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This list was reviewed and updated on 6 August 2001. Please send news of dead and changed links and suggestions for new resources to the College Webmaster
History in the Making, Capital's Professor Sam Goldberger's home-page, with a list of current historical "hot-spots".
National Digital Library, where the Library of Congress intends to put 5 million items online by 2000.
The Amistad Case--NARA, primary documents relating to this important case in U.S. History, from the National Archives and Records Administration. See, also, a site maintained by The Musuem of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut, Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America.
Connecticut History Online The Connecticut Historical Society, Mystic Seaport, and the Thomas J.
Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut have combined
efforts to create this site, a
major online archive of Connecticut historical images.
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, from the Library of Congress's extensive holding of African-American artifacts, manuscripts, etc. This website will continue to grow over the next five years thanks to a grant from Citicorp.
Freedom's Journal, the digitization of all 103 issues of Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States, published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829.
African Voices This site, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, takes full advantage of the computer's capabilities. Excellent use of time-lines.
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent Visitors have
several options to access the collection of over 3,000 slides, 500
photographs, and 50 hours of sound from 45 African nations.
Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People, the story of 30,000 people who fled slavery in the U.S. to fight for Britain in the Revoluationary War.
Internet African History Sourcebook, a huge and nicely organized directory of resources, from Fordham University.
African Studies Resources, from University of Pennsylvania.
Art and Life in Africa, from the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.
Contemporary Conflicts in Africa.
We Shall Overcome: Historic Place of the Civil Rights Movement, an online itinerary maintained by the National Register of Historic Places, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Parks Service.
Black History Museum, interactive exhibits.
AFRO-American Almanac, this site explores African-American history from the beginning of the slave trade, through the Civil Rights movement, to the present.
Been Here So Long These narratives are from the 2,000
interviews with ex-slaves collected during 1936-1938 by journalists and
other writers employed by the Federal Writers Project.
Women in American History, from the Encyclopedia Britannica -- includes splendid graphics, weekly quizzes, etc.
American Women's History: A Research Guide, created by Ken Middleton, reference librarian and graduate student in American Women's History at Middle Tennessee State University
Women in America: 1820 to 1842, from University of Virginia.
Sophia Smith Collection Smith College has digitized some of
its archival holdings relating to women's history.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930, from SUNY at Binghamtom. Each module
contains an introductory essay and, in most cases, between fifteen and
twenty primary documents.
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998 Provided by the National Women's History Project, this site offers numerous resources to help educators and activists commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848.
Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and
Imagery of American Woman Suffrage, related to the foundation of a
National Museum of Women's History in Washington, DC.
Women of the West Museum, an online museum based in Boulder, Colorado that seeks to celebrate the accomplishments of everyday women who lived in the West.
Out of the Past: 400 Years of Gay and Lesbian History Put together and presented by PBS. To make full use of this site, you'll need a fast connection.
Religious Freedom in America Maintained at the University of Virginia by Jeffrey K. Hadden.
LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online, a joint project recently
initiated by the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain
and the University of Central Arkansas.
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and
Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives, the newest addition to the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory Collection.
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
Celtic Art and Culture, created for an art history course at the University of North Carolina.
The 1920s, contains a timeline and a nice section on "People and Trends."
Country Studies, from the Library of Congress, includes extensive historical outlines.
A Biography of America, A joint project of the City University of New York's American Social
History Project/ Center for Media and Learning and George Mason
University's Center for History and New Media.
History Matters Produced by WGBH Interactive for Annenberg/CPB.
Primary Resources on the Internet, from the International School of Amsterdam.
Spartacus Educational: Encyclopedia of British History: 1700-1900, Child Labour: 1750-1900,
Parliamentary Reform: 1750-1900, The Peterloo Massacre, First World War
Encyclopedia, Investigating the Vietnam War, and Emancipation of Women:
1860-1920.
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Oliver Cromwell, explores the significance of the man who has been the subject of intense debate ever since his death as Lord Protector in 1658.
Napoleon, four essays exploring The Man and the Myth, Napoleon and
Josephine, Politics in Napoleon's Time, and Napoleon at War. See, also, The Napoleon Series.
Avalon Project, from Yale University Law School. Documents ranging from the Athenian Constitution to the 1992 European Parliament Resolution on the Situation in Tibet. Hyperlinks allow for an online comparison of documents.
Voice of the Shuttle History Page, an extensive list of resources put together by Alan Liu.
Horus' History Links, from the Department of History at Univeristy of California, Riverside.
Internet Resources in History, from the Department of History at Tennessee Technological University.
Calendars, maintained by L.E. Doggett of New Mexico State University — a very long, text-only document.
Age of Asia: Resources for Research, from Duke University. Users will find country
profiles, book and periodical databases, links to Asian newspapers,
electronic databases, government sources and several special topics.
Encyclopedia Mythica Encompassing mythology, folklore, and legend, the Encyclopedia Mythica--a
collaborative reference resource with over 150 contributors--contains more
than 4400 definitions of mythical and legendary figures and almost 200
images.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures, a vast treasure from Evansville University.
Website of the Imperial Forums, a great introduction to the forums and history of ancient Rome.
ABZU, a guide to internet resources for the study of the ancient Near East. Maintained by Charles E. Jones, Research Archivist and Bibliographer in the Research Archives of The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
Mesopotamia, contains modules on the many cultures that make up this ancient, multifaceted culture.
Persepolis and Ancient Iran: Catalog of Expedition Photographs The
architecture, reliefs, and finds of the Palaces at Persepolis; the
prehistoric mound of Tall-i-Bakun; Istakhr, the Islamic city mound; and the
aerial survey flights conducted between 1935 and 1937.
Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations Kevin L. Callahan, an anthropology graduate student at the University of Minnesota, has created this site of short, referenced essays, organized by civilization (Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec).
Harappa, fascinating glimpses into an ancient culture.
The Perseus Project, an "evolving digital library on ancient Greece," from Tufts University. This site includes thousands of images and texts (in both ancient Greek and English translations).
Greg Reeder's Egypt Page, dedicated to examining the art, archaeology, religion and history of Egypt.
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome Maintained by Classics Professor Leo Curran of the University at Buffalo, this collection of images could be a useful resource for courses in the Classics, Ancient History, or Archaeology.
Medieval English Towns Maintained by Stephen Alsford, a researcher for the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Extensive materials and extensive hyperlinks to other online resources.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, from Washington, D.C.
In the Light of the Menorah: Story of a Symbol, maintained by the Israel Museum.
World History Archives, resources being put together at Central Connecticut State University by Professor Haines Brown.
National Archives and Records, the first group of digitized images of some of the National Archives and Records Adminstration's most significant documents.
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery This companion site to Ken Burns' film is highlighted by the Archive: a timeline of the trip; a collection of related links; an extensive bibliography; and over 800 minutes of unedited, full-length RealPlayer interviews with seven experts.
Liberty!: The American Revolution, companion site to the PBS documentary Liberty!: The American Revolution.
Witchcraft in Salem Village, created by the Danvers Archival Center and hosted by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, offers a number of primary documents and other materials related to the Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692
US Labor and Industrial History Audio Project Maintained by Professor Gerald Zahavi of the University at Albany, this site contains a developing archive of Labor and Industrial History audio recordings in RealAudio format. If you're in a lab environment, please use headphones.
Documenting the American South, from University of North Carolina, a treasury of materials on 19th-century America.
George Washington Papers, incoming correspondence, military reports and records, letters of reference for applicants for Federal office, military commissions and honorary degrees received by Washington, and notes he wrote on political and agricultural topics.
The Thomas Jefferson Papers, approximately twenty-seven thousand items organized into nine series with a total of 83,000 images.
The Great War: 80 Years On This site from the BBC commemorates the war and offers users
a number of interesting resources. Multimedia offerings include a
ten-minute video collage of photos and newsreel footage produced by the
Imperial War Museum and a selection of fascinating and poignant audio
interviews of veterans, including one man who was just fourteen when he
left to fight in France.
World War I -- Trenches on the Web, an internet history of The Great War, maintained by Mike Iavarone.
WWII Resources Provided by the Pearl Harbor Working Group in an effort to combat "history
by sound bites," this site holds a large number of primary source materials
related to the war.
World War II Commemoration, from Grolier Encyclopedia -- some extensive articles and a treasury of photographs.
Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940, from the Library of Congress, a fascinating, multi-media project, complete with interview excerpts read by modern actors.
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, marvelously conceived and executed. One of the best uses of the WWW we've seen.
The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath, Chicago's 1893 World Fair -- a hypertext thesis, by Julie K. Rose, on the cultural and technological changes that bedazzled the Gilded Age.
American History and Old Newspapers This site, now part of discovery.com, is devoted to press coverage of events in American history. It includes an extensive, searchable, library with the categories Civil War, Baseball, Engravings, Journalism Hoaxes, Old West including Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Crime figures such as Bonnie & Clyde, Lizzie Borden and over a dozen other categories.
Meeting of Frontiers This Library of Congress site chronicles the American exploration and
settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of
Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the
Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
Conversations With History Produced by the Institute of
International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley,
this site features interviews with over 150
distinguished men and women from all over the world. Real Audio required.
American Census Data from 1790 to 1970, from The Instructional Computing Group of Harvard University.
Resources for Early American Studies, a page from the Early Americanists Society
Archiving Early America, including a link to Early America Review, a full-text online journal.
The American Civil War Homepage, maintained by Dr. George Hoemann at the University of Tennessee.
The Valley of the Shadow Archive: Two Communities in the American Civil War An extraordinary use of the WWW, from University of Virginia.
Letters Home from a Civil War Soldier, from Private Scott, letters to friends and family.
Abraham Lincoln Papers Users can browse the collection
chronologically or search by keyword. The site also includes two
special presentations featuring original documents and images on the
Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln's assassination.
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, digital versions of documents, images, and even music
related to Abraham Lincoln's life in Illinois.
Charters of Freedom, sponsored by the National Archives.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture The site's unique value lies in the documents it presents that elucidate the novel's historical and cultural context. Explore this great cultural icon written just a block from Capital Community College.
The Perry-Castañeda Map Collection, from the University of Texas at Austin.
Historical/Cultural Interactive Atlases, most of these maps require Shockwave Director (links available at this site) -- from University of Oregon.
WebChron: The WebChronology Project David Koeller, Associate Professor of
History at North Park University, offers this site with fifteen
hyperlinked chronologies for use in survey courses on western
civilization and world history.
Other Historical Chronologies, including connections for datelines in African cultures.
Words and Deeds in American History 100 years of manuscripts from the Library of Congress.
Documents in American History to World War I, an already enormous (but clearly under construction) resource.
The Sixties Project, on the 1960s, from the University of Virginia.
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project The subject is the
forcible internment of Japanese Americans on the American west coast. From the University of Washington.
The Wars for Vietnam, from Vassar College, with links to several important documents.
Digital Images from the Radicalism Collection, an extensive list of brochures, with uncopyrighted images you can use, plus the language of the brochures, from American Indian Movement to Birth Control. Maintained by the University of Michigan.
The Nationalism Project Created and maintained by Eric Zuelow, a graduate student at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site serves as a scholarly
resource for the study of nationalism in all its forms.
Today in History, from the Library of Congress, with hyperlinks to the LOC's vast online collections.
