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RESEARCH GUIDE: HISTORY
— World Wide Web Sites
Research
Guides: History Home
Research Guides Home
Using Primary Sources on the Web --
helps
define primary sources, locating primary sources on the World Wide Web, how to
evaluate web sites and citing sources information.
(Written
in 2003 by the
Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service
Association History Section in the American Library Association)
Evaluating the World Wide Web --- The World Wide Web is filled with wonders and has become an invaluable tool for all of us. Unfortunately, not
all web sites are equally valuable or reliable, especially for your more scholarly research. It's important for you to evaluate each site as you use it. Here's a checklist to help you sort the good
from the bad and indifferent.
Ancient and Medieval History:
The
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
(Fordham
University) – Contains information and primary sources on the ancient societies
of Greece, Rome, and Egypt, as well as early Christianity.
The Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
(Fordham University) – Contains information and primary sources on the
Renaissance, the Reformation and Luther, Sex and gender, and the medieval
church.
Medieval
and Renaissance Europe
(Brigham Young University)
–
A research guide to online links
about European history, many of which link to primary sources.
The Online Medieval
and Classical Library
Perseus -- Contains the largest number of classical texts, fiction and
non-fiction, on the web as well as a stunning number of artifact pictures.
World History to 1500
– A research guide to online links about Rome,
Greece, the Near East, and Asia.
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General History:
*new*
World Digital Library -- "makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant
primary materials from countries and cultures around the world" It is browsable by time, topic, place, type and institution and includes a wealth of manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound
recordings, and prints and photographs.
*new*
History Engine
(University of Richmond) -- "an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a
wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database"
National Union Catalogue of
Manuscript Collections -
"cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress, the
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) creates online records
in the RLG Union Catalog on behalf of eligible archival repositories throughout
the United States."
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers -- on-line access to more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. A joint venture between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The National Security Archive
-- "An independent non-governmental research
institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive
collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records
on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign,
intelligence, and economic policies of the United States."
American Women's History: A Research Guide (Middle
Tennessee State University Library)
Digital History (University of Houston)
France in America = La
France en Amerique
(Library of Congress & the Bibliotheque Nationale de
France)
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online ---includes
edited lists and web sites that publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and more
History Matters
(George Mason U.)
Making of America
(Cornell) --- not a mirror site; different holdings.
Be sure to check both sites!
Making of America
(Univ. of Michigan) --- not a mirror site; different holdings. Be sure to
check both sites!
NYPL
Digital Gallery -- provides access to over 275,000 images
digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The
New York Public Library, including
illuminated manuscripts,
historical maps,
vintage posters,
rare prints and
photographs,
illustrated books,
printed ephemera, and more.
Top Humanities Websites:
EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Historical Associations:
American Historical
Association
Oral
History Association
Organization of American
Historians
Historical Document Sites:
Hansard,
the Official Report 1804 -2004
--
the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses of
Parliament. Hansard is not a verbatim account of debates in
Parliament.
Contemporary Hansard
can be found on the UK Parliament site, including content
going back to 1988 in the House of Commons and 1995 in the
House of Lords. Hansard is available on the site about three
hours after debates.
Darwin Correspondence Project --
almost 5,000 of Darwin’s personal
letters available online. Also provides summaries of an additional 9,000
missives — including some that Darwin wrote when he was just 12 years old.
National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections
- "cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) creates online records in the RLG Union Catalog on behalf of eligible archival repositories throughout the United States."
Oral History Sites:
In
the First Person -- in-depth indexing of more than
2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world.
Rutgers/New Brunswick
History Department Oral History Archives of W.W.II
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
(Brown U./South Kingstown H.S.)
The World War II Oral History
Web Site
Selected U.S. Government sites:
The National Security Archive
-- "An independent non-governmental research
institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive
collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records
on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign,
intelligence, and economic policies of the United States."
Architect of the
Capitol
House of
Representatives
McCarthy
Hearing Transcripts -- available from the GPO
National Archives and
Records Administration
U.S. Senate
Senate Historical Office
Supreme Court
U.S. Capitol Historical Society
U.S. State Department
White House
Congresslink
Presidential Libraries:
visit through the
National Archives and Records
Administration link, or visit sites directly:
Hoover
Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Ford
Nixon - Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Nixon - Library and
Birthplace Foundation
Carter
Reagan
G. H. W. Bush
Clinton
G.W. Bush --
George W. Bush Presidential Center Foundation
Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States --
from G. Washington, 1789 to date -- part of
Project Bartleby, Columbia U's full-text archive of important documents and
literary works; scroll list to "Inaugural..."
American Presidency Project -- "documents
from U.S. presidents from 1789 to the present. Includes inaugural addresses,
press briefings, signing statements, and debates. Also features data on topics
such as popularity and number of public appearances, election results back to
1828, and an archive of audio and video clips. A collaboration between John
Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara."
Scripps Library Bibliographies of 18 U.S. Presidents (Univ of Virginia)
-- includes the founding fathers as well as bibliographies for Roosevelt, Taft,
Hoover and Nixon.
Twentieth Century History Sites:
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers -- on-line access to more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. A joint venture between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Voices of Civil Rights (collaboration between AARP; Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights and the Library of Congress)
Rutgers/New Brunswick
History Department Oral History Archives of W.W.II
The World War II Oral History Web Site
In the First Person in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral
history in English from around the world.
U.S. Civil War and Nineteenth Century
Sites:
American Civil War
Resources
(Virginia Tech Special Collections)
American Civil War
Homepage (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
American Slave Narratives
(University of Virginia)
Civil War Women: on-line archival collections (Duke)
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorials
on Secession Project
(George Mason University)
19th Century Documents Project
(Furman University)
Brooklyn Eagle,
1841-1902
The Freedman and
Southern Society Project
(U. Maryland)
The United States Civil War
Center (LSU)
Race and Place: An
African-American Community in the Jim Crow South
(University of Virginia)
Uncle Tom's
Cabin & American Culture: a multi-media archive
(University of Virginia)
The Valley of the
Shadow Project
(University of Virginia)
Making of America
(Cornell) --- not a mirror site; different holdings.
Be sure to check both sites!
Making of America
(Univ. of Michigan) --- not a mirror site; different holdings. Be sure to
check both sites!
VMI Archives: Civil War Resources (Virginia Military
Institute)
Historical Census Browser
(University of Virginia)
-- "The data presented here describe the population and
economy of the U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960"
Census Bureau
FedStats
National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES)
Statistical Resources on the Web (U. Michigan)
US Economic Data (Bureau of
Labor Statistics)
Women
Working, 1870-1930 (Open Collections
Program, Harvard University Library)
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
(Brown U./South Kingstown H.S.)
American Women's
History: A Research Guide (provides citations to print and
Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source
collections. Created and maintained by Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at
Middle Tennessee State University Library.)
American
Women Through Time (offers two approaches for the study of
specific time periods in American women's history. Created and maintained by Ken
Middleton, a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library.)
American Women Gateway (Library of Congress)
Diotima –
Bibliography and other online resources documenting the position
of women in the ancient world
World Wars and Military
Sites:
Some Key Speeches of Adolf Hitler -- Complete Text in English and German
The Nizkor Project and The Trial of
German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, Germany
Cold War International History
Project
(Woodrow Wilson Int'l. Ctr. for Scholars)
Fireside Chats of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Mid-Hudson Regional Info. Ctr.)
The New Deal Network
(Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
U.S. Army Center of
Military History
Great War Primary Documents Archive
-- World War I document archive
World
War II Documents (Avalon Project, Yale)
Updated:
05/03/09
©Henry Buhl
Library
Grove City College 2009