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<p>Find primary sources online and learn how to research history
digitally.</p>
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<p>Finding aids for textual and multimedia <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source">primary sources</a>
with a focus on the western hemisphere and the 19th and 20th centuries.
Courses and learning tools to explore history digitally.</p>
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<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#archives-and-primary-sources">Archives and primary
sources</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#africa">Africa</a></li>
<li><a href="#asia">Asia</a></li>
<li><a href="#austria">Austria</a></li>
<li><a href="#europe">Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#france">France</a></li>
<li><a href="#germany">Germany</a></li>
<li><a href="#global">Global</a></li>
<li><a href="#great-britain">Great Britain</a></li>
<li><a href="#netherlands">Netherlands</a></li>
<li><a href="#north-america">North America</a></li>
<li><a href="#switzerland">Switzerland</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#learning">Learning</a></li>
<li><a href="#more-awesome">More Awesome</a></li>
<li><a href="#contribute">Contribute</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="archives-and-primary-sources">Archives and primary sources</h2>
<h3 id="africa">Africa</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://parc-portal.org/">PARC</a> - Portal for African
Research Collections: PARC is the new meta-catalogue for the Africana
collections at the research location Basel.</li>
<li><a href="https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/home">West African
Arabic Manuscript Database</a> - A comprehensive collection of
manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition
in West Africa.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="asia">Asia</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.asia-directories.org/">FOCAL</a> - 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.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="austria">Austria</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://anno.onb.ac.at/">ANNO</a> - Austrian Newspapers
online.</li>
<li><a href="https://digitarium-app.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/">Digitarium</a>
- Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mediathek.at/">Österreichische Mediathek</a> -
The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and
contemporary history.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Wien_Geschichte_Wiki">Wien
Geschichte Wiki</a> - It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by
Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510
images.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="europe">Europe</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/">Archives Portal
Europe</a> - European archives search engine.</li>
<li><a href="https://ehne.fr/">Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique</a> -
European History through renewed historiographic objects and major
contemporary challenges.</li>
<li><a href="https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page">EuroDocs –
Online Sources for European History</a> - A curated directory of online
primary sources for European history, organized by country and period,
with many items hosted by reputable institutions and using Dublin Core
metadata.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/">Europeana</a> - Search engine
for European textual and non-textual archival sources.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.handrit.is/">handrit.is</a> - Catalogue of more
than 15’000 manuscripts (12th–20th century) in Icelandic, Old Norse,
Danish and Latin (plus a few other languages) with more than 4’000
manuscripts digitally available.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.islandskort.is/">islandskort.is</a> - Digitized
maps of Iceland, Greenland and the Arctic region (1545–1949).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ismus.is/">ÍSMÚS</a> - Icelandic musical
heritage collection (including recordings and sheet music), legends and
fairytales.</li>
<li><a href="https://mapire.eu/">Mapire</a> - Interactive historical
maps.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.monasterium.net/mom/home">Monasterium</a> -
Deeds from all over Europe.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> - A
library of over 60,000 free eBooks.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.timarit.is/">tímarit.is</a> - Digitized
newspapers and magazines from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe
Islands.</li>
<li><a href="http://gams.uni-graz.at/context:vase">Visual Archive
Southeastern Europe</a> - Historical and contemporary visual materials
from Southeastern Europe.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="france">France</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/">Gallica</a> - Digital library of
the National Library of France.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ina.fr/">Institut national de l’audiovisuel</a>
- INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual
archives.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="germany">Germany</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.archivportal-d.de/">Archivportal</a> - German
archives search engine.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.bavarikon.de/">Bavarikon</a> - Collection of
Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://computerarchiv-muenchen.de/">Computerarchiv
Muenchen</a> - South German Museum for History of Digital
Development.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/">Deutsche
Digitale Bibliothek</a> - Over 12 million objects.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper">Deutsches
Zeitungsportal</a> - Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to
1950.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/">Digitale
Sammlungen</a> - Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.digitales-deutsches-frauenarchiv.de/">Digitales
Deutsches Frauenarchiv</a> - An interactive portal on the history of
women’s movements in Germany.</li>
<li><a href="https://docupedia.de/">Docupedia</a> - Terms, methods, and
debates in contemporary history research.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.historicum.net/home/">historicum.net</a> - A
specialized information service for historians that offers access to
research tools and services.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.leo-bw.de/">leo bw</a> - Platform of the State
Archives of Baden-Württemberg.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/content/index.xml">LexM</a>
- Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.</li>
<li><a href="https://druckschriften-digital.marchivum.de/">MARCHIVUM</a>
- Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the
history of Mannheim.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/">Projekt Gutenberg</a> -
Contains 10’000 works by over 2’000 authors in German.</li>
<li><a href="https://digital.slub-dresden.de/kollektionen/">SLUB
Dresden</a> - Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps,
drawings).</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/besser-surfen-auf-spiegel-online-suchen-im-archiv-a-676489.html">Spiegel
Online</a> - SPIEGEL archive since 1947.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html">UB
Heidelberg</a> - Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature.</li>
<li><a href="http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/">Uni Frankfurt</a> -
Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more.</li>
<li><a href="http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/">Zefys</a> -
Historical German newspapers.</li>
<li><a href="https://digital.zlb.de/">ZLB</a> - Collections of the
Berlin Central and State Library.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="global">Global</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/">Atlas of Mutual
Heritage</a> - Database with sources relating to VOC (Dutch East India
Company) and WIC (Dutch West India Company).</li>
<li><a href="http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/">Bitsavers.org</a> -
Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.atarimagazines.com/">Classic Computer Magazine
Archive</a> - Preserving information from early personal computer
magazines.</li>
<li><a href="https://fxtop.com/">Fxtop</a> - Forex rate history since
1953.</li>
<li><a href="https://gotpapers.scene.org/?page_id=73">Got Papers?</a> -
Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.</li>
<li><a href="https://hmml.org/">HMML</a> - Hill Museum &amp; Manuscript
Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world.</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> - Non-profit
library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites,
and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/">Karlsruher Virtueller
Katalog</a> - Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of
media in catalogs worldwide.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.marxists.org/">Marxist Internet Archive</a> -
Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important
socialists).</li>
<li><a href="http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/">Mementoweb</a> - Find
archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library,
archive.today, and GitHub.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oldmapsonline.org/">OldMapsOnline</a> - Maps,
starting in the 17th century.</li>
<li><a href="https://opencat.io/">OpenCat</a> - Search engine for
libraries around the globe.</li>
<li><a href="https://openhistoricalmap.org/">OpenHistoricalMap</a> - A
time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.publicbooks.org/public-books-database/">Public
Books Database</a> - Open access academic literature.</li>
<li><a href="https://archives.un.org/">United Nations Archive</a> -
Archives and records from the United Nations regarding
Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions.</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/web/">WayBackMachine</a> - Explore more
than 486 billion web pages saved over time.</li>
<li><a href="https://whgazetteer.org/">World Historical Gazeteer</a> -
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.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="great-britain">Great Britain</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections/digital-collections">British
Library</a> - Maps, manuscripts and sounds.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/">National Records of
Scotland</a> - Repository for the public and legal records of
Scotland.</li>
<li><a href="https://data.nls.uk/data/">NLS</a> - Data collections from
the National Library of Scotland.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/">The National
Archives</a> - A non-ministerial department, and the official archive
and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/">The Proceedings of the
Old Bailey</a> - London’s Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="netherlands">Netherlands</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.delpher.nl/">Delpher</a> - Dutch newspapers,
books and magazines.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/">Nationaal Archief</a> -
Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.topotijdreis.nl/">Topotijdreis</a> - Browse and
compare Dutch topographic maps (1815 until today).</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="north-america">North America</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess">Ad*Access</a> -
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.</li>
<li><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/">Chronicling
America</a> - America’s historic newspapers from 1777-1963.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cgwmuseum.org/">Computer Gaming World
Museum</a> - Archive of various magazines on gaming.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/">David Rumsey Map
Collection</a> - Historical maps collection.</li>
<li><a href="https://dp.la/">Digital Public Library of America</a> -
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.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/">Digital
Transgender Archive</a> - Wide range of trans-related digitized
historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on
archival holdings throughout the world.</li>
<li><a href="https://eugenicsarchive.ca/">Eugenics Archive</a> -
Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging
eugenics.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hathitrust.org">HathiTrust</a> - A
not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries
preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.archives.gov/">National Archives</a> - The
official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and
presidential libraries of the United States.</li>
<li><a href="https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/">Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection</a> - Online collection of scanned maps.</li>
<li><a
href="https://library.harvard.edu/collections/women-working-1800-1930">Women
Working 1800-1930</a> - An exploration of women’s impact on the economic
life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wdl.org/">World Digital Library</a> - WDL is an
international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States
Library of Congress.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="switzerland">Switzerland</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/">Amtsdruckschriften</a>
- Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities
and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.</li>
<li><a href="https://anneepolitique.swiss/">Année Politique Suisse</a> -
Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.archeco.info/">arCHeco</a> - Index of economic
collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.archives-online.org/">Archives Online</a> -
Archival search engine for Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.chgov.bar.admin.ch/">chgov</a> - Minutes of the
Federal Council (1848-1963).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cosmov.uzh.ch/">COSMOV</a> - COSMOV includes a
digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.digibern.ch/">DigiBern</a> - Bernese culture
and history on the Internet.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dodis.ch/">Diplomatic Documents of
Switzerland</a> - Diplomatic documents of Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="http://e-codices.ch/">e-codices</a> - Virtual manuscript
library of Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-gs.ethz.ch/">e-gs</a> - Online web portal of
the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/">e-manuscripta</a> -
Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/">e-newspaperarchives.ch</a> -
Swiss newspapers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/">E-Periodica</a> - Swiss
journals.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-rara.ch/">e-rara</a> - The platform for
digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.</li>
<li><a href="https://histhub.ch/">histHub</a> - The platform manages
authority files on Swiss history.</li>
<li><a href="https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/">Historical Encyclopedia of
Switzerland</a> - Encyclopedia on Swiss history.</li>
<li><a href="https://hsso.ch/">HSSO</a> - Historical statistics of
Switzerland online.</li>
<li><a href="https://impresso-project.ch/">impresso</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://industriekultur.ch/">Industriekultur</a> - Swiss
national inventory of industry artifacts.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.infoclio.ch/en/edition-projects">infoclio.ch
Edition projects</a> - A database containing current historical edition
projects in Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kartenportal.ch/">Kartenportal</a> - Search
engine for maps.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.letempsarchives.ch/">Le Temps</a> - Archive of
Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève.</li>
<li><a href="https://map.geo.admin.ch/">map.geo.admin.ch</a> - Journey
through time via maps of Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.memobase.ch/">MEMOBASE</a> - Provides access to
audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/projekte/ssrq-online/">Sammlung
Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online</a> - Retrodigitalisierte und
digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert
wird rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe
Neuzeit (1798).</li>
<li><a
href="https://ub.unibas.ch/de/historische-bestaende/wirtschaftsarchive/">Schweizerisches
Wirtschaftsarchiv</a> - This collection comprises over 500 business
archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a focus on the
Basel region.</li>
<li><a href="https://digital.skkg.ch/">SKKG Digital Collection</a> - The
Foundation for Art, Culture, and History (SKKG) provides online access
to its collection of approximately 100,000 objects, ranging from
artworks to historical artifacts spanning from the Stone Age to the
present.</li>
<li><a href="https://sources-online.org/index.html">Sources Online</a> -
A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI
Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="https://swisscollections.ch/">swisscollections</a> - Meta
search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries
and archives.</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.sfa-laboratory.ch/sr/cubestest/index.php">timeSTAT
Cubes</a> - The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and
expenditure for the past years.</li>
<li><a href="http://transcriptiones.ch">transcriptiones</a> - Create,
share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="learning">Learning</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/">AdFontes</a> - An
Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.</li>
<li><a href="https://guides.clio-online.de/">Clio Guide</a> - A handbook
on digital resources for the historical sciences.</li>
<li><a href="http://workbook.craftingdigitalhistory.ca/">Crafting
Digital History</a> - A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital
History.</li>
<li><a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/">Digital History
Guide</a> - Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce
online historical work.</li>
<li><a href="https://geospatialhistorian.wordpress.com/">Geospatial
Historian</a> - Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.</li>
<li><a href="https://cblevins.github.io/f19-dig-hist/">HIST 7370</a> -
Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History.</li>
<li><a
href="https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studium/history-a-toolkit-for-students/">History
Toolkit</a> - History Toolkit for Students.</li>
<li><a
href="https://wissen-ist-acht.github.io/digitalhistory.intro/">Introduction
to Digital History</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a
href="https://python-textbook.pythonhumanities.com/intro.html">Introduction
to Python for Humanists</a> - A textbook offering a comprehensive
introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and
students in the humanities.</li>
<li><a href="https://locallinkages.org/">Local Linkages</a> -
Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research
methods and digital history skills.</li>
<li><a
href="https://digital-history-berlin.github.io/Python-fuer-Historiker-innen/home.html">Python
für Historiker:innen</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://comp-think.github.io/">The CTP Book</a> - A book
for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people
with a background in the Humanities.</li>
<li><a href="https://programminghistorian.org/">The Programming
Historian</a> - Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help
humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows
to facilitate research and teaching.</li>
<li><a href="https://guides.lib.uci.edu/history/history_dh">UCI Digital
History</a> - Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital
Humanities.</li>
<li><a href="https://wethink.hypotheses.org/">We think History</a> -
News about and innovations from digital history.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="more-awesome">More Awesome</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history">Computer
History</a> - An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries
and related folklore.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/fasouto/awesome-dataviz#readme">Data
Visualization</a> - A curated list of awesome open-source data
visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.</li>
<li><a
href="https://dh-tech.github.io/awesome-digital-humanities#readme">Digital
Humanities</a> - Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital
Humanities.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/emptymalei/awesome-research#readme">Research
Tools</a> - A list of tools for research.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/writing-resources/awesome-scientific-writing#readme">Scientific
Writing</a> - Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible
by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), reStructuredText
and Jupyter notebooks.</li>
<li><a href="https://tempopedia.org/">Tempopedia</a> - Digital History
Directory.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="contribute">Contribute</h2>
<p>Contributions welcome! Read the <a
href="https://github.com/maehr/awesome-digital-history/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md">CONTRIBUTING.md</a>
first.</p>
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href="https://github.com/maehr/awesome-digital-history">digitalhistory.md
Github</a></p>