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Centropa: Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe

A nonprofit organization based in Vienna, Austria, the Centropa group is headed up by a team of historians, educators, photographers, and other artists and scholars. The site contains a number of different oral history and photographic archives, in addition to sections dealing with contemporary Jewish life in the region and around the world. The basic search options within each of these sections...

https://www.centropa.org/en
Europeana

Descartes, Michelangelo, and other notable European figures are all presented and accounted for within the Europeana archive. This prodigious site includes over 4.6 million digital items culled from over 100 institutions, including the National Archives of Finland, the European Archive, the Louvre, and the Slovak National Gallery. To get acquainted with this collection, users should browse on over...

https://www.europeana.eu/en
First World War.Com

Created and maintained by Michael Duffy, this site amasses an impressive amount of valuable cultural, historical, and social documentation of "the Great War." The site begins with some highlighted collections, such as Peace and Truce on the Western Front, Photo Reconnaissance, and Keeping 'em on The Farm. While the Web site is a work-in-progress, visitors will enjoy browsing through different...

https://www.firstworldwar.com/
forced-migration-history

This new, UK-based, moderated mailing list serves as a forum for discussions on population displacements in 20th-century European history, "and to explore the inter-relationship of forced migration/resettlement/repatriation with nationalism, state formation and the construction of social identities." While the moderators believe that most of the subscribers will be involved in migration studies,...

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=FORCED-MIGRAT...
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Monnet's Brandy and Europe's Fate

When some people think about long-form essays on political science, their eyes might glaze over. Never fear: The Brookings Essay features are here. This latest installment from those good folks in Washington, D.C. explores the world of Jean Monnet and how he was committed to integrating the European countries in a meaningful way. The essay is broken up in a very effective fashion with photographs,...

http://aa61a0da3a709a1480b1-9c0895f07c3474f6636f95b6bf3db172...
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: European Integration History Index

This portion of the World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL) links to a collection of online resources related to European integration. European integration is understood here "as the process of political, economic and cultural integration and co-operation between various European countries in the 20th century - mainly in the period after 1945". While the total number of sites indexed by this...

http://vlib.iue.it/hist-eur-integration/Index.html