Websites - HIST:4470 / France from 1815 to the Present

Selected Websites

Argonnaute
La Contemporaine's digital Library. A good source for printed and archival documents, drawings, paintings, photographs, posters and objects.
ATHENA
Over 2,000 French texts spanning from the Middle Ages to the modern period.
Euro Docs : HISTORY OF FRANCE (Primary Documents)
Provides access to primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated regarding key historical happenings within France and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history.
French Revolution Digital Archive
FRDAis a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
Gallica - Presse et revues
Many French historical periodicals available starting in the 18th century. Ability to search keywords in texts.
Ina.fr
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel digitized collection of French video archives
Index to 19th Century French Political Trials
This is an index to a substantial collection containing verbatim reports of 19th century trials against leaders of revolts, journalists, and their editors. The trials trace the republican, socialist, and anarchist movements the government tried to suppress. Because the courtroom was the one place where censorship was not practiced, the defendants quoted into the record much that has been otherwise lost as text.
L'Argonnaute
The Argonnaute is La Contemporain's digital library and takes its name from the trench newspaper of the same name . This portal will give you access to more than 150,000 documents digitized by the contemporary: printed and archival documents, drawings, paintings, photographs, posters and objects, allowing to dive into the sources of the history of the twentieth century.
Legifrance
French legal documents translated into English.
Mazarinum
Digital collections of the Mazarine Library, Paris. It contains 15th-19th century books, archival documents, illustrated materials, photographic materials, the original Encyclopedie of Diderot. They have begun digitizing items from their collection, found here, also harvested by the digital sites Gallica and Europeana.
Ministère de la culture
Millions of digitized images from the French Ministry of Culture
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. It offers online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of the Art Slide Library, the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University.
The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871.

International

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
The Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back to the beginning of history, making it possible to study the original text of not only very famous documents such as the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the United States Bill of Rights, but also the text of less well known but significant documents which mark turning points in the history of law and rights.
EuroDocs
European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.
Europeana Collections
Europeana brings together the treasures of Europe's premier cultural institutions, including libraries, archives, museums, and galleries. Its millions of items include books, letters, diaries, maps, paintings, photographs, films, recordings, and more.
European History Primary Sources (EHPS)
A searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe.
Fordham University : Western Europe Since 1945
A comprehensive history of the world with links to associated primary documents.
Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It 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. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
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The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.

Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Many more languages are represented in the actual books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.

The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations.

HIST:4470 / France from 1815 to the Present: Websites

Selected Websites

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