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Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.

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Public Books Database - Open access academic literature.

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North America

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 - An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary.

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Switzerland

DigiBern - Bernese culture and history on the Internet.

Learning

History Toolkit - You will learn how to critically analyse historical conditions, developments, patterns and ruptures – or, alternatively, how to call these into question.

Mar 28th - Apr 3rd, 2022

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Global

OpenHistoricalMap - A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.

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.

Feb 28th - Mar 6th, 2022

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Global

Mementoweb - Find archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, and GitHub.

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Switzerland

chgov - Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963).

Jan 31st - Feb 6th, 2022

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Europe

Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique - European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges.

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Germany

Computerarchiv Muenchen - South German Muesum for History of Digital Development.

PICTURA paedagogica - Digital image archive on the history of education with 131'155 objects.

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Global

Classic Computer Magazine Archive - Preserving information from early personal computer magazines.

gotpapers.scene.org - Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.

OpenCat - Search engine for libraries around the globe.

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North America

Computer Gaming World Museum - Archive of various magazines on gaming.

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Switzerland

Année Politique Suisse - Sources on developments in Swiss politics and society.

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DHTools - Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities.

Dec 20th - Dec 26th, 2021

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Germany

MARCHIVUM - Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim.

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Switzerland

Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv - This collection comprises over 500 business archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a focus on the Basel region.

Learning

Geospatial Historian - Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.

Nov 29th - Dec 5th, 2021

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Global

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog - Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide.

Aug 23rd - Aug 29th, 2021

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Switzerland

histHub - Search engine for all major standardized data APIs.

May 3rd - May 9th, 2021

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Austria

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.

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Europe

Visual Archive Southeastern Europe - Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe.

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Switzerland

swisscollections - Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives.

Apr 12th - Apr 18th, 2021

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Germany

LexM - Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.

Mar 29th - Apr 4th, 2021

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Germany

Archivportal - German archives search engine.

Bavarikon - Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek - Over 12 million objects.

Digitale Sammlungen - Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.

leo bw - Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg.

SLUB Dresden - Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings).

UB Heidelberg - Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature.

ZLB - Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library.

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Tempopedia - Digital History Directory.

Feb 1st - Feb 7th, 2021

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Austria

ANNO - Austrian Newspapers online.

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Europe

Mapire - Interactive historical maps.

Monasterium - Deeds from all over Europe.

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Germany

Uni Frankfurt - Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more.

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British Library - Maps, manuscripts and sounds.

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North America

Chronicling America - America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963.

David Rumsey Map Collection - Over 94,000 maps and related images.

Eugenics Archive - Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics.

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Switzerland

arCHeco - Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Kartenportal - Search engine for maps.

Jan 4th - Jan 10th, 2021

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France

Institut national de l'audiovisuel - INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives.

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Bitsavers.org - Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines.

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North America

World Digital Library - WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

Nov 16th - Nov 22nd, 2020

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Europe

Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

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Germany

Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv - An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.

Docupedia - Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research.

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Global

fxtop.com - Forex rate history since 1953.

Internet Archive - Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Marxist Internet Archive - Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists).

WayBackMachine - Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time.

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Great Britain

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey - London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.

NLS - Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.

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Netherlands

Delpher - More than 100 million pages from Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.

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North America

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - More than 250,000 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.

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Switzerland

Archives Online - Archival search engine for Switzerland.

Digithek - A collection of digital finding aids for secondary and vocational schools.

e-newspaperarchives.ch - Swiss newspapers.

E-Periodica - Swiss journals.

e-rara - The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.

Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland - Encyclopedia on Swiss history.

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.

infoclio.ch Edition projects - A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland.

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 415'634 audiovisual documents from 67 Swiss memory institutions.

Learning

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.

We think History - News about and innovations from digital history.

Local Linkages - How to frame questions about the past, identify sources to answer those questions, place them in context, and present that historical interpretation online in a digital form.

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Computer History stars2.2k - An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.

Data Visualization stars3k

Research Tools stars1.4k

Scientific Writing stars385

Aug 3rd - Aug 9th, 2020

Learning

The CTP Book - A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities.

Jun 1st - Jun 7th, 2020

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Switzerland

Amtsdruckschriften - Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.

Apr 27th - May 3rd, 2020

Archives and primary sources

Europe

CENDARI - Search engine for libraries containing resources on the Medieval era and World War One.

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Germany

Spiegel Online - SPIEGEL archive since 1947.

Zefys - Historical German newspapers.

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North America

Ad*Access - Over 7,000 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.

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Switzerland

COSMOV - COSMOV includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968.

e-codices - Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland containing 2297 manuscripts from 92 different collections.

e-manuscripta - Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives.

timeSTAT Cubes - The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years.

Learning

HIST3814o - Methods and Readings in Digital History by Shawn Graham at Carleton University.

HIST 7370 - Methods and Readings in Digital History by Cameron Blevins at Northeastern University.

UCI Digital History - Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities.

Mar 23rd - Mar 29th, 2020

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Switzerland

e-gs - Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection.

Jan 27th - Feb 2nd, 2020

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Germany

Projekt Gutenberg - Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German.

Dec 16th - Dec 22nd, 2019

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Global

OldMapsOnline - Maps, starting in the 17th century.

Oct 28th - Nov 3rd, 2019

Archives and primary sources

Europe

Archives Portal Europe - European archives search engine.

Europeana - Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources.

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France

Gallica - Digital library of the National Library of France.

Archives and primary sources

Switzerland

Industriekultur - Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts.

Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland - Diplomatic documents of Switzerland.

HSSO - Historical statistics of Switzerland online.

Learning

Digital History Guide - Introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.

AdFontes - An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.

Clio Guide - A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences.

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