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Architecture and Interior Design for 20th-Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935–1955
American Memory, Library of Congress.
A photo archive of more than 29,000 images, produced by architectural photographers Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner. Gottscho and Schleisner were commissioned to document the work of architects, sculptors, and artists for individuals and institutional clients, such as
House Beautiful and
House and Garden magazines. The collection specializes in views taken primarily in the northeastern United States—many in the New York City area—and in Florida. Subjects include homes, stores, offices, factories, and historic buildings. Also of note are 100 color images of the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair. As the introductory text points out, the assembled group of photographs can "serve as a document of social change from a particular vantage point of the middle and upper classes of society."
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-10.
By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
American Memory, Library of Congress.
This site features two “special presentations” and presents hundreds of primary materials relating to baseball in America. Materials include letters, manuscripts, trading cards, lobby cards, newspaper images, photographs, advertisements, sheet music, and transcripts of interviews, speeches, and television broadcasts. The first presentation, “Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson, 1860s-1960s,” furnishes approximately 30 documents and photographs in a 5-section timeline that examines the history of Jackie Robinson’s entry into the major league baseball. It includes material on the Negro Leagues, the nature of baseball’s color line, Robinson’s career as a Brooklyn Dodger, and his role as a civil rights activist. A second presentation, “Early Baseball Pictures,” presents 34 images dealing with baseball from the 1860s to the 1920s divided into five sections. The site also includes an annotated bibliography comprised of 82 titles and a list of six links to related resources. While limited in size and focus with regard to general baseball history, this site is valuable as an introductory look at Jackie Robinson’s life and the topic of race in American sports history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935–1939
American Memory, Library of Congress.
See JAH web review by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff.
Reviewed 2006-03-01.
Offers more than 13,000 images of items relating to the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal program designed to provide work for unemployed theater professionals. The collection contains 71 playscripts and 168 documents from the FTP’s Administration Records. Extensive materials, including photographs, scripts, posters, and set and costume designs, have been selected from three significant productions:
Macbeth and
The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, directed by Orson Welles, and Arthur Arent’s
Power, an example of the Project’s innovative “Living Newspaper” series of topical plays. The site includes a 3,500-word background essay, as well as four illustrated articles about the Project. A FTP Collection finding aid describing more than 525,000 offline items may be downloaded, but is not currently searchable.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2005-09-28.
Map Collections: 1500–2003
American Memory, Library of Congress.
This site presents a large number of maps from the 16th century to the present day focusing on Americana and “cartographic treasures.” The materials are organized into seven thematic categories—“Cities and Towns”; “Conservation and Environment”; “Discovery and Exploration”; “Cultural Landscapes”; “Military Battles and Campaigns”; “Transportation and Communication”; and “General Maps.” Sections include a number of “special presentations,” including several essays ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 words. Users may zoom in to view details and download maps. 17 specific map collections contained within this larger site are described in detail in the following History Matters entries: “Discovery and Exploration”; “The American Revolution and Its Era”; “Railroad Maps, 1828–1900”; “American Colonization Society Collection: Maps of Liberia, 1830–1870”; “Panoramic Maps, 1847–1929”; “Civil War Maps”; and “Mapping the National Parks.”
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
CQ Historic Documents Series: Online Edition
Congressional Quarterly Press.
See JAH web review by Donald A. Ritchie.
Reviewed 2008-09-01.
[SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED] Each year since 1972, the CQ Press has published a book of 100 significant documents in U.S. history accompanied by detailed annotations. The entire collection is available on this website, allowing for detailed keyword searching. Documents include U.S presidential speeches, government and international organization publications, legal decisions, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. The documents are grouped both by year and by topic. Topics include: Business, the Economy, and Work; Defense, Security, and Military Affairs; Energy, Environment, Transportation, Science and Technology; Government and Politics; Health Care, Social Services, Housing, and Education; International Affairs; Media, Culture, and Life in America; and Rights, Responsibilities, and Criminal Justice. Favorite Documents allows users to mark and collect documents of interest, and CiteNow! providing citations on demand. Though the depth of documents on any one topic is minimal, this website is useful for getting an overview of important events in a given year as well as tracking U.S. perception of and response to certain topics over time.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2007-10-23.
The Northern Great Plains, 1880–1920: Photographs from the Fred Hulstrand and F. A. Pazandak Photograph Collections
American Memory, Library of Congress and North Dakota State University.
Furnishes approximately 900 photographs from two collections at the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University. A professional photographer from northeastern North Dakota who sought to document the settlement of the Great Plains produced the “Fred Hulstrand History in Pictures Collection.” The “F. A. Pazandak Photography Collection” includes photographs taken by a southeastern North Dakota farmer as mechanization began to change his family farm. Images portray everyday rural and small town life, mostly from 1880–1920, and include shots of farmers, farm machinery, children, one-room schools, and workshops. The site also provides a historical overview of North Dakota, a 300-word history of farm machinery companies, and presentations entitled “Implements Used on the Farm,” “Schooling,” “Women,” “Sod Homes,” “Immigrants,” “Steam Engines and Tractors,” “Hired Hands,” and “Golden Age of Agriculture.” An annotated bibliography of 61 titles provides a guide for further research. This site includes important visual documentation on changes in rural communities and farming practices during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851–1991
American Memory, Library of Congress.
Nearly 4,000 panoramic photographs of cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits, deposited as copyright submissions by more than 400 companies, are on display in this site. Panoramic photographs were used to advertise real estate and to document groups, events, and gatherings. Images depict all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 20 foreign countries and territories; subjects include sports, transportation, military activities, agricultural life, natural disasters, college campuses, fairs, dams, bridges, canals, and theaters. Although the images cover the period from 1851 to 1991, the collection centers on the early 20th century. The site includes a 20-title bibliography, an illustrated 1,000-word background essay on the history of panoramic photography, and 500-word explorations of four specific photographers: George R. Lawrence (1869–1938); George N. Barnard (1819–1902); Frederick W. Brehm (1871–1950); and Miles F. Weaver (1879–1932). A useful collection for the documentation of geographic places as well as the depiction of groups and leisure activities.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-04.
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932–1964
American Memory, Library of Congress.
This collection presents 1,395 photographs by the American photographer, music and dance critic, and novelist Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964). The site consists primarily of studio portraits of celebrities, most of whom were involved in the arts, including actors, such as Marlon Brando and Paul Robeson; artists, such as Marc Chagall and Frida Kahlo; novelists, such as Theodore Dreiser and Willa Cather; singers, such as Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday; publishers, such as Alfred A. Knopf and Bennett Cerf; cultural critics, such as H. L. Mencken and Gilbert Seldes; and figures from the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. More than 80 photographs capture Massachusetts and Maine landscapes and seascapes; others include eastern locations and New Mexico. Many photographs of actors present them in character roles. Searchable by keyword and arranged into subject and occupational indexes, this collection also includes a 9-title bibliography and background essay of 800 words on Van Vechten’s life and work. A valuable collection for the documentation of the mid-20th century art scene.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2002-10-28.
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940–1941
American Memory, Library of Congress.
This site presents “a multi-format ethnographic field collection” that examines migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) managed the camps; migrants from the rural areas of Oklahoma and nearby states inhabited them. Offers 371 audio recordings of songs, interviews, and camp announcements; 23 photographs; transcriptions of 113 songs; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings dealing with labor and migration issues; 11 camp newsletters; a Works Progress Administration folk song questionnaire; field notes and correspondence of Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin, the original collectors of these materials; two published magazine articles by Todd, giving the historical context of the collecting expedition; and other items concerning everyday migrant life and the collecting of folk materials. Topics range from camp court proceedings and personal narratives to square dances and baseball games. Also includes a 14-title bibliography; a 1,700-word background essay entitled “The Migrant Experience”; and a 1,400-word essay on the recording expedition. A valuable site for those interested in audio and written materials documenting the experiences of Depression-era migrants and their folk traditions.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2007-09-27.
By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850–1920
American Memory, Library of Congress.
See JAH web review by Eileen V. Wallis.
Reviewed 2012-03-01.
A collection of 38 images relating to the women’s suffrage campaign, including individual portraits, photographs of parades, newspaper cartoons, and anti-suffrage items. Searchable by keyword and arranged into subject and name indexes, the site also includes a lengthy timeline, “One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage,” a bibliography, and a list of related holdings in the Library of Congress. This site is the “pictorial partner” to the documents in
“‘Votes for Women’: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848–1920.”Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923–1959
American Memory, Library of Congress.
See JAH web review by Zachary M. Schrag.
Reviewed 2005-09-01.
Presents approximately 14,350 photographs by Theodor Horydczak (1890–1971), most of which document the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area between the 1920s and 1950s. Subjects include the architecture and interiors of government, commercial, and residential buildings; views of streets and neighborhoods; images of work and leisure; and events such as the 1932 Bonus March and the 1933 World Series. Also includes a limited number of shots taken in other U.S. locations and in Canada and a background essay, “Discovering Theodor Horydczak’s Washington.” Provides visual documentation of official and everyday life in the nation’s capital and its environs.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-14.
Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division’s First 100 Years
American Memory, Library of Congress.
This site displays approximately 90 primary documents from the 15th century to the mid 20th century. Features eight subjects: the presidency; Congress, law, and politics; military affairs; diplomacy and foreign policy; arts and literature; science, medicine, exploration, and invention; African-American history and culture; and women’s history. The collection emphasizes “prominent Americans whose lives reflect our country’s evolution,” including 23 presidents and figures such as Carter Woodson, Thurgood Marshall, pioneer physician Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilbur Wright, and Alexander Graham Bell. Each subject is accompanied by a useful 100- to 400-word background essay and a link to the document’s host collection. Also includes a 2,000-word essay entitled “Collecting, Preserving, and Researching History: A Peek into the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.” Although limited in size, this site provides an eclectic group of documents of national interest.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894–1896
American Memory, Library of Congress.
This photo archive contains over 900 images made by American photographer William Henry Jackson (1843–1942) during an 1890’s tour of North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. The World’s Transportation Commission, an organization formed to aid American business interests abroad, commissioned Jackson. The photographs, originally exhibited in Chicago’s Field Columbian Museum, focus on transportation systems—especially railroads—tourist sites, indigenous life, and locations of natural beauty. Nearly 687 of the images are from lantern slides, many of which were hand-colored. Many of the photographs appeared in
Harper’s Weekly. This collection is valuable for those interested in late-19th-century photography and American views of exotic places.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-09-27.
Organization of American Historians
Organization of American Historians.
The site of the largest organization for professional historians of the United States, the Organization of American Historians (OAH), includes basic information about membership; current programs, annual meetings, and special events; employment listings, grants, fellowships, and other professional resources; and issues on which the organization has adopted positions of advocacy. The site’s “Teaching History Resource Center” includes publications and resources of current interest to history teachers, including 14 syllabi for undergraduate-level U.S. History survey courses. The site also offers an introduction to OAH publications, including
Journal of American History,
OAH Newsletter, and
OAH Magazine of History and a list more than 90 links to other professional associations, history journals, and governmental agencies. A valuable site for professionals in the field of history.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2001-06-21.
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Al Filreis, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.
This site consists of hundreds of poems by major and minor figures—from Emily Dickinson to William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to contemporary artists and writers—hundreds of links to poetry resources, and a “readings schedule” for a course in American poetry. Also offers materials as diverse as audio clips, newspaper articles, and television spots. Although the organization is haphazard, this is a rewarding and eclectic site packed with primary documents and leads for further work.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2003-11-10.
Gateway to History
San Francisco State University.
Lots of links. Wide-ranging. Practical organization for easy surfing but no annotations.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
WWW-Virtual Library, History Central Catalogue
History Index Network, University of Kansas.
Created by an international group of volunteer institutions, this site offers a gateway with thousands of links to general history resources and seeks to provide effective tools for practicing historians wishing to work online.“ Links are presented for the following categories: ”Research: Methods and Materials“; ”Eras and Epochs“; ”Historical Topics“; and ”By Countries and Regions."
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
The Library of Virginia: Confederate Disability Applications
The Library of Virginia.
The Library of Virginia (last discussed in the November 20, 1998 Scout Report) has added to their digital collections materials of interest to a variety of researchers in American or Virginia history. Now available are the Confederate Disability Applications and Receipts collection features over 24,000 images from applications by Civil War veterans for artificial limbs and other disability benefits. This recent addition consists of digitized documents placed in a database that is searchable by three options: word or phrase, combination, and expert/boolean. Search returns offer basic information on each record, and users must follow the link at the bottom of the page to download the digitized images (in .tif format) of the record. A generic TIFF viewer for Windows 3.11/95 may be downloaded for free at the site.
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Website last visited on 2003-07-16.
History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers
Dennis Boals.
A retired high school teacher assembled this gateway with thousands of links to history and social studies resources. Organized by 26 headings of considerable diversity—including content-oriented topics like “general history,” “government,” and “religion and philosophy,” as well as teaching-oriented topics such as “resources for writers” and “research/critical thinking.” The headings further divide into subheadings, and brief annotations accompany most links. Although the presentation is haphazard and the quality of the links is uneven, this eclectic collection is updated regularly and is ultimately rewarding. Especially useful for K-12 teachers and students.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
History: The National Park Service
U.S. National Park Service.
Historical aspects of many of the 384 areas under the National Park Service’s stewardship are presented in this expansive site. A “Links to the Past” section contains more than 25 text and picture presentations on such diverse history-related topics as archeology, architecture, cultural groups and landscapes, historic buildings, and military history. Of particular interest to teachers, a section entitled “Teaching with Historic Places” features more than 60 lesson plans designed “to enliven the teaching of history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects” by incorporating National Register of Historic Places into educational explorations of historic subjects. Examples include an early rice plantation in South Carolina; the lives of turn-of-the-century immigrant cigar makers near Tampa, Florida; a contrast between the Indianapolis headquarters of African-American businesswoman Madam C. J. Walker and a small store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that grew into the J. C. Penney Company, the first nationwide department store chain; the Civil War Andersonville prisoner of war camp; President John F. Kennedy’s birthplace; the Liberty Bell; Finnish log cabins in Iowa; and the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Saugus Iron Works. Especially useful for teachers interested in connecting the study of history with historic sites.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
History Reviews On-Line
Dennis Trinkle, Editor.
Electronic History review-essays (world and U.S.). Site maintained at DePauw University
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
North America/Canada (Boals K-12)
An enormous number of links, articles, sources. Many annotated. See History/Social Studies/K-12
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-09-06.
National Center for History in the Schools
National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles.
The home for a full-text version (except for charts and illustrations) of the 1996 edition of National Standards for History. It was developed with federal funding as part of a bipartisan effort to promote national educational reform with regard to the content and assessment of K-12 U.S. and world history courses in American schools. The site offers information concerning 36 additional Center publications designed for teaching specific American history subjects at various grade levels. A valuable resource for teachers.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
World Lecture Hall
Academic Computing and Instructional Technology Services, University of Texas at Austin.
Links to faculty materials (of uneven quality) from almost every discipline on www: syllabi, lecture notes, multimedia texts.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
Digital Librarian: A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the [History] Web
Margaret Vail Anderson.
A librarian in Cortland, New York, maintains this eclectic compilation of more than 1,000 history links. Brief annotations introduce most of the links, which include primary and secondary sources. The site offers a wide range of links, including dictionaries, autobiographies, state and federal documents, museums and libraries, books, speeches, and articles. Listings are arranged alphabetically and also in the following categories: African Americans, Asian resources, classics and ancient world, electronic texts, genealogy, images, Judaica, Latin American resources, medieval and Renaissance studies, Middle East, Native American resources, railroads and waterways, the southwest, and women’s resources. Updated regularly.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
North American History Resources
Rhodes College.
A brief list of links to American history sites, covering the Civil War, Native American and African American.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
Center for American History
University of Texas at Austin.
This site introduces the University of Texas’s Center for American History, “a special collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the United States.” Offers information for researchers, brief descriptions of the collections, 14 links to Texas resources, and outlines of four recent exhibits, including the “John Henry Faulk Conference on the First Amendment” and “Texas, Texans, and the Alamo.” The Center focuses particularly on the history of Texas.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2002-10-24.
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Millersville University.
Created to help mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s 1492 voyage to America, this site is a “text-retrieval system.” Offers more than 1,110 scholarly and popular articles, drawn from journals, magazines, institutions, speeches, reviews, newspapers, student papers, and “other [secondary] sources relating to various encounter themes.” The search functions are cumbersome—the articles are both indexed by portions of the author’s last name and arranged by underdeveloped category designations.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
Making of America
University of Michigan.
See JAH web review by Tobias Higbie.
Reviewed 2006-09-01.
This site is a “digital library” of thousands of primary documents in American social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction. The result of a collaborative project between the University of Michigan and Cornell University, begun in 1995, it currently offers more than 3 million pages of text from 11,063 volumes and 50,000 journal articles. Includes 10 major 19th-century journals—like
Appleton’s from 1869 to 1881, the
Southern Literary Messenger from 1835 to 1864,
Ladies Repository from 1841 to 1876, and
DeBow’s from 1846 to 1869 — as well as novels and tracts important for understanding the development of American education, sociology, history, religion, psychology, and science. A recent addition includes 249 volumes on New York City, some from the early 20th century. Searchable by word or phrase, the site provides a complete bibliography of books and journals, organized by author. Well-designed and executed, this is an excellent collection of material.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2007-09-19.
