Library Guides: History Research Guide: History of Science

General Science History Resources

History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia
This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America.
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
Broad-based chronological and geographical survey of the history of science with extensive links.
Smithsonian Institution - Science Service Historical Image Collection
Selected images, with informative captions, from the Smithsonian's Science Service Historical Image Collection relating to the development of uses for electricity in the 20th century; can be browsed by subject. Includes search engine.
ISisCB Explore
IsisCB Explore is a research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.
Science History Institute Oral History Collections
The interviewees include Nobel laureates and National Medal of Science recipients (among hundreds of others), and discussions cover wide-ranging topics like science during both World Wars, chemistry sets, and the challenges of balancing a family life with a career in science.
Smithsonian Heralds of Science
This collection of books and articles includes a texts that "proclaimed new truths or hypotheses in science.”

Darwin Manuscript Project
The Darwin Manuscripts Project was founded in 2003 at Drew University to create Charles Darwin's Scientific Manuscripts, an online historical and textual edition of the large body of manuscripts that document Charles Darwin's life's work as a scientist.
The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History
This growing website is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the Manhattan Project. Five main topical areas—Events, People, Places, Processes, and Science—are further divided into sub-sections, each with an introductory page and as many as a dozen or more sub-pages.
British Society for the History of Mathematics
This broadly conceived site contains a list of Web sites containing materials relevant to the study of history of mathematics. Some of these sites are specifically devoted to history of mathematics while others are part of larger sites.
Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
The Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, based at Iowa State University, seeks to preserve the historical heritage of American women in science and engineering.

Aldo Leopold Archives
The Leopold Collection houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948.
Alan Turing.net
A large collection of digital facsimiles of historical documents relating to the life and career of Alan Turing.
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Also called the Digital Einstein Papers, which provides access to over 30,000 documents relating to the life and career of Albert Einstein
The Galileo Project
Collection of electronic resources relating to the study of Galileo (1564-1642).
The Thomas A. Edison Papers
A searchable document database lined to document images for Parts I-III (1847-1898) of the Edison Papers, which are on microfilm.
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents, including correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, pri
Women Mathematicians
Contains biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians, some with color photos. Accessible through an alphabetical index and a chronological index. Also featuring the first Ph.D's by women before 1930, and prizes, awards and honors f

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