History

Arctic Exploration Discovery History Books - Books on CD-ROM by the CD-Academia Book Company. Images, illustrations and timelines of the XIXth Century expeditions to the Arctic.
http://www.cd-books.com/

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center - A museum on Arctic explorers Robert E. Peary and Donald B. MacMillan. Includes collections on polar exploration gear, natural history specimens, and artifacts and drawings made by Inuit and Indians of North America.
http://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/arctic-studies/

The Big Sickness in Arctic Alaska - 1918 - Article on Arctic colonization and the introduction of new diseases such as measles, smallpox, and influenza in the early 1900s.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/Sickness/sickness.html

Sir John Franklin - Extensive resources on Franklin, his ill-fated last expedition, and the cultural history of exploration.
http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/SJFranklin.html

Arctic Exploration and the Search for the Northwest Passage in the First Half of the Nineteenth Cent - This bibliography provides researchers at Library and Archives Canada with a listing of primary printed sources for the study of the search for the Northwest Passage in the early nineteenth century.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/arctic_exploration-ef/2/21/index-e.html

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center - History, oral traditions, archaeological research, and vignettes of life and society of the peoples of the Canadian Arctic. Includes searchable database of photos, sounds, place names, and documents.
http://pwnhc.ca/

Arctic History - Includes information about the Paleo-Eskimos, the Dorset period, and the Thule culture.
http://www.travelvantage.com/arc_his.html

Prehistory of Alaska - History of the people, wildlife, and land of the Tundra, Arctic, coastal, and interior regions of Alaska from the American National Park Service. Includes a bibliography of print resources on the topic.
http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/index.htm

The Northern Lights Route - The dispersion of European culture from the Norwegian coast to the Barents Sea and the Baltic.
http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/

Gates of the Arctic - History - Short history of the origins of Arctic's the major anthropological groups such as the Inuit, Aleuts, Athabascans, and Northwest Coast Indians.
http://www.goals.com/thayer/gota/history/historybody.htm

Inuit and Englishmen : The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher - History of the Arctic expedition of Englishman Martin Frobisher, the first contacts between Inuit and Europeans, the search for a Northwest Passage, the first mining venture in Canada, and the earliest English efforts to establish a colony in North America.
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frint01e.html

Arctic Blue Books - Searchable version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the British Parliamentary Papers relating to Canadian Arctic exploration between 1818-1878.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/subject/arcticstudies/arcticbb/