Presented in roughly chronological order. See also the links to art museums and primary source collections.

Ancient | Medieval | Renaissance-Early Modern | Modern | Other

Ancient (to c. 500 C.E.)

• "The Ancient City of Athens": A virtual tour of classical Athens
• AncientSites: A web site with virtual tours of ancient Athens and Rome
• The Perseus Project: an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond.
• The Internet Classics Archive: Sponsored by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
• The Palace of Diocletian at Split: a virtual tour constructed by Michael Greenhalgh, Department of Art History, Australian National University

Medieval (c. 500-1400 C.E.)

• Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook: One of several collections of online primary sources by Paul Halsall.
• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture: Alison Stones of the University of Pittsburgh provides access to images of cathedrals.

Renaissance-Early Modern (c. 1400-1789 C.E.)

• The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance: From a lecture and slide presentation by Jacques-Edouard Berger.
• The Rembrandt House Museum: In addition to being Rembrandt's home, this museum houses a major collection of his engravings. Most of these are reproduced online.
• European Royal Residences: Links to a number of royal palaces including the two below:
  • The Chateau de Versailles: This is the official website of the palace of Versailles. It has a great deal of information about the chateau and about life at the chateau during the reigns of Louis XIV through XVI.
  • Schönbrunn Palace: A similar website about one of the many palaces to be built in imitation of Versailles.
• The Spanish Riding School: Home of the Lipizzaner stallions, the web site provides a history of the school that gives insight into the history of Hapsburg Austria as well.
• The Age of Enlightenment: An online exhibit
• Homepage for Eighteenth-Century France: Contains art and music of the period.

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Modern (since 1789)

• The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
• Dave's French Revolution Links Page: Part of a very useful page maintained by Prof. Dave Andress of the University of Portsmouth.
• Exploring the French Revolution--George Mason University: A great site with primary sources, articles, and images
• HY 327, French Revolution, Syllabus: A course by John Garrigus of Jacksonville University.
• France During the French Revolution and Under Napoleon Bonaparte: A chronology primarily of the Napoleonic period.
• The French Revolution--Chronology: From a course by Colin Jones at the University of Warwick.
• The French Revolution--Glossary: An extremely helpful index to commonly used terms from the period.  Also from the course by Colin Jones.
• The French Revolution--Reading List: And again, thanks to Colin Jones.
• Texts of the French Revolution: Translations of primary sources from a site at Hanover College.
• Napoleonic Literature: A site with a number of texts by and about Napoleon, as well as other information about the French leader.  Maintained by John Schneider.
• The Napoleon Series - Life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte: An online magazine devoted to Napoleon. Includes a virtual tour of Waterloo.
• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions: an extensive collection of articles on people and events
• Marxists Internet Archive: A collection of the Writings of Karl Marx.
• The Alexander Palace Time Machine: A virtual tour of one of the Russian Czars' palaces.
• World War I
  • World War I--Life in the Trenches: A good site with texts and pictures.
  • The Great War: Another World War I site.
  • The World War I Document Archive: maintained at Brigham Young University by members of the World War I Military History List.
• The Russian Revolution: A site of information about the Revolution and links to other sites.
• Links to National Parliament web sites
• European Unification
  • Europa: The official website of the European Union
  • The European Union in the U.S.: the offical site of the European Commission delegation to the United States
  • The European Commission
  • The European Parliament
  • The European Council
  • The European Court of Justice
  • The Council of Europe
  • The European Court of Human Rights
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • The Western European Union
• Web Resources in European History: maintained at Tennessee Technological University

Other

• Chesnutt Library, Select European History Resources: Some of the sources available at FSU's library.

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