General History

2 brown horses grazing in green field

Horses

Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784  (Mapping a New Nation)

Aerial Photography Tutorial (Colorado School of Mines)

Aerial Photography Quizzes (Colorado School of Mines)

American Panorama (Historical Atlas of the United States for the 21st Century)

Ancient Earth Globe  (Track a city on Earth’s tectonic plates)

The Domesday Book Online (Land survey of England from 1086)

The Down Survey of Ireland — 1st national scale detailed land survey in the world

Empire Online — Prime sources for 5 centuries

Gossamer Network —  History of American Post Offices in the West

Historic Cities — Mostly European

Historic Towns Trust & the British Historic Towns Atlas

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century

Historical Maps of Europe

Historical Maps of Southeast Asia

HyperHistory — World History

Layers of London

Mapping History Project

Mapping a World of Cities (Collaboration between 11 Map Libraries)

Matthew Paris’ Annotated Map of 1250 Britain

Pleiades (Community-build Gazetteer & Graph of Ancient Places)

Soviet Military Maps

Soviet Topographic Maps

Operation Bird’s Eye  — photographic collection of nearly 400 overlapping aerial images which form a continuous strip spanning the United States from coast to coast in 1948

Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) University of Manchester

Survey of India Maps (1750 – present)

U.S. Archives (historical maps and cartographic data files as well as documents and photographs related to geography)

Viabundus (Freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650)

A Vision of Britain through Time

World Atlas Map (Countries & Geography)

World Digital Library