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Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Maritime Antebellum America
Mystic Seaport Museum.
Presents more than 500 primary documents relating to the 1839-1842 revolt of enslaved Africans aboard the schooner Amistad, their legal struggles in the United States, and the multifaceted cultural and social dimensions of their case. The site features a searchable library that contains 32 items from personal papers, 33 legal decisions and arguments, 18 selections from the popular media, including pamphlets, journal articles, reports, a playbill, and a poem; 103 government publications, 28 images, 11 maps and nautical charts, and 310 newspaper articles and editorials. Also includes suggestions for using these materials in the classroom, a timeline, 28 links to other resources, and a living the history component that encourages user feedback and participation. A visually attractive, well-conceived site that provides a wealth of materials for students of slavery, race, politics, and print culture in antebellum America.
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin, William G. Thomas, University of Virginia.
Conceived by Edward Ayers, Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History at the University of Virginia, this site is a massive, searchable archive of thousands of pages of maps, images, letters, diaries, newspapers, and church, agricultural, military, and public recordsall relating to two communities, Staunton, Virginia, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, before, during, and after the Civil War. Offers both a narrative walking tour and direct access to the archive. Also presents bibliographies, a fact book, student essays and projects, and other materials intended to foster primary-source research. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. This is an important and innovative site, particularly valuable to historians of 19th-century American life. Currently, part one, The Eve of War, is finished, while part two, The War Years, is scheduled for completion in mid-2001, and materials in part three, Aftermath, are limited.
The New Deal Network
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
See JAH web review by Charles Forcey.
Reviewed 2002-03-01.
A database of more than 20,000 items relating to the New Deal. A Document Library contains more than 700 newspaper and journal articles, speeches, letters, reports, advertisements, and other textual materials, treating a broad array of subjects relevant to the periods social, cultural, political, and economic history, while placing special emphasis on New Deal relief agencies and issues relating to labor, education, agriculture, the Supreme Court, and African Americans. The Photo Gallery of more than 4,000 images is organized into five unitsCulture, Construction, Social Programs, Federal Agencies, and miscellaneous, including photos from 11 exhibitions and five series of photoessays, and images of disaster relief and public figures. The site additionally offers featured exhibits, many with lesson plan suggestions. Presently, the features section includes The Magpie Sings the Depression, a collection of 175 poems, articles, and short stories, and 270 graphics from a Bronx high school journal published between 1929 and 1941 with juvenile works by novelist James Baldwin, photographer Richard Avedon, cultural critic Robert Warshow, and film critic Stanley Kauffmann; Dear Mrs Roosevelt with selected letters written by young people to the first lady; Student Activism in the 1930s, which contains 38 photographs, graphics, and editorial cartoons, 12 American Student Union memoirs, 40 autobiographical essays, and a 20,000-word essay by Robert Cohen on 1930s campus radicalism; 17 selected interviews from American slave narratives gathered by the Works Progress Administration; and an illustrated essay on the history and social effects of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Includes approximately 100 annotated links to related sites. Of great value for teachers, students, and researchers interested in the social history of the New Deal era.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Web Site
Steven Mintz, historical content; Sara McNeil, site design and curriculum development.
Provides multimedia resources and links for teaching American history and conducting basic research, while focusing on slavery, ethnic history, private life, technological achievement, and American film. The Institute, founded by businessmen and philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, strives to reflect the current state of professional historian scholarship. Presents more than 600 documents pertaining to American politics, diplomacy, social history, slavery, Mexican American history, and Native American history, searchable by author, time period, subject, and keyword, and annotated with essays of 300-500 words each. The site offers a full U.S. history textbook and more than 1,500 searchable and briefly annotated links to American history-related sites, including approximately 150 links to historic Supreme Court decisions, 330 links to audio files of historic speeches, and more than 450 links to audio files and transcripts of historians discussing their own books. Also includes five high school lesson plans; 39 fact sheets with quotations and study questions on major historical topics; 10 essays (800 words) on past controversies, such as the Vietnam War, socialism, and the war on poverty; seven essays presenting historical background on more recent controversies, such as hostage crises and NATO in Kosovo; and essays of more than 10,000 words each on the history of American film and private life in America. Four current exhibits offer 217 photographs, ca. 1896-1903, from the Calhoun Industrial School in Alabama, a freedmens school; 19 watercolor sketches by a Civil War soldier; seven letters between 18th-century English historian Catharine Macaulay and American historian Mercy Otis Warren; and an 1865 letter from Frederick Douglass to Mary Todd Lincoln. A valuable site for high school students and teachers looking for comprehensive guidance from professional historians on the current state of debate on many topics in American history.
Uncle Toms Cabin & American Culture
Stephen Railton, University of Virginia.
See JAH web review by Ellen Noonan.
Reviewed 2001-12-01.
This well-designed site explores Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin as an American cultural phenomenon. The section of Pre Texts, 1830-1852 provides dozens of texts, songs, and images from the various genres Stowe drew upon: Christian Texts, Sentimental Culture, Anti-Slavery Texts, and Minstrel Shows. The section on Uncle Toms Cabin includes Stowes preface, multiple versions of the text, playable songs from the novel, and Stowes defense against criticism, The Key to Uncle Toms Cabin. A third section focuses on responses to the book from 1852 to 1930, including 12 reviews, over 100 articles and notes, 20 responses from African Americans, and dozens of pro-slavery responses. The final section explores Other Media, including childrens books, songs, games, and theatrical versions. Two interpretive exhibits (with more in development) challenge students to explore how slavery and race were defined and redefined as well as and how the character of Topsy was created and re-created, assuming a range of political and social meanings. Excellent for teachers and students.
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Library of Congress, American Memory.
This site features more than 100,000 images taken by government photographers with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) during the New Deal and World War II eras. These images document the ravages of the Great Depression on farmers, scenes of everyday life in small towns and cities, and, in later years, mobilization campaigns for World War II. This site includes approximately 1,600 color photographs and selections from two extremely popular collections: Migrant Mother Photographs and Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination. The site also provides a bibliography, a background essay of about 500 words, seven short biographical sketches of FSA-OWI photographers, links to seven related sites, and three essays on cataloging and digitizing the collection. The photographs are searchable by keyword and arranged into a subject index.
African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Library of Congress, American Memory.
This site presents approximately 350 African-American pamphlets and documents, most of them produced between 1875 and 1900. These works provide a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture in a number of forms, including sermons, organization reports, college catalogs, graduation orations, slave narratives, Congressional speeches, poetry, and playscripts. Topics covered include segregation, voting rights, violence against African Americans, and the colonization movement. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. Information about publication and a short description (75 words) of content accompanies each pamphlet. The site also offers a timeline of African-American history from 1852 to 1925 and reproductions of original documents and illustrations. A special presentation The Progress of a People, recreates a meeting of the National Afro-American Council in December 1898. A rich resource for studying 19th- and early 20th-century African-American leaders and representatives of African-American religious, civic, and social organizations.
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
Library of Congress, American Memory.
This collection presents 1,395 photographs by the American photographer, music and dance critic, and novelist Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964). The site consists primarily of studio portraits of celebrities, most of whom were involved in the arts, including actors, such as Marlon Brando and Paul Robeson; artists, such as Marc Chagall and Frida Kahlo; novelists, such as Theodore Dreiser and Willa Cather; singers, such as Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday; publishers, such as Alfred A. Knopf and Bennett Cerf; cultural critics, such as H. L. Mencken and Gilbert Seldes; and figures from the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. More than 80 photographs capture Massachusetts and Maine landscapes and seascapes; others include eastern locations and New Mexico. Many photographs of actors present them in character roles. Searchable by keyword and arranged into subject and occupational indexes, this collection also includes a 9-title bibliography and background essay of 800 words on Van Vechtens life and work. A valuable collection for the documentation of the mid-20th century art scene.
The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz before 1930
Scott Alexander.
This comprehensive site offers biographical information, photographs, and audio and video files for more than 200 jazz bands and musicians active from 1895 to 1929. It includes more than 200 sound files of jazz recordings by well-known artists, such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Django Reinhardt, and by dozens of lesser-known musicians. The files are annotated with biographical essays of 100 to more than 1,000 words, discographies, and bibliographic listings. Also includes listings of 20 short jazz films made in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and video files for two of these. Offers 20 essays and articles about jazz before 1930, ranging in length from 1,000 to 4,500 words, taken from published liner notes, books, and journals, or written specifically for this website by jazz fans. A valuable collection of audio documents and accompanying information.
SCETI: Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image
University of Pennsylvania Special Collections Library.
These special collection materials in facsimile include Shakespearean manuscripts, corporate reports, personal diaries, images of scientists and philosophers, cookbooks, South Asian temple art, the papers of Marian Anderson, and artwork from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Visitors can search material from eleven collections and visit ten exhibitions (illustrated essays of 1,000-3,000 words). A collection of 100 boxes of photographs scanned from singer Marian Andersons papers is complemented by an exhibit about her life and work, including more than 40 audio and video recordings. More than 2,500 pieces of sheet music, mostly published in the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries, comprise another collection. The Robert and Molly Freedman archive of Jewish Music includes 26,000 entries in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Exhibits also celebrate the work of Eugene Ormandy and Leopold Stokowski. Womens history is represented by the diaries of five American and one English woman written between 1850 and 1909. Diaries range from one to 30 years and are both indexed by date and available for reading as text. An exhibit titled Household Words presents writing by women about food from the 15th to the 20th century. An exhibit on the colonization of the Americas as it appeared in print presents illustrations, maps, and manuscripts from the age of exploration. Collections also include the corporate reports of 32 American companies from the 1910s to the 1940s, indexed by year and type of industry, from automotive to textiles and utilities. An exhibit on the life and work of writer and artist Robert Montgomery Bird includes the text of his 1829 play, The City Looking Glass and seven watercolor portraits of Native Americans. The site also includes exhibits about the development of the ENIAC computer and a selection of 49 works from the University of Pennsylvanias art museum. The site will be particularly interesting to those researching music history and the history of the book. Womens historians and business historians may also find it useful.
William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Library of Congress, American Memory.
The New York and Washington, D.C., jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, documented in more than 1,600 photographs by writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb (b. 1917). During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of prominent jazz musiciansincluding Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carterand legendary venues, such as 52nd Street, the Apollo Theatre, Cafe Society, the Starlight Roof, and Zanzibar. The site also features approximately 170 related articles by Gottlieb from Down Beat magazine; 16 photographs accompanied by Gottliebs audio commentary on various assignments; a 4,300-word biography based on oral histories; and a 36-title bibliography. Extremely valuable for jazz fans, music historians, musicians, and those interested in urban popular culture.
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Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
The heart of this collection of material about Lyndon Baines Johnson is the group of 64 oral history interviews selected from a collection of more than 1,000. Oral histories, from 35 to 200 pages, include interviews with Dean Rusk, Johnsons secretary, Bess Abell, Robert MacNamara, Thurgood Marshall, and Billy Graham. Of the 2,600 recorded telephone conversations in the Johnson archives, the site provides transcribed samples of conversations with five people, including Adam Clayton Powell and Jacqueline Kennedy. The site also links to a C-SPAN collection of more than 800 transcribed recorded excerpts and full conversations Johnson had while in office. A selection of 20 speeches and nine messages to Congress are available in transcription and address issues such as the Great Society and limitations on the war in Vietnam. A selection of 50 facsimile entries from Johnsons office diary, kept by his secretaries, includes meals as well as events of his first day in office, his reaction to incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin, a meeting with George Wallace about sending federal troops to Selma, and Johnsons announcement that he would not seek re-election. Diary entries range from three to 20pages. Visitors may listen to two audio files of less than a minute each in which Johnson is sworn in following Kennedys assassination and comments on events. Facsimiles of 98 National Security Action memoranda discuss policies towards Vietnam, nuclear weapons, and Latin America, among other issues. A collection of 37 photographs depict Johnson in meetings with other important figures of the time, including Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Biographical information about Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson is provided in two chronologies. In addition, an exhibit from the Johnson museum provides a 6,200-word essay about events in Johnsons lifetime. This site will be very useful for research about Johnsons presidency and major events of the 1960s.
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Library of Congress, American Memory and Brown University.
See JAH web review by Karen Sotiropoulos.
Reviewed 2001-12-01.
This collection presents 1,305 pieces of sheet music composed by and about African Americans, ranging chronologically from antebellum minstrel shows to early 20th-century African-American musical comedies. Includes works by renowned black composers and lyricists, such as James A. Bland, Will Marion Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Bert Williams, George Walker, Alex Rogers, Jesse A. Shipp, Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson, James Reese Europe, and Eubie Blake. A Special Presentation: The Development of an African-American Musical Theatre, 1865-1910 provides a chronological overview that allows users to explore the emergence of African-American performers and musical troupes, first in blackface minstrelsy, and later at the beginnings of the African-American musical stage in the late 1890s. In addition, sheet music can be studied to examine racial depictions, both visually, on sheet music covers, and in lyrics; styles of music, such as ragtime, jazz, and spirituals; and a variety of topics of interest to popular audiences, including gender relations, urbanization, and wars. Includes a useful 80-title bibliography and 15-title discography. Much of the material is disturbing due to its heavy dependence on racial caricatures; however, students can gain insight into racial attitudes through an informed use of this site.
City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s
University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
An electronic book, composed of 10 multimedia essays by European and American scholars on modern urban culture in New York and Chicago. Hyperlinks allow readers to navigate thematically between essays. Ranging in length from 6,000 to 12,000 words, these essays explicitly use recent literary theory to explore urban landscapes, representations, and history. Visitors may follow particular pathways across essays for topics relating to architecture, leisure, race, and space. The New York essays deal with the following subjects: Harlem as refuge and ghetto in modernist art and writing; Times Square as represented in New Years celebrations; modern ways of seeing revealed in images of the Flatiron Building; an examination of the work of architectural illustrator Hugh Ferris in order to uncover ways in which the modern imagination expressed itself through architectural discourse; and tensions between turn-of-the-century representations of the Lower East Side by reformers and others. Chicago essays cover the portrayal of African-American urban styles in the art of Archibald Motley, Jr.; ways the city has been represented as a gateway; how urban identities are constructed and experiences portrayed in the novel Sister Carrie; ways that racial difference has been iterated in various discursive fields to shape national identity; and Maxwell Street as a site where urban renewal has displaced distinctive ethnic neighborhood cultures. Essays include dozens of photographs and multimedia displays. Includes a bibliography of more than 400 titles. As a demonstration of ways in which new multimedia technologies can enhance conventional scholarly understandings of urban culture, this site may represent the shape of things to come in some scholarly fields. Part of The 3Cities Project(see separate History Matters entry for description of larger site).
The Historical New York Times ProjectChapter 2: The Civil War Years, 1860-1866
University Library, Carnegie Mellon University.
Designed originally to provide access to issues of The New York Times for the Civil War years in order to offer a glimpse on how people in the 1860s saw the events of the war and of the world, the site now has expanded to include reproductions of all pages from all newspapers for the entire decade, despite the fact that its title still references a time frame of 1860-1866. For the war years, it provides category listings of more than 80 selected articles arranged chronologically by years and by the following topics: battles, military, politics, relations among the States, and social issues. The site lists articles on Lincolns election, inaugural, and assassination, censorship of the press, abolition of slavery, formation of the Confederate States of America, and Shermans March to the Sea, among other topics. In addition, users can select any page number for any year in the decade. This first of a series of projects undertaken by the Universal Library at Carnegie Mellon University, to provide everyone with a glimpse into the actual events as they were seen by the people of the day is marred by limited subject access and poor quality of reproduction. The creators note they will be providing much more detailed indexing and full-text over time. Despite the current work-in-progress state of the site, it can be extremely rewarding to those studying American life during the 1860s.
American Civil War
Jim Janke, Dakota State University.
A gateway to more than 300 links about the American Civil War. Organized thematically, it offers links to a wide range of primary materialart, poetry, letters, and photographsand also includes secondary sources such as bibliographies, museums, institutions, magazines, and other gateways. The site, indexed by subject, can help locate a wide variety of Civil War material, ranging from Confederate stamps to information about major battles, re-enactor groups, and the role of African-American troops in the war.
American History 102: Civil War to the Present
Stanley K. Schultz, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This site reflects efforts to teach an American history survey course entirely through technology. Offers student lecture notes; 32 biographical sketches of prominent figures treated in the course, searchable by occupation, name, and era; bibliographic information; exams and review sheets; and a gallery of more than 200 photographs, many of which are taken from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The overall presentation is somewhat fragmented, but the site is rich in resources. Perhaps most valuable is a directory of history websites, organized by subject and time period. Professor Stanley Schultz and his associates have designed the site as a supplement for his videotaped lectures on the post-Civil War period.
Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Divisions First 100 Years
Library of Congress, American Memory.
This site displays approximately 90 primary documents from the 15th century to the mid 20th century. Features eight subjects: the presidency; Congress, law, and politics; military affairs; diplomacy and foreign policy; arts and literature; science, medicine, exploration, and invention; African-American history and culture; and womens history. The collection emphasizes prominent Americans whose lives reflect our countrys evolution, including 23 presidents and figures such as Carter Woodson, Thurgood Marshall, pioneer physician Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilbur Wright, and Alexander Graham Bell. Each subject is accompanied by a useful 100- to 400-word background essay and a link to the documents host collection. Also includes a 2,000-word essay entitled Collecting, Preserving, and Researching History: A Peek into the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Although limited in size, this site provides an eclectic group of documents of national interest.
History: The National Park Service
U.S. National Park Service.
Historical aspects of many of the 384 areas under the National Park Services stewardship are presented in this expansive site. A Links to the Past section contains more than 25 text and picture presentations on such diverse history-related topics as archeology, architecture, cultural groups and landscapes, historic buildings, and military history. Of particular interest to teachers, a section entitled Teaching with Historic Places features more than 60 lesson plans designed to enliven the teaching of history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects by incorporating National Register of Historic Places into educational explorations of historic subjects. Examples include an early rice plantation in South Carolina; the lives of turn-of-the-century immigrant cigar makers near Tampa, Florida; a contrast between the Indianapolis headquarters of African-American businesswoman Madam C. J. Walker and a small store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that grew into the J. C. Penney Company, the first nationwide department store chain; the Civil War Andersonville prisoner of war camp; President John F. Kennedys birthplace; the Liberty Bell; Finnish log cabins in Iowa; and the Massachusetts Bay Colonys Saugus Iron Works. Especially useful for teachers interested in connecting the study of history with historic sites.
Digital Librarian: A Librarians Choice of the Best of the [History] Web
Margaret Vail Anderson.
A librarian in Cortland, New York, maintains this eclectic compilation of more than 1,000 history links. Brief annotations introduce most of the links, which include primary and secondary sources. The site offers a wide range of links, including dictionaries, autobiographies, state and federal documents, museums and libraries, books, speeches, and articles. Listings are arranged alphabetically and also in the following categories: African Americans, Asian resources, classics and ancient world, electronic texts, genealogy, images, Judaica, Latin American resources, medieval and Renaissance studies, Middle East, Native American resources, railroads and waterways, the southwest, and womens resources. Updated regularly.
Resources Available:TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2001-06-21.
WestWeb: Western Studies and Research Resources
Professor, Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island (CUNY).
This gateway offers a wide range of links to primary and secondary documents, bibliographies, maps, images, and other resources for the study and teaching of the American West. Its 31 topics include agriculture, economics, the environment, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, military history, political and legal history, religion, settlement, technology, and water. Also highlights six selected outstanding sites. Well-designed, comprehensive, and easy to navigate, the site also furnishes syllabi and additional teaching materials and suggestions.
Seneca Village
New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, and Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University.
An introduction to Seneca Village, a multi-ethnic community of African Americans and Irish and German immigrants destroyed by New York city officials in 1857 to clear land for Central Park. Through a selection of materials, currently limited to maps, images, and secondary essays, the site furnishes background on both Seneca Village and Central Park more generally. Also suggests classroom activities and provides a list of 63 related titles. Based on The Park and the Peoplean award-winning history of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmarthe site promises to expand significantly (but, as of October 2000 had not changed significantly from when it was launched a few years earlier). Primary documents will include the New York State Manuscript Census for 1855; birth and death records; church registers and records; newspaper articles; political cartoons, drawings, illustrations, photographs, and maps. Many of these will be interactive, so that students can query the data directly.
National Park Service: Links to the Past
National Park Service.
Visitors to this site are invited to explore historical aspects of the roughly 200 National Park Service locations designated important to this countrys history and prehistory. Organized by cultural resource subjectsincluding archeology, architecture and engineers, cultural groups, cultural landscapes, historic buildings, mapping, maritime and military historyand cultural resource programs, such as the American Indian Liaison Program and Heritage Preservation Services. Visitors can search for information on more than 2.5 million Civil War soldiers and sailors; more than 71,000 properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places; and approximately 240,000 reports on federal archeological projects in the National Archeological Database. National Register Travel Itineraries provide historic guides to 18 cities and communities. The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom contains information on 51 sites of importance and on slavery and antislavery efforts in general. Also of interest are bibliographies on the African-American west and public history, and full-text publications on the Antiquities Act of 1906 and the promotion of the city of Seattle during the gold rush era. Additional National Park Service sites are described in History Matters. This valuable site emphasizes the importance of place in the study of history.
19th-Century California Sheet Music
Mary Kay Duggan, Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley.
Provides scanned images from more than 1,800 pieces of sheet music published between 1852 and 1900 in California, culled from 10 California library and archival collections. Includes more than 800 illustrated covers, 45 audio selections, seven video clips of singers, and a handful of programs, posters, playbills, periodicals, catalogs, broadsheets, books on music, and maps. More than 350 items contain advertising. Also offers explanatory essays of 1,000 to 2,000 words in length with general information on music from more than a dozen ethnic cultures, and with reference to topics, including buildings, composers, dance, disasters, gender, mining, performers, politics, product ads, railroads, and sports. Provides 14 links to additional sheet music collections and reference sources. Valuable to those studying popular culture, California history, music history, advertising, and depictions of ethnicity, gender, and race in 19th-century America.
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project
Stanford University.
Features texts by and about Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled as part of an effort to publish Kings most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. The site contains more than 100 speeches, sermons, and other writings, mostly taken from the four volumes the Project has published to date, covering the period 1929-1958. In addition, 15 chapters of materials collected from diverse sources and published by the Project in 1998 as The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. are available. Includes important sermons and speeches from later periods, including the 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail, the March on Washington address; the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech; and Rediscovering Lost Values, a sermon from 1954. The site also provides an interactive chronology of Kings life, a 1,000-word biographical essay by project director and historian Clayborne Carson; 23 audio files of recorded speeches and sermons; 12 articles on King by scholars and others; 32 photographs; and 11 links to other resources. The site additionally offers a searchable inventory to Kings major papers and recordings. Regularly updated and expanded, this site is useful for studying the development of Kings views and discourse on civil rights, race relations, non-violence, education, peace, the war in Vietnam, and other political, religious, and philosophical topics.
Who Killed William Robinson?
Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz.
The deaths of William Robinson and two other black men on the British colony of Salt Spring Island (British Columbia) between 1867 and December 1868attributed by an all-white jury to an aboriginal manare examined in this site, which offers inquests, trial records, newspaper accounts, diary entries, maps, private correspondence, and artistss depictions and reconstructions. Through these hundreds of images and documentswhich together constitute a social history of ethnically and racially-mixed Salt Spring Islandstudents may pursue explanations for Robinsons murder, and, more broadly, relations among white colonists, black settlers, and aboriginal peoples. Also gives four links and a 39-title bibliography for further research. A teachers guide is available upon request. The authors are affiliated with the history department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Useful for student-teacher explorations into race relations in 19th-century Canada.
World War I Document Archive
Jane Plotke, Richard Hacken, Alan Albright, and Michael Shackelford.
Hundreds of documents and thousands of images relating to World War I, with particular emphasis on military, diplomatic, and political dimensions. Documents are arranged both chronologically and by type, including governmental documents, personal reminiscences, the war at sea, and medical aspects. An image archive currently contains two viewable sectionsa photo archive of 1,844 images in 15 categories, including individuals, locations, heads of state, commanders, refugees, war albums, and animals; and Medals of the Great War, that provides photographs and 100-word descriptions. Last updated in July 2001, the image archive promises to include images of flags, maps, artworks, and ephemera in the future. The site also offers full-text reproductions of more than 50 contemporary and recent books, some of which cover participation in the war effort of African Americans, American Indians, and women; a biographical dictionary of 500-700 word entries for more than 200 names; a bibliographical essay covering more than 100 titles; and approximately 125 links to related sites. The authorsvolunteers from a World War I electronic discussion networkencourage user participation in expanding the site, a valuable source for those studying military and diplomatic aspects of the war.
California Heritage Collection
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
An impressive archive of more than 30,000 digitally reproduced images illustrating Californias history and culture, taken from nearly 200 collections at UC Berkeleys Bancroft Library. The site, searchable by keyword, features photographs, sketches, and paintings in six categories: early California missions and mining activities, natural landscapes, Native Americans, San Francisco, World War II and Japanese relocation, and portraits of notable and ordinary Californians from diverse backgrounds. More than 100 images selected from the larger collection are included in an accompanying California Cornerstones Collection. Includes 158 finding aids, additional links to the Bancroft Library, and six web-based lesson plans for using the collection in K-12 classrooms. While the text accompanying each image is limited to artist/photographer, subject, and date, the sheer number of images available makes this a valuable resource for those studying Californias history.
Pluralism and Unity
David Bailey, Michigan State University, and David Halsted, H-Net.
Presents a wide array of materials that explore the struggle between these two visions of pluralism and unity in early 20th-century American thought and life. Arranged into six major sections: The Idea of Pluralism; The Idea of Internationalism; Culture and Pluralism; Labor and Pluralism; Race and Pluralism; and Gender and Pluralism. The site links to major sites on such topics as ethics, politics, culture, sociology, anthropology, religion, economics, imperialism, hegemony, world systems theory, League of Nations, Jim Crow laws, eugenics, the Niagara Movement, NAACP, KKK, unions, strikes, modernism, the genteel tradition, localism, and ragtime. Outlines the perspectives of important public figures including William James, Eugene Debs, Randolph Bourne, Daniel DeLeon, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Horace Kallen, Scott Nearing, Max Eastman, William Cowper Brann, Madison Grant, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Charles S. Peirce, Margaret Mead, Woodrow Wilson, John Reed, and Irving Berlin. Although many of the sites direct links to texts by these figures are no longer operable, users can access sites containing important writings through the Concepts section of each of the six major parts. Also includes 12 audio components and dozens of photographs. For its inclusion of links to many extremely useful sites from a variety of perspectives, this site will be valuable to those studying early 20th-century American ideas and debates and their resonance throughout later times.
Virtual Jamestown
Crandall Shifflett, Virginia Center for Digital History.
A work in progress, Virtual Jamestown is a good place to begin exploring the history of Jamestown. This site includes 20 letters and first-hand accounts, available in original-spelling or modern-spelling versions, 100 public records, from census data to laws, 30 maps and images, and a sample of documents on labor contracts. The site will add court records, including deeds, wills, and court order books. There are a number of excellent K-12 teaching tools and classroom activities, including Jobs in Jamestown that teaches students to use census data to research occupations of colonial settlers, Jamestown Newsletter, that helps students research questions about life in the colony, and Planning an Escape, in which students study runaway slave advertisements and investigate the range of factors a slave had to consider before escaping. The reference section includes a timeline extending from 1502 to the present, narratives by prominent historians, including Bernard Bailyn, links to 15 related sites, and a bibliography of 20 primary and secondary sources.
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