https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory This is a curated list of primary source databases related to European history, NOT including the British Isles (those are at https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory). en-us 2019-03-20 20:18:43 UTC 2025-09-27 15:21:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343551736 2019-03-20 21:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343551736 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343551781 Welcome to Famous Trials, the Web’s largest and most visited collection of original essays, trial transcripts and exhibits, maps, images, and other materials relating to the greatest trials in world history.]]> 2019-03-20 21:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343551781 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343556786 This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.]]> 2019-03-20 21:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343556786 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343569433 The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.]]> 2019-03-20 22:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343569433 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343572804 Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced.]]> 2019-03-20 23:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343572804 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343573690 American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. ]]> 2019-03-20 23:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343573690 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343576034 This does include sources not related to English history.]]> 2019-03-20 23:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343576034 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343576941 Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.]]> 2019-03-20 23:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343576941 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343577057 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).]]> 2019-03-20 23:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343577057 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343578234 The most comprehensive online resource on Jewish history, politics and culture.]]> 2019-03-20 23:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343578234 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343579087 Their collection focuses on American history but also includes sources on early modern British history.]]> 2019-03-20 23:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343579087 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343579498 The Hispanic Digital Library is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It provides access free of charge to thousands of digitised documents, including books printed from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings.]]> 2019-03-20 23:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343579498 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343581106 This is probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.]]> 2019-03-20 23:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343581106 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343584318 The history of imperialism is covered extensively on the world wide web. The sites listed below have been selected to demonstrate some of the high quality resources available. ]]> 2019-03-21 00:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/343584318 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361404441 This includes a variety of publications and official proceedings related to war crimes in 🤬 Germany. ]]> 2019-05-18 16:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361404441 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361406716 This museum in Oxford, UK, is uploading images from its diverse collection of artifacts and objects.]]> 2019-05-18 16:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361406716 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361408252 The MIA aims to maintain an archive of any and all writings which are Marxist or relevant to the understanding of Marxism and can be lawfully published.]]> 2019-05-18 17:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361408252 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361408407 2019-05-18 17:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361408407 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361410007 This includes sources from around the world, including Europe.]]> 2019-05-18 17:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361410007 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361410350 2019-05-18 17:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361410350 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361410740 2019-05-18 17:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361410740 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361415092 2019-05-18 18:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361415092 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361798736 HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.]]> 2019-05-20 16:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361798736 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361799434 This is one of the earliest digital spaces (c. 1990s) that collected primary sources. It has been updated.]]> 2019-05-20 16:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/361799434 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/373482338 An incredible on-going project of digitizing extremely high quality images of medieval manuscripts and their descriptions. While these are all in the original language, they are useful for all students as physical examples of medieval writing/book production.]]> 2019-08-06 22:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/373482338 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/373482551 Mapped images of graffiti from Pompey and Herculaneum. Some translations.]]> 2019-08-06 22:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/373482551 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/405469616 2019-11-01 15:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/405469616 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/418264209 Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis will create the country’s largest regional online collection of medieval manuscripts; fifteen libraries will create images and descriptions for 160,000 manuscript pages.]]> 2019-12-02 02:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/418264209 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/431352433 This includes a variety of collections ranging from medieval manuscripts, to political cartoons, to sources on Greek history (and many other topics).]]> 2020-01-14 15:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/431352433 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/433822327 2020-01-21 03:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/EuropeanHistory/wish/433822327