awesome-digital-history
History resource aggregator
A curated online resource for finding and exploring digital primary sources in history.
Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.
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Awesome Digital History / 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 | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / 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 | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / 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 | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / Europe | |||
| Archives Portal Europe | European archives search engine | ||
| Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique | European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges | ||
| Europeana | Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources | ||
| Mapire | Interactive historical maps | ||
| Monasterium | Deeds from all over Europe | ||
| Project Gutenberg | A library of over 60,000 free eBooks | ||
| Visual Archive Southeastern Europe | Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / 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 | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / 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 | ||
| Docupedia | Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research | ||
| historicum.net | A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services | ||
| leo bw | Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg | ||
| LexM | Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era | ||
| MARCHIVUM | Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim | ||
| Projekt Gutenberg | Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German | ||
| SLUB Dresden | Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings) | ||
| Spiegel Online | SPIEGEL archive since 1947 | ||
| UB Heidelberg | Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature | ||
| Uni Frankfurt | Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more | ||
| Zefys | Historical German newspapers | ||
| ZLB | Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / Global | |||
| Bitsavers.org | Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines | ||
| Classic Computer Magazine Archive | Preserving information from early personal computer magazines | ||
| Fxtop | Forex rate history since 1953 | ||
| Got Papers? | Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene | ||
| HMML | Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world | ||
| Internet Archive | Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more | ||
| Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog | Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide | ||
| Marxist Internet Archive | Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists) | ||
| Mementoweb | Find archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, and GitHub | ||
| OldMapsOnline | Maps, starting in the 17th century | ||
| OpenCat | Search engine for libraries around the globe | ||
| OpenHistoricalMap | A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians | ||
| Public Books Database | Open access academic literature | ||
| United Nations Archive | Archives and records from the United Nations regarding Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions | ||
| WayBackMachine | Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time | ||
| World Historical Gazeteer | Collection of content and services that permit world historians to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / Great Britain | |||
| British Library | Maps, manuscripts and sounds | ||
| National Records of Scotland | Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland | ||
| NLS | Data collections from the National Library of Scotland | ||
| The National Archives | A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales | ||
| The Proceedings of the Old Bailey | London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913 | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / Netherlands | |||
| Delpher | Dutch newspapers, books and magazines | ||
| Nationaal Archief | Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / North America | |||
| Ad*Access | U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955 | ||
| Chronicling America | America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963 | ||
| Computer Gaming World Museum | Archive of various magazines on gaming | ||
| David Rumsey Map Collection | Historical maps collection | ||
| Digital Public Library of America | Discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions | ||
| Digital Transgender Archive | Wide range of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world | ||
| Eugenics Archive | Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics | ||
| HathiTrust | A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items | ||
| National Archives | The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States | ||
| Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection | Online collection of scanned maps | ||
| Women Working 1800-1930 | An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression | ||
| World Digital Library | WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress | ||
Awesome Digital History / Archives and primary sources / Switzerland | |||
| Amtsdruckschriften | Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives | ||
| Année Politique Suisse | Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics | ||
| arCHeco | Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein | ||
| Archives Online | Archival search engine for Switzerland | ||
| chgov | Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963) | ||
| COSMOV | COSMOV includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968 | ||
| DigiBern | Bernese culture and history on the Internet | ||
| Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland | Diplomatic documents of Switzerland | ||
| e-codices | Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland | ||
| e-gs | Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection | ||
| e-manuscripta | Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives | ||
| e-newspaperarchives.ch | Swiss newspapers | ||
| E-Periodica | Swiss journals | ||
| e-rara | The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries | ||
| histHub | The platform manages authority files on Swiss history | ||
| Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland | Encyclopedia on Swiss history | ||
| HSSO | Historical statistics of Switzerland online | ||
| impresso | Historical newspaper collections of the Swiss National Library, the National Library of Luxembourg, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps, the Valais State Archives and the Swiss Economic Archives | ||
| Industriekultur | Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts | ||
| infoclio.ch Edition projects | A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland | ||
| Kartenportal | Search engine for maps | ||
| Le Temps | Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève | ||
| map.geo.admin.ch | Journey through time via maps of Switzerland | ||
| MEMOBASE | Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions | ||
| Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online | Retrodigitalisierte und digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert wird rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (1798) | ||
| Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv | This collection comprises over 500 business archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a focus on the Basel region | ||
| Sources Online | A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland | ||
| swisscollections | Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives | ||
| timeSTAT Cubes | The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years | ||
| transcriptiones | Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts | ||
Awesome Digital History / Learning | |||
| AdFontes | An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive | ||
| Clio Guide | A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences | ||
| Crafting Digital History | A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History | ||
| Digital History Guide | Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work | ||
| Geospatial Historian | Open HGIS Lessons and Resources | ||
| HIST 7370 | Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History | ||
| History Toolkit | History Toolkit for Students | ||
| Introduction to Digital History | This guide, created in the fall semester of 2022, accompanies the introductory courses in history at the University of Basel and is intended to provide a first insight into the field of digital history | ||
| Introduction to Python for Humanists | A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in the humanities | ||
| Local Linkages | Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills | ||
| Python für Historiker:innen | The Jupyter Book (in German language) is aimed at historians who are looking for a first application-oriented and interactive introduction to the Python programming language | ||
| The CTP Book | A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities | ||
| The Programming Historian | Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching | ||
| UCI Digital History | Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities | ||
| We think History | News about and innovations from digital history | ||
Awesome Digital History / More Awesome | |||
| Computer History | 2,734 | over 3 years ago | An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore |
| Data Visualization | 3,843 | over 2 years ago | A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software |
| Digital Humanities | Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities | ||
| Research Tools | 2,120 | about 3 years ago | A list of tools for research |
| Scientific Writing | 777 | over 2 years ago | Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks |
| Tempopedia | Digital History Directory | ||
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