~ Early Web Links ~

This links page is part of the Levi Jordan Plantation Web Archaeology project, created by Carol McDavid, connecting visitors to scholarly resources on Southern plantations, slavery, and African American genealogy. The broader site documents collaborative archaeology at a Texas plantation site, weaving together descendants, historians, and community voices.

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall at Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies, is a massive curated collection of primary source texts covering the entire medieval period, from the fall of Rome through the Renaissance and Reformation. Researchers and educators will find full-text sources, saints' lives, law texts, maps, and topically organized sections on everything from the Crusades and Byzantine studies to medieval Jewish life and gender history.

An online database maintained by Snyder & Short documenting the camouflage paint schemes used on US Navy warships during World War II, including dazzle patterns, haze gray, and ocean gray. Researchers, historians, and scale modelers will find detailed records organized by ship class, with new entries like the Haskell class APAs added regularly.

The Outlands College of Heralds Wimble Herald site maintains the Order of Precedence and Who's Who records for members of the Society for Creative Anachronism's Kingdom of the Outlands. Visitors can search for people by name, alias, or local group, browse award membership lists, and find information about awards given across reigns and baronies.

The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources is a scholarly reference project cataloguing all given names recorded in European documents from 500 to 1600 CE, with over 20,000 citations spanning more than a dozen countries. Edited by Dr. Sara L. Uckelman of Durham University and a team of academic contributors, it publishes quarterly editions and serves as an invaluable tool for historians, genealogists, and medieval reenactors alike.

The Food Timeline is an exhaustive culinary history reference created by Lynne Olver and now maintained through Virginia Tech University Libraries, tracing the origins and evolution of foods from ancient Rome to modern times. With over 2,300 books in its library collection and thousands of meticulously researched entries, it answers questions like who invented the potato chip and what pioneers ate on the Oregon Trail.

René Zandbergen's comprehensive reference site dedicated to the Voynich Manuscript, one of history's most enigmatic and undeciphered illustrated texts. Visitors will find deep research, analysis, and imagery related to this medieval mystery that has puzzled scholars and cryptographers for over a century.

Created by Christie Ward (writing as Gunnvör silfrahárr), the Viking Answer Lady is a comprehensive reference site covering Viking Age history, daily life, technology, agriculture, warfare, art, literature, mythology, and religion. Originally written as articles for an SCA newsletter in the early 1990s, this meticulously researched site has grown into one of the most thorough English-language resources on medieval Scandinavian civilization.

Developed by Penn State University Libraries in collaboration with multiple Pennsylvania institutions, this archive provides searchable full-text access to more than 80 historically significant newspaper titles from across the Commonwealth. Spanning from Pennsylvania's colonial roots to the present, it allows researchers to browse by title, date, or city across all 67 counties.

Ben Discoe's personal homepage from the late 1990s, preserved largely unchanged, covers an eclectic range of topics including virtual terrain, electric vehicles, travel photography from Kyoto to Cuba, genealogy, Burning Man experiences, and personal rants. A genuine time capsule of the personal web era, with dozens of interlinked pages spanning technology projects, life stories, and offbeat cultural commentary.