History

Sections

AM – Museums. Collectors and collecting

C – Auxiliary sciences of history (general)
CB – History of Civilisation
CC – Archaeology
CD – Diplomatics. Archives. Seals
CE – Technical Chronology. Calendar
CJ – Numismatics
CN – Inscriptions. Epigraphy
CR – Heraldry
CS –Genealogy
CT – Biography

GN 700-875 – Prehistoric archaelogy

D – History (General)
DA- Great Britain
DAW – Central Europe
DB – Austria. Liechtenstein. Hungary. Czechoslovakia
DC – France. Monaco
DD – Germany
DE Greco – Roman World
DF – Greece
DG – Italy. Malta
DH – Low Countries. Benelux Countries
DJ – Netherlands (Holland)
DJK – Eastern Europe (General)
DK – Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics. Poland
DL – Northern Europe. Scandinavia
DP – Spain. Portugal
DQ – Switzerland
DR – Balkan Peninsula
DS – Asia
DT – Africa
DU – Oceania
DX – Romanies

E-F – History of the Americas

Biographies, bibliographies, primary sources

About Poland

Biographies – database of the Jagiellonian University – the database contains bibliographic descriptions of biographical and personal bibliographies of Poles, including those less known, born after 1850. Applies to people for whom a biographical note, obituary, subject or object bibliography has been published. (In Polish)

Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny (Internet Polish Biographic Dictionary) – biographical and personal bibliographies of Poles (in Polish).

Bibliography of the History of Poland for years 1988-2007 – the database was created in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance) – printed version in BUW open stacks: DK4140 .F56

BazHum – Bibliographic database of Polish periodicals in the field of history, its related and auxiliary sciences, bibliographic descriptions of dissertations, articles and reviews will be expanded to include abstracts and full texts.

Regional Magazines of Mazovia   Mazowieckie Czasopisma Regionalne

Polish History Musem – Polishhistory.pl  is an online project of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. Portal serves as a research tool and a modern kind of compendium of historical knowledge. It is addressed primarily to scientists conducting research on the history of Polish but its offer may also interests undergraduate and graduate students of history and the humanities, and all lovers of history. The aim of the portal is to provide a platform for information necessary for Polish and foreign researchers of Polish history.

Early imprints (609 prints) – The project includes the digitization of early imprints from the collections of the Library of the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw.

Repozytorium Dziennika Ustaw RP na Uchodźstwie  – Repository of the Journal of the Polish Republic in Exile (In Polish)

Dictionaries (in Polish)

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Warszawa : nakł. Filipa Sulimierskiego i Władysława Walewskiego, 1880-1914, t. 1-15.

Słownik historyczno-geograficzny ziem polskich w średniowieczu (electronic edition), red. ogólna: T. Jurek.

Primary sources online – other countries

  • Bibliographic database for the history of East-Central Europe –  is on the website of the Institute Herder in Marburg, thanks to the materials sent by the Bibliography of the Current Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, contains, among others most of the items related to the history of Poland, listed by the “Bibliography of Polish History” since 2001.
  • British Council Film Collection – contains, among others a collection of 85 documentary and propaganda films, documentary and propoand movies from the Second World War period made available by the British Council. CC BY-NC
  • French Revolution Digital Archive – The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
  • Chronos – Russian historical portal (in Russian).
Scientific journals online

Scientific journals in Open Journal Systems

  • Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici Archeologia – articles in the field of Polish, european and ancient archaeology. In this framework, there are also edited thematic volumes, such as Glass Archaeology and Underwater Archaeology. The articles presented current research, results and achievements of the scientific staff of the Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University and its associates researchers from other scientific centers in the country and abroad.
  • Almanach Karaimski – publishes studies on Karaims and Karaim culture, history, language, &c. Also paper in other fields will be accepted if deemed important for Karaim studies by the Editorial Board. Papers, reviews and reports should be submitted in English, German, French, Polish, Russian, or Turkish.
  • Archiwum Emigracji The Archives of Polish and East European Emigration –  it is the only historical-humanistic journal in Poland dedicated to studies on the history and culture of the Polish 20th century emigration and mutual relations between Polish emigration and political emigrations from other Central and East European countries.
  • Historia i Polityka – Initially the journal “Historia i Polityka” was published as a series; currently it is a quarterly magazine edited at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. However, the team includes also representatives from several academic centers from Poland and around the world.
  • Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica- Yearbook devoted to the history of military orders. In keeping with tradition, each volume includes a definite thematic scope, which refers to the subject of a conference from the “Ordines Militares” series. Moreover, articles, polemics, research surveys, source monographs and reviews concerning the history of military orders are published there in English, German and French.
  • Theoria et Historia Scientiarum – is an international academic journal, published by the Nicolaus Copernicus University since 1991. More recently, the thematic scope of the journal has been broadly construed Cognitive Science and language evolution. The journal’s editorial board includes some of the world’s leading scholars in Cognitive Science and language evolution.

Open access journals

  • Historical Text Archive – The HTA is in its 26th year of publishing high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet. This site is dynamic with regular additions to its contents and its link collection.
  • Avalon Project (Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library) – primary sources in the field of history (from antiquity, through the Middle Ages and subsequent centuries to modern times), economics, politics, diplomacy, government administration and extensive sources of sources concerning human rights and others in the field of history, politics and diplomacy.

Other journals online

Digital MedievaList,

19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century,

ASIA Network Exchange. A Journal for Asian Studies in the Libearal Arts,

Architectural Histories,

Digital Studies / Le champ numérique,

Ethnologia Europaea,

Francosphères,

Open Library of Humanities,

Quaker Studies,

TRAJ – Theoratical Roman Archaeology Journal

Recommended websites and portals

International historical portals

Polish historical portals

  • Polishhistory.pl – is an online project of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. Portal serves as a research tool and a modern kind of compendium of historical knowledge. It is addressed primarily to scientists conducting research on the history of Polish but its offer may also interests undergraduate and graduate students of history and the humanities, and all lovers of history. The aim of the portal is to provide a platform for information necessary for Polish and foreign researchers of Polish history.
  • Learning from history – the project by KARTA Centre – is a platform for publication of educational projects dedicated to history of Poland and its neighbors in 20th century. Special emphasis is placed on the experience of the two totalitarian regimes: Nazism and communism in WWII, their heritage and contemporary debates about them as well as citizen education and human rights promotion.
Genealogy

Polish

Databases of the Head of the National Archives

Szukaj w Archiwach  –  contains information about record books and civil status records kept in all state archives and parts of the Archdiocesan Archives. The database does not contain a list of names appearing in documents or information about specific persons. The database is useful in determining which archives from a given area have survived, where they are currently stored and whether they are publicly available.

Indexes
Lubgens – Lubelskie Korzenie – Regional database of metric indexes of the Lublin region.
Poznan Project – The project of indexation of marriages from Wielkopolska for 1800-1899.
BaSIA – Baza Systemu Indeksacji Archiwalnej – covers the area of ​​Wielkopolska, indexation of shared record scans on the internet.
Ogólnopolski Indeks Małżeństw do r. 1899 – Nationwide Index of Marriage until 1899
Indeks nazwisk pojawiających się w „Herbarzu Polskim” A. Bonieckiego – index of names from “Herbarz Polski” (Polish Armory) by A. Boniecki
Indeks nazwisk pojawiających się w „Herbarzu Polskim” K. Niesieckiego – index of names from “Herbarz Polski” (Polish Armory) by K. Niesiecki
Indeksowanie akt grodzkich i ziemskich z Archiwum Głównego Akt Dawnych w Warszawie – Indexing of town and land files from the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw.

Genealogical portals
Geneteka – database of the Polish Genealogical Society covering the whole country – searching for the name in the resources (division into voivodships), among others in record books, marriages, deaths. Available English version.
Genealodzy.pl
Genpol – Genealogia polska
Związek Szlachty Polskiej – Union of Polish Nobility
Genealogia Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego – genealogy of the descendants of the Sejm Wielki (private service, paid access).

Polish genealogical associations
Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Towarzystwo Genealogiczne Centralnej Polski
Pomorskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Lubuskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Małopolskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Towarzystwo Genealogiczne Ziemi Częstochowskiej
Wielkopolskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne Gniazdo
Ostrowskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Stowarzyszenie Opolscy Genealodzy
Śląskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Świętokrzyskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Suwalskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
Warszawskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne

Cemeteries
grobonet.com – an online search engine with data on 1.8 million graves from municipal cemeteries from all over Poland; no similar graves finder in church cemeteries – they are beginning to be indexed by volunteers.

Jewish Records Indexing – Poland – Cemetery Records –  information and databases on Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

International genealogical portals
Discover your ancestors  – search your ancestors in the USA.
The USGen Web Project – free database – American genealogical portals – useful for searching relatives who immigrated to the USA and their living descendants; include tips, training articles – in English.
Ancestry.com
Genealogy.com
RootsWeb
MyHeritage – the largest genealogical site in the world.
The basic, free account allows you to load data up to 250 people. Additional, paid features include: SmartMatches, RecordMatches, FamilyTreeBuilder.
Cyndi’s List  – information service updated on a regular basis, free of charge; it also contains a section devoted to Poland, contains links divided by categories, including: history and culture, languages, alphabets and characters of the magazine, libraries, archives, museums, newspapers, geographical dictionaries and maps, military, people and families, record data.
Passenger search– free database useful for seeking ancestors who immigrated to the US (Ellis Island in New York in 1892-1924 was the main port through which most emigrants went to the United States). It contains digital photographs of original passenger ship lists calling at the Port of New York.
Canadian Museum of Immigration At Pier 21 – the base concerns emigrants to Canada (Pier 21 in Halifax from 1928-1971 – the main port where immigrants came to Canada).
Family Search – International Genealigical Index, Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File. The main name search screen lists the dead in the US according to the Social Security Index, the US census of 1880, the British Isles and Canada of 1881, the civilian databases for Mexico and the Scandinavian countries, and private genealogical websites. In the LIBRARY tab – the online catalog of the Family History Library, which contains information about filmed parish, civil, and other books (e.g. passenger list of ships, inheritance books, censuses).
JewishGen – a group of online databases, search engines and websites about the genealogy of Jewish families from around the world. Among others databases for Eastern Europe, areas of former Poland, Galicia, Ukraine, Lithuania, a search engine for villages and TownFinder. Also the division into geographical regions, including the Poland section (All Poland Database ) a search engine for the Galician address book from 1891, a search engine of the list of homeowners in Warsaw and Prague in the years 1852, 1869, 1870; The Address Book for Poland (including Gdańsk) for Trade, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture – contains addresses of craftsmen, shops, industrial plants, land farms existing in 1929.
JewishGen’s Holocaust Database
Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
Jewish Records Indexing – Poland – Cemetery Records – information and databases on Jewish cemeteries in Poland.
PolandGenWeb – is part of WorldGenWeb devoted to Polish genealogy; contains excerpts from parish and cemetery registers and civil registry offices in villages and Polish cities as well as passenger lists of emigrant ships, data on parishes and cemeteries of the Polish diaspora.
PolishRoots – The Polish Genealogy Source, Polonia’s genealogy portal, contains links to databases in Poland and the Polish diaspora, contains, among others: Great address book of Cracow and Podgórze from 1907, Lviv trade guide in 1891, Poznań address book from 1835, commercial address book of Poland and Gdańsk from 1923 and a database of participants of the Kosciuszko Uprising and soldiers of the Haller Army (blue army). All databases can be searched by name. The portal contains links to many websites related to the emigration of Poles around the world.
Prussia, West Prussia and East Prussia Online Genealogy Records
Heraldry on the Internet –a rich list of references useful in heraldic and genealogical searches.

Genetic Genealogy

DNAeXplained

Your DNA Guide

The Genetic Genealogist

Judaica

Jewish Historical Institute
Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland
POLIN – Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Virtual Shtetl
Jewish cemeterias in Poland

CAHJP – The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem
Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem , Part I : General – Regions – Communities A – Ł
Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem , Part I : General – Regions – Communities M – Ż
Guide to the YIVO Archives – YIVO Insitute for Jewish Research.
YadVashem – website of the YadVashem Institute in Israel dedicated to Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
National Library of Israel – digital library
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
Historical Hebrew Press (Tell-Aviv University, National Library of Israel)
JewishGen  – zespół internetowych baz danych, wyszukiwarek i stron internetowych dotyczących genealogii rodzin żydowskich z całego świata. M.in. bazy danych dla Europy Wschodniej, terenów dawnej Polski, Galicji, Ukrainy, Litwy, wyszukiwarka wiosek i miejscowości TownFinder. Także podział na rejony geograficzne, w tym dział Polska (All Poland Database) – m.in. wyszukiwarka galicyjskiej księgi adresowej z 1891 r., wyszukiwarka spisu właścicieli domów w Warszawie i na Pradze w latach 1852, 1869, 1870; Księga Adresowa dla Polski (wraz z w.m. Gdańskiem) dla Handlu, Przemysłu, Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa – zawiera adresy rzemieślników, sklepów, zakładów przemysłowych, folwarków ziemiańskich istniejących w 1929 r.
JewishGen’s Holocaust Database
Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
Jewish Records Indexing – Poland – Cemetery Records – informacje i bazy dotyczące żydowskich cmentarzy w Polsce.
Judaica Europeana
Digital Yiddish Library
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook – Fordham University

Polonia - Polish diaspora

Polonia
Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska  (Polish Community Association) (in Polish)
– Polonia database
– Polonia organizations

Database of Polonia archives

Onomastics

Onomastics – studies on geographical names, surnames, types of forms.
Onomastica – periodical devoted to geographical and personal naming and other own names.
Onomastyka Slavogermanica

Photography

Photography
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe – The National Dogital Archives
Photo Archive in the field of social history of the twentieth century from Poland and Central and Eastern Europe  (in Polish).

Archaeology. Antiquity

Archaeology
The Institute of Archaeology and Ehtnology PAS (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Propylaeum – Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften
Archaeology Data Service
Internet archaeology – digital journal for archaeology (Open Access – University of York)
tDAR – The Digital Archaeological Record
Archaeology in Greece Online
FastiOnline – baza informacji na temat wykopalisk archeologicznych
Alpheios – resource for open-source software for studying the world’s classical languages and literatures, currently including Latin, Greek, Arabic and Persian.

EAGLE Portal – inscriptions search engine

Antiquity
Propylaeum – Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
AWOL – the Ancient World Online (blog) – a list of many Open Access journals in Ancient Studies is available

Ancient Egypt, Near East

Narmer.pl
Duke papyrus Archive – archiwum udostępnia teksty i zdjęcia ponad 1400 papirusów ze starożytnego Egiptu.
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (University in Memphis) – Map of archaeological excavations (area of ​​Egypt). Photographs of the most important monuments and their description by city list. Interesting links to the history and contemporaneity of Egypt. Language version of English.
Online Egyptological Bibliography (subscription).
The Theban Mapping Project
The Giza Plateau Mapping Project – The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
The Deir el-Medina Database
Digital Egypt for Universities
The British Museum –  online periodicals
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
papyri.info –  an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources
Internet African History Sourcebook
ABZU – Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives – a guide on materials available on the Internet about the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean Basin, access to texts in open access.
Encyclopedia Iranica – service containing information on the civilization of ancient Iran.

Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece – The British Museum website devoted to the culture and history of ancient Greece.

Perseus digital library

Nestor– international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics and related fields.

Thesaurus Linguae Grecae

Ancient Rome

The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations

De Imperatoribus Romanis – An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families (Salve Regina University, USA).
Trajan’s Column in Rome – The history, archaeology and iconography of the monument.

TRAJ – Theoratical Roman Archaeology Journal.

Hispania Epigraphica

Ancient Christianity

Epigraphic Database Bari – inscriptions by Christians in Rome (3rd-8th cent. CE)

Medieval History

Słownik historyczno-geograficzny ziem polskich w średniowieczu – A historical-geographical dictionary of Polish lands in the Middle Ages
International Medieval Bibliography
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook

Digital MedievaList

Modern History

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

18th Century History

Reginal sources

Polish regional sources

International regional sources

List of archives

History of central-eastern Europe history bibliographical portal (Herder Institute)

Countries

Great Britain
The British National Bibliography
The National Archives of England

Germany
German History in Documents and Images – Comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany’s political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.” Project of the German Historical Institute (Deutsches Historisches Institut) in Washington, D.C.

North America
USA

U.S. History – peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbook.

Early American Imprint Collection
American Memory –  collection (over 7 million digitized objects and 100 historical collections) on the history of the United States of America led by the Library of Congress in Washington.
A Chronology of US  – Historical Documents
Chronicling America. Historic American Newspapers – America’s historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963.
David Rumsey Map Collection –  The historical map collection has over 86,000 maps and related images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, and the World.
Documenting the American South – Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Online Archive of California
Early Americas Digital Archive –  The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Early Canadiana Online – This virtual library holds the most complete set of full-text historical content about Canada, including books, magazines and government documents.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Understanding 9/11 Television News Archive – The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis.
Theodore Roosvelt Center (Dickinson State University)

South America

Asia
The Digital South Asia Library
Asian history
East Asian History Sourcebook
Cambodian Genocide Program
Vietnam War Bibliography

Korean History: A Bibliography
National Digital Library of India
GandhiServe Foundation – Mahatma Gandhi research and Media Service  – contains:
About Gandhi – contains: audio, writings, images, video.
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Online


Africa
Internet African History Sourcebook
African Journals Online

World War I

World War 1.com – extensive links to online resources covering World War I: photograph and poster archives, maps, descriptions of weapons, biographies, songs, timelines, etc.

The World War I Documents Archive – documents, primary and relevant secondary resources from 1890 to 1930 (e.g. conventions and treaties).

Word War I Postcards from the Bowman Grey Collection (University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill) – possible browsking by subject, name, place.

Onwar.com – conflicts, weapons from 1800 to 2005.

Chronos – Russian portal on WWI.

Germany, World War I Casualty Lists – a list of casualties (in German).

World War II

Word War II Database

Documents of World War II

German Propaganda Archive

Warsaw Uprising Biographies (Warsaw Uprising Museum)

Solidarity, 1976-1989

Encyclopedia of Solidarity ( in Polish).

Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Comunism in Eastern Europe (George Mason University) – primary sources e.g. on the Solidarity movement in Poland.

Europejskie Centrum Solidarności (European Center of Solidarity).

Martial Law – education portal of Institute of National Remembrance.

Museology

ICOM – The International Council of Museums

Virtual Library Museen

Maps

David Rumsey Map Collection –  The historical map collection has over 86,000 maps and related images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, and the World.

The MAPA digital Atlas of Ukraine  – historical and contemporary atlases

 

 

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