HIST 5940: Online Collections

General (Collections covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Russia)

Global History Consortium:  http://loki.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/consorti/index.html#index
      The consortium is divided into five virtual research institutes, that contain records on five geographical regions, The Middle East, Africa, India, East and Southeast Asia and Central and South America.

Voice of the Shuttle, Maintained by the University of California Santa Barbara. http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2713

Digital Collections at the University of West Virginia:      http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html Vast collection of electronic texts, mostly in English (tho some are in German, French, & Latin). Those marked with an asterisk (*) are available only to UVa students & staff. However it is possible to search hundreds of texts by key word and download to your computer. Site also links to other Internet text collections.

H-Net - Humanities and Social Science On-line:  http://www.h-net.msu.edu/  (Michigan State University)

Books on Line: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/   University of Pennsylvania

Europe

Villa I Tatti Project of Harvard University Press.  http://www.hup.harvard.edu/itatti/index.html   The Villa I Tatti Project is intended to be the "Renaissance Answer" to the Loeb Classical Library: that is, it publishes Renaissance texts in dual languages on facing pages -- the original on one side and the English translation on the opposite page.

  Please see the links in the green sidebar at the left for more detailed sections, such as Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, 19th century Britain, France, Germany, etc.  From Fordham University.

Reformation Texts -  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html 

The Industrial Revolution: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html

WWI Reference Library:  http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm

WWI Document Archive:  http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/

Eurodocs - Primary European Historical Documents: http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Life in Italy under Fascism, University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/dpf/Fascism/Intro.html  

History of the Third Reich:  http://www.russianbooks.org/HST603/links.htm  (compiled by Peter Vronsky for History 603, Ryerson University, Toronto)

Eurodocs - Primary European Historical Documents: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

Asia

C.V Starr East Asia Library, Hosted by Columbia University: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/

East Asia Library, Yale University: http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/

Chinese Collection, University of Southern California: http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/china/toqing.html

H-Net Asia:  http://www.h-net.org/~asia/

Asian Reading Room, Library of Congress:   http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/

Latin America

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Latin America 

19th Century:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook32.html

20th Century:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook55.html

Africa

   While this includes African history from ancient times, there are large sections on the modern history of the continent.