History: General History Websites

A professional organization for historians from all geographical, chronological, and topical specializations.

Websites and open-source digital tools designed to preserve and present the past, transform scholarship across the humanities, advance history education and historical understanding, and encourage popular participation in the practice of history.

Headlines from around the world.

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts.

Links to full texts history books.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

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