Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies: Recommended Web Resources

Britannica has been an encyclopedic resource for over 250 years. Check out its hundreds of freely available topic pages.

The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the U.S. Library of Congress.

Full text editions of literature and reference sources available in the public domain.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States.

The World Heritage Online Map Platform, supported by the Flanders UNESCO Trustfund (FUT), is a pilot online geographic information system displaying georeferenced maps of World Heritage properties and buffer zones.