History and Social Change

General History

• Academic Info: History
  A history link collection with world history resources, country and regional histories, and topical histories.

• Anekdotes uit de geschiedenis
  The most curious anecdotes in the world history, in Dutch.

• ArchiveNet
  Links to national archives around the world. This oldest links-services for archives in the Netherlands is presented by the Municipal Archives of Zwolle.

• Bausteine der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
  The German collection of texts and graphics deals with several practical and theoretical problems of social and economic history (literary resources, book-keeping, statistics, sociological and economic theory etc.). Editor: Matthias Kuchenbrod

• Books On-line: History - General and Old World

• Book of Visions - An Encyclopaedia of Social Innovations by: Nicholas Albery.
  First published in Great Brittain in 1992.

• COMERS: Institute for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  Based at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

• Encyclopedia of Women's History
  Created by Jone Johnson Lewis, and presented by the History Net.

• HistoPortal

• Histoire & mesure [table of contents]
  The objectives pursued by Histoire & mesure include proposing tools and presentation of methods of statistical treatment of information, making use of figures for measuring historical phenomena and analysing processes. It aims at developing a reflection on the content and relevance of data, the conditions of their elaboration and their registration in largely preconstructed categories. It attempts to do so by publishing articles and book reviews, which, beyond the disciplinary and chronological separations, place history and measurement at the core of their problematic.

• Historical Text Archive (HTA)
  Created and maintained by Don Mabry.

• History Guide
  The Network Subject Gatewas History provides access to scholarly relevant websites and digital texts in history. All resources are decribed and evaluated with a set of Dublin Core metadata. The History Guide was originally developed and located at Goetiingen State and University Library. The Network Subject Gateway History is an alliance of institutions (research libraries, subject bibliographies, research centers) which are sharing the mission to make scholarly relevant internet resources publicly accessible in the field of history.

• History and Historiography
  Archives and resources in history and historiography from the English Server.

• History of Social Inventions
  Written by Stuart Conger, a futurist who was responsible for setting up a Canadian Social Inventions Centre called Saskatchewan NewStart. In this abstract of a longer article he defines a social invention as a new law, organisation or procedure that changes the way in which people relate to themselves or to each other, either individually or collectively. He gives some examples of these social inventions and discusses their implications.

• History Links - KU Leuven

• History Online
  Hunderds of links for studying major areas in history. Categories include ancient civilizations, Greek and Roman history, the Middle Ages, exploration & discovery, and early American history. Editor: Jim Perry (Oregon, USA).

• History of the world
  A world history chart that begins with David and Salomon and ends 3,000 years later with Einstein, Picasso, Roosevelt en Churchill. Inbetween you'll find - devided in periods of ten years - the most important events, empires and invasions, inventions and results, leaders and goverments, writers, philosophers and scientists. The world history under your finger tips.

• History Reviews On-Line - Univ. of Cincinnati, USA [MOVED TO ??]
  An electronic journal devoted to reviewing books on all fields of history. Editor: Dennis A. Trinkle (DePauw University).

• Humbul: History
  The Humbul catalogue of online history resources. Humbul is part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) and is dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cateloguing online resources in the humanities.

• HistoryNet
  The history portal from about.com presents a large history archive, reviews, interviews and daily news on historical subjects.

• International History Project
  The Historical essays, documents, maps and music on the history of the world from Ancient Mesopotamia to the eind of the Cold War.

• Internet Resources in History
  A structured listing of historical resources. The history sites are organized by subject and time period, social and political science sites, historical journals and mailing lists in history. Editor: Patrick D. Reagan (Tennessee Technological University)

• Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
  UK resources. Editor: Derek McGhie (Univ. of London).

• Lessons From the Past
  General historical recources, classical/ancient, medieval studies, renaissance, 18th and 19th century, American history, the old west. Editor: Michael Kearl (Trinity College, USA).

• Links for Students of History and the Social Sciences
  Professor Dan Graf (Virginia Wesleyan College, USA) has compiled some useful resources for students of historical sociology.

• Long Wave, The
  Chapter 20 of "Macroeconomic Stabilization Policies", by A. Joyce Furfero.

• Modernization by Peter N. Stearns (Introduction to World History). See his book.

• Places on the WWW for Historians
  A well structured list of historical sites. Created by: Ben Henick (California State University San Marcos)

• Rural History Center
  Presents an on-line bibliography of British and Irish rural history. The Rural History Database, containing over 40,000 records, covers the period prehistory to the recent past and mainly consists of journal articles. Many date from the late 18th and 19th centuries. The majority of articles in the Database were published in the leading journals from the 1940s up to the present year. The database also contains over 5,000 theses awarded degrees world-wide since the 1870s, including contemporary surveys which are now of historical interest. There are also 7,000 books in the database, most of which are held by the Rural History Centre's library, and articles from edited works. References have been trawled from published bibliographies, footnotes, and over 1500 journals. The field covered by the Bibliography relates to man's interaction with the environment both during and since prehistoric times, and to rural social and economic history. Information on the processing of the produce of the land, even in an urban environment is also collected.

• Social, Economic and Political Change
  Links to study how societies develop and change. Gathered by Gene Shackman.

• Societal Evolution by: Barry Sinervo (1997)

• Teaching History with Technology
  A free, biannual journal designed to help middle school and high school history and social studies teachers better integrate technology into their classrooms. It provides teachers with models that document how others have incorporated technology to enhance their students' learning experiences. It is hosted and sponsored by the Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina, USA.

• Time line for the history of sciene and social science
  A time line from before writing began to the present, linked to Andrew Roberts' book Social Science History and to other resources, including extracts and works of authors. The alphabetical index of authors is very helpful. And so is the ABC Study Guide in plain English.

• Voice of the Shuttle: History Page
  Links to history sites, organized by country and topics.

• World Civilizations
  Lots of historical info on chronology, based on course material from Richard Hooker at Washington State University, USA.

• World History Archives
  A repository for documents for teaching and understanding contemporary world history and the struggle for social progress. The archives are associated with the Images of World History - a pre-modern image archive.

• WWW-VL History (Virtual Library)
  A large file offering over 1500 connections arranged alphabetically by subject, era and country. Editor: Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas, USA.

Prehistory and Archaeology

• Anthropology and Archaeology

• Archaeological Research at Oslonki, Poland
  Peter Bogucki describes the archaeological research that took place at the site of Oslonki in north-central Poland.

• Charles Darwin [1809-1882]
  Online Literature Library: Charles Darwin
  Hypertext editions of "The Voyage of the Beagle", "The Origin of Species", and "The Descent of Man".

• Evolution
  Resources from Yahoo!

• Evolution of Man Directory
  A general overview of human evolution. Editor: Shawn Donaldson (Dr. Ken Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre).

• Flint and Stones: Welcome to the Stone Ages
  Enter the world of the late stone age hunter gatherers. In this exhibition you are taken into the lives of the inhabitants of Britain and north west Europe from the time when ice sheets still covered land and sea, until the time when settled farming peoples were cultivating the land. Presented by the Museum of Antiquities, the major museum of archaologyin north east England. The museum is based on the collection formed by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is run by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• Human Biology Course notes
  Maintained by Steve Paxton and Terry McAndrew.

• Human Prehistory: An Exhibition
  The evolution of Human Species followed different stages beginning with the Australopethicus and continuing with homo habilis, homo erectus and homo sapiens. The last stages include those people who lived thousands of years ago in the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Age and are the immediate ancestors of modern man. The exhibition introduces the sicentists who discovered the evolution of man (Sir Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin), and travels through the process of human evolution. Editor: Prof. D. I. Loizos (Greece).

• Introduction to Archeology
  Resources on fossil hominids: australopithecines, homo babilis, homo erectus, neanderthals and early homo sapiens. Editor: John W. Hoops (Univ. of Kansas).

• Megalithic Mysteries - a photographic guide
  Standing stones, stone circles and stone rows are one of the most mysterious features of the British landscape. Andy Burnham (UK) is leading the tour of some of the most interesting and picturesque prehistoric sites.

• Paleontology
  Resources from Yahoo!

• Prehistoric Cultures
  A link collection from the University of Minnesota Deluth, USA.

• Social and Cultural Evolution
  This site aims to draw together all online texts on hominisation and social and cultural evolution as well as on more modern topics like memetics and the "Global Brain". Editor: Hans Geser, Christoph Brönnimann, Jürgen Stremkow (Sociological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland).

• SocioBiology and Evolution

• Stone Pages
  A comprehensive guide to European megaliths and other ancienct sites. Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi have personally visited and photographed 359+ archæological sites on these pages. And they are working hard on adding the photos, QTVR panoramic movies, and descriptions of other megalithic sites. English and Italian version.

• WWW-VL Prehistory

Ancient World (ca. 4000 BC - AD 500)

General and Miscellaneous Sources

• ABZU
  Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet. A great collection of resources for the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East. There are two groups of indexes, primary and secondary. The primary indexes are divided by project or institutional affiliation and by author. The secondary indexes contain directories (addresses, lists), online journals, library catalogs, museum collections, publishers and book dealers, regional and subject indexes. Editor: Charles E. Jones (Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA).

• Amazing Ancient World of Western Civilization, The
  A journey to the Ancient World, weaving together the peoples of those lands and civilizations and the way they lived and - their thoughts, their hopes, their dreams, their lives.

• Ancient Mayan Ruins
  The Mayan Ruins of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize & Honduras.

• Ancient World Web
  The ultimate index of all things Ancient. A great meta index created by Julia Hayden (Univ. of Virginia, USA).

• Classical Atlas Project
  Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

• Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
  A forum and materials for the study of women and gender in the Ancient world. Contains biographies for many important literary and historical figures, essays, articles, reviews, bibliographies and images. Editors: Suzanne Bonefas and Ross Scaife.

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC)
  An introduction to Ancient world cultures on the WWW. Provides an anthology of many ancient world text that are available on the Internet, a chronology, essays, maps & pictures, resources and links. Editor: Bill Hemminger.

• Histos
  The New Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography. A refereed electronic journal focusing on ancient historiographical texts and media. It contains original articles as well as reviews, discussions, reader responses, and notices of relevant conferences and historiographical projects. Presented by the Department of Classics at the University of Durham (UK).

• Perseus Project, The
  A digital library on ancient Greece and Rome, more than 13,000 images of art objects, sites and buildings. Each features a description of the object and its context. There are also a number of Greek texts, a Greek lexicon and a selection of secondary sources. The databeses of images and texts can be searched in several different ways, and the resulting records are cateloged and hyperlinked together.

The Greecs

• Alexander the Great - World Cultures.

• Ancient City of Athens
  A photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens, with links to other archaeological resources on the internet. Created by Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein of the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

• Ancient Greece
  A list of links on Ancient Greek archeology, art & architecture, history, literature, mythology & religion, and philosophy. Maintained by the CivWebTeam of the Providence College, USA.

• Greek Materialism and Pantheism: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes by Paul Harrison.

• Greek Mythology
  An introduction into ancient Greek mythology. Meet the Gods, the Heros and Creatures, read the stories and inspect the family tries. Editor: J.M. Hunt.

• Olympic Games in the Ancient Hellenic World
  A plethora of information about these contests that are the forefathers of our modern Olympic Games.

• Perseus Atlas Project
  Part of the Perseus project's efforts to build an interrelated collection of hypermedia databases focused on classical Greece.

The Romans

• Armamentarium
  The Book of Roman Arms and Armour.

• Antonine Guard, The
  The Antonine Guard are a Roman research and re-enactment society who among our many facets specialise in Bringing the Roman Army to life. They comprise a number of Historical experts and enthusiasts and regularly appear in public to demonstrate living history using accurately reconstructed armour and equipment. The group is based around the 6th Legion Legio Victrix who were stationed on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. The object of the association is to advance the education of the public in the life and times of Roman Britain, especially that of Roman Scotland.

• BBC: Romans
  In-depth articles, multimedia, timelines and short biographies of historc figures. Explore the Roman way of life from the view of women, or the citizens of Pompeii, and find out about Roman culture in Britain.

• Droit et Justice
  A page of Roman law links from the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium.

• Forum Romanum
  Take a virtual tour of rome, explore the dictionary of mythology, read about roman history and latin language & literature, or watch the pictures of people. David Camden created this site mainly as a hobby to cultivate his appreciation for the Romans.

• Roman Emperors
  An online ecyclopedia of Roman Emperors ("De imperatoribus Romanus") from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times.

• Roman Law Resources - Ernest Metzger, School of Law, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
  Includes many resources on roman and civil law, classical studies and publishers. The aim of this site to provide a single place where information and materials on the Internet could be made available to those interested in Roman law.

The Egyptians

• Ancient Egypt Site
  Created by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer (Belgium). The site contains general information on the history and language of Ancient Egypt, and on Saqqara ("City of the Dead"). There's also a very usefull alphabetically sorted list of keywords, a bibliography on Ancient Egypt, and a "Hitchhikers guide" that explores the modern-day interest with this fascinating culture.

• Ancient Egypt
  Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB).

• Egypt Page - University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  Online resources related to Egypt.

• Egyptology Resources - Cambridge

• Splendors of Ancient Egypt
  A virtual tour of ancient Egyptian artifacts. Contains 67 artifacts, along with descriptions and general time period, and 4 QuickTimeVR artifacts that users can move around to get a better look at. There are two RealAudio files, one a 55 minute tour that can be listened to separately or used in conjunction with selected parts of the site, and the other a 1 hour and 25 minute lecture by Dr. Arne Eggebrecht, director of the Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany, from whose holdings this exhibit was drawn. Created by: The Houston Chronicle (as part of its Virtual Voyager series), in conjunction with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  The great pyramid of Giza, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the colossus of Rhodus, the lighthouse of Alexandria. You did remember them all, didn't you!? On this site you can see these seven wonders and read about them. And you can learn some more about other wonders: the forgotten wonders (like the Great Wall of China and the Yaj Mahal in India), the modern wonders (like the Eiffel Tower) and the natural wonders (like the Niagara Falls).

Feudalism - Medieval (ca. 500-1500)

• Byzantium - Byzantine studies on the Internet - Editor: Paul Halsell.

• Byzantine History 330-1453 AD
  On the Eastern Roman Empire in the middle ages. Editor: Fr. Dave Gallo (Assumption College).

• Labyrinth
  A WWW Server for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University.

• Medieval Sourcebook
  The goal is to construct a Internet Medieval Sourcebook from available public domain and copy-permitted texts. The first part is made up of fairly short classroom sized extracts, derived from public domain sources or copy-permitted translations, the second is composed of the full documents, or WWW links to the full documents. Editor: Paul Halsall.

• Medieval Studies
  On-Line Text Materials for Medieval Studies (ORB). Extensive resources on encyclopedia, teaching, full texts and references. Great site, don't miss it.

• Médiévales [table of contents]
  Médiévales publishes articles on all aspects of the middle Ages: history, literature and linguistics but also law, archaeology and history of art. Each issue contains a thematic subject, often resulting from a seminar or teamwork, coordinated by a specialist. Articles on the most diverse subjects are also published under the rubric «Essais et recherches». The rubric «Point de vue» proposes crossed readings of a work or critical bulletins on current themes of research. Reader’s notes on recent works are included in each number.

• Middeleeuwse geschiedenis
  Links to medieval history, presented by the Department of Medieval History, University of Ghent, Belgium.

• Usenet:soc.history.medieval

Modern World (ca. 1500 present)

• An Abridged History of the United States by William M. Brinton.
  From World War II and president Truman to Kennedy, Johnson and the Vietnam War.

• Making of America (MOA)
  A large digital library of primary sources in American social history from the Antebellum Period through Reconstruction. The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

Europe     European Studies

• Europe: Texts and Documents - Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern. From: Hannover College.

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
  Richard Hacken (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah).

• European History
  Historical Text Archive. Editor: Don Mabry (Mississippi State Univ., USA).

• Modernization by Peter N. Searns.

• France
  • Histoire de France
    The WWW Virtual Library on the History of France.

  • History of France - World History Archive

• Germany
  • History of Germany - World History Archive

  • Medieval Germany
    Presented by The Labyrinth, resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University, USA.

• Great Britain
  • AHRB Centre for North-East England History
    A research centre for North-East England History from Anglo-Saxon times to the current day. A collaborative project comprising the universities of Teesside, Northumbria, Sunderland, Newcastle and Durham with the help of the Open University and Beamish Museum. The 5 research strands cover political, social, economic and religious history.

  • The Great Britain Historical database (GBH)
    A large integrated database of geographically-located historical statistics for Great Britain, mainly drawn from the period 1851-1939.

  • History of Britain and the UK in general - World History Archives

  • History of Ireland - World History Archives

• Netherlands
  • ArchiefForum
    A Dutch forum for historians and historical sociologists.

  • ArchiefNet
    A search device for sites by archival services in the Netherlands and other countries.

  • Archieven
    A historical portal that provides access more than 40 Dutch archives services.

  • Archieven.org
    Archives for journalists, academics and policy makers. Includes a databank of archives in the Netherlands and Flanders.

  • Dolmens in the Netherlands
    Holland is a flat country. There are no mountains or rocks. But in the north of the country within a radius of only 20 miles, 53 megalithic monuments are scattered over a beautiful landscape. Granite skeletons of 5500 years old burial chambers. Where did these 20 ton boulders come from, how were they piled up and by whom and why..? What is the mystery behind these relics from the past..? Your internet guide is Hans Meijer (Assen). Dutch and English version.

  • Geschiedenis Begint Hier
    A general link collection on Dutch history.

  • Geschiedenis
    On this site history is written. Inspired by the past, trying to write a living history.

  • geschiedenis.pagina.nl
    A dutch portal on Dutch history.

  • Hoofdstukken uit de Nederlandse Geschiedenis
    Chapters from the Dutch history.

  • Institute of Netherlands History (ING) - The Hague, The Netherlands.
    Provides a guide to historical sources, biographical and bibliographical reference works.

  • International Institute of Social History (IISG)

  • Museum van de Vaderlandse Geschiedenis
    The Low Countries History Museum, is a virtual museum, hosting a collection of hundreds of items, each item relating to a major event in the history of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Dutch and English version.

  • Nationaal Archief
    The National Archive manages more than 6000 archives. It is the largest public archive in the Netherland. Although not all these archives are computerised, you can search many collections online. The site includes a nice time-line on Dutch history.

  • Data Archiving & Networked Services (DANS)
    The national organisation for storing and providing access to research data from the humanities and social sciences. DANS manages existing data archives and develops a new infrastructure for data storage and access in areas that do not have this. DANS is a joint initiative of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisatino for Scientific Research (NWO).

  • Vereniging voor Geschiedenis en Informatica (VGI)
    A transnational association for history and informatics. Their aim is to stimulate the knowledge on the use of informatics in historical research and education. But their site contains only some formal information, with links to other organizations. Dutch only.
• Spain
  • Los romanzados y los vascongado
    Cultural page from Bilbao on the history, languages, politics and traditions of the Romanic-Basque Country.

Africa

• Africa Research Central
  A clearinghouse of African primary sources.

• Africa South of the Sahara
  An annotated guide to information about Sub-Saharan Africa on the internet (web sites, e-mail discussion lists, telnet sites, etc.). Prepared at Stanford University, California, U.S.A.

• African Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania, USA

• Cahiers d'études africaines [table of contents]
  An international and interdisciplinary bilingual journal (French and English) of the social sciences on Africa, West Indies and Black Africa. The journal, founded in 1960, publishes miscellaneous issues and essays testifying to the most recent trends in research and field theory and the discussions they generate.

• Exploring Africa
  An exhibit of maps and travel narratives from Leo Africanus to Chinua Achene. The virtual exhibit is organized in into islands of materials. Created by Patrick Scott (selection and text) and Jason Pierce (hypertext development).

• South African Politics, Culture & Society
  A short listing of internet resources on South African politics, universities, literature and arts. Editor: Allison Drew (Univ. of York, UK).

• World History Archive: Africa

America

• History Matters: U.S. History 1820 to present
  Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S.history. A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

• Internet Moving Image Archive
  An archive with educational films on the history and culture of North America between 1905 and 1969. All films are presented offered in MPGEG-2 format (full-screen video). Academoc and educational institutions may freely download the films.

• Interpreting the Declaration of Independency by Translation
  Compliments March 1999 Journal of American History Roundtable of the same title, contains the declaration as it has been translated into different languages and at different times.

• Journal de la société des américanistes (JSA) [table of contents]
  Founded in 1896, JSA is a scientific journal with an international reputation. Devoted to Amerindian societies and cultures, considered in the totality of their history, JSA owes its originality and its richness to a disciplinary openness that leads to the encounter of prehistory, archaeology, ethno history, ethnology, ethno-linguistics and more rarely, sociology and biological anthropology, in its pages. A similar spirit of openness characterizes the languages used by the journal: French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese, besides Indian languages. Specialised, but resolutely turning its back on the compartmentalisation of disciplines, JSA's readers are anthropologists working on native America.

• Net Deal Network (NDN)
  The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration.

• World History Archive: America

Asia

• Asian Studies - WWW Virtual Library - W3C/ANU.
  The Internet Guide to Asian Studies. A large-scale distributed, collaborative project that provides an up-to-date hypertext map and a seamless acces tool to the networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems in the field of Asian studies. You get regional data (whole of Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, Pacific Ocean, East Asia), countries/territories data (from Afghanistan to Yemen), and Asia-Pacific Global Data. This is probably the only site you have to visit. It's comprehensive, well structured, user friendly and it's fast. Editor: T. Matthew Ciolek.

• AsianDOC - Asian Database Online Community Electronic Newsletter
  The goal of this newsletter is to "support scholars, librarians, and researchers world-wide who are developing text and image databases in the various fields of Asian/EurAsian Studies or who are incorporating materials in Asian languages into larger databases, and to promote better communication among them." Editor: Maureen Donovan (librarian at Ohio State University).

• Okamoto, Tomochika (Waseda University, Tokyo)
  The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks, 1945-1998
  A sociological content analysis of history school textbooks in Japan. It reviews the changes in contents of high school history textbooks in postwar Japan, and analyzes the transformation of history education in terms of the rise and fall of postwar Japanese nationalism. The study is focused on (1) the effects of postwar ethnocentric Japanese nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s on history textbooks, and (2) the new movement of history education toward "transnationalism" after the mid-1980s.

• World History Archive: Africa

Australia

• Australian Historical Studies (AHS)
  AHS is concerned with Australian history and with other histories in so far as they inform the understanding of history in Australia. It is published by the University of Melbourne and is supported by the Faculty of Arts. You'll get recent issues tables of contents and abstract.

• The Australian Information Server for History and the Humanities (AISHH)
  Resources in Australian and New Zealand history, and urban history. A joint initiative by the Department of History & Politics at James Cook University of North Queensland, and the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. Editors: Alan Mayne and Paul Turnbull.

• The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (EJANZH)
  A peer reviewed electronic publication for the dissemination of research and other professional outcomes by historians of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The editors of the Journal have a special interest in providing a peer evaluated forum for appraisal of new technologies in research and teaching. It is concerned with how interactive multi-media be most effectively used to represent the past in all its richness and complexity. The site is an initative of the School of History and Politics, James Cook University and the Department of History, Melbourne University. Editor: Paul Turnbull and Alan Mayne.

• H-ANZAU
  H-Net's discussion list for the history of Aotearoa / New Zealand and Australia, and related fields. The aim of H-ANZAU is to provide a forum for the discussion of research projects and ideas, as well as providing news of resources, conferences and events of interest to researchers, teachers, archivists and librarians. They provide information which will enhance quality teaching in universities and secondary schools, and they support teachers and researchers of the history of Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand working in overseas centres.

• History of Oceania - World History Archive

Canada

• Academic Info: Canadian Studies

• Canadian History of the Web
  A resource to get you started on your seach for sites on Canadian history. Editor: Susan Neylan (British Columbia University).

• Canadian History
  Resources from the WWW-VL History.

• Canadian History Ring

• Canadian Information by Subject
  Presented by the National Library of Canada. The subjects are presented in the form of a 'subject tree', based on the structure of the Dewey Decimal Classification system. French and English version.

• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
  A guide to more than 200 print and electronic sources. Covers all aspects of Canadian culture. Also provides links to the leading online resources for Canadian Studies in Canada and internationally. Editors: John D. Blackwell (Reference Department, Brandeis University Libraries) & Laurie C.C. Stanley-Blackwell (Department of History, St. Francis Xavier University). They introduce us in a geopolitical conundrum, described as "The Unknown Country". The site contains essay on sources and topics, with internet links throughout the text.

• CanLinks
  A directory of resources relevant to Canadian studies. Editor: David Lucking.

• Culture Canada
  A cultural guide through Canada.

• Great Canadian History Page, The
  Learn why Canada might be the best country in the world. The site presents some original information, suc as a time-line on Cadadian history and on prime ministers, and links to other Canadian sites with historical information. Editor: Bob Vavra (The Comp, Saskatchewan).

• Historica
  A foundation devoted to Canadian history education.

• History of Quebec and Canada
  A resource page for students of the history of Quebec and Canada, presented by the History Teaching Resource Centre at the Lester B. Pearson School.

• Oh Canada
  In an atttempt to define the multicultural fabric, the history, symbols and values of Canadian Beverly Leeck has gathered some interesting sources of information.

• Online Resources for Canadian Heritage
  A list of internet resources pertinent to Canadian heritage in the disciplines archaeology, civilizations, history, and native history.

• History of Canada - World History Archive