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History - Getting Started
Freshman Seminar - Dr. Giblin-Gedacht - Fall 2019
Finding Food Images
Use some of the example sites below. You can also search for your topic combined with the words "digital library", "digital archive" or "image collection".
Recommended Sources for Asian Studies
- Columbia University, Asia for EducatorsIncludes primary sources along with visual material, scholarly essays, scholarly lectures, and teaching aids
- Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 DisastersMaintained by Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University
- MIT's Visualizing CulturesOf particular note are scholarly articles interpreting image collections on East Asia (esp. China, Japan) and the American Pacific (Philippines). Included are a large run of primary source images.
- Reenvisioning Japan (University of Rochester)Japanese material and visual culture in the 20th century
- UBC’s Meiji at 150This resource includes a huge selection of historical images and essays by experts in the field about various aspects of the Meiji Restoration of 1868 (Japan).
- UBC’s Meiji at 150 - Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht's podcastPodcasts by Japanese historians that discuss the way that the Meiji Restoration/Revolution intersect with their research including an episode featuring Seton Hall’s own Anne Giblin Gedacht.
- World Digital LibraryHuge collection of images and manuscripts. Also has a very impressive timeline for World History.
Recommended Sources for Middle Eastern Studies
- Middle East Studies CenterManaged by Portland State University, includes podcasts, teaching tools and resource library
- Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for EducatorsUniversity of Chicago
- Educational Resources: Center for Middle Eastern StudiesThe University of Chicago
- Nashriyah: Digital Iranian History (Persian Newspapers)The University of Manchester Library
Web Resources - World History
- Arctic PortalArctic Portal is intended to provide a Web presence and to synthesize information, issues, and online resources for as many groups and nations with Arctic interests as possible.
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic TextsThe Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish history, literature and politics.
- Cold War International History ProjectThe Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in 1991. It supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War
- EuropaThe primary source for information on the major EU organs.
- European History OnlineA resource that covers the "transcultural history of Europe on the Internet" over the past 500 years.
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French RevolutionProvides an introduction to the French Revolution as well as an archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.
- South Asian Oral History ProjectThe SAOHP represents one of the first attempts in the U.S. to record pan-South Asian immigrant experiences in the Pacific Northwest using the medium of oral history
- Timelines: Sources from HistorySeveral hundred images culled from the British Library's extensive collections are arranged by decade in this attractive, engaging interactive resource.
- Vision of Britain Through TimeA vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001 including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.