Internet History Sourcebooks Project

[Crystal Eitle]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/' target='_blank'>http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/</a><br /><br /></div>What a find - <a href="http://www.cebooks.blogspot.com/">Pocket PC eBooks Watch</a> points to the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/">Internet History Sourcebooks Project</a>, a treasure trove of links to primary history sources, organized chronologically and thematically. I've been looking for history texts to read on my Pocket PC, but it's been difficult. The commercial selections are limited, and the free ones, while abundant, are often one big hodgepodge. More than half the work in studying anything is organizing the information available, which this site seems to have done an amazing job of. The sources are divided into three main eras, <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html">Ancient History</a>, <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html">Medieval History</a>, and <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html">Modern History</a>. And for those (like me) intimidated by the idea of learning about history through primary sources, there's even a <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1a.html">guide</a> to using primary sources.<br /><br />The texts are in plain HTML, so you can use any 'ol reader program to convert and read them on your Pocket PC. I'll be using <a href="http://www.isilox.com/index.htm">iSiloX</a> to convert the pages, then read them with <a href="http://www.isilo.com">iSilo</a>.

[dcharles18]

Wow, great find!!!

[William]

I am not so sure. The first 6(!) links I tried give 'Page not found errors'. 8O

[Crystal Eitle]

Hmm, I haven't had that problem.

Most of the sources are excerpts that reside on the Internet History Sourcebook site. So those links, at the very least, should work. I've already made one eBook: using iSiloX, choose a section (I'm starting with "The End of Rome" in Medieval History), set the link depth to 1, and you're off. It worked fine for me.

I did see a few broken links, which is to be expected, I guess, for a site that's been around this long. But overall, it looks to be a good resource.

[William]

I thought I needed to give some examples.

On the Guide (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1a.html)page:
WEB Byzantine Paleography, with sample texts and images.
WEB Medieval Paleography, with sample texts, ed. David Postles [At Leicester]

On Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html):
Click Israel and then:
WEB Photo Gallery of Syria and Palestine [At St. Olaf]
Danel's Need for a Son [At Creighton]
Baal vs. the Sea [At Creighton]
WEB The Middle Bronze Age 2220-1570 BCE [At Brandeis]

I guess and hope this random clicking of mine was just bad luck, but statistically it doesn't promise too much.