History Links

Finding History Sites on the Web

For a general and continuously updated guide to history websites, begin at the Yahoo!: Arts: Humanities: History page.

For more modern history sites, you will find that each section of the Modern History Sourcebook contains not just texts, but also links to other quality websites.

The links here are not comprehensive, but to a few very high quality sites related to each section of this course. Each week you should look at  the sites indicated here, browse through them, and be prepared to discuss what you find!

The Roots of Western Culture

The three Sourcebooks below contain thousands of texts. You do not have to read these texts, but you should try to get an idea of the sort of material online.

• Ancient History Sourcebook
  A collection of sources on Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
• Jewish History Sourcebook
  Sources on Jewish history and culture.
• Medieval Sourcebook
  Thousands of sources from the middle ages.

The Ancien Regime: Absolutism and the Modern State

• The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy: Grand Siècle and Enlightenment [At Library of Congress]
  A Library of Congress exhibition on France during the height of the power of the Absolute monarchy.

The Ancien Regime: Constitutionalism and Roots of Modern Political Thought

• The World Turned Upside Down
  A major site on the radicals during the English Revolution, with
  many online texts.
• The Glorious Revolution of 1688
  What happened in England in 1688, and why was it so important in later politics?

The Scientific Revolution: Copernicus to Newton

• The Galileo Project [At Rice]
  A website focused on the early scientific revolution. What was Galileo's contribution to the development of scientific thought?

The Enlightenment

• Eighteenth Century Resources [At Upenn]
  A very good example of a "links" site, in which an interested person has tried to collect linsk to all significant web material on the subject.

The French Revolution: Liberal Ideals

• Revolution and After [At WSU]
  A complete history of the Revolution.
• A Tale of Two Revolution [At /www.self-gov.org]
  A comparison of the American and French revolutions by a modern American Conservative Libertarian.

The American Revolution

• MARYLAND LOYALISTS and the American Revolution
  The site covers the loyalist cause with texts, images, and sound files.
• The American Revolution [At H-Net]
  A more general site.

The Industrial Revolution

• The Steam Engine Library
  Full texts of many books on the history of the Steam Engine. A
  splendid resource.
• The Kew Bridge Steam Museum [In the UK]

The Conservative Order Transformed

The Liberal Tradition

The Nationalist Dream

• Contemporary Wars [At the Canadian Army]
  Locates modern conlficts, and explores the causes - which are often based on competing nationalisms.
• Nationalism Links [A Surrey]
  A rather long set of annoated links to infromation about Nationalism.

The Socialist Analysis

The Imperial Project

World War I and Cultural Anxiety

The Soviet Experiment 1918-1989

World War II and the End of Empire

Post War Themes: 1945-1989

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