History Websites
American
- AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History via
the University of Kansas
- American
Folklife Centre via the Library of Congress
- American
Memory the Library of Congress' gateway to primary source materials
relating to the history and culture of the United States
- The
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School documents
relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government
- A
Biography of America a telecourse and video series that presents
American history as a living narrative
- A
Century of Law Making For a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents
and Debates 1774-1873 via the Library of Congress' American Memory
- A
Chronology of US Historical Documents from
pre-colonial, via the University of Oklahoma
- Digital
History includes links to primary sources on slavery, Mexican American
and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history;
short essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology;
multimedia exhibitions; reference resources and more...
- Documenting
the American South via the University of North Carolina
- Edwin
Moise Vietnam War Bibliography
- France in America/
La France en Amérique a digital project of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Library of Congress France. It deals with the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
- The
Founders' Constitution,
edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner - documents included range
from the early 1600s to 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to
popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the
private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day
- Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
- History
and Politics Out Loud a multimedia database documenting events and
personalities of the 20th century
- History
Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the Web via George Mason University
- Lincoln/Net via
Northern Illinois University
- Literature and Culture of the American 1950s via UPenn
- Making
of America via the University of Michigan
- National
Archives and Records Administration
- AmericanPresident.org contains biographical and historical information as well as the functional and political aspects of the US presidency.
- The
Sixties Project via
the University of Virginia
- United
States Civil War Center
- United
States Historical Census Data Browser (uses
ICPSR data) via the University of Virginia
- WWW
VL History: United States via the University of Kansas
- The
Wars for Viet Nam 1945-1975 via
Vassar College
- Women
Working, 1870-1930, via Harvard University Library
Asia
and Oceana
British
and Irish
Canadian
European
Holocaust
(see
also the UW Library guide: Holocaust)
Medieval
(see also UW Library's guide Medieval Studies)
Military
Canadian Focus
- Canada
in WWII via the
Juno Beach Centre
- The
Canadian Letters and Images Project a project to preserve Canada's
wartime experience through letters and images
- Canadian
Military History Gateway from the Government of Canada
- Canadian
Military Heritage Project provides background for conflicts, chronological
timelines, statistics, battles, weaponry, uniforms & equipment, biographies
of soldiers, heroes, contributions of women, "letters home" and
more
- Canadian War Museum's Canadian
Newspapers and the Second World War
- Canadian
Wartime Experience from
the University of Manitoba
- Directorate
of History and Heritage, Canada's Department of National Defence
- From
Colony to Country:
A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History
Wars and other Events
Comprehensive Sites Dealing with Military History
Women
Comprehensive
/ Miscellaneous
University of Waterloo
Library | 200 University Ave. W. | Waterloo, Ontario Canada | N2L 3G1 | 519.888.4567
| www.lib.uwaterloo.ca
Jane Forgay, Liaison Librarian for History
519 888-4567 x35417
jdforgay@uwaterloo.ca
September 23, 2009
