Links for Research

Links for doing research:

SFCC Jack Library E-Resources -- SFCC library has lots of material available online. Sign in with your Jack Account.

Flowcharts of History -- World History site with information organized in chronological units including both flow chart visuals and textual information on a wide variety of world history topics.

Europeana: gateway to the collections of Europe’s national libraries and most important research archives, universities and cultural institutions. It hosts millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe, with special sites for the history of the First World War (Europeana 1914-1918), European newspapers (Europeana Newspapers) and an one-stop access point for 48 national libraries (The European Library).

History Workshop Online is a forum, laboratory, and virtual coffeehouse devoted to the practice of radical history. Launched in 2011 by the editorial collective of History Workshop Journal, it offers debates, reflections, tools, and resources for anyone interested in connecting historical research with present-day politics

EmersonKent.com -- Resource for documents, maps, bios and battles.

ihr.org -- Institute for Historical Review: Contains many current articles on historical topics. Editorial articles do have a conservative, revisionist bias, but there are many useful articles.

pbs.org -- Has many useful links to information and videos on a broad range of historical topics

Historyisaweapon.org -- focus on Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, containing links to related & supporting content.

Openculture.com -- Check out the free courses on the menu on the right. Links to download full courses from universities such as Yale, Berkeley and Stanford. There are many interesting history courses available, but also other subjects which might be of use or interest to you in other classes you are taking.

Modern History Sourcebook -- A vast collection of primary source documents archived by Fordham University.

CIA World Factbook -- Resource published by the State Department with political and economic profiles of the countries of the world.

Library of Congress -- The Library of Congress is developing many new digital resources, and can be a good place to do research.

Digital History -- Fairly broad resource for topics in US history

World History Compass -- Useful site to browse countries and topics in world history

BBC- The Story of Africa -- Resource for researching background information on Africa.

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History -- Site with primary sources, essays and summaries of major events in Soviet history. Chronologically and thematically organized.

Country Studies -- Excellent site with information on foreign countries

US Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Contains lots of information on the holocaust and Nazi Germany.

Labor History Timeline  -- Outlines important events in US labor history.