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▐ Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.

Finding aids for textual and multimedia primary sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source) with a focus on the western hemisphere and the 19th and 20th centuries. Courses and learning tools to 
explore history digitally.

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Contents

- Archives and primary sources (#archives-and-primary-sources)
  - Africa (#africa)
  - Asia (#asia)
  - Austria (#austria)
  - Europe (#europe)
  - France (#france)
  - Germany (#germany)
  - Global (#global)
  - Great Britain (#great-britain)
  - Netherlands (#netherlands)
  - North America (#north-america)
  - Switzerland (#switzerland)
- Learning (#learning)
- More Awesome (#more-awesome)
- Contribute (#contribute)

Archives and primary sources

Africa

- PARC (https://parc-portal.org/) - 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 (https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/home) - A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa.

Asia

- FOCAL (https://www.asia-directories.org/) - 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.

Austria

- ANNO (https://anno.onb.ac.at/) - Austrian Newspapers online.
- Digitarium (https://digitarium-app.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/) - Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung.
- Österreichische Mediathek (https://www.mediathek.at/) - The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and contemporary history.
- Wien Geschichte Wiki (https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Wien_Geschichte_Wiki) - It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510 images.

Europe

- Archives Portal Europe (https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/) - European archives search engine.
- Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique (https://ehne.fr/) - European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges.
- Europeana (https://www.europeana.eu/) - Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources.
- Mapire (https://mapire.eu/) - Interactive historical maps.
- Monasterium (https://www.monasterium.net/mom/home) - Deeds from all over Europe.
- Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/) - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
- Visual Archive Southeastern Europe (http://gams.uni-graz.at/context:vase) - Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe.

France

- Gallica (https://gallica.bnf.fr/) - Digital library of the National Library of France.
- Institut national de l'audiovisuel (https://www.ina.fr/) - INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives.

Germany

- Archivportal (https://www.archivportal-d.de/) - German archives search engine.
- Bavarikon (https://www.bavarikon.de/) - Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.
- Computerarchiv Muenchen (http://computerarchiv-muenchen.de/) - South German Museum for History of Digital Development.
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/) - Over 12 million objects.
- Deutsches Zeitungsportal (https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper) - Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950.
- Digitale Sammlungen (https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/) - Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.
- Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv (https://www.digitales-deutsches-frauenarchiv.de/) - An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.
- Docupedia (https://docupedia.de/) - Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research.
- historicum.net (https://www.historicum.net/home/) - A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services.
- leo bw (https://www.leo-bw.de/) - Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg.
- LexM (https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/content/index.xml) - Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.
- MARCHIVUM (https://druckschriften-digital.marchivum.de/) - Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim.
- Projekt Gutenberg (https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/) - Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German.
- SLUB Dresden (https://digital.slub-dresden.de/kollektionen/) - Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings).
- Spiegel Online (https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/besser-surfen-auf-spiegel-online-suchen-im-archiv-a-676489.html) - SPIEGEL archive since 1947.
- UB Heidelberg (https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html) - Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature.
- Uni Frankfurt (http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/) - Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more.
- Zefys (http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/) - Historical German newspapers.
- ZLB (https://digital.zlb.de/) - Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library.

Global

- Bitsavers.org (http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/) - Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines.
- Classic Computer Magazine Archive (https://www.atarimagazines.com/) - Preserving information from early personal computer magazines.
- Fxtop (https://fxtop.com/) - Forex rate history since 1953.
- Got Papers? (https://gotpapers.scene.org/?page_id=73) - Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.
- HMML (https://hmml.org/) - Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world.
- Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) - Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/) - Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide.
- Marxist Internet Archive (https://www.marxists.org/) - Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists).
- Mementoweb (http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/) - Find archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, and GitHub.
- OldMapsOnline (https://www.oldmapsonline.org/) - Maps, starting in the 17th century.
- OpenCat (https://opencat.io/) - Search engine for libraries around the globe.
- OpenHistoricalMap (https://openhistoricalmap.org/) - A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.
- Public Books Database (http://www.publicbooks.org/public-books-database/) - Open access academic literature.
- United Nations Archive (https://archives.un.org/) - Archives and records from the United Nations regarding Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions.
- WayBackMachine (https://archive.org/web/) - Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time.
- World Historical Gazeteer (https://whgazetteer.org/) - 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.

Great Britain

- British Library (https://www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections/digital-collections) - Maps, manuscripts and sounds.
- National Records of Scotland (https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/) - Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland.
- NLS (https://data.nls.uk/data/) - Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.
- The National Archives (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/) - 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 (https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/) - London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.

Netherlands

- Delpher (https://www.delpher.nl/) - Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.
- Nationaal Archief (https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/) - Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.

North America

- Ad*Access (https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess) - 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 (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) - America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963.
- Computer Gaming World Museum (https://www.cgwmuseum.org/) - Archive of various magazines on gaming.
- David Rumsey Map Collection (https://www.davidrumsey.com/) - Historical maps collection.
- Digital Public Library of America (https://dp.la/) - 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 (https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/) - Wide range of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout 
the world.
- Eugenics Archive (https://eugenicsarchive.ca/) - Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics.
- HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org) - A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items.
- National Archives (https://www.archives.gov/) - The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States.
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/) - Online collection of scanned maps.
- Women Working 1800-1930 (https://library.harvard.edu/collections/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 (https://www.wdl.org/) - WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

Switzerland

- Amtsdruckschriften (https://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/) - Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.
- Année Politique Suisse (https://anneepolitique.swiss/) - Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.
- arCHeco (https://www.archeco.info/) - Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
- Archives Online (https://www.archives-online.org/) - Archival search engine for Switzerland.
- chgov (https://www.chgov.bar.admin.ch/) - Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963).
- COSMOV (http://www.cosmov.uzh.ch/) - COSMOV includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968.
- DigiBern (https://www.digibern.ch/) - Bernese culture and history on the Internet.
- Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (https://www.dodis.ch/) - Diplomatic documents of Switzerland.
- e-codices (http://e-codices.ch/) - Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland.
- e-gs (https://www.e-gs.ethz.ch/) - Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection.
- e-manuscripta (https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/) - Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives.
- e-newspaperarchives.ch (https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/) - Swiss newspapers.
- E-Periodica (https://www.e-periodica.ch/) - Swiss journals.
- e-rara (https://www.e-rara.ch/) - The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.
- histHub (https://histhub.ch/) - The platform manages authority files on Swiss history.
- Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland (https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/) - Encyclopedia on Swiss history.
- HSSO (https://hsso.ch/) - Historical statistics of Switzerland online.
- impresso (https://impresso-project.ch/) - 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 (https://industriekultur.ch/) - Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts.
- infoclio.ch Edition projects (http://www.infoclio.ch/en/edition-projects) - A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland.
- Kartenportal (http://www.kartenportal.ch/) - Search engine for maps.
- Le Temps (https://www.letempsarchives.ch/) - Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève.
- map.geo.admin.ch (https://map.geo.admin.ch/) - Journey through time via maps of Switzerland.
- MEMOBASE (http://www.memobase.ch/) - Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.
- Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online (https://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/projekte/ssrq-online/) - Retrodigitalisierte und digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert wird 
rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (1798).
- Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (https://ub.unibas.ch/de/historische-bestaende/wirtschaftsarchive/) - This collection comprises over 500 business archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a 
focus on the Basel region.
- Sources Online (https://sources-online.org/index.html) - A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland.
- swisscollections (https://swisscollections.ch/) - Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives.
- timeSTAT Cubes (http://www.sfa-laboratory.ch/sr/cubestest/index.php) - The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years.
- transcriptiones (http://transcriptiones.ch) - Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.

Learning

- AdFontes (https://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/) - An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.
- Clio Guide (https://guides.clio-online.de/) - A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences.
- Crafting Digital History (http://workbook.craftingdigitalhistory.ca/) - A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History.
- Digital History Guide (http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/) - Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work.
- Geospatial Historian (https://geospatialhistorian.wordpress.com/) - Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.
- HIST 7370 (https://cblevins.github.io/f19-dig-hist/) - Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History.
- History Toolkit (https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studium/history-a-toolkit-for-students/) - History Toolkit for Students.
- Introduction to Digital History (https://wissen-ist-acht.github.io/digitalhistory.intro/) - 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 (https://python-textbook.pythonhumanities.com/intro.html) - A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in
the humanities.
- Local Linkages (https://locallinkages.org/) - Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills.
- Python für Historiker:innen (https://digital-history-berlin.github.io/Python-fuer-Historiker-innen/home.html) - 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 (https://comp-think.github.io/) - A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities.
- The Programming Historian (https://programminghistorian.org/) - 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 (https://guides.lib.uci.edu/history/history_dh) - Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities.
- We think History (https://wethink.hypotheses.org/) - News about and innovations from digital history.

More Awesome

- Computer History (https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history) - An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.
- Data Visualization (https://github.com/fasouto/awesome-dataviz#readme) - A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.
- Digital Humanities (https://dh-tech.github.io/awesome-digital-humanities#readme) - Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities.
- Research Tools (https://github.com/emptymalei/awesome-research#readme) - A list of tools for research.
- Scientific Writing (https://github.com/writing-resources/awesome-scientific-writing#readme) - Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), 
reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.
- Tempopedia (https://tempopedia.org/) - Digital History Directory.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the CONTRIBUTING.md (https://github.com/maehr/awesome-digital-history/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.