World Civilizations II Research Guide

Welcome to The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use. Primary sources are available if you click on the era you are interested in.

We are a non-profit organization publishing the world's most-read history encyclopedia. Our mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.Use the index to choose your time period, region, and subject.

BBC History contains articles, videos, and interviews about historical events throughout the world.

The Europeana website provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe's digital cultural heritage. We give you access to millions of items from providing institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more

These open access sources are readily available to all -- without fees or subscriptions. Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
In addition you will find video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation. The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural).

This website from Yale Law School provides primary source legal, historical and governmental documents from all over the world. Time range covered is the 17th century to present day.

The primary purpose of "Behind The Veil" was to record and preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity.

Posters from the Russian Revolution.

The Institute of Historical Research was founded in 1921 and is one of eight institutes that comprise the University of London's School of Advanced Study. The IHR is dedicated to training the next generation of historians, and to producing and facilitating ambitious, innovative historical research.

Founded in 1884, the American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest membership society for working historians in the United States. The group's goal to promote historical studies, preserve historical manuscripts and provide access to priceless U.S. documents is supported through an online archive, a prominent annual meeting and publication of the American Historical Review and Perspectives on History.

The World History Association (WHA) was founded in 1982 as a means for promoting the cross-cultural, global study of world history. With the group's international members primarily consisting of educators, the WHA has been instrumental in establishing teaching standards across the world.

Focused primarily on the studying and teaching of American history, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) invests its efforts in promoting best practices for instruction, presentation and scholarship. The membership joins together more than 7,800 professors, archivists, curators and scholars.

The National Coalition for History is a non-profit educational organization providing leadership in history related advocacy. We represent the interests of a diverse number of groups including historians, archivists, researchers, teachers, students, preservationists, political scientists, museum professionals,