Research Guide for History Majors

Online resources for sound research into all fields of history develop in ever increasing numbers. This section of the Undergraduate Guide serves as a gateway to some of the most useful web resources for students.

Opening night at the Opera in New Orleans, 1902. Library of Congress

One of the more important skills in using material found online is the ability to interpret trustworthy web resources from websites that may not offer sound information. The following website offers some good suggestions when evaluating online information:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

International History

Library of Congress: catalog
http://www.loc.gov

also, large collection of US history primary sources http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/

World History Matters: scholarly reviews of primary sources
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorymatters

Internet Archive: Texts and Documents
http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html

Historical Text Archive:
http://historicaltextarchive.com