Death in Ancient Egypt
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| This electronic text by Alexandra O'Brien is well-designed text and has wonderful, fully annotated images, suggested readings, and list of sites. | |
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Egyptian Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom
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| A 17-page essay with cross-links to supporting material, fine images, and a wonderful set of tomb plans clearly labeled and described. The creator Kelley Ross has developed a very good site. | |
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Evaluation of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy Using Spiral CT and Reconstructions: Interactive Display Using the World Wide Web
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| A detailed 21-page essay with numerous helpful cross-links to other resources, marvelous images, and a short but excellent list of other related sites. | |
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Guardian's Egypt: Mummies
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| Mummies on the Web consists of an excellent list of 20 sites. Included are the British Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Manchester Museum, and National Geographic. The list is annotated. | |
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The Tomb of Senneferi
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| Discusses an ongoing excavation in Egypt: what the tomb is, how archaeology is done, what is found, and other topics. There are conservation records from the years 1993-1997, a section on wall paintings, and a brief description of Senneferi and his family. Altogether this is an intelligently constructed and designed site. | |
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Who Was Who Among the Royal Mummies
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| An article with graphic images by Edward Wente (University of Chicago) from the Winter 1995 issue of the Oriental Institute News and Notes. | |
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Ancient and Modern Olympic Games
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| An appealing well-designed site with an excellent blend of text and images. There are four sections: ancient Olympic events, tour of the Olympic site, athlete's stories, and context of the games and the Olympic spirit. Five athletes from the Ancient Games are highlighted. The accounts of their achievements are fascinating. | |
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The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum
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| Contains brief descriptions of several subjects with a few cross-links and a good mix of images mainly of pottery. Among the subjects are history, victors, definitions, related sites, myths, and a Panathenaia Exhibit with arenas and rules, athletic events, and equestrian events. | |
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The Olympic Games
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| A 2-page description of the Ancient Games with cross-links to relevant topics. | |
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Olympia Project: The Spirit of Ancient Olympics
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| When construction finishes this official site for the 2004 Athens Olympics will provide information on subjects that include an historical overview of the Ancient Olympics, a history and meaning of the Games, descriptions of events such as wrestling, and an essay on athletes from Asia Minor. | |
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The Keep: The Vikings, The Mongols, and Other Barbarians
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| An extensive list of links to Viking sites | |
Medieval Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon Britain: Literature, Culture, History
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| Viking Britain is one of the major themes. Excellent resource with substantial links and full-text materials created by William Layher. One example is a linkage that provides a rune by rune breakdown of the Runes of the elder Futhark with linguistic comparisons. | |
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Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, and British Living History
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| Covers Early Medieval Europe in general and Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain in particular. Extensive number of full-text articles by author with appropriate images. The site has a fascinating amount ofdetail about the basics of everyday life, e.g., tools and weaving. Member with links to Ring of Vikings, Anglo-Saxon England Ring, and Medieval Studies Ring. | |
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Viking Heritage: Server and Database
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| The database accesses articles, images, persons, and other historical information as well as all the important Viking sites in the world. The Vikings section has 10 chapters with well-illustrated 2-3 page essays. Articles include work by leading scholars. | |
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The Viking Home Page
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| There are 15 Viking topics, including warfare and ships, with links to many Viking sites. | |
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The Viking Longship
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| A well-illustrated 9-page article by John Hale from the Scientific American (May 1996) about the longships of the Vikings who were the dominant power in Europe for three centuries beginning in about 800 A.D. There are excellent cross-links and a good list of related sites. | |
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The Viking Network Web
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| Five main sections on the Vikings lead to a series of brief essays on subjects as varied as mythology, Leif Ericsson, and running a Viking household. | |
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Vikings
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| An attractive nicely illustrated resource that is part of the larger Medieval Scandinavia site. Sections include Life as a Viking, Viking Ship, Viking Links, and Viking Combat. Viking Combat is a 6-page section with 3 sub-sections. | |
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The World of the Vikings
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| Contains a short list of sites with some full-text articles listed under headings such as "Academic," "Runes and Sagas," and "Ships." | |
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Yggdrasil: Home of the Vikings
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| A comprehensive list of Viking-related sites. Very impressive in scope and content. There is also an article on the Vikings by the Chief Curator of the University Museum of Antiquities in Oslo. | |
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Crusades
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| A 22-page essay from the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) with cross-links. | |
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The Crusades
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| This part of the Internet Archive of Texts and Documents has links to 10 original texts and 6 other resources. | |
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Crusades: A Guide to Online Resources
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| This On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies site has eight short essays by Paul Crawford, bibliographic references, and a text Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain. | |
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A History and Mythos of the Knights Templar
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| This is a fine site. The attractive graphics enhance 75 pages of text and images, including The Crusades: Five Centuries of Holy Wars. | |
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History of Western
Civilization: The Crusades
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| An exceedingly modest site about the First Crusade with 21 sections providing less than a page of commentary on each subject. | |
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Selected Sources: The Crusades
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| This excellent Paul Halsall list of sources uses a contents outline format to link to a wide range of original and secondary materials such as a selection of seven original texts on the Evolution of Crusader Privileges, 1095-1270. Other Crusader sites are also listed in the Sourcebook. | |
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The Jerusalem Mosaic - The Crusader and Ayyubid Period
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| A small nicely designed resource with interesting graphics and brief descriptions of religious sites, costumes, people, food, and water systems. | |
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The Knights Hospitaller in the
Crusader Period
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| A list of 20 resources including images and original texts. The Hospitallers were founded in the 11th century to care for sick pilgrims in Jerusalem. During the Crusades a military function was also adopted. | |
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Odin's Castle - The Monk 's Cell : The History of Religion
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| This list of Crusades resources is uneven but is presented in a nice package. Odin's Castle is connected to several valuable history rings. | |
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Great Mongol Home Page
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| Sections on culture, history, people, and resources with some cross-links are the highlights of this well illustrated site. The Hall of Fame of the Mongols is 6 pages in length and contains a list of Genghis Khan sites. One of these is an 11-page analysis of Genghis Khan's leadership qualities. Under the heading of history one finds a 22-page essay on the objects of veneration commemorating the life of Genghis Khan. | |
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Islam and Islamic History in Arabia and the Middle East: The Mongols and Mamaluks
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| A 1-page essay from an interesting perspective. | |
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The Mongol Empire: A Historical Web Site
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| Provides a brief overview of the empire, timeline, two maps, and biography of Genghis Khan. | |
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Mongol Invasion of Europe
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| An 8 page article by Erik Hildinger from the journal Military History. | |
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The Mongol Khans
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| The index has 7 main headings. The main text has 11 pages with some cross-links. The list of the Khans by name and the dates of their rule are major features of this site. | |
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Mongolia Online
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| Three major sections -- Political Structure, History, and Culture -- contain information about the history of Mongolia with 4 pages on the Mongol World Empire and culture with images and brief text on costumes, art, musical instruments, and belongings. There are also links to other sites. | |
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The Path of Khan
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| A 7-page article by Cherie Brooks from Mercator's World (May/June 1998). | |
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Realm of the Mongols
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| Contains essays written by Per Inge Oestmoen on a range of topics including people and history. The essay on Kahn's Yasa (Grand Law) is a 19-page recounting of A Code of Honor, Dignity, and Excellence. Another essay is the 14-page "Mongol History and Chronology from Ancient Times." There is also a bibliography and a list of links. | |
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The Turco-Mongol Invasions of Armenia
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| Primarily The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13-14th Centuries, a 1979 dissertation by Robert Bedrosian. | |
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Virtual Mongol
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| A photographic site with many images by the Japanese illustrator Kikutake Yuji. | |
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Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: The Magna Carta
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| Text, definitions, and index to the Magna Carta. | |
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The Charter of Liberties of Henry I
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| Text of an earlier Charter that served as the model for the Great Charter of 1215. | |
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Magna Carta
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| Complete text of the Great Charter forced upon King John in June 1215 along with definitions and an interpretation. | |
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Magna Carta: Original Document
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| Click on "Digital Library" at this British Library site to see an image of the originalMagna Carta. One can zoom on the image in order to read the text. | |
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ABZU: Guide to
Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet: Subject Index:
Maps and Atlases
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| 72 photographs from the Oriental Institute Research Archives of Levantine castles and portions of detailed maps showing their locations. | |
The Castles of Wales
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| This superb site by Jeff Thomas has a fine design, unusual depth of coverage, and appealing graphics. Over 400 different Welsh castles are in the site's database. The Essays & Perspectives section contains 8 historical overview essays, 10 essays on the evolution of castles in Wales, and 9 additional essays on a variety of interesting topics including Life in a Medieval Castle. There is also a section on Castle Builders and their turbulent times. | |
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Castles on the Web
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| History is not this site's b point but there are many images and a list of other castle sites. | |
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The English Medieval Castle
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| Three articles by David Dawson outlining the development of the English medieval castle and describing its major features. There is a good use of images with the text. | |
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Constantinople's Volcanic Twilight
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| This 5-page article by Lynn Teo Simarski first appeared in Aramco World (November/December 1996). | |
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Hellenism in the Middle Ages
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| The Fall of Constantinople is described in a 22-page section that includes an excellent image of the battle, a poem, and a lengthy essay by Dionysios Hatzopoulos. | |
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The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
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| Includes a 4-page essay with images on the Inquisition and Galileo. | |
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The
Galileo Project
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| An impressive hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo and the science of his time. A detailed 15-page chronology of his life cross-links to longer texts and related resources. Commentary on career, family, patrons, images, and Inquisition events are presented in a tasteful format. Under the heading of resources there is the Catalog of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries, a searchable database of over 600 individuals. The biography of Galileo is 5 pages in length. | |
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Los Nos Inquisidores
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| The Harley L. McDevitt Collection on the Spanish Inquisition at the University of Notre Dame includes exhibits on The Holy Offices Manual of Inquisitions, Indices of Banned Books, and Early Works. The primary purpose of this site is to display representative holdings in the collection rather than to provide the resources themselves. There are links to a few substantive articles. | |
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Inquisition
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| A 22-page essay on the Inquisition from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. Some of the cross-links are substantive. For example, the cross-link to "heresy" has 12 pages organized into 13 sections. | |
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Medieval Heresy
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| Contains a lengthy list of resources many from the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) and Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook. | |
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Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Heresy:
The Inquisition
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| The Inquisition is listed in the contents section under Medieval Heresy. There are 18 texts including a 4-page introduction by David Burr on Inquisition documents and a 22-page commentary by Bernard Maury on the Inquisition process. | |
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Multimedia Catalogue - Room IV - Galileo Galilei
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| An attractive site with excellent images from the Institute and Museum of the History of Science of Florence, Italy. Includes a 3-page biography of Galileo via a cross-link, a Biography Index with over 60 people who were in some way connected with Galielo, an Index of Artifacts with descriptions and cross-links, and links to other sites. | |
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Encyclopedia of the Revolutions of 1848
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| More than 50 short essays usually in the range of 2 to 4 pages describe events, people, and other topics such as the 4-page essay on Civil Liberties and the 1848 Revolutions. | |
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The German 1848 Revolution - 150 Years and the German-American Dimension
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| Contains a list of resources, many in German, about the German 1848 Revolution. | |
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The German Revolution of 1848
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| An 8-page article, "The German Revolution of 1848," by Robert Selig from the February/ March 1998 issue of German Life. | |
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History -- The 19th Century: Revolutions of 1848
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| Consists of a one-page overview of the revolutions, a chronology, several biographies, and essays. | |
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Hungary in 1848-1849
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| Six texts and documents, 5 of which are chapters from Henry DePuy's Kossuth and His Generals (1852). Part of the more extensive Habsburg Home Page. | |
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The Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Archive
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| Contains full-text resources by both Marx and Engels on the revolutions of 1848-49. Marx's Eighteenth Brumiere of Louis Bonaparte deals with the events and aftermath of the revolution of 1848 in France and Engels' The Peasant War in Germany draws parallels between the 1848 revolutions in Germany and the uprisings in the 16th century. | |
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The March Days of 1848
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| A 20-page chapter, "Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia and His "Dear Berliners," from Germans and the Revolution of 1848 by Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. | |
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Modern History Sourcebook: Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): History of the Revolution of 1848 in France
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| A 5-page excerpt from a book by de Lamartine written shortly after the events occurred. | |
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The Spanish Civil War
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| This site is oriented toward the work of Buenaventura Durruti and the role of anarchists in the Civil War. In addition to resources on Durruti there are sections on bibliography, graphics, and history. The bibliography includes cross-links to some full-text books and pamphlets. The posters from a collection at Brandeis are wonderful. In the area of history there are 22 well-chosen links including many photos from the book Photo-History: War in Spain. | |
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Spanish Civil War: Resources on the World
Wide Web
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| A modest site with good links to valuable resources. Provides links to archives and a list of poetry written in English on the Civil War. | |
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The Spanish Revolution (1936)
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| The role of anarchism in the Spanish conflict is the focus of this site. There is an extensive array of full-text materials related to the subject. | |
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The Spanish Revolution & Civil War
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| A provocative site with high impact graphics and a broad range of subjects including weapons and military links, Catholic Church, posters, anarchist origins, and bibliographic material. Essays and other textual material are often extensive. For example, there is a 22-page article on the role of Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic. | |
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Spanish Revolution of 1936
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| Contains a rambling 2-page commentary by Franklin Rosemont of aspects of the working class' involvement in the conflict and a 3-page essay on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by the site creator Al Filreis. | |
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The Visual Front
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| Includes 42 posters of the Spanish Civil War from UCSD's Southworth Collection. Information about the artists and descriptions of the context in which each poster was created is very helpful. There is also a chronology of the war and an extensive bibliography with a few cross-links. | |
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Barbarossa
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| A 5-page illustrated narrative outline from the opening invasion through the Battle of Stalingrad to the end of Operation Citadel. | |
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Battle of
Stalingrad
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| Contains German Order of Battle and Operational Directives documents for the Battle of Stalingrad which was part of Operations Barbarossa, the overall plan for the invasion of the USSR. Site also includes information about the broader context and descriptions of weapons. | |
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Operation
Barbarossa
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| Focus is on the plan for the invasion of the USSR with order of battle, organization, tactics, maps, and units. Descriptions are brief. There are links to other operations on the Russian Front. | |
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Red Steel: The Beast from the East
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| Site is devoted to aspects of the Soviet armored forces and battles on the Eastern Front. Member of the Eastern Front Web Ring. | |
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WW II Resources
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| The On-Line Books from the U.S. Center of Military History section of this major site includes two lengthy pamphlets on German experiences on the Eastern Front. The first is "Operations of Encircled Forces" prepared by former German officers and the second is "Rear Area Security in Russia: The Soviet Second Front Behind the German Lines" prepared by former German generals and general staff officers. | |
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WW II - The Eastern Front: The Stalingrad Battle
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| A 4-page description of the battle. The major focus of this site is the Cossacks. Provides a link to the Hartmans' extensive History of Russia and the Former USSR site (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DouglasHartman/history.htm). | |
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World War II Documentaries - Winter Tempest in Stalingrad
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| A 9-page article by Pat McTaggart. | |
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World War II Documentaries - Kursk Reconsidered, Germany's Lost Victory?
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| A 7-page article by George Nipe Jr. on the greatest tank battle in history. | |
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Distinguished Women of Past and Present
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| Search by name or field of activity for brief biographies of heads of states, educators, artists, and others. The links to related sites are extensive. | |
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Internet Women's History Sourcebook
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| This site is a subset of texts from Halsall’s three major Sourcebooks (Ancient, Medieval, and Modern). Access is by country, region, and continent to a set of 5 themes -- Great Women, Women’s Oppressors, Structure of Women’s Lives, Women’s Agency, and Gender Construction. The site is well organized and the layout is exemplary. | |
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Diotima: Materials for the Study of Gender in the Ancient World
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| A truly impressive site with a wide range and depth of resources. There are extensive site- and web-based bibliographies, full-text essays, lectures, journal articles, and books, course materials, materials for biblical study, and images. Many Greek and Roman texts are available online in translation. | |
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Women Writers of the Middle Ages
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| Includes sections on Secular Women Writers, Saints and Women in Religious Vocations, Materials Concerning Women, and Secondary Hypertexts with interesting materials written by Millersville University students on topics such as domestic life, health and healing, and philosophy. | |
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Women's Studies: A Guide to Online Resources
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| From the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies this site includes an essay on "Medieval German Women Writers (1100-1450)," primary source material, bibliographies and other online resources. The section on primary source material contains 4 Latin texts in translation on medieval women and background papers such as "The Desert Mothers I: A Survey of the Feminine Anchoretic Tradition in Western Europe." | |
