History: World Subject Guide
Web Resources
170 resources available
- Restricted to WMU users 
- Open Access
- General Interest
- Ancient History
- Latin American Studies
- Medieval Studies
- Michigan-Related Sites
- Minority and Ethnic Groups
- Modern World History
- Museums
- Non-Western World
- Professional and Federal Organizations
- Sites for K-12 Educators
- Slavery & the U.S. Civil War
- Women's Studies
General Interest
Title: WMU History Department
Description:
Offers information about undergraduate and graduate programs at WMU, history faculty, financial aid, the Archives and Regional History Collections of the WMU Libraries, and the Great Lakes Center for Maritime Studies.
Title: American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
Description:
Prepared by the Kingwood Library of Lone Star College, this site presents a decade-by-decade exploration of American culture in the 20th century. Each decade explores art and architecture, books and literature, fads and fashion, education, historic events, technology, music, personalities, and theater and film. Includes many historical photographs.
Title: American Memory
Description:
Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.
Title: ArchNet: WWW Virtual Library - Archaeology
Description: Hosted by Arizona State University, this site provides organized access to archaeological resources available on the Internet arranged by geographic region and subject; includes links to museums around the world.
Title: Art History Resources on the Web
Description:
Created by Christopher Witcombe, professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, this site directs the user to Web resources by time and stylistic periods. Also includes links to museums and galleries.
Title: Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Description:
A digital collection of important documents in American history, politics and government from the 18th century to the present day.
Title: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
Description:
This site contains thousands of artifacts relating to American political history, from ballots and slates, to songbooks, to buttons and souvenirs of all kinds. The collection belongs to Cornell University and includes items from 1789 through 1972.
Title: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Description:
A site containing over 180,000 links to genealogical materials worldwide, classified and cross-referenced in over 150 categories.
Title: Documenting the American South
Description:
A collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century; hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
Title: Early Encounters in North America: Peoples Cultures, and the Environment
Description:
This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries and other accounts of traders, explorers, native peoples, and others from 1534 to 1850. Indexed by place, year, peoples, cultural events, and other categories.
Title: History Channel: Speeches
Description:
Contains hundreds of speeches that can be searched by speaker, subject or time period. Also includes an alphabetical list of all the speeches, arranged by surname. Each speech includes a written context.
Title: History Net
Description: A commercial site that presents popular articles on all aspects of American and world history, including interviews, eyewitness accounts, and historic travel.
Title: H-Net Discussion Networks
Description: A clearinghouse of nearly 100 electronic networks on all aspects of history that links educators and students in an exchange of ideas and materials; hosted by Michigan State University.
Title: In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
Description:
This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
Title: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Description:
Searchable collection of over one million digital images representing a
cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs
Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The
Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a
contribution to education and scholarship.
Title: Making of America (Cornell University)
Description:
Title: Making of America (University of Michigan)
Description:
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Includes over 4 million page images, representing close to 13,000 volumes of primary source materials, including books and periodicals. Cornell University has focused on the major journal literature of the period. The University of Michigan has focused on monographs.
Title: Maps and References
Description: A sizeable gateway to maps around the world, sponsored by the University of Iowa.
Title: North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Description:
A digital collection of letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories of immigrants to America and Canada. The 100,000 pages of materials cover 1840 to 1980 and represent immigrants from many countries.
Title: Oral History Online
Description:
An index to thousands of oral histories in English from collections on the public Web, gathered from repositories, libraries and archives around the world. When possible, interview transcripts, sometimes with audio or video, are included. There are numerous ways to search the interviews. Updated regularly.
Title: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps of the United States
Description:
A collection of digital maps at the University of Texas arranged chronologically by early inhabitants and settlement, territorial growth, and military history. Includes links to other good map sites.
Title: Scholars Guide to WWW
Description: Maintained by the University of Chicago, this comprehensive site contains links to hundreds of Web sites pertaining to the social studies. Especially good are the links to both U.S. and world history, some of which are annotated by the author.
Title: Voice of the Shuttle: Web Pages for Humanities Research
Description:
An enormous Web site hosted by the University of California at Santa Barbara which presents thousands of links to sites of interest to all areas in the humanities, including history, classical studies, and women's studies; provides a site search engine.
Title: WWW Virtual Library History: United States
Description:
Maintained by the Kansas Heritage Group, this site is full of links to quality Web sites covering all periods in American history. One can search chronologically or by broad topics.
Ancient History
Title: Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Description: Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for scholars interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach about women and gender in the ancient world. This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many online resources.
Title: Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Description: Presents a wide variety of information resources of the ancient cultures of the following countries and regions: the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, early Islam, and Medieval Europe; hosted by the University of Evansville.
Title: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Description:
This site, hosted by Fordham University, provides researchers with links to full-text primary and secondary sources on the ancient world. Use the links on the left side of the page to help navigate through the site.
Title: Perseus Digital Library
Description:
Hosted by Tufts University, this is a growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world; materials include texts and translations, philological tools, maps, and well illustrated art catalogs.
Title: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
Description: This site offers 29 lessons, links, a glossary, and a chronology of the prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean area; hosted by Dartmouth University.
Title: Rome Reborn 1.0
Description:
Created at the University of Virginia, this site digitally recreates the ancient city of Rome at the height of its power, around 320 A.D. There are both still images and several video clips that offer an aerial view of the city, a visit to the Colosseum, a trip through the Roman Forum, and interior views of the basilica built by the emperor Maxentius. The simulation reconstructs approximately 7,000 structures at the time of the emperor Constantine.
Latin American Studies
Title: ArchNet: Resources for South American Archaeology
Description:
Part of the ArchNet Web site, this page features a collection of online resources related to the archaeology of South America.
Title: H-LatAm
Description: An international forum, hosted by Michigan State University, for the scholarly discussion of Latin American history; includes book reviews, bibliographies, journals, curriculum materials, and links to other Web sites.
Title: Internet Resources for Latin America
Description: This site, created at New Mexico State University, contains links to hundreds of sites dealing with Latin America, including such topics as current events, directories, news, public domain databases, library catalogs, newspapers, newsgroups, and much more.
Title: LADARK: Latin American Development Archive
Description:
Housed at the University of Texas at San Antonio, this site provides access to the Ibero-American Development Electronic Archive, including data sets and considerable information of interest to students and scholars in Latin American studies.
Title: Latin American National Archives
Description:
Offered by UNESCO, this site provides links to the Web sites of the National Archives of Latin American countries.
Title: Latin American Studies (LANIC)
Description: Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, this site contains thousands of useful links to information about the Caribbean, Central, and South American nations.
Title: Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room
Description: A site hosted by the Library of Congress that includes digitized information about Latin America and Spain, including an online version of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. Has a link to the Portals of the World site which offers hundreds of links to related sites on Latino countries.
Title: Modern History Sourcebook: 19th Century Latin America
Description: Arranged by country, this site provides links to Web sites containing full-text primary documents on the history of Latin and South America in the nineteenth century.
Title: Organization of American States
Description: The regional organization, that includes all countries except Cuba, whose aim is to strengthen democracy, advance human rights, promote peace and security, expand trade, and deal with social issues such as drugs and poverty. Includes thousands of useful links to member countries and the issues.
Title: Religion in Latin America
Description: A project at Providence College, this site hosts discussion, information, analysis and research on the state of religion in the Latin American world.
Medieval Studies
Title: Argos
Description: Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World Wide Web; it covers all aspects of the ancient and medieval worlds.
Title: Byzantine and Medieval Studies
Description: Attempts to track all Byzantine material on the Internet, and all significant entry points for Medieval studies.
Title: Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
Description: Developed by Paul Halsall, this site provides a wide offering of sites of interest to Byzantine scholars. Includes links to full text, images and sound files, along with a detailed subject listing of topics and related Web sites.
Title: Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Medieval Europe
Description: Presents an overview of the Medieval world, including a chronology, essays, images, links to Internet sites, and texts.
Title: Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Indes
Description:
Hosted by the University of Iowa, this site covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women,
sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. You can search by keywords or broad topics. It does not contain any full-text.
Title: Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Description:
Hosted by the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies, this site offers researchers a selection of primary and secondary sources from the medieval period. Use the handy "Selected Sources Sections" on the left hand side of the page to help navigate.
Title: Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Description: Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University; it also provides links to text and image databases and sites.
Title: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
Description: Established in 1961 as a center for teaching and research in the history and culture of the Middle Ages, this Institute fosters research through its annual International Congress on Medieval Studies and its numerous publications.
Title: NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
Description: A complex site which divides the medieval world into 17 categories, including art, culture, literature, music, religion, women and philosophy; includes its own keyword search index, a medieval glossary, and links to key medieval sites.
Title: Online Medieval & Classical Library
Description:
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization; hosted by the University of California at Berkeley.
Title: ORB-Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Description:
A cooperative effort on the part of medieval scholars across the Internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World Wide Web; includes access to the Internet Medieval Sourcebook and links to other sites.
Title: WWW Medieval Resources
Description: Hosted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, this site offers access to discussion lists, libraries, history, manuscript facsimiles, and databases dealing with the medieval period.
Michigan-Related Sites
Title: H-Michigan Discussion Group
Description: A site dedicated to the discussion of the study of the history of the state of Michigan.
Title: Making of Modern Michigan
Description:
Hosted at Michigan State University, this is a full-text collaborative project involving more than 50 libraries in Michigan. It includes local history materials from Michigan communities, including such things as historical photographs, oral histories, family papers, genealogical materials, and much more. One can search by keyword, or browse through the subject, institution and type of material indexes.
Title: Michigana Sabin Collection
Description:
Part of the Michigan Electronic Library. This digital archive provides access to a wide variety of documents relating to Michigan history including personal narratives and memoirs; pamphlets and political speeches; sermons and songs, legal treatises, and children's books and more.
Title: Michigan Council for the Social Studies
Description:
An organization dedicated to promoting professional interest in and improvement of social studies instruction.
Title: Michigan County Histories
Description:
The Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. The collection is projected to provide access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 195 volumes in 164 titles currently online.
Title: Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
Description:
Established in 1966, this organization identifies, evaluates, registers, interprets and protects Michigan's wealth of historic properties, from significant buildings to shipwrecked vessels.
Minority and Ethnic Groups
Title: African American History
Description:
Connects browsers to sites about African American history; hosted by the Historical Text Archives project founded in 1990 at Mississippi State University to aid in the study and teaching of history.
Title: African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Description:
Eventually this database will contain the full-text of major 19th century African-American newspapers providing first-hand stories by way of biographies as well as statistics, essays, editorials, and advertisements serving as primary source historical documentation. Search individual newspapers or group together.
Title: African-American Women
Description:
Contains on-line archival collections about African American women at the Duke University Library.
Title: Afro-American History
Description:
Hosted by the African American Web Connection, click on the History box on the left hand side of the page to access excellent links to sites about African American history.
Title: American Jewish Archives
Description:
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry. This page contains selected Internet resources for American Jewish history and genealogy.
Title: American Jewish Committee Archives
Description:
A site with primary documents relating to the history of the American Jewish Committee, begun in the early 20th century. Includes 40 films, radio broadcasts, a superb oral history collection of interviews, and full-text volumes of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to the present. The archives can be browsed by author, date, or keyword.
Title: Ancestors in the Americas
Description: This site accompanies the PBS series Ancestors in the Americas and is especially useful for the links it provides to the history of Asians in the United States, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Pacific Islander, and Southeast Asian.
Title: Black Thought and Culture
Description:
A digital collection of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.
Title: Bureau of Indian Affairs
Description:
Housed under the U.S. Department of the Interior, the mission of this agency is "to fulfill trust responsibilities and promote self-determination" of Native American peoples.
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Title: Celebrating Black History on the Web
Description:
Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder, this site presents links to Web sites by broad topics such as almanacs, biography, demographics, history, law, literature, and online exhibits.
Title: H-AMINDIAN (American Indian History and Culture)
Description: Produced by H-NET and Arizona State University, this site provides links to the history of Native Americans arranged under broad topics. Also includes a discussion list.
Title: Hispanic America USA
Description: Links to Web sites that offer a view of the contributions of Hispanics to the United States of America.
Title: Images of African Americans in the 19th Century
Description:
Hosted by the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site offers around 500 archival photographs, drawings and postcards of African Americans from the post-Civil War period through the early years of the twentieth century. The collection can be searched by broad topics or keywords.
Title: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Description: This comprehensive site, arranged in 31 subcategories, provides links to all aspects of Native Americans and other indigenous peoples.
Title: Latina/o American History
Description: Hosted by the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, this site provides some useful links to the history of Latino Americans, including primary documents such as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and oral histories from World War II.
Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Description:
Hosted by Stanford University, this site contains biographical information about Dr. King, primary documents such as speeches, sermons and letters, sound files, historical photographs, lesson plans for teachers, and much more.
Title: Native American Sites
Description:
Provides access to home pages of individual Native Americans and Nations, and to other sites that provide solid information about American Indians.
Title: Native Web
Description:
This is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using the Internet to disseminate information, research, and resources from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world.
Title: People with a History: An Outline Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bixsexual and Trans* History (LGBT)
Description: Maintained by Fordham University, this site provides links to lesbian, gay men, bisexual and transgendered people history sites, collections of textual material, museums and archives, and lesbian-focused sites.
Title: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Description:
This is a research unit of The New York Public Library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world, with emphasis on blacks in the Western Hemisphere. Includes access to digital collections, historical photographs, online exhibitions, and much more.
Modern World History
Title: Canadiana: The Canadian Resource Page
Description:
Available in both English and French, this site, housed at Carnegie Mellon University, offers thousands of links to a wide array of online sources relating to Canada.
Title: Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
Description: Written by scholars at St. Francis Xavier University and the International Council for Canadian Studies, this site emphasizes Canadian culture, history and literature, and its links typically lead to official and academic sources.
Title: CELT: The Online Resource for Irish History, Literature and Politics
Description: The CELT project is an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It provides material for the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. The texts can be searched, read online, downloaded for later use, or printed out.
Title: Cold War Hot Links
Description:
Hosted by an anthropologist at St. Martin's College in Washington State, this site provides information about the Cold War through documents obtained by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Includes links to many sites on the Web.
Title: European Union Internet Resources
Description:
Hosted by the University of California Berkeley Libraries, this site presents an organized view of the European Union (EU) and easy access to useful EU Web resources.
Title: Holocaust Encyclopedia
Description:
A project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, this online encyclopedia provides links to images, documents, bibliographies, personal stories, historical film footage and other resources. Also contains nearly 300 brief articles which are searchable from the home page.
Title: Holocaust Links
Description: Part of the remember.org site, this page offers a wealth of quality links to sites about the Holocaust and its aftermath. Includes some sites of interest to teachers.
Title: Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Description:
Part of the larger Internet Archive, this is a collection of thousands of movies, films, and videos, ranging from classic full-length movies, to television news broadcasts, to historical film clips. Use the Search box to find all kinds of visuals, including some primary documents such as news reports of anti-war protests during the Vietnam era.
Title: Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Description:
This site contains primary source materials for the study of history from the time of the Reformation through the present day. Arrangement is by broad topics and chronological periods.
Title: New Deal Network
Description:
Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University, this is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Includes primary documents and historical photographs.
Title: Nizkor Project
Description:
Maintained by Ken McVay, this site contains links to Holocaust sites, presents documents relating to the Holocaust, lists people and organizations, and confronts those who deny the Holocaust took place. Includes most of the documents from the Nuremberg Trial papers.
Title: REESWeb: Russian & East European Studies Virtual Library
Description: Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, this site is a portal to thousands of annotated Web pages on Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. Arrangement is by topic, region, culture or time period, and the site has its own search engine.
Title: Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC)
Description:
Developed by the University of Texas at Austin, this site offers links to a wealth of Web resources, arranged by broad topics, by region, and by country. The site also contains its own keyword search engine.
Title: Sixties Project
Description: This site builds an electronic community of scholars concerned with the 1960s, and provides an accessible site for primary and secondary sources available on the Web. Of special note is the "Personal Narratives Project," consisting of submissions by persons with a story to tell of this turbulent time.
Title: Testaments to the Holocaust
Description:
This digital collection from the Wiener Library in London offers searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, small publications and rare serials reflecting Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war, life in the concentration camps, in hiding, emigration and refugee life.
Title: Trenches on the Web Library
Description: An excellent site on the history of World War I, including timelines, photographs, maps, documents, biographies, posters, armaments, book reviews, and links to other WWI sites.
Title: Veterans History Project
Description:
Sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Veterans History Project collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from the participants themselves and better understand the realities of war. The Project collects first-hand accounts of soldiers from World War I through the present day.
Title: Victorian Web Overview
Description: Created at Brown University, this site offers a wealth of information about all aspects of the Victorian Age-religion literature, philosophy, politics, visual arts, science, technology, economics, and gender matters.
Title: Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975
Description: Developed for a course at Vassar College, this site provides an overview of the Viet Nam War and full text of related documents; includes numerous links to other Viet Nam sites.
Title: WW2 People's War
Description:
This project, sponsored by the BBC, ran from June 2003 to January 2006. The aim of the project was to collect the memories of people who had lived and fought during World War II and to place them on a Web site, forming the basis of a digital archive for present and future generations. There are 64 categories of stories, as well as a keyword index.
Title: WWW -VL: The Cold War History, 1945-1991
Description:
A well-organized site, hosted by the University of Kansas, with hundreds of links relating to the Cold War; the chronological arrangement is superb.
Museums
Title: Colonial Williamsburg
Description: The eighteenth-century living history museum located in Virginia; a good source of educational materials for educators.
Title: Conner Prairie Museum
Description: An open-air living history museum located in Fishers, Indiana, serving as a center for research and education about the lives of early 19th-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory, based upon the Indiana experience.
Title: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
Description: Located in Dearborn, Michigan, the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village is the nation's largest indoor/outdoor history museum. Teachers should check out the "Teacher Resources" and the "Kid's Stuff" links.
Title: Museum of African American History
Description:
Found in Detroit, Michigan, this museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of African and African American history and culture.
Title: Mystic Seaport
Description:
An outdoor maritime museum that tells the stories of America and the sea.
Title: National Civil Rights Museum
Description: Located in Memphis, Tennessee, the Museum's goal is to instill in its visitors an appreciation of the history, struggle, and the important events and personalities of the Civil Rights Movement.
Title: National Museum of American History
Description: Part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, this museum focuses on the varied history of our nation; includes a link to resources for teachers.
Title: National Museum of the American Indian
Description: One of the Smithsonian museums, this one is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
Title: Old Sturbridge Village
Description: This museum includes more than 40 staffed exhibits--historic homes, craft shops, mills, and farm buildings of the 1830s--on more than 200 acres of fields and rolling farmland in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Title: Plimoth Plantation
Description:
The living history museum of the early seventeenth century in Plymouth, Massachusetts; includes materials for educators.
Title: Rancho de las Golondrinas
Description:
A living history museum near Santa Fe, New Mexico, consisting of 33 historic structures, recreating a traditional Spanish ranch from the early 1700s.
Title: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Description: America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history; it serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
Title: Virtual Jamestown
Description: Hosted by the University of Virginia, the Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement of the early 17th century. Although still under construction, the site will eventually contain hundreds of primary documents including wills, court records, maps and labor contracts.
Non-Western World
Title: Africa-Related Links
Description:
Provides quality links to a wide variety of resources covering the African continent; maintained by the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Title: Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
Description:
This gateway site offers links to nearly 50 individual countries, a number of regions, and over 35 topics of interest to scholars in sub-Saharan Africa. The links are annotated, and the site is maintained by the Stanford University Libraries.
Title: Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Description: Supported by the Australian National Library, this site provides an authoritative, large-scale, subject-oriented scholarly guide to Internet resources in Asian studies. Arrangement is by broad topics, regions, and individual countries.
Title: Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies
Description: Hosted by the University of Iowa, this site is a virtual space of high quality scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive formats.
Title: China Data Center--University of Michigan
Description:
An initiative to promote Chinese studies and increase the understanding of China. The Center provides access to statistics, data, electronic publications, and more.
Title: East Asian Collection: Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library
Description:
Maintained at the University of Melbourne, this site offers a sizable collection of Web sites on Chinese studies; topics include arts and architecture, medicine, culture, history, Hong Kong, language, law, politics, religion, health and population.
Title: East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Description:
Hosted by the University of Redlands, this directory is intended to be a window on the rich Internet resources available on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Asian Americans. In addition to arrangement by country and region, there is also a "Current Hot Topics" section at the top of the site.
Title: H-Asia: Asian History and Studies
Description: The primary purpose of H-Asia is to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. Includes many links to related sites.
Title: Index on Africa
Description:
Primarily a portal, this site maintained by the Norwegian Council for Africa presents a sizable compilation of Web links arranged by country, broad topics, and various news sources, both within and outside of Africa.
Title: J Guide-Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
Description: A topically arranged directory of Internet-based Japan information resources, including history, geography, economics, politics and government.
Title: Korean Studies Internet Resources
Description:
Hosted by UCLA, this site highlights a collection of Internet resources on Korean studies; includes links to Korean newspapers and news, language, literature, philosophy, religion, arts and culture, history, and Korean studies programs.
Title: Middle East Network Information Center
Description:
Developed by the University of Texas at Austin, this site provides a large, annotated directory of Middle East links. You can search by broad topics such as history, politics, society, education, media, and religion, or you can find information by country.
Title: Schauwecker's Guide to Japan: History
Description: A brief overview of Japanese history, beginning around 300 BC through the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Title: Starr East Asian Library
Description:
Part of Columbia University, this site offers a collection of Web sites related to East Asia, especially the study of China, Japan, and Korea.
Title: University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
Description:
This comprehensive site presents links to direct news sources on Africa, a multimedia library, K-12 resources, and "Africa Web Links," an annotated directory of Internet resources.
Professional and Federal Organizations
Title: American Historical Association
Description:
The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves as the umbrella organization for historians working in every period and geographical area.
Title: Cliometric Society
Description:
Founded in 1983, this is an academic organization of individuals interested in using economic theory and statistical techniques to study economic history.
Title: Michigan Council for the Social Studies
Description:
An organization dedicated to promoting professional interest in and improvement of social studies instruction.
Title: National Archives and Records Administration
Description: An independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records.
Title: National Park Service: History & Culture
Description:
Provides information on the people and cultures, historic and prehistoric places, structures, and objects that make up the vast American landscape.
Title: National Register of Historic Places
Description: A national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect our historic and archeological resources.
Title: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Description: An organization, founded in 1949, whose purpose is to demonstrate how preservation can play an important role in strengthening a sense of community and improving the quality of life.
Title: NTIS FedWorld
Description:
Comprehensive gateway to federal-related sites, including the White House, Congress, the Bureau of the Census, the National Science Foundation, and other federal departments and agencies.
Title: Organization of American Historians
Description:
Includes a plethora of excellent links to sites of interest to historians, along with current employment listings.
Sites for K-12 Educators
Title: Awesome Library for Teachers, Students and Parents-History Section
Description: Contains lesson plans, lists, books, materials, projects, standards, and links to Web sites about different historical periods including ancient and medieval history, colonial America, the Civil War, the Westward movement, and World Wars I and II.
Title: Digital Classroom : Educators and Students
Description: Sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration, this site contains useful information about historical resources and how to use them in the classroom. It includes sections on conducting research and finding primary sources, along with sections on history in the raw (letters, memoirs, diaries, etc.), document analysis worksheets and National History Day.
Title: Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
Description: Sponsored by the University of Houston, in conjunction with numerous museums and historical societies, this site aims "to support the teaching of American history in K-12 schools and colleges" through the means of multimedia and interactive content. It includes teaching guides, documents, online exhibitions, reference materials, and much more.
Title: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
Description: Designed for high school and college teachers of American History courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history. The site is cosponsored by City University of New York and George Mason University.
Title: History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers
Description:
"The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom."--Home page.
Title: Michigan Council for the Social Studies
Description:
An organization dedicated to promoting professional interest in and improvement of social studies instruction.
Title: Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE)
Description: Hosted by the Library of Michigan, this site provides educators with thousands of resources that are aligned to the Michigan education requirements including standards-based, grade-specific K-12 lesson plans, online interactive tools, reference materials and more from respected content partners. You may browse by grade level or by broad subjects. All links are annotated.
Title: National Center for History in the Schools
Description: Housed at UCLA, the Center offers national standards for the teaching of U.S. history for grades K-4, Grades 5-12, and for world history.
Title: National Council for the Social Studies
Description:
Since 1921, the NCSS has provided leadership, service and support for all social studies educators. Be sure to look at the annual Notable Social Studies Books for Young People produced since 1972 for children in grades K-8. The books selected emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, and are easily readable and of high literary quality.
Title: Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Description:
Hosted by the University of Virginia, this site is designed to provide students, educators and the general public with historical analyses and original source documents about Plymouth Colony from 1620 to 1691. It contains full-text access to a number of primary documents including journals, court records, colonial laws, wills, maps and fort plans.
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Title: Social Studies Sources
Description: Sponsored by Indiana University, this site is designed to aid teachers and students in the study of history. Arrangement is by broad topics including U.S. and world history, politics and government, geography, culture and diversity.
Title: Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Description: Developed by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, this site presents an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. Includes a timeline, activities, resources, the arts and useful Web links.
Title: Teaching with Historic Places
Description: Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) is a program of the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. The site includes lesson plans and tips on how to use places to teach history.
Slavery & the U.S. Civil War
Title: American Civil War
Description:
Presents information about the American Civil War compiled by the Department of History at the University of North Texas; discusses leaders, battles, military units, and the role of African Americans.
Title: American Civil War Home Page
Description: Maintained at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, this site provides a massive number of links useful to the study of the American Civil War, 1861-1865. The information is arranged in 12 broad categories, emphasizing the political and military aspects of the conflict.
Title: American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
Description:
This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages written by over 2,000 persons, primarily letters and diaries from the Civil War. Also includes biographies and an extensive bibliography.
Title: American Civil War Research Database
Description:
This database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers, regimental rosters, officer profiles, thousands of battles, and 16,000 photographs of the American Civil War.
Title: American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
Description: This Web site offers transcripts of selected interviews of former slaves throughout the American South conducted by WPA workers during the late 1930s.
Title: Civil War Lesson Plan
Description: An excellent example of an electronic lesson plan for teaching the Civil War at the middle and secondary school levels.
Title: Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress
Description: Contains 1,118 photographs, most of which were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, that include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and after-effects of battle.
Title: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Description:
Partially hosted by the National Park Service, this is a computerized database containing basic information about the soldiers who fought in the American Civil War in both the Union and Confederate armies. It also includes regimental histories and accounts of over 380 significant battles in the conflict.
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Title: Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Description:
Hosted by Duke University, this site contains a number of primary source documents relating to the role and experiences of women during the American Civil War.
Title: Dred Scott Case
Description: This exhibit site, posted by Washington University Libraries, displays primary records and documents Dred and Harriet Scotts' early struggle to gain their freedom through litigation, and are the only extant records of this significant case as it was heard in the St. Louis Circuit Court.
Title: Historical New York Times Project: Chapter 2: The Civil War Years, 1860-1866
Description: A project of Carnegie Mellon University that offers full-text, digitized articles from the New York Times on various topics during the Civil War years. One can browse a selection of articles chronologically, or by broad topics such as battles, politics, social issues, and relations among the states.
Title: Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Description:
Contains full-text articles from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, published from 1860 to 1865. Many of the publications are rare and hard to find, and include source materials from museum, library, and private collections, including the American Antiquarian Society. The database can be searched by date or topic, or one can browse each individual publication. The database also contains a sample selection of 300 Union and 300 Confederate letters from the larger database, American Civil War: Letters & Diaries.
Title: Michigan in the Civil War
Description:
Provides information on the role of Michigan in the U.S. Civil War, compiled by Donald L. Harvey. Discusses Michigan's regiments, offers regimental rosters, photographs of soldiers, battle flags, and links to other Civil War Web sites.
Title: Slave Trade Archives
Description:
Hosted by UNESCO, the purpose of this site is to preserve primary materials concerning the transatlantic slave trade that are housed in libraries and archives all over the world, including Benin, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Barbados, Senegal, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Barbados, Colombia, and Haiti. In addition to providing access to a database of digital archival documents, the Web site also provides an outline of the transatlantic slave trade.
Title: U.S. Civil War Center
Description: Provides various links to other Internet Civil War sites and books, photographs, bibliographies, and several Civil War newspapers housed at Louisiana State University.
Title: Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Description:
Presents information on the Civil War as part of the Valley of the Shadow Project at the University of Virginia. Contains information about Virginia's Augusta County and Pennsylvania's Franklin County during the Civil War; offers access to online versions of newspapers, battle maps, letters and official records.
Women's Studies
Title: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-1954
Description: This web site is dedicated to the women who played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1954, including the Kalamazoo Lassies.
Title: American Women's History: A Research Guide
Description:
Hosted by Middle Tennessee State University, this site provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
Title: Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Description: Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for scholars interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach about women and gender in the ancient world. This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many online resources.
Title: Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection
Description:
Sponsored by Duke University, this site documents various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
Title: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Description: Consists of 167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.
Title: National Women's History Project
Description: An organization dedicated to providing education, promotional materials, and informational services to recognize and celebrate women's diverse lives and historic contributions to society.
Title: North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Description:
Over 150,000 pages of published and unpublished diaries and letters by over 1,300 women in the US and Canada from the colonial period to 1950. All ethnic groups, ages, classes, and geographical regions are included. Users can search by keyword, time period, place, marital status, nationality, and other variables.
Title: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition
Description:
A collection of full text books, pamphlets, articles, documents and images of American women's reform movements over the last 400 years including special subjects such as African-American Women and the Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s. Includes the bibliographic dictionary Notable American Women 1907-1950.
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Title: Women Working, 1800-1930
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Hosted by Harvard University, this collection centers on the role of women in the United States economy from 1800 to 1930. It provides access to online historical, manuscript and visual resources selected from the collections of Harvard University's library and museum collections. You can browse the collection or use the search box to find primary documents on your topic.
Title: WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
Description:
Maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, this site provides access to resources in women's and gender studies. Arrangement is by broad topics such as business, education, history health, music, and many more.