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* Lynn M. Laufenberg,
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* llaufenberg@sbc.edu

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Department of History
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595


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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.

Recommended Web Sites

“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://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age

“Ancient Art of the Aegean: Crete and the Cycladic Islands”
http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/crete.html

“Mycenaen (Achaean) Civilization (1500-1000 BC)”
http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/mycenae.html

“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"”
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/ —excellent site for information, primary sources, and links on women in ancient Greece

“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 Ancient Olympics”
http://olympics.tufts.edu

“Olympia”
http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/olympia.html

“The Perseus Digital Library”
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu— a fascinating site with many images and helpful explanations

“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”
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/welcome.html—a good source for Hellenistic art

“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/

“The Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors”
http://salve5.salve.edu/~romanemp/impindex.htm

“Augustus: Images of Power”
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/morford/augimage.html

“The Saint Pachomius Library” [early Christian literature]
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/Welcome.html

“ByzNet Byzantine Studies on the Net”
http://thoughtline.com/byznet

“Internet Medieval History Sourcebook”
http://http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

“Monasticon”
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/monasticon/—information on female religious communities, biographies, bibliography, and an image archive

“Other Women’s Voices”
http://home.infi.net/%7Eddisse/index.html—texts, textual commentaries and bibliographies for Perpetua and Egeria

“Internet Women’s History Sourcebook”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html—articles on female religious communities in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the section “Religious Women: Monasticism”

“A Visual Tour of Late Antiquity”
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/4505/show.htm—Frankish grave goods

“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”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/—a useful site for texts in translations, bibliographies and so forth

“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”
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html#Gothic—see the “Gothic” section; see also “NIXNET”

“Digital Dante Project”
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu

“The Galileo Project”
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo—a very useful collection of sources for a study of Galileo

“Isaac Newton Resources”
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newton.html—a large, well-organized site on Newton

“Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata—provides an enormous amount of raw data

“Images of The French Revolution”
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution—home page for Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, a CD-ROM with web site support

“Napoleon Foundation”
http://www.napoleon.org—interesting and useful material on the great Napoleon

“Napoleon Bonaparte: Internet Guide”
http://www.napoleonbonaparte.nl/—a gateway to many, many sites on Napoleon

“Romantic Chronology”
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono—a beautifully constructed and very useful site

“The Dickens Project”
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html—a useful site with links to many other related sites

“Gallica: Images and Texts from Nineteenth-Century French-Speaking Culture”
http://gallica.bnf.fr—text in French; a fabulous assortment of images

“Russian Studies”
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/Russian—a comprehensive and extremely useful site; valuable resource for any of the chapters covered in this list

“The Victorian Web”
http://www.victorianweb.org/—another excellent site

“African Studies Center”
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html—although focused on contemporary events, there are some resources having to do with the colonial period

“Avalon Project at Yale Law School”
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm—one of the major resources available for diplomatic history; for 19th century material listed alphabetically, use this url: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm

“Japanese History
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan/index.html —an interesting but quirky web site

“World War I Document Archive”
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi—a very useful site; part of a larger site, “EuroDocs: Primary History Documents from Western Europe”at http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

“South Asia and Gandhi”
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai—this leads to the “South Asia Resource Access on the Internet” —you can search for Mohandas Gandhi, but probably the best bet is to proceed directly to “Morningside Mix: A South Asia Bookmark Collection” by Frances Pritchett at http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/mgsdemix.html and scroll down to the 1900s —a truly amazing collection of sources

“United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”
http://www.ushmm.org—many online resources are available here

“Cold War International History Project”
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home—cutting edge scholarship

“National Security Archive”
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/—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

“The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University”
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King—a very useful resource for work on Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Green Parties world wide”
http://www.greens.org—information on green movements around the world

“North Atlantic Treaty Organization”
http://www.nato.int—basic site for NATO

“Europa”
http://europa.eu.int—official site for the European Union; see also “European Union Internet Resources” http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/gov_eu.html

“A Brief History of the Internet”
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/#Origins—at times a little technical, it is nonetheless a good overview and parts are written by the people who made the history