Internet History Sourcebooks Project

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Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Created by Paul Halsall (editor); Jerome S. Arkenberg (contributing editor)
URL origin.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.asp
Launched1996
Current statusonline

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies. It is a web site with modern, medieval and ancient primary source documents, maps, secondary sources, bibliographies, images and music. Paul Halsall is the editor, with Jerome S. Arkenberg as the contributing editor. It was first created in 1996, and is used extensively by teachers as an alternative to textbooks. [1]

Contents

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook or IMS is a web site with Medieval source documents, maps, secondary sources, bibliographies, images and music. It is located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.

A large number of the documents on IMS are older copyright-expired translations from the 19th and early 20th century. [2] However, IMS also has a section of "recently translated texts" which have been translated just for IMS. In fact, IMS claims it "contains more newly-translated texts than any available published collection of medieval sources." [3]

Internet Ancient Sourcebook

Internet Modern Sourcebook

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. [4]

Other Sourcebooks

In addition to the large collections in the Medieval, Ancient, and Modern Sourcebooks, the Internet History Sourcebooks Project also includes Sourcebooks on African, East Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian and Gay, Science, and Women's History. [5]

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References

  1. "Internet History Sourcebooks Project" Fordham University. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  2. Cameron, Sonja (2005). Using Computers in History. Palgrave Macmillan. p.  54.
  3. Halsall, Paul. "New Translations". Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  4. Burden, Paul R. (2010). A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites. Scarecrow Press. p.  315.
  5. Williams, Mark (2001). Exploring World History. Heinemann. p.  176.