Invaluable and uncomplicated. A fourth, based on Confederate imprints, is in development. The Main Library System at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors this database, and the texts come primarily from its Southern collections. Exploring Ancient World Cultures From deep issues of the purpose of cultural study to historical timelines and images of key artistic achievements, this resource at the University of Evansville is balanced, rich and beautiful. On this page are primary sources on voyages of discovery that can be found on the web.
Primary sources are the texts the travellers themselves wrote on their voyages.
Needs work to bring it up to date, but still very valuable. History Connections via the English Server at Carnegie-Mellon Connections from CMU's excellent English site connect with many dealing with history. The goal here then is to construct a Internet Medieval Sourcebook from available public domain and copy-permitted texts. The Sourcebook then is in two parts. The first is made up of fairly short classroom sized extracts, derived from public domain sources or copy-permitted translations, the second is composed of the full documents, or WWW links to the full documents.