LibGuides: World History: Websites

Scholarly Sources

What is a scholarly source?

A scholarly source is material written by an expert or experts (scholarly articles will often have multiple authors) for other experts. If a journal is peer reviewed, that means scholars in the field looked at the material and made comments or recommendations before it could be published, this process ensures that the information is more credible than, say, a website like Yahoo Answers or Reddit. Often these scholarly, peer reviewed articles describe a study that was done, including the objectives and outcomes.

World History Websites

History of Finland
http://www.histdoc.net/
Contains documents from Finnish history, 1200 to 1944.
History of Russia: Primary Documents
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Russia:_Primary_Documents
A wiki dedicated to primary sources throughout Russian history.
Internet African Soucebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.asp
Historical sources on the history of human societies on the continent of Africa.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.asp
A resource for digitized ancient history documents.
Internet East Asian Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp
A site that offers documentary history of the Far East from its cultural origins to the present day.
Internet Global History
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.asp
Documents recording cultural interactions throughout history.
Internet Indian History
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.asp
A document collection covering Indian history.
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp
A resource for digitized medieval documents.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.asp
Provides digitized documents that cover history spanning the Reformation to the 21st century.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
Offers a timeline, essays, documents and images covering the French Revolution.
World War I Document Archive
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
A collection of primary documents from World War I.
World War II Resources
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
Original documents regarding all aspects of the war.
The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies
http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
Provides information on all aspects of Latin America from indigenous culture to current social, political and economic conditions includes access to archival documents.

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