Czech Republic, Culture and Literature

Contains numerous reports detailing human rights issues and posters from organizations like Amnesty International

Historic Newspapers digitised by the Bavarian State Library.

Digitised historical editions of primary documents.

This collection includes digitised documents, maps and globes.

A single access point to Europe's digital resources including sources from the Czech Republic.

Memory of the nations is one of the largest collections of oral first-hand accounts of major 20th century events in Czechoslovakia. It has been accessible to the public online since 2008 as a database of witnesses who experienced the events of the 20th century and experienced two totalitarian regimes - Nazism and Communism.

Modern Dejiny was created to serve as portal for high quality educational materials for teaching 20th century Czech history. Alhtough originally intended for educators, this portal provides in depth information for anyone interested in the history of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia. The portal contains articles, primary resources, and videos in Czech regarding Modern Czech history.

The papers of Jarka Burian, the foremost English language scholar on Czech theatre, offers a tremendous resource for
researchers interested in Czech theatre.The Burian collection contains papers, posters, programs, and other materials assembled by the leading American scholar on Czech theatre, culture, and politics.

A collection of Czech exile and samizdat periodicals, displayed in PDF format.

The Porta fondium digital library unites Czech and Bavarian archival collections. The collection includes historic periodicals, censuses, photos, and more.

The Prague Spring Archive project, a collaboration between the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and UT Libraries, is now live. This open access online archive is the first step in a longer-term initiative by CREEES Director Mary Neuburger to digitize signicant collections of primary documents from the the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library that shed light on the Cold War.

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives currently has over 100,000 sound recordings as part of the their Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty archival collection. A small portion of these have been digitized and made available online for users to access, including recordings from their Czechoslovak Broadcasting Department.

Czechs have come to America from the earliest colonial times. Like many ethnic groups the Czechs, through time, have been assimilated into the general American culture, but at the same time they have sought to preserve the essential elements of their language and culture. This site was created and is maintained by the Czech Heritage Digitalization Project which has as its purpose the recording and archiving of materials important to Czech heritage, and/or of Czech origin.

The online home for UT Austin's collection of digitized Prague Spring materials from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.

A digital archive of Czech web resources.

Maps produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

A tourist map of downtown Brno and its surroundings marked with points of interest important for people from both within and outside of LGBT community [in Czech and English].

Archive Groups in the Czech Republic is a useful resource which helps to locate archives and fonds in the Czech Republic. The database consists of entries about 154 789 archive groups and 114 889 finding aids and it is being updated regularly.

The National Library of the Czech Republic had contirbuted significant manuscript collections to the Manuscriptorium digital library.

The website of the National Archives in Prague provides information on activities, publications, news, and exhibitions undertaking by the Archives. It also provides information on all of the departments of Archives, for example, Department of self-government and state administration fonds until 1848 and of religious institutions; Department of self-government and state administration from 1848 – 1918; Department of state administration from 1918 – 1945; and Department of state administration fonds from 1945 – 1992. The interface is in Czech and English.