The Hoole Library staff compiled this select group of websites on digital archives to aid your research. To submit a site for consideration, please contact Dr. Amy Chen at ahchen@ua.edu.
ACUMEN: UA LIBARIES’ DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Acumen Homepage
[http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/]
SOUTHERN HISTORY
Documenting the American South – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[http://docsouth.unc.edu]
Digital Library of Georgia
[http://www.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi]
AMERICAN HISTORY
American Memory
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html]
Online Archive of California
[http://www.oac.cdlib.org]
American Journeys
[http://www.americanjourneys.org]
National Archives and Records Administration – American Originals Exhibit Hall
[http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/index.html]
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures]
U.S. MAPS
Historical Maps of the United States
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html]
Rare Map Collection at Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library
[http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html]
Alabama Maps
[http://alabamamaps.ua.edu]
METASITES
AcademicInfo: U.S. History Digital Library
[http://www.academicinfo.net/histuslibrary.html]
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
AcademicInfo:African-American History
[http://academicinfo.net/africanamlibrary.html]
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
[http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/]
GUIDE TO USING PRIMARY SOURCES
Library Research Using Primary Sources
[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html]
ANCIENT HISTORY
Duke Papyrus Archives
[http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/homepage.html]
Digital Egypt for Universities
[http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk]
Perseus Digital Library
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu]
Electronic Resources for Classicists
[http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/resources.html]
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
DS Scriptatorium
[http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/#manuscriptsl]
Epact: Scientific Instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe
[http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/]
Medieval Literary Resources – Metasite
[http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/medieval.html]
Medieval Studies at UC-Davis
[http://medieval.ucdavis.edu]
RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION HISTORY
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm]
MEDIEVAL MAPS
Early Medieval Maps
[http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html]
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Creating French Culture
[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf]
Tudor England
[http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html]
Web Gallery of Art
[http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index1.html]