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General Resources
Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography (essays on issues of modern historiography; includes a "useful resources" tab bringing up numerous annotated links, arranged by subject; in English or Italian) (Guido Abbattista and Rolando Minuti, U. of Firenze)
Historiography Series in Global Environmental History: Bibliographies (annotated links to electronic articles) (Mark Stoll, Texas Tech U.)
T.V. Reed (Washington State U.) Historical Theories and Methods (bibliographical essay, within a site devoted to American/cultural studies)
Narrative in Other Disciplines: History and Historiography (within a site focused on psychology and narrative, includes numerous annotated links to sites related to historiography, with a focus on questions of interpretation) (V.W. Hevern, Le Moyne C.)
The/Untimely/Past (bibliographies and links "relating to the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, and allied areas of theory / practice"; partially annotated and includes some quotations from the works; also includes specialized bibliographies on Foucault, postcolonial / subaltern studies, discourse of historiography) (Jeffrey Hearn, U. Maryland, College Park)
World History Archives: World Historiography (documents arranged by subject, within a site devoted to "world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective")(Haines Brown)
Paradigm-Setting Works Of History-Writing
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (electronic edition of Middlemore's 1878 translation into English, arranged by subject)(E. L. Skip Knox, Boise State U.)
Jean Froissart The Chronicles of Froissart, Translated by Lord Berners (full text in English, from Macaulay's 1910 edition) (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia)
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters From An American Farmer (Eric J. Gislason & Jill Spearman, U. Virginia)
Bede Bede's Ecclesiastical History of English (e-text of A.M. Sellar's 1907 English translation) (Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin C.)
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society 
Herodotus, The History of Herodotus (Rawlinson translation into English) (Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tacitus Histories (Church and Brodribb English translation) Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts I. of Technology)
David Levin History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (e-text) (U. Virginia)
Thucydides History of The Peloponnesian War (Crawley English translation) (Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts I. of Technology)
Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884) (McMaster U.)
Theoretical Or Methodological Works
C. Volpilhac-Auger (U. Stendhal, Grenoble), " 'Mon siège est fait', ou la méthode historique de l'abbé de Vertot" (1997) (Cromohs)
Comte de Caylus, Réflexions sur les historiens anciens en général, & sur Diodore de Sicil en particulier (1761) [1757] (Cromohs)
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, De la manière d'écrire l'histoire (1796)[1783] (Cromohs)
David L. R. Kosalka (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Foucault's Nietzschean Historiography" (essay) (2000)
John Franklin Jameson, History of Historical Writing in America (1891) (Cromohs)
Nicolas Fréret, "Vues générales sur l'origine des anciennes nations et sur la manière d'en étudier l'histoire (1753)"  (Cromohs)
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History (reproduces the Introduction to Fukuyama's text, from the 1992 Penguin edition) (marxists.org)
Michael C. Kearl (Trinity U., Texas) "An Investigation into Collective Historical Knowledge and Implications of Its Ignorance" 
Jennifer May Lee (Stanford U.), "'It's Not the End of the World:' Agency and Identity in Historical (Con)Texts" (1996) (thesis on "changing notions of identity" in historical texts and the debate over the National History Standards in the U.S.)
David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (1959) (Matthew M. Davis, U. Virginia)
Sergio Luzzatto (U. Genova), "Un precursore della 'cultural history' nella Francia di Luigi Filippo. Augustin Challamel, storico della Rivoluzione" (1996) (in Italian) (Cromohs)
John G. A. Pocock, "Classical and Civil History: the Transformation of Humanism" (1996) (Cromohs)
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Plan de deux Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle (1751) (Cromohs)
Voltaire, "Histoire"(Encyclopédie, tome VIII, 1765) (Cromohs)
Daniel Woolf (Dalhousie U.), "Disciplinary History and Historical Culture: a Critique of the History of History; the Case of Modern England" (1997) (Cromohs)
Classical Historiography for Chinese History (articles and bibliographies) (Benjamin A. Elman, U. California, Los Angeles and Princeton U.)