History
162 sites
https://historymatters.gmu.edu/
History Matters is a comprehensive gateway for teaching and learning U.S. history, built by George Mason University and CUNY's American Social History Project. It offers over 800 primary source documents, annotated website reviews, syllabi, teaching strategies, and evidence-analysis guides aimed at high school and college educators and students.
https://mikh.net/bettie
Pin-Up Goddess is a fanlisting dedicated to Bettie Page, the iconic 1950s pin-up model celebrated for her trademark bangs and timeless allure. Owned by Mikh and listed through The Fanlistings Network, it invites fellow fans to join and show their appreciation for the legendary figure.
http://erraticimpact.com/
Erraticimpact hosts web pages dedicated to Sonia Pressman Fuentes, a pioneering feminist lawyer and author who was one of the founders of NOW (National Organization for Women). The site serves as a tribute and resource for learning about her life, career, and contributions to the women's rights movement in America.
https://calculatingempires.net/
Calculating Empires is a sweeping large-scale research visualization by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler tracing how technology and power have co-evolved since 1500, spanning topics from computation and surveillance to colonialism and military systems. The interactive map invites deep exploration of the interconnected genealogies of technical and social structures across five centuries, making it a remarkable scholarly artifact for anyone interested in the history of technology and empire.
https://manchesterhistory.net/
A site dedicated to the history and culture of Manchester, offering a local perspective on one of England's most storied cities. The focus on historical content makes it a useful reference for anyone researching Manchester's past and community heritage.
https://ethesis.net/sint_jan/inhoud.htm
This is a digitized academic thesis by Sigrid Dehaeck, submitted to Ghent University in 1998-1999, examining food consumption in medieval Bruges between 1280 and 1470 through case studies of the Sint-Janshospitaal and the Potterie hospital. The work covers grain sources, dietary patterns, hospital accounting records, and comparisons between patient, staff, and military food rations, making it a rare window into late medieval Flemish nutrition and institutional life.
https://orbis.stanford.edu/
ORBIS is an interactive geospatial network model of the ancient Roman world, built by Stanford scholars Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, allowing users to calculate travel routes across the Roman Empire by road, river, and sea. Visitors can explore travel times, costs, and distances between hundreds of Roman sites using historically grounded transportation modes, making it an extraordinary research tool for historians and classical scholars.
https://mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm
Hosted at McMaster University, this is the official online home of the Bertrand Russell Archives, preserving the correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and library of the renowned British philosopher and peace advocate. Visitors can search the BRACERS database, browse digital exhibits, explore Russell's collected papers and letters, and access scholarly resources about his life and philosophy.
http://furniturestyles.net/european/english/thomas-sheraton.html
FurnitureStyles.net offers a detailed biography of Thomas Sheraton, the celebrated 18th-century English furniture designer whose neoclassical style rivaled that of Chippendale and Hepplewhite. Part of a larger reference site covering European furniture history, this page traces Sheraton's life from his humble origins in Stockton-on-Tees to his lasting influence on the Golden Age of English cabinet-making.
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/still-there
Created by net artist and researcher Olia Lialina, 'Still There' documents the remnants of early web culture through essays on Geocities ruins, Rotterdam's internet cafés, and the backgrounds of Dutch social network Hyves. Part of a formal academic research programme, this project offers a thoughtful archaeological look at the visual and social artifacts of the early internet.