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Recommended History Web Sites
U.S. History
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Most documents from 18th to 21st centuries
Numerous digitized primary source collections including slave narratives, documents by southerners written during the Civil War and WWI, "First Person Narratives of the American South", "The Church in the Southern Black Community", and a collection of antebellum writings by UNC students.
This website contains sixty-eight short films produced during the Spanish-American War of 1898-1902.
As well as many of Kennedy's documents, this site also includes links to many public papers from Hoover through Ford.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement (University of California, Berkeley, September-December 1964), as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements and its legacy of political activism and educational reform that can be traced throughout the country and the world down to the present.
Search Minnesota's original public land survey plats, created during the first government land survey of the state by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office during the years 1848 to 1907. Also included are the later General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management maps, up to the year 2001.
The Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850 project is an online database of documents and images relating to antebellum Tennessee.
University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center.
United States Historical Census Data Browser. ONLINE. 1998. University
of Virginia.
The nationÍs seventh oldest historical facility (founded in 1825) provides online access to a portion of its collections through sections such as Arts and Artifacts, Graphics, Manuscripts, Printed Materials, African American memorabilia, and the Civil War. Online exhibits emphasize the diversity of the stateÍs communities. The Connecticut History Online section underlines the societyÍs collaborative and democratizing efforts by assisting researchers of all ages in accessing almost 15,000 historic images. The Web siteÍs audience is broad„topics are arranged thematically rather than chronologically. (CHOICE, December 03)
The Supreme Court Historical Society has created a Web site that is both user-friendly and informative. For those seeking a general overview, there are several features designed to introduce novices to the Court. Academics will also find the site to be a valuable fact-finding source whose posted articles will stimulate debate on constitutional issues. The most impressive aspect of the Web site is the volume of information under the section Researching the Court. Researchers will find a treasure trove of useful information with a greater degree of accurate information than found on most historically oriented Web pages. Updating is slow, but when news is made available, its detail and accuracy make the wait worthwhile. (CHOICE, December 03)
An indepth view of the culture and history of a minor metropolitan
area. Working in Patterson is an ethnographic field collection
that documents the historical occupational culture of Patterson,
New Jersey, the nation's first planned industrial area. The research
and the site are both sponsored by the American Folklife Center
at the Library of Congress and were funded by the 1992 federal Urban
History Initiative. (CHOICE, February '03)
This Internet site, part of the Library of Congress American Memory
collection, offers an interesting selection of 150 motion pictures
from 1894-1915. Eighty-eight of these films are digitized for the
first time, while 62 are also available at other American Memory
sites. The subject matter of America at Work, America at Leisure
ranges from amusement parks to cattle breeding, with stops along
the way. (CHOICE, January '03)
The site focuses on the collections made by James Chapin and Herbert
Lang, leaders of the AMNH Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. The site
includes a search capability of expedition field notes, drawings,
and Lang's photographs of zoological and anthropological findings.
Literary materials of the time include Mark Twain's King Leopold's
Soliloquoy. (CHOICE, November '02)
The site documents the stories of runaway slaves from the US who
sought refuge in Canada via the Underground Railroad. Best viewed
with Internet Explorer version 4 or higher, the content on this
Canadian website is reliable, photographs are clear, and the site
is easy to navigate. Included is biographical sketches of individuals,
photos, and primary source advertisements for slave auctions and
fugitive slaves. (CHOICE, September '02)
This Web site provides students, teachers, and researchers with
a wealth of information on the history of Atlantic slavery and its
aftermath. It includes over 200 primary documents from 1692 through
the 20th century on such diverse subjects as Dred Scott v. Sandford
(1857), the 1863 New York City draft riots, and the film Birth
of a Nation (1915). (CHOICE, July/August '02)
Documents from th US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization
partners are placed side by side with those from the former Soviet
Union and its partners in the defunct Warsaw Pact. All documents
are available in their original languages and in English translation.
There are copies of mi-1960s contingency war plans from both sides,
and papers that deal with one specific crisis--the 1986 bombing
of Libya. (CHOICE, July/August '02)
This site presents digitized images from the public records of
the colony of Connecticut. Originally drawn from the State Archives
at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford and published between
1850 and 1890, these documents are indispensible to anyone doing
research on Connecticut or New England in the 17th and 18th centuries.
You can search by date or volume and page number using the A-Z subject
index. (CHOICE, September '02)
This Web site offers a large collection of John Kennedy's campaign
speeches and remarks, as well as some by Richard Nixon; as such,
it is a valuable resource for the 1960 presidential campaign. However,
this site also includes material about the Kennedy assassination
that is much less academically useful and rather conspiratorial
in tone. Recommended for researchers needing to access primary documents.
(CHOICE, September '02)
More than 200 WW II-era pamphlets are digitized here. Emphasis
is on the home front: rationing, civil defense, and war work predominate;
a few military pamphlets round out the collection. Entries are alphabetical
by title and comprise a complete bibliographic citation, summary,
physical description, and a PDF file of the pamphlet. The database
is easily used and can be browsed or searched. (CHOICE, September
'02)
This site presents a broad collection of primary source documents
relevent to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy,
and Government. Documents can be easily browsed or searched and
a page devoted to their bibliographic sources is available. Documents
range from ancient and medieval times to a focus on the 18th through
21st centuries.
This wb site provides access to digitized materials from many Kentucky
libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums. This project
brings together in a single (virtual) location rare or unique materials
with a strong Kentucky orientation for scholars, researchers, teachers,
and students. Significant features include subsantial photo collections
and oral histories. The site also offers three electronic jourals
and a large number of full-text digital books. (CHOICE, July/August
'03)
The History Cooperative Web collection of the papers of Booker
T. Washington contains the complete contnts, both text and illustrations,
of the 14-volume "Booker T. Washington Papers", published
betwen 1972 and 1989. The History Cooperative's Web site will be
most appreciated by Booker T. Washington scholars, who will have
full access to the papers from their desktop; they will also appreciate
the text-search feature, which reveals content not included in the
print index. (CHOICE, April '03)
This Web site offers students and faculty an informative and historically
accurate look at segregration in US history. The Web site is appropriate
for junior high and high school students, with some applications
for college students. Covering history, geography, American literature,
and television, the user-friendly site loads quickly, is easy to
navigate, and has good links to related sites. While the content's
reliability and quality seem quite good, the reviewer could not
locate the Web master's affiliation, the site's currency, nor a
bibliography. (CHOICE, June '03)
This Web site offers history students an introductory look at materials
from the 1930's. The Web site offers a menu of materials and resources,
such as film, radio programs, bibliographies, and features of life
from the period. The quality of the commentary and the selection
of items vary. This site compact's much rich material into one Web
site. (CHOICE, May '03)
The publisher intends to include 100,000 pages of texts and images
in this Internet resource about encounters between cultures and
environments in the New World. Currently, more than 40,000 pages
are available. Image content is somewhat limited at the present.
This site is accessible by an annual subscription or a one-time
purchase. (CHOICE, May '03)
European History
This first-rate Internet exhibition, designed and created by Robert
Daoust and available since 2001, is a Pathways to the Past exhibition
sponsored by the United Kingdom's National Archives. Five galleries
for Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, and France are the backbone
of the exhibition. Each gallery offers topics or chapters and a
reading list. Within the galleries are image links that access enlarged
pictures with captions, and sometimes transcripts of documents,
and links to glossary terms, myths, and legends. The exhibition
includes over 70 documents, mostly held by the Public Record Office
(PRO). Outside the galleries are links to maps and a list of monarchs.
(CHOICE, January '03)
This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and
images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871.
In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege &
Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy
and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters.
This excellent, well-organized Web site on WW I provides summaries,
time lines, and essas on an exensive catalog of events, battles,
people, primary documents, memoirs, and war poetry and literature.
One of the most captivating aspects of this site is the "vintage
audio" catergory, a sizable collection of contemporary recordings
that includes audio clips of speeches by President Woodrow Wilson,
Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, German naval minister Alfred von Tirpitz,
and US union leader Samuel Gompers. (CHOICE, June '03)
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
Digital facsimiles of over eighty complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Seventy oral histories recorded in 1946 by Dr. David Boder and translated into English.
Asia
Begun by the East India Company in 1801, this fascinating survey of the landscape and architectural heritage of South Asia contains 15,000 images spanning the late-18th to mid-20th centuries.
Latin America and the Caribbean
This database contains English translations of thousands of speeches, interviews, and press conferences given by Fidel Castro between 1959 and 1996
Africa
-This site consists of approximately 350 photographs of artwork from the Igbo-speaking regions of southwestern Nigeria taken in the 1930s by G. I. Jones, a South African-born British colonial officer and anthropologist.
-This archive contains hundreds of speeches by African National Congress (ANC) leaders, press releases, conference proceedings, and articles and pamphlets. These materials, some of which are scanned in original form, trace the development of this leading South African liberation organization from its origins in 1912 to the present.
-includes field notes, photographs, anthropological objects, and specimen records from the expedition.
Transnational / Multinational Sources
This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica.
Thousands of images of slave life throughout the Americas.
The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Collection highlights include newly declassified diplomatic cables from 1973-74, documents about the Argentine and Chilean military dictatorships, U-2 images of foreign nuclear installations, primary sources from the Cuban missile crisis, and documents from Nixon and Elvis' 1970 meeting.
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