www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca
The BC Archives is the central archives service for the government
of British Columbia, and provides research access to records
of enduring value to the province for both the provincial
government and public clientele. Archival holdings include:
government documents and records; private historical manuscripts
and papers; maps, charts and architectural plans; photographs;
paintings, drawings and prints; audio and video tapes; film;
newspapers; and an extensive library of publications with
a strong emphasis on the social and political history of British
Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. |
www.iisg.nl/~abb/
Site provides a brief extract from the ArcheoBiblioBase information
system on archival repositories in the Russian Federation,
maintained by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in collaboration with
Rosarkhiv, the Federal Archival Service of Russia. |
www.iisg.nl
Official site of the International Institute of Social History.
Includes many useful links to sites dealing with the history
of labor, business, and women. |
www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/
Archive of the African National Congress includes documents
by or about the ANC and apartheid, as well as photos and biographies
of members of the ANC. |
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/#collections
Digitized collections of the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special
Collections Library of Duke University includes ancient Egyptian
papyri, US and Canadian newspaper advertisements from 1911
to 1955, historic American sheet music, and scanned pages
and text of writings by African American women and Civil War
women. |
www.iisg.nl/~womhist/
Site includes an online bibliography of women's history in
historical and women's studies journals and a collection of
links to other women's history sites world-wide. |
www.silk-road.com/
Official site of the Silkroad Foundation. Provides information
on the Silk Road in Asia, including histories of sites along
the Silk Road, a chronology, a bibliography, and links to
other related sites. |
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/jun99/devi.html
Virtual tour of the exhibit on the Hindu goddess Devi at the
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, D.C. Includes images from the exhibit with
explanatory text. |
www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored
by Georgetown University. Site provides world-wide links
to databases, services, texts, and images relating to Medieval
Studies. |
www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html
Nagasaki Journey by the Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art,
and Human Perception in San Francisco, CA. Site provides
photographs, reminiscences, resources and links to other sites
related to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. |
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/
The Victorian Web. Award-winning site on literature,
history and culture in the age of Queen Victoria. |
http://www.asianart.com/mongolia/
Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan, a virtual exhibition
of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Site highlights
the Mongolian renaissance, an era that began in the sixteenth
century with the Mongol's attempt to recreate the empire that
had flourished under Chinggis Khan three hundred years earlier. |
www.womeninworldhistory.com/index.html
Women in World History. Site includes images and text
on Great Women Rulers and Female Heroes, as well as essays
and links to sites related to women in world history. |
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~korea/index_casa.html
Site provides extensive information on the history of Korea.
Maintained by the Korean Studies Department of UC Berkeley. |
http://metalab.unc.edu/vietnam/history.html
Site provides digitized images relating to Vietnamese history.
Very little explanatory text. |
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/
Greek Mythology Link. Site contains a new collection
of Greek myths written and published on line by Carlos Parada,
author of the book Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology
(1993). Includes texts, images, tables and maps.
The mythical accounts are based exclusively on classical sources. |
http://classics.mit.edu
The Internet Classics Archive. Contains digitized text
of ancient classics, mostly Greco-Roman but includes some
Chinese and Persian. Includes works by Aesop, Homer,
Josephus, Livy, Aristotle, Lycurgus, Plato, Plutarch, Thucydides,
Herodotus, Confucius, Lao-tzu, and Omar Khayyam, among many
others. |
http://www.agentura.ru/english/
Site provides information on Russian espionage. Includes
newspaper articles about international intelligence organizations,
an outline of the Russian secret services, biographies of
secret service officers, documents pertaining to the security
and intelligence services, and discussions and interviews
with secret service officers. Many pages have not been
translated into English. Site is maintained by a former
journalist for the Russian newspaper Isvestia. |
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/
Site provides a timeline of 4,000 years of Egyptian culture,
historic maps, virtual tours of royal tombs and pyramids,
and a look at the process of mummification. Site accompanied
the PBS series "Secrets of the Pharaohs." |
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Internet History Sourcebooks Project provides a wealth of
resources for African, East Asian, Global, Indian, Jewish,
Islamic, Lesbian/Gay, Science, and Women's history, as well
as special resources on Byzantium and ancient and medieval
law. Site also has separate sections on Ancient, Medieval,
and Modern history. A very impressive web site. |
