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Letters From an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
Bill Proudfoot.
Features the text of 15 letters, written from October 1862 to August 1865 by Civil War soldier Newton Scott, a private with the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. The letters, presented by a librarian in Saratoga, California, average approximately 500 words, and furnish insight into the experiences of ordinary soldiers. “Scott’s letters,” writes the site’s author, “are filled with rich details of the war and the living conditions in the Union camps in Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas. He tells of the terrible diseases that took a heavier toll than Confederate bullets, and the soldiers’ frustration and impatience with the politicians in Washington.” The documents are accompanied by Scott’s service record and obituary, a handful of links to other Civil War resources, and the obituary of Hannah Cone, the audience for Scott’s prose. A valuable collection of primary material.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Bill Proudfoot.
Features the text of 15 letters, written from October 1862 to August 1865 by Civil War soldier Newton Scott, a private with the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. The letters, presented by a librarian in Saratoga, California, average approximately 500 words, and furnish insight into the experiences of ordinary soldiers. “Scott’s letters,” writes the site’s author, “are filled with rich details of the war and the living conditions in the Union camps in Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas. He tells of the terrible diseases that took a heavier toll than Confederate bullets, and the soldiers’ frustration and impatience with the politicians in Washington.” The documents are accompanied by Scott’s service record and obituary, a handful of links to other Civil War resources, and the obituary of Hannah Cone, the audience for Scott’s prose. A valuable collection of primary material.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Images of Battle: Selected Civil War Letters
John White, and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
This site reproduces 10 letters by soldiers at the battlefront of the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. The letters, written by both Union and Confederates, describe battle conditions at Fort Sumter (SC), Manassas (VA), Hilton Head (SC), Frederick (MD), Frederickburg (VA), and other important locations. Taken from the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the letters are accompanied by illustrations and short captions. The site also includes eight links to Civil War resources.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
John White, and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
This site reproduces 10 letters by soldiers at the battlefront of the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. The letters, written by both Union and Confederates, describe battle conditions at Fort Sumter (SC), Manassas (VA), Hilton Head (SC), Frederick (MD), Frederickburg (VA), and other important locations. Taken from the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the letters are accompanied by illustrations and short captions. The site also includes eight links to Civil War resources.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
The US Civil War Center
The United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University .
Civil War related links organized under 23 categories from books, flags, games, historic places, newspapers to reenactments
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2000-10-09.
The United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University .
Civil War related links organized under 23 categories from books, flags, games, historic places, newspapers to reenactments
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2000-10-09.
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin, William G. Thomas, University of Virginia.
See JAH web review by Michael Barton.
Reviewed 2012-09-01.
Conceived by Edward Ayers, Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History at the University of Virginia, this site is a massive, searchable archive relating to two Shenandoah Valley counties during the Civil War period—Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania—divided by 200 miles and the institution of slavery. Thousands of pages of maps, images, letters, diaries, and newspapers, in addition to church, agricultural, military, and public records—census, tax, Freedmen�s Bureau, and veterans�-provide data, experiences, and perspectives from the eve of the war until its aftermath. Offers both a narrative “walking tour” and direct access to the archive. Also presents bibliographies, a “fact book,” student essays and projects, and other materials intended to foster primary-source research. “Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families.” Includes a section titled �Memory of the War� that presents postwar writings on battles, soldier and camp life, reunions, obituaries and tributes, and politics. Also includes material omitted from Ayres’s recent book about the communities, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, along with digitized texts of cited materials. This is an important and innovative site, particularly valuable to historians of 19th-century American life.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-18.
Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin, William G. Thomas, University of Virginia.
See JAH web review by Michael Barton.
Reviewed 2012-09-01.
Conceived by Edward Ayers, Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History at the University of Virginia, this site is a massive, searchable archive relating to two Shenandoah Valley counties during the Civil War period—Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania—divided by 200 miles and the institution of slavery. Thousands of pages of maps, images, letters, diaries, and newspapers, in addition to church, agricultural, military, and public records—census, tax, Freedmen�s Bureau, and veterans�-provide data, experiences, and perspectives from the eve of the war until its aftermath. Offers both a narrative “walking tour” and direct access to the archive. Also presents bibliographies, a “fact book,” student essays and projects, and other materials intended to foster primary-source research. “Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families.” Includes a section titled �Memory of the War� that presents postwar writings on battles, soldier and camp life, reunions, obituaries and tributes, and politics. Also includes material omitted from Ayres’s recent book about the communities, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, along with digitized texts of cited materials. This is an important and innovative site, particularly valuable to historians of 19th-century American life.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-18.
Zoom in on Civil War: Exploring History through Artifacts
Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Good organizational scheme for HS Civil War page, but not always good history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Good organizational scheme for HS Civil War page, but not always good history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The American Civil War Homepage
George Hoemann, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee.
An impressive gateway providing hundreds of links to sites relating to the Civil War. The links are arranged into 12 sections: general resources, including music-related sites; the secession crisis and before; images of wartime; biographical information; documentary records, including sites covering both public and personal documents; state and local studies, arranged by state; battles and campaigns; rosters and regimental histories; Civil War reenactors; and Civil War round tables. While the site contains neither a search engine nor annotations, the gateway is easy to navigate and, as it is regularly updated, provides a valuable guide to currently available online resources on Civil War history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
George Hoemann, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee.
An impressive gateway providing hundreds of links to sites relating to the Civil War. The links are arranged into 12 sections: general resources, including music-related sites; the secession crisis and before; images of wartime; biographical information; documentary records, including sites covering both public and personal documents; state and local studies, arranged by state; battles and campaigns; rosters and regimental histories; Civil War reenactors; and Civil War round tables. While the site contains neither a search engine nor annotations, the gateway is easy to navigate and, as it is regularly updated, provides a valuable guide to currently available online resources on Civil War history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
Kathie Fraser.
Dozens of songs and poems written during and after the war, with supplemental historical discussion.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Kathie Fraser.
Dozens of songs and poems written during and after the war, with supplemental historical discussion.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The American Civil War, 1861–1865
Bryan Boyle.
Links to dozens of Civil War sites, including Civil War societies and clubs, and guides for reenactments.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Bryan Boyle.
Links to dozens of Civil War sites, including Civil War societies and clubs, and guides for reenactments.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Godey’s Lady’s Book Online
Electronic Historical Publications, University of Rochester.
Provides five issues, January-April, and November 1850, of one of the most popular 19th century publications, Godey’s Lady’s Book. Each issue includes poetry, engravings and articles by major writers such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sarah Joseph Hale. There is also a section on Victorian fashion. Contains four broken links and three links to resources pertaining to Godey’s Lady’s Book. In frames and simple to navigate but site does not indicate whether or not contents are complete or partial reflections of original books. Provides over 50 high-resolution pictures. A useful resource for teachers and students interested in aspects of Victorian popular culture.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Electronic Historical Publications, University of Rochester.
Provides five issues, January-April, and November 1850, of one of the most popular 19th century publications, Godey’s Lady’s Book. Each issue includes poetry, engravings and articles by major writers such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sarah Joseph Hale. There is also a section on Victorian fashion. Contains four broken links and three links to resources pertaining to Godey’s Lady’s Book. In frames and simple to navigate but site does not indicate whether or not contents are complete or partial reflections of original books. Provides over 50 high-resolution pictures. A useful resource for teachers and students interested in aspects of Victorian popular culture.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
E-Text Library: The 19th-century American Women Writers web
20 electronic versions of texts written by 19th-Century American women writers, including Sojourner Truth, Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet E. Wilso “The requested URL /19cwww/books/elibe/ was not found on this server.”
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
20 electronic versions of texts written by 19th-Century American women writers, including Sojourner Truth, Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet E. Wilso “The requested URL /19cwww/books/elibe/ was not found on this server.”
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Women in America: 1820 to 1842
Mary Halnon, University of Virginia.
This site, created by a graduate student, presents fragments of 18 texts that discuss the condition of women written by visitors to the United States between 1820 to 1842. Authors include Charles Dickens, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Lyell, Michel Chevalier, and James Fenimore Cooper. The 13 topics include marriage and courtship, work, government, education, race, arts and entertainment, fashion, travel, prisons, wilderness, health, Indians, and religion. The primary purpose of the site—to ascertain the accuracy of "the picture of women in [Tocqueville’s] Democracy in America“ and ”what parts of women’s lives“ Tocqueville and [Gustave de] Beaumont ”missed"—suggests that it is best regarded as an exercise in simple description, not interpretation or even exposition of the texts. These particular concerns indeed mean that users will not be able to draw conclusions about Tocqueville’s social or political theory, for instance, since the site does not ask what the omissions actually mean for the texts involved. The site is useful on its own terms, which some students may find compelling. But others may find it narrow and awkward. In either case, it should be read with questions of context and purpose in mind. Also offers a 20-item bibliography.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Mary Halnon, University of Virginia.
This site, created by a graduate student, presents fragments of 18 texts that discuss the condition of women written by visitors to the United States between 1820 to 1842. Authors include Charles Dickens, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Lyell, Michel Chevalier, and James Fenimore Cooper. The 13 topics include marriage and courtship, work, government, education, race, arts and entertainment, fashion, travel, prisons, wilderness, health, Indians, and religion. The primary purpose of the site—to ascertain the accuracy of "the picture of women in [Tocqueville’s] Democracy in America“ and ”what parts of women’s lives“ Tocqueville and [Gustave de] Beaumont ”missed"—suggests that it is best regarded as an exercise in simple description, not interpretation or even exposition of the texts. These particular concerns indeed mean that users will not be able to draw conclusions about Tocqueville’s social or political theory, for instance, since the site does not ask what the omissions actually mean for the texts involved. The site is useful on its own terms, which some students may find compelling. But others may find it narrow and awkward. In either case, it should be read with questions of context and purpose in mind. Also offers a 20-item bibliography.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, and volumes of poetry and verse dram
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, and volumes of poetry and verse dram
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Women’s Rights Movement in Upstate New York
With summaries of major writings by women’s rights theoreticians, discussion of and primary sources around the Seneca Falls and Rochester Conventions, the Syracuse Convention and other reform
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
With summaries of major writings by women’s rights theoreticians, discussion of and primary sources around the Seneca Falls and Rochester Conventions, the Syracuse Convention and other reform
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Temperance and Prohibition
K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State University.
See JAH web review by Elaine Frantz Parsons.
Reviewed 2007-12-01.
Organized local and national campaigns to reduce the drinking of alcohol in the United States are documented in this site, along with efforts of those opposing Prohibition laws. Includes dozens of contemporary images, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, advertisements, reports, statistical charts, and accounts. Specific topics include the Woman’s Crusade of 1873–74, the Anti-Saloon League, the Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918, the evolution of the brewing industry, and Prohibition in the 1920s. Also furnishes material by and about temperance advocate Frances Willard (1838–1898), an annotated list of six related links, and 500-word essays that guide users through the material. A useful collection of resources for those studying late 19th-century and early 20th-century reform battles.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State University.
See JAH web review by Elaine Frantz Parsons.
Reviewed 2007-12-01.
Organized local and national campaigns to reduce the drinking of alcohol in the United States are documented in this site, along with efforts of those opposing Prohibition laws. Includes dozens of contemporary images, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, advertisements, reports, statistical charts, and accounts. Specific topics include the Woman’s Crusade of 1873–74, the Anti-Saloon League, the Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918, the evolution of the brewing industry, and Prohibition in the 1920s. Also furnishes material by and about temperance advocate Frances Willard (1838–1898), an annotated list of six related links, and 500-word essays that guide users through the material. A useful collection of resources for those studying late 19th-century and early 20th-century reform battles.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
New Deal Cultures: National and Local Resources
Randy Bass, Georgetown University; Michael O’Malley, George Mason University; Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University; David Silver, University of Maryland.
A wide array of information on archival and online resources for studying America in the 1930s. With archives, maps, public art, links to other New Deal Web sites, teaching resources, and a New Deal Directory. Elena will do this one.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Randy Bass, Georgetown University; Michael O’Malley, George Mason University; Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University; David Silver, University of Maryland.
A wide array of information on archival and online resources for studying America in the 1930s. With archives, maps, public art, links to other New Deal Web sites, teaching resources, and a New Deal Directory. Elena will do this one.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
New Deal Network
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
See JAH web review by Charles Forcey.
Reviewed 2002-03-01.
A database of more than 20,000 items relating to the New Deal. A “Document Library” contains more than 900 newspaper and journal articles, speeches, letters, reports, advertisements, and other textual materials, treating a broad array of subjects relevant to the period’s social, cultural, political, and economic history, while placing special emphasis on New Deal relief agencies and issues relating to labor, education, agriculture, the Supreme Court, and African Americans. The “Photo Gallery” of more than 5,000 images is organized into five units—“Culture,” “Construction,” “Social Programs,” “Federal Agencies,” and miscellaneous, including photos from 11 exhibitions and five series of photoessays, and images of disaster relief and public figures. The site additionally offers featured exhibits, many with lesson plan suggestions. Presently, the features section includes “The Magpie Sings the Depression,” a collection of 193 poems, articles, and short stories, and 275 graphics from a Bronx high school journal published between 1929 and 1941 with juvenile works by novelist James Baldwin, photographer Richard Avedon, cultural critic Robert Warshow, and film critic Stanley Kauffmann; “Dear Mrs Roosevelt” with selected letters written by young people to the first lady; “Student Activism in the 1930s,” which contains 38 photographs, graphics, and editorial cartoons, 12 American Student Union memoirs, 40 autobiographical essays, and a 20,000-word essay by Robert Cohen on 1930s campus radicalism; 17 selected interviews from American slave narratives gathered by the Works Progress Administration; and an illustrated essay on the history and social effects of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Includes approximately 100 annotated links to related sites. Of great value for teachers, students, and researchers interested in the social history of the New Deal era.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-18.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
See JAH web review by Charles Forcey.
Reviewed 2002-03-01.
A database of more than 20,000 items relating to the New Deal. A “Document Library” contains more than 900 newspaper and journal articles, speeches, letters, reports, advertisements, and other textual materials, treating a broad array of subjects relevant to the period’s social, cultural, political, and economic history, while placing special emphasis on New Deal relief agencies and issues relating to labor, education, agriculture, the Supreme Court, and African Americans. The “Photo Gallery” of more than 5,000 images is organized into five units—“Culture,” “Construction,” “Social Programs,” “Federal Agencies,” and miscellaneous, including photos from 11 exhibitions and five series of photoessays, and images of disaster relief and public figures. The site additionally offers featured exhibits, many with lesson plan suggestions. Presently, the features section includes “The Magpie Sings the Depression,” a collection of 193 poems, articles, and short stories, and 275 graphics from a Bronx high school journal published between 1929 and 1941 with juvenile works by novelist James Baldwin, photographer Richard Avedon, cultural critic Robert Warshow, and film critic Stanley Kauffmann; “Dear Mrs Roosevelt” with selected letters written by young people to the first lady; “Student Activism in the 1930s,” which contains 38 photographs, graphics, and editorial cartoons, 12 American Student Union memoirs, 40 autobiographical essays, and a 20,000-word essay by Robert Cohen on 1930s campus radicalism; 17 selected interviews from American slave narratives gathered by the Works Progress Administration; and an illustrated essay on the history and social effects of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Includes approximately 100 annotated links to related sites. Of great value for teachers, students, and researchers interested in the social history of the New Deal era.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-18.
Hiroshima Archive
Mayu Tsuruya, Lewis and Clark College.
Designed originally “to join the online effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing” of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, this site is composed of two sections. A three-part photo gallery presents 60 images from the work of the esteemed Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida of surviving trees, buildings, and bridges; of survivors, whose words describing their experiences the day of the bombing are included; and of surviving objects currently in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum collection with accompanying descriptions. Many of the more than 100 links to additional resources are no longer operational, but the site will be valuable to those interested in practices of historical memory in the atomic age.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Mayu Tsuruya, Lewis and Clark College.
Designed originally “to join the online effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing” of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, this site is composed of two sections. A three-part photo gallery presents 60 images from the work of the esteemed Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida of surviving trees, buildings, and bridges; of survivors, whose words describing their experiences the day of the bombing are included; and of surviving objects currently in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum collection with accompanying descriptions. Many of the more than 100 links to additional resources are no longer operational, but the site will be valuable to those interested in practices of historical memory in the atomic age.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Japanese-American Internment
C. John Yu.
In 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the removal of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were U.S. Citizens, into internment camps. This site, created for a class project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides a gateway to brief essays and samplings of primary sources about the internment period from 1942–1945, a time line, oral histories, and photographs. There are links to 34 electronic essays and roughly 50 websites. Some of the more useful links are to the the National Archives and Records Administration, which documents the rights of American Citizens and actions of the Federal Government; the War Relocations Authority Camps in Arizona; the Museum of the City of San Franciso; the Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project; and Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project. The site also contains personal reminiscences of life in the camp. Though many links on this site are useful for research on Asian-American history and the history of the World War II home front, this site should be used carefully. Some of the information presented as “fact” is highly controversial, some links present hearsay or speculation as fact, and several of the links are broken or obsolete.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-13.
C. John Yu.
In 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the removal of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were U.S. Citizens, into internment camps. This site, created for a class project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides a gateway to brief essays and samplings of primary sources about the internment period from 1942–1945, a time line, oral histories, and photographs. There are links to 34 electronic essays and roughly 50 websites. Some of the more useful links are to the the National Archives and Records Administration, which documents the rights of American Citizens and actions of the Federal Government; the War Relocations Authority Camps in Arizona; the Museum of the City of San Franciso; the Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project; and Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project. The site also contains personal reminiscences of life in the camp. Though many links on this site are useful for research on Asian-American history and the history of the World War II home front, this site should be used carefully. Some of the information presented as “fact” is highly controversial, some links present hearsay or speculation as fact, and several of the links are broken or obsolete.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-13.
Poston, Arizona 1942–1996
Scott Hopkins, University of Arizona.
This exhibit by an art student begins with 11 color postcard-like recreations of original black-and-white photographs documenting life in the Poston (AZ) War Relocation Center, where more than 17,000 Japanese-Americans were interned between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. military. An accompanying essay provides background information and a brochure describes the Poston Monument. In addition, viewers can access six pages from “an Internment Camp’s High School Yearbook,” and additional legal documents, memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, a timeline, and book excerpts through links to 26 related documents and 40 websites. An important site on the internment experience.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Scott Hopkins, University of Arizona.
This exhibit by an art student begins with 11 color postcard-like recreations of original black-and-white photographs documenting life in the Poston (AZ) War Relocation Center, where more than 17,000 Japanese-Americans were interned between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. military. An accompanying essay provides background information and a brochure describes the Poston Monument. In addition, viewers can access six pages from “an Internment Camp’s High School Yearbook,” and additional legal documents, memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, a timeline, and book excerpts through links to 26 related documents and 40 websites. An important site on the internment experience.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Remembering Nagasaki
San Francisco Exploratorium.
Part of the Memory Exhibition, this site commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima through the presentation of images of the devastation in the former city and discussion of issues relating to the dropping of the bombs and historical memory of the events. The exhibit contains a slide show of 18 photographs by Japanese army photographer Yosuke Yamahata, taken in Nagasaki on August 10, 1945, the day after the bombing—“the only extensive photographic record of the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki”—with accompanying comments by Yamahata and a 1,200-word memo he wrote in 1952 on “Photographing the Bomb”; a sampling of approximately 65 recollections from people of different ages, nationalities, and ethnic backgrounds on how they learned about the bombing; excerpts from a public online forum on “the process of representing history, the inhumanity of war, the ethical responsibilities of scientists and technologists, and the historical decision to use the bomb”; and a list of 9 related films, 2 CD-ROMs, 27 books, and 13 links. A well-organized and powerfully presented exhibit.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
San Francisco Exploratorium.
Part of the Memory Exhibition, this site commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima through the presentation of images of the devastation in the former city and discussion of issues relating to the dropping of the bombs and historical memory of the events. The exhibit contains a slide show of 18 photographs by Japanese army photographer Yosuke Yamahata, taken in Nagasaki on August 10, 1945, the day after the bombing—“the only extensive photographic record of the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki”—with accompanying comments by Yamahata and a 1,200-word memo he wrote in 1952 on “Photographing the Bomb”; a sampling of approximately 65 recollections from people of different ages, nationalities, and ethnic backgrounds on how they learned about the bombing; excerpts from a public online forum on “the process of representing history, the inhumanity of war, the ethical responsibilities of scientists and technologists, and the historical decision to use the bomb”; and a list of 9 related films, 2 CD-ROMs, 27 books, and 13 links. A well-organized and powerfully presented exhibit.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
Sandra M. Wittman, Library Services Professor, Oakton Community College (IL).
This well-designed, user-friendly site “provides resources for understanding Vietnam—as it was then, and as it is now.” Offers a chronology of U.S.-Vietnamese relations from 1930 to the present; approximately 300 links to related resources such as electronic journals and discussion networks; “tips” for students writing research papers; and 12 bibliographies drawn from the author’s 1989 book, Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. The site is updated regularly, offering lists of titles in the following categories: films; history; new books; post-traumatic stress disorder; women; the Vietnamese perspective; teaching the war; drama; fiction; poetry; story collections; and personal accounts. A valuable gateway to resources about the Vietnam war.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Sandra M. Wittman, Library Services Professor, Oakton Community College (IL).
This well-designed, user-friendly site “provides resources for understanding Vietnam—as it was then, and as it is now.” Offers a chronology of U.S.-Vietnamese relations from 1930 to the present; approximately 300 links to related resources such as electronic journals and discussion networks; “tips” for students writing research papers; and 12 bibliographies drawn from the author’s 1989 book, Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. The site is updated regularly, offering lists of titles in the following categories: films; history; new books; post-traumatic stress disorder; women; the Vietnamese perspective; teaching the war; drama; fiction; poetry; story collections; and personal accounts. A valuable gateway to resources about the Vietnam war.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-12.
Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation
Viet Nam Generation, Inc., and University of Virginia.
Sponsored by the Viet Nam Generation, Inc., and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, this site is a resource for teaching and researching America in the 1960s and during the Viet Nam War. The site contains links to 17 primary documents, including materials from the Black Panther Party, the Free Speech Movement, and GI’s United Against War in Viet Nam. There are more than 100 images of political buttons and posters from the era and a full-text version of Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book, written by civil rights activist Julian Bond after he was expelled from the Georgia legislature for protesting the Vietnam War. Additional items on the site include five keyword searchable, full-text back issues of Viet Nam Generation, a journal of recent history and Viet Nam War studies published between 1988 and 1996. The site also contains ten syllabi for courses on the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Visitors may contribute their own personal narratives about the 1960s (the quality and accuracy of these personal narratives are not controlled and should be used with caution).
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-01-15.
Viet Nam Generation, Inc., and University of Virginia.
Sponsored by the Viet Nam Generation, Inc., and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, this site is a resource for teaching and researching America in the 1960s and during the Viet Nam War. The site contains links to 17 primary documents, including materials from the Black Panther Party, the Free Speech Movement, and GI’s United Against War in Viet Nam. There are more than 100 images of political buttons and posters from the era and a full-text version of Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book, written by civil rights activist Julian Bond after he was expelled from the Georgia legislature for protesting the Vietnam War. Additional items on the site include five keyword searchable, full-text back issues of Viet Nam Generation, a journal of recent history and Viet Nam War studies published between 1988 and 1996. The site also contains ten syllabi for courses on the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Visitors may contribute their own personal narratives about the 1960s (the quality and accuracy of these personal narratives are not controlled and should be used with caution).
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-01-15.
World War II Propaganda Posters
J.D. Ross.
Displays 31 images of posters—most of which were commissioned by agencies of the U.S. government—created to persuade the American public to undertake various efforts during World War II, including buying war bonds, enlisting in the armed forces, growing food crops, conserving scrap metal, making “sacrifice[s] for freedom,” and remaining “on the job.” Includes posters—some by well-known artists, such as Norman Rockwell, N. C. Wyeth, and Thomas Hart Benton—for agencies such as the Office of War Information, Army Air Force Recruitment, and the Department of Economic Stabilization. The site provides year, agency, and artist for each poster where known. “Patriotic in nature,” writes the author, an independent historian, “these posters were supposed to stir up pro-American feelings, and help mobilize citizens to support the War movement.” Although limited in number, these posters can be useful to those studying attempts to produce powerful, unifying images to induce citizens to contribute to the war effort.
Resources Available: IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-16.
J.D. Ross.
Displays 31 images of posters—most of which were commissioned by agencies of the U.S. government—created to persuade the American public to undertake various efforts during World War II, including buying war bonds, enlisting in the armed forces, growing food crops, conserving scrap metal, making “sacrifice[s] for freedom,” and remaining “on the job.” Includes posters—some by well-known artists, such as Norman Rockwell, N. C. Wyeth, and Thomas Hart Benton—for agencies such as the Office of War Information, Army Air Force Recruitment, and the Department of Economic Stabilization. The site provides year, agency, and artist for each poster where known. “Patriotic in nature,” writes the author, an independent historian, “these posters were supposed to stir up pro-American feelings, and help mobilize citizens to support the War movement.” Although limited in number, these posters can be useful to those studying attempts to produce powerful, unifying images to induce citizens to contribute to the war effort.
Resources Available: IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-16.
Daniel Boone: Myth and Reality in American Consiousness
Julie K. Rose.
Essay based on Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land
Resources Available: TEXT.
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Julie K. Rose.
Essay based on Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land
Resources Available: TEXT.
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Emily Dickinson
Paul E. Black, revised by Kris Selander .
This page is devoted to the 19th-century American poet, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Features 460 of her poems, arranged alphabetically by first line, and includes about 40 links to material concerning her life and work. Created by a computer scientist and now maintained by a student, the site lists an additional 17 links to poetry resources, and furnishes both a 48-title bibliography of poems written by other authors about Dickinson and information regarding Dickinson discussions lists. A well-designed site.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2001-07-16.
Paul E. Black, revised by Kris Selander .
This page is devoted to the 19th-century American poet, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Features 460 of her poems, arranged alphabetically by first line, and includes about 40 links to material concerning her life and work. Created by a computer scientist and now maintained by a student, the site lists an additional 17 links to poetry resources, and furnishes both a 48-title bibliography of poems written by other authors about Dickinson and information regarding Dickinson discussions lists. A well-designed site.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2001-07-16.
Mark Twain
Twain as writer, satirist and anti-imperialist protester
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Twain as writer, satirist and anti-imperialist protester
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eric Eldred.
URL fixed by Mike O’Malley, 7/13/00 This site provides the full-texts of Hawthorne’s stories, sketches, and novels. Also includes links to criticism, a complete bibliography, and “Hawthorneana”— items like Melville’s correspondence with Hawthorne. The last section of this site directs teachers of literature to “helpful resources.” This is a useful and important site.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Eric Eldred.
URL fixed by Mike O’Malley, 7/13/00 This site provides the full-texts of Hawthorne’s stories, sketches, and novels. Also includes links to criticism, a complete bibliography, and “Hawthorneana”— items like Melville’s correspondence with Hawthorne. The last section of this site directs teachers of literature to “helpful resources.” This is a useful and important site.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
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Center for Steinbeck Studies
Martha Heasley Cox, San Jose State University.
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Martha Heasley Cox, San Jose State University.
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Willa Cather Home Page
Scott Newstrom.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
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Scott Newstrom.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
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1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Library of Congress.
This exhibit “examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors, and settlers from 1492 to 1600.” Divided into six sections—“What Came To Be Called ’America’,” “The Mediterranean World,” “Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth,” “Inventing America,” “Europe Claims America,” and “Epilogue”—the materials include background essays, illustrations of objects such as Columbus’ Coat of Arms, and a 15-title bibliography. An interesting exhibition that consists mostly of secondary text.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
Library of Congress.
This exhibit “examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors, and settlers from 1492 to 1600.” Divided into six sections—“What Came To Be Called ’America’,” “The Mediterranean World,” “Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth,” “Inventing America,” “Europe Claims America,” and “Epilogue”—the materials include background essays, illustrations of objects such as Columbus’ Coat of Arms, and a 15-title bibliography. An interesting exhibition that consists mostly of secondary text.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.