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Curated resources for the serious student of history.
Reference & Encyclopedias
Expert-written articles on ancient and medieval history. Free, peer-reviewed, and excellent.
The gold standard of general encyclopedias. More reliable than Wikipedia for historical facts.
Invaluable as a starting point and for its bibliographies — but always verify key claims in scholarly sources.
Primary Sources Online
The best free resource for Greek and Latin primary sources, with translations and original texts side by side.
Free ebooks of out-of-copyright texts — a treasure house of historical documents and older scholarship.
Scanned books, documents, and periodicals, including many 19th-century histories unavailable elsewhere.
Academic journals. Many articles are now free to read online — register for 100 free articles per month.
Search engine for academic literature. Often links to freely available PDFs.
Institutions & Museums
Vast digitized collections of manuscripts, maps, photographs, and newspapers.
Articles, collections, and resources from the world's largest museum complex.
Online collection of 1.9 million objects — invaluable for ancient and medieval material culture.
Searchable collection with high-resolution images. Excellent for visual history.
Podcasts & Audio
Mike Duncan's landmark podcast — 179 episodes covering Rome from Romulus to the fall. Indispensable.
Mike Duncan's follow-up series covering the English, American, French, and other revolutions in extraordinary depth.
Dan Carlin's epic, immersive takes on history's biggest stories. Not always conventionally scholarly, always compelling.