History Links and Resources
German history |
Global history |
Western Civilization |
Russian history |
Military history
Middle Eastern history |
World Politics
German History Links
General
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My UMUC colleague Bruce Hull has put together a great list of
resources on modern German
history, starting around 1800. It includes numerous references to webpages
on various aspects of German history and scholarly articles, all organized into
chronological periods.
Primary Sources
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Check out German History in Documents
and Images, an initiative of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Richard Weikert at the University of California, Stanislaus has put together
a great list
of primary sources on modern German history. It has a lot of documents that shed
light on the various "-isms" that characterize the major epochs of western European
history: romanticism, nationalism, etc.
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Richard Hacken's page
at Brigham Young University has some very interesting primary sources from German
history.
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Military history buffs will enjoy Feldgrau.com,
which has lots of info on weapons, uniforms, insignia and the like for the German
Wehrmacht, and SS and their campaigns in the Second World War.
Secondary Sources, Scholarly Publications
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The German Review focuses primarily on
German literature, but also has article on history.
Global History Links
The first sections list online collections of primary sources and general resources for the study of
world history. Then there are more specific links provided for each week of the HIST 112 class. Some of
these links are mentioned in class, some are required. Others are listed here as possible references depending
on student research and interest. The weekly links emphasize the topics discussed in class over the broad
sweep of issues covered in the textbook.
Primary Sources
The Field of World and Global History
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H-World is the world and global history place for discussions
and resources on world history. This is a great place to subscribe to if you want a first impression
of the kinds of things that world historians argue about.
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The World History Connected
webpage has articles on teaching and studying global history. The November 2004 issue
has some interesting articles on integrating Africa, which is often neglected, into
global history.
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Read Samual P. Huntington's famous essay
on the Clash of
Civilizations.
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Wang Hui: Reclaiming Asia from the West: Rethinking Global History
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=226
Week 1 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Week 2 - Islamic world powers, liberalism and revolution
Week 3 - Industrial revolution, western nationalism and imperialism
Week 4 - Asia in the 18th-early 20th centuries, World War One
Week 5 - Asian nationalism, totalitarianism, World War Two
Week 6 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Week 7 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Week 8 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Western Civilization Links
Primary Sources
The history sourcebooks at Fordham university are the best online
place to look for primary documents on western history.
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The Ancient History
Sourcebook has primary sources and other rescources on everything from the origins
of mankind up to late antiquity, including material on the origins of Christianity.
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The Medieval History Sourcebook
has primary sources and other resources on everything from the fall of Rome up to the
Reformation and the Age of Exploration.
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The Modern History Sourcebook
has primary sources and other resources on everything from the Reformation up to the
present, including topics such as pop culture and postwar religious developments.
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The Avalon Project at
Yale University is very good for primary sources from western history, although not
as extensive as the history sourcebooks above.
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The Bible Gateway is the best online resource
I have found on biblical texts. It has a missionary purpose and does not include
related items such as the apocryphal books or pagan sources. Nor does it include
scholarly commentary on the passages. But it offers a wide range of possible translations
in English and numerous other languages and is thus not tied to a particular denomination
or interpretation.
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The Brooklyn College History Department has put together
an image bank of
pictures from the modern age.
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The Art Images for College Teaching
webpage has free images of various themes from western history.
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Guantanamo Testimonials Project
Lectures and other Secondary Sources
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Gerhard Rempel, a professor at Western New England College has posted
his
lectures on western civilization online. They cover lots of subjects, from
"Moses and Homer" up through the middle ages.
Russian History Links
General Resources / Primary Sources
/ Resources on Specific Themes
General Resources
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H-Russia's list of history links
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Bruce Hull, a colleague at UMUC Europe, has a
collection of resources on
Russian history . The focus is primarily on the Soviet period, but includes
resources on pre-Soviet history.
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Nicholas J. Pappas, a professor of history at Sam Houston State University, has set up a
great list of links on Russian
history, including lots of primary source documents from every period of Russian
history, from the early middle ages up to the post-Soviet period.
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The Modern History
Sourcebook has numerous primary sources from pre- and postrevolutionary Russia.
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Readings in Russian History
by Prof. Gerhard Rempel is a great collection of primary source documents and secondary
readings on Russian history from the middle ages up to the 1990s.
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The History of the Soviet Union
page at the School of History, UEA, College of Norwich, has links to Russian search
engines, other collections of Russian history resources, as well as to primary and
secondary sources. Some of the links are broken, however.
- Guide to Resources on Russian History
at the Library for Slavic and Eastern European History (Urbana) is a guide to
resources on Russian history. It is mostly about traditional print resources,
however.
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See Kultura for excellent articles on current and historical issues in Russia: http://kultura-rus.de/index.html
Primary Sources
Specific Historical Topics or Persons
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Wehrmacht map of European Russia, 1943-1944,
an interesting resource for the road and railway network of the country.
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For the Great Patriotic War and Chechnya, see the
Russian
Warrior. While lacking a scholarly aura, it does have some fun resources
including photos, pictures of equipment, uniforms, insignia, etc. It also has an interactive
section for getting in touch with people interested in all aspects of Russian
military history.
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The Russo-Japanese-War Research Society
has resources on that war. The page is based almost exclusively on Japanese source
material, however, and has little information on the Russian side.
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The Leon Trotsky Internet
Archive contains photos, a biography and just about everything Trotsky ever said
or wrote. His texts are well organized by period and subject so you can easily find,
for example, his ideas about the Red Army. It is part of the Marxist Internet Archive.
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The Marxist Internet Archive has an
encyclopedia of Marxism and other resources on ideology and personalities, including
the writings of many prominent authors.
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http://www.soviet-awards.com/ has all you
want to know about Soviet military awards.
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http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/ is
all about the military history of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War. Lots of maps,
orders of battle, "raw data", images, etc.
Present-Day Russia
Military History Links
General Links and Military Strategy and Theory
Journals and Reference Works
World War One Sites and Collections
World War Two Sites and Collections
Russian Military History
General Links and Links on Military Strategy and Theory
World War One Sites and Collections
These three sites will get you started on just about any aspect of the First World
War from combat to poetry, zeppelins to women in the workforce.
Various Wars and Conflicts (primarily Russia and USSR)
There are countless summaries of various wars that can be found with a simple
google search. The following webpages have been chosen if they provide original or
documentary material.
World War Two Sites and Collections
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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Carrothers has a great collection
of World War Two propaganda posters.
Russian Military History
Most of these sites are not terribly scholarly. They are more on the level of "hobby."
There is some useful information here, however, especially on weapons, uniforms and
operations.
Links:
THE LINKS ARE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
History
General Interest
News Sources and Blogs
Middle East Media Research Institute provides
video clips with subtitles and translations from Middle East broadcast media sources.
Very good for watching political proclamations and statements.
Ha'aretz, the English-language version of an
Israeli daily newspaper
Arab News, "the Middle East's leading English
language daily"
Al Jazeera in English
The Islamic Republic News Agency, an official
Iranian source.
MOSAIC, daily news programs from
independent and state-controlled broadcasters from throughout the Middle East.
Riverbend, the blog
of a woman in Baghdad.
Global History Links
The first sections list online collections of primary sources and general resources for the study of
world history. Then there are more specific links provided for each week of the HIST 112 class. Some of
these links are mentioned in class, some are required. Others are listed here as possible references depending
on student research and interest. The weekly links emphasize the topics discussed in class over the broad
sweep of issues covered in the textbook.
Primary Sources
The Field of World and Global History
-
H-World is the world and global history place for discussions
and resources on world history. This is a great place to subscribe to if you want a first impression
of the kinds of things that world historians argue about.
-
The World History Connected
webpage has articles on teaching and studying global history. The November 2004 issue
has some interesting articles on integrating Africa, which is often neglected, into
global history.
-
Read Samual P. Huntington's famous essay
on the Clash of
Civilizations.
-
Wang Hui: Reclaiming Asia from the West: Rethinking Global History
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=226
Week 1 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Week 2 - Islamic world powers, liberalism and revolution
Week 3 - Industrial revolution, western nationalism and imperialism
Week 4 - Asia in the 18th-early 20th centuries, World War One
Week 5 - Asian nationalism, totalitarianism, World War Two
Week 6 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Week 7 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
Week 8 - Absolutism and the Atlantic Trade
