The materials listed here are primarily web sites with information of use to economic historians.
The listings have been roughly divided according to type of resource, though there is inevitably some overlap, and you will find that many sites have more than one kind of information. In addition, many of the sites have their own “hot lists” that provide excellent links.
If you have a suggestion for a web site that should be added to this list, please contact us.
- Professional Organizations
- Academic Journals
- Web sites for Colleges and Academic Departments
- Individual Pages
- Museums, Institutes, and Archives
- Companies with Historical Information
- Ongoing Seminars in Economic History
- U.S. Government Sites
- Library Catalogs
- Major Listings of Historical Information
- Economics Working Paper Archives
- Data Sets
Professional Organizations
- Agricultural History Society
- American Economic Association
- American Historical Association
- Asociación Española de Historia Económica (AEHE)
- Asociación Uruguaya de Historia Económica (AUDHE)
- Association Française des Historiens Economistes
- Association of Business Historians
- Association Charles Gide Pour L’Etude de la Pensee Economique
- Association Française de Cliométrie
- Austrian Branch of the International Economic History Association
- Brazilian Association of Economic History
- Business History Conference
- Canadian Network for Economic History
- Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
- Centre for Economic Policy Research, Economic History Initiative
- Centre for International Business History
- The Cliometric Society
- Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing
- Danish Society for Economic and Social History
- Economic and Business Historical Society
- Economic History Association
- Economic History Society
- Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
- Economic History Society of Southern Africa
- Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
- European Association for Banking History (EABH)
- European Business History Association
- European Historical Economics Society
- Finnish Economic History Association
- Global Economic History Network
- H-Net: Humanities On Line
- History of Economics Society
- Institute for Business History
- Institute of Historical Research
- International Economic History Association
- International Maritime Economic History Association
- Mexican Association of Economic History (AMHE) (in Spanish)
- Mining History Association
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Netherlands Economic History Archive
- Organization of American Historians
- Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (in Portugese)
- Romanian Commission for Economic History and Economic Thought
- Social Science History Association
- Social Science Research Network
- Societa italiana degli storici dell’economia (SISE)
- Society for Business History Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG), in German
- Society for Business History (English version)
- Society for European Business History (SEBH)
- Society for the History of Technology
Academic Journals
None of these are on-line journals, but they do provide a quick way to find out about submissions policies, subscription rates, and editorial boards, and many of them include tables of contents or abstracts of current articles.
- Accounting, Business, and Financial History
- Agricultural History
- Agricultural History Review
- American Historical Review
- Australian Economic History Review
- Business and Economic History On-Line: The Proceedings of the Business History Conference
- Business History
- Business History Review
- Economic History Review
- Economics and Human Biology
- Enterprise and Society
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- European Review of Economic History
- Explorations in Economic History
- Financial History Review
- Indian Economic & Social History Review
- Journal of American History
- Journal of Economic History
- Journal of European Economic History
- Journal of Industrial History
- Journal of Transport History
- Labor History
- Labour History Review
- Research in Economic History
- Scandinavian Economic History Review
- Social Science History
- Textile History
Web Pages for Colleges and Academic Departments
Many of the department webpages include lists of interesting sites.
- Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Quantitative Economic History
- Center for Population Economics
- EDIRC (Economics Departments, Institutes, and Research Centres): Thousands of economics institutions in over 200 countries, including associations and societies.
- Economic Departments on the internet.
- History Department Home Pages: By country, based on lists compiled by George Mason University and Hillsdale College
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Department of Economic and Social History
- University of Munich, Economic History Department
Individual Pages
- Andre Gunder Frank’s Personal Research Interests for Public Policy Practice: Five Hundred Year Global History
- Brad DeLong’s “Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong’s Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal”
- Daniele Besomi’s Collection of Links for Economists and Historians of Economic Thought
- Dinsmore Documentation’s Classics of American Colonial History, Economics and Trade
- François Micheloud’s History of the Bimetallic System
- François Micheloud’s History of the Oil Industry, and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust
- Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
- Gene Shackman’s Social, Economic and Political Change This site looks at long term, large scale changes in social, political and economic systems at the national and international levels
- Gregory Zorzos’ research on Ancient Economic History This site includes research on Alexander the Great, links to Hellenic universities and libraries, and much more.
- Metin Cosgel’s Economic History of the Ottoman Empire
- Michael Schiltz’s (University of Leuven, Belgium) Open Research Project on Japan’s Financial Modernization (1850-1917) The story of Japanese financial policy-making in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This weblog and book are part of a larger project on institutional and ideological reform in the domains of finance, the police system, and the law during the Meiji-period.
- Johann Peter Murmann’s Evolutionary theories in the Social Sciences With the stated mission of serving “as the premier information site for scholars interested in evolutionary thought in the social sciences,” this site offers materials relating to a broad interdisciplinary field that includes economics, business history, history of technology, anthropology, and philosophy.
- Kip Altman’s KIPnotes: A multimedia collection of business histories
- Kurt Schuler’s Website on Currency Boards and Dollarization Includes historical tables on African monetary systems.
- Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
- Roy Davies’ “History of Money” page
- Tom Kalinke’s “The 19th Century Stock Price Project” page
Museums, Institutes, and Archives
- AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 AreaThe AIM25 project website provides electronic access to collection level descriptions of archives held in over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies in the London area, including records of some businesses, and other information relating to economic history
- All-Ohio Economic History Seminar Archive, from The Ohio State University Department of Economics
- Babbage Institute
- Baker Library Historical Collections Department, Harvard Business School, including the Kress Collection, a collection on American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age, and the American Trade Card of the 19th century.
- “Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 – 1920” From Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
- Glasgow University Archive Services
- Guide to Australian Business Records, Archival and published sources for Australian companies, indexed alphabetically by company name
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising,and Marketing History at Duke
- The History of Cartography home page
- Institute of European History – MAINZ IEG Maps, server with digital historical maps
- International Group for Research in Former Soviet Archives of Historical Political Economy
- The Legal Form of Enterprise
- The Library of Economics and Liberty from the Liberty Fund, Inc
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers,1900-1980 155 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures documenting America’s business and corporate industrial history
- Netherlands Economic History Archive, in Dutch and English.
- Portico–British Library Gateway
- Rothschild Archive in London
- Smithsonian Institution Photographic Collection
- Tax History Foundation and Museum
- Tax History Museum, presented by the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts
- Thomas Edison Papers, 1850-1898: Database searchable by personal and corporate names.
Ongoing Seminars in Economic History
- All-Ohio Economic History Seminar Archive, from The Ohio State University Department of Economics
- Columbia University – Seminar in Economic History
- Indiana University – Economic History Workshop
- Oxford Economic and Social History: Seminars and Special Lectures. Please also visit their Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History
- Triangle Economic History Workshop
- U.C. Berkeley – Economic History Seminar Series
- U.C. Davis – Economic History Seminar Series
- Washington Area Economic History Seminar
- Yale Economic History Workshop Seminar
U.S. Government Sites
- FedStats: Statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies
- Library of Congress American Memory Home Page
- National Archives and Records Administration
Library Catalogs
- Baker Library, Harvard Business School
- Business & History at Western: A Guide to Selected Resources in the University of Western Ontario Library System Compiled by Jerry Mulcahy, a bibliography designed to direct the reader to the considerable resources in the University of Western Ontario Library System that are related to Business History generally and the histories of companies specifically.
- COPAC Merged on-line catalogue of major university libraries in the UK and Ireland.
- Goldsmith’s Collection of the University of London Library Bibliographic citations of more than 60,000 economic and business primary sources from the 15th – 19th centuries
- Harvard Online Catalog (HOLLIS)
- Labor and Business History Virtual Library Over 1,100 annotated links to organizations, institutions, journals, conferences, exhibitions, and other resources.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- University of Virginia Library
Major Listings of Historical Information
- Commanding Heights Online illuminates the history of the global economy and shows how key economic theories have evolved in the context of historical events.
- History Matters, American Social History Project, CUNY and George Mason University
Economics Working Paper Archives
- Centre for Economic Policy Research, Economic History Initiative Discussion Papers
- Commodities of Empire Working Papers
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- New Economic Papers: Economic History
- Political Economy Research in Soviet Archives
- University of Oxford Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History
Data Sets
- Data Sets on the Economic History Server
- Measuring Worth Data on US and UK GDP, exchange rates, gold prices, etc
- Global Price and Income History Group
- European State Finance Database
- AHDS History Based at the University of Essex, AHDS History (formerly known as the History Data Service) is one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. AHDS History collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning, and teaching. Its collection includes over 600 separate studies relating to a number of historical, economic and social issues, ranging in time from the late tenth century to the twentieth century.
- ICPSR Database at the University of Michigan
- IPUMS Census microdata for social and economic research.
- International Cartel History Site Database of 150 international interwar cartels, examples of agreements and links to on-line publications.
- Latin American Economic History Data Bank
- NBER Economic Data
- Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) A free, downloadable, on-line resource for reliable, consistent, and comparable economic and social data series from 1900-2000 for 20 countries in Latin America. It is produced by the Latin American Centre of Oxford University.
- Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990
- Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 – 1780
- Social Science Information Gateway at Bristol, UK
- Surgeon’s Certificates Dataset This dataset from the Center for Population Economics may be linked to other CPE datasets (military service records; pension records; 1850, 1860, 1900, and 1910 US Federal Censuses)