Web Links for the Study of History
Course Readings
Textbook Websites:
The Making of the West
Exploring the European Past (ETEP)
Reading Primary Sources:
Using a Primary Source
Reading a Primary Source
Resources of Knowledge
Wikipedia
Historical TopicsFrench Absolutism:
Louis XIV
Versailles
The English Civil War:
English History, 1625-1688
English Civil War's BBC Site
The English Civil Wars
Scientific Revolution:
Outline of the Scientific Revolution
The Galileo Project
The French and American Revolution:
Exploring the French Revolution
Liberty: The American Revolution
Napoleon:
Napoleon Bonaparte
PBS Site on Napoleon
The Industrial Revolution:
The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Socialism: Marx and Engles
Chartism
Victorian Britain
Nineteenth Century Political Revolutions:
The Paris Commune, 1871
Imperialism:
The Boxer Rebellion
The Opium Wars, 1830s and 1840s
World War One, 1914-1918:
Trenches on the Web
World War One Photographs
World War One Allied Posters
PBS Site on the Great War
Fascism:
The Spanish Civil War
Nazi Propaganda Archive
World War Two, 1939-1945:
The Holocaust Museum
Soviet War Photograpahy
Nuremberg Trial
The Origins of the Cold War, 1940s and 1950s:
Cold War Timeline and Information
CNN's Cold War Project
The Cold War Museum
The Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Korean War
The Berlin Wall, 1961
Detente, 1960s and 1970s:
The 1960s Project
The Cold War and the Third World:
The Chinese Civil War
The Vietnam War - Photos and Information
Decolonization:
Ghandi and India
The Fall of Communism, 1989:
Mikhail Gorbachev