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Archives and primary sources

  • Ad*AccessNorth America

    U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

  • AmtsdruckschriftenSwitzerland

    Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.

  • Année Politique SuisseSwitzerland

    Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.

  • ANNOAustria

    Austrian Newspapers online.

  • arCHecoSwitzerland

    Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

  • Archiv der Salzburger FestspieleAustria

    Online collection of the Salzburg Festival Archives.

Learning

  • AdFontes

    An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.

  • Clio Guide

    A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences.

  • Crafting Digital History

    A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History.

  • Critical AI Literacy for Historians

    A guide to understanding and critically evaluating AI tools and methods in historical research, covering practical applications, ethical considerations, and methodological approaches.

  • Digitale Quellenkritik

    Zotero group with literature on digital source criticism and the handling of digitized historical sources.

  • Digital History Guide

    Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work.

More Awesome

  • Computer History

    An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.

  • Data Visualization

    A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.

  • Digital Humanities

    Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities.

  • Research Tools

    A list of tools for research.

  • Scientific Writing

    Tools and resources for scientific writing beyond LaTeX, including Markdown, reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.

  • Tempopedia

    Digital History Directory.

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