BBC’s History provides the researcher an array of resources within categories, such as, Ancient History, Archaeology, Church and State, Science and Discovery, Society and Conflict, War and Culture, and Family History.
UC Berkeley’s “Conversations with History” offers video conversations with distinguished individuals from all over the word. These individuals include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists.
National Historical Society’s HistoryNet covers topics in World and American history. The resources that HistoryNet provides is a picture gallery, archives, eyewitness historical accounts and links to full-text historical magazines.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media develops online resources for teachers, online collections, exhibits and collecting sites, open-source software, and forums to develop knowledge.
Primary Sources
A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.
Some types of primary sources include:
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (excerpts or translations acceptable): Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records
CREATIVE WORKS: Poetry, drama, novels, music, art
RELICS OR ARTIFACTS: Pottery, furniture, clothing, buildings
UNESCO's World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
