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Awesome Digital History 
Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.
Finding aids for textual and multimedia primary sources with a focus on the western hemisphere and the 19th and 20th centuries. Courses and learning tools to explore history digitally.
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Archives and primary sources
Africa
- PARC - Portal for African Research Collections: PARC is the new meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel.
- West African Arabic Manuscript Database - A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa.
Asia
- FOCAL - The Asia Directories and Chronicles is a reference work for foreign traders in the Asian region, published annually by the Hong Kong Daily Press, annually between 1863 and 1941.
Austria
- ANNO - Austrian Newspapers online.
- Digitarium - Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung.
- Österreichische Mediathek - The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and contemporary history.
- Wien Geschichte Wiki - It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510 images.
Europe
- Archives Portal Europe - European archives search engine.
- Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique - European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges.
- Europeana - Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources.
- Mapire - Interactive historical maps.
- Monasterium - Deeds from all over Europe.
- Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
- Visual Archive Southeastern Europe - Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe.
France
- Gallica - Digital library of the National Library of France.
- Institut national de l'audiovisuel - INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives.
Germany
- Archivportal - German archives search engine.
- Bavarikon - Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.
- Computerarchiv Muenchen - South German Museum for History of Digital Development.
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek - Over 12 million objects.
- Deutsches Zeitungsportal - Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950.
- Digitale Sammlungen - Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.
- Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv - An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.
- Docupedia - Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research.
- historicum.net - A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services.
- leo bw - Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg.
- LexM - Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.
- MARCHIVUM - Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim.
- Projekt Gutenberg - Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German.
- SLUB Dresden - Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings).
- Spiegel Online - SPIEGEL archive since 1947.
- UB Heidelberg - Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature.
- Uni Frankfurt - Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more.
- Zefys - Historical German newspapers.
- ZLB - Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library.
Global
- Bitsavers.org - Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines.
- Classic Computer Magazine Archive - Preserving information from early personal computer magazines.
- Fxtop - Forex rate history since 1953.
- Got Papers? - Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.
- HMML - Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world.
- Internet Archive - Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog - Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide.
- Marxist Internet Archive - Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists).
- Mementoweb - Find archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, and GitHub.
- OldMapsOnline - Maps, starting in the 17th century.
- OpenCat - Search engine for libraries around the globe.
- OpenHistoricalMap - A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.
- Public Books Database - Open access academic literature.
- United Nations Archive - Archives and records from the United Nations regarding Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions.
- WayBackMachine - Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time.
- World Historical Gazeteer - Collection of content and services that permit world historians to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.
Great Britain
- British Library - Maps, manuscripts and sounds.
- National Records of Scotland - Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland.
- NLS - Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.
- The National Archives - A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey - London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.
Netherlands
- Delpher - Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.
- Nationaal Archief - Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.
North America
- Ad*Access - U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
- Chronicling America - America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963.
- Computer Gaming World Museum - Archive of various magazines on gaming.
- David Rumsey Map Collection - Historical maps collection.
- Digital Public Library of America - Discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
- Digital Transgender Archive - Wide range of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
- Eugenics Archive - Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics.
- HathiTrust - A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items.
- National Archives - The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States.
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Online collection of scanned maps.
- Women Working 1800-1930 - An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.
- World Digital Library - WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.
Switzerland
- Amtsdruckschriften - Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.
- Année Politique Suisse - Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.
- arCHeco - Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
- Archives Online - Archival search engine for Switzerland.
- chgov - Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963).
- COSMOV - COSMOV includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968.
- DigiBern - Bernese culture and history on the Internet.
- Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland - Diplomatic documents of Switzerland.
- e-codices - Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland.
- e-gs - Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection.
- e-manuscripta - Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives.
- e-newspaperarchives.ch - Swiss newspapers.
- E-Periodica - Swiss journals.
- e-rara - The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.
- histHub - The platform manages authority files on Swiss history.
- Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland - Encyclopedia on Swiss history.
- HSSO - Historical statistics of Switzerland online.
- impresso - Historical newspaper collections of the Swiss National Library, the National Library of Luxembourg, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps, the Valais State Archives and the Swiss Economic Archives.
- Industriekultur - Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts.
- infoclio.ch Edition projects - A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland.
- Kartenportal - Search engine for maps.
- Le Temps - Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève.
- map.geo.admin.ch - Journey through time via maps of Switzerland.
- MEMOBASE - Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.
- Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online - Retrodigitalisierte und digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert wird rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (1798).
- Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv - This collection comprises over 500 business archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a focus on the Basel region.
- Sources Online - A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland.
- swisscollections - Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives.
- timeSTAT Cubes - The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years.
- transcriptiones - Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.
Learning
- AdFontes - An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.
- Clio Guide - A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences.
- Crafting Digital History - A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History.
- Digital History Guide - Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work.
- Geospatial Historian - Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.
- HIST 7370 - Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History.
- History Toolkit - History Toolkit for Students.
- Introduction to Digital History - This guide, created in the fall semester of 2022, accompanies the introductory courses in history at the University of Basel and is intended to provide a first insight into the field of digital history.
- Introduction to Python for Humanists - A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in the humanities.
- Local Linkages - Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills.
- Python für Historiker:innen - The Jupyter Book (in German language) is aimed at historians who are looking for a first application-oriented and interactive introduction to the Python programming language.
- The CTP Book - A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities.
- The Programming Historian - Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.
- UCI Digital History - Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities.
- We think History - News about and innovations from digital history.
More Awesome
- Computer History (⭐2.5k) - An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.
- Data Visualization (⭐3.5k) - A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.
- Digital Humanities - Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities.
- Research Tools (⭐1.9k) - A list of tools for research.
- Scientific Writing (⭐668) - Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.
- Tempopedia - Digital History Directory.
Contribute
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