Selected free e-resources
| Mesoweb |
Mesoweb is devoted to the ancient cultures of Mexico and adjacent Central America, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec, and Maya (reserving the word Mayan for the language and the word Maya for the people and their culture). |
| De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their Families |
DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees (stemmata) of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links. |
| National Museum of American History |
The National Museum of American History collects artifacts of all kindsfrom gowns to locomotivesto preserve for the American people an enduring record of their past. |
| Great Archeological Sites |
From Prehistory to the Middle Ages, history and the lives of men in times past are presented here by the most accomplished of specialists, in a presentation accessible to everyone. The collection is edited by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. |
| Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit |
The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection is a window on the medieval world. Its 190,000 manuscript fragments, mainly in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, are an unparalleled resource for the academic study of Judaism, Jewish history and the wider economic and social history of the Mediterranean and Near East in the Middle Ages. |
| American Heritage Project |
The Project is creating a shared database of EAD-encoded finding aids describing and providing access to collections documenting American history and culture.The primary goal of this project will be the development of a demonstration system, which will also provide a test bed to evaluate both the effectiveness of the prototype's virtual archive in providing access to distributed digital library resources, and the feasibility of the decentralized production methods of the project. |
| The English Emblem Book Project |
A Project of Pensylvannia State University Libraries' Electronic Text Center, this web site offers access to images and texts from books (ones that combines pictures and text in an allegorical theme). Users can search the site's database, which contains scanned images, tables of content, and bibliographies of emblem texts. A contemporary scholarly bibliography is also available. |
| The History Place |
The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy. |
| World History Association |
The World History Association is a community of scholars, teachers, and students who are passionately committed to the study of the history of the human community across regional, cultural and political boundaries. |
| TudorHistory.org | |
| USHistory | |
| The Victorian Web |
Its a virtual library of educational resources for studies in Victorian literature and history. In addition to historical resources, the web site provides sections on gender issues, philosophy, religion, economics, science, and technology. Other offerings include profiles of authors |
| Victoria Research Web |
Victoria Research Web consists a guide to research resources written by Patrick Leary, the founder and manager of the long-running VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies. Like VICTORIA, the VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period. |
| Library of Anglo-American Culture & History |
The Library of Anglo-American Culture & History provides comprehensive access to books, journals and digital media on the language, literature and history of the Anglo-American cultural area. |
| Voice of the Shuttle - Classical Studies |
The Voice of the Shuttle began in late 1994 as an introduction to the Web for humanists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. |
| A Mesoamerican Archaeology Web Site |
This Web site was created in 1994. On this Web site one can find collected scholarly files, links, resources, software and reports relevant or interesting to Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian Archaeology. There is a collection of Maya calendar programs, as well as collected documents and arguments about unsubstantiated claims of transoceanic contact with the Americas. |
| Archaeological Institute of America |
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) promotes archaeological inquiry and public understanding of the material record of the human past to foster an appreciation of diverse cultures and our shared humanity. The AIA supports archaeologists, their research and its dissemination, and the ethical practice of archaeology. |
| The Association for Industrial Archaeology |
The AIA promotes the study, preservation and presentation of Britain's industrial heritage. |
| Canadian Archaeological Association |
The Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA) was founded in 1968. Membership includes professional, avocational and student archaeologists, as well as individuals of the general public of any country, who are interested in furthering the objectives of the Association. |
| Canadian Heritage Information Network |
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) allows Canadian museums to connect with each other and their audiences through the use of digital technologies. As a centre of excellence, CHIN offers investment programs and proposes resources such as virtualmuseum.ca and Professional Exchange. These sites, loaded with images, highlight Canadian museum collections, news, collaborative projects and resources aimed at professionals and the public at large. |
| Deep Time Project |
A Comprehensive Phylogenetic Tree of Living and Fossil Angiosperms |
| EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS | |
| Mayan Epigraphic Database Project |
The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. At present, MED consists of a relational database of glyphs (gnumbers), images, phonetic values (pvalues), and semantic values (svalues) according to the consensus among various American Mayanists (MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994). Also present is the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts. |
| Avalon Project | |
| National Association of State Archaeologists |
This site provides a directory of State Archaeologists for the United States and its possessions. State Archaeologists can answer questions regarding laws, procedures, current research, educational programs, and other aspects of archaeology for each state and possession. |