Online resources for researching history - Page 3 - Historum

Sisyphus12 · February 19th, 2010, 06:09 AM

JSTOR: JSTOR is a massive online database that allows people to quickly and easily find primary sources, the only killer, they have to be at least 2 years old I believe. It requires a subscription, but the subscription doesn't cost anything (?) the wording is confusing, but I can search free, so it must be free?

liyulianyanyu · March 23rd, 2010, 05:01 PM

Also thanks!

**Carlisle Blues** · March 23rd, 2010, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sisyphus12

JSTOR: JSTOR is a massive online database that allows people to quickly and easily find primary sources, the only killer, they have to be at least 2 years old I believe. It requires a subscription, but the subscription doesn't cost anything (?) the wording is confusing, but I can search free, so it must be free?

Always had a question about that one ...thanks!!!

SB1982 · April 4th, 2010, 11:03 AM

Thank you, all, who have posted these links! I am excited to explore the ones that I've not had the pleasure of knowing about before this!

SB

Gary · April 4th, 2010, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sisyphus12

JSTOR: JSTOR is a massive online database that allows people to quickly and easily find primary sources, the only killer, they have to be at least 2 years old I believe. It requires a subscription, but the subscription doesn't cost anything (?) the wording is confusing, but I can search free, so it must be free?

I could not agree more, JSTOR is excellent for accessing scholastic journals; the problem is that it is not accessible with out an accredited subscription. Out side of universities it is simply not possible to access JSTOR. Those of us who are no longer poor students can not afford the cost of JSTOR,

Pil71 · April 5th, 2010, 04:07 AM

new to the forums. interested in the history of clothing and what it symbolized to each culture. found this site useful to get started although doesn't go that deep.

http://www.lannaalterationstudio.com/history/history.htm

anyone got any others with info on clothing history ?

danni · April 14th, 2010, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Gile na Gile

Thought it might be handy for us all here if we had a quick reference section for getting primary material. Has anyone come across good websites lately that provide links to original historical documents, first-hand accounts or free e-books etc .. doesn't matter what period or country.

Here are some good ones I've stumbled upon;

This one's the mediaeval sourcebook online; has links to hundreds of uploaded texts.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html

For fans of all things Arthurian; the legends, the literature, it all seems to be here;
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

Project Guttenburg; 28,000 books, mostly classics and still growing rapidly;
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a435

And two great resources for studying Irish history;
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html
http://www.celt.dias.ie/english/

Feel free to add your own. Guaranteed someone, somewhere, sometime will appreciate it plus it might spare you scratching your head wondering what that great site was on that you've now completely forgotten about.

Thanks for the Resources fred. I appreciate that. I was really having a hard time looking of history websites for my history essay. I am doing my essay writing project and I'm glad you shared these with us.
Thanks again

**leakbrewergator** · April 14th, 2010, 08:18 AM

Some good online sources for Japanese History:

Samurai Archives- The best site for Japanese Military history.

Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal.-Great online Journal run by Dr. Phillip Brown of Ohio St.

Journal of Japanese Religious Studies-Really incredible online archive of their journal.

Nestor · April 15th, 2010, 09:07 AM

Just a start: Regnal Chronologies: http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/regindex.html and the Fresian website: http://www.friesian.com/ which contains http://www.friesian.com/popes-2.htm

FOR-EXTRACREDIT · April 28th, 2010, 12:21 PM

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