| History_Wiz Source for history, original content, including multimedia exhibits, as well as links to other sites. Topics include world history, American history, and current events. |
| History_World_International Provides an overview of Western history from ancient Sumeria to World War Two, including profiles of major figures, timelines, photos, and interactive features. |
| InHeritage A history Web site development firm specializing in historic preservation and historical documentaries. |
| LLEK_Bookmarks_Scientific_Search_Engines_-_History Catalog of journals, catalogs, and other scholarly resources in German and English. |
| Mr_Heitmann\'s_History_Page Comprehensive collection of links to history resources aimed at high school students. |
| Net\'s_Educational_Resource_Center Directory of sites covering American, ancient, world and modern history, social studies, reference sources, study tips and related resources. |
| Ocean Indexes the best history content on the net, including material in History World, from which it evolved. Also offers a toolbar with history search and timeline of world history. |
| Old_World_Traditional_Trade_Routes_(OWTRAD)_Project Research on history, geography and logistics of communication, pilgrimage, and trade routes of Eurasia and Africa 10,000 BCE to circa 1820 CE. |
| Reportret Gallery of reconstructed portraits of key figures from world history, without anachronisms, respecting contemporary style, and based on historical sources. |
| Top20WorldHistory_com List of history links sorted by period, without anotation. |
| Virtual_Quincy_Directory A collection of links to various sites related to historical events and institutions. |
| Western_Civilization_Core_Course Available as both a timeline and index. Includes survey of history, culture, and ideas with readings, period introductions, and articles. Created by the History Department at Whitworth College. |
| Wikinfo_|_History Offers an overview of the topic with a list of articles dealing with history in this encyclopedia. |
| World_Civilizations An online learning resource from Washington State University. |
| World_History_Blog Blog that features all aspects of world history. Sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. |
| World_Wide_Web_Virtual_Library__History Extensive University of Kansas-maintained directory of history resources, sorted into research methods, topics, eras and epochs, and regions. |
| American_Folklife_Center,_Library_of_Congress Created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife," the Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music |
| Archer_Taylor Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs. |
| Archives_of_Folklore_Discussion_List Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present. |
| At_the_Edge__The_Cosmic_Mill Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos. |
| Basque_Folklore Essays and links. |
| British_Columbia_Folklore_Society A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples. |
| D__L__Ashliman Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales. |
| Directory_of_Irish_and_Celtic_Folklore An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names. |
| Family_Folklore__How_to_Collect_Your_Own_Family_Folklore Guide produced to accompany the exhibition "The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy" organized by the Smithsonian Institution. |
| Folk_Beliefs_in_Modern_Japan E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. |
| Folklore__An_Introduction Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics. |
| Folklore__an_Online_Electronic_Journal English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethn |
| The_Folklore_of_the_Isle_of_Man Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book. |
| Folklore_Studies_Association_of_Canada Educational, non-profit association founded in June 1976 for the purpose of increasing education and research in the field of folklore studies in all its aspects. |
| The_Hebridean_Folklore_Project Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world. Includes tales and photos. |
| Journal_of_Folklore_Research A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965. |
| Latin-American_Folklore_Resources_Online Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales. |
| Lucky_W_Amulet_Archive Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa ha |
| New_York_Folklore_Society Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts. |
| Paganism_in_British_Folk_Customs_by_Bob_Trubshaw Article that contrasts the true remains of Pagan origins in the folk customs of England with those customs created or exaggerated through "paganisation" by Victorian romantic authors. |
| Pro_Ethnologia Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English. |
| Smithsonian_Center_for_Folklife_and_Cultural_Heritage Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources. |
| Urban_Folklore Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies. |
| Visions_and_Beliefs_in_the_West_of_Ireland Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive. |
Pilgrims: Grave Robbers And Fashion Platespublished 11/27/2005The usual depiction of the first thanksgiving, bolstered by nearly a century of elementary school construction paper projects, includes happy Wampanoag Indians and brightly smiling Pilgrims in drab, black clothing with outlandish buckles on their shoes. It's all nonsense. First in a four part series. Read the article
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians & the Pig by Claudine Fabre-Vassas (4/5)Christian anti-Semitism is a hard nut to crack. Why on Earth do Christians hate Jews? The Singular Beast takes task with all those who believe anti-Semitism is only for nuts and hatemongers. References to Jews as poisoners, god-killers, and unclean animals resonate throughout the very language and customs of the Christian World. Reading Mme. Fabre-Vassas's work will make those of you in America appreciate the benefits of living in a country without much history. It's hard to appreciate how ingrained anti-Semitic notions can be built into the actual ethnography of a people. The Singular Beast is a bit heavy-going at times, admittedly (the translation makes the prose quite flat), but for those who are interested in seeing History in the everyday, this book is truly fascinating. The book has been asking to be read a second time. You'll certainly never think about Jews or pigs the same way again. Read more at Amazon.com
The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars by Rene Weis (3/5)It is one of the great ironies of history that our best record of everyday medieval life comes to us courtesy of an attempt by the Catholic church to erase a particular heresy from the earth. Those feisty Catholics did get away with what would today be called genocide -- there are no Albigensian heretics anymore. But the staff of the Inquisition kept an astonishingly complete record of the proceedings, and it is from these that Rene Weiss puts together a surprisingly comprehensive picture of life in France in the fourteenth century. After some initial academic posturing (100 pages), you can settle down to a really fascinating read. Highly recommended. Read more at Amazon.com
The Historical Jesus : The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasantby John Dominic CrossanYes Minister's Sir Humphrey Applebey has wisely noted that, "theology is a device for helping agnostics to stay within the Church of England." Much the same might be said about "historical" looks at Jesus. Such studies usually carry an explicit agenda to either deify or discredit the man. This is mystifying, because those keen on the former seem only to be preaching to the choir, while the latter are... well, metaphors simply fail us. Miraculously, ex-monk Crossan falls in neither camp. Along with a group of scholars no doubt damned by the fundamentalists as secular satans, he delves into Biblical texts with detailed textual analysis and socio-political observation. The chapter on magic versus religion alone is worth the price of admission. (The difference? The social status of the magician.) The end result is an attempt to explain Jesus's place in the ancient world in a context we can understand: a historically rigorous description of his radical message intentionally divorced from the centuries of embellishment which followed. Is this useful for someone trying to understand Christianity? Probably not -- the modern religious establishment doesn't seem to be keeping too close to the original. Do Crossan's conclusions about these later embellishments produce a sort of circularity to his arguments? Yes. But it's still worth a read. Read more at Amazon.com
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