LibGuides: World History: Find Websites

The CRAAP Test

When you search for information you're going to find lots of it ... but is it accurate and reliable? The CRAAP Test is a list of questions you can ask in order to determine if the information you have is credible and useful, or is it a bunch of ...?! Learn More

Currency: When was the information published or posted?
Relevance: The importance of the information for your needs
Authority: The source of the information
Accuracy: The reliability, truthfulness and correctness of the informational content
Purpose: The reason the information exists

Trusted Websites

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
EuroDocs is a comprehensive collection of documents covering European history from prehistoric times to current age maintained and curated byRichard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer at Brigham Young University Library.
History of Finland: A selection of events and documents
Pauli Kruhse created and maintains this website that contains digitized documents from Finnish history, 1200 to 1944.
History of Russia: Primary Documents
This is a wiki created by Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, dedicated to primary sources documenting Russian history.
Internet African Soucebook
Offers historical sources on the history of human societies on the continent of Africa.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
A resource for digitized ancient history documents.
Internet East Asian Sourcebook
Is site that offers documentary history of the Far East from its cultural origins to the present day.
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
This site provides documents covering Indian history.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The IMS is a resource for digitized medieval documents and supplementary materials.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Modern History Sourcebook provides digitized documents that cover history spanning the Reformation to the 21st century.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
This site offers a time line, essays,primary documents and images covering the French Revolution and is a Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York) collaborative project.
The Perseus Digital Library
offers digitized texts from the Greco-Roman period on culture, history and literature. Texts are in both the original language and English translations. Among the other resources in the collection are Arabic, Germanic and Renaissance texts.
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Since planning began in 1985, the Perseus Digital Library Project has explored what happens when libraries move online. Two decades later, as new forms of publication emerge and millions of books become digital, this question is more pressing than ever. Perseus is a practical experiment in which we explore possibilities and challenges of digital collections in a networked world
World History Sources
WHS is a site to devoted to exploration and analysis of primary sources as tools for historic research in various digital formats.
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The framing essay, written by Deborah Vess, introduces issues in using online sources, such as reliability, quality, and translation.
LOC Primary and Secondary History Resoources
Collection of resources compiled by the Library of Congress.