Carleton College: History: Links of Interest

Links of Interest

Where to stay when visiting Northfield.

Alumni, Fellowships, Research, and Internship Opportunities: After Carleton

Public Libraries of the World: http://www.publiclibraries.com/world.htm

Africa	Medical
America, African American	Medieval
Cartography, Geography	Middle East
Central Asia	South Asia
East Asia	Women
Europe	-
Latin America	Other Internet Resources
-	Contests, Competitions

AMERICAN HISTORY

Augsburg College American History Internet Links:

Early American
American

Additional American and African American History Links can be found at the following places:

African American History, Harvard: W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, 1818-1907, Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., American Memory project.

African American History: Bibliography: The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed website created by Quintard Taylor, Professor of American History, University of Washington, Seattle.
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=african-american-history-bibliography

Africana: http://www.albany.edu/africana/resources/index.html

American Indians: Index of native American Resources on the Internet: WWW Virtual Library: http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

American notes: travels in America, 1750-1920

American Women's History, see Women's and Gender History.

Antietam on the Web, Online content for those interested in this particular U.S. Civil War engagement. Totally dedicated to the battle of Antietam, highly recommended by S.J. Ramold, Virginia State University.

Aviation History - http://www.aviationhistory.org/

Black Culture - Schomburg Center for Research

Booker T. Washington papers

Center for History and New Media

Center for Jewish History. The center houses the libraries and resources of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Some collection catalogs available on-line. Site offers special resources on Jewish women, including Women in Daily Life (found in the Educator and Teacher Resources section).

Center of the American West - http://www.centerwest.org/ - energy policy, economic theory, land usage, and social interaction in various contexts of western history.

Cleveland Digital Library

Columbia University's Electronic Archive of the Papers of John Jay (from Brandon County, '00, 2/4/03 )

Connecticut Historical Society

Cultural Tourism DC is pleased to announce the availability of the African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC, a free guidebook that details 98 sites organized into 15 neighborhood walking or driving tours. The trail presents important moments in Washington's - and the nation's - black history. The guidebook is now in its fourth printing, just in time for Black History Month 2008. About 220 trail locations, including the 98 in the booklet.

Declassified Documents, Harvard Project on Cold War Studies

Dohistory.org, Harvard and George Mason University collaboration. A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Case study: Martha Ballard diary (A Midwife's Tale)

The Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920 http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn.

Eugenics Archive: Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

Famous Trials, from Socrates 399 BCE to OJ Simpson 1995 (7/23/03)

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Website, Department of Justice

French and Indian War
The French in American History Website: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiahome.html

Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

Gilder Lehman Institute of American History

JIM CROW: The History of Jim Crow, http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/.

JIM CROW: Remembering Jim Crow http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/

Kentuckiana digital library, includes topics Civil War, coal mining, tobacco, & audio oral histories

Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, check site for current events, too.

National Congress of American Indians

The Oregon History Project from the Oregon Historical Society (from Devon McCurdy, '05, 1/8/04)

Race and Place, Civil War, Carter Woodson links

The Supreme Court Historical Society

U.S. Women Working, 1870-1930, http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ - offers a plethora of documents related to women's employment in the US, both professional and industrial workers highlighted in thousands of digitized documents, from government reports, personal papers, advertisement circulars, periodical articles and thousands of images.Impressive and important resource.

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

Voices of Civil Rights - http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/ - Profiles activitists from the 1960s including African American Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement, Chicano, gay rights, environmental, and women's movements. Well organized and easy to navigate, user friendly even for inexperienced browsers.

Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice, and Settling the Land--A Historical Whodunithttp://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/.

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CARTOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY

Historical Geography. The H-HistGeog network is a forum for geographers, historians, and all others who have an interest in the intricate relationship between space and time.
Map History. This is a site for history of cartography.
Places online. Quality, up-to-date information on a wide vvariety of placesaround the globe. A service of the Association of American Geographers.

EUROPEAN HISTORY

The Esternay Project Archive. Directed by Professors Carl Weiner, Scott Carpenter and Daniel Ringrose, the current site's 800 plus transcribed letters and hundreds of scanned originals and translations centers on three generations of the Poirrier family of notaries in the town of Esternay not far from Paris providing a window into the personal and public lives of French men, women and children in the nineteenth-century.

Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Declassified Documents

Williams College Russia & Soviet Union page, Williams College

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Website, Department of Justice

Augsburg College European & Non-Western Internet Links

British History: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp

AFRICAN HISTORY

Africa Research Central: archives, libraries, and museum collections of African primary sources

African Studies

Index on Africa

Disa, the Digital Imaging Project of South Africa, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, the digitization of anti-apartheid periodicals.

South African War

SULAIR, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/asp.html, Index of Africa, South of the Sahara, very good list of U.S. and International Organizations and Programs

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CENTRAL ASIA - SEE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA

EAST ASIAN HISTORY

Asia	Korea
China	Vietnam
East Asia
Japan	Searchable Database

ASIAN
Asian History - Suite101.com
Asian History Timeline
Asiaco - Asia Search Engine: http://www.asiabot.com/
Asian Pacific
Asian Studies
Asian Studies -- WWW Virtual Library
AsianInfo.org
AsiaRecipe.com - Just for fun! Great site.
AsiaSource
AskAsia: A K-12 Resource of the Asia Society
General Medieval Asian History

CHINA
China the Beautiful
Chinese Historical and Cultural Project Virtual Museum & Library
Condensed China: Chinese History for Beginners
History of China

EAST ASIAN
East Asia and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources

JAPAN
History of Japan
Japan Main Page
Japanese History
Japanese History and Culture
Stanford Guide to Japanese Information Resources

KOREA
History of Korea Main Page
Korea Web, Frank Hoffman's (Harvard)
Korean History links - http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/links3.htm
South Korea, brief history

VIETNAM
History of Vietnam

SEARCHABLE DATABASE
George Mason University - Center for History and New Media Sites on the Web - a searchable database for any field of history.

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SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY

Ames Library, University of Minnesota
Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
India and Pakistan
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
The Ramayana
Background on The Ramayana
Hymns from the Rig Veda
Harappan Civilization
Digital South Asia Library
Digital Colonial Documents - rare 19th century documents of colonial India.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: India Maps

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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

The Conference on Latin American History at: http://www.h-net.org/~clah

H-net discussion group for Latin American history at: http://www.h-net.org/~latam/

The Latin American Network Information Center at: http://lanic.utexas.edu/ (LANIC)

Latin American Studies Association at: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/

At Carleton: Resources for Latin American History at: http://www.carleton.edu/campus/library/reference/subjectpages/latamhistory.htm

Library of Congress HLAS ONLINE: Handbook of Latin American Studies: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas

OSEA Summer Field School in Ethnography, July 4-Aug 20, 2004. OSEA Provides Training in Ethnography for Students and Professionals. Deadline: 2004-06-04. Description: OSEA -- The Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology Summer Field School in Ethnography. July 4 to August 20, 2004

http://www.osea-cite.org/program/pr_index_sumfs_sch.php. Conducted in Yucatan, Mexico. In the Maya communities of Mrida, Pist, and Chichn Itz For undergraduate and graduate students.

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MEDICAL HISTORY

History of Medicine and Images of the History of Medicine - National Institute of Health (NIH)

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC): http://www.unc.edu/awmc/
The Labyrinth Library
Medieval and Classical Library (SLOW LINK, sometimes requires patience.)
Medieval English Towns - http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html - Massive and unique web site covers all aspects of medieval urban communities. Should be first stop on research tour of medieval cities and towns!

Rare French manuscripts

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MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA

Afghanistan Online: Afghan History
Middle East History In the News - http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/ Guide to resources available on the WWW for those interested in Middle East culture and history.
India and Pakistan
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
Internet Resources for Middle East and Islamic Studies: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/neareast.html
British Museum SILK ROAD: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/silkroad/main.html
World Wide Resources for the Study of Central Eurasia - CESWW is sponsored by the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus|

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WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Center for Jewish History. The center houses the libraries and resources of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Some collection catalogs available on-line. Site offers special resources on Jewish women, including Women in Daily Life (found in the Educator and Teacher Resources section).
Women's Studies at Carleton
Women & Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Salem Witchcraft: Excerpts from the Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Trial Documents
The National Women's History Project
The Women's International Center- History of U.S. Women
Feminist History Research Center
U.S. Women Working, 1870-1930, http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ - offers a plethora of documents related to women's employment in the US, both professional and industrial workers highlighted in thousands of digitized documents, from government reports, personal papers, advertisement circulars, periodical articles and thousands of images. Impressive and important resource.

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OTHER HISTORY INTERNET RESOURCES

The Journal for Multimedia History, from the Department of History from SUNY, Albany--a peer-reviewed electronic journal that presents, evaluates, and disseminates multimedia historical scholarship.
ABC-CLIO History Resources. A source for History references.
American Historical Association (the AHA)
The Best History Web Sites - http://www.besthistorysites.net/
George Mason University - Center for History and New Media Sites on the Web - a searchable database for any field of history.
H-NET, Humanities Online
Essays in History
The History Cooperative, ( http ://www.historycooperative.org/ ) is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles. (Thanks, Divya! 2/10/05)
Information Literacy Website: http://www.pgcc.edu/library/tutorial/index.htm
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook
J-Stor - The Scholarly Journal Storage Archive
Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/
National Endowment for the Humanities: http://www.neh.gov/
National Geographic Sustainable Destinations Resource Center: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/
Naval History: Naval History - http://www.naval-history.net/ - Concentration on WWI, WWII, and Falklands War, mainly British, but includes US, French, Japanese, German and Italian navies, with detailed lists, statistics and summaries of naval military history, naval vessels, merchant ships lost at sea, campaign chronologies, outlines of the navies of WWI and ship profiles. Good table of contents format and site search engine make site easy and effective.
On-Line Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?D
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
Cite Link - How to Cite Internet Sources
Wikpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

CONTESTS, COMPETITIONS
ELIE WIESEL PRIZE IN ETHICS, prize in ethics essay contest is an annual competition for college students. Full-time juniors and seniors in the U.S. are welcome to enter the Essay Contest and compete for $10,000 in prizes and the opportunity to meet Elie Wiesel in NYC. Guidelines & Entry form available at: www.eliewieselfoundation.org, Deadline December 9, 2005.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES Writing Competition ($5,000) and Scholarships ($12,000). See www.TheIHS.org or contact Keri Anderson at ihs@gmu.edu with any questions or comments.
Felix Morley Journalism Competition, http://www.theihs.org/ deadline Dec. 1, 2005
Also from Keri Anderson at IHS, various other $5,000 Essay contests:
Globalization: www.aWorldConnected.org/essay
Environmentalism: www.aBetterEarth.org/essay
Ideas of Liberty: www.LibertyGuide.com

and some fun sites:
http://www.libertyarcade.org/ - on-line education games with a new twist.
http://www.politiopia.com/ - take the political quiz.

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