The Costume Site "Online Costuming Sources for Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy Costumers." Includes links to Internet costume images and to costume collections in museums.
The Costume Page Once the most comprehensive costume site on the Internet. Worth visiting for bibliographies and book lists, dictionaries, images from online costume books, links to museums, ethnic sites, and costume history.
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Art, architecture, and archaeology images including images from the Smithsonian, the MoMA collection for architecture and design and the Schlesinger photograph collection on the history of women in America.
Art, correspondence, diaries, business documents, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, printed books, treaties, and tribe records documenting early contacts between European settlers and American Indians, 1500-1998. Content digitized from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library. Subjects covered include political, social, and cultural effects of early encounters; the turbulence of the Civil War; on-going repercussions of government legislation; and the civil rights movement.
British Foreign Office files relating to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Sources include government documents, dispatches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, reports detailing influential Chinese personalities, and economic assessments during the rise of the modern state.
British Foreign Office files relating to South Asia, post- World War II. Content includes reports, dispatches, maps, photographs, analyses, and statistical information documenting social and political history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Includes Modules 1-3.
British Foreign Office files relating to Japan during Imperialism, World War II, and occupation. Content includes diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings, and reports. Also includes files from the Western and American Department, and Far Eastern sub papers. Includes Modules 1-3.
This collection follows the establishment of an independent Malaysia in 1963, following the release of the Cobbold Commission Report. Under President Sukarno, Indonesia strongly opposed this decision and hostilities between the two countries escalated. Alongside tensions with Malaysia, Indonesia would experience growing civil unrest in this period, with anti-Communist sentiments on the rise. Documents featured in this collection cover these fundamental events alongside a number of key themes, including trade, economic development and authoritarian rule in this period.
British Foreign Office files relating to the Middle East during the Arab-Israeli War, oil crisis, Lebanese Civil War, Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War. Includes reports, dispatches, maps, photographs, analyses, and statistical information. Includes Modules 1-3
Oral histories, ephemera, campaign materials, government records, and other materials from and about political extremist movements. Includes the modules Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century; Far-Right Groups in America; Global Communist and Socialist Movements.