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Chicago Imagebase
University of Illinois, Chicago.
Dedicated to “enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region,” this site hopes to offer a comprehensive “system for indexing, storing, retrieving, comparing, and analyzing images, maps, data, literature, and other geographically-based materials” on Chicago. Contains an array of historical and recent maps, photographs, and illustrations, plus textual information about Chicago’s history and architecture. Includes approximately 600 aerial photographs taken in 1996 by Alex S. MacLean; 83 photographs by C. William Brubaker; 14 by Robert Thall; multiple images of 55 buildings and historic sites; four Works Progress Administration land use maps; more than 30 images dealing with the Chicago Fire of 1871; 20 photographs by William Henry Jackson and Charles Dudley Arnold of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition; 22 Rand McNally “Bird’s Eye Views” from 1893; and numerous additional maps and images. An animated map shows the city’s expansion and the development of neighborhood communities from 1850 to 1990. Presently, the site focuses on four Chicago areas: the “Loop,” Lawndale, Armour Square, and Bridgeport. Though not updated since 1999, the site contains useful materials documenting Chicago’s development.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
The Declaration of Independence
National Archives and Records Administration.
A transcription of the Declaration of Independence is accompanied by images of the original document and the 1823 William J. Stone engraving on this site. Three related texts—the Virginia Declaration of Rights and two scholarly articles—(approximately 8,000 words each) provide further context: one details the history of the Declaration and includes a bibliography of eight titles; the other examines its language and “stylistic artistry.” Also includes links to two related institutional sites. See also
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/treasure/index.html.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-02.
Civil War Women
Digital Scriptorium, Duke University.
These Civil War-era documents relate to three American women of diverse backgrounds and political persuasions. Includes correspondence and news clippings relating to Rose O’Neal Greenhow, a Confederate spy and Washington socialite, whose espionage work was so appreciated by Jefferson Davis that he “credited her with winning the battle of Manassas”; correspondence, a testimonial, and a pension certificate relating to Sarah E. Thompson, who organized Union sympathizers near her home in the predominately Confederate-leaning town of Greenville, Tennessee, aided Union officers, served as an army nurse, and lectured about her war experiences; and 16-year-old Alice Williamson, a Gallatin, Tennessee, schoolgirl who kept a 36-page diary from February to September 1864 about the Union occupation of her town and atrocities attributed to the invading army. The materials are accompanied by 500–700 word background essays, images of original documents, and photographs of Greenhow and Thompson. Also contains nine links to additional resources.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Drafting the Documents of Independence
Library of Congress.
Eight documents and prints relating to the Declaration of Independence are presented, including a June 1826 letter from Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman, “considered one of the sublime exaltations of individual and national liberty.” Other documents include a fragment of the “earliest known draft of the Declaration of Independence”; Thomas Jefferson’s “’original Rough draught’” of the Declaration with later changes made by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and others; a portion of George Washington’s copy of the “’Dunlap Broadside’” of the Declaration, read to his troops in New York on July 9, 1776; and a print showing Washington’s troops reacting to the reading by destroying a statue of King George III. The site also offers a 500-word background essay and a chronology of events from June 7, 1776, to January 18, 1777. Well-organized to present evidence of the Declaration’s development and effect.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
EDSITEment
National Endowment for the Humanities.
This mega-gateway website serves as a portal for students and educators seeking vetted, high-quality lesson plans, websites, and student resources in history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, and art and culture. The lesson plan library includes more than 750 lessons, roughly half of which address topics in American and world history and social studies. Each is authored by an experienced educator and includes guiding questions, step-by-step guidelines, and links to background reading material. Many also include downloadable worksheets. The websites section is an ever-expanding database of more than 350 websites offering online primary sources and teaching materials, each accompanied by a brief annotation. Student Resources offers 170 interactive activities and visualizations, including, for example, animated campaign maps of the American Civil War, and an activity allowing students to rebuild the bridges connecting Asia Minor and Greece designed by Phoenician and Egyptian engineers 2,500 years ago. Especially useful for AP U.S. History teachers is the websites sub-section that pulls together materials of direct relevance to this curriculum. The websites Advanced Search feature allows for grade-level specific searches (K-2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12) as well as keyword, subject area, and resource type searches.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2001-05-28.
Enola Gay Exhibition
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Lincoln Legal Papers: A Documentary History of the Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836–1861
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
The description of a project begun in 1988 to collect and publish all surviving legal papers relating to Abraham Lincoln’s law practice. The site includes a detailed curriculum of six lesson plans formulated for middle- and high school students to learn to use the Lincoln law practice documents—13 of which are included—for the study of Illinois social history during a period of “transforming processes” at work as the state changed from a frontier society to a modern one. Also contains eight maps, a 3,000-word “narrative overview” of Lincoln’s legal practice, a 140-title bibliography, and issues of
Lincoln Legal Briefs, the project’s quarterly newsletter. Currently available in a three-volume DVD-ROM edition are nearly 100,000 documents from 5,660 cases obtained to date from archives, libraries, and other collections; a four-volume book edition of Lincoln’s most important and representative cases will be published in 2006. This site will interest legal historians, Lincoln scholars, and social historians of the frontier, and teachers of 19th-century legal and social history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-02.
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania.
Compiled by an English professor, this site presents more than 100 primary texts, essays, biographical sketches, obituaries, book reviews, and partially annotated links relating to the culture and politics of the 1950s. Organized alphabetically and according to lesson plans, this eclectic collection of material includes short stories by the communist writer Howard Fast; the text of two Woody Guthrie songs; entries from the
Encyclopedia of the American Left; excerpts from Vance Packard’s
The Status Seekers (1959); a bibliography about academic freedom in the postwar period; many items concerning McCarthyism; and selected texts organized around Ralph Ellison’s
Invisible Man (1952), Daniel Bell’s
The End of Ideology (1960), Betty Freidan’s
The Feminine Mystique (1963), and Philip Rieff’s
The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966). The site also offers materials about the 1930s and 1960s, as well as recently published retrospective analyses of the postwar period. A well-organized and selected group of key resources for the study of writings dealing with political, ideological, literary, and sociological topics in the 1950s.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project
Stanford University.
Features texts by and about Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled as part of an effort to “publish King’s most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.” The site contains approximately 1,400 digitized speeches, sermons, and other writings, mostly taken from the four volumes the Project has published to date, covering the period 1929–1968. In addition, 16 chapters of materials collected from diverse sources and published by the Project in 1998 as
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. are available. Includes important sermons and speeches from later periods, including the 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” the March on Washington address; the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech; and “Rediscovering Lost Values,” a sermon from 1954. The site also provides an interactive chronology of King’s life, two 1,000-word biographical essays by project director and historian Clayborne Carson; 23 audio files of recorded speeches and sermons; 12 articles on King by scholars and others; over 30 photographs; and 11 links to other resources. The site additionally offers a searchable inventory to King’s major papers and recordings. Regularly updated and expanded, this site is useful for studying the development of King’s views and discourse on civil rights, race relations, non-violence, education, peace, the war in Vietnam, and other political, religious, and philosophical topics.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
American Slave Narratives
Bruce Fort, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia.
This site contains selections from 13 interviews with former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938 by journalists working for the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration. Each selection is accompanied by a brief biographical sketch of the interviewee, a photograph or drawing of the interviewee taken at the time of the interview, and in one instance, an audio component. Includes guidelines for reading slave narratives, a bibliography of 16 scholarly works on the history of slavery, and 21 links to related sites in general American history, southern history, and African-American history. A useful sample of first-hand testimony on American slave experience and culture.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
The Scout Report
Internet Scout Project, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin.
The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Our team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Electronic Access Project
National Archives and Records Administration.
The mission of this project from the National Archives is “to ensure ready access to essential evidence . . . that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience.” The site includes the Online Exhibit Hall, the Digital Classroom, information about NARA events and seminars, and links to NARA online research tools. An indispensable source for teachers and researchers.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
New York Public Library.
This massive collection presents more than 550,000 images relevant to both U.S. and world history, from the earliest days of print culture to the present. These images consist primarily of historical maps, posters, prints and photographs, illuminated manuscript pages, and images drawn from published books. For browsing, the materials are divided by subject heading, library of origin, the name of the item’s creator and/or publisher, and by collection: Arts & Literature; Cities & Building; Culture & Society; History & Geography; Industry & Technology; Nature & Science; and Printing & Graphics. Within these broad collection headings, the images are further subdivided into more specific groupings, for example, Indonesian dance, dress and fashion, Civil War medical care, and New York City apartment buildings. Keyword and Advanced Search options are useful for those wishing to locate specific items. All images can be downloaded for personal use and are accompanied by detailed biographic information, though users will have to turn elsewhere for further historical context.
Resources Available: IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
American Religion Links
Briane Turley, West Virginia University.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
American Visions
Public Broadcasting Service.
Designed to complement
American Visions, a 1997 television series written and narrated by art historian and critic Robert Hughes in an attempt “to look at America through the lens of its visual culture and to see what we can tell about the American experience through the things Americans have made.” The site explores more than 150 American paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, buildings, and monuments from the late 17th century to 1990. Includes “an interactive presentation summarizing and expanding upon Robert Hughes' views of America as seen through its art,” a bibliography of approximately 50 titles, links to 31 articles by Hughes, more than 100 links to related sites, and an online forum archive. The site presents historical and critical comments on art pieces in a clear, informative, and lively fashion, and will be of interest to those attempting to connect the study of art history American history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-02.
American Verse Project
Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan and University of Michigan Press.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898–1935
Jim Zwick.
See JAH web review by Pennee Bender.
Reviewed 2002-06-01.
Begun by Jim Zwick in 1994, while a doctoral student at Syracuse University, this innovative site of important texts on American imperialism and its opponents presents approximately 800 essays, speeches, pamphlets, political platforms, editorial cartoons, petitions, and pieces of literature, such as Mark Twain’s anti-imperialist writings and the text of Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” accompanied by 50 contemporary reactions. Arranged by document type and searchable by keyword, the materials also include information concerning bulletin boards and electronic discussion networks. The site is regularly updated.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-24.
The American 1890s
William E. Grant, Bowling Green State University.
A collaborative effort between students and faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, this site includes two sections. In the first, a timeline from 1888 to 1899 provides, for each year, snapshots of major national events, personalities, and statistics as well as excursions to approximately 30 additional links, background essays, images, quotations, bibliographies, and other material. The second, “Bowling Green, Ohio: A Tour of the Crystal City,” contains 27 photographs; a month-by-month timeline covering town events during the years 1892–97; a 19,000-word essay written in 1897 on Bowling Green’s “early history”; and essays ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 words on specific topics. No search engine, but the site may be browsed by year. Useful both as a general overview of the period and as a local history resource.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-05.
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
University of Pennsylvania Library.
See JAH web review by Joan Bristol.
Reviewed 2009-09-01.
Texts about the Americas produced in Europe from the 15th through the 19th centuries are examined in this exhibit, drawn from the collections of the Jay A. Kislak Foundation and the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Approximately 100 images of printed texts, drawings, artworks, and maps from published and unpublished sources are arranged into six thematic categories: “Promotion and Possession,” “Viewers and the Viewed,” “Print and Native Cultures,” “Religion and Print,” “New World Lands in Print,” and “Colonial Fictions, Colonial Histories.” Three scholarly essays ranging from 5,000 to 7,000 words in length contextualize the documents. A 36-title bibliography and list of 25 links accompany the presentation. A visually attractive, thoughtfully arranged site that explores connections between colonization experiences and representations.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Maritime Antebellum America
Mystic Seaport Museum.
See JAH web review by John David Smith.
Reviewed 2001-09-01.
Presents more than 500 primary documents relating to the 1839–1842 revolt of enslaved Africans aboard the schooner
Amistad, their legal struggles in the United States, and the multifaceted cultural and social dimensions of their case. The site features a searchable library that contains 32 items from personal papers, 33 legal decisions and arguments, 18 selections from the “popular media, including pamphlets, journal articles, reports, a playbill, and a poem; 103 government publications, 28 images, 11 maps and nautical charts, and 310 newspaper articles and editorials. Also includes suggestions for using these materials in the classroom, a timeline, 28 links to other resources, and a ”living the history" component that encourages user feedback and participation. A visually attractive, well-conceived site that provides a wealth of materials for students of slavery, race, politics, and print culture in antebellum America.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-17.
The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
University of Washington Libraries.
Internment experiences of Americans and Canadians of Japanese heritage in the Northwest during World War II are documented in this site, which features an exhibit that “tells the story of Seattle’s Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as ‘Camp Harmony.’” The internment camp section furnishes nearly 150 primary documents—including 12 issues of the “Camp Harmony Newsletter,” 16 government documents, 10 letters, 39 photographs, 24 drawings, a scrapbook, 20 newspaper clippings, and a 7,500-word chapter from the book
Nisei Daughter that describes camp life. The site also provides archival guides and inventories for 21 University of Washington Library manuscript holdings relating to the internment and for 21 related collections; a 46-title bibliography for further reading; and additional information and documents related to Japanese Canadian internment. Valuable for those studying the wartime experiences and culture of interned Japanese Americans.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-07-05.
Posters: American Style
National Museum of American Art.
An exhibit of 20th-century poster art relating to three subjects: commerce, propaganda, and patriotism. Presents approximately 135 posters, arranged into four thematic categories: “American Events”; “Designed to Sell”; “Advice to Americans”; and “Patriotic Persuasion.” The selections—which concentrate “on major artists and images that have endured in our collective memory”—include 100-word biographical sketches of artists, short introductions for each category, and other pertinent background information. Special focus is directed to posters on the 1939 World’s Fair, the war in Vietnam, the Black Panther movement, the moon landing, the motion picture
Vertigo, the poem “Howl,” Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” address and Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Audio files and photographs related to these topics are included. The site also contains a 4,000-word essay by curator Therese Heyman, discussing the history and concept of poster art, notes on the process of production, and a discussion of the impact of posters. A site of particular interest to art historians and scholars of popular culture.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2001-07-05.
