History Academic Resources
The Department of History at Elizabethtown College has compiled a host of websites and books which you may find useful for your study of history:
American History
- National Museum of American History
- Explore Pennsylvania History
- Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
- American Philosophical Society
- Lancaster Historical Society
- Interactive World War I Timeline
- WWI Maps
- World War II Museum in Eldred, PA
- Bombsight: Mapping the WWII Bomb Census
- DoHistory -- how to read manuscripts
- University of Virginia -- Electronic Text Resources
- Cornell's Archives of Harper's Magazine (1850-1899)
- Yale's Law, History, Diplomacy Archive -- Avalon Project
- University of Michigan's Humanities Text Index
- American Antiquarian Society
European History
- ACRL Western European Studies Resources
- Perseus from Tufts University
- Official Website of the BBC History Magazine
- British Movietone (1895-1986)
- Medici Archive Project
- Magna Carta
- Europeana (1914-1918): untold stories & official histories of WWI
- Colonial Film Database
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Crace Collection of Maps of London
- University of Oregon Renascence Archive (1477-1799)
- European Intellectual History Database
- The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
- 'Six Degrees of Francis Bacon,’ a groundbreaking digital humanities project
- Archive of Connolly Association's 'Irish Democrat'
Ancient History
General Resources
Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit
- Archives nationales (France)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (France)
- The National Archives (United Kingdom)
Dr. Brown suggests the following:
- American Historical Association (It is the professional association for all historians in the United States. It provides information on the current issues in the historical profession, publications, graduate school and the job market)
- History News Network (caters to contemporary "hot" historical issues)