1492: An Ongoing Voyage
exhibit looking at ‘the rich mixture of societies’ in five areas just before the arrival of Europeans, and at the subsequent contacts between them and the new arrivals from 1492-1600. Divided into six sections, including the life and myths of Columbus, ‘inventing America’, ‘Europe claims America’ (Library of Congress)

Atlantic History
Bibliography of recently published works (Atlantic History Seminar)

H-Atlantic
online discussion list for Atlantic World History from 1500 to 1800, aimed at those interested in the interdisciplinary study of colonial North America and the United States, Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and South America in a transatlantic context. Book reviews, links to course syllabi, bibliographies, resources (H-Net)

History of the Atlantic World 1500-1800
website for an international seminar at Harvard University (directed by Bernard Bailyn): seminar topics have included ‘the movement of peoples’ and ‘cultural encounters’, with abstracts of papers online, an Atlantic History discussion list and online newsletter

Atlantic World Roundtable
roundtable discussion (January 2000); summary of the panel; abstracts; links to course syllabi (AHA)

Beginning Eastward From London: a study in the domestic establishment of the British East India Company (1599-1660)
Essay on early years and development of the Company (Chris Godat)

The British Presence in India in the 18th Century
Essay about the East India Company at the BBC website (Peter Marshall)

The Bubble Project
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on the South Sea Bubble (which burst in 1720), focusing on its cultural history and influence on the arts, includes bibliography, essays, historical outline (David McNeil et al)

The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years’ War
papers and articles by the site author (D Peter McLeod)

Captain James Cook
site on the life, voyages and times of Captain Cook; timelines for the voyages, maps etc (Michael Dickinson)

The Cartographic Creation of New England
‘An exhibition of early maps that chronicles the effects of European exploration and settlement in north-eastern North America in creating a spatial concept called “New England.”‘ (Osher Map Library)

Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
online exhibition exploring Europeans’ attempts ‘to “read” native cultures of the Americas’ (and vice versa); six thematic sections, including ‘promotion and possession’, ‘viewers and the viewed’, ‘colonial fictions, colonial histories’ (University of Pennsylvania Library)

Columbus and the Age of Discovery
searchable database of articles etc relating to ‘encounter’ themes, as well as links to other sites (Millersville, Pennsylvania)

Discoverers’ Web
diverse resource of web materials on voyages of discovery, exploration and explorers (Andre Engels)

Discovery and Exploration
maps covering the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, documenting the processes of ‘discovery’ from coast to interior (American Memory)

Anthology of the Discovery of Australia
from the first European contacts, the Dutch in the seventeenth century, extracts from their accounts of what they found (Rainer Radok)

Discovery, Explorations and the ‘New World’
listing of resources from the WWW-Virtual Library (Stephanie Marra)

The Early Modern World
primary source extracts and web resources: sections on the early modern world system, mercantile capitalism, trade and the ‘new economy’ (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

Trading Places:The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834
‘virtual’ version of an exhibition of 2002, focusing on trading contacts between European and Asian countries from 1600 (British Library)

Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia
Online seminar to accompany the exhibition of the same name; covers the development and activities of the Company (Anthony Farrington)

The Eighteenth-century Maritime World
lecture notes and links (Jane Samson)

Emigrants and Settlers
extracts from selected primary and literary sources (Norton Topics Online)

Encounters: the meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800
website for an outstanding 2004 exhibition; beautiful, includes images of some of the key exhibits, resources for educators, quizzes and other activities, bibliography and links (Victoria and Albert Museum)

The European Voyages of Discovery
online tutorial focusing on the Portugese and Spanish explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in Africa, America and Asia (Department of History, University of Calgary)

First Fleet Online
website about convicts transported to Australia in 1787, for students and teachers, professional historians, family historians and other researchers; includes a database of the First Fleet convicts; information about the sources used; extracts from primary sources; research guidance; links (University of Wollongong)

Founding the American Colonies
basic information on the founding of the thirteen original colonies (The TimePage)

The George Raper collection
in 1787 the 17-year-old George Raper joined the crew of HMS Sirius; he made a record of the voyage that followed, before the ship was lost off Norfolk Island (National Library of Australia)

Heading West: Mapping the Territory 1540-1900
Online seminar on the mapmakers of the American West (Alice Hudson, NY Public Library)

Hudson’s Bay Company Collection
a digital collection of the donated museum collections of the Hudson’s Bay company; images of artefacts covering several thousand years, indigenous and Euro-Canadian (Manitoba Museum)

Inuit and Englishmen: the Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher
website on the Inuit before the arrival of the English, on Frobisher’s voyages, Inuit responses to the newcomers, Inuit travellers to England and English settlers in Nunavut, and much more (Canadian Museum of Civilization)