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Luminarium
Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century. Primary and secondary sources on a number of subjects.

Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
From the middle ages to the present day.  English and Russian text available

Brigham Young University
Primary historical documents from Europe

Discoverer's Web
Links to sites about voyages of discovery and exploration. Biographies, timelines. Includes all continents.

Best of History Web Sites
An award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History

Multonomah County Library
Extensive links in many history subject areas

Russian and Eastern European History
Extensive history portal, also includes information on contemporary Eastern Europe.

Ancient and Classical

Perseus Project
Comprehensive list of sites for classical and Mediterranean studies. Primary and secondary sources, maps, and art catalogs.

ABZU
Links to information on on the ancient Near East such as archeaological digs, electronic journals, and museum exhibits

Duke Papyrus Archives
Texts and images of payri from ancient Egypt as well as full-text articles. 

Ancient Egypt
From the British Museum.  Egyptian life, geography, gods & goddesses, mummification, pharaoh,  pyramids, temples, time, trades, and writing

Eternal Egypt
A lavish multimedia site from the Egyptian Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage. Coverage is from ancient times to today.

The University of Evansville
Information on ancient Europe and the Eastern World

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Full-text primary and secondary sources.

Middle Ages and Medieval

Aberdeen Bestiary Project
The Aberdeen Bestiary, a manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200, contains notes, sketches and other evidence of the  way it was designed and executed.  Translation and transcript of original Latin.

Labyrinth
Links to Anglo-Saxon, Byzantium, Celtic, Scandanavian cultures; women; heraldy; Arthurian studies.

Netserf
Medieval Resources. Links to information on archaeology, architecture, art, culture, history, drama, music, law, literature, people, religion and philosophy, science and technology.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Full-text primary and secondary sources.

On-line Medieval and Classical Library
Collection of literary works from the Classical and Medieval Civilizations.

On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars.

Renaissance

The Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Scholarly articles, governmental records and images documenting various epidemic diseases in western Europe between 1348 and 1530. 

Early Modern Literary Studies
Table of contents has entries for literature, history, science, music, religion and philosophy. Links to other sites, on-line journals, museums.

The Italian Renaissance
Primary and secondary electronic texts from Hanover College

Timeline of the Renaissance
Good graphical representation

Renaissance-What inspired this age of balance and order?
Good summary of events from a site for K-12 teachers

Renaissance Secrets
Text and graphics from three BBC/Open University documentaries. Click on the "script" button at the top for the text of the presentations.

Reformation

Crawford Reformation Guide
Links to information on European and American Reformation periods.

Reformation Europe
Information on Protestant & Catholic reformation, including conflicts and effects on women.

18th and 19th Centuries

Eighteenth Century Resources
Links to sites on British, American, Canadian, European history.

Victorian Web
Religion, philosophy, literature, more. Links to related sites.

Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th and 18th Century Europe
Online exhibit from New York Public Library

18th Century Chronology
Rutgers University

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Full-text primary and secondary sources.

Latin America

Aztec Calendar
Explains the 260-day calendar and the 365-day secular calendar. 

Maya Civilization
Useful encyclopedia article on Myan history and civilization with links to many other Mayan websites.

GB's Online
Information on Pre-columbian Mesoamerica.

University of Minnesota's Department of Anthropology
Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

H-LatAm
Links to sites on Latin American studies.

LANIC
Latin American Network Information Center from the University of Texas-a gateway site with many linked sites in Spanish.

Colonial Latin America
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Asia

China the Beautiful
Information on Chinese art, history, literature, philosophy.

H-Asia
Links to a small collection of online Asian studies journals.

Korean History Project
Korean history through an interactive multimedia journey to East Asia. Explore
China, Japan, Russia, Mongolia and Korea.

Hidden Korea
Companion site to the PBS documentary

AsianInfo.org
Information on 15 asian countries including country profiles, culture and history

Japan - A Country Study
Extensive site from the Library of Congress

JGuide
Stanford University guide to Japan information resources.

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
An extensive set of collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, maps, and articles maintained by a history professor at University of North Florida.


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Red Wassenich: redwass@austincc.edu
Page revised: Jan. 14, 2008
Links checked: Dec. 2007