World History

Various resources covering Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History.

Prepared with support from the National Endowment for Humanities, the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, the University of Illinois, RPI, the Gilder-Lehrman Foundation, the Luce Foundation, and the Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grants sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center.

Website reviews describe online primary–source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions. Browse by time period or region/country.

Compiled by Fordham University.

Compiled by the Library of Congress

A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and part of World History Matters, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Presents an in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filled with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study.

A world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present.

This is a collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

This collection of resources highlights topics in United States and world history through eyewitness accounts, interviews, photographs, and other primary and secondary sources.

A growing collection of online resources for studying the ancient world. Materials include ancient texts and translations, maps, articles, essays, and images.

This site contains an exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts and a virtual tour of ancient Egyptian cities.

A collection of primary source sound material, found mainly in speech, interview, lecture and performance formats from US presidents, arists, political figures and more.

Collections of photographs and images, digitized historical records, audio recordings, drawings, and more.

A large, searchable, repository of digital content from research libraries.

Chosen from the manuscripts and books collections, the prints and photographs collection, historical films and videos, current and past exhibitions, and the Digital Manuscripts Program, these digitized materials cover a spectrum of centuries and cultures from medieval Islam to contemporary biomedical research.

Compiled by Fordham University.

ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993.

Archive of scientific articles. Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment.

Makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Including, but not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Google Cultural Institute makes available rich cultural archives of photographs, videos, and other documents representing a global selection of historic topics.

Resources made available by Fordham University

An ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the 17th CE.

An Internet company formed to create a historic digital map database of North America and the world.

A digitized collection of selected maps, courtesy of the University of Alabama.

An easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.