Lots of Links
Natural History:World History:- General World History:
- OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource, mostly Ancient and American. (@*****)
- World History: attitudes and events ... (*****)
- Atlas-historique.net. History of the world from 1815 to today. (*****)
- Cartes [etc.] pour l\'histoire et la geographie au college. Historical maps from 1600 onward (*****)
- Norton: Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Pacific (*****)
- Military History (*****)
- Hyperhistory (*****)
- WHKMLA Historical Atlas (*****)
- Le Dessous des Cartes. A geopolitical magazine with background to current events. (*****)
- Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923, from the University of Texas (****)
- Ragz-International, Historical World Maps (****)
- The Encyclopedia of World History, Bartleby (****)
- Ancestry.com, Map Center (****)
- HIST 130A/130B: Modern World History (****)
- History classes (****)
- Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age: Huge and detailed maps of provincial, district, and local boundaries. (***)
- The Millennium, antique maps of the world. (***)
- A Short History of the World, HG Wells, 1922, list of illustrations, including maps. Black & white. (***)
- Karten zur Geschichte (***)
- World Civilizations, from Washington State University, mostly Ancient and Asian (***)
- History 101 (*** MIA)
- History 101, to 1648 (*** MIA)
- Atlas of Forgotten Nations (**)
- Human Population through History (*)
Places:Ancient World:Medieval World:- General Middle Ages
- Byzantine Empire
- Mayans (**)
- Mayans (***)
- Ancient Mexico: Classic, pre- and post- (***)
- Islam
- Arab Gateway (***)
- University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Religious Studies: I don't know whether this or this is the definitive list of maps on this site, but they have many maps scanned from An Historical Atlas of Islam (Brice, 1981) and Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Roolvink, 1957) (****)
- Many of the U.Pa. maps of Moslem history are duplicated at Princeton. (***)
- Arabia, 625 CE, and the Muslim Empire, 750 CE (**)
- Arab Empire (*)
- Charlemagne\'s Empire (*)
- Louis the Pious (***)
- Khazaria (***)
- Khazars (**)
- Russia, 1054-1533 (***)
- Viking Routes (** MIA)
- The Viking world (***)
- Voyage to Vinland (* MIA)
- Anglo-Saxon England (*)
- Anglo-Saxon Britain (*)
- Holy Roman Empire (*)
- Medieval Trade
- Spanish Reconquest (**)
- Spanish Reconquest (*)
- Albigensian Crusade (** MIA)
- Cahokia (**)
- North American archeological sites (**)
- Mongols
- Ancient Cultures of the Four Corners (*)
- Islam in Indonesia (**)
- Ming Voyages (*)
- Empires of Western Sudan (**)
- The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 (***)
- 100-Years War, Last Phase (**)
- Growth of France (**)
- Black Death: in Europe and Asia (** MIA)
- Asian Staple Foods, 15th Century (*)
- Native American Indians, pre-contact (**)
- Aztec Empire (**)
- Aztec Empire (*)
- Inca Empire (**)
- Inca Empire (*)
Modern Era:- Age of Discovery (***)
- Voyages of Discovery (*)
- Discovery of Latin America (**)
- Hyperhistory, Modern Era (****)
- First Voyage of Columbus with links to maps of subsequent voyages (***)
- Mexico and Central America, 1500-1700 (***)
- New Spain and Peru (**)
- Slave Trade (* MIA)
- African Diaspora: Western and Eastern Hemispheres (*)
- Ottoman Empire
- Hungary during the Ottoman occupation (**)
- Mughal India (**)
- Renaissance and Reformation (*** MIA)
- Reformation (*)
- Jewish Immigration, Poland, to 1600 (** MIA)
- France, ca. 1600 (***)
- Huguenot Escape Routes (* MIA)
- Paris (***)
- Dreißigjahrige Krieg: Bevolkerungsverluste, 30-Years War (**)
- Williamite War, Ireland, 1688-91 (***)
- Cities of the Netherlands 1652 (****)
- Ceylon, 1560-1766 (***)
- Italian Cities, 1761 (**** MIA)
- North America 1713 (*)
- North American Fur Trade (**)
- Henry Hudson (*)
- Seven Years War
- Age of Revolution (***)
- French Revolution (***)
- Irish Rebellion, 1798 (***)
- Switzerland 1798 (**)
- Germany, 1792-1815 (***)
- Napoleonic Wars
- 19th Century Europe (***)
- Antique Atlases: 1813 and 1835 (**** MIA)
- Irish Famine, 1845-50 (**)
- Australia at first contact (**)
- Australian Colonies (*)
- British India, scroll down about halfway for the list of maps. (** MIA)
- British India (**)
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1874 (**)
- Western Civ. (***)
- Das Deutsche Reich 1871 - 1918 (**)
- German Empire (*)
- Scramble for Africa
The Twentieth Century:- The Twentieth Century
- World ca. 1900 (**)
- Tunguska impact ( MIA)or here (*)
- Philippine-American Wars 1899-1913 (** MIA)
- 20th Century Africa (*)
- ANZAC: Australia's wars (***)
- Age of Imperialism (***)
- Balkan Wars (** MIA)
- History 315: including ethno-linguistic maps of Europe before and after World War I. Also, Europe after 1990. (** MIA)
- First World War, 1914-18
- Russian Civil War (***)
- Démographie de la Russie et de son Empire (***)
- China in Revolution (*** MIA)
- Chinese Civil Wars: West Point Atlas (***)
- Antarctic Exploration (***)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
- Europe 1930-39 (**)
- Interwar Germany (***)
- Ethnic Map of Europe (**)
- Europe and China between the World Wars: University of San Diego (***)
- Second World War, 1939-45
- Holocaust
- Apres 1945. The post-war world (***)
- Founding of the United Nations, 1945: from the UN (**)
- Europe 1947 (**)
- Cold War
- Middle East, 20th Century, from Dartmouth (*****)
- Israel
- Korean War, 1950-53
- European Union Development 1951-97 (**)
- Hungarian Revolution, 1956 (* MIA)
- Bay of Pigs (** MIA)
- Vietnam War
- Cambodian Genocide (***)
- Bangladeshi War of Independence (**)
- Changes in Government, 1962-89 (*)
- Argentina, secret detention centers during the Dirty War, 1976-83 (**)
- Maps of the Soviet Union (***)
- Bhopal Disaster or here (*)
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (***)
- AIDS in Africa (@**)
- Gulf War, 1991
- An Atlas of Cyberspace (*****)
- Le Monde Diplomatique, maps of recent events (*****)
- Zairan Crisis, 1996 (*)
- War in Zaire (**)
Hidden, Revealed or Imagined:General Reference Sites:
Online Map Libraries and Impressive Link Lists:Online Histories of the Twentieth Century:Useful Historical Reference Sites: Classification Guide
(*****) Many detailed maps, drawn especially for display on the Internet.
(****) Many detailed maps, apparently scanned from printed sources.
(***) Intermediate number of maps -- say, 4 to 15.
(**) Single map, very detailed. Maybe two or three.
(*) Single map, basic information. May be useful for homework assignments.
(@) Animated maps.
(#) Above-average interactivity.
NOTE: I'm not judging the quality of these maps, only the quantity. I'm trying to assess the amount of work that went into them and the amount of information you're likely to get back. And I'm only assessing the maps themselves, not the non-cartographic information accompanying them on the site. (A one-star map could easily illustrate a five-star essay.)
Also, my primary purpose here is to locate and link to historical maps (those which illustrate history) rather than antique maps (those which originated long ago) -- although there is quite a bit of overlap.
MIA: If a link is tagged with a red MIA, it means that the last time I checked, it had disappeared. Even so, I don't want to be too hasty in weeding dead links, so I'll just wait awhile and hope that it's just a temporary glich which will be fixed in a jiffy.
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