a blog about computer history by Sinclair Target. It is intended primarily for computer people. addresses questions like Where did JSON come from? and Why are man pages still a thing?
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. includes Ancient, Medieval, and modern Sourcebooks, also: African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, History of Science, Women's History, and An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History.
The Republic of Letters was a loose knit and dynamic long-distance intellectual network that blossomed in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the United States. Through the use of hand written correspondence, some of the greatest thinkers of England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States stayed informed about the ideas that were shaping their worlds. Mapping the Republic of Letters, a joint project between the Stanford Humanities Center and its international partners, seeks to visually represent these interconnected webs of correspondence through interactive visualization tools.
An online magazine that offers breaking news about the most recent historical discoveries, views, and reviews. The homepage is continually updated and always interesting.
The UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) is an open access database and research project housed in the English Department of the Open University. It is the largest resource recording the experiences of readers of its kind anywhere. UK RED has amassed over 30,000 records of reading experiences of British subjects, both at home and abroad, and of visitors to the British Isles, between 1450 and 1945. These include both famous and anonymous readers. It is both an open access resource and open to unsolicited public contributions.
Chronicling America provides bulk access to its OCR data. Each file will decompress into directory structure that lets you easily map the OCR file to the URL identifier for that page. Historic American Newspapers
The 2008 version of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database contains 8,374 voyages added since the CD-Rom was published in 1999 and additional information on 19,320 voyages. The expanded data set has 276 variables, compared with 99 in the Voyages Database available online.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.