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National History Day Home:

This year’s theme is “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History”

Maryland Humanities Council website – Maryland History Day

GCS Library Databases

Web resources

Other Sources

(use this link from off campus)

History Study Center

History Reference Center

JSTOR (Scholarly Journals, history)

Black Studies Center

 

 

NHD Archives Toolkit

 

The History Channel

 

The History Guide

 

University of Washington - http://guides.lib.washington.edu/europe - has links to sites grouped by region

Fordham University – Internet History Sourcebooks

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.asp - collection of public domain/copy-permitted historical texts for educational use – divided by Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

EuroDocs - http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page offers Western European Primary Historical Documents

Multnomah County Library Homework Help Page -http://www.multcolib.org/homework/eurohist.html– offers links to information organized by subject matter

Hanover Historical Texts Project – http://history.hanover.edu/project.html - makes primary texts readily organized by region and time period.

Internet Public Library - History – European History  -- History of Law and Government - lists descriptions of and links to sites on a wide variety of subjects

St. Ambrose University Best Information on the Net – http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/History/hiswordoc.htm -links to historical and world documents

Academic Info History Digital Library -http://www.academicinfo.net/histaalibrary.html -  directory of Online Publications, Special Collections, Exhibits, Journals & Historical Documents

The European Ombudsman Historical documents http://ombudsman.europa.eu/historical/en/default.htm - lists more modern, highly specialized documents regarding the European Union

Historical Text Archive  http://historicaltextarchive.com/ -articles, ebooks, etc.

BBC History Home Page -  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ offers information from ancient to modern history

European Virtual Library – World History http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html

Ohio State University ehistory site - http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/default.cfm includes primary sources for the Civil War, historical perspectives on current events and history timelines

 

WWW-VL or World Wide Web virtual library http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html  -  a repository of links that spans the history of the globe.  Currently maintained by volunteers, it is sponsored by the European University Institute.  Some links may not function

 

Other Libraries

Topical Links

Howard County Library

-Catalog

-Databases (library card needed to access) see: History Reference Center

 

Library of Congress

LOC Oral History resources

 

National Archives

 

Tiananmen Square, 1989 – National Security Archive declassified documents relating to the Chinese army crackdown on students

 

NY Times Tiananmen Square coverage

 

Topics in Feminism from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

History of Jewish Revolts from The Center from Online Judaic Studies

 

PBS’s take on the American Revolution

 

PBS’s take on the Troubles in Northern Ireland with primary source materials

BBC also chronicles of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

 

Counterculture from 1965-1971 through the lens of Lisa Law

 

PBS site The Sixties – The years that shaped a generation

 

 

 

US Department of State- Office of the Historian