Browse Website Reviews
Discover quality websites on a range of topics and time periods. If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.
![Clare of Assisi Thumbnail of Painting of a woman holding flowers and a book](/sites/default/files/Clarethumb.jpg)
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters
Epistolae presumes an already developed understanding among its readers of the medieval context in which these sources were generated.![Photo of a woman with writing in the background](/sites/default/files/AfricanAmericanWomenWritersTHUMB2.png)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Students might examine how the inclusion of African American women's perspectives alters more standardized narratives of American history.![Examination of a Witch Thumbnail of painting of a scene with a young woman whose bare back is examined while a crowd looks and points](/sites/default/files/SalemTHUMB.jpg)
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
This archive houses a fantastic collection of source materials pertaining to the 160 women and men accused of witchcraft in the late 17th century in the Massachusetts Bay colony.![Rabbi Mira Rivera Thumbnail photo of a woman speaking with a banner in the background](/sites/default/files/JewishWomenTHUMB.jpg)
Jewish Women's Archive
The Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA), a national non-profit organization, seeks to collect and promote the 'extraordinary stories of Jewish women.'!["Shell Fuses" page from Women in the production of munitions in Canada Thumbnail of a photo of women working in a factoryThere is also a great deal of material on the foundation of female education and on the women’s suffrage movement.](/sites/default/files/CanadianWomenThumb.jpeg)
Canadian Women's History
There is also a great deal of material on the foundation of female education and on the women’s suffrage movement.![Cover of Under Fate's Wheel Thumbnail illustration of a woman riding a bicycle](/sites/default/files/EmoryTHUMB.jpg)
Emory Women Writers Resource Project
The subjects covered are diverse and include commentaries on such topics as nature, native-white relations, emancipation, imperialism, social and sexual mores, wet nursing, Christianity, and women’s suffrage.![Dedham Vale Morning Painting thumbnail of a man and his cows in the countryside](/sites/default/files/LouisaTHUMB.jpeg)
Louisa's World
[Instructors] might invite students to reconstruct Collins’s expectations and attitudes towards various topics, tracing perspectives that she noted as exceptional.![Margery Kempe Thumbnail image of a stained glass window](/sites/default/files/MKempeTHUMB.jpg)
Mapping Margery Kempe: A Guide to Late Medieval Material and Spiritual Life
This website is a collection of resources, particularly strong in visual content, that examines the social context in which Kempe produced her narrative.![Messenger Boy Thumbnail of boy posing with bicycle on a city street](/sites/default/files/NYPLTHUMB.jpeg)
New York Public Library Digital Collections
The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to over 755,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.![Baptism Thumbnail of two men baptizing a girl in a river](/sites/default/files/WilliamsTHUMB.jpg)
Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection
These arresting images document telling elements of African Americans' daily lives in Georgia during this period.![Image from magazine Crisis Photo of young girl with a bow in her hair.](/sites/default/files/InMotionTHUMB.png)
In Motion: The African-American Migration Project
In Motion: The African-American Migration Project portrays the history of 13 defining migrations that formed and transformed African Americans from the 16th century to the present.![Thumbnail of a older photograph depicting a girl sucking her thumb](/sites/default/files/19thChildrenTHUMB.jpeg)
19th-century American Children and What They Read
19th-century American Children and What They Read is a website born of a passion for exactly that—material written for children, and occasionally by children, in the 19th century.![Lester Earl Kesserling playing in his airplane, 1926. A child sitting in a toy airplane](/sites/default/files/UrbanChildTHUMB2.jpg)
Children in Urban America
Children in Urban America (CUAP), focuses on children and childhood primarily in the greater Milwaukee area from 1850 to 2000.![The Civil and Military Hospital Thumbnail of a painting of three women and a girl watching a patient being carried.](/sites/default/files/HopitalTHUMB.jpg)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
The images document the history of enslavement in West and West Central Africa, the English and French Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States.![Antigua Thumbnail of landscape painting with a road bordered by palm trees, mountains in the distance](/sites/default/files/AntiguaTHUMB.jpg)
Caribbean Views
The online collection is of extraordinary quality, both in terms of the scanned images and the contextual detail provided.![El Tajin Thumbnail image shows an ruins of an ancient temple with 6 tiers](/sites/default/files/ElTajinTHUMB.jpg)
A PreColumbian Portfolio: An Archive of Photographs
Each database record includes a caption, a brief (about 20-word) description, and information on the culture associated with the artifact, such as Maya, Olmec, or Zapotec.![Mayan vase Thumnail image of a painting of a catfish on a Mayan vase](/sites/default/files/MayaVasesTHUMB.jpg)
Maya Vase Database: An Archive of Rollout Photographs
The vases include scenes of palace life, mythology, warfare, and animals.![Maun-gua-daus (or Maun-gwa-daus), Chief of the Ojibwa Nation Thumbnail of a man in a native american headress holding a hatchet](/sites/default/files/CAPhotographyTHUMB.jpeg)
Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
The images, dating from 1843 to the mid-20th century, come from government, commercial, and private sources.![](/sites/default/files/CAMysteryThumb.png)
Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
Students may begin by focusing on 'solving' the crime itself, but along the way will be drawn into the consideration of wider issues![Thumbnail link to website review Thumbnail image of Karl Marx](/sites/default/files/MarxistArciveTHUMB.png)