History of Twentieth-Century Europe

Rich website linking to primary sources for all periods of European history. Organized first by country, and then loosely chronologically. Includes transcriptions, facsimiles, and, sometimes, translations. Maintained at Brigham Young University.

"The Inventing Europe website is a pioneering collaboration between historians and cultural heritage institutions throughout Europe. Together, these national collections shape a transnational collective memory of Europe’s cultural heritage. The goal of the website is to cross borders and explore the history, culture and formation of Europe through the lens of technological objects and images."

A well-organized website with links to primary source documents, most in English translation. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham.

Links to many national library websites. National libraries are often responsible for digitizing collections related to the history of the nation.

Supported by the United Nations, this portal gathers digitized primary sources of every type from worldwide repositories, including many national museums and libraries.

A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, gathers together and introduces repositories that contain primary sources from across the world.

Access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Supported by a non-profit organization.

Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Back volumes are in process of digitization.

A growing digital archive of newsreels created by the British Pathé company from the 1890s through the 1970s. These videos include areas such as historical events and documentaries as well as travelogues and contemporary coverage of culture.

Internet Archive's library of films. Includes animations, newsreels, documentaries, public information films, and TV commercials.

This multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.

Published from 1936 to 1972, this influential magazine chronicled world events and brought stunning images of the world to American readers.

Access to digitized maps from the Library of Congress.

Access to maps from research libraries around the world. You may search a place and a time period to find high-resolution maps.

Digitized copies of French newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Le Figaro (1826-1942), Le Temps (1861-1937), among others.

This website links to historic newspaper digitization projects from around the world. Projects are listed by country or by state. Most newspapers are freely available, but the fee-based projects are noted as such.

Poet-soldier Siegfried Sassoon's journals and notebooks include vivid daily accounts of life at the front in World War I. From the Cambridge Digital Library.