History Resources on the Web

• Center for Research Libraries

  A consortium of research libraries which provides cumulative search capabilities for dozens of university libraries (including UVa).

• Copac

  The Copac library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.

• Edicta: Early Dictionaries

  Serves as a link to research projects and peer-reviewed research on early dictionaries at the University of Toronto and elsewhere.

• Folger Shakespeare Library

  The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is a world-class research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. It is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art.

• H-grad Email List

  An email list for History graduate students, h-grad is one of the many H-Net history discussion groups.

• New York Public Library Research Collections

  The NYPL houses a large collection of archives, manuscripts and images. The web site provides searching capabilities and access to hundreds of thousands of digital images.

• Scholar's Guide to the Web

  A collection of links useful to humanities scholars.

• United States Library of Congress

  The world's largest library is only a few hours drive from UVa. The LoC Catalog provides not only listings of books, but thousands of images and multimedia items. National Union Catalog of Manuscripts Collections (NUCMC) is a catalog of the LoC's manuscript holdings.

• United States National Archives

  Preserves the most important documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government.