The name casahistoria,

is Spanish, meaning "house of history". It first appeared on the web in 1999 when I was teaching IB history at Northlands in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

casahistoria came about as a result of my teaching and examining students at AS, A2 and IB level. The intention is to provide a critical listing of sites that are of value to undergraduate, IB and Advanced Level modern history courses. There are numerous "history" sites on the web, but many were and are of dubious use.

casahistoria is designed to help history surfers to use the web more effectively and efficiently by reducing the amount of time spent "filtering" the valuable from less valuable. Hopefully you will find casahistoria will give some indication of the usefulness of a particular site to you.

Topics are not comprehensive, but they do emphasize those themes most commonly studied and within each topic my intention (wherever possible) is to provide a variety of links to sites that not only inform, but also allow you to see divergent views and make judgements.

Only very rarely is a web site a substitute for the written word, but if used carefully it does provide many useful resources, especially for initial study and research.

Although edited since 2002 in Europe, one continuing aim of casahistoria is to put more weight on Latin American history links, especially for those sites appearing in English.  In doing this I am indebted especially to the links sent to me on a regular basis by Ale in Argentina and to the updates from the National Security Archive of the George Washington University in Washington DC.

Finally, it is also my intention to provide resources and documentary materials for history students in the developing world especially, who might not have immediate or easy access to written texts (although the web can never replace textual materials.........).

Happy history surfing!  

Les Fearns