English from the 7th to the 18th c.
- An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince.
- http://www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm

A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages
- Since most scholars assume an Indo-European homeland in the steppes north of the Black Sea, a full video study of this option is presented, based on the splits suggested by the Separation Base Method
- http://www.hjholm.de

The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw'
- The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.
- http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm

Introduction to Historical Linguistics
- A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.
- http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html

History of the English Language
- A considerable collection of online materials related to the history of English: texts, publications, fonts and course syllabuses. Includes Pre-History, Old English, Middle English, early Modern English and the spread of English beyond the British Isles.
- http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law
- The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/g/grimmsla.asp

Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
- Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
- http://phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html

Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction
- The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
- http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid/chase-dunn_hokan

Chronology: History of English
- "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.
- http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html

The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process
- Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.
- http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm

Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method
- Lecture notes.
- http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html

Indo-European and the Comparative Method
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.
- http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html

Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages
- Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
- http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm

Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics
- Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
- http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html

Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics
- For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
- http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm

The Indo-European Language Family
- Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
- http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html

Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins
- Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.
- http://www.wordorigins.org/

Take Our Word for It
- Weekly etymology magazine.
- http://www.takeourword.com/

The Great Vowel Shift Web Site
- An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation.
- http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/

Grimm's Law
- A demonstration of the law.
- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/

Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics
- An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
- http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm

Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
- Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
- http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm

Corpora and Historical Linguistics
- "Historical linguistics can be seen as a species of corpus linguistics, since the texts of a historical period or a "dead" language form a closed corpus of data which can only be extended by the (re-)discovery of previously unknown manuscri
- http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4hist.htm

What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?
- Historical linguistics and etymology.
- http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html

Historical Linguistics Methodology
- Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
- http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/mypapers.html