Resources
Listed below are Web sites that students may find interesting and useful for research. These sites provide pictures, maps, primary sources, and scholarship of relevance to students of history. In addition, students are encouraged to access the many online databases available from Sweet Briar's library Web site (http://www.cochran.sbc.edu/). Note: Web sites are in roughly chronological order.
"ABZU, A Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web" http://www.etana.org/abzu
"Virtual Museum of Nautical Archaeology" http://ina.tamu.edu/vm.htm
"Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean" http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/
"Internet Ancient History Sourcebook" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.html
"Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World"---excellent site for information, primary sources, and links on women in ancient Greece. http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
"Exploring Ancient World Cultures" http://eawc.evansville.edu/nepage.htm ---for the Near East and http://eawc.evansville.edu/egpage.htm ---for Egypt
"Persepolis and Ancient Iran: Catalog of Exhibition Photographs" http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/PAAI/PAAI.html
"The Perseus Digital Library"--- a fascinating site with many images and helpful explanations. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
"Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy" http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home
"Athens, Parthenon" http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/architindex?lookup=Athens,+Parthenon
"Web Gallery of Art" ---a good source for Hellenistic art. http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/welcome.html
"Alexander the Great on the Web" http://isidore-of-seville.com/Alexanderama.html
"A Roman History Timeline to Constantine" http://www.vroma.org/~jruebel/timeline/
"Augustus: Images of Power" http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/morford/augimage.html
"The Saint Pachomius Library"--early Christian literature http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html
"ByzNet Byzantine Studies on the Net" http://thoughtline.com/byznet
"Internet Medieval History Sourcebook" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
"Monasticon" ---information on female religious communities, biographies, bibliography, and an image archive http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/monasticon/
"Internet Women's History Sourcebook"---articles on female religious communities in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the section "Religious Women: Monasticism" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
"A Visual Tour of Late Antiquity"---Frankish grave goods http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/4505/show.htm
"De Imperatoribus Romanis" http://www.roman-emperors.org/dora.htm---James Allan Evans' biography of Theodora; http://www.roman-emperors.org/justinia.htm---his biography of Justinian
"Medieval Celtic Fringe---Guide to Online Resources" http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/early/origins/rom_celt/celtic.html
"Internet Jewish History Sourcebook" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
"Byzantine Studies on the Internet"---a useful site for texts in translations, bibliographies and so forth. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/
"Early Islam" http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/ispage.htm
"The Internet Islamic History Sourcebook" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html
"Web Resources for the Study of Islam" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/Resources/
"Byzantine and Medieval Links Index" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/
"Military Affairs in Late Antiquity" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/wola.militarybibliography.html
"Internet Women's History Sourcebook" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
"Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index" http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
"The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies" http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
"NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources" http://www.netserf.org
"Art History Resources on the Web"---see the "Gothic" section; see also "NIXNET" http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html#Gothic
"Digital Dante Project" http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu
"The Galileo Project"---a very useful collection of sources for a study of Galileo http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo
"Isaac Newton Resources" ---a large, well-organized site on Newton http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newton.html
"Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"---provides an enormous amount of raw data. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata
"Images of The French Revolution"---home page for Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, a CD-ROM with web site support. http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution
"Napoleon Foundation"---interesting and useful material on the great Napoleon http://www.napoleon.org
"Napoleon Bonaparte: Internet Guide"--a gateway to many, many sites on Napoleon http://www.napoleonbonaparte.nl/
"Romantic Chronology"---a beautifully constructed and very useful site http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono
"Gallica: Images and Texts from Nineteenth-Century French-Speaking Culture"---text in French; a fabulous assortment of images http://gallica.bnf.fr
"Russian Studies"---a comprehensive and extremely useful site; valuable resource for any of the chapters covered in this list http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/Russian
"The Victorian Web" http://www.victorianweb.org/
"African Studies Center"---although focused on contemporary events, there are some resources having to do with the colonial period http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
"Avalon Project at Yale Law School"---one of the major resources available for diplomatic history http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm For 19th century material listed alphabetically, use this url: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm
"World War I Document Archive"---a very useful site; part of a larger site http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
"EuroDocs: Primary History Documents from Western Europe" http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
"South Asia and Gandhi"---this leads to the South Asia Resource Access on the Internet http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai
"United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"---many online resources are available here http://www.ushmm.org
"Cold War International History Project"---cutting edge scholarship http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home
"National Security Archive"---not a government agency despite its title, but rather an independent organization dedicated to making available a wealth of documentary material on the Cold War http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
"The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University"---a very useful resource for work on Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
"North Atlantic Treaty Organization"---basic site for NATO http://www.nato.int
"Europa"---official site for the European Union http://europa.eu.int See also "European Union Internet Resources" http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/gov_eu.html
"A Brief History of the Internet"---at times a little technical, it is nonetheless a good overview and parts are written by the people who made the history http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/#Origins

 

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