Online Resources on the Balkans

PROJECT THREE: These selected Web links offer full text sources on Eastern European (especially Balkan) history that could be recommended to high school and college students who choose to work on the Internet. In no way exhaustive, criteria for this list include:

• reliable sources,
• mainly in English, and
• dealing mainly with historical topics.

Resources (especially collections of links) from academic associations, libraries and nongovernment agencies:

• Directory of Internet Resources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London).
• The Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library (REESWeb) at the University of Pittsburgh has news, announcements and links to Web sites.
• REENIC, the Russian and East European Network Information Center (U. of Texas.).
• The web site for INCORE (International Conflict Research, a British policy group on conflict and ethnicity) covers Balkan hotspots.
• Travels in Southeastern Europe is a free collection with digitized versions of more than 100 travel accounts in Western and Balkan languages, most of them originally published between 1800 and 1920.
• Project Hellinomnimon is a digital library about the "History of Science and Philosophy in the Greek Speaking Regions (1453-1821)" from Athens University.
• Course syllabi on Eastern Europe from H-Net's HABSBURG site.
• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, formerly the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
• Association francaise d'etudes sur les Balkans publishes the periodical Balkanologie.
• Prof. Anna Cienciala (U. of Kansas) has posted online lecture notes of English-language works.
• Integrated History: An Online Archive of Primary Sources on the History of East-Central Europe for Educators, Students and Scholars (Cornell).
• The Social Sciences pages of Intute offer links to full text sites: search under "balkan".
• Strategic Studies Institute of the United States Army War College posts a variety of full text documents: search under "balkan".

U. S. government agencies post useful texts:

• U. S. State Department brief "Background Notes" for most nations, emphasizing current conditions. Some older editions are archived.
• Full-text books on southeastern Europe from the U.S. government's Country Studies/Area Handbooks series (for the complete list of handbooks see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/):
  • Albania, updated April 1992.
  • Austria, updated December 1993.
  • Bulgaria, updated June 1992.
  • Hungary, updated September 1989.
  • Moldova, update June 1995.
  • Romania, updated July 1989.
  • Turkey, updated January 1995.
  • Yugoslavia, updated December 1990.

An increasing number of full text digitized books are available on the Web, which can be found through services such as the library-catalog utility WorldCat (OCLC), Google Books or the HathiTrust archive. A few samples include:

• George E. Blau, The German campaigns in the Balkans, Spring 1941 (1953). U. S. Army Historical Study official series.
• I. E. Gueshoff, The Balkan League (1915). Digital reprint of a book by a Bulgarian statesman.
• G. F. Abbott, The Tale of a Tour in Macedonia (1903).

For news sources see the page at http://staff.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/news.html.

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