Europe

• Academy for Ancient Texts - Reno, NV

• Annals of the Famine in Ireland - Asenath Nicholson - University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Arctic Circle: History and Culture
   
• Austria-Hungary and Poland, a Short History of [book] - H. Wickham Steed, et al., 1914

• BBC History - BBC
  Contains clips from BBC history programs.
   
• Bodleian Library (images of manuscripts) - University of Oxford

• British & Irish History - University of Washington Libraries

• Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal - Medieval Sourcebook

• The Churchill Papers, a Catalogue - Churchill Archives Centre

• Churchill: The Evidence - National Library for Scotland, Churchill Archives Centre

• David Rumsey Map Collection - Cartographic Associates
  "The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 7,180 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented."
   
• Digital Facsimilies of Rare Books in the Royal Library - National Library, Copenhagen University Library
  Includes manuscripts from across Europe from the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods.
• Digital History - S. Mintz
  Provides links to many digitized American history documents.
   
• Digital Library Initiative Across Europe
  Includes a section of lengthy descriptions of projects and a listing of web addresses of the projects at the end of the page
   
• Drake's Great Armada [book] - Captain Walter Biggs, 1910. New York,  P.F. Collier & Son Company

•  Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - British Academy PORTAL
  Contains Bodleian Library and Oxford college libraries manuscripts.
   
• Eighteenth-Century Resources - History - Rutgers University (Jack Lynch, editor)
  Contains many digitized primary history sources from Britain, America, Canada, Europe, and some Asia.
   
• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions - James Chastain, Ohio University
  Contains articles from scholars around the world.
   
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
  "Selected transcripts, facsimiles, and translations."
   
• European History - Digital History Reader

• European History Digital Library [modern history] - ACADEMICINFO
  A mixture of digitized documents and links to information.
   
• European History Sources - University of Washington

• The European Library - Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
  Select a country and then digital collections and enter you search.
   
• French Studies Web: French History: Documents, Data Files, Primary Literature - Association of College and Research Studies

•  Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources - The Library of Congress
  This source lists a section called Digitized Global Treasures which includes the history of Puerto Rico, the Spanish American War, and the South Asian Literary Recordings Project.  Also included here is Portals to the World which provides links to many countries.  Countries listed include a history link.
   
• Great Britain Historical Database Online - University of Essex
  "...database of British 19th and 20th century statistics."
   
• Guido Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection - Duke University
  "...a rich ensemble of more than 49,000 pamphlets, small volumes, librettos, newspapers, periodicals, and clippings spanning four centuries of Italian and European history."
   
• Historical Maps of Europe - University of Texas at Austin, Perry-Castañeda Library

• History of Europe as a Supranational Region: Primary Documents - EuroDocs
  Access documents from various time periods and individual countries here.
   
• History of France & the Francophone World - TennesseeBob Peckham, Globe-Gate Project Director

• History of Germany, Primary Documents - Brigham Young University

• History of Spain: Primary Documents - EuroDocs
  Contains a variety of manuscripts, correspondence and memoirs.
   
• History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents - EuroDocs
  Documents from antiquity to the present.
   
• Horace Howard Furness Collection - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania
  Covers English renaissance literature and history.
   
• Hungary: a Brief History [book] - István Lázár, 1989.

• ILEJ - Internet Library of Early Journals
  Digitized 18th and 19th century British journals.
   
• The Illuminated Middle Ages - Medieval Treasures from French Libraries

• Illuminating the Renaissance (Flemish manuscript painting) - J. Paul Getty Trust

• Incunabula - The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  Contains over 430 title printed before 1501.
   
• Internet Library of Early Journals: a Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals - Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
  This site contains the scanned images of six 18th and 19th century journals
   
• Internet Medieval History Sourcebook - Fordham University

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Fordham University

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - Georgetown University

• League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents - Northwestern University Library
  This source "contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents."
   
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
  A searchable database of essays, images, texts, songs, and maps.  A timeline is also included.
   
• The Life of Lord Nelson [book] - Robert Southey, 1813, enhanced edition, 2001 by HTA press

•  Maps of Scotland, 1560-1928 - National Library of Scotland

• Maps of the French and Indian War - Massachusetts Historical Society

• Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe - New York Public Library Digital Gallery

• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - National Library of the Netherlands

• National Library of Scotland (digital library)
  A collection of various documents.
    
• Northern Ireland Conflict (1968-Present) - CAIN Web Service (Conflict Archive on the Internet)

• Norwegian Local and Regional History - EuroDocs

• The Online Medieval & Classical Library - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
  "a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."
   
• The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - Kathryn Talarico, College of Staten Island, City University of NY
  Source includes an encyclopedia and links to sources for primary documents on the internet.
   
• The Perseus Digital Library  - Tufts University
  Contains early Greek and Roman materials, a Papyri collection, English Renaissance materials, and a collection on the History of London as well as various American sources.
   
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674-1843
  Searchable accounts of over 100,000 criminal cases.
   
• REENIC, Russian and East European Network Information Center - University of Texas, Austin

• REESweb, The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian and East European Studies - University of Pittsburg

• Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern Germany:  Primary Documents - EuroDocs
  Some primary sources translated into English.  Most in German.  Some sources are searchable.
   
• Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham, University of Idaho Library
  "A listing of over 5500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."
   
• Russian History Digital Library - ACADEMICINFO
   

• Spain, The United States, & The American Frontier: Parallel Histories - Library of Congress
  "A bilingual, multimedia English-Spanish digital library."  "The site features maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures from the Library of Congress. These selected items relate to Spanish influence and interaction with other cultures existing in the geographic areas of North America, the Caribbean, and present-day Mexico between 1492-1898."
   
• Victorian Women Writer's Project - Indiana University
  Electronic editions of the works of 19th century British women writers.  This collection includes "...anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama."
   
• Views of the Famine (Ireland) - Vassar, Steve Taylor
  Scanned illustrations and articles related to the famine in Ireland.
   
• Women under Monasticism: chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 - Lina Eckenstein (1896) - University of Wisconsin, Madison

• World History Archives, The History of Europe as a Whole - Hartford Web Publishing, Haines Brown

• The World of 1989: The Spanish-American War - Library of Congress

• WWW-VL History: Central Catalogue - European University Institute, Florence, Italy
  Material is arranged by world regions, eras and epochs, and historical topics.

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