History
162 sites
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/
Jay Hoffmann's ongoing project documenting the history of the World Wide Web through a detailed, date-anchored timeline of key events, launches, and milestones. The site features a growing archive of entries covering everything from the birth of JSON to the launch of NYTimes.com, making it an invaluable reference for anyone curious about how the web evolved.
https://cnyhistory.org/
The Onondaga Historical Association, established in 1863, preserves and shares the history of Onondaga County and Central New York through a network of museums, archives, educational programs, and community events. Visitors can explore exhibits ranging from military history to the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace, access digitized news footage from the 1960s and 70s, and engage with research collections at the Wright Research Center.
http://castlewales.com/home.html
Created by Jeffrey L. Thomas in 1996, The Castles of Wales is a comprehensive reference covering over 400 Welsh castles with high-quality photographs, historical essays, and profiles of the principal castle builders. Celebrating 30 years online, it features both famous fortifications like Chepstow and Beaumaris alongside lesser-known gems, contributed by historians, published authors, and castle enthusiasts alike.
https://davistownmuseum.org/
The Davistown Museum in Liberty, Maine is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the hand tools of New England's maritime and early industrial culture, with two physical locations and an extensive online presence. Visitors can explore annotated tool inventories, photo tours, unpublished essays, museum publications, bibliographies, and a Maine Artists Guild Gallery showcasing contemporary Maine art.
https://dolekemp96.org/
An archived preservation of the official Dole/Kemp 1996 presidential campaign website, presented for educational purposes by 4President.org. This historical snapshot captures the Republican ticket's online presence from the 1996 election, alongside a link to the archived Clinton/Gore 96 site for comparison.
https://migrantvoices.pitt.edu/
Created by graduate student Adam Lee Cilli at Pitt-Greensburg, this site makes previously inaccessible oral history recordings of Black migrants to Pittsburgh available to the public for the first time. It serves as a central hub covering the Great Migration from 1915 to 1930, featuring interviews, letters, and primary sources that illuminate the experiences of African Americans who relocated from the rural South to Pittsburgh's industrial economy.
https://911realtime.org/
9/11 Realtime is an immersive multimedia educational tool created by Robbie Byrd that synchronizes video, audio, and news from September 11, 2001 in real time, allowing viewers to experience the day's events as they unfolded. Designed for classroom use alongside a structured curriculum, it presents a timeline-driven interface styled after classic Mac OS aesthetics, pulling together broadcast footage, audio recordings, and news tickers to document one of modern history's most significant events.
https://johnhmoore.co.uk/hele
John Moore's meticulously researched history of Hele Bay, a small village near Ilfracombe in north Devon, traces human settlement from the Palaeolithic era through to modern times, complete with old photographs, maps, and references. Winner of the Barnstaple and District Civic Society Heritage Conservation Award in 2004, this site covers everything from Iron Age hillforts and Roman remains to smuggling, lime burning, and World Wars.
https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/texts/Galileo.Nuncius.html
Published by Peter Damerow and Jürgen Renn of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, this page presents an electronic representation of Galileo's complete handwritten notes on motion and mechanics spanning roughly 30 years of his career. The project digitizes approximately 200 loose manuscript sheets tracing the transition from Aristotelian to classical physics, making them accessible as a collaborative research environment for historians of science.
https://wartimememories.co.uk/
The Wartime Memories Project is a long-running archive dedicated to preserving firsthand stories and records from both World War One and World War Two before they are lost forever. Visitors can explore detailed sections covering Allied and Central Powers armies, air forces, naval operations, prisoners of war, women at war, hospitals, and day-by-day battle accounts.