Awesome Digital History
Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.
Finding aids for textual and multimedia primary sources with a focus on the western hemisphere and the 19th and 20th centuries. Courses and learning tools to explore history digitally.
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Contents
- Archives and primary sources
- Africa
- Asia
- Austria
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Global
- Great Britain
- Netherlands
- North America
- Switzerland
- Learning
- More Awesome
- Contribute
Archives and primary sources
Africa
- PARC - Portal for African Research Collections: PARC is the new meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel.
- West African Arabic Manuscript Database - A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa.
Asia
- FOCAL - The Asia Directories and Chronicles is a reference work for foreign traders in the Asian region, published annually by the Hong Kong Daily Press, annually between 1863 and 1941.
Austria
- ANNO - Austrian Newspapers online.
- Digitarium - Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung.
- Österreichische Mediathek - The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and contemporary history.
- Wien Geschichte Wiki - It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510 images.
Europe
- Archives Portal Europe - European archives search engine.
- Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique - European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges.
- EuroDocs – Online Sources for European History - A curated directory of online primary sources for European history, organized by country and period, with many items hosted by reputable institutions and using Dublin Core metadata.
- Europeana - Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources.
- handrit.is - Catalogue of more than 15'000 manuscripts (12th–20th century) in Icelandic, Old Norse, Danish and Latin (plus a few other languages) with more than 4'000 manuscripts digitally available.
- islandskort.is - Digitized maps of Iceland, Greenland and the Arctic region (1545–1949).
- ÍSMÚS - Icelandic musical heritage collection (including recordings and sheet music), legends and fairytales.
- Mapire - Interactive historical maps.
- Monasterium - Deeds from all over Europe.
- Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
- tímarit.is - Digitized newspapers and magazines from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
- Visual Archive Southeastern Europe - Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe.
France
- Gallica - Digital library of the National Library of France.
- Institut national de l'audiovisuel - INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives.
Germany
- Archivportal - German archives search engine.
- Bavarikon - Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.
- Computerarchiv Muenchen - South German Museum for History of Digital Development.
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek - Over 12 million objects.
- Deutsches Zeitungsportal - Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950.
- Digitale Sammlungen - Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.
- Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv - An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.