Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

UFDC — Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps of Florida

Digital Library of Georgia Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps

The Perry-Castañeda Map Collection — University of Texas, Austin

World History at KMLA–WHKMLA Historical Atlas

National Library of Scotland–Maps This site provides access to the huge collection of historical maps maintained at the NLS in Edinburgh. This web site has earned a place as one of Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites.

The Portal to Texas History

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

Voices of the Holocaust Project This site was created by the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Paul V. Galvin Library. Its purpose is to provide students, researchers, historians, and the general public with access to interviews with Holocaust survivors. The interviews were conducted in nine languages by Dr. David P. Boder in 1946 using a wire recorder.  Dr. Boder visited sixteen locations in four countries, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. He interviewed Jews and non-Jews alike. The collection represents perhaps the earliest audio recordings of Holocaust survivor interviews. You can not only listen to the actual interviews, but also read English translations of the transcripts and commentary. This site has a wealth of information including maps of the locations of the ghettos and concentration camps, biographical information about the interviewees, a glossary, and a bibliography just to name a few items.

Yad Vashem This is the Jerusalem-based Holocaust martyrs’ and heroes’ remembrance authority site.

University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994. It is today the largest archive of video testimonies from witnesses of the Holocaust. In 2006, the Foundation became part of the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences in Los Angeles.

The United States Holocaust Museum “The Museum’s primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy.” (excerpted from the Mission Statement of the US Holocaust Museum)

Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center This is the home of the exhibit A Reason to Remember which was displayed at our library from 17 January through 14 February. Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City sponsored the exhibit and provided the docent-led tours. This site is worth a visit.

Biography.com

Lives, the Biography Resource

Mesopotamia Online

Eternal Egypt

The Sport of Life and Death: the Mesoamerican Ballgame

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade created by Emory University and the National Endowment for the Humanities this is a visually rich and authoritative site that provides information on the slave trade spanning five continents. It includes maps, images, lesson plans and a database of African names. It is a recommended source for both introductory and advanced research.

Gale Encyclopedia of World History : Governments
Provides a broad overview of national governments throughout history, explaining their structures and histories, key players and events, and how governments effect, and are affected by, social change.

In the Middle

The History Blog

BBC British History: the Tudors

Arthurian Resources:Early Arthurian Tradition & the Origins of the Legend

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: Lincoln Net

Documenting the American South

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History

The American Civil War Homepage

AmericanPresident.org

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

American Presidents: Life Portraits

American Women’s History: A Research Guide

Best of History Web Sites

Digital History

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 – Present

The Valley of the Shadow The Valley Project is a product of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia Library. “The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Here you may explore thousands of original documents that allow you to see what life was like during the Civil War for the men and women of Augusta and Franklin.” (excerpted from the Valley Project site) The collection encompasses materials from the Fall of 1859 through the Fall of 1870.

The Donner Party

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

The Korean War Medals website