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The U.S.-Mexico Border, 1820s-1990s: A Social, Economic and Political History of the Borderlands
Carlos F. Camargo, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley.
This course traces and examines the social, economic, and political organization and representation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, from the 17th century to the present. The web page includes map, syllabus and general resources, presented clearly and elegantly
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
American Literature Survey Site
Natasha Sinutko, University of Texas at Austin.
This site contains entire texts that are studied in the course, along with other on-line resources, student projects and message forums. A valuable student resource
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Essays in History
Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia.
An annual journal from the University of Virginia available free of charge through the internet covering a wide range of topics
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
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History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History
Focuses on: critical philosophy of history, speculative philosophy of history, historiography, historical methodology, critical theory, time and culture, and related disciplines. Articles not available for viewing on the site—they must be purchased
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Journal of Women’s History
Leila J. Rupp, Editor; Indiana University Press.
The first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women’s history
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Limina: A Journal of History and Cultural Studies
University of Western Australia, Department of History.
Published by a collective at the Department of History, University of Western Australia, LIMINA encourages studies that seek to engage, discuss and enlarge theoretical debates
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
DISSENT
Mitchell Cohen and Michael Walzer, eds..
A quarterly magazine of politics and culture. Site contains archives with whole articles of previous issues
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H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
H-Net, Michigan State University.
An indispensable resource for teachers and scholars in a wide variety of fields, but especially for historians. H-Net—an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers—contains sections on “H-Net Reviews,” which publishes and disseminates reviews of books, films, museums, software, sound recordings, and websites; “Discussion Networks,” a gateway to more than 130 academic discussion networks administered by H-Net via email; “H-Net Papers on Teaching and Technology,” presenting 10 discussion panels on multimedia teaching; academic announcements of professional organizations, conference programs, fellowships, and prizes; employment listings; and additional websites from various H-Net special projects.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2001-06-28.
Gender-Related Electronic Forums
Joan Korenman, Center for Women and Information Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Discussion Lists: History
Lyris Technologies Inc..
This site is a compilation of Lyris, LISTSERV, ListProc, and Majordomo e-mail discussion, announcements, and information lists. List information is derived from submissions by list owners and publicly available sources. The site is searchable — a search for “history” returned 81 e-mail lists — and is organized by name, description and domain.
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Website last visited on 2000-09-20.
HUMBUL: The Humanities Bulletin Board
Chris Stephens, Oxford University.
WWW resources for the humanities via Oxford university
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Library of Virginia
Nolan T. Yelich, librarian of Virginia.
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History and Politics Out Loud
Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University.
See JAH web review by Samuel Brylawski.
Reviewed 2006-03-01.
This site offers audio materials “capturing significant political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century.” Includes 107 items, including speeches, addresses, and private telephone conversations from 19 speakers. Most material comes from three U.S. presidents—Richard M. Nixon (34 items); Lyndon Baines Johnson (30 items); and John F. Kennedy (19 items)—with additional material from such major international figures as Secretary of State George Marshall; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. (5 items), John Lewis, and A. Philip Randolph; Supreme Court Justices William O. Douglas, Arthur J. Goldberg, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; and Soviet Union premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Michigan State University, and the National Gallery of the Spoken Word.
Resources Available: AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2007-10-03.
Mapping History
University of Oregon.
A collection of historical maps. Maps of the United States (21), focus on the late 18th and 19th centuries, and 33 maps about Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa cover ancient civilization to the medieval period. The American section is divided into three categories—“Territorial Expansion of the United States 1783–1898,” “Slavery Through 1860,” and “Legal Status of Slavery Through 1860.” Fifteen maps are “interactive,” and require a “shockwave plug-in” to access. Useful as geographic aids for those studying U.S. exploration in North America, westward expansion, campaigns against Native Americans, and slavery.
Resources Available: IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Thomas A. Edison Papers
Rutgers State University of New Jersey; National Park Service; New Jersey Historical Commission; Smithsonian Institution.
See JAH web review by David A. Kirsch.
Reviewed 2003-09-01.
This site is a vast database of Thomas Edison’s papers, including 71,000 pages of correspondence and 12,000 pages of technical drawings. The site boasts over five million pages of Edison related documents. Processes for searching the site are complicated; a 3,000-word guide offers search strategies. The site may be searched by name, date, or document type, by folder/volume, or by series. Series collect documents in groups, such as scrapbooks and legal papers. The site includes 2,210 facsimiles of Edison patents from 1868 to 1931 for products such as the electric lamp and the phonograph. Nearly 13,000 clippings from 103 journals and newspapers, from the
American Engineer to the
Westminster Gazette, discuss Edison’s achievements. A “Document Sampler” contains 23 documents, including a design by Edison’s wife for a light bulb and a list of 19 possible names for the phonograph. A collection of 14 photographs, maps, and prints depict Edison, his environs, and his inventions and there are two chronologies of Edison’s life. The site offers an 8,000-word essay on Edison’s companies and 22 pages about Edison and the development of the motion picture industry. A bibliography directs visitors to over 70 books and articles about Edison and 21 Edison-related websites. This site is somewhat difficult to search.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-03.
The Poetry of Marcus Garvey
Boom Shaka.
A few dozen selections of poetry from the Universal Negro Improvement Association Convention Hymns (1934), the Black Man Magazine (1933–1939), the Negro World, and The Poetic Meditations of Marcus Garvey (1927). Includes a large image of Garvey, but no accompanying text
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
At Home in the Heartland
Illinois State Museum.
Visitors can explore family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present in this site based on a 1992 museum exhibit. The site is divided into six time periods, each featuring biographical sketches providing “glimpses into the lifestyles and domestic situations of real people” at critical moments in Illinois and American history. In addition, each period contains audio components; timelines; maps; examples of material culture; exercises comparing the lifestyles and experiences of various racial, ethnic, and economic groups; methodological explanations; and teaching aides such as grade-specific lesson plans, discussion ideas, classroom activities, and links to related sites. Activities can be accessed at three levels of difficulty: Level I (grades 3–5), Level II (grades 6–9), and Level III (grades 10–12). A valuable resource for teachers interested in exposing students to both social history and the Internet.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
CongressLink
Frank H. Mackaman, Dirksen Congressional Center.
See JAH web review by Raymond W. Smock.
Reviewed 2007-03-01.
Designed to provide students and teachers with basic information on the workings of Congress and selected materials on a limited number of historical topics. Contains searchable listings for current legislation and members of Congress, and elementary explanations of how bills become laws and what members of Congress do. Lists names of Congressional leaders since 1920 and pay rates since 1789. A useful glossary succinctly defines hundreds of political terms, from “Blue Dog Democrat” to “Political Action Committee.” Provides historical presentations using primary documents on six topics—the Compromise of 1850; problems of representation at the Constitutional Convention; eulogy and obituary as historical evidence; issues in creating a timeline of the Senate’s history; how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law; and lessons to be learned from the Roman republic. Includes nine “expert views”—ranging from 1,200 to 7,500 words in length—on civics-related topics; 40 lesson plans; and links to 17 sites. Updated daily. A useful, if select, aid to understanding the functioning of Congress.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Crisis at Fort Sumter
Richard B. Latner, Tulane University.
Site is interactive, providing documents, essays, and questions about the events leading up to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in 1861 and placing the events within a broader context of secession and southern independence. There are nine chronological sections and students must make decisions at five “critical junctures,” soliciting advice from official and unofficial advisors. Students can compare their choices with Lincoln’s, and a commentary section challenges students to explore multiple interpretations of events. “Hotwords” provide additional information on topics throughout the simulation. Provides over 200 references in the bibliographic section. Well-designed activity for helping students at the high school and college level explore the issues surrounding the Civil War.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Douglass Archives of American Public Address
Douglass Web Project, Northwestern University.
Created to serve courses in American rhetorical history at the Northwestern University School of Speech, this site, named for the great orator Frederick Douglass, features the texts of 97 speeches and documents, many chosen because they had not been anthologized or previously included in websites. Presents orators as diverse as John Winthrop and Hillary Clinton, and includes subjects such as slavery, “State’s Rights, Federalism, Sectionalism, and the Role of Government,” women’s rights in the 1990s, and war and peace. The bulk of the material treats the period from the American Revolution to the Progressive Era. Searchable by speaker or author, title, date, and subject. The site also furnishes the complete text of
An Outline of American History, published by the United States Information Agency. Includes 17 links to professional speech associations and dozens of additional links to selected reference material. A useful collection of speeches and resources for the study of rhetoric.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2001-06-29.
Lewis and Clark: Maps of Exploration 1507–1814
Alderman Library, University of Virginia; Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.
This 1995 exhibition presents approximately 70 maps designed to help “understand [Thomas] Jefferson’s views of the West and the nature of the quest to the Pacific,” and to “show the evolution of cartographic knowledge of North America up to the time that [Meriwether] Lewis and [William] Clark set out.” Arranged into five sections, it treats the period from the arrival of Columbus in North America to Lewis and Clark’s 1803 voyage. Well-written background essays describe relevant monographs and journals, explain the role of technology in mapmaking, and elucidate the social and intellectual contexts of Western exploration. The site, which offers both European and American perspectives, also furnishes eight related links and a 31-title bibliography. Particularly useful for understanding the evolution of geographic knowledge about North America and for tracing the history of cartography during this period.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
Mark Twain in His Times
Stephen Railton, University of Virginia.
See JAH web review by Carl Smith.
Reviewed 2001-06-01.
This impressive, engaging site is based on the University of Virginia Barrett Collection of Mark Twain’s works and life. Three of the eight sections focus on Twain’s life and career, including the creation of his popular image, the marketing and promotion of his texts, and live performances. The other five sections center on major works, including
Innocents Abroad,
Tom Sawyer, and
Pudd’nhead Wilson. Each section is placed within a historical context, providing background as well as thought-provoking questions and interactive exhibits. The site includes an extensive collection of text sources, including 50 published texts or lectures, 16 letters, over 100 texts and excerpts from other late-19th-century authors, 29 items from publishers, including promotional material, 80 newspaper and magazine articles, 35 obituary notices, and over 100 contemporary reviews. In addition, there are hundreds of illustrations and photographs of and by Twain, as well as interactive graphic displays such as an essay on the role of images that explores the issue of Huck Finn and racism through the various American illustrations of Jim and a display of Mark Twain’s various signatures that encourages students to explore Clemens, Twain, and identity. This is an invaluable resource for high school and college teachers and students.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2007-10-03.
Regarding Vietnam: Stories Since the War
P.O.V. Interactive with PBS Online, Marc N. Weiss, director.
See JAH web review by Michael Frisch.
Reviewed 2002-06-01.
Created in 1996 to facilitate a “dialogue across differences,” this site provided a space where stories, opinions, photographs, and memories pertaining to the Vietnam War era were collected, organized according to broad topics, and displayed. In addition, visitors to the site between 1996 and 1998 participated in 227 discussion groups ranging in subject matter from protests against the war (which provoked 420 responses) to effects of the war on children today (which only drew two communications). Material ceased to be added to the site in 1998, search capabilities no longer work, and full texts of contributed stories are no longer accessible. Still, excerpts of 45 stories—on topics such as the “Wall,” movies, reconciliation, scars, heroes, and history—remain accessible, as well as complete texts from the discussion groups. The site also includes a useful 2,400-word guide by Bret Eynon to conducting oral histories on the impact of the Vietnam War era, which makes the salient point “that the goal is to gather stories not just about experiences of that time, but how those experiences have influenced people’s lives since then.” A valuable site for those studying the war and its legacy.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2002-05-28.
Documenting the American South
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Libraries.
See JAH web review by Crandall Shifflett.
Reviewed 2002-03-01.
This database presents nearly 1,400 primary documents about the American South in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Culled from the premier collections at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), the database features ten major projects. Presenting the beginnings of the University of North Carolina, “The First Century of the First State University,” offers “materials that document the creation and growth” of the University. “Oral Histories of th American South” has made 500 oral history interviews on the civil rights, environmental, industrial, and political history of the South.
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860–1920 offers approximately 140 diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives, and concentrates on women, blacks, workers, and American Indians. (See separate History Matters entry for more details.) “North American Slave Narratives” also furnishes about 250 texts. And the “Library of Southern Literature” makes available an additional 51 titles in Southern literature. “The Church in the Southern Black Community, Beginnings to 1920,” traces “how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.” "The Southern Homefront, 1861–1865“ documents ”non-military aspects of Southern life during the Civil War.“ The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940 provides approximately 575 histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, works of fiction, images, oral histories, and songs. North Carolinians and the Great War offers approximately 170 documents on effects of World War I and its legacy. Finally, ”True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina" analyzes 121 documents written by students attending the University of North Carolina. The projects are accompanied by essays from the
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and are searchable by author, keyword, and title. They reflect a larger effort, begun in 1995, to digitize the Southern collections at UNC.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2007-10-18.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
See JAH web review by Jeffrey Shandler.
Reviewed 2012-03-01.
Introduces the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, located in Washington, DC, and its important collections, in addition to presenting interactive exhibitions and providing resources for study of the Holocaust and related subjects. The site is composed of five sections: education, research, history, remembrance, and conscience. The education section includes material to introduce the subject of the Holocaust to middle- and secondary-level students; the full text of a resource book for teachers; information on publications, programs, fellowships, and internships for scholars, faculty, and university students; and 45 bibliographies arranged by country. The research section contains a survivors registry; material about the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; an international directory of activities relating to Holocaust-era assets; information on the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research; searchable catalogs pertaining to the Museum’s collections and library; and examples of artworks, artifacts, documents, photographs, films, videos, oral histories, and music. The history section includes the Holocaust Learning Center, with images, essays, and documents on 75 subjects such as anti-semitism, refugees, pogroms, extermination camps, and resistance. The remembrance section provides material on a recent commemorative ceremony undertaken by high school students from Germany, Luxembourg, Washington, D.C., and communities in the U.S. in which churches had been burned. The final section, devoted to the “Committee on Conscience” contains information on current genocidal practices in Sudan. An invaluable site for students as an introduction to Holocaust-related subjects, for scholars as a resource for further studies, and for others as a way to acknowledge the presence of the Holocaust in contemporary culture.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2007-10-12.
Women’s History: The 1850 Worcester Convention
Worcester Women’s History Project, Assumption College.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the First National Women’s Rights Convention, held in 1850 in Worcester, MA, this site provides an archive of documents relating to the convention, including 8 speeches, 15 newspaper accounts, 14 letters, and selected items from the proceedings. Also offers three speeches from the 1851 convention, as well as a host of other resources concerning the 19th-century woman’s movement more generally. Diary entries, government reports, tracts for and against suffrage, poems from
Godey’s Lady’s Book, and the full text of several books are included, such as
The Lady’s Guide to Perfect Gentility (1856). On an ongoing basis, the site presents essays about and selections by formerly well-known advocates for women’s rights who since have been forgotten; currently the works of Jane Grey Swisshelm and Caroline Wells Healy Dall are featured. Also includes links to 24 related websites. Comprehensive with regard to the 1850 convention, and useful for more general resources devoted to the mid-19th-century women’s rights movement.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Seneca Village
New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, and Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University.
An introduction to Seneca Village, a multi-ethnic community of African Americans and Irish and German immigrants destroyed by New York city officials in 1857 to clear land for Central Park. Through a selection of materials, currently limited to maps, images, and secondary essays, the site furnishes background on both Seneca Village and Central Park more generally. Also suggests “classroom activities” and provides a list of 63 related titles. Based on
The Park and the People—an award-winning history of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar—the site promises to expand significantly (but, as of October 2000 had not changed significantly from when it was launched a few years earlier). "Primary documents will include the New York State Manuscript Census for 1855; birth and death records; church registers and records; newspaper articles; political cartoons, drawings, illustrations, photographs, and maps. Many of these will be interactive, so that students can query the data directly. "
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
