History
162 sites
http://nyhistory.com/
New York History Net is a comprehensive hub for historians and students of New York State history, featuring curated links to archives, museums, historical societies, genealogy resources, and educational materials. The site also highlights recent scholarly books on topics ranging from Colonial New Netherland to the American Revolution, making it a valuable reference for serious researchers.
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://genealogyindexer.org/
Genealogy Indexer is a free search engine covering over 2 million scanned pages of historical directories, yizkor books, military lists, and school records, focused primarily on Central and Eastern European Jewish genealogy. Researchers can browse collections spanning dozens of countries and regions, with tools for transliterating between Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew scripts to aid in tracing family histories across linguistic boundaries.
https://workhouses.org.uk/
Peter Higginbotham's exhaustive reference site chronicles the history of the British workhouse system, covering Poor Laws from 1601 through the end of the workhouse era with detailed entries on hundreds of individual Poor Law Unions across England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Visitors will find full texts of historic legislation, location guides, photographs, records of workhouse life, and deeply researched articles on topics ranging from bastardy laws to oakum picking.
http://mas-yamazaki.com/
The personal website of Masahiro Yamazaki, a Japanese author and researcher known for his works on military history and modern conflict. The site is minimal in structure, serving as an entry point to his professional and personal online presence.
https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/
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.
https://lalondes.neocities.org/
Catherine (also known as Fei) has built a richly themed personal site centered on her passion for medieval history, Catholic imagery, theology, and classical literature. Visitors will find shrines dedicated to games like Pathologic and The Witcher, original art, and a distinctive labyrinth aesthetic drawing from medieval iconography and devotion to Saint Catherine of Siena.
https://members.tripod.com/anand_dange/mylinks.html
Anand Dange's personal link collection brings together an extensive array of Marathi-language websites, Hindi and Marathi music resources, Indian news outlets, and Bay Area practical resources for Indian immigrants. The page serves as a curated gateway to Marathi culture online, including sites for Pu.La. Deshpande, Marathi songs, cricket, and California transit and DMV information.
https://dmnes.org/about
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.
http://prrths.com/
The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once known as 'The Standard Railroad of the World.' This splash page redirects visitors to the society's updated website at prrths.org, serving as a gateway for railroad history enthusiasts and collectors.