History and Historical Documents Links - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Kentucky Heritage Council
The Kentucky Heritage Council seeks to build a greater awareness of Kentucky's past and to encourage the long-term preservation of Kentucky's significant cultural resources. It maintains continually updated inventories of historic structures and archaeological sites and nominates properties to the National Register of Historic Places.

Kentucky Historical Society
Includes the museums at the Kentucky History Center, the Old State Capitol and the Kentucky Military History Museum. The KHS conducts educational programs and hands-on workshops aimed at all age groups, operates a genealogical research library, and sponsors programs/services that are designed to help local communities identify, preserve, and present their own history (Kentucky Oral History Commission, Kentucky Folklife Program and the Community Services Office).

World Wide Web Resources: History
World Wide Web Resources: History is grouped by general, U.S., and non-U.S. resources. Source: University of Kentucky

TheHistoryNet
Offers a collection of articles from leading writers and historians. Daily features include “The Daily Quiz”, “Picture of the Day,” and “Today in History.” Links are provided to ten history magazines and other related sites. Source: Primedia History Group

Center for History and News Media
Contains searchable databases or web links on the following topics: Guide to History on the Web; Essays on History and New Media; Databases and Links; History Departments Around the World. Source: George Mason University

History Matters
History Matters is designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. history. It serves as a gateway to web resources, including first-person primary documents and discussions on American history. Its features include WWW.History, Many Pasts, Past Meets Present, and Talking History. Source: American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

History Channel
Features include “History of the World Timeline”, “This Day in History,” “Video/Audio” clips, discussion groups, and a History Quiz.

Biography
Offers over 25,000 biographies and a discussion board. Source: Arts and Entertainment Network

Biographical Dictionary
Biographical Dictionary is a biographical reference searchable by name, date, or topic. Source: S9 Technologies

Essays in History
Essays in History is one of the first on-line academic journals and has appeared solely in an electronically published format since 1994. It seeks to publish articles based on primary sources in all fields of history. Source: Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

Historical Census Browser
Allows you to browse the data files for each decennial census and choose from the lists of variables in order to produce lists of data by state or county, or both. Source: Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia Library

Kentuckiana Digital Library
Offers a collection of digital archival material concerned with the heritage and history of the state of Kentucky. Source: Kentucky Virtual Library

American Memory
Contains primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Source: Library of Congress

Thomas Legislative Information
Includes a section of historical documents (Early Congressional Documents [including Declaration of Independence], the Federalist Papers, the Constitution [including the Bill of Rights and Other Amendments]), links to the Thomas Jefferson Papers, and links to Congressional documents from 1774-1873. Source: Library of Congress

Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
Presents a chronology of influential US historical documents, complete with transcriptions of each individual document (Magna Carta through President George W. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address). Source: University of Oklahoma Law Center

AmDocs
Presents a chronology of influential historical documents beginning with Christopher Columbus journal excerpts from 1492 to President George W. Bush’s Address Announcing the End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003.
Source: History Department, University of Kansas

Our Documents
Our Documents is a program initiative exploring 100 milestone documents of American history. Source: cooperative effort of National History Day, National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. It contains narratives on slavery, diaries/memoirs, autobiographies, and other resources on southern Americana. Source: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

EuroDocs
Contains primary documents, including manuscripts and facsimiles, from the history of Western Europe, arranged by country and then chronologically.