Web Sites of Interest
Use the links below to access recommended sites from faculty members.
For Cold War research and fun
For US political research
Holocaust
- Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Facing History and Ourselves
- The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
- Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance
- Web Genocide Documentation Center
- Yad Vashem
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Fun historical resources for teaching and research
- The National Archives Experience - Digital Vaults
- Turning the Pages - The British Library
- Martha Ballard's Diary Online
- The Triangle Factory Fire
- Visit Presidential Libraries and Museums
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Smithsonian: Museums
- The National Archives
- Library of Congress
- Newspaper Archive
- Princeton University Library - History Resources
- Princeton University Library - Guides to World Archives and Libraries
- The Valley of the Shadow - Virginia Center for Digital History
- A History Teacher's Bag of Tricks
- Home Economics Archive - Cornell University Library
- Famous Trials - University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School
- Center for History and New Media - George Mason University
- The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
- Historical Newspapers Online
- ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers - Newspaper Digitization
Online map collections
- David Ramsey Historical Map collection
- University of Texas Libraries Historical Maps of the United States
- University of Georgia Hargett Library Rare Map Collection
- Library of Congress Map Reading Room
- Historical Maps of New Jersey
- Digital History
- Immigration History Research Center - University of Minnesota
- Constitutional Rights Foundation
- Holocaust Encyclopedia
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- Jewish Encyclopedia.com
- The Holocaust - Death Marches and Liberation (1944-1945)
- The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy - Yale Law School
Museums
- The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford
- The British Museum, London
- The Brooklyn Museum, New York
- The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- The Iraq Museum, Baghdad
- The Louvre, Paris
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museum of Egyptian Antiquity, Turin
- The Oriental Institute — The University of Chicago
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Museum of the Ancient Near East
- Egyptian Museum
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Other sites of interest
