For students of the humanities…
The British Museum has an absolutely amazing collection. When looking at any large museum, it can be a little overwhelming. A good first step when using any museum's site for research is to find the option to search their collections. You can search by specific names (if you are looking for a specific work) or… Continue reading Website: The British Museum: Collections Search
This site has so much information, it can become a little overwhelming. In the future, I plan to highlight a few specific areas, but I didn't want to wait to share information about this resource in general. The Kahn Academy provides free courses (including some excellent videos) on a wide variety of subjects. If you're… Continue reading Website: Kahn Academy
The World History Encyclopedia purports to be the "world's most-read history encyclopedia." I don't know about that, but they have a huge number of articles about a wide variety of topics on history, culture, and art. They have been very helpful to me when researching new topics, and they are easy to search. link to… Continue reading Website: The World History Encyclopedia
This site provides articles on a truly amazing variety of topics. For example, their current front page has articles about the Pendle Witches, new Denisovan Fossils, Horseback Archery Revival, and a Theory of Atlantis—just to name a few. This is an excellent site to help you get started with your research (historically older topics are… Continue reading Website: Ancient Origins: Reconstructing the Story of Humanity’s Past
This site provides a great variety of information about the life and culture of Elizabethan England (my favorite part is their section on Sumptuary Laws mandated who could wear what). Much of their information comes from original sources--documents from Elizabethan England that they have (in many cases) transcribed onto their site. They also have a… Continue reading Website: Renaissance: The Elizabethan World
The Victoria and Albert Museum has a great many excellent online resources, and their collections are very easy to search. I highly suggest their site if you have a project that requires you to look for art by type. For example, they have links to architecture resources, books, furniture, glass, print, and many, many other… Continue reading Website: The Victoria and Albert Museum
For those who like poetry, Medieval literature, or just need to research obscure literature, this site may prove valuable. It purports to hold translations of 79% of the surviving Old English Poetry. That's pretty impressive. Reading these works can give you an idea of what people in England during the Early Middle Ages were talking… Continue reading Website: Old English Poetry Project
The Victorian Era was a unique moment in Western history that still affects our culture today. In many ways, this period stands on the divide between an older world and the beginnings of the modern world that we know today. This makes the study of the Victorian world and its people particularly interesting. One moment,… Continue reading Website: The Victorian Web
If you are as interested in the Middle Ages as I am, then you should definitely check out Medievalists.net. They publish articles about a wide variety of topics on the Medieval Period in Europe, ranging from witchcraft to warfare to daily life. I highly recommend this site for anyone who would like to see how… Continue reading Website: Medievalists.net
The one that gave me the idea to start this blog--this site contains an amazing amount of information. If you choose to search the collection (see link below), you will be able to find a huge variety of amazing works of art, and they have included a lot of useful information for each work. This… Continue reading Website: The Metropolitan Museum of Art-New York
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