History Resources

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GMU History Resourses Ancient History Medieval History
Modern History African/African American History American History
Asian History European History Latin American History
Middle Eastern History Historical Associations Online Books


GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY HISTORY RESOURCES


 
  • Center for History and New Media (CHNM): A collaboration between GMU, the American Social History Project, and the Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York, this center brings historical information together with new media technology.
  • History of George Mason University: Documentary history that makes it possible for readers and researchers to gain a first-hand understanding of an historic time, place, person, event, and institution through its relevant contemporary documents.
  • Special Collections & Archives (SC&A): Preserves and makes available to all students, faculty, and researchers many kinds of original and scholarly materials. Subject areas in SC&A include Northern Virginiana, Planned Community Archives, Congressional Papers, Performing Arts, Maps, the Civil War, and George Mason University.

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ANCIENT HISTORY


  • Diotima is an interdisciplinary resource for researchers interested in gender studies focused geographically around the ancient Mediterranean. The site also acts as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. The site includes course materials, a searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images.
  • Perseus Digital Library: maintained by Tufts University contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps.

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MEDIEVAL HISTORY

  • Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet is designed to be a gathering point for studies on this topic.
  • EuroDocs: History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents.
  • Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies.
  • NetSERF: Webpage serves as an internet connection for Medieval sites.
  • ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.

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MODERN HISTORY

  • EuroDocs Some European primary documents of the Renaissance.
  • Postcolonial Web: A project funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. This site provides information and interpretations on Postcolonialism Studies.
  • Victorian Web: Originally developed at Brown University this site contains information on various aspects of Victorian England.

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AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

  • Africa South of the Sahara: Selected internet sources. This site contains a wide selection of information on sub-Saharan Africa researchers may browse by country or topic as well as searching the entire site.
  • American Memory: Library of Congress site providing free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
  • Country Studies: Series presenting descriptions and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

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AMERICAN HISTORY

  • GeoStat Center: Housed by the University of Virginia Library this site provides historical census statistics from 1790-1960.
  • Internet Public Library – United States History: (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.
  • National Archive: National Archives and Records Administration preserves the records of our Government, ensuring that the people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage.
  • Native American Studies: Provides access to home pages of Native American Nations, organizations and other sites that provide solid information about American Indians.

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ASIAN HISTORY

  • Asian Reading Room (Library of Congress): The Asian Reading Room is the primary public access point for researchers seeking to use the Asian collections of the Library of Congress in the many languages of Asia.
  • Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR): Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences this portal is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's “Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access” program.
  • Silk Road Seattle: Ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century.

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EUROPEAN HISTORY

  • Avalon Project: Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
  • EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History: Links to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. These open access sources are readily available to all -- without fees or subscriptions.
  • European Library This website searchs through the resources of 30 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.).

    Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is constantly increasing. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47 collaborating national libraries of Europe.
  • Western European Studies: Western European Studies Section (WESS) is a section within the Association of College and Research Libraries, which is itself a division of the American Library Association. WESS is professionally involved in the acquisition, organization, and use of information sources originating in or related to Western European countries. Our aim is to promote the improvement of library services supporting study and research in Western European affairs from ancient times to the present.
  • WWW-VL HISTORY CENTRAL CATALOGUE: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library's History Index began operations in March of 1993. The Central Catalogue provides direct links to network sites aimed to supplement historical research with online resources.

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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY


  • Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales: Una institución internacional no-gubernamental, con relaciones formales de consulta con la UNESCO, creada en 1967 y que hoy agrupa a más de ciento sesenta centros de investigación y programas de posgrado en ciencias sociales de 21 países de América Latina y el Caribe. (CLACSO is a non-governmental institution founded in 1967. The organization is now comprised of 160 centers in 21 countries in Latin American and the Caribbean.)
  • Digital Librarian: Latin American Resources: a listing of reliable websites compiled by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.
  • Latin American Network Information Center: LANIC is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region.
  • Library of Congress: HLAS Online: The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
  • Political Database of the Americas: A non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University in collaboration with institutions like the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the Organization of American States and FLACSO-Chile, and also with the support of other organizations and entities in the region.

    Through its website, the PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region.

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MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

  • Arab Social Science Research: ASSR is the network engine of the Arab Institute for Studies and Communication (AISC). Founded in 1998, by a group of senior Arab social scientists, AISC is dedicated to develop research organizations and assist researchers in the Arab world and beyond. This web site of ASSR provides a platform for the AISC's centers and pools resources designed to facilitate social science research in the region. Its virtual library serves as a gateway for Arab social scientists and for others studying the Arab world.
  • Internet Public Library: Middle Eastern History: IPL is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan, School of Information, and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.
  • Islam and Islamic Studies Resources: Website created and maintained by Dr. Godlas an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia. He is the director of the UGA Virtual Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Islamic World (VCISIW) and is the Co-Director of the UGA-Morocco Maymester program. At UGA he teaches Islamic Studies and Arabic courses (and sometimes Persian and Ottoman Turkish) as well as a survey course on the world's religions.
  • Pars Times: Middle East Resource Guide: This is a non-profit, non-partisan and totally independent website. It's mainly targeted for researches, scholars and investors. It is a gateway to a variety of free resources available on the internet.

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HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • American Historical Association: AHA was founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 to serve the broad field of history. It encompasses every historical period and geographical area and serves professional historians in all areas of employment.
  • Phi Alpha Theta: Professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians.
  • Southern Historical Society: SHA was organized November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in southern history, the collection and preservation of the South's historical records, and the encouragement of state and local historical societies in the South.

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ONLINE BOOKS

  • Books on-line Archive: Some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized.
  • Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

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