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William Faulkner
John B. Padgett.
This site, by a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Mississippi is one of the best on the subject. Furnishes links to Faulkner’s novels, short stories, poetry, letters, and other written work. Also includes commentaries, plot synopses, and a biographical sketch, and additional information. This comprehensive site is nicely laid out and easy to use.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Gilded Page
Scott Nelson, College of William and Mary.
A collection of books, essays, poems, speeches, tracts, and other primary materials “written by U.S. authors or widely read by Americans in the Gilded Age (loosely defined here as 1866–1901).” Links to works by more than 65 influential authors, including public figures as diverse as philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, critic Thorstein Veblen, President Grover Cleveland, writer Stephen Crane, and reporter Richard Harding Davis. The texts are arranged alphabetically by author. The site, created by a history professor for use in his postbellum U.S. history courses, contains six related links.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
The Comic Page
Derek Santos.
Site provides very general information about the history of comic books. Eight sections cover the years from 1896 to the late 1970s, providing a general history and the most important comic books from each period, including
The Yellow Kid,
Krazy Kat,
Little Nemo,
Superman,
Batman, and the
Amazing Spiderman . Brief histories of the creators are also included. Many links are broken.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2000-10-05.
American Museum of Photography
American Museum of Photography.
Photographs from 1839 to the late 20th century are on view in 12 exhibits that offer 100 to 600-word introductory essays and a diverse range of images. “The Face of Slavery” presents ten photographs of African Americans from 1855 to 1905. The work of Southworth and Hawes, a photography team active between 1843 and 1862, is represented by eight daguerreotypes of women. In “Do You Believe?” visitors may consider evidence of ghostly existence offered by 22 “spirit photographs” taken between 1875 and 1932. In “Photography as a Fine Arf!,” 16 photos from the 1850s to the 1950s “explore the complex relationships of people and dogs.” In “At Ease,” nine photographs from around 1850 refute the popular notion that early portraiture was stiff. An exhibit of the trick photography of William H. “Dad” Martin presents eight photos produced between 1894 and 1912 that show exaggerated ordinary objects. In “Of Bricks and Light,” the museum exhibits 33 architectural photographs. Business executive and photographer Shotaro Shimomura took pictures of his trip around the world in 1934–35; nine of these are exhibited in “An Eye for the World.” An interactive exhibit of nine
cartes de visite allows visitors to investigate details such as the hats worn by men in Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession. “Scott Mutter: A More Perfect World” presents 11 “hyper-realistic” photomontages by the acclaimed image maker. “Masterworks of Photography” includes 25 images produced from 1840 to 1975, including English inventor William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Footman,” of 1840, considered the earliest photograph on paper of a human being. In addition, the museum showcases 42 of its favorite pieces. The site also provides a 1,700-word explanatory essay on photographic processes and links to 25 other resources concerning the history and art of photography. This site cannot be searched by subject, however, which limits its usefulness for research.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of American Daguerrotype
A virtual exhibition, with a history of daguerreotypy, landscapes, portraits, occupationals, 19th-century texts about daguerreotypes, newspapers and real audio components
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Currier and Ives, Printmakers to the American People
Museum of the City of New York, Bonnie Yochelson.
An exhibition of 78 images produced by the Currier and Ives lithograph company and its predecessor, New York-based firms that between 1834 and 1907 created millions of images used in newspapers, magazines,
cartes-de-visite, and decorative lithographs aimed primarily at a middle- and lower-income market. The images in this 1996 exhibition were chosen from the more than 2,800-piece Harry T. Peter Collection assembled in the 1920s. The prints are grouped into nine categories, including city and country scenes, political concerns, technological and transportation advancements, advertisements, national and literary narratives, outdoor sports and recreational activities, westward expansion, and idealized family scenes. The site is easy to navigate and each image has a brief caption of roughly 100 words explaining the image’s theme and origin. A useful site for visual examples of "how nineteenth-century Americans perceived and idealized themselves."
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-10.
FDR Cartoon Archive
Niskayuna High School, New York.
A continuing project of high school history and science classes, this site presents thousands of political cartoons concerning the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Selected from the collection at the Hyde Park Presidential Library of Basil O’Conner—Roosevelt’s New York City law partner—the materials are arranged into eight subject categories and often include brief background essays and questions designed to prompt further inquiries. Periods currently emphasized include 1932, “The Road to Pennsylvania Avenue”; 1937, “The Supreme Court”; and 1943, “The War Years.” Well-conceived and executed, the site also gives the texts of Roosevelt’s inaugural addresses and a page of teacher resources and suggested projects.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-20.
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Lots of goodies. Popular culture through sights and sounds of radio and TV
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
explores the urban vision of the six Ashcan artists and places their work within the social and cultural context of early-twentieth-century America. An elegant virtual exhibition, artwork, video, and audio components;
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 1998-12-27.
Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz before 1930
Scott Alexander.
See JAH web review by Burton W. Peretti.
Reviewed 2002-12-01.
This comprehensive site offers biographical information, photographs, and audio and video files for more than 200 jazz bands and musicians active from 1895 to 1929. It includes more than 200 sound files of jazz recordings by well-known artists, such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Django Reinhardt, and by dozens of lesser-known musicians. The files are annotated with biographical essays of 100 to more than 1,000 words, discographies, and bibliographic listings. Also includes listings of 20 short jazz films made in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and video files for two of these. Offers 20 essays and articles about jazz before 1930, ranging in length from 1,000 to 4,500 words, taken from published liner notes, books, and journals, or written specifically for this website by jazz fans. A valuable collection of audio documents and accompanying information.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2007-09-19.
Visual Arts in the USA
CAME UP IN GERMAN WITH NO LINK TO ENGLISH SITE A terrific resource for studying American art: covers African American, Asian American, Chicano and Latino American, and Native American art with directories, listings of exhibitions, museums, collections, projects, events, institutions, associations, artists, galleries, and publications
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Website last visited on 2001-09-26.
The Media History Project
Kristina Ross.
Media history links: print, radio, TV, comics, film, music, computer, etc.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Someone in Time
Discovery Channel.
A fun and engaging on-line exploration game from the Discovery Channel. Follow interactive clues to discover the identity of the historical figure
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The History Channel
The home page for the History Channel offers changing exhibits, a classroom resources section, and various “This Day in History” sections (e.g., “This Day in Wall St. History,” “This Day in Automotive History”). The site also offers a RealAudio archive of over 100 famous speeches and e-mail discussion lists on “hundreds” of topics.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University.
See JAH web review by Philip J. Ethington.
Reviewed 2002-06-01.
This exhibit, curated by Carl Smith, a professor at Northwestern University, commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire (1871). Offers an array of primary sources selected from materials in the Chicago Historical Society and arranged into two sections. “The Great Chicago Fire” examines the fire through five chronological chapters, while a second section, “The Web of Memory,” focuses more specifically on the ways in which the fire has been remembered. This section is organized into six chapters, each devoted to a particular theme, including eyewitness accounts, popular illustrations, journal articles, “imaginative forms such as fiction and poetry and painting,” and the legend of Mrs. O’Leary. Both sections furnish galleries of images and artifacts, primary texts, “special media” such as songs, a newsreel, and an “Interactive Panorama of Chicago, 1858,” and chapter-specific, authoritative background essays that explore the social and cultural contexts of this catastrophe. Also includes a bibliography of 20 sources. A well-designed site that provides a wide range of diverse sources useful for studying Chicago in late 19th century and the ways that the story of the catastrophe subsequently has been told.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2007-09-19.
Ozarks Labor Union Archives
NOTE: Correct URl added by MO 7/13/00 A vast repository of records that document over 125 years of labor union history in the Ozarks, Missouri. Includes official records of union organization and activities, as well as photographs, oral histories, and ephemeral items such as union pins and badges
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-10-24.
U.S. History Archives (Conn. St)
Links with annotations to documents in world history and the struggle for social justice. OK but layered with sectarian language
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Regional History Project
University of California, Santa Cruz Library.
Written, oral and photographic history resources for Santa Cruz County
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
WestWeb: Western Studies and Research Resources
Professor, Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island (CUNY).
This gateway offers a wide range of links to primary and secondary documents, bibliographies, maps, images, and other resources for the study and teaching of the American West. Its 31 topics include agriculture, economics, the environment, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, military history, political and legal history, religion, settlement, technology, and water. Also highlights six selected “outstanding sites.” Well-designed, comprehensive, and easy to navigate, the site also furnishes syllabi and additional teaching materials and suggestions.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-06-27.
Salem, Massachusetts: What About Witches
Salem Web.
Part of a Salem tourist page, with lots of photos of Salem historical sites and discussion of the witchcraft hysteria of 1692
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Five Points Site
Rebecca Yamin, Government Services Administration.
A virtual exhibit of a 1991 archaeological undertaking at the Foley Square Courthouse block in Lower Manhattan of the 19th-century “Five Points” area, a working-class and immigrant neighborhood infamously regarded in contemporary accounts as a “center of vice and debauchery.” The site offers information on excavations of a tannery, bakery, saloon, and oyster house, as well as residences in the neighborhood—including Irish, German, Jewish, and Italian residents at various times—and makes an argument that journalistic descriptions of the period failed to adequately represent the “hard work and industry” that material culture evidence suggests. Includes eight images of the excavation sites and more than 60 photos of artifacts. The site also provides five maps, six contemporary images of the neighborhood, and a list of five recommended readings and 13 links to other websites on archaeology and history. Valuable for those studying 19th-century urban life and as a demonstration of ways that archaeology can provide a window on everyday life of earlier eras.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Westward HO!
An interactive on-line journey into America’s West for student groups, based on actual landmarks from the Oregon Trail
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2004-06-17.
Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sites, publications, databases and other online sources about poverty
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Thomas: Legislative Info on the Net
Links to Congressional records and resources, but also other federal government materials
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
An On-line History of the United States: The Age of Imperialism
Small Planet Communications.
Explores US intervention in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, the Spanish-American War, and general foreign policy at the turn of the century. With primary documents, photographs and bibliography
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
RouteICS
Interactive Communications and Simultations, School of Education, University of Michigan.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Teach Women’s History Project
Feminist Majority Foundation.
Teaching and reference materials on the women’s rights movement of the past 50 years and opposing forces. The project was created by the Feminist Majority Foundation, “a national women’s rights organization dedicated to empowering women in all sectors of society.” Teaching materials include 40 primary documents selected from “The Feminist Chronicles: 1953–1993,” ranging from the first National Organization for Women (NOW) statement of purpose to topical task force statements; and two lesson plans for one-day and one-week mini-courses on the history of the women’s movement. This site provides 28 suggestions for further reading in women’s history, feminist theory, and contemporary women’s issues, as well as listings for 20 relevant organizations. Although the Project was created in the early 1990’s and thus does not include more recent information, the organization’s home page offers a current “Feminist Internet Gateway” with more than 15 annotated links in “History of Women/Social Studies,” as well as links to contemporary topics, such as women and science, sports, entertainment, and politics.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2007-10-03.
