Not all websites are equal! The following lists are representative of good online collections created through or by private, governmental, or collegiate efforts. The order of websites is alphabetical within geographic regions: Multi-Region; Florida; United States; Caribbean, Central America, and South America; Europe; Africa; and Asia.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Digital History Project
Hosted at the University of Nebraska, this website helps explain and explore what a digital history project entails.
Duke University Libraries Digital Collections
Explore Collections
Primary Sources at Harvard University.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Library of Congress: Digital Collections
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages
Of the over 40,000 slaver voyages from Africa to the Americas, approximately 35,000 voyages are included with lists of names, places of origin, and other facts about the people transported for about 95% of British slavers and most French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian slavers. The voyages covered are from 1514-1866, but coverage is spotty at different time periods or for different countries.
The Florida Historical Society
Florida Memory: State Library & Archives of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History
PALMM: Publication of Archival Library and Museum Materials; State University Libraries of Florida
P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History
St. Augustine Historical Society: Research Library
St. Augustine History
Although this site is part of the larger commercial site, augustine.com, this portion provides full-text access to some wonderful primary resources about St. Augustine, including articles, books, maps, and sundry other information.
Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
Maintained by the University of Washington, Seattle, this site provides information about the African diaspora.
The Gilder Lehmann Institute of American History
The Great Depression Interviews
The Green Book
Free access provided by the New York Public Library for 23 years of the Green Book published between 1936 and 1967. This guide book was intended for the use of vacationing African-Americans.
Historical Maps of the United States
Making of America - Cornell University
This collection provides access to 19th century American books and journal articles.
Making of America - University of Michigan
This collection provides access to 19th century American books and journals articles.
Papers of the War Department: 1784-1800
Thought destroyed by a fire in the War Office in 1800, many scholars spent more than 10 years in the late 20th and early 21st century visiting libraries and archives in the U.S. and Europe to find and digitize around 55,000 of the documents presumed lost. The headquarters for this project is George Mason University in Virginia.
dLOC: Digital Library of the Caribbean
FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of MesoAmerican Studies, Inc.
Historical Mexican & Mexican American Press
Select Spanish language newspapers from Mexico, Arizona, California, and Texas from the 1880s through the 1970s.
Lanic: Latin American Network Information Center
Casgliad y Werin Cymru: Peoples' Collection Wales
EarlyModernWeb
Aggregate website listing resources or digital collections from both sides of the Atlantic dealing with the late Middles Ages through the early modern period.
Europeana: 1914-1918
Primary sources digitized and freely available online from countries around Europe documenting the WWI experience.
Les Guillotines de la Revolution Francaise
This site lists the names of all/almost all those guillotined during the French Revolution.
Hansard
British Parliament Papers
The National Archives (Great Britain)
Pomoerian
Site in German and English for doing research on Ancient Greece and Rome.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
TudorHistory.org
More complete for covering the history of the age than "Tudor History" (but not the Kings and Queens), this site provides information on not only the Tudors, but genealogy, maps, pictures, architecture, and popular culture (stories, movies) about the 16th-century, and access to further information.
Southeast Asia Visions: A Collection of Historic Travel Narratives
Hosted by Cornell University, this site provides access to some of the narratives and photographs taken by Europeans visiting southeast Asia.