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Places to Begin

• Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate. A clearinghouse of ideas with links to newspapers, columnists, new books and important essays. A great place to go if you're feeling curious.
• The New York Times on the Web. Registration required for much of what's here.
• Google. Here's where I search the web.
• Metacrawler. Choice number two.

Guides to History Resources Online

• Voice of the Shuttle Home Page Web page for humanities research. Excellent resource
• Guide to History on the Web (Center for History and New Media)
• History Matters (U.S. Survey Course on the WEb) (Center for History and New Media)
• World History Matters (Portal to World History) (Center for History and New Media)
• African Studies Gateway (H-Net)
• Perseus Project Home Page Digital library of the ancient world. Very extensive source

Sourcebooks of Primary Documents

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham). Great resource
• EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents (BYU)

An Excellent Guide to Reading and Writing History

• Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students (Bowdoin)

Reference Books

• American Heritage Dictionary of English (4th ed., 2000, at Bartleby)
• Oxford English Dictionary Online (subscribers only)
• Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed., 2000, at Bartleby)
• Britannica.com
• Encarta Encyclopedia Home Page
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd. ed., 1995, at Bartleby)
• American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996, at Bartleby)

Electronic Texts

• Humanities Text Initiative (at UM)
• ARTFL French Literature Text Database
• The Internet Classics Archive
• Bartleby.com. Great Books Online

Library Catalogues On-Line

• WorldCat: Search
• Cornell University Library Gateway
• University of Michigan Library
• British Library - OPAC Search
• Catalogue BN-OPALE PLUS

Bookstores

• Bookfinder
• Amazon.com's Book Store
• Powell's Books - Used, New, and Out of Print
• Alibris - Books you thought you'd never find.
• Le Site de la Fnac
• Alapage.com - Grand magasin culturel et de loisirs
• Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Inc.

Online Exhibitions

• National Archives Online Exhibit Hall
• Smithsonian Institution
• British Library on the Web
• German Historical Museum
• Expositions virtuelles de la BNF

High Art on the Web

• WebMuseum: Bienvenue! (Welcome from the curator)
• Mother of All Art History Links
• Clearinghouse of Image Databases

Film on the Web

• The Internet Movie Database
• the facets multi-media® web site

Sites Devoted to Particular Historical Topics - European History

• Louis XIV (in French)
• Tyburn Tree Homepage (public execution in early modern England)
• French Revolution Sources (nice set of links)
• Napoléon (from The Napoleon Foundation)
• Views of the Famine (in Ireland) (Vassar)
• When Time Began to Rant and Rage. Ireland (Berkeley)
• Beyond the Pale: History of the Jews in Russia
• Victorian Sensationalism Online
• Anarchy Archives (on history and theory of anarchism)
• Marx/Engels Internet Archive
• Special Collections - The Siege and Commune of Paris (more than 1200 images at Northwestern)
• Imperial War Museum - the national museum of war and conflict (UK)
• The World War I Document Archive (BYU)
• British Posters from World War I (Georgetown)
• Soviet Posters / Museum of Social Realist Art Examples of Stalinist Posters & Political Art (1930-1953) (Stanford, with links to similar pages)
• German Internet Project: The Berlin Wall 1961-1989

History Topics - American

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
• The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory: Welcome (at Chicago Historical Society)
• The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

Sites Devoted to Particular Authors or Books

• Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (at Middlebury)
• The Fantomas Website
• Frequently asked questions about Plato (Bernard Suzanne)
• Augustine of Hippo (At Pennsylvania, James O'Donnell)
• Dante's Clickable Inferno

Some Other Links of Interest and Usefulness

• Fiat 500 group My favorite car.
• Dogcatcher My favorite band.
• The Official Web Site of the Detroit Tigers
• NPR - National Public Radio On-Line
• FICS - Free Internet Chess Server
• WebMD
• USPS - The United States Postal Service (Postal Service, Post Office)
• Contacting the Congress
• Habitat for Humanity International
• MSF-USA: Homepage of Doctors Without Borders/...
• Doctors of the World, USA: Project-based Oppo...
• ACCION International
• Welcome to Oxfam America
• NRDC:Natural Resources Defense Council
• Yosi Amram Confidant, coach and counselor for CEOs.
• Kristy Hanson Chick folk rock.
• HallofHeroes The latest word in social networking. Call it hero networking.