National Women’s History Project
National Women’s History Project.
Introduces the National Women’s History Project, “a non-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational material and programs.” Includes a 5,000-word essay on the history of the women’s rights movement and a 7,000-word timeline. The site gives detailed information about the organization’s activities, including efforts to bring women’s history into public life; a list of curricular ideas for teachers; material concerning National Women’s History Month; and a 15-question quiz on Women’s History. Perhaps most valuable, the site furnishes approximately 200 partially annotated links, arranged into 12 broad categories such as “Politics,” “World History,” and “Math and Science.” Though lacking in primary source material, this site provides useful beginning resources for the study and practice of women’s history.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-09.

Journal of the History of Sexualty
University of Chicago Press; John C. Fout, Editor.
This is the homepage of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, a publication of the University of Chicago Press and edited by John C. Fout. The site includes a cumulative listing of articles.
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The Great War Society
Michael E. Hanlon and Mike Iavarone, Hoover Institution of War, Peace, and Revolution.
The homepage for an organization that “encourages discussion, learning, scholarship and independent research on the events surrounding the First World War.” Currently presents four exhibits: “The Doughboy Center: The American Expeditionary Forces”; “La Grande Guerra: The Italian Front, 1915–1918”; “France at War”; and “Legends and Traditions of the Great War.” A fifth exhibit, “Russian Revolution and Civil War,” is scheduled for summer 2002. The site furnishes information about the society’s activities and events and contains issues from its journal, Relevance. Also includes a listing of more than 400 links to resources about the war. Although the site contains few primary materials, it should prove useful to those interested in military and social aspects of the war.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-09.

Chicago Historical Society
This is the site of the Chicago Historical Society, a “privately endowed, independent institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois.” We have links to the web exhibitions. ks
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Website last visited on 1998-12-27.

World War I, 1914–1918
Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College, Department of National Defence (Canada).
An excellent site devoted mostly to the military history of the war. The design is fairly bland, but the information presented is comprehensive and international. Includes, for example, full-text links to photographs, maps, aerial operations, art and literature, general resources, personal diaries and memoirs, campaigns and battles, memorials, and interesting and useful essays about each country’s participation, thus we get information on everything from the political consequences of the war for Armenia to the standard narratives of the war’s effects on the U.S. and others. There are original essays, as well as documents and pamphlets culled from the Library of Congress and archives across the U.S. In addition to its concentration on military history, it also includes info on “war and the intellectuals” and “war and propaganda.”
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Home Plate: Baseball in the 1930s
Larry S. Bonura .
Created by historian of baseball Larry Bonura—an author of five books on non-baseball subjects and more than 250 published articles—this site addresses major- and minor-league baseball during the 1930s. Presents an annotated bibliography of 22 works and nine links to related baseball sites, which include The Louisville Slugger Museum, National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, Negro Leagues Online Archives, and the Society for American Baseball Research. Also gives information regarding electronic discussion networks, and furnishes two essays by Bonura. Limited in content, this is perhaps most useful as an introduction.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-09.

This Was Negro League Baseball
Andrew D. Todd.
Contains excellent and easily navigable format; however, the site is still under construction. Site is divided into history, players, teams, and sources. The players section displays a player of the month and provides access to information of past players of the month. Gives brief essays on Pop Llyod, Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey (a coach and manager), Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, and Buck Leonard. Each player biography is about three paragraphs long. Lists only six references. Site promises to be worthwhile for information about the Negro League but currently contains nothing outstanding for the teacher, student and researcher. Not certain when site will be complete and not updated often.
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Website last visited on 1998-09-01.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc..
Official site of the Baseball Hall of Fame, located in Cooperstown, New York. Gives 100-word biographies on all past 253 inductees and 1,000-word essays on the four members elected in 2001. Includes four educational programs, each containing 4–5 primary source documents—cartoons, articles, letters, photographs, and advertisements—on World War II and baseball, Jackie Robinson, the Negro Leagues, and women in baseball. Provides extensive bibliographies of more than 100 titles each on Robinson, Roberto Clemente, women in baseball, sex discrimination in athletics, and the 1972 antitrust suit “Flood v. Kuhn,” dealing with baseball’s controversial “reserve clause.” Also includes a 4,000-word essay on a leading midwest minor league team from 1901–1961; research lists dealing with baseball trivia topics; an exhibit of paraphernalia given by a collector; a “Treasures of the Hall of Fame Quiz” for visitors age 12 and under; links to 34 major and minor league ball club sites; and information about using the organization’s library and research collections. A useful source of historical information on baseball players, clubs, leagues, law, and lore.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-14.

The Lindbergh Case: The Trial of the Century
Hunterdon County Democrat.
Created by a weekly newspaper based in Flemington, New Jersey, this site is devoted the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and the subsequent trial of a 35-year-old Bronx carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Among the few primary materials included are approximately 35 photographs related to the trial and six episodes from a 1934–35 comic strip about the crime. The site offers a summary of events and biographies of the leading characters, theories about Hauptmann’s innocence, a timeline, nine recent articles from the newspaper on the case and about several “Lindbergh baby claimants.” Of limited value due to the site’s reliance on only one newspaper for most of its documentation.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-09.

Charles Lindbergh
MicroWings, Inc., The International Association For Aerospace Simulations.
This site is comprised of brief notes on Lindbergh’s flight, as well as useful links to Roosevelt field in Long Island, New York, Le Bourget field near Paris, France, and other sites devoted to Lindbergh.
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Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee
The E.W. Scripps Company.
This site, created by the E.W. Scripps Co., the sponsor of the national spelling bee, includes a brief history of the bee, as well as a complete listing of the winning words from 1925 to the present. It also includes some interesting notes on the origins of obscure words.
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Classic Felix the Cat Page
David Gerstein.
Divided into news, history, comics, filmography, music, film posters, critical writing, art, links, and quicktime movies, this is the most comprehensive and informative site on the web about Felix the Cat. Although somewhat difficult to read due to an unfortunate choice of background, David Gerstein, its creator, has provided a wealth of information.
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Website last visited on 2004-06-17.

Felix the Cat Homepage
Felix the Cat Productions Inc..
This “official” site, created and maintained by Felix the Cat Productions Inc., includes photos—black and white as well as color—an on-line store, and a brief history of Felix.
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RiverWeb: River Basin Knowledge Network
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Education and Outreach Division.
This education and outreach program from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, encourages citizens “to participate actively in managing the watershed resources during the next century.” It is a “knowledge network for the Mississippi River Basin.” RiverWeb is concerned with “fostering informed discourse on environmental issues of vital concern to river basin communities.” RiverWeb provides historical perspective, as well as contemporary information, on this area.
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Website last visited on 1998-11-27.

Still Going On: Celebrating The Life and Times of William Grant Still
The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
An exhibit devoted to William Grant Still (1895–1978), “the first African-American composer to have a symphony performed by an American orchestra.” Includes annotations on more than 100 documents relating to his life and work, such as articles by Still, correspondence, scores, audio clips, programs, photographs, newspaper reviews, and testimonials. Also provides a complete discography, bibliography of 80 titles, and timeline of the “cultural connections” fostered by Still and his music. Of value to those with a specific interest in Still’s life, work, and cultural milieu, and to students of 20th-century classical music and the experience of African-American artists in general.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-14.

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Matthew Kirschenbaum and Catherine Tousignant, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
Complete facsimile and transcript versions of the March 1925 Survey Graphic special “Harlem Number,” edited by Alain Locke, who later republished and expanded the contents as the famous New Negro anthology. The effort constituted “the first of several attempts to formulate a political and cultural representation of the New Negro and the Harlem community” of the 1920s. The journal is divided into three sections: “The Greatest Negro Community in the World,” "The Negro Expresses Himself,“ and ”Black and White—Studies in Race Contacts." The site also includes essays by Locke, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James W. Johnson; poems by Countee Cullen, Anne Spencer, Angelina Grimke, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Langston Hughes; and quotations from reviews of the issue. A well-presented, primary source document of value for those studying the Harlem Renaissance.
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Website last visited on 2007-10-18.

Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
The life and work of black activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)—“leader of the largest organized mass movement in black history,” the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and “champion of the back-to-Africa movement,”—is presented in this site. Features 40 documents—including correspondence, editorials, reports of U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation agents, articles from African-American newspapers, and a chapter from his autobiography—which have been selected from a 12-volume publication of 30,000 documents on Garvey and UNIA. Accompanied by 15 authoritative background essays ranging from 1,000 to 20,000 words. Also provides four audio clips from recordings of speeches Garvey made in 1921 and 22 images, including photos of Garvey, his wife, and colleagues, and facsimiles of UNIA documents. Particularly valuable as a condensed history of Garvey’s movement and also useful for those studying African-American political and cultural movements in general.
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Website last visited on 2007-10-18.

Red Hot and Cool Jazz
Jay Lackritz .
Created by a jazz aficionado, this site features partially annotated links to an abundance of jazz resources divided into 10 sections, including “Jazz History,” with links to five sites; “Cool Jazz Links,” providing more than 200 sites arranged alphabetically; and “Red Hot Jazz Clips,” with access to approximately 30-second clips from eight performers—John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Joe Williams, Duke Ellington, and Eric Dolphy. Sections also include “Live ’Net Radio,” which allows visitors to listen to live broadcasts; “CD Universe,” featuring samples of more than 15 recent recordings; links to five jazz chat rooms; and a link to Yahoo’s ”Musical Artist" search engine. While the site is valuable as a gateway to a wide range of jazz-related links, a cluttered design makes navigation cumbersome.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-11.

The Jazz Age: A Fusion of Music and Literature
Terence Maikels.
This site, created by a person “researching literature and cultural movements during the Jazz Age,” is comprised of links, images, and biographical information for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer. Also includes links to Harlem Renaissance Movement and the literature of the Jazz Age.
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The Jazz Age Page
R. Richard Savill.
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People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History
Paul Halsall .
Created by historian Paul Halsall, this site explores through links to hundreds of primary and secondary documents the history of homosexuals and “transgendered people” from classical antiquity to the present day. Arranged into 11 sections—each with their own table of contents—the site treats a strikingly wide range of themes, regions, and time periods. For example, section two, “Medieval Worlds,” is comprised of five “chapters” that cover early Christianity, Byzantium, the Latin Christian Middle Ages, Islam, and Ancient and Medieval Jews, respectively, and includes poems, literature, essays, and historical scholarship. Another section, “History and Theory,” offers links to interviews with prominent scholars, reviews of recent books, discussions of queer theory, and ruminations on the work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Partially annotated, the links are accompanied by background essays. The site also presents an incredibly thorough bibliography—perhaps “the most up-to-date and complete bibliography of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] history available.” Regularly updated, this is an impressive collection of links which promises to expand.
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Website last visited on 2000-10-20.

Gerber/Hart Library: Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Libraries, Archives & Virtual Research Collections
Tom Jevec, Gerber/Hart Archives.
This useful gateway site, maintained by the Gerber/Hart Library, “the Midwest’s largest gay, lesbian and bisexual circulating library, archives and resource center,” offers extensive links to gay and lesbian resources on the web. There are links to 18 libraries and archives in the US and internationally, such as the Stonewall Center Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University, and the Lesbian History project collection of oral histories. Additional links lead to 5 archive and library lists compiled by other organizations, as well as 20 related library and education resources and organizations.
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Gay and Lesbian Regional History
Jim Sears.
Created by James T. Sears, “southern educator, author, and lecturer,” this site of approximately 60 links and secondary source materials presents an idiosyncratic collection of resources devoted to gay and lesbian history and culture with an emphasis on the American south. “Generations: A Cultural and Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1895–1999,” includes five chronologically-oriented collections of materials, (a sixth, covering the period from 1984–1999 is not presently accessible) along with excerpts from Sears’s books Lonely Hunters (1997) and Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones (2000). The site also contains a timeline from 1860 to the present, reminiscences of Stonewall, 24 links to gay and lesbian life in the west and on the east coast, and 13 additional links to international sites. Valuable as a gateway to diverse regionally-oriented sites and especially for resources on the history of southern gay culture.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-11.

Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Department of History, New York University.
Selected materials by and about the “birth control pioneer” Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) are provided here. A link to a companion site offers approximately 200 documents dealing with the The Woman Rebel, Sanger’s 1914 “radical feminist monthly,” for which she was indicted and tried for violation of federal obscenity laws. The project plans to digitize more than 600 of Sanger�s speeches and articles. At present, they offer twenty-five transcribed speeches, 182 newspaper articles from 1911–1921, four public statements, a letter written by Sanger in 1915, and more than fifty articles from the Margaret Sanger Papers Project Newsletter, some of which contain primary source materials. There are plans to add more to the online archive regularly. Materials also include twenty-seven links to sites offering Sanger writings, a biographical essay, and a thirty-one-title bibliography. Links to collections of images and an MP3 file of Margaret Sanger’s 1953 “This I Believe” speech are also available. A useful introduction to Sanger’s life and work.
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Website last visited on 2007-10-18.

Sample Bibliography of Ku Klux Klan Documents
Michigan State University Libraries.
This consists solely of three primary documents relating to the KKK in the 1920s: “To the citizens of Michigan,” “Women of the Ku Klux Klan,” and “The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked.” Michigan State is beefing up their collection of Klan material, as part of their American Radicalism collections, and these are merely sample documents. No accompanying essays or photos included. The documents are not converted to characters, but simply reprinted as in their original form. All are pro-Klan.
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Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota.
“Founded in 1965 the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota is an international resource on American immigration and ethnic history. It maintains archival and library collections, sponsors academic and public programs, and publishes bibliographic and scholarly works.” This site provides on-line searching of the collections, but no links to relevant pages; it is pretty much self-contained. Still, an important place to know in regard to immigration history.
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Ethnic Mosaic of the Quad Cities
Augustana College; Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center; Putnam Museum.
An exhibition of 75 photographs taken between 1870 and the 1980s, but centering on the first 30 years of the 20th century, and emphasizing ethnic, religious, and social organizations in the area known as the “Quad Cities” Rock Island, IL, Moline, IL, Davenport, IA, and Bettendorf, IA. Arranged into six thematic categories—family life, religion, work and business, societies, music and theater groups, and athletics—photographs present groups of African-Americans, Armenians, Belgians, Croatians, Czechs, Germans, Greeks, Irish, Italians, Jews, Lithuanians, Mexicans, Native Americans, Poles, Slovaks, Swedes, and Thais to ”illustrate the common experiences and the shared realities of the ethnic people who have worked, worshipped, lived, died, laughed, prospered, and sometimes failed in this place." Supplemented with captions identifying people and places where known, and by half a dozen documents, including newspaper and journal articles, a college catalog, an interview, and a program. A useful site for teachers of ethnic and immigration history as well as Midwestern history.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-11.

Biographical Focus: Franz Boas (1858–1942)
Marilyn Levine, Division of Social Sciences, Lewis-Clark State College.
Divided into three separate pages, “Biographical Focus: Franz Boas (1858–1942),” “Franz Boas - Expeditions & Ethnological Research,” and “Franz Boas-Writings.” It includes a Boas diary entry, various photos, a brief essay, and a chart delineating the duration of Boas’ field trips to the northwest coast.
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Archiving Early America
Don Vitale.
Presents about 50 facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of original documents, newspapers, books, autobiographies, biographies, portraits, and maps from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Examples include the Declaration of Independence, the Jay Treaty, George Washington’s journal of his trip to the Ohio Valley, published in the 1754 Maryland Gazette, and 15 contemporary obituaries of well-known figures. Portraits include 24 statesmen and 12 “notable women.” The site also furnishes guidelines for deciphering early American documents; seven “short films of noteworthy events,” including a 35-minute feature entitled “The Life of George Washington”; four discussion forums; a collection of interactive crossword puzzles; the online journal, The Early America Review; and a news-ticker relating events that occurred “On This Day in Early America.” Includes an “Early American Digital Library” from which visitors can view more than 200 digital images from early American engravings of people, places, and events (full-size images are available for purchase). Created by a collector of early Americana, this useful site is unfortunately marred by annoying blinking advertisements.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-06.

Civil War Letters of Galutia York
Sue Greenhagen, Technical Services Librarian, SUNY Morrisville.
Features 48 letters from Galutia York, a 19-year-old Union solider from an upstate New York farm family. The letters are directed to family members, and cover the period from August 1862 to May 1863, when York died from disease. The site also includes a letter from a private in York’s company and one from his captain, both to York’s family expressing their condolences. Arranged chronologically, the transcriptions, formatted like the actual letters, provide brief summaries and supplementary materials on persons and places mentioned in the letters, including three photographs, a map, and two other images. The site also gives facsimile reproductions of a partial letter and an envelope, and links to a site for the 114th New York State Volunteer Infantry Archives. Valuable for those interested in the experiences of ordinary soldiers during wartime.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-09.