Modern European Cultural History
Selected Web Links

Course Description

History 427 explores, through a study of the lives and works of selected thinkers, writers, and artists, the European cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present.  Since these representative individuals, together with the works they created, not only were influenced by their times but also imparted to those times a unique character, they have been grouped, into broadly defined periods, each with its own identity, its so-called “climate of opinion” or Weltanschauung.  By the close of the semester, each student should have gained an overview of the European cultural tradition, an appreciation for the personalities and achievements of a number of important thinkers, writers, artists, and architects, and an understanding of the various stages through which the European mind has moved from the Renaissance to the present.

Web Links for Modern European Cultural History

McGraw-Hill's Web Site for The Western Humanities (Extremely Useful)
http://www.mhhe.com/mp6

Voice of the Shuttle (Excellent Collection of Links)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

• The World Civilization Virtual Library

http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/dvess.htm
 
• Sources for the History of Art and Architecture

http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
 
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Good Collection of Paintings and Prints)

http://www.thinker.org/
 
• The National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)

http://www.nga.gov/home.htm

The Web Museum (Collection of Images Indexed by Artist)
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

The Artcyclopedia (Excellent Collection of Images)
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
 
Olga's (Art) Gallery (Excellent Collection of Images)
http://www.abcgallery.com/


• The Internet Modern History Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
 
• Eurodocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page


The History Guide (Lectures and Links on European History)
http://www.historyguide.org/

• The French Revolution

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html

• The Great Buildings Collection from Artifice (Images of Individual Buildings)

http://www.artifice.com/gbc.html
   

• Napoleon and Napoleonic France

http://www.napoleonguide.com/  


• Encyclopedia of the Revolutions of 1848

http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/index.htm

Victorian Web

http://victorianweb.org/


Victorian England and the Industrial Revolution
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/index.shtml

<>The Industrial Revolution (Lecture with Good Links)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture17a.html

• World War I (The Great War Society)

http://www.the-great-war-society.org
 
• World War I (Trenches on the Web)

http://www.worldwar1.com/index.html
 
• The Great War

http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/ww1.html

These links are reviewed on a regular basis.  If you find one that does not work, please send me an email.

---

This page is maintained by Robert W. Brown; last update: 09 September 2009

Go to the HST 427 Home Page

Go to the History Department Home Page