World History

Look at entries under World History or Eras & Ages.

This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of primary sources in the public domain. Find documents associated with a "western civilization" approach to history as well as documents from Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. This site looks dated and is not user-friendly, but it links to digital translations of very old texts from world history. This site is part of Fordham University.

Links to primary documents in law, history and diplomacy from ancient times to the 21st century. The site is part of Yale University Law 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. The site is part of Tufts University.

Their mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.

EuroDocs links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.

An encyclopedia with extra features concerning the Holocaust and the principal figures involved. The site is part of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.