The Internet History Sourcebooks

July 9, 2015 6:46 AM

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The main sourcebooks cover ancient, medieval, and modern history. Subsidiary sourcebooks cover African, East Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian and Gay, Science, and Women's history.
posted by jedicus (6 comments total)

A very useful site; it's amazing it hasn't been posted before. (My own gripe is that its coverage of prerevolutionary Russian history is almost nonexistent, but no one site can do everything.)
posted by languagehat at 7:20 AM on July 9, 2015 [2 favorites]

What a neat site. Medieval NYC caught my eye and is a special treat; wonderful idea, nicely executed.
posted by Miko at 8:08 AM on July 9, 2015 [2 favorites]

One of the Internet History Sourcebooks is mentioned in this FPP on Greek temple architecture from 2003 (!), but it well deserves an FPP of its own. Thanks for sharing!
posted by crazy with stars at 10:56 AM on July 9, 2015

I love this site, my only complaint being that there is some pretty serious link-rot in places. It's a great resource to direct students to when discussing primary sources.
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 10:58 AM on July 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is great, and bizarrely my mom showed it to me just yesterday.
posted by LobsterMitten at 3:40 PM on July 9, 2015

This is fabulous. I could easily get lost in here. Thank you for sharing.
posted by delight at 10:12 PM on July 9, 2015