History Links

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General References

Search Engines:

  • Webcrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com/) is a searchable directory of internet resources.
  • Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/) is another searchable directory of internet resources.

Reference:

  • JSTOR A full text website with dozens of academic journals online, including the American Historical Review from the early 1900's to 1995.  It also has a very powerful search engine.
  • The Virtual Reference Desk (http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/) is a listing of dictionaries, thesauri, zip code directories, and other reference works.
  • The World Lecture Hall (http://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/world/lecture/) is an index to on-line courses available internationally, including history syllabi, classes, and lectures.
  • H-Net (http://h-net.org/) is the site of Humanities OnLine, an internet resource for scholarship and teaching in the Humanities.
  • History Library at UIUC (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/hix/) This is a link to the excellent History and Philosophy Library [424 Library] that serves the History Department. Their web page has a link to History Today.
  • History Departments Around the World (http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts/) is an alphabetical listing of links to history department home pages in the US and other countries.
  • Illinois History Resource Page (http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sorensen/hist.html) is a listing of Illinois State History and Government resources.
  • The American Historical Association (http://www.historians.org/) contains general information about the association and its awards and prizes.
  • The Organization of American Historians (http://www.indiana.edu:80/~oah/) site contains job, fellowship, and conference announcements, policy papers and ethical statements of the organization, links to other historical internet sites, and general information about the OAH.
  • American Universities (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html) contains an alphabetical listing of links to home pages of American colleges and universities.
  • Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) contains the Roy Rozensweig article from The Journal of American History 81.4 (March 1995).
  • The Library of Congress Home Page (http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html) contains previously unpublished sets of documents with searchable indices, farm security administration photographs, and other photographic, sound recording, and film collections.

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African History

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Ancient History

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European History

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    Women and Gender:

  • Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World (http://www.stoa.org/diotima/) is an on-line text book for the study of women and gender in the ancient world that includes images, documents, bibliography, and syllabi.
  • Feminist Majority Foundation (http://www.feminist.org/) contains information about current events, a bibliography, and photographs.
  • FrauenInfoNetz University of Bielefeld's interdisciplinary center for women's studies.
  • Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net (http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/) is a directory of interdisciplinary resources for European and American history and literature in the eighteenth century.
  • Women's Studies Resources(http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/) is a University of Maryland data base which contains recent course syllabi, calls for papers, announcements about conferences, and general information for teachers of womens studies.
  • Women in German: "Women in German provides a democratic forum for all people interested in feminist approaches to German literature and culture or in the intersection of gender with other categories of analysis such as sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity."
  • Essays in History (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/) is an electronic journal of historical essays on any topic published by graduate students at the University of Virginia's Department of History.
  • Galaxynet History (http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/History.html) is a searchable directory of history resources around the world.
  • IPUMS (http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/datasets/pums/pums-home.html) contains the data and documentation for the Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), a database consisting of 23 samples of the U.S. Census from 1850 to 1990.
  • The Victorian Web (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/) is maintained by the Brown University Department of English. It is an encyclopedia of Victorian British history, literature, and society. 

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    American History:

  • The American Civil War Homepage (http://www.sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/aboutcwarhp.html) is a collection of documents and images and a guide to other links about the American Civil War.
  • The World of Benjamin Franklin (http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html) contains a short biographical movie and overviews of his many contributions to science, technology, and politics.
  • History Matters "A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history."
  • Inaugural Aliresses of the Presidents of the United States (http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/) contains inaugural aliresses from George Washington to William Jefferson Clinton.
  • Mark Twain on the Philippines (http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/twain/) is a site that contains Twain's satirical criticism about American imperialism in general and specifically America in the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902.
  • The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html) is Edward Ayer's collection of original documents appropriate for teaching the history of the American Civil War.

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These links were compiled and annotated by Prof. Elizabeth Pleck and Toli E. Larson