Free History Resources
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The 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.
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The British Library invites you to explore thousands of high resolution collection items, current academic research, films and animations, and teaching resources. The site provides unparalleled digital access to the British Library, inspiring and enhancing understanding of our collections for teaching and learning.
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The entire British Museum database can be searched here and new records and images are added every week. There are currently 2,309,469 records available, which represent more than 3,500,000 objects. 985,874 records have one or more images.
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The Cambridge Digital Library is a collection of digitized material and research resources from the University of Cambridge.
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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
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Human rights collections at Duke range from the papers of individuals (e.g. Peter Storey papers) to the records of organizations (e.g. The Center for Death Penalty Litigation records). They include local North Carolina based groups as well as organizations operating on a transnational and international scale. To ensure access to material, collections receive a catalog entry immediately upon accessioning. Digital finding aids are produced after processing and are accessible on-line through the Duke Libraries catalog. Researchers can find additional related material by navigating via subject headings in the collection's catalog entry as well as those included in the finding aid.
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European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. It is also part of the WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue that is hosted at the EUI. The purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe.
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The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Collections include Ancient History, Medieval Studies, and Modern History.
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The Gilder Lehrman Collection is a unique archive of primary sources in American history. Owned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and located at the New-York Historical Society, the Collection includes more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera that document the political, social, and economic history of the United States. An extensive resource for educators, students, and scholars, the Collection ranges from 1493 through the twentieth century and is widely considered one of the nation’s great archives in the Revolutionary, early national, antebellum, and Civil War periods.
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Google Books is a service that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text, and stored in a digital database. Be sure to use the search filters -- especially "Free Google eBooks" and the document type and time period filters -- to search for documents that are accessible and relevant to your need.
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Collections Search is the primary method for searching and discovering the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Our goal is to provide comprehensive, effective, and convenient access to our collection catalogs. Collections Search currently includes 260,065 records.
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Launched in 2015, the site synthesizes the award-winning quarterly magazine Louisiana Cultural Vistas with KnowLA.org, a robust, scholar-driven digital encyclopedia, to present the stories, artistry and cultural heritage of Louisiana in dynamic, accessible ways.
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Sponsored by Georgetown University. The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to resources in medieval studies. The Labyrinth’s easy-to-use links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images around the world.
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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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The Miller Center provides a great collection of active, live links to digital primary sources on World War II including war posters, Japanese internment, the bombing of Hiroshima, letters to and from the front lines.
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Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept forever. Those valuable records are preserved in the National Archives and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family's history, need to prove a veteran's military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.
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National History Day is a year-long academic program focused on historical research, interpretation and creative expression for 6th- to 12th-grade students. By participating in NHD, students become writers, filmmakers, web designers, playwrights and artists as they create unique contemporary expressions of history. The experience culminates in a series of contests at the local and affiliate levels and an annual national competition in the nation's capitol in June.
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The National WWII Museum has collected these Primary Sources to supplement teaching WWII to your classes. Organized by subject, these galleries include photographs, documents, and other materials you can print out and use to enhance your WWII lessons.
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OldMapsOnline developed out of a love of history and heritage of old maps. The project began as a collaboration between Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland and The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at the University of Portsmouth, UK thanks to funding from JISC. Since January 2013 is the project improved and maintained by volunteers and the team of Klokan Technologies GmbH in their free time. OldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400.000 maps. This is only thanks to the archives and libraries that were open to the idea and provided their online content.
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Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool, umbrasearch.org; digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections; and support of students, educators, artists, and the public through residencies, workshops, and events locally and around the country. Umbrasearch.org brings together more than 500,000 digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.
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UK National Archives is focused on helping students of history understand World War II. Primary sources can be found by selecting individual theaters from World War II.
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The Wilson Center Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy. It collects the research of three Wilson Center projects which focus on the interrelated histories of the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation.
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