In my journal: links to etexts of two guides to mid-1880s London (Baedeker's London and its environs and Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook). Both are aimed at travelers, and useful for basic geography and information about neighborhoods, public buildings, transportation, etc.

1. Digital History [website] - Resource Guides on American History (1793-Present Day). Absolutely chock full of information, resources, documents, book suggestions, summaries of historical decades, articles and more related to different periods of American history. Some of the links are dead, while others may require a bit of searching on your part ( Read more... )

This is a list of online resources that may help with research. Feel free to suggest additions to this list.

Books
Google Books [website]
Project Gutenberg [website]
Questia.com [website]
List of sites specializing in online and audio books [project gutenberg]
Internet Archive Text Archive [archive.org]
Open Library [website]

Archived Webpages ( Read more... )