Resources on Central European History

Online Teaching Resources 

• The German Studies Collaboratory is a repository of online resources with links to international library and archive collections, maps, images, sound and text documents for use in research and in the classroom.
• Black Central Europe provides over 1,000 years of black history in the German-speaking lands.
• German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany’s political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present.
• Historiana offers free historical content, ready to use learning activities, and innovative digital tools made by and for history educators across Europe.
• The Wiener Holocaust Library Digital Holocaust Resources 
• EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies 
• German History Maps I. The Essential List, 1500-1870. A list of 25 map clusters one might consider essential for teaching German history for the period 1500 to 1870.
• German History Maps I. The Essential List, 1870-1945. A list of 25 map clusters, ordered roughly chronologically, that one might consider essential for teaching German history for the period 1870 to 1945.
• The New Fascism Syllabus. A crowd-sourced collection of writings on the history of fascist, populist, and authoritarian movements and governments during the 20th and 21st centuries.
• German Heritage in Letters A crowd-sourced digital collection of German-language correspondence currently held in private hands, by archives, by special collection libraries, museums, and other institutions. 
• Making the History of 1989. The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. 
• LeMO. Lebendiges Museum Online. The online learning portal of the German Historical Museum (Berlin). Contains documents, images, objects, testimony, film clips etc.

Professional Associations and Research Institutes 

• German Studies Association
• Austrian Studies Association
• Balkan History Association
• Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) support projects that “promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria.”
• Center for Austrian Studies
• The Czechoslovak Studies Association (CSA)
• The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
• The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
• German Historical Institute, Warsaw

Archives and Digitized Sources 

• Das Bundesarchiv The German Federal Archive.
• The Digital Picture Archives of the Federal Archives holds approx. 12 million still pictures, aerial photographs and posters from modern German history. First photographs date from the 1860ties.
• Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Abteilung Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv
• Národní archiv – National Archives Czech Republic 
• European Holocaust Research Infrastructure enables online access to information about Holocaust sources, no matter where they are located. 
• Online Archive of the Arolsen Archives the world’s most comprehensive archive on victims of National Socialist persecution
• http://anno.onb.ac.at Austrian Newspapers Online 
• Ústav pro českou literaturu contains digitized copies of important Czech newspapers and journals, including Literární noviny, Rudé právo, Světozor, and Zlatá Praha.
• DRQEdit – Deutschsprachige Rechtsquellen in digitaler Edition. Juristische Literatur des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts 
• CZoernig: The Central European Historical Data Hub. This data hub contains a range of datasets and GIS shapefiles pertaining to the economic and social history of Central and Eastern Europe.

Libraries and Catalogues

• The KVK The KVK is an extremely useful “meta-catalog” that allows for simultaneous searching of several library catalogs, among them the union catalogs for Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Southwest Germany. The list of covered catalogs keeps growing; it now includes Austrian and Swiss libraries, as well as an increasing number of other national catalogs.
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Gemeinsamer Verbundkatalog This is another “meta catalog” of library catalogs, mostly in northern Germany.
• Jahresberichte fur deutsche Geschichte This is a bibliographic database of works of German history.

Academic Listservs

• H-German
• H-Soz und Kult
• H-Black Europe
• H-Habsburg
• H-Poland
• H-Genocide