This page is intended only as an entry to the wide range of historical material on the World Wide Web and to provide links of local interest. See the first few items for more comprehensive history web guides. If a link no longer works, please inform the webmaster.
Starting Points...
- History News Network, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
- Index of Resources for History, University of Kansas
- WWW Services for Historians, AHC
- Edsitement: The Best of Humanities on the Web, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., National Trust for the Humanities
- H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online (includes discussion lists and job postings)
Resources for writing history
- Now on a separate history writing page.
Sampling of Archival Resources
- American Memory Project, Library of Congress
- Digital Classroom, National Archives and Records Administration
- The Making of America: Primary Sources in American Social History, University of Michigan
- The Making of America (Cornell University contributions) - digitized 19th-century books and magazines
- Online Exhibit Hall, National Archives and Records Administration
- The Perseus Project: Exploring the Ancient World, Classics Department, Tufts University
- United States Federal Court System & Decisions, Guide to Law Online, Library of Congress
Cartographic and Demographic Resources
- Map Libraries on the World Wide Web, University of Minnesota
- U.S. Historical Map Collection, University of Texas
- U.S. Census Data, U.S. Census Bureau
- Online Data Archive: Social Science Research Datasets, Data & Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin - Madison (scroll to “Social Science Datasets”)
Curriculum Development Ideas (syllabi, projects, etc.)
- History Matters: Teaching the U.S. History Survey Course, American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York, Center for History and New Media/George Mason University
Local Historical Organizations
- Historic Deerfield
- Historic Northampton
- Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke
- Old Sturbridge Village
- Hancock Shaker Village
- Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (including digital museum)
- Memorial Hall Museum Online: American Centuries...view from New England
Local Academic Programs and Departments
- Amherst College Department of History
- Hampshire College
- Mount Holyoke College Department of History
- Smith College Department of History
- Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas
- Warring States project, UMass Amherst
- Medieval Studies at UMass
Professional Organizations & Electronic Journals
- American Historical Association
- American Historical Review
- Organization of American Historians
- Journal of American History
- The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Diplomatic History
- JSTOR (Journal storage project) - NOTE: off-campus users need their OITUnix account and password to connect to JSTOR