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Help in Writing History Papers

• Writing History Papers
  
• Guidelines for Referencing

Historiographical Resources

• American Historical Society
  
• Organization of American Historians
  
• The English Server's History and Historiography Links
  

Other Classes

• Western Civilization at University of Oregon

• World History at University of Kansas

• Medieval Europe at University of Northern Florida

• Art Humanities at Columbia University

• World Civilizations at Washington State University.

• Western Civilization at Boise State University

   

General Links
(adapted from a list  compiled and annotated by Corey Likness)

• Online Reference Book - ORB
  http://orb.rhodes.edu/index.html
  A cooperative attempt by scholars to produce a high-quality Internet resource for medieval studies. It is a collective effort but is headed up by Lynn H. Nelson, Carol Schriber and Laura Blanchard, at Kalamazoo. Very highly recommended.
  
• ABZU 
  http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML
  A wonderful resource for scholars and students and a formidable undertaking by the Research Archivist of the Oriental Institute, Charles E. Jones. The site, a series of links to internet-based resources on the Ancient Near East, as well as other areas of the ancient old world from paleolithic through Islamic periods, is enormous - which is both its strength and its weakness. Organized by two primary indices, "author" and "project or institutional affiliation," it is most easily used by scholars and students who have some knowledge of what they are looking for, since the index lists are long and take large amounts of time to scroll through.
  
• Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet
  http://argos.evansville.edu/
  A very good peer-reviewed search engine that limits the search outcomes to topics which have something to do with the classical or medieval period. Also contains a good links page to a variety of other "high-end" resources for Internet research.
  
• Institute for Historical Research Online
  http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/welcome.html
  This site, which is based out of the University of London has offered their site as a resource to the academic community since 1993. It is searchable and has good topic-specific, era-specific, and geographically-specific listings. It also offers students and academics a way to network with other historians and find out what is going on in various fields.
  
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
  http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
  Georgetown University's database for medieval texts, images, and services on other servers worldwide. Very well organized and searchable.
  
• Lives, the Biography Resource
  http://amillionlives.com/
  Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography. Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections
  
• Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections
  http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/links.htm
  This site is a guide to web pages, archives, libraries and other repositories that have primary source materials on or about women. It is part of the Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project at the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries, and is compiled by Archivist Jill Jackson.
  
• Radical History and Politics, a joint website of the Radical History Review and the Radical Historians Newsletter.
  
• The Voice of the Shuttle's History Page a good idea but many broken links
  
• Google's History Page

Yahoo! History

Anthropology

• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
  A very wide selection of folk tales, fairy tales, myths and legends from around the world -- organized sort-of alphabetically. Compiled, edited and/or translated by D.L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh.
  
• The Great Vowel Shift
  http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/index.htm
  The Great Vowel Shift was a massive sound change affecting the long vowels of English during the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Basically, the long vowels shifted upwards; that is, a vowel that used to be pronounced in one place in the mouth would be pronounced in a different place, higher up in the mouth. The Great Vowel Shift has had long-term implications for the understanding of any English-language text written before or during the Shift. Our interactive See and Hear page adds sound and animation to give you a sense of how this all works. 
  

Architecture

• WWW-VL Architecture
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
• Architectural Terms
• Architecture Web Sites [an excellent link collection]
• Dissertations Underway on Architectural History
• Great Architects Index
• British Architectural Library
• A Digital Archive of Architecture
• Environmental Design Archives
• Great Buildings Picture Index
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (C. W. Westfall, UVA)
• Asian Historical Architecture
• Canadian Center For Architecture
• Gothic Architecture
• Amiens Cathedral Project

Art

• Art History Resources on the Web
  http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
  An excellent art history site covering all periods from the paleolithic to neo-expressionism and post-modern art. Also includes links to various art history research resources.
  
• Carol Gerten's Fine Art - A Virtual Art Museum
  http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa//index.html
  Wide selection of searchable online artwork. What you cannot find on the Web Gallery of Art (below) you will find here.
  
• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
  http://www1.pitt.edu/~medart/
  A collection of photographs of medieval European buildings and pieces of art. The photographs are mostly from the personal collection of Dr. Alison Stones at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
• MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
  http://www.moma.org/
  
• National Gallery of Art
  http://www.nga.gov/
  
• Saint Louis Art Museum
  http://www.slam.org/
  
• Site official du musee du Louvre (English version available)
  http://www.louvre.fr/
  
• Time Inc. Picture Collection
  http://www.thepicturecollection.com/
  
• Web Gallery of Art
  http://gallery.euroweb.hu/
  The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available. Free postcard service is provided for visitors. Some of the photos load slow even at fast connection speed because they are scanned at very high resolution.
  
• Yale University Art Gallery
  http://www.yale.edu/artgallery/

Cartography

• Maps on this site
  maps.htm
  
• OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource
  www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient Web Pages/Ancient1.html
  
• Tony Belmonte's Historical Atlas
  On-line historical atlas of  Middle East and Europe. One hundred and twenty nine maps
  http://www.croatianmall.com/lupic/belmonte/
  
• Perry-Castaņeda Library
  Map Collection Historical Map Web Sites
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html
  
• Ancient Maps from Henry Davis

Costume

• Dress, Jewels, Arms and Coat of Arms: Material Culture and Self-Representation in the Late Middle Ages
  http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/index.htm
  

• Elizabethan Shakespearean Era Costume
  http://members.aol.com/nebula5/tcpinfo2.html#history-eliz

Dance

• Greek Dancing Through the Centuries, The history and evolution of Greek dance
  The history of Greek dance and its links to antiquity
  http://www.firstnethou.com/annam/dancehis.html/
  
•  Renaissance Dance
  http://www.rendance.org/
  
• Institute for Historical Dance
  http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~vfack/ihdp/dance.html
  
  

Encyclopedias

• Catholic Encyclopedia (1917)
  http://newadvent.org/cathen/
  Online version of the 1917 edition. Contains 11,614 articles. Compilation began in 1995 and was complete May 1, 2000. Excellent resource for Medieval and Early-Modern history.
  
• Columbia Encyclopedia 6th Edition
  http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Music

• Music at UCC: Web resources: Medieval music
  Medieval music Suggest an URL | Comments | Modified: Composers: Adam de la Halle (bibliography) Machaut links Philippe de Vitry Hildegard von Bingen Various composers ... Countries: Britain Cyprus Rep
  http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/music/online/medindex.html
  
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) - an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/start.html
  
• Gregorian Chant Home Page
  http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html/
  
• What Every Medievalist Should Know: Music
  From the Orb
  http://orb.rhodes.edu/wemsk/musicwemsk.html
  
•  Classical MIDI Archive Early Music Page
  http://www.classicalarchives.com/early.html

Philosophy

• Episteme Links.com: Philosophy Resources on the Internet
  http://12.6.109.229/Main/MainTopi.asp
  More geared to philosophy than to history, but a long list of links some of which will be of interest for historical work.
  
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
  Very detailed encyclopedia of philosophy, fully searchable and indexed. Founded and edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin.

Sociology

• Sociology Internet Resources
  http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/socres.html
  A lengthy list of sociology resources compiled by J. Bannister at Western Connecticut State University. Especially good for cultural studies topics.

Texts and Literature

• Project Gutenberg
  http://sailor.gutenberg.org/
  Complete e-texts of many works, several from antiquity.
  
• Paul Halsall Internet History Sourcebooks Project
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
  First page to a veritable "empire" of historical source material. Fordham University doctoral student Paul Halsall has compiled dozens of rich chronological and topic specific sourcebooks. Also includes links to his courses, papers, articles. Dr. Halsall is now an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Florida -- so if the site is down at Fordham check with UNF.
  
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
  A large list of primary classical and medieval documents, searchable by title and author. Compiled by Douglas Killings.
  
• Aberdeen Bestiary
  'to improve the minds of ordinary people, in such a way that the soul will at least perceive physically things which it has difficulty grasping mentally: that what they have difficulty comprehending with their ears, they will perceive with their eyes' (Aberdeen MS 24, f25v).
  http://www.clues.abdn.ac.uk:8080/besttest/firstpag.html

Theology

• AdHoc - Teaching and Research Resources for the History of Christianity
  http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/
  A large and well organized collection of resources for Christian history held and sponsored by Yale University. Can be frustrating because some of the resources are only accessible to the Yale community, but does provide a good online collection.
  
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  http://www.ccel.org
  Formerly hosted at Wheaton College, this site provides and extensive listing of classic Christian documents from the early church period to the present. All of the documents on the site are free of copyright restrictions
  
• Ecole Initiative
  http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/
  The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web. Contains chronologies, glossaries, artwork and primary documents. Founded by Anthony F. Beavers (University of Evansville), Managed by Karen Rae Keck and Norman Reddington (St. Pachomius Library).
  
• Fides Quaerens Internetum (Christian Theology Page)
  http://www.bu.edu/people/bpstone/theology/theology.html
  Brian Stone's Christian Theology website, contains links to theology departments, publishers, journals, discussion groups and resources. Perhaps more valuable for theological and biblical studies, it nevertheless links to some good historical theology resources.
  
• Internet Theology Resources: Church History and Historical Theology
  http://www.csbsju.edu/library/internet/theochht.html
  A huge list of links to primary and secondary documents for the study of church history and historical theology. Compiled (apparently) by Elizabeth Knuth and held on servers at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University.
  
• Matrix: Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities
  http://matrix.bc.edu/MatrixWebData/matrix.html
  An ongoing collaborative effort by an international group of scholars of medieval history, religion, history of art, archaeology, religion, and other disciplines, as well as librarians and experts in computer technology. Our goal is to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe. In particular, we aim to collect and make available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe between 500 and 1500 C.E. The project draws on both textual and material sources, primary and secondary, although its basis is unpublished archival evidence. It addresses a variety of individuals and groups in medieval Europe, and a range of ecclesiastical institutions, including monastic houses of every size, affiliation, and rule. Our editorial intentions in selecting and presenting material are both scholarly and pedagogical--Matrix is designed for use by scholars, students, and anyone interested in the study of women, medieval Europe, or the history of Christianity.
  
• New Testament Gateway
  http://www.ntgateway.com
  A comprehensive, up-to-date, academic, annotated site for New Testament and Early Church studies. Has some good links to resources for biblical, theological and historical study of the period. Compiled and edited by Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham.
  
• Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resource in Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
  http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm
  A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

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