Thispage is intended to serve as a Gateway to History Internet Resources forthe academic staff, students and researchers at the Universiti Sains Malaysia.  All attempts have been made to ensure that quality sites are listed.  If you have comments and suggestions, please send them to  Sukmawati Muhamad at  sukmawat@notes.usm.my .  Last updated Nov. 2003
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General Guides to the Internet Academic and Research Institutions Discussion Groups Electronic Journals / E-Books Full-Text Documents Professional Bodies & Associations Teaching Resources History,By Periods Ancient Medieval Modern History, By Geographical Areas Africa Asia Europe North America South America

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GUIDES TO THE INTERNET Best of History Web Sites http://www.besthistorysites.net/ Developer: Oregon Public Education Network. Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. BUBLLINK: 900 Geography and history http://link.bubl.ac.uk/history/ Developer: BUBL LINK Links to general resources, departments, journals, and links arranged by geographical areas. CreativeImpulse - World History and Western Civilization http://history.evansville.net/ Developer: Creative Impluse This is a good annotated and rated directory of Internet resources for the study of history.  World History Archives http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html Developer: Hartford Web Publishing "Gateway to World History is a collection of resources to support the study and teaching of worldhistory and history in general". Extensive annotated directory of worldhistory sites organized in a geographic "tree." Also includes large archivesof text documents and images. Guideto Internet Resources in Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation, and Archaeology http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/pir/  Developer: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Links are divided under the following headings : WWW and gopher services, Electronic journals,Listservs, UseNet newsgroups, Full text, Images, Indexes and databases,Selected library catalogues, FTP sites, FAQs and other subject guides HistoryTimelines on the Web ... The History Beat http://www.search-beat.com/history.htm Developer: Search-Beat.com One stop directory for historyaround the world. History On-Line - Home Page http://www.history.ac.uk/search/ History On-Line provides high-quality information resources for the teaching and learning of history. There are currently over 40,000 records providing details of books and articles, UK university lecturers, UK current and past research, and evaluated links to web sites and on-line resources. History(Social Sciences) - Einet Galaxy http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/History.html Developer: AHN Parthners Links to universities' Webpages of Internet resources in history. Horus'History Links http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html Developer: University ofCalifornia, Riverside (Department of History) Excellent starting point to obtain Internet resources in history. Sections include Histories ofspecific countries, times and places, Areas of history, Online servicesabout history, web tools, and listings of link collections. More than 3,400links. Indexof Resources for Historians http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html Developer: University ofKansas This index consists of asingle large file (approximately 265 Kb) offering about 2500 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name. Very useful although not annotated. Labourand Business History: Resources http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/vl-res.html#jour Developer: International Institute of Social History and the Netherlands Economic History Archive Excellent site for labour and business history resources. Subdivided under the following categories : organizations, resources, conferences, profiles, institutions, journals, exhibitions and reference. TennesseeTechnological University History Web Site http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/history.html Developer: Department ofHistory, Tennessee Technological University Extensive list of links to Internet resources in history. Recommended. WorldHistory : HyperHistory http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Developer: The History Channel Over  1,200 files covering 3,000 years of world History.  HistoryWorld http://www.historyworld.net/ World History consists of some 400 separate Histories  AND 4000 tagged events.   TheWorld-Wide Web Virtual Library : History http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html Developer: The University of Kansas History Group Very useful site to start your search for Internet resources in history. Provides links arrangedby subject, geographical area and era. Also provides links to other virtuallibraries on history, discussion groups and current happenings. VirtualLibrary Museums Pages (VLmp) http://www.icom.org/vlmp/ Developer: Jonathan Bowen A comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources.	goTOP
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS The Orb of History Contains.... Today in History, America, Asia,  Economic, Europe,  Latin America,  New Zealand, Russia,  World, Quiz  Guide to History Departments  http://history.gmu.edu/scripts/departments.php Developer: Andrew McMichael Search for individual universitiesor see the entire list of universities which have history departments SubjectSources in History http://juno.concordia.ca/collections/subjpages/historynet.html Developer: ARO	goTOP
DISCUSSION GROUPS H-Net'sList of Lists http://www.h-net.msu.edu/lists/ Developer: H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online Lists over 70 history discussionlists which historians can join to keep up with the latest happenings. Some of these lists also provide links to sites of interest. H-Net Discussion Networks http://www.h-net.org/lists/ H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials.	goTOP
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS / E-BOOKS Chinese History Resources at Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/chinese_history.jsp Developer: Questia Media America, Inc Welcome to Questia, the world's largest online library of over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine and newspaper articles.  education, history of -- Encyclopædia Britannica Online Article http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=108329 Developer: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. history of the evolution of the formal teaching of knowledge and skills, from prehistoric and ancient times to the present, in all parts of the world, and with the various philosophies that have inspired the resulting systems.  TheHistory Journals Guide http://www.crispinius.com/nfh2/zeitschriften/hjg-start.html Developer: Stefan Blaschke Compiled by Stefan Blaschke, "the History Journals Guide (HJG) is an annotated webibliography for history journals. It aims to offer the users links to the websites of history journals. Journals devoted to all historical periods and all historical subjectsare collected. At the moment the HJG covers more than 860 titles." HistoricalJournals On-Line http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/journals.html Developer: Tennessee Technological University. Department of History  This site provides links to 47 electronic journal titles in history and world history. The History Journals Guide http://www.history-journals.de/ Developer: Stefan Blaschke The History Journals Guide is cooperating with the Nachrichtendienst für Historiker, a service that offers a press review of articles dealing with history, published in German, American, British and French newspapers.	goTOP
FULL-TEXT DOCUMENTS Avalonproject at the Yale Law School http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm Developer: The Avalon Project Reproduces documents relevant to law, diplomacy, politics, economics, and history. A site of high quality offering reliable texts. Historyat the English Server http://eserver.org/history/ Developer: The English Server You can access the full-texts of historical documents at this site. IPLOnline Texts Dewey Browse http://readroom.ipl.org/bin/ipl/ipl.books-idx.pl?type=deweystem&q1=950 Developer: The Internet Public Libarary Provides links to online texts in geography and history. Repositoriesof Primary Sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html Developer: University of Idaho A listing of over 2500 websitesdescribing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,and other primary sources for the research scholar. WorldHistory Archives http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html Developer: Hartford Web Publishing  "A repository for documents for teaching and understanding contemporary world history and the struggle for social progress."	goTOP
PROFESSIONAL BODIES & ASSOCIATIONS Australian History on the Internet http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html Developer: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA, AmericanHistorical Association http://www.theaha.org/ Developer: American Historical Association You will find information about the Association, as well as selected articles from their newsletter Perspectives, and information on how the AHA relates to K-12 teaching. The Association for History and Computing http://odur.let.rug.nl/ahc/histlink/index.html Developer: AHC webmasters An organization for the use of computers in historical research. There are also other sites thatare related to historical research. World History Center http://www.whc.neu.edu/ Developer: World History Center Department of History, Northeastern University Site about the Association. Also provides a set of links to on-line world history resources.	goTOP
TEACHING RESOURCES NARA | US National Archives & Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/ The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an                                   independent Federal agency that preserves our nation's history and                                   defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all Federal                           records.	goTOP
ANCIENT Abzu:Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available onthe Internet http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML Developer: Oriental Institute Abzu is an extensive index of resources on the pre-Islamic civilizations of Western Asia and Egypt.Edited by Charles E. Jones (Oriental Institute). Argos:Search Engine for Ancient and Medieval Studies http://argos.evansville.edu/ Developer: Argos Here you will find a serch engine for ancient and medieval studies, as well as links to other sitesrelated to those topics. TheDuke Papyrus Archive http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/homepage.htm Developer: Duke University The Duke Papyrus Archive allows users "electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt." Exploringancient world cultures http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm Developer: William Hemminger Includes general and specialized Web sites dealing with the major civilizations of antiquity. It encompasses material on the Near East, India, China, Greece, Rome,Islam and MedievalEurope.   Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History - Main http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/ancient.html Developer: Steven Kreis These lectures attempt to show just how the world view and the western tradition came to be and changed over the course of  nearly 6000 years of historical development.   Linkto Ancient History http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/rome/ Developer: Joe Shetler This page contains links to many ancient history resources on the Internet, grouped by geographical location and time period. ThePerseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Developer:  Gregory Crane (Tufts University).  Contains a vast array ofinformation including texts, lexicons, images and maps on ancient Greece.  Textsfor Ancient History Courses http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/texts.html Developer: J. Vanderspoel, Department of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of Calgary Full text documents of bookson Ancient Greece, Rome and Late Antiquity. WorldWide Web Servers - Archaeological Digs http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/afaq.html#WWWDig Developer: Allen H. Lutins An A-Z listing of links to sites about archaeological digs.	goTOP
MEDIEVAL Argos:Search Engine for Ancient and Medieval Studies http://argos.evansville.edu/ Developer: Argos Here you will find a serch engine for ancient and medieval studies, as well as links to other sitesrelated to those topics.     TheLabyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html Developer: Martin Irvine and Deborah everhart This is a standard starting point for Medieval Studies on the Internet. NetSERF:The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources http://netserf.cua.edu/ Developer: Beau A.C.Harbin (The Catholic University of America) NetSERF is a subject-oriented index of medieval resources available on the Internet and includes an extensive hypertext glossary of general medieval terms. ORB--OnlineReference Book for Medieval Studies http://orb.rhodes.edu/ Developer: Laura V. Blanchard and Carolyn Schriber One of the best resources for Medieval history on the Internet. Contains more than 200 primary documents online, plus resources for teaching, subject guides, bibliographies andother Internet resources. WWWMedieval Resources http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html Developer: Dan Mosser.  Contains links to duscussion lists, texts, databases, libraries and other home pages related to Medieval history.	goTOP
MODERN ContemporaryHistory (since 1945) http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/contemp.html Developer: Department ofHistory, Tennessee Technologyical University Extensive site of links to contemporary history. Maintained by the Tennessee Technological University. Eighteenth-CenturyResources -- History http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html Developer:  Jack Lynch  The  Internet resources about the eighteenth century. The collection includes information on history  from all around the world in the eighteenth century, as well as the homepages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics.	goTOP
AFRICA AfricanStudies (Stanford U. Libraries) http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/asp.html Developer: Karen Fung Links to institutes and departments concerned with African studies. These links provide gatewaysto more links to Internet resources in African history. AfricanStudies WWW (U. Pennsylvania) http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html Developer: Ali B. Ali-Dinar Sections include : Africa Web Links, Annotated List, African Studies Association, Black/African Internet Resources,Teaching & Learning about East Africa, The Bulletin Board,Feeds from Africa, K-12 Africa, Multimedia Archives, and Books on Africa.A premier Web resource for this field. afrika.no - the Index on Africa - History http://www.afrika.no/index/Subjects/History/index.html Developer: afrika.no Resources on African and Afro-American history.	goTOP
ASIA         Asian History - Asia, China and Japan http://www.historyorb.com/asia/index.shtml AsianStudies WWW VL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html Developer: T. Matthew Ciolek The best site for Asian studies. Maintained by the Australian National University. Highly recommended. AsianStudies WWW Virtual Library - Southeast Asian Studies (Leiden U.) http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeast.html Developer: International Institute of Asian Studies Provides links to online resources in Southeast Asia. There is a general section, followed by sites arranged by countries. SARAI:South Asia Resource Access on the Internet http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/ Developer: David Magier Recommended source of Internetresources about South Asia. Here you will find annotated links to librariesand bibliographic resources, electronic journals and newspapers, and conferences.Links are also organised by country, organisation and topic. SoutheastAsian Images and Text (U. Wisconsin-Madison) http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait/ Developer: University ofWisconsin - Modison This is a online digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia. The aim of this project is to "draw scattered historical photographs of Southeast Asia into a single accessible source". These resources are available for classroom use, research and other applications. UT- MENIC http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html Developer: University ofTexas at Austin This is the WWW Virtual Library for Middle Eastern studies from the University of Texas. Coversdiverse subjects on Middle Eastern countries, including history, culture,economics, government, geography and media. Here you can also connect toteaching resources, libraries, institutes, organisations, associations,and general reference materials. The best site for Middle Eastern studies. ASIA,BY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES Afghanistan     Brunei SoutheastAsian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Brunei http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeas/brunei.html Developer: International Institute of Asian Studies Cambodia SoutheastAsian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Cambodia http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeas/cambodia.html Developer: International Institute of Asian Studies China         ChinaWWW VL - Internet Guide for China Studies (ANU/Heidelberg Univ.): Main Page http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ Developer: Hanno Lecher (University of Heidelberg, Germany)  HongKong HongKong - World Wide Web Virtual Library http://www.asiawind.com/hkwwwvl/ Developer: InTechTra Inc. India  SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY: India, Ancient, Medieval, Colonization, Philosophy, Culture http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/sahistory.html Developer: Shishir Thadani Indonesia World-WideWeb Virtual Library: Indonesia http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/WWWVL-Indonesia.html Developer: Michael Laffan and Colin rundle Japan Japan,my Japan! http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Japan.html Developer: Mitsuharu Matsuoka JGuide: Standard Guide to Japan Information Resources Home Page http://fuji.stanford.edu/jguide/ Developer: Satanford University Korea World-WideWeb Virtual Library - North Korea http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_NK.html Developer: M. Y. Han World-WideWeb Virtual Library - South Korea http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_SK.html Developer: M. Y. Han Laos LaosWWW VL http://www.global.lao.net/laoVL.html Developer: LaoNet Malaysia Museumsin Malaysia http://mmserve.com/museum/ Developer: GTi Technologies Sdn. Bhd. NationalArchive of Malaysia Homepage  http://arkib.gov.my/ Developer: Arkib Negara  Malaysia Myanmar SoutheastAsian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Burma http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeas/burma.html Developer: International Institute for Asian Studies Nepal NepalWWW Virtual Library http://www.catmando.com/wwwvlnp.htm Developer: AMAA, Inc. Pakistan PakistanWWW Virtual Library http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/pak/ Developer: Gene R. Thursby Philippines SoutheastAsian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Philippines http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeas/philippi.html Developer: International Institute for Asian Studies SaudiArabia SaudiArabia Internet Pages http://www.saudi-pages.com/ Developer: NetComm Recommaended source of Internet.Resources about Middle East. Arranged by subject in alphabetical order. SaudiArabia http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/Saudi.html Developer: Columbia University Singapore Singapore History Museum http://www.museum.org.sg/SHM/shm.shtml Developer: National Heritage Board Exhibits on the history of Singapore and Asia. W3C/ANU/ViennaUniv. - Singapore WWW VL http://library.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/WWWVL/singapore.html Developer: UC Regents SriLanka WWWVirtual Library - Sri Lanka http://laf.cioe.com/~lanka/wlib/ Developer: Rohan Hettiarachchi Taiwan     Thailand Thailand- WWW Virtual Library http://www.nectec.or.th/WWW-VL-Thailand.html Developer: National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC),  Royal Thai Government. Tibet TibetanStudies WWW-VL http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html Developer: T. Matthew Ciolek Vietnam VietGate  http://www.vietgate.net/ Developer: Net Images, Inc. W3C/ANU- Vietnam WWW VL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/VietPages/WWWVL-Vietnam.html Developer: Vern Weitzel	goTOP
EUROPE The History Guide -- Main http://www.historyguide.org/index.html Developer: Steven Kreis     EuroDocs:Western European Primary Historical Documents http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ Developer: Richard Hacken "...links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries".     TheWWW Virtual Library: Russian and East European Studies http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/ Developer: Mark J. Weixel The REESWeb is a comprehensive index of electronic resources on the Balkans, the Baltic states, the Caucusus, Central Asia, Central Europe, the CIS, Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union.   EUROPE,BY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES Belgium BELNET http://www.belnet.be/ Developer: The Belgian ResearchNetwork Germany TheWorld-Wide Web Virtual Library: German Subject Catalogue http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/Outerspace/VirtualLibrary/ Developer: Evelyn Strunck Russia Primary sources http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/history/sourcessite.htm Developer: Charles Mitchell RussianEmpire, 1895-1910 http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/russia/russia.html Developer:  University of  California, Riverside Photographs of the period. RussianHistory http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/history.html Developer: T. Matthew Ciolek  Russian History Links http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/qualin/rusnclub/Links/history.htm Developer: Masatake Wasa   Spain	goTOP
NORTH AMERICA UnitedStates      William M. Brinton's Online History Books http://www.asian-history.com/index2.html Developer: Brinton, William M. These are extremely popular online books — between them they have been accessed nearly 23 million times by  people all over the world since 1996 Subject Research Guides: History - American and British: History - American and British (Rutgers University Libraries) http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml Developer: Stan Nash AmericanMemory http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ Developer: Library of Congress Historical collections ofover several hundred thousand items of the national digital library, Library of Congress. Makingof America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ Developer: MOA "Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history fromthe antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Theproject represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronicaccess to historical texts." National Museum of American History: Home http://americanhistory.si.edu/ Developer: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution   NationalArchives and Records Administration http://www.nara.gov/ Developer: National Archives and Records Administration Information about NARA andits records. You can also search its databases. Includes texts, images and audio clips. U.S.Historical Documents http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ Developer: Eric A. Cooper Organized chronologically by century, this site maintains a collection of documents on American history.	goTOP
SOUTH AMERICA THE KANSAS HISTORY GATEWAY http://www.ku.edu/history/ Developer: HNSource Libraryof Congress HLAS online http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/ Developer: Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress This is the online version of the Handbook, which is a bibliography on Latin America consisting ofworks selected and annotated by scholars.  WWWVirtual Library: Latin American Studies http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html Developer: University ofTexas at Austin  Aims to provide Latin Americanusers with access to academic databases and information services throughoutthe Internet world. Includes extensive lists of resources about countriesin Central and South America and the Caribbean, browsable by country orsubject.	goTOP

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