Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases & Epidemics

"This online collection offers important historical perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of diseases.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection that brings a unique set of resources from Harvard’s libraries to Internet users everywhere. Offering valuable insights to students of the history of medicine and to researchers seeking an historical context for current epidemiology, the collection contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of disease.Contagion is also a unique social–history resource for students of many ages and disciplines.

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Created by the Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program with vital support fromArcadia, the collection provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized around significant “episodes” of contagious disease.

These materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, broadsides, and other illustrations. The collection also includes two unique sets of visual materials from the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

Library materials and archival materials are supplemented by explanatory pages that introduce concepts related to diseases and epidemics, historical approaches to medicine, and notable men and women."

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/searchbrowse.html

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy

Courtesy of the Lillian Goldman Law Library: Yale Law School

Statement of Purpose and Document Inclusion Policy

"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document."

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp 

Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture

Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture

These linkspages will direct you to information on a diverse array of topics relating to the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance – not merely things, but occupations, clothing, animals, tools, eating-utensils … even suggestions for books which may help you learn more about such matters.

(Another section of the site covers clothing and material culture of the eighteenth century.)

You may also visit my blog or Facebook page, where you can read about new finds relating to the Middle Ages & Renaissance, as well as upcoming museum exhibitions all over the world which will feature pre-17th century artwork & artifacts.

Archivio della Propaganda Fascista Antisemita

URL: http://www.apfa.it

"A digital archive of anti-Semitic journals from the Fascist period.

La Difesa della Razza; Razza e Civiltà; Il diritto razzista; Il problema ebraico; Razzismo; Razza"

SovietPosters.com

URL: http://www.sovietposters.com

"Soviet posters, propaganda posters. USSR, Cold war, Stalin, Lenin, World War II, Perestroyka..."

University of Heidelberg Library: NS-Frauen-Warte

URL: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/nsfrauenwarte.html

"The Frauen Warte was the Nazi Party’s biweekly illustrated magazine for women. ... The University of Heidelberg has digitized all issues from 1941-1945."

Imperial War Museum: The Gianfranco Moscati Collection

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/82/moscati/home.html

"A searchable catalogue of the Collezione Gianfranco Moscati will soon be available to the public. The collection – a significant archive of material documenting the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War – is now held by the Imperial War Museum."

EuroDocs

URL: http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

An "[o]utstanding collection of links to Western European historical documents."

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

URL: http://avalon.law.yale.edu

"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document."

Northwestern University Library: 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa

URL: http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/mapsofafrica/

"This site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (or the Africana Library) at Northwestern University."

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History

URL: http://www.soviethistory.org

"An on-line archive of primary source materials on Soviet history. Seventeen Moments in Soviet History contains a rich archive of texts, images, maps and audio and video materials from the Soviet era (1917-1991). The materials are arranged by year and by subject, are fully searchable, and are translated into English. Students, educators, and scholars will find fascinating materials about Soviet propaganda, politics, economics, society, crime, literature, art, dissidents and hundreds of other topics.

Bolsheviks Seize Power
Kronstadt Uprising
Death of Lenin

The History Guide: Resources for Historian

URL: http://www.historyguide.org/resources.html

This extensive listing of online archives and document collections covers every period of European and "Western" history. This page is a subsection of The History Guide, a website created by Steven Kreis. The website also contains lectures, teaching resources and course syllabi. A real goldmine!!!

"Primary Documents

A Chronology of United States Historical Documents
A comprehensive site which gives pointers to important United States historical documents that can be found on the Internet. (Oklahoma)

American Memory
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress. Photographs, prints, documents, films, maps and sound recordings.

German History in Documents and Images

URL: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org

"(GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery. The materials are presented in ten sections,which have been compiled by leading scholars. All of the materials can be downloaded free of charge for teaching, research, and related purposes; the site is strictly intended for individual, non-commercial use."

Soviet Archives at Info-Russ

URL: http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/BUK/GBARC/buk.html

"Ideology and Politics of Soviet Communist Party (KPSS); Ideology and Propaganda; Media: newspapers, radio, TV; Cultural events, science, economy; Internal Affairs; KPSS and Terror in the USSR; Prior to 1975; 1975 - 1991; Suppression of Dissisdents; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; after 1980; Sakharov; Solzhenitsyn; Use of Psychiatry for Political Purpose; Perestroika; KPSS and Communist World; KPSS and Non-Communist World; Communist Terror in the World; Europe, North America; Asia; Africa; Central and South America; KPSS and Peace Propaganda; Some Aspects of Soviet International Politics; USA; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Poland; Olympic Games, 1980; Chronological List of All Documents with section cross-references (in Russian)"

May (1968) Events Archive

URL: http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/

"Nineteen sixty eight was the climactic year of New Left protest all over the Western world, and especially in France where in May of that year ten million workers transformed a student protest into a revolutionary movement by joining it in the streets. In the short space of a month France was overthrown and restored, but not without suffering a shock which resounds to this day. Like many an unsuccessful revolution before it, the May Events triumphed in the political culture of the society that defeated it in the streets. Although the Events occurred in France, they reveal many of the underlying causes of student protest throughout the advanced capitalist world, including the United States.

The World War I Document Archive

URL: http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

"This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

Conventions and Treaties and Official Papers; Documents by Year; Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences; Books, Special Topics and Commentaries; WWI Biographical Dictionary; WWI Image Archive; The Maritime War; The Medical Front; Links to Other WWI Sites"

Art of the First World War

URL: http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/visite.html

"100 paintings from international collections to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the First world War."

Victorian Women Writers' Project

URL: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do;jsessionid=9E9347F83483C160A86DA3818AB0A14E

"The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) began in 1995 at Indiana University and is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare.

Quiet since 2003, the VWWP is pleased to be back with an expanded purview that includes women writing in the nineteenth century in English. As before, the project will devote time and attention to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, as well as to their bibliographical descriptions. New texts, encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, will adopt principles of scholarly encoding, facilitating more sophisticated retrieval and analysis.

Lady Jane Wilde; Marie Corelli; Susan, Countess of Malmesbury; Amy Levy; Olive Schreiner; Harriet Martineau"

The Siege and Commune of Paris

URL: http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/siege/

"This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters. Additions are made regularly. The originals are located in the Charles Deering McCormick of Special Collections in the Deering Library at Northwestern University.

Portraits; Landscapes/Architecture; Political Caricatures; Documentation (handwritten notes on obverse of photographs); Master Index (Title)(122K); Subject Index (73K)"

Napoleonic Satires

URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon/about.html

"The Napoleonic satires housed in the Anne S. K. Brown Military collection of the John Hay Library represent several important gifts made to the library in the 20th century. In addition to the Napoleonic satires located in the military collection bequeathed by Ms. Brown, Paul Revere Bullard (Class of 1897) and William H. Hoffman contributed a variety of significant objects with a Napoleonic theme. In addition to print caricatures and satires, their donations include historical volumes, manuscripts, sculpture, and some paintings.