History Matters
"Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history." A project of the 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 WWW-VL
Comprehensive listing of websites, part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library. Organized by era and topic/region. Maintained by the European University Institute.
H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLIne "An interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web." A collection of more than 100 scholarly discussion groups.
Intute: History Annotated list of links covering all aspects of history created by a consortium of British universities.
Internet for Historians Tutorial created by the Humbul Humanities Hub based at Oxford. The tutorial has links to key sites and information about searching for and evaluating sites.
A Student's Guide to the Study of History "Guide as an aid to high
school and college students who are either taking history classes or who intend to major in history as undergraduates." Includes sections on
taking notes, writing exams, choosing a topic and researching and writing papers.
Library Research Tutorial British site that "provides training in the skills needed to conduct library-based research in the arts, humanities and social sciences."
Doing Cold War History: A Practical Guide Professor Trachtenberg's guide covers topic selection and research strategies and tools with a strong focus on primary sources dealing with the Cold War.