Digital Commons Network – History

• The BEPress Digital Commons Network is an open source institutional repository which makes the scholarly output of several universities and institutions freely available
• History subject area contains over 15,000 works from 191 institutions
• A tutorial on using the Digital Commons Network can be found here

Digital Public Library of America

• Brings together free resources from America’s archives libraries, archives, and museums
• Striving to contain the full breadth of human expression, this portal currently provides access to over 5,000,000 resources
• Use the bookshelf tab or the search bar to navigate to the search interface or find resources on a particular topic

Directory of Open-Access Journals

• “The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact”
• Thousands of open access journals with full text articles
• Select browse to find journals in a specific subject or use the search bar to find all journals or articles relevant to your search

Google Scholar

• “Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature”
• Search articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites
• Note that not all resources on Google Scholar are free. For free full-text versions of articles, look for items that have a PDF link on the right hand side of the page.

Art of the Ancient Near East

• Description and analysis of art in the ancient Near East by Met curators.

History News Network

• From George Mason University
• Seeks to put current events into historical perspective by presenting news and research from historians or of historical interest

Euratlas – Historical Maps

• Maps of the Middle East, Europe, Rome and the World over the course of history

Internet History Sourcebooks Project

• A particularly useful website from Fordham University’s History Department
• Three major sourcebooks cover Ancient History, Medieval History, and Modern History
• Other sourcebooks cover African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, Lesbian and Gay History, Science History, and Women’s History
• Designed to provide access to primary sources, copy-permitted materials and other teaching materials in history

World History Crash Course Playlist

• In 42 episodes, John Green will begin teaching you the history of the world! This course is based on the 2012 AP World History curriculum, from growing the first crops in the First Agricultural Revolution to global textile production in the 2010s.

World History Matters

• Developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University
• A portal to various web resources pertaining to history created by CHNM
• Includes access to World History Sources resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources

A Chronology of US Historical Documents

• Full text of critical documents in U.S. History

Digital History

• An online interactive textbook created for the University of Houston
• Browse chronologically, by era, or by topic
• Also includes reference materials, primary resources, historical multimedia and other useful material

Library of Congress – Digital Collections

• The go-to source for documents and resources related to American history
• Includes reference resources, cultural documents, maps, photos and more