Track Awesome Digital History Updates Weekly

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

🏠 Home · 🔍 Search · 🔥 Feed · 📮 Subscribe · ❤️ Sponsor · 😺 maehr/awesome-digital-history · ⭐ 206 · 🏷️ Health and Social Science

[ Daily / Weekly / Overview ]

Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2024

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Sources Online - A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland.

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2024

Archives and primary sources / Africa

• West African Arabic Manuscript Database - A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa.

Learning / Switzerland

• Introduction to Python for Humanists - A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in the humanities.

Dec 25 - Dec 31, 2023

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.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• HMML - Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world.

Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• historicum.net - A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services.

May 29 - Jun 04, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• transcriptiones - Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.

Learning / Switzerland

• 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.

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2023

Archives and primary sources / 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.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Fxtop - Forex rate history since 1953.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• HathiTrust - A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online - Retrodigitalisierte und digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert wird rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (1798).

Learning / Switzerland

• Crafting Digital History - A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History.

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Got Papers? - Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

• United Nations Archive - Archives and records from the United Nations regarding Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions.

Archives and primary sources / Netherlands

• Nationaal Archief - Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• National Archives - The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States.

Sep 19 - Sep 25, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Great Britain

• British Library - Maps, manuscripts and sounds.

• National Records of Scotland - Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland.

• The National Archives - A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.

Learning / Switzerland

• 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.

Jul 18 - Jul 24, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Computerarchiv Muenchen - South German Museum for History of Digital Development.

Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Deutsches Zeitungsportal - Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950.

More Awesome / Switzerland

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

Apr 25 - May 01, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Public Books Database - Open access academic literature.

Archives and primary sources / 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 - Wide range of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• DigiBern - Bernese culture and history on the Internet.

Learning / Switzerland

• History Toolkit - History Toolkit for Students.

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2022

Archives and primary sources / 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 28 - Mar 06, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Europe

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

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

• OpenCat - Search engine for libraries around the globe.

Archives and primary sources / North America

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Année Politique Suisse - Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.

Dec 20 - Dec 26, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Germany

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

Archives and primary sources / 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 / Switzerland

• Geospatial Historian - Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.

Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

Aug 23 - Aug 29, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• histHub - The platform manages authority files on Swiss history.

May 03 - May 09, 2021

Archives and primary sources / 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.

Archives and primary sources / Europe

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

Apr 12 - Apr 18, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• LexM - Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.

Mar 29 - Apr 04, 2021

Archives and primary sources / 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.

More Awesome / Switzerland

• Tempopedia - Digital History Directory.

Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Austria

• ANNO - Austrian Newspapers online.

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Mapire - Interactive historical maps.

• Monasterium - Deeds from all over Europe.

Archives and primary sources / Germany

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

Archives and primary sources / North America

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

• David Rumsey Map Collection - Historical maps collection.

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

• Kartenportal - Search engine for maps.

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2021

Archives and primary sources / France

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

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

Archives and primary sources / North America

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

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Europe

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

Archives and primary sources / 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.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• 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.

Archives and primary sources / Great Britain

• NLS - Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.

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

Archives and primary sources / Netherlands

• Delpher - Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• 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.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Archives Online - Archival search engine for Switzerland.

• 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 audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.

Learning / Switzerland

• Local Linkages - Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills.

• 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.

More Awesome / Switzerland

• 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.

• 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.

Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2020

Learning / Switzerland

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

Jun 08 - Jun 14, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

May 04 - May 10, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Spiegel Online - SPIEGEL archive since 1947.

• Zefys - Historical German newspapers.

Archives and primary sources / 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.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

• e-codices - Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland.

• 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 / Switzerland

• HIST 7370 - Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History.

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

Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

Feb 03 - Feb 09, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Germany

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

Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2019

Archives and primary sources / Global

• OldMapsOnline - Maps, starting in the 17th century.

Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2019

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Archives Portal Europe - European archives search engine.

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

Archives and primary sources / France

• Gallica - Digital library of the National Library of France.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland - Diplomatic documents of Switzerland.

• HSSO - Historical statistics of Switzerland online.

• Industriekultur - Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts.

Learning / Switzerland

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

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

• Digital History Guide - Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work.