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British Pathé Historical Collection - Newsreels, video, archive, film... The Medieval Review - Open Access. Brill Open e-books - Asian Historical Studies. Digital Library Of The Commons. Watch History Documentaries Online Free. History Documentaries Online - Documentary Addict. Library of Congress - Digital Moving Image Collections. America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations).

Library of Congress - Digital Moving Image Collections

Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events. Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) has had a profound impact on modern life.

History Documentaries - Watch Free History Documentaries Online - DocumentaryStorm.com. Selected Collections. Colonial Film Database. World & US History Online. Historical Photographs of China. Resources on Racism in the Arab Region — Kerning Cultures. Source: @ranaabdelhamid, Instagram All of us have a responsibility to read more, speak up, mobilise, and amplify the voices of those whose rights have been stripped from them for generations.

Resources on Racism in the Arab Region — Kerning Cultures

It will require our time, our patience, and our efforts to look inwards, and investigate our privileges and our prejudices. New York Times Article Archive. Princeton Digitizes 70,000+ Religious Texts, Letting You Immerse Yourself in the Curious Works of Great World Religions. It is maybe easy for those unfamiliar with the study of religion to reduce the academic discipline to a ponderous exercise—self-serious, obsessed with tradition, rendered suspect by histories of violence and highly implausible, contradictory claims.

Princeton Digitizes 70,000+ Religious Texts, Letting You Immerse Yourself in the Curious Works of Great World Religions

But this is a mistake. Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - Yale Law School Avalon Project. Manuscripts Online. EuroDocs. News Archive Search. Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750. Content Includes: More than 32,000 records Coverage of European exploration and portrayals of Native American peoples Subjects include: British in America Commerce Discoveries Dutch in America French in America Great Britain—Colonies Jesuits (and other religious orders) in America Pirates Slave trade This free historical archive is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750.

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750

Try it now for free. This authoritative bibliography is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide, and a valuable index for libraries, researchers and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. The Online Books Page: Search. Examples: Entering austen, jane in the Author field finds books by Jane Austen.

The Online Books Page: Search

Entering Baum in the Author field and and oz in the Title field finds L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Entering dosto in the Author field, choosing the Exact start of name option, and entering underground in the Title field finds Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, even if you don't remember how to spell more than the start of the author's name! (Hey, we've changed the spelling in our own database at least once.) If you have an old browser that does not understand forms, the old author search and title search are still available. Home -- Search -- New Listings -- Authors -- Titles -- Subjects -- Serials Books -- News -- Features -- Archives -- The Inside Story Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu) OBP copyrights and licenses. History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. The new MapRank search tool enables geographical searching of the collection by map location and coverage, in a Google Map window.

Pan and zoom the Google Map to the area of the world you want maps of, and the results will automatically appear as a scrollable list of maps with thumbnail images in the right side window. Historical facts, features, quizzes and podcasts. History & Politics Out Loud. Welcome to WyzAnt's Audio History section!

History & Politics Out Loud

Here, you can listen to famous speeches made by influential leaders of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We're offering original audio tapes of how JFK dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis. You can also hear Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Use these resources to bring history and politics alive! Google Books. Internet History Sourcebooks. Internet Modern History Sourcebook The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers.

Internet History Sourcebooks

See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. Explanation of Sources of Material Here. The National Archives Catalog. Search the National Archives Catalog and other National Archives resources at once for information about our records. We’re excited to announce that in the National Archives Catalog you can now: Enjoy the updated homepage featuring background images from Catalog records Add your comments on digitized records, descriptions, and authority records Find what you need with a more intuitive advanced search Efficiently browse search results with better “Next Page” link placement Track your citizen archivist contributions with updated user account pages Add data from scanned records to your developer toolbox with increased API functionality We Want to Hear from You!

Digital resources. Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine. World Digital Library Home. Hodder Education - Modern History Review extras. Modern History Review extra resources Volume 20, Number 3, February 2018 Timeline: Art stylesClaire FitzgeraldA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 20, Number 2, November 2017 Timeline: Russia 1905Christopher ReadA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Revision: Russia 1905Roz HartTry these exercises on the topic of 'turning points' in Russian historyAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 20, Number 1, September 2017 Timeline: Vietnam WarTim LockleyA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR.

Hodder Education - Modern History Review extras

CORE. Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses. Directory of Open Access Journals. National & World Updates. Voices of the Holocaust. During the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jews.

Voices of the Holocaust

Hitler's intention was to destroy all Jewish communities, and to build a 'master race' of Aryans. Many other 'non-aryans' were persecuted including Romanies, homosexuals, and the disabled, as well as those who were politically opposed to the Nazis. This terrible moment in history is now known as the Holocaust. It remains one of the most horrific examples in recent European history of indifference, inhumanity, prejudice and genocide.

Voices of the Holocaust consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain during or after WWII. Further interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust can be found on the Sounds website. Survivor testimonies Listen to personal stories from Jewish Holocaust survivors, and learn what life was like for Jews during Hitler's reign. Information cards Discover more about the background to the Holocaust. Reference Activities ShareThis. Digitised Manuscripts. Almost 900 Greek manuscripts and some of the most important papyri, ranging in date from the first to the 18th centuries, are now included in the Digitised Manuscripts site.

Digitised Manuscripts

The first two phases of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project were generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the third phase was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, Sam Fogg, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, the Thriplow Charitable Trust, and the Friends of the British Library. Free full-text scholarly articles. HistoryWorld - History and Timelines. The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University.

Google Books. Newspapers Home - Trove. History News Network. About the History Data Service Collection. About the History Data Service Collection The History Data Service data collection brings together over 650 separate studies transcribed, scanned or compiled from historical sources. The studies cover a wide range of historical topics, from the seventh century to the twentieth century. EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it.

History Magazine. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Collections – British Pathé and the Reuters historical collection.