Primary Document Collections in European History
One of the limitations of ID Weeks Library is its weak European history collection, particularly in terms of primary sources. Students writing research papers for HIST446 European Military History may consult the web sites listed below. Remember, the documents listed on these sites may be transcriptions, not digital images. Use them with appropriate caution. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you find a good web site that you think belongs here, please let me know.
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Best Information on the Net: History. From St. Ambrose University
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts - Offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web.
- De Re Militari Online Resources for Medieval Warfare
- Documents of Diplomatic History
- Documents in Military History
- Documents in Russian History
- ECO: Early Canadiana Online - Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to 2,009,084 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
- German History in Documents and Images
- Historical Text Archive
- History on the Web - University of Washington Libraries
- Internet Library of Early Journals - A digital library of 18th and 19th Century British journals, including the Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Note and Queries, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and The Builder.
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Consists of three major sourcebooks (listed here) and a number of thematically based sourcebooks derived from the first three. Ancient History Sourcebook -- Medieval Sourcebook -- Modern History Sourcebook
- Letters from World War One and Two - Primary source website dedicated to databasing as much mail from soldiers of World War One and Two as possible and making them freely available online. Site contains hundreds of letters, envelopes, stamps, photos and miscellanous items.
- Northvegr Foundation: Northern European Studies documents - Primary sources covering pre-Christian European history.
- Puck's Homepage: Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses - Discusses how the cartoons in Joseph Keppler's satirical magazine Puck conveyed the liberal viewpoint during the 1880's.
- Texts for Ancient History Courses
- Turning the Pages - Digital images of great books and manuscripts from the British Library.
- World History Sources
- The World War I Document Archive