Nice Reference Site(s)

Ofaloaf

Although not really blueprints, this site has a metric arsetonne of profile and front view images for all sorts of planes, trains, automobiles, tanks, boats, and other whatnot. Probably good stuff for you guys who like to enter vehicles in the "weapons of war" thread.
 

Nevermore

I hope this doesn't count as bumping a dead thread...

NNDB

A site that gives some brief descriptions of famous people (race, gender, religion/lack thereof, sexuality, etc.) as well as a brief biography of the person in question as well as their family members; it includes everyone from royalty to politicians to musicians to actors. It also has the nifty feature of being able to track connections between people, sort of like a more global version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Should be useful for some, at least.
 
MrP

MrP

Banned
Excellent, Doc! I've just forwarded that list to Mum. It should come in handy with her genealogical studies.
 

Big Tex

Swing batta, batta, batta!!!!!

Yes...its.....historical baseball links!

Everything and anything New Orleans Baseball including cool old pictures, a TL, articles, very nice site.

The (Un) "Official" site of the long dead Southern Association which operated from 1901 to 1961. features records and some links to old teams in Shreveport, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Little Rock, Macon, Montgomery, Nashville, and Selma.

John Skilton's Baseball Links will take you more places than you would think possible to go on teh webs

Today in baseball history....fairly self explanatory ;)

Comprehensive history of baseball in Wilmington Delaware

Quick and easy list of teams (both current and historic) in various cities with founding dates, where they came from, when they folded, and an occasional link. Doesn't appear to be complete but its got a ton of basic dates and data.

Historic Baseball has all kinds of good links, articles, photos. Very concise and informative, especially of basic NL and AL history.

Baseball in Wartime chronicles baseball in WWII

A site dedicated to the old AL Washington Senators team that eventually moved to Minnesota (but not before winning a world series title in the 20's). Kind of all over the road but it has some fun photos and facts.

Awesome site dedicated to the old Philadelphia Athletics before they moved to Kansas City and then Oakland but containing tons of old pics and old baseball information in general.

Ball Parks of Baseball has tons of info and pics from current, past, and future baseball stadiums. Includes minor league stadiums and links to nba, college football, and nfl stadiums.

And finally, no list of historic teams would be complete without the requisite Brooklyn Dodgers link
 

Andrew

One site that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet (unless a quick search deceives me) is the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England at http://www.pase.ac.uk/jsp/index.jsp, which is intended as a comprehensive list of every recorded denizen of pre-Norman England.

If that isn't cool and/or useful enough, my main reason for posting it here is that they have recently gone live with a searchable and mappable version of the Domesday Book at http://domesday.pase.ac.uk/.

It's not the most user-friendly site ever, but if you want to know who owned your local ancestral village in 1066 and who had stolen it by 1086, and see what else that particular evil land-grabbing Norman had purloined plotted on a map, it's rather pleasing.
 
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Doctor What

The Avalon Project

A rather extensive collection of documents in law, diplomacy and history. Pretty much every treaty since 4000 BC can be found here, along with all kinds of charters, grants, statutes and the like.
 

Ofaloaf

Just found a huge collection of (small) photographs related to the Paris Commune. Hundreds of them, though, so they may be useful. They can be found here.
 
MrP

MrP

Banned
A work in progress. Not all of the things mentioned below are linked to on the site, but many are.

http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/

General Marshall's Official Report:

* Biennial Reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War

United States Military Academy History of World War II

* The War in Eastern Europe (June 1941 to May 1945)
* The War in North Africa, Part 1 (Operations in Egypt and Libya)
* The War in North Africa, Part 2 (The Allied Invasion)
* Operations in Sicily and Italy
* The War in Western Europe, Part 1 (June 1944 to December 1944) [In progress]
* The War in Western Europe, Part 2 (December 1944 to May 1945)

United States Army in World War II Series

United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide
This pamphlet contains a brief analytical description of each volume in the United States Army in World War II series published to date or to be published in the near future. These sketches have, in most cases, been prepared by the author at the request of the Chief Historian in his capacity as General Editor of the series. Each synopsis is followed by a list of "key topics" found in the volume and in most cases their chapter location.
The War Department:
o Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations
o Washington Command Post: The Operations Division
o Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942
o Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944
o Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943
o Global Logistics and Strategy: 1943-1945
o The Army and Economic Mobilization
o The Army and Industrial Manpower
The Army Ground Forces:
o The Organization of Ground Combat Troops
o The Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops
The Army Service Forces:
o The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces
o [Also: Statistical Review, World War II: A Summary of ASF Activities]
The Western Hemisphere:
o The Framework of Hemisphere Defense
o Guarding the United States and Its Outposts
The War in the Pacific:
o Strategy and Command: The First Two Years
o The Fall of the Philippines
o Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
o Victory in Papua
o CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
o Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls
o Campaign in the Marianas
o The Approach to the Philippines
o Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
o Triumph in the Philippines
o Okinawa: The Last Battle
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations:
o Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West
o Sicily and the Surrender of Italy
o Salerno to Cassino
o Cassino to the Alps
The European Theater of Operations:
o The Supreme Command
o Cross-Channel Attack
o Breakout and Pursuit
o Riviera to the Rhine
o The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge
o The Lorraine Campaign
o The Siegfried Line Campaign
o The Last Offensive
o Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume I: May 1941-September 1944
o Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume II: September 1944-May 1945
The Middle East Theater:
o The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia [CMH]
The China-Burma-India Theater:
o Stilwell's Mission to China
o Stilwell's Command Problems
o Time Runs Out in CBI
The Technical Services:
o The Chemical Warfare Service: Organizing for War
o The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field
o The Chemical Warfare Service: Chemicals in Combat

o The Corps of Engineers: Troops and Equipment
o The Corps of Engineers: Construction in the United States
o The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Japan
o The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany

o The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War
o The Ordnance Department: Procurement and Supply
o The Ordnance Department: On Beachhead and Battlefront

o The Medical Department: Hospitalization and Evacuation, Zone of the Interior
o The Medical Department: Medical Service in the Mediterranean and Minor Theaters
o The Medical Department: Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations
o The Medical Department: Medical Service in the War Against Japan

[Additional Medical Department histories (not part of the "US Army in World War II" series):]

+ Administrative Series:
# Organization and Administration in World War II
# Medical Training in World War II
# Medical Supply in World War II
# Medical Statistics in World War II
# Personnel in World War II

+ Miscellaneous:
# Blood Program in World War II
# Cold Injury, Ground Type
# Radiology in World War II
# Physical Standards in World War II
# Combat Psychiatry
# Developments in Military Medicine During the Administration of Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk
# A History of the United States Army Dental Service in World War II
# A History of the United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II
# Wound Ballistics

+ Neuropsychiatry in World War II:
# Volume I: Zone of the Interior
# Volume II: Overseas Theaters

+ Internal Medicine:
# Volume I: Actions of Medical Consultants
# Volume II: Infectious Diseases
# Volume III: Infectious Diseases and General Medicine

+ Preventive Medicine in World War II Series:
# Volume I was never published
# Volume II: Environmental Hygeine
# Volume III: Personal Health Measures and Immunizations
# Volume IV: Communicable Diseases Transmitted Chiefly Through Respiratory and Alimentary Tracts
# Volume V: Communicable Diseases Transmitted Through Contact or by Unknown Means
# Volume VI: Communicable Diseases: Malaria
# Volume VII: Communicable Diseases: Arthopodborne Diseases Other Than Malaria
# Volume VIII: Civil Affairs/Military Government Public Health Activities
# Volume IX: Special Fields

+ Surgery in World War II Series:
# Activities of Surgical Consultants, Volume I
# Activities of Surgical Consultants, Volume II
# General Surgery, Volume I
# General Surgery, Volume II
# Hand Surgery
# Neurosurgery, Volume I
# Neurosurgery, Volume II
# Opthamology and Otolaryngology
# Orthopedic Surgery in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations
# Orthopedic Surgery in the European Theater of Operations
# Orthopedic Surgery in the Zone of the Interior
# The Physiologic Effects of Wounds
# Thoracic Surgery, Volume I
# Thoracic Surgery, Volume II
# Vascular Surgery

+ Theaters:
# China-Burma-India Theater:
* Crisis Fleeting
# European Theater of Operations:
* From the Roer to the Elbe with the 1st Medical Group
* 643d Medical Clearing Company, 1944--D Day
* Interview with Major Albert J. Crandall, M.C., 3d Auxiliary Surgical Group
# North African-Mediterranean Theater of Operations:
# Pacific Ocean Area:
* Interview with COL Paul H. Streit, M.C., Surgeon, Central Pacific Base Command
# Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) Theater:
* Papuan Campaign
* Portable Surgical Hospitals
* 3d Portable Surgical Hospital
* Interview with LTC William J. Shaw, M.C., Division Surgeon, 41st Infantry Division

o The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume I
o The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume II
o The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Japan
o The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Germany

o The Signal Corps: The Emergency (To December 1941)
o The Signal Corps: The Test (December 1941 to July 1943)
o The Signal Corps: The Outcome (Mid-1943 Through 1945)

o The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations
o The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply
o The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas

Special Studies:
o Chronology, 1941-1945
o Buying Aircraft: Materiel Procurement for the Army Air Forces
o Civil Affairs: Soldiers Become Governors [CMH]
(Also The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany, 1944-1946)
o The Employment of Negro Troops [CMH]
o Military Relations Between the United States and Canada: 1939-1945
o Rearming the French
o Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt
o Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb
o The Women's Army Corps [CMH]
Pictorial Record:
o The War Against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and Adjacent Areas
o The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas
o The War Against Japan

The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II

* A Brief History of the U.S. Army in World War II

* Defense of the Americas: 7 December 1941--2 September 1945
* Philippine Islands: 7 December 1941--10 May 1942
* East Indies: 1 January--22 July 1942
* Aleutian Islands: 3 June 1942--24 August 1943
* Guadalcanal: 7 August 1942--21 February 1943
* Northern Solomons: 22 February 1943--21 November 1944
* Bismarcks
* Papua: 23 July 1942--23 January 1943
* New Guinea: 24 January 1943--31 December 1944
* Leyte: 17 October 1944--1 July 1945
* Luzon: 15 December 1944--4 July 1945
* Southern Philippines: 27 February--4 July 1945
* Central Pacific: 7 December 1941--6 December 1943 (Gilberts: Makin, etc.)
* Eastern Mandates: 31 January--14 June 1944 (Marshalls: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, etc.)
* Western Pacific: 15 June 1944--2 September 1945 (Marianas [Guam, Saipan, Tinian] and Palaus [Angaur, Peleliu])
* Ryukyus: 26 March--2 July 1945 (Okinawa)
* Burma, 1942: 7 December 1941--26 May 1942
* India-Burma: 2 April 1942--28 January 1945
* Central Burma: 29 January--15 July 1945
* China Defensive: 4 July 1942--4 May 1945
* China Offensive: 5 May--2 September 1945
* Egypt-Libya: 11 June 1942--12 February 1943
* Algeria-French Morocco: 8 November 1942--11 November 1942
* Tunisia: 17 November 1942--13 May 1943
* Sicily 9 July--17 August 1943
* Naples-Foggia: 9 September 1943--21 January 1944
* Anzio: 22 January--24 May 1944
* Rome-Arno: 22 January--9 September 1944
* North Apennines: 10 September 1944-4 April 1945
* Po Valley: 5 April-8 May 1945
* Normandy: 6 June--24 July 1944
* Northern France: 25 July--14 September 1944 [CMH]
* Southern France: 15 August--14 September 1944 [CMH]
* Ardennes-Alsace [CMH]
* Rhineland [CMH]
* Central Europe: 22 March--11 May 1945 [CMH]

Additional 50th Anniversary Commemorative Histories

* Mobilization -- 50th Anniversary of World War II Pamphlet [CMH]
* Mobilization in World War II
* The Women's Army Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service
* The Army Nurse Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service

* Dwight David Eisenhower: The Centennial [CMH]
* Omar Nelson Bradley: The Centennial

American Forces in Action Series

* Papuan Campaign: The Buna-Sanananda Operation (16 November 1942--23 January 1943)
* The Capture of Makin (20-24 November 1943)
* Merrill's Marauders (February-May 1944) [CMH]
* The Admiralties: Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division (29 February--18 May 1944) [CMH]
* Guam: Operations of the 77th Division (21 July--10 August 1944) [CMH]

* To Bizerte With the II Corps (23 April 1943--13 May 1943) [CMH]

* Salerno: American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno (9 September--6 October 1943) [CMH]
* Volturno: From the Volturno to the Winter Line (6 October--15 November 1943) [CMH]
* Fifth Army at the Winter Line (15 November 1943--15 January 1944) [CMH]
* Anzio Beachhead (22 January-25 May 1944)

* Omaha Beachhead (6 June-13 June 1944)
* Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6 June-27 June 1944)
* St-Lô (7 July - 19 July 1944)
* Small Unit Actions

Combat Studies Institute Publications:
(Including "Leavenworth Papers")
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas

* Rangers: Selected Combat Operations in World War II, Dr. Michael J. King [Leavenworth Papers No. 11]
* Seek, Strike, and Destroy: U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War II, Dr. Christopher R. Gabel [Leavenworth Papers No. 12]
* The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation: Soviet Breakthrough and Pursuit in the Arctic, October 1944, Major James F. Gebhardt [Leavenworth Papers No. 17]

* Desert Warfare: German Experiences in World War II, Maj. Gen. Alfred Toppe
* The 9th Australian Division Versus the Africa Corps: an Infantry Division Against Tobruk, Libya, 1941, Colonel Ward A. Miller
* Busting the Bocage: American Combined Arms Operation in France, 6 June 1931 - July 1944
* The 101st Airborne Division's Defense of Bastogne, Col. Ralph M. Mitchell
* The 4th Armored Division in the Encirclement of Nancy, Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
* The Lorraine Campaign: An Overview, September-December 1944, Dr. Christopher Gabel

* Nomonhan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939, Edward J. Drea
* Merrill's Marauders: Combined Operations in Northern Burma in 1944, Dr. Gary J. Bjorge
* Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944, Edward J. Drea
* Japan's Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945, Thomas M. Huber
* PASTEL: Deception in the Invasion of Japan, Dr. Thomas M. Huber
* August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, Lt. Col. David M. Glantz
* August Storm: Soviet Tactical and Operationnal Combat in Manchuria, 1945, Lt. Col. David M. Glantz
* Unconditional Surrender, Demobilization, and the Atomic Bomb, Dr. Michael D. Pearlman

Miscellaneous Histories:

* World War II: The Defensive Phase [CMH]
(an extract from American Military History [CMH])
* Grand Strategy and the Washington High Command [CMH]
(an extract from American Military History)
* World War II: The War Against Germany and Italy [CMH]
(an extract from American Military History [CMH])

* History of COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander) 1943-1944
* Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945

* An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941
* Highlights of Mobilization, World War II, 1938-1942 [CMH]
* Logistics in World War II: Final Report of the Army Service Forces
* The Big L: American Logistics in World War II
* Industrialists in Olive Drab: The Emergency Operation of Private Industries During World War II, by John H. Ohly; edited by Clayton D. Laurie

* Command Decisions [CMH]
* US Army in Northern Ireland, 1941-1945 [CMH]
* NEPTUNE: Training for the Mounting and Operation, and the Artificial Ports
* Debriefing Conference: 82d Airborne Division, D-Day Operations
* Bastogne: The First Eight Days [CMH]

* Army Amphibian Tractor and Tank Battalions in the Battle of Saipan 15 June-9 July 1944

* WAAC-WAC, 1942-1944 [CMH]
* Airborne Troops in Ground Operations [CMH]
* U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II [CMH]
* Minority Groups in World War II [CMH]
(extracted from Selective Service and Victory: The 4th Report of the Director of Selective Service)
* Road Builders: Black Engineers in World War II [CMH]
* Manhattan District WAC Detachment - The Role of Women in the Development of the Atomic Bomb [CMH]

* Infantry Combat -- Part One: Eddekhila; Part Two: Attu

* Department of the Army Pamphlets (DA-#):
o Guide to Foreign Military Studies, 1945-54
(The "German monographs"--produced by German officers following the war)
o The German Campaign in Poland (1939), Maj. Robert M. Kennedy [DA 20-255]

References:

* Army Field Manuals (FM-#)
* Army Technical Manuals (TM-#)
* Army Training Manuals
* Other War Dept. publications ("lessons learned", cookbooks, and anything else that doesn't naturally fit elsewhere)

US Army Order of Battle:

* Activation and Combat Participation of U.S. Army Divisions
* US Army Divisions in the ETO [CMH]
* Inventory of Army Facilities, Dec 1945 [Carlisle Barracks]
* 1142 Combat Engineers Memorial Website
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Thande

Thande

Donor
Here is the index to a historical atlas published in 1820 which gives a series of maps and overviews of different countries, statistics on their populations in 1820 and so on. Even timelines of history. Should be very useful for anyone doing a TL set in this period.

What I find greatly amusing is that while the original atlas was British, this is an illegal American print that has been very obviously edited in places to give a less pro-British view than the original. This, for example, is their view of the character of the English people :D

ME A.JPG
 
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