History Resources
Oberlin College History Department
Using Primary Sources on the Web
Research Databases
- History
Databases provided by Oberlin and OhioLINK
Other useful databases: - ABSEES Online
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Periodical Index Online
- Periodicals Archive Online
Periodicals
- Early American Review
- Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1833) (1848-1854 ) (1854-1882)
- HarpWeek Complete text and images from issues of Harper's Weekly published during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras (1857-1871), with complete indexing
World History
- Avalon Project - Yale University Law School
- BUBL History Page
- The History Net: Where History Lives on the Web
- The World-Wide Web Library of Demography & Population Studies
- The World-Wide Web Library of History
- Yahoo's History Page
Aboriginal Studies
U. S. History
- American Historical Association
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Links to the Past: National Park Service Cultural Resources
- Making of America digital project
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 a digital collection from Harvard's libraries and archives concentrating on the 19th century era. contains photographs, books, pamphlets, and maps. Also includes quantitative data.
- Archiving Early America
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
- Index to Early American Periodicals
- Selected Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress
- United States Census Data since for 1850
- The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
- Documenting the American South
General
Early America
The Civil War
The 1960s
European History
- Labyrinth: Georgetown University's WWW Server for Medieval Studies
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Latin American History
Local History
- Documenting the American South: the Academic Affairs Library's digitized and encoded full-text collection of works on Southern history and culture
- Electronic Group on Oberlin
- Kansas History Archive (telnet protocol: use login "history")
- The Library of Virginia Digital Library Projects