History Blogs

Interactive weblogs that invite users to participate in discussions about history, its study, methods, controversies, and role in society. Includes analysis of historical events as well as historians' perspectives on current events.

Resources in this category:

Cronaca
http://www.cronaca.com/

A blog providing news and commentary on art, archeology, and, predominantly, history.

Digital Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/

A weblog dedicated to discussion of Medieval history in general, and the convergence of digital technology and Medivalist studies in particular.

History News Network
http://hnn.us/departments/86.html

List of blogs hosted by the History News Network site, which comes out of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The entire site is devoted to correcting the historical inaccuracies that come up in the media, but the blogs tend to speak on politics and current events from a historian’s point of view.

Informed Comment
http://www.juancole.com/

A History Professor at the University of Michigan specializing in the Mideast, South Asia, and Relgion, and writer of Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi’ite Islam, Juan Cole provides (as the subtitle to his weblog says) "Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion."

Pepys' Diary
http://www.pepysdiary.com/

An innovative use of a blog. Each day provides a new entry from the diary of Samuel Pepys. Visitors' comments on each post are listed as annotations.

World History Blog
http://www.worldhistoryblog.com/

From the homepage: "Blog that features different aspects of world history. I can’t cover it all but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Some descriptions for sites are taken from the Open Directory Project. Created by Miland Brown who is an academic working in North America."