History Resources: Online Maps & Charts

Arranged by subject and era.

Arranged by culture area, era and subject.

Includes Africa, the Americas, Near East, Asia and the Islamic World to 1500.

1450 to present. Africa, Asia and Oceana, Europe, Middle East, the Americas.

Primary focus on Americas from 18th and 19th centuries. Includes maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Users can juxtapose multiple maps from different time periods and create their own collections by saving groups of images.

More than 10,000 online digitized maps 1500 to present, depicting areas all over the world.

Easy to use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

The Americas, Australia and the Pacific, Asia, Europe and The Middle East are all represented on this extensive site, including individual collections. Most are in the public domain.

Free interactive historical atlas which shows step-by-step historical maps covering major world and regional events.

An organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain.