Other Interesting History Sites

United States

History Now: An Online History Journal edited by Carol Berkin, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrmnan Institute of American History

Making of America: University of Michigan digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.  Currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

United States Historical Census Data Browser: The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960. 

Historical Statistics of the U.S.: Colonial Times to 1970 maintained by the US Census Bureau and its History of the US Census Bureau and its Work site.

Diary Research Website, a guide to historical and literary diaries published in English.  Be sure to click on "Browse" for a grid of all the years for which diaries are in print - starting in 838 AD.

Non-US

Diary Research Website, a guide to historical and literary diaries published in English.  Be sure to click on Browse for a grid with all the years for which diaries are in print - starting in 838 AD.

Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project: This site explores the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, an enormous map of which only about a tenth still remains.  The map is crucial to our understanding of the history of Rome in the early third century CE.

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834: 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.  Now contains 53,000 trials, from April 1674 to December 1799.

Early Modern Resouces: a site from the UK that brings together many online websources on the early modern period (1500-1800), including interviews with many well-known historians of the period, such as Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson, Natalie Zemon Davis, and more.

Maps

The University of Texas in Austin has a marvelous map collection on line in the Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection

Realms of Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Divided into four main sections, Manuscript Maps, Printed Maps, Atlases, and Globes, this nearly 600 page volume is the definitive guide to all maps held at the APS.  About a hundred maps have been scanned in using JPeg2000 format, which allows the viewer to see the maps in amazing detail.