Whether you want to dive deeper into the topics covered in a history course or are beginning the research process for a paper, this list of resources will help lead you in the right direction!
American History
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States - University of Richmond
Chronicling America
Digital Public Library of America
Lewis & Clark Digital Collections
Lincoln at 200
Making Modern America: Discovering the Great Depression and New Deal
National Archives Catalog
New York Times Historical
Spatial History - Stanford University
Passenger Search - Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Traces of Mind Control from Cold War America
Chronicling America
Digital Public Library of America
Lewis & Clark Digital Collections
Lincoln at 200
Making Modern America: Discovering the Great Depression and New Deal
National Archives Catalog
New York Times Historical
Spatial History - Stanford University
Passenger Search - Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Traces of Mind Control from Cold War America
Black American History
Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Black Past: Remembered & Reclaimed
Colored Conventions: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life
Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930
Documenting Ferguson
Educating Harlem
Georgetown Slavery Archive
Goin' North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum
King's 1963 StoryMap following Martin Luther King Jr.
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of America - Documenting the American South
Narrative of Mary Reynolds - National Humanities Center
A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland
Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town
Queens College Civil Rights Archive
Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination
The Sojourner Truth Project
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790-1860 - Lincoln Mullen
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Voices from the Days of Slavery - Library of Congress
Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Visualizing Emancipation
Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Black Past: Remembered & Reclaimed
Colored Conventions: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life
Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930
Documenting Ferguson
Educating Harlem
Georgetown Slavery Archive
Goin' North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum
King's 1963 StoryMap following Martin Luther King Jr.
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
Lynching in America - Equal Justice Initiative
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of America - Documenting the American South
Narrative of Mary Reynolds - National Humanities Center
A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland
Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town
Queens College Civil Rights Archive
Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination
The Sojourner Truth Project
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790-1860 - Lincoln Mullen
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Voices from the Days of Slavery - Library of Congress
Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Visualizing Emancipation
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
National Archives: Indians/Native Americans
National Museum of the American Indian
Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Our Mother Tongues
Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
National Archives: Indians/Native Americans
National Museum of the American Indian
Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Our Mother Tongues
Colonial America
Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763 - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Great Awakening: Spiritual Revival in Colonial America
Historic Jamestown
The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865 - American Antiquarian Society
Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763 - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Great Awakening: Spiritual Revival in Colonial America
Historic Jamestown
The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865 - American Antiquarian Society
U.S. Women's History
The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education
Apron String and Kitchen Sinks: The USDA Bureau of Home Economics
Confronting Violence: Improving Women's Lives - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Discovering American Women's History Online
Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal
Herstories: Audio/Visual Collections - Lesbian Herstory Archives
Illuminating Reno's Divorce Industry
Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print - American Antiquarian Society
National Women's History Museum
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project - Smith College Libraries
Women's Travel Diaries - Duke University Libraries
Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture - Duke University Libraries
The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education
Apron String and Kitchen Sinks: The USDA Bureau of Home Economics
Confronting Violence: Improving Women's Lives - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Discovering American Women's History Online
Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal
Herstories: Audio/Visual Collections - Lesbian Herstory Archives
Illuminating Reno's Divorce Industry
Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print - American Antiquarian Society
National Women's History Museum
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project - Smith College Libraries
Women's Travel Diaries - Duke University Libraries
Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture - Duke University Libraries
Nature's Place in U.S. History
Audubon's Birds of America - American Antiquarian Society
Enchanting the Desert
Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College Since 1965
Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day: The Making of the Modern Environmental Movement
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving and Collecting the Stories of Katrina and Rita
Learning to do Historical Research: A Primer for Environmental Historians and Others - William Cronon
Macaulay Library - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
National Park Service History eLibrary
Science Meets Art
Audubon's Birds of America - American Antiquarian Society
Enchanting the Desert
Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College Since 1965
Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day: The Making of the Modern Environmental Movement
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving and Collecting the Stories of Katrina and Rita
Learning to do Historical Research: A Primer for Environmental Historians and Others - William Cronon
Macaulay Library - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
National Park Service History eLibrary
Science Meets Art
U. S. Foreign Policy
The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
The Miller Center: The Presidency
The National Security Archive
Presidential Recordings Digital Editions
The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
The Miller Center: The Presidency
The National Security Archive
Presidential Recordings Digital Editions
The Midwest: Local, State, and Regional Histories
Digital Horizons
Frontier to Heartland: Making History in Central North America
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. Flandrau
Minnesota Digital Library
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub - Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota History Magazine
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota Population Center
Digital Horizons
Frontier to Heartland: Making History in Central North America
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. Flandrau
Minnesota Digital Library
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub - Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota History Magazine
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota Population Center
Doing Digital History
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web - Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig
Educational Podcasts: A Genre Analysis - C. Drew
Guidelines for Digital History Reviews - Organization of American Historians
How did they make that? - Miriam Posner
The Roaring Twenties
Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text - Ted Underwood
Sonic Dictionary
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web - Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig
Educational Podcasts: A Genre Analysis - C. Drew
Guidelines for Digital History Reviews - Organization of American Historians
How did they make that? - Miriam Posner
The Roaring Twenties
Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text - Ted Underwood
Sonic Dictionary
European History
Kindred Britain - Stanford University Libraries
Greece & the Ancient Near East
ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East
Apsida Digital Collections - Cyprus University
Classicizing Philadelphia - Bryn Mawr College
Digital Magnesia: A 3D Model of an Ancient Greek City - Marie Saldana
Perseus Digital Library
ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East
Apsida Digital Collections - Cyprus University
Classicizing Philadelphia - Bryn Mawr College
Digital Magnesia: A 3D Model of an Ancient Greek City - Marie Saldana
Perseus Digital Library
Rome & the Medieval Transition
Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome
Classical and Medieval History - Library of Conference Reading Room
The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations - Harvard University
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome - Fordham University
Living Late Antiquity
Medieval Object Lessons - Harvard Digital Library of the Middle Ages
OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Worlds of Roman Women
Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome
Classical and Medieval History - Library of Conference Reading Room
The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations - Harvard University
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome - Fordham University
Living Late Antiquity
Medieval Object Lessons - Harvard Digital Library of the Middle Ages
OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Worlds of Roman Women
Renaissance & Reformation History
Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) - Harvard University
Reformation History: Timeline and Maps of Luther's Day
Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) - Harvard University
Reformation History: Timeline and Maps of Luther's Day
Imperial Russia
Alexander Palace Time Machine: The Home of the Last Tsar - Romanov and Russian History
Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden
Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia Online Exhibition - Hermitage Museum
Osmikon German and international library catalogs
Reading Europe: Russia
Russian Rulers History Podcast
St. Petersburg 1900: A Photographic Travelogue of the Capital of Imperialist Russia
Alexander Palace Time Machine: The Home of the Last Tsar - Romanov and Russian History
Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden
Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia Online Exhibition - Hermitage Museum
Osmikon German and international library catalogs
Reading Europe: Russia
Russian Rulers History Podcast
St. Petersburg 1900: A Photographic Travelogue of the Capital of Imperialist Russia
20th Century Russia
ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia
The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies
E-Journals Eastern Europe
The Face of Russia - PBS
International Journal of Russian Studies
Revelations from the Russian Archives (July 1992)
Russian Book Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Russian Electronic Journal published in the Russian language
Russian Painting of the 20th Century
Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda Collection - Saint Louis University
ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia
The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies
E-Journals Eastern Europe
The Face of Russia - PBS
International Journal of Russian Studies
Revelations from the Russian Archives (July 1992)
Russian Book Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Russian Electronic Journal published in the Russian language
Russian Painting of the 20th Century
Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda Collection - Saint Louis University
Hitler's Germany
Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial - Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Nuremberg Trials Project - Harvard Law School Library
Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial - Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Nuremberg Trials Project - Harvard Law School Library
Holocaust & Memory
Holocaust Encyclopedia
Holocaust Shoe Project
Stitching History from the Holocaust
Voices of the Holocaust
Holocaust Encyclopedia
Holocaust Shoe Project
Stitching History from the Holocaust
Voices of the Holocaust
Reel Norden: Scandinavian History and Film
Danish Film Makers
Nordisk Film
A Shoebox of Norwegian Letters
Swedish Film
Danish Film Makers
Nordisk Film
A Shoebox of Norwegian Letters
Swedish Film
Latin American History
Acervo Cultura Campinas
Arquivo Historico Digital de Sao Roque
Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano
Brazilian Government Documents
Dialnet 1100 open access e-journals, primarily written and published in the Spanish language
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
Envio
e-Revistas
Frida Kahlo Foundation
Handbook of Latin American Studies - Library of Congress
ICARUS Films: Latin American Studies
IPUMUS International
Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
MOxLAD
Movimientos Armados en Mexico
NACLA Reports on the Americas
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Maps of the Americas
Political Database of the Americas
Redalyc
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America
World Digital Library: Latin America and the Caribbean
Arquivo Historico Digital de Sao Roque
Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano
Brazilian Government Documents
Dialnet 1100 open access e-journals, primarily written and published in the Spanish language
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
Envio
e-Revistas
Frida Kahlo Foundation
Handbook of Latin American Studies - Library of Congress
ICARUS Films: Latin American Studies
IPUMUS International
Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
MOxLAD
Movimientos Armados en Mexico
NACLA Reports on the Americas
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Maps of the Americas
Political Database of the Americas
Redalyc
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America
World Digital Library: Latin America and the Caribbean
Middle-Eastern History
Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Balfour Declaration
British White Paper of 1939 - Yale Law School Avalon Project
Consortium for Middle East Studies - Duke University & University of North Carolina
International Crisis Group: Israel/Palestine
Israeli Counter-Terrorism: West Bank Security Fence - Jewish Virtual Library
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Interactive Database - Economic Cooperation Foundation
Just Vision
Letters Between Hussein Ibn Ali and Sir Henry Mcmahon
The Middle East 1916-2001: A Documentary Record - Yale Law School Avalon Project
Middle East Institute
Middle East Media Research Institute
Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME)
The Politics of Water: Water and Conflict in the Middle East - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Sources for Historical Photographs of the Middle East - Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading Room
Sykes-Picot Agreement
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, 29 Nov 1949 - Yale Law School Avalon Project
U.N. Security Council: The Meaning of Resolution 242 - Jewish Virtual Library
The Balfour Declaration
British White Paper of 1939 - Yale Law School Avalon Project
Consortium for Middle East Studies - Duke University & University of North Carolina
International Crisis Group: Israel/Palestine
Israeli Counter-Terrorism: West Bank Security Fence - Jewish Virtual Library
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Interactive Database - Economic Cooperation Foundation
Just Vision
Letters Between Hussein Ibn Ali and Sir Henry Mcmahon
The Middle East 1916-2001: A Documentary Record - Yale Law School Avalon Project
Middle East Institute
Middle East Media Research Institute
Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME)
The Politics of Water: Water and Conflict in the Middle East - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Sources for Historical Photographs of the Middle East - Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading Room
Sykes-Picot Agreement
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, 29 Nov 1949 - Yale Law School Avalon Project
U.N. Security Council: The Meaning of Resolution 242 - Jewish Virtual Library
Islam & the West: Historical Encounters
Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia, and the Middle East
Identities: Exploring Islam in a Cross-Cultural Context
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook - Fordham University
Our Shared Past in the Mediterranean
ReOrienting the Veil - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Sources for Historical Photographs of the Middle East: Holdings at Selected Repositories
Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia, and the Middle East
Identities: Exploring Islam in a Cross-Cultural Context
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook - Fordham University
Our Shared Past in the Mediterranean
ReOrienting the Veil - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Sources for Historical Photographs of the Middle East: Holdings at Selected Repositories
African History
AfricaMap - Center for Geographical Analysis at Harvard
General History of Africa - UNESCO
Scanned Maps of Africa - Michigan State University
General History of Africa - UNESCO
Scanned Maps of Africa - Michigan State University
The Rise of Modern Africa
Harambee City
A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa - Aluka & JSTOR
Harambee City
A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa - Aluka & JSTOR
Asian History
Foundations of East Asian Civilizations
Ancient Japanese & Chinese Relations
Ancient Japanese & Chinese Relations
Women & Development: The Asian Experience
Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) E-Lib
Women in Southeast Asia - Center for Global Education
Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) E-Lib
Women in Southeast Asia - Center for Global Education
Modern Japan
Birth of the Constitution of Japan - National Diet Library
e-Museum - National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties of National Museums, Japan
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records - National Archives of Japan
Japan Maps - Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Pacific War Karuta Collection
ReEnvisioning Japan: Japan as destination in 20th century visual and material culture
Birth of the Constitution of Japan - National Diet Library
e-Museum - National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties of National Museums, Japan
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records - National Archives of Japan
Japan Maps - Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Pacific War Karuta Collection
ReEnvisioning Japan: Japan as destination in 20th century visual and material culture