History
Historical Documents
World Documents

• Africa Research Central
• Avalon Project--documents from the 18th to the 20th century important to law, politics, diplomacy and government
• Canadian Letters and Images Project----primary documents of Canadian war experience.
• Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts -- medieval manuscripts available on the web.
• Code of Hammurabi -- from the Yale Avalon Project, with interactive definitions.
• Conflict Archive on the Internet-- on Northern Ireland, an ever expanding documentary source.
• Conflict in Iraq -- a 90 page document by the U.K. government House of Commons. may be slower to load. A good primary document right at the beginning of that war.
• Constitution Finder--links to over 100 online constitutions worldwide.
• D-Day, World War II  -- lots of j-peg images and commentary.
• Democracy at War -- "This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war." Searchable with a Glossary too.
• Duke Papyrus Archive---The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
• Early Canadiana Online--is a full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century.
• Eyewitness to History -- Each entry frames the eyewitness account with a brief description of the event and of the person recounting it and includes a bibliography and related links. Browse by time period. There's also a small audio archive of Voices of the 20th Century.
• European Historical Documents
• Festival Books from the Renaissance and Early Modern period -- full-text and describing the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 - marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other grand events. Searchable by keyword.
• Fourth World Documentation Project--treaties, tribal resolutions, speeches
• Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion
• Genizah Collection -- is a window on the medieval world of the Mediterranean area. Its 140,000 manuscripts fragments, mainly in Hebrew and Arabic, shed light on the mundane as well as the religious and cultural activities of that world. This site provides current information on the activities of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University.
• Gutenberg Bible --fully digitized by the British Library, searchable, it includes history and background info.
• Hathi Trust Digital Library -- "a reliable and increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by a number of academic institutions."
• Hanover Historical Texts Project
• Historical Monographs -- The Cornell University Library Historical Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from a variety of disciplines. These over 400 monographs were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook--one of several sourcebooks by Prof. Paul Halsall at Fordham University. Includes materials on historiography, historical method, and the theory of history. 
• Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project--there are a great deal of presidential, legislative, administrative, and constitutional documents online, though of course they are largely in Spanish and Portuguese.
• Lost World of Friese-Greene -- shows film clips of regular people and places of England circa 1920's and is the original color film from the first color process. A fascinating historical glimpse into the era in full color.
• Medieval Manuscript Leaves -- "displays a selection of 51 manuscript pages from the 12th to the 16th century held in the Cary Collection of the Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. They have been selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence."
• Medici Archive -- the Archive of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1537-1743), housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, Italy. Documents online, with more due as time passes.
• Memory of the World-- sponsored by UNESCO, this website offers access to digitized collections from around the world, including Hawaii war records, Spanish Civil War documents, Canadian history, slave narratives, old maps and other sites.
• Movie Tones -- historical video clips of people, places, lifestyles.  An excellent site! These are primary documents in film format.
• National Library of Scotland Digital Library - document imagess with transcriptions for easier reading from the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots to modern times. A varied and very interesting collection and worth a look.
• The Nuremberg Project -- Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion will post primary documents from Nazi War Crimes Trials to its web site approximately every six months.  Scholarly commentary on these postings will be published on a rolling basis, so please check back frequently. PDF format. Link is on the left menu bar.
• Nuremberg Trials Project: Harvard University Law School-- this is another good site for digitized documents along with  "analytical information about each document and general information about the trials."
• Parchments Digital Images Archive --"The Manuscript department of the Library of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LLAS) has preserved 1412 parchments covering the period from the eleventh century to the beginning of the twentieth century. This is one of the largest collection of parchments in the Baltic States."
• Political Documents--Speeches, Platforms, Constitutions, Treaties
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey -- "A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court."
• Official Documents of the United Kingdom--the Stationery Office
• Public Record Office, United Kingdom
• Repositories of Primary Sources -- "A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."
• Unesco Archives Portal -- access to national, municipal, university archives and much more.
• The Vietnam Project -- from Texas Tech University, contains the virtual archives of documents relating to the Vietnam War and oral history archives.
• Voices of the Holocaust -- audio files of survivors testimony plus more from the British Library.
• World Digital Library  -- "free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world."
• World War I Documents