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EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: A Midwife’s Tale
Kate Pullano.
Site based on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s book, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812, (1990) and a companion to the film “A Midwife’s Tale,” first aired Jan. 19, 1998 on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Contains audio interviews with Ulrich, teacher’s guide to other PBS history topics (18 links), and links to sites about the Revolutionary War period. Part of “The American Experience” film documentaries of the American past. There are 26 links to related content, PBS services, and purchasing information for the video. Ulrich recommends video as a useful learning tool for showing the benefits and limitations of making a film based on a book. The site is mainly an advertisement for the film.
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Kate Pullano.
Site based on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s book, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812, (1990) and a companion to the film “A Midwife’s Tale,” first aired Jan. 19, 1998 on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Contains audio interviews with Ulrich, teacher’s guide to other PBS history topics (18 links), and links to sites about the Revolutionary War period. Part of “The American Experience” film documentaries of the American past. There are 26 links to related content, PBS services, and purchasing information for the video. Ulrich recommends video as a useful learning tool for showing the benefits and limitations of making a film based on a book. The site is mainly an advertisement for the film.
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Folklore & Mythology Archives
University of California, Los Angeles.
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University of California, Los Angeles.
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GENERAL RESOURCE/LIBRARIES: Library Servers via WWW
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All About Jazz
Chris Slawecki, Editor-in-chief.
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Chris Slawecki, Editor-in-chief.
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GOVERNMENT: Office of the Clerk On-line
U.S. House of Representatives.
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U.S. House of Representatives.
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The End of Life: Exploring Death in America
All Things Considered: National Public Radio.
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All Things Considered: National Public Radio.
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National Center for CurriculumTransformation Resources on Women
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Gertrude Stein Online
Sarah Kornfeld..
This site is devoted to Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), the American-born writer and artist. Features Time-Sense, a new electronic quarterly focused on Stein’s artwork, and Stein Theater, which explores aspects of her theater. Also offers listing of three links, and, perhaps most valuable, an extensive bibliography of titles relating to Stein’s life and work. Much of this is under development and currently inoperable.
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Website last visited on 2001-06-30.
Sarah Kornfeld..
This site is devoted to Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), the American-born writer and artist. Features Time-Sense, a new electronic quarterly focused on Stein’s artwork, and Stein Theater, which explores aspects of her theater. Also offers listing of three links, and, perhaps most valuable, an extensive bibliography of titles relating to Stein’s life and work. Much of this is under development and currently inoperable.
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Website last visited on 2001-06-30.
The Directory of Southern Culture Online
Sarah Bryan.
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Sarah Bryan.
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Official City Sites
Kevin and Tamie Hyde.
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Kevin and Tamie Hyde.
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Puerto Rico: 1898–1998
El Nuevo Dia.
In Spanish only
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El Nuevo Dia.
In Spanish only
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The Historic New Orleans Collection
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National Register of Historic Places Travel Itineraries
National Park Service.
San Francisco during World War II, Mississippi’s Indian Mounds, and Cumberland, Maryland, are just three of the more than 50 cities, towns, and rivers across the U.S. to which this website provides virtual access. In Baltimore, Maryland, a clickable map allows users to wander from the USCGC Taney (the last surviving warship present at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941) docked at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, to the house where Edgar Allen Poe lived in the mid-1830s, to the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District to learn about Baltimore’s oldest public market still in operation, and on to forty more sites around the city. Each landmark is introduced with photographs, brief essays providing historical context, and tourist information. Some travel itineraries are grouped by theme. For example, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement presents information on Arkansas’s Little Rock Central High School, Virginia’s Robert Moton High School, and the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Many of these sites includes links to lesson plans in NPS’s (Teaching With Historic Places). Updated regularly, this website is useful for teachers, students, and tourists alike.
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Website last visited on 2008-04-22.
National Park Service.
San Francisco during World War II, Mississippi’s Indian Mounds, and Cumberland, Maryland, are just three of the more than 50 cities, towns, and rivers across the U.S. to which this website provides virtual access. In Baltimore, Maryland, a clickable map allows users to wander from the USCGC Taney (the last surviving warship present at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941) docked at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, to the house where Edgar Allen Poe lived in the mid-1830s, to the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District to learn about Baltimore’s oldest public market still in operation, and on to forty more sites around the city. Each landmark is introduced with photographs, brief essays providing historical context, and tourist information. Some travel itineraries are grouped by theme. For example, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement presents information on Arkansas’s Little Rock Central High School, Virginia’s Robert Moton High School, and the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Many of these sites includes links to lesson plans in NPS’s (Teaching With Historic Places). Updated regularly, this website is useful for teachers, students, and tourists alike.
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Website last visited on 2008-04-22.
Jewish Women’s Archive
Gail Twersky Reimer.
See JAH web review by Marjorie N. Feld.
Reviewed 2004-09-01.
Presents two exhibits and a multitude of resources for the study of American Jewish women’s contributions to their communities and the wider world. “Women of Valor” focuses on 16 notable historic women—including Congresswoman Bella Abzug, radical Emma Goldman, philanthropist Rebecca Gratz, poet Emma Lazarus, actress Molly Picon, Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, and nurse, settlement worker, and political leader Lillian Wald. Each biography furnishes more than 50 images and an essay in approximately 20 sections. “Women Who Dared” offers oral history interviews of Jewish women activists of today in text, audio, and video formats. This section includes 73 photographs, 31 audio clips, and transcribed text in which women comment on activism in the context of Jewish and gender identity, values, and situation, and elucidate the path to activism, challenges, rewards, and impact. The site provides information on more than 700 archival collections, offers 40 lesson plans, and furnishes 20 essays on specific topics. The site has also digitized nine volumes of The American Jewess. Most recently, the Jewish Women’s Archive has compiled objects, photographs and personal accounts of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the aftermath. Complete with 100 oral histories, blog postings, emails, and other first-hand accounts, the Katrina’s Jewish Voices archive seeks to “collect, preserve, and present the American Jewish community’s experiences of Hurricane Katrina” for “future historians of the American Jewish experience.”
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Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
Gail Twersky Reimer.
See JAH web review by Marjorie N. Feld.
Reviewed 2004-09-01.
Presents two exhibits and a multitude of resources for the study of American Jewish women’s contributions to their communities and the wider world. “Women of Valor” focuses on 16 notable historic women—including Congresswoman Bella Abzug, radical Emma Goldman, philanthropist Rebecca Gratz, poet Emma Lazarus, actress Molly Picon, Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, and nurse, settlement worker, and political leader Lillian Wald. Each biography furnishes more than 50 images and an essay in approximately 20 sections. “Women Who Dared” offers oral history interviews of Jewish women activists of today in text, audio, and video formats. This section includes 73 photographs, 31 audio clips, and transcribed text in which women comment on activism in the context of Jewish and gender identity, values, and situation, and elucidate the path to activism, challenges, rewards, and impact. The site provides information on more than 700 archival collections, offers 40 lesson plans, and furnishes 20 essays on specific topics. The site has also digitized nine volumes of The American Jewess. Most recently, the Jewish Women’s Archive has compiled objects, photographs and personal accounts of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the aftermath. Complete with 100 oral histories, blog postings, emails, and other first-hand accounts, the Katrina’s Jewish Voices archive seeks to “collect, preserve, and present the American Jewish community’s experiences of Hurricane Katrina” for “future historians of the American Jewish experience.”
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Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
Harlem 1900–1940: An African-American Community
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Castle Hill Archaeological Project
Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation.
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Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation.
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Self Works: Diaries, Scrapbooks, and other Autobiographical Efforts
L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, University of Delaware Library.
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L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, University of Delaware Library.
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Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage
Susana Gallardo.
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Susana Gallardo.
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Online Literary Criticism Collection (from Internet Public Library)http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
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The Psychedelic ’60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change
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Nineteenth-Century California Sheet Music
Mary Kay Duggan, Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley.
See JAH web review by Kenneth H. Marcus.
Reviewed 2011-06-01.
Provides scanned images from more than 2,700 pieces of sheet music published between 1852 and 1900 in California, culled from 10 California library and archival collections. Includes more than 800 illustrated covers, 45 audio selections, seven video clips of singers, and a handful of programs, posters, playbills, periodicals, catalogs, broadsheets, books on music, and maps. More than 350 items contain advertising. Also offers explanatory essays of 1,000 to 2,000 words in length with general information on music from more than a dozen ethnic cultures, and with reference to topics, including buildings, composers, dance, disasters, gender, mining, performers, politics, product ads, railroads, and sports. Provides 14 links to additional sheet music collections and reference sources. Valuable to those studying popular culture, California history, music history, advertising, and depictions of ethnicity, gender, and race in 19th-century America.
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Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
Mary Kay Duggan, Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley.
See JAH web review by Kenneth H. Marcus.
Reviewed 2011-06-01.
Provides scanned images from more than 2,700 pieces of sheet music published between 1852 and 1900 in California, culled from 10 California library and archival collections. Includes more than 800 illustrated covers, 45 audio selections, seven video clips of singers, and a handful of programs, posters, playbills, periodicals, catalogs, broadsheets, books on music, and maps. More than 350 items contain advertising. Also offers explanatory essays of 1,000 to 2,000 words in length with general information on music from more than a dozen ethnic cultures, and with reference to topics, including buildings, composers, dance, disasters, gender, mining, performers, politics, product ads, railroads, and sports. Provides 14 links to additional sheet music collections and reference sources. Valuable to those studying popular culture, California history, music history, advertising, and depictions of ethnicity, gender, and race in 19th-century America.
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Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
California Views: The Pat Hathaway Collection of Historical Photos
Pat Hathaway.
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Pat Hathaway.
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By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
American Memory, Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division selected this set of 156 portraits of presidents and first ladies from those items in the division’s file of popular demand images for which no copyright restrictions are known. Popular subjects, such as images of inaugurations and the White House, are included, as are such perennial favorites as Abraham Lincoln with Sojourner Truth, Calvin Coolidge at a baseball game, Warren G. Harding with his lively dog Laddie, and Dwight D. Eisenhower with American paratroopers in England. The first ladies’ portraits depict thirty-six wives of thirty-five presidents. The collection is primarily illustrative.
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American Memory, Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division selected this set of 156 portraits of presidents and first ladies from those items in the division’s file of popular demand images for which no copyright restrictions are known. Popular subjects, such as images of inaugurations and the White House, are included, as are such perennial favorites as Abraham Lincoln with Sojourner Truth, Calvin Coolidge at a baseball game, Warren G. Harding with his lively dog Laddie, and Dwight D. Eisenhower with American paratroopers in England. The first ladies’ portraits depict thirty-six wives of thirty-five presidents. The collection is primarily illustrative.
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The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America
C-SPAN.
Designed to accompany a nine-month C-SPAN “road trip” in 1997–98 that retraced Alexis de Tocqueville’s travels in 19th-century America, this site contains information about Tocqueville, his travels, and his writings; the full text of Democracy in America; a map of Tocqueville’s trip; and selections—organized by state—from the journal he kept while in America. Also provides a short list of references to Tocqueville by modern-day Americans ranging from President Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich; 26 present-day photographs of Tocqueville’s hometown; a 13-title bibliography; access to “A Conversation on Democracy,” a two-hour video special; a preview of the book and video Traveling Tocqueville’s America; links to seven sites on France; and approximately 30 lesson plans. A useful introduction to the man and his influence.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
C-SPAN.
Designed to accompany a nine-month C-SPAN “road trip” in 1997–98 that retraced Alexis de Tocqueville’s travels in 19th-century America, this site contains information about Tocqueville, his travels, and his writings; the full text of Democracy in America; a map of Tocqueville’s trip; and selections—organized by state—from the journal he kept while in America. Also provides a short list of references to Tocqueville by modern-day Americans ranging from President Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich; 26 present-day photographs of Tocqueville’s hometown; a 13-title bibliography; access to “A Conversation on Democracy,” a two-hour video special; a preview of the book and video Traveling Tocqueville’s America; links to seven sites on France; and approximately 30 lesson plans. A useful introduction to the man and his influence.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
An Abridged History of the United States
William M. Brinton.
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William M. Brinton.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Literature
American Indian Heritage Foundation.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation.
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Cultural Maps
American Studies Department, University of Virginia.
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American Studies Department, University of Virginia.
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American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Library of Congress.
This site considers which “of the more than 110 million items in the Library of Congress” are considered “treasures.” The items in the exhibit are organized into the categories of Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy), and Imagination (Fine Arts), as was the personal library of Thomas Jefferson, which became the core of the Library of Congress. The exhibit, which offers images of original documents as well as explanatory essays, contains such items as Jefferson’s “original rough draft” of the Declaration of Independence, Jedediah Hotchkiss’s Civil War maps, Edison’s Kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, and Earl Warren’s handwritten notes concerning the Miranda decision.
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Library of Congress.
This site considers which “of the more than 110 million items in the Library of Congress” are considered “treasures.” The items in the exhibit are organized into the categories of Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy), and Imagination (Fine Arts), as was the personal library of Thomas Jefferson, which became the core of the Library of Congress. The exhibit, which offers images of original documents as well as explanatory essays, contains such items as Jefferson’s “original rough draft” of the Declaration of Independence, Jedediah Hotchkiss’s Civil War maps, Edison’s Kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, and Earl Warren’s handwritten notes concerning the Miranda decision.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.