History

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General History Links

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Original source documents in law, history and diplomacy
• "Best of History" web sites
• Index of Resources for Historians: The WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalog.

• Eyewitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it
• Global Gateway to world cultures and resources, from the Library of Congress.
• Heads of state and heads of government, historical periods and current incumbents

• PBS History site: "Today in history" and a large list of links to history and biography sites.
• Today in History: from the Library of Congress.
• World Statesmen: an encyclopedia of all the leaders of nations and territories, with detailed chronologies, flags, national anthems, maps and indexes. International organizations and recent religious leaders are listed separately.

Historical Atlases

• Historical Atlas - Complete contents of "Historical Atlas" by William R. Shepherd, New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1923 and 1926 editions.  Part of the Historical Maps Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
• Historical Map Archive  - The University of Alabama Cartographic Department provides historical and contemporary, world and regional maps
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - also links to a version in Second Life
• National Geographic Map Machine

U.S. History

• The American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
• The Avalon Project: Primary Source Documents
• American Journeys: Eyewitness accounts of North American exploration
• American Hypertexts: selected American authors
• Digital History. Resources at the University of Houston.
• Documents in U.S. History as listed on RefDesk.
• History Matters - a gateway to web resources
• Internet Public Library : Internet Public Library: United States
• Josiah Parker Papers at Earlham College: correspondence, account books, and business papers of Josiah Parker, a leading Quaker, ... the anti-slavery activities of North Carolina Friends, and the work of Friends in helping free people of color move from North Carolina and Virginia to Indiana.
• Library of American Civilization titles available free on the Web, compiled by Terry Ballard.
• Online Books page by Subject:
  • E: History: United States (General)
  • F: History: United States (Regional), and the Americas
  • BUBL : 970 History of North America
• Librarian's index to the Internet 
  • Search for U.S. History:
• Library of Congress:  American Memory from the Library of Congress; America's Story, from America's Library; Exhibitions (Library of Congress) ; Thomas Jefferson's library
• The September 11 Digital Archive
• United States history, WWW-VL

Images in U.S. History

• Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
• Digital Gallery at the New York Public Library.
• First Ladies' Gallery, at The White House
• Exhibitions (Library of Congress)
• Images from The September 11 Digital Archive

Ancient History

• ABZU: a guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the web
• Ancient History Sourcebook : an extensive repository of texts
• Ancient languages and scripts; publications by Donald P. Ryan: Language links and links to related resources.

• Ancient Near East in the Old Testament Gateway
• Ancient World : Links to scholarly publications in humanities referred by The Stoa: A Consortium Publications in Humanities
• The Ancient City of Athens: a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens from the personal slide collection of Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein, Indiana University. Includes links to related sites.
• Anthro.net - Anthropology on the World Wide Web - Anthro.Net queries a database of over 40,000 pages from reviewed web sites with anthropological content built by users' interests.

• Bulgarian National History Museum
• Cave of Lascaux

• Encyclopedia Mythica

• The Fall of Babylon: A Problem in Prophetic Interpretation, by Dr. James E. Smith.
• Prolegomena to the Study of Kings -  Selected sections from the first chapter of Dr. James E. Smith's commentary on I and II Kings.
  
• Timeline from the Jersalem Archaeological Park & Davidson Center
• West Semitic Research Project - Ancient Texts Relating to the Bible; Biblical Manuscripts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Archaeological sites, links to other collections.
• Texts of Non-Canonical books at the Wesley Center Online

Archaeology

• ArchNet: the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology -- scholarly archaeological information on the Internet.
• Archaeological Excavations Relating to Jewish History - The Jewish History Resource Center is a project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History
• Artifax - a quarterly magazine
• Associates for Biblical Research: "demonstrating through field work the historical reliability of the Scriptures."
  
• ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives)
• Israel's Archaeological Treasures, an Israeli government site with news of recent excavations.

Manuscripts

• Library of Congress Dead Sea Scrolls online exhibit
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
• Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
• NOVA Great Surviving Manuscripts
• Advanced Papyrological Information System
• Ancient Manuscripts locations
• University of Notre Dame Manuscripts and Royal Building Inscription Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar
• Images of Manuscripts From the Middle Ages: Provided by Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford
• Lindisfarne Gospels in the British Library.

Classical Civilizations

• Benaki Museum, Athens
• The Persus Digital Library at Tufts University

• Forum Romanum
• Greek and Roman History sites from the University of Florida
• Lacus Curtius : Into the Roman World --maps, texts, inscriptions, journal articles
• Legion XXIV links to ancient history informational sites, with emphasis on Rome

• Chinese Civilization

Middle Ages

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook : a part of Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers.
• ECOLE Initiative: A hypertext encyclopedia of early church history on the World-wide web.

• The Labyrinth : Resources for medieval studies.
• Luminarium: the Anthology of Middle English literature

• NetSERF - the internet connection for Medieval resources
• ORB -- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Renaissance

• Internet Resources Related to Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Ohio State University
• Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
• English Renaissance in Context, University of Pennsylvania Library
• Elizabethan authors
• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture exhibit at the Library of Congress

• The Renaissance - Authors and Texts

• Renaissance Literary Resources
• The Thomas More Digital Collection of historical documents, original works, biographical and bibliographical information.
• Voice of the Shuttle: for Renaissance & 17th Century

Church History

• AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity at Yale Divinity School
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library - classic Christian writings

• Church History resources from Regent University Library
• ECOLE Initiative: A hypertext encyclopedia of early church history.
• Internet resources for the study of Judaism and Christianity. Jay C.Treat
• Monachos.net - Greek Orthodox Monasticism & Patristics
  • Patristics - Texts
• Reformation texts and source documents

Modern Middle East

• Arab-Islamic history
• Oriental Institute, at the University of Chicago
• Petra Jordan News Agency : select "English" on the upper right
• Middle East section of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Asian Studies. 

• Palestinian National Authority information

• Links from the University of Birzeit for a Palestinian perspective. Many of these links are no longer active.

• Arab-Israeli conflict in maps from The Jewish Agency for Israel, Department for Jewish Zionist Education
• BBC resources on the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Israel government portal
• Israel information

Holy Land Trip

Israel

• Israel Foreign Ministry
  • Reference Links from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Israel Musem, Jerusalem and the Shrine of the Book, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Aleppo Code, and Bar-Kokhba
  •  Also the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
• The Western Wall: Live Camera
• Jewish History from Aish.com; also see their Timeline of Jewish History
• Jerusalem Post - an English-language newspaper
• Jerusalem Mosaic interactive tour site.
• The Knesset: The Israeli Parliament
• Library of Congress Hebraic Collections
• Neot Kedumim - the Biblical Landscape Reserve in Israel
• Sepporis

Jordan

• Jordan Times (newspaper)
• Qusayr `Amra A Jordanian desert castle
• Jordan 2004 description of one individual's tour
• Petra Fine Art a commercial site featuring the works of David Roberts and others

Palestine

• City of Nazareth: Official Web Site, with commercial information
• Nazareth
• Guide to Palestine's websites: maintained by Birzeit University, an independent Palestinian institution

Egypt

• Egypt WWW Index Virtual Library for Ancient Egypt
• The David Roberts Gallery of 19th Century lithographs (all 124 Egypt pictures)
• Egyptian and Coptic resources: The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt
• Egypt in the British Museum
• Half the Crescent  One individual's tour.

Photos of Israel

• Korea Computer Mission Holy Land pictures
• Holy Land: Bible Lands Visual Tour from Day of Discovery
• Chagall Windows at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center.

Model

• The Model of Jerusalem at the time of the Second Temple: The reconstruction of Jerusalem at the time of the Second Temple, a model of the city, formerly on the grounds of the Holyland Hotel, Jerusalem. In 2006 it was relocated to the Israel Museum.
• Temple Model

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