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Three Web portals developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Provides music by time period

Defining Documents offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in American history, with primary source documents and in-depth analysis.

An all-digital library of millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.

Over 300 different collections organized by topic and themes. It includes rare books, manuscripts, maps, photos, music and more

Provides access to over 700,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

The online public portal to our records and information about our records. The catalog currently provides access to over 2 million electronic records currently in the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) as well as digital access to many of the National Archives exhibits.

Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Provides documents ranging from ancient history to the 21st century.

Provides quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students; however, general history enthusiasts will benefit from the site as well. Ranked #1 by Google for history web sites.

Explore 58,112,930 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives

Features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials. The scope is international and multilingual. The online exhibitions include printed books, book illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, printed ephemera, posters, archival sound and video recordings.

Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts and primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses. Deep coverage of documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history and much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history.
You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.

Resources in medieval studies. The Labyrinth’s easy-to-use links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne’s thread through the maze of information on the Web.

A gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.

Include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American, Asian American, and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a database of annotated links, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. This website is supported by the University of Houston Department of History and the College of Education.