History Subject Guide

African American History

• Yahoo:Arts:Humanties:History:U.S. History:African American

Extensive lists of links to other sites.

• Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History

Divided by time period and type of material.

• The African American Mosaic (Library of Congress)

Resource guide to the study of Black history and culture in the collections of the Library of Congress. Includes photographs and excerpts of ex-slave narratives.

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Contains excerpts of slave narratives.

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

Ex-slave interviews conducted by the WPA in the 1930s. Includes photographs.

• Freedman and Southern Society Project

Documents on the emancipation of slaves, 1861-1867.

Archival Sites

• American Memory Project: Library of Congress

Ongoing project to digitize the primary source material documenting the history and cultural development of the United States.

• Historical Text Archive

An archive of primary and secondary source material searchable topically and geographically.

• Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections

A guide to WWW pages of archives, libraries, and other repositories that have primary source materials by or about women.

• National Archives and Records Administration

Online guide to the collections of the National Archives.

Book Reviews

• H-Net Reviews

Scholarly review journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Searchable by keyword and other parameters like author and title. Reviews are also published in the various H-Net discussion networks (lists).

• The History Journals Guide

This international directory and mailing lists in the disciplines of history and archaeology. HJG aims to be a starting point for researchers, graduate students and librarians.

Comprehensive Sites

• WWW Virtual Library: History (University of Kansas)


• Yahoo:Arts:Humanities:History (Yahoo, Internet search engine)


• Links for the History Profession (Organization of American Historians)


• Voice of the Shuttle (University of California, Santa Barbara)


• Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University)

Databases

• History and Classic Databases

Databases geared toward history students and faculty.

Evaluating and Using Primary Sources on the Internet

• Using Primary Sources on the Web

Information provided by the History Section of the American Library Association on finding, using, and evaluating primary sources on the Internet.

History Departments

• History Departments Around the World

The Center for History and New Media maintains this site and provides access to 1,200 departments worldwide.

Library Guides to History

• Library Guide to General History Resources (pdf)


• Library Guide to U.S. History Resources (pdf)


• Library Guide to U.S. Civil War Resources (pdf)

Local and Regional Sites

Tennessee Sites

• Women in Tennessee History

Bibliography of books, theses, articles and manuscripts as well as links to other pertinent sites.

• Tennessee State Library and Archives

Information on the manuscript and image collections.

Knoxville and Knox County Sites

• New Deal Network

Includes a section of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

• East Tennessee Historical Center (Knox Country Library System)

Includes information on the Knox County Archives and the McClung Historical Collection.

• The East Tennessee Historical Society

Information about the exhibits in their museum.

• The 1982 World's Fair

Relive the World's Fair with sections on background, site, exhibits, innovations, "famous firsts" and documentation.

Regional (Southern) Sites

• Southern Studies Jumpgate (The Center for the Study of the American South (UNC))

Annotated list of Web sites useful to scholars of the South.

• Documenting the American South

Full-text of nineteenth century diaries, literature and slave narratives.

• Center for the Study of Southern Culture

University of Mississippi's extensive offerings on all things Southern.

Manuscript Collections

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections: Library of Congress

Combined cataloging of manuscript collections for repositories that do not catalog via either OCLC or RLIN, the two national cataloging databases, from 1986/7- present. For earlier years, see: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, Reference and Special Collections: CD3022.N37 (paper). Printed volumes included more repositories than does the newer online version.

Organizations

• American Historical Association

The AHA is the largest historical society in the United States and serves as an umbrella organization for historians working in every period and geographical area. AHA also provides information concerning dissertations in progress.

• Organization of American Historians

Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history.

United States Civil War

• American Civil War

Links to the most useful electronic files about the Civil War. Developed and maintained at UTK.

• The United States Civil War Center (Louisiana State University)

Includes a subject index for searching Civil War Web sites.

• The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia

Project that uses primary material such as letters, diaries, personal papers and census data to portray two communities, Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War. It combines a narrative and an electronic archive of sources.

• Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection

Contains images of broadside poems written by Southerners or Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War.

All images taken from the American Memory database. Search the database for "World War II posters" for more.

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