Bow Group, documentary about China's Cultural Revolution

Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University Genocide Studies Program

Europe

Collect Britain, British Library Online

British History Online, Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, examines London's main criminal court

From History to Herstory: Yorkshire Women's Lives Online, 1100 to the Present, West Yorkshire Archive Service, United Kingdom

British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent

The Word on the Street, National Library of Scotland

BBC Audio Interviews, British Broadcasting Corporation

EuroDocs: Online sources for European History at Brigham Young University

Oceania

Australian Studies Resources, University of Sydney, Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service

PictureAustralia, National Library of Australia

Australian War Memorial

Journeys in Time, 1809-1822: The Diaries of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie, Macquarie University, Sydney, and State Library of New South Wales, Australia

South Seas Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific, The National Library of Australia, and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, Canberra

Material from the Antarctic Collections, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Timeframes, National Library of New Zealand