French History

General Web Sites

Aiming towards comprehensiveness, these "supersites" try to gather the most important related sites on a particular field or area. They include e-texts, library or national catalogs, newspapers online, bibliographies, and so on. They are the electronic equivalent of a bibliography of bibliographies. For French studies the student and researcher should be familiar with the following.

1. WESSWeb: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/

This is the official site of the Western European Subject Specialists section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Separate pages are maintained for French studies, in both the humanities and social sciences. Useful for links to national library catalogs, primary sources, newspapers. The links are annotated and keyword searching is possible. The history resources page is also accessed at http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/frenhist.htm  Also French History Documents and Data File at: http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/frdocs.htm

2. General Humanities Page: http//web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/humanities/

Compiled and maintained by Blake Landor, selector for philosophy, religion and classics, this site provides a comprehensive list of online and electronic resources available at the University of Florida as well as links of interest to all of the humanities.

3.  History links on the web: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/history/

The general history web page, maintained by Shelley Arlen, the collection development coordinator for history at the University of Florida, contains several sites of interest to French history, as well as a list of periodicals subscribed on the history fund. Some of the sites are:

4.  History Resources:  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seminar/links.html

5.  WWW Virtual Library: History:  www.ukans.edu/history/VL/ 

6.  The History Net: http://www.history.swt.edu/Department/NetRes.html

7.  WWW History Resources: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/  Search by region, then by countries and click on "Complete listing" after choosing France.