Digital Resources for Conducting Historical Research
Overview Blogs and Articles:
- York University Libraries, "Finding Scholarly Materials Online"
- Alan MacEachern and William J. Turkell, "A Time for Research Distancing”
- Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” American Historical Review (April 2016).
- Ian Milligan, “Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997-2010” Canadian Historical Review 94: 4 (December 2013).
Archival / Museum Sources / Online Collections:
- Data Together, "Exploring Community-Driven Data Stewardship”
- “The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections”
- Ontario Historical Society: Ontario History Journal Digital Archive
- Alaska’s Digital Archives: Alaska’s historical resources
- Mexican Ministry of Culture: Short films, books, radio, paintings, from cultural orgs
- NASA Image & Video Library: All NASA content is in the public domain
- The Hermitage, Russia: Virtual Tour (YouTube)
- National Museum of the Great Lakes: Virtual Tour
- National Museum of Computing, UK: Virtual Tour
- Virtual Migration Museum: Interactive Online Experience / App
- Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design
- Naturalis, Netherlands: 40,000,000 natural science collections objects
- English Literature Portal, WikiSource
- National Archives of Japan
- Churchill Archive
- Hudson’s Bay Company Archives pre-1870 records
- Canadian Historical Association
- Early Canadiana Online
- H-Net: Humanities Online
- National Archives of Canada
- Archives of Ontario
- Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections
- Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Secondary Sources:
- Public Books Database
- Internet Archive “Emergency Library”
- Daniel Murchison’s Dropbox has the Canadian History field collection. Contact him at danmurch@yorku.ca
Journals
- American Historical Review
- Canadian Committee on Labour History
- Canadian Journal of History
- Left History
- Reviews in American History