Title: 1000-2000 World History Provider: Information Please
Subject Heading/s: World history
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Chronologies
Description: An interactive timeline by century through 1899, then by decade through 1979, then by year.
Title: 20th Century Provider: World History
Subject Heading/s: History--20th century
LC Class: D410
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: A survey of major events during the 1900's by Frank E. Smitha, for whom history is an avocation. a few maps are included.
Title: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Documents Provider: Avalon Project
Subject Heading/s: History, Ancient; Middle Ages--History; Renaissance.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: A searchable collection of declarations, papers, treaties and other documents relating to the topic from the Yale Law School Avalon Project. Documents range from 700+ BC to the 15th century. Primary sources.
Title: Antiquity Online Provider: World History
Subject Heading/s: History
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: A survey of ancient civilizations, philosophies, and changing religions, by Frank E. Smitha, for whom history is an avocation. Maps included.
Title: Cold War Provider: Avalon Project
Subject Heading/s: Cold War
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: The Cold War is a collection of documents relating to airplane incidents, the Cuban Missile Crisis, treaties, etc. from Yale Law School's Avalon Project. Primary sources
Title: Cold War International History Project Provider: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Subject Heading/s: Cold War.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: "The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history. "
Title: Congressional Research Service Reports Provider: U.S. Department of State/Foreign Press Centers
Subject Heading/s: History; United States--Politics and government; Social sciences--United States; Sciences--United States--Periodicals.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: "The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is part of the legislative branch of the federal government. CRS, which is a department of the Library of Congress, works exclusively as a nonpartisan analytical, research, and reference arm for Congress. The CRS mission is to support an informed national legislature. (http://www.senate.gov/~dpc/crs/ for selected reports published prior to 1998)"
Current CRS reports from the Department of State (within the last few years) are in pdf. This page has links to other reports of general interest as well.
Title: Country Studies Provider: U.S. Library of Congress
Subject Heading/s: History
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: "On-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army."
Title: EuroStudies Provider: Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
Subject Heading/s: Europe--History--21st century
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Almanacs
Description: "The new EuroStudies gateway will provide access to Internet resources about Europe as a region, ranging from issues of international security to the introduction of the Euro. In addition, it will cover information provided by individual European countries, with a particular emphasis on those located in Central and Eastern Europe, which are generally under-represented on the Web."
Title: History Cooperative Provider: History Cooperative
Subject Heading/s: History
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Indexes
Description: Presently an index to seven journals, some from 1999 to present, with more anticipated. The index supports Boolean operators (AND, OR) but strangely can produce and display a maximum of 39 records for any search. Full text is available for tables of contents, book reviews, and some articles.
Title: HyperHistory Online Provider: HyperHistory.com
Subject Heading/s: History
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: "An interactive encyclopedia with 2,000 files for all historical periods." Biographical information on hundreds of historic figures. Maps are also included, but are less helpful.
Title: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook Provider: Internet History Sourcebooks
Subject Heading/s: History, Ancient.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Bilbiographies
Description: The table of contents links to hundreds of ancient historical documents and commentary both on Fordham University's server and elsewhere. Primary sources.
Title: Internet Medieval History Sourcebook Provider: Internet History Sourcebook
Subject Heading/s: Middle Ages--History.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Bilbiographies
Description: Includes an index to hundreds of medieval historical documents and commentary both on Fordham University's server and elsewhere. Primary sources.
Title: Internet Modern History Sourcebook Provider: Internet History Sourcebook
Subject Heading/s: History, Modern.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Bibliographies
Description: Links to hundreds of modern historical documents and commentary both on Fordham University's server and elsewhere. Primary sources.
Title: Millennium Milestones: The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years Provider: Information Please
Subject Heading/s: World history
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Chronologies
Description: "Reducing the millennium to a laundry list of highlights cannot pretend to be a definitive or accurate exercise, but if ever there was a time for such a foolhardy and brash undertaking, this would be it. Note that only events judged to have world significance are included. Apologies for the inevitable bias toward Western as well as twentieth century events—we are all prisoners of our own history."
Title: On This Day Provider: New York Times
Subject Heading/s: History
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Chronologies
Description: A list of events (with an emphsis on celebrity birtdays) occuring on the current day, with links to some full text of NY Times articles.
Title: Perseus Encyclopedia Provider: Perseus Project
Subject Heading/s: History, Ancient.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: An interactive encyclopedia of Greece from 7000 B.C. to 1440 A.D. From the Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Title: World War I Document Archive Provider: Great War Primary Document Archive
Subject Heading/s: World War, 1914-1918.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: "The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War." From the Great War Primary Document Archive, a non-profit corporation. Primary sources.
Title: World War II Documents Provider: Avalon Project
Subject Heading/s: World War, 1939-1945.
LC Class: D
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: A searchable collection of declarations, papers, treaties and other primary sources relating to the topic from Yale Law School's Avalon Project.