History Links

Note: This list of links is by no means comprehensive, and it is certainly influenced by my own interests (i.e. the section on the history of Berlin). Use it as a starting point for browsing on historical subjects and writing techniques. I will add more sites as I find them. Let me know if you find anything interesting.

For Grammar and Style links go to "Grammar and Style Sheet"

Maps

Maps of Europe: Political
Links to Historical Maps Web Sites
National Geographic Map Creation Machine

General History Sites

World Biographical Archive (click on the British flag for English)
The BBC Modern World History Page
University of Kansas Index of History Resources on the Web

Research Tools (Indexes)

Historical Abstracts
JStor
Project Muse
Ingenta
Proquest Digital Dissertations

Documents and Primary Sources
NOTE:
Also look under individual subject categories!

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page
The World War I Document Archive
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe

University of Toronto's online Documents and Resources
G-Text Primary Source Archives (German Documents, 1871-1945)
German History Sources (good collection of documents)
Bartleby.com (full text versions of classic literary and historical works)
German Propaganda Archive (Nazi and East German Propaganda)
History of the 19th Century in Political Cartoons
Hanover Historical Texts Project
War Letters (Collection of soldiers letters home. WWII, many translated from German.)
Private and Political Testaments of Adolf Hitler, 4-29-45
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School -- Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (excellent collection of primary source documents)

Specific Documents
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles: Part VIII. Reparation. Section 1. General Provisions. Articles 231-247
The Covenant of the League of Nations
Neville Chamberlain: "Peace in Our Time"
Munich Agreement, 1938
Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941
Testimony of Otto Ohlendorf (Nuremberg, 1-3-46, pp. 315-354)
Operational Situation Reports of the Special Action Units (Einsatzgruppen)
Leaflets of the White Rose Resistance Group (Munich, 1942-43)

Thinkers: Intellectual History, History of Philosophy and Social Theory

The Marx/Engels Internet Archive
Theory.org.uk on Foucault (good introduction to Foucault)
HyperBourdieu© WorldCatalogueHTM
Marxist Writers - primary texts
Max Weber (1864-1920) (primary and secondary sources)
Verstehen: Max Weber's HomePage "A site for undergraduates"
Library of Congress Exhibit on Sigmund Freud

Interwar Culture

Italian Futurism Exhibit
Futurism Web Site (translated manifestos, pictures, etc.)
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, by F.T. Marinetti, Le Figaro (Paris) 20 February 1909
Bauhaus
DADA
Entartete Kunst (Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibition, 1937)
Malevich, Kasimir

CGFA (Index of paintings with many images)
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Gender, Women and Sexuality

Women's History - VIVA (bibliographies, indexes of journals, etc.)
The Emancipation of Women
History of Contraception Museum in Toronto
Theory.org.uk (Good links for gender and sexuality, i.e. Foucault, Judith Butler)
Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality, 1700-1945
Gender Inn (University of Cologne. Many Bibliographies and Links.)
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Women's Studies Database, University of Maryland
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir 1949
Margaret Sanger texts (American birth control crusader)

World War I

The World War I Document Archive
World War I - Trenches on the Web
Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
Photos of the Great War
BBC Site on WWI

World War II

WWII Resources
The History Place: WWII in Europe (Timeline -- basic outlines)
Memories of the Battle of Britain
A German Field Marshal Instructs the Wehrmacht on Its Role in the Soviet Union
The Memoirs of Daniil Zlatkin on the Russo-German Conflict in 1941
Otto Willnauer's photo diary of the Russian Campaign 1941-1945
Time Line: Interwar Europe; The Approach of World War II
Stalingrad - Volgograd 1943-2003 (1) Introduction, W. Benz, Germany; 2) Selected Online-Resources on the "Battle of Stalingrad"; 3) Selected Articles of print/online media; 4) Bibliography

The Official Lili Marleen Page (site with various of versions and information about WWII's most famous song)
WWII Propaganda Posters (Stanford University)
Winston Churchill: "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" (House of Commons, 6-4-40)
Extract from the Commissar's Order for Operation Barbarossa (6-6-41)
Three-Power Pact Between Germany, Italy, and Japan, Signed at Berlin, September 27, 1940
Munich Pact September 29, 1938
Anti-Comintern Pact (German-Japanese Agreement and Supplementary Protocol, Signed at Berlin, November 25, 1936)
Germany's Invasion of Poland (Hitler's Proclamations and communication with Britain)
Notes on the Polish Campaign and the War with Finland in 1939-1940 (Written by their participant, a Soviet Army officer, M. I. Lukinov)
Franco-German Armistice: June 25, 1940 (Armistace Agreement between the German High Command of the Armed Forces and French Plenipotentiaries, Compiègne, June 22, 1940)

The Third Reich, Nazism and the Holocaust

General Sites on the Third Reich and Nazism
The Third Reich Factbook
Leaflets of the White Rose Resistance Group (Munich, 1942-43)
Horst Wessel Song (text with links to Real Audio file)

Radio Clips from Third Reich (at Shoa.de -- see below)
Adolf Hitler's First Antisemitic Writing, September 16, 1919
The 25 Points 1920: An Early Nazi Program
Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party

Propaganda
German Propaganda Archive (Guide Page)
Nazi Propoganda (Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center)
Das NS-Regime
(German Historical Museum Berlin. German site, but contains excellent collection of Nazi Propaganda Posters even for those who don't read German and a good collection of primary sources for those who do)
Poster Collection (German Historical Museum, Berlin)
Nazi Propaganda Films (German site)

Holocaust (for Nuremberg Trials, see Post-WWII below)
A Glossary of Terms for the Holocaust
Holocaust: Cybrary of the Holocaust
Nizkor: a Holocaust Remembrance
Wannsee Protocol, January 20, 1942
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (lots of documents, links, video clips of interviews with survivors)
The Horrors of the Holocaust (various Holocaust photographs)
Collection of Holocaust Links
Another Collection of Holocaust Links
Simon Wiesenthal Center (13,785 documents in German and English)
The Holocaust History Project
Operational Situation Reports of the Special Action Units (Einsatzgruppen)
The History Place: Holocaust (includes timeline and pictures)
Holocaust Survivor Oral history (University of Michigan)
Jewish Virtual Library (indexed Holocaust images)
Shoa.de (German site run by Arbeitskreis Shoa.de, an independent, interdisciplinary voluntary association based in Berlin that promotes Holocaust education in Germany. Sponsored by Yad Vashem and several German museums.)

Documents
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (exerpts)
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (excerpt on anti-Semitism)
U.S. Diplomatic Dispatches on the Nazi Movment in Germany in 1932

German History and German Studies

Harold Marcuse's German History Links (University of California) -- Very comprehensive, including links to research institutions, dictionaries, German libraries, and current information sites (newspapers, etc.)
Links to German media outlets

The End of WWII, the Post-WWII Period, and the Cold War and Beyond

Potsdam Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945
The Yalta Conference, February, 1945

Cold War International History Project
The Truman Doctrine
LOC For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
The European Union online
1945-49 Alliierte Besatzung (German Site at German Historical Museum, Berlin. Details of Occupation of Germany. Many posters, pictures and documents.)

Nuremberg Trials
Agreement for Establishment of an International Military Tribunal for War Criminals
Nürnberger Prozesse (German site. German Historical Museum, Berlin. Includes video clips)
Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg Trials: Presentation of Cases
The Nazi Slave Labor Program (excerpts from Nuremberg Prosecution Documents: "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, vol. 1, chap. X)
The Nazi Party The SS (Schutzstaffel) and SA (Stürmabteilung) Discussion at Nuremberg Trials
Gestapo (Discussion at the Nuremberg Trials)

Berlin

Berlin Wall History - Germany
Berlin Building Sites

Russian and Soviet History

Alexander Palace Time Machine (biographies of the Romanovs)
Lenin on his "April Theses"
Joseph Stalin Reference Archive

Stalin Biographical Chronicle (note: Russian site, lots of biographical detail, but sanitized - no mention of famine in Ukraine, for instance)
"Stalin on Lenin" - Stalin's speeches
Stalin -- BBC Educational Site
Documents in Russian History (Seton Hall University)
History of the USSR (Course site, Northeastern University, with good links to documents)
The Great Patriotic War (Photographs and posters)
Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project (University of Toronto)
Revelations from the Russian Archives
The Katyn Controversy, Stalin's Killing Field, by Benjamin B. Fischer
Joseph V. Stalin. On the Industrialization of Russia
Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed (The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century)
Background to the Revolution (General Pages on the Russian Revolution, The February and October Revolutions, The Civil War and after, People, Political Parties and Movements, Images and Maps)
Russian revolution in dates (Time line, 1905-1924)
Russia in Revolution (Looks at : Why there was a revolution in Russia in February 1917, How the First World War affected Russia, Why the Bolsheviks were able to seize power in October 1917.)
Internal workings of the Soviet System (Excellent museum exhibition that explains how the Soviet system worked under the communists, especially during the decades following the Revolution.)
Leon Trotsky's, In Defence Of October (A speech delivered in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 1932)
Stalin, "Broadcast to the People of the Soviet Union," July 3, 1941
Forced Labor Camps (online exhibition at Open Society Archives)
Vladimir Illyich Lenin: What is to be Done, 1902

Italian History

Italian Life under Fascism (a virtual exhibit, Univ. of Wisconsin)
Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932

Pages of History Links

History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers
History Sites by Subject (Tennessee Technological University)
Humboldt University (Berlin) History Links (mostly in German)
Scholars' Guide to the WWW
History Guide (Göttingen State and University Library and Bavarian State Library -- but considerable English content)
Blackwell Publishers -- History on the Internet (links)

History Learning Strategies

Muskingum College: Content-Specific Learning Strategies for History

History Discussion Lists

Note: these discussion lists are open only to professors and graduate students. You can, however, look for information in their archives. They are a particularly good and accessible source of book reviews:

H-Albion British and Irish History
H-Diplo Diplomatic History
H-France French History
H-German German History
Habsburg The History of the Habsburg Empire
H-Holocaust Holocaust Studies
H-Ideas Intellectual History
H-Italy Italian History
H-Med-Sci-Tech History of Science, Medicine and Technology
H-Women The History of Women

For other similar lists see the H-Net site.

Last updated: November 18, 2003