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- African
American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 (Ohio Historical
Society)
- Images of newspapers, pamphlets, photos and manuscripts on social
and cultural life, as well as the Civil War
- Browsable by subject and searchable by keyword
- Afro-American
Almanac
- Selected historic documents, including laws, court decisions,
Mississippi Black Codes, Black Panther organizational material
- Biographies of famous Afro-Americans
- African
American Studies (UCSB)
- Extensive links to African-American history, culture, biography, and
periodicals
- Sparse annotations
- Afro-Americans and the Military, 1939-45 (UMich)
- Bibliography of books, periodical articles, and microforms on
African Americans in World War II
- Annotated links to related web sources
- Been Here So Long -
American Slave Narratives
- Transcripts of interviews with 17 former slaves conducted in the
1930s by the Federal Writers Project
- Black Facts
On-Line
- Historic dates in black history
- Search by date, keyword, or keyword within a subject field
(birthdays, business, military, civil rights, death, politics, law,
medicine, sports, etc)
- Black
Studies Database: Kaiser Index, 1948-1986 (UMich Only)
- Index to periodicals, newspapers, and books on block studies
- Searchable by keyword and date
- Index only; does not provide full text
- Blackquest:
Power Resource Links
- Annotated web links to black history, names, current social problems
(e.g. child care), and culture
- Links to the Online Black Family Webring and related rings
- From Slavery to
Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (Library
of Congress)
- Approximately 400 pamphlets written by African Americans on slavery,
reconstruction, colonization
- Personal accounts and orations
- Browsable by author, subject, and title; searchable by keyword
- Gateway to
African American History (USIA)
- Annotated links to black history web sites
- Transcripts from President
Clinton's Initiative on Race
- Speeches and documents celebrating the 50th anniversary of Little
Rock, Arkansas school integration
- Black History month postage stamps
- JSTOR Journals on African
American Studies (UMich Only)
- Full text of scholarly journals since the beginning of the century
and current to the past five years
- Includes the Journal of Black Studies, 1970+
and Journal of Negro History,
1916+
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King Assassination
- Civil
Lawsuit Verdict (Court TV)
- A Memphis jury decided on Dec. 8, 1999 that a conspiracy involving
Loyd Jowers was involved in King's 1968 assassination
- Court TV provides a summary of the trial and text of complaint
- Martin Luther
King Papers (Stanford University)
- Project to digitize papers includes several volumes
- Most popular speeches (I Have A Dream, Mountaintop) listed separately
- Web site includes bibliographical and biographical information
- State
of Black America (National Urban League) (UMich Only)
- Annual statistical report since 1976 on the social and economic
conditions of African Americans in the United States
- Each issue includes special subjects, such as the wealth gap,
leadership
- Online issues with full text available on the web, 2001-2006
- Older and more current issues available in paper copy in the
Graduate, Undergraduate and Social Work Libraries as E 185.5 .N315
- Universal Black
Pages (Georgia Tech)
- Worldwide links on websites related to the African diaspora
- Subjects include history, culture, professional associations
- Some annotations
- America:
History and Life (UMich Only)
Index and abstracts of 2000 journals in U.S. and Canadian
history
- American
Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (Kingwood
College)
- Arranged by decade with fast facts, lists of books and web sites on
literature, education, theater and film
- Typical prices, fads and fashions, and some pictures
- American
Studies Electronic Crossroads
- Sections include American studies as a curriculum, teaching
technology, and the profession
- Index to American
Quarterly, 1975-95, abstracts of American Studies
dissertations, 1986-95
- The American Studies Web provides annotated
links to culture, economics, politics, and history; more updated the the
1994 date suggests
- Anthro.Net
- List of 40,000 reviewed web site on all aspects of anthropology and
archaeology
- Browsable list of 50 headings, including web sites and reviews of
books available from Amazon
- Keyword search engine; results can be narrowed or weighted by
relevance
- Anthropology
(UMich)
- Annotated guide to U.S. and international anthropology and archaeology web sites
- Includes environment and Native Americans
- Anthropological
Literature (UMich Only)
- Indexes almost 500,000 articles on anthropology and archaeology in
Western European languages since the 19th Century
- Highly selective list of the best web sites for continental (e.g. Asian, Latin American) studies
- Area studies generally include culture, literature, economics, and politics
Business (UMich
Kresge Bus. Lib)
- Business periodicals on the Iinternet, career and company information, economics, finance, international business, and real estate
- Lists of printed reference tools for business research
- Access to MENTOR, the library's on-line catalog
- Economics
(UMich)
- Annotated guide to working papers, electronic
texts, and statistics available on the University of Michigan campus
- Labor and
Business History Archives (WWW Virtual
Library)
- Extensive links to economic and labor sources as well as politics and
business
- Includes meta-indexes, journals, exhibits
- Resources
for Economists (Bill Goffe)
- Most comprehensive guide to economics on the Internet
- U.S. and foreign statistical sources
- Links to newsletters, working papers, journals and organizations
- Teaching materials, news groups, and job-hunting
- WebEc:
WWW Resources in Economics
- Extensive links to economics using the Journal of Economic Literature
classification
- Subjects include economic statistics, industrial organization,
mathematics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor, regional data,
international economics, publications, and libraries
- Most entries are annotated
- Education
(UMich)
- Major journal indexes and new books in education
- Gateway to Education
Materials (Dept. of Education)
- Teaching materials and lesson plans for K-12
- Searchable by keyword; browsable by keyword and subject
- Eco-Net
- Subject arrangement of environmental issues (e.g. animal rights, climatology, environmental law, toxic waste)
- Directories of organizations and newsletters
- Envirolink
- Annotated links categorized as earth, air, fire, water, and
flora/fauna
- Environmental
Resources (Univ. Colorado)
- Nicely annotated guide to both subjects and types of information
- Air, agriculture, water, and waste management
- Organizations, mailing lists, periodicals, law, and glossaries
- National Pollution
Prevention Center for Higher Education (UMich)
- Resource materials and web links for teaching pollution prevention at
the college level
- Includes product creation, environmental engineering, marketing,
chemistry, and accounting
- Ethnic News
Watch
- Full text of news and journal articles on the ethnic population of
the United States as well as publications by the ethnic press
- Coverage begins in the 1980s
- Searchable by keyword, date, people, ethnic groups, and language
- Ethnic
Minorities (UCSB)
- Extensive Internet resources for African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Native
American, Jewish, and immigrant studies
- Wide-range include biographies, culture, poetry, full texts, exhibits, archives, and class teaching
- Part of the Voice from the Shuttle web site
- GLBT
Life (UMich Only)
- Index to periodical articles on gay and Lesbian issues since 1972
with full text since 2003
- Gay and Lesbian
Politics (Indiana Univ)
- News, electronic discussion groups, and a list of gay/lesbian
organizations
- Links to web sources for gay/lesbian issues, including marriage,
parenting and AIDS
- Gay/Lesbian
Studies (UCSB)
- Annotated links to comprehensive sites, biographies, journals, and
literary works
- Part of the Voice from the Shuttle web
site
- Extensive annotated links to federal, foreign, international, Michigan, and state web sites
- Guides to federal legislative histories, international simulations, and U.S. foreign policy
- Chicano
Data Base (UMich Only)
- Indexes 50,000 articles on Mexican-Americans and Chicanos since 1967
- Updated quarterly
- Hispanic American
Periodicals Index (UMich Only)
- Indexes periodicals, book reviews, and original literary works since 1970
- Approaches include keyword, author, title, journal, controlled
subject heading, date, and language
- Subjects include history, politics, economics, and culture of Latin
America and Hispanics in the United States
- Provides citations but not the full text
- Hispanic/Latino News
Service
- Daily news from Hispanic and English newspapers in the United States
- Also carries opinion pieces
- Julian Samora Research
Institute (Michigan State Univ)
- Numerous on-line research studies on the social, economic, and health
conditions of Latinos in the United States
- Special focus on the Midwest, including data on migrant workers and
Latino history in Michigan
- Comprehensive
Guide (Yahoo)
- Largest index to history web sites
- Arranged by century, subject, region, or country
- Archives
Portal (UNESCO)
- Directory of national, state, and local archives with web links
- Also includes subject lists, such as parliamentary, diplomatic or
family archives
- No annotations; project under development as of 2000
- Archives
USA (UMich Only)
- Index to holdings of 4400 archives and 100,000 archival
collections
in the United States
- Searchable and browsable by keyword, collection name, city
and state
- Information includes a description of the collection,
hours, and a
link to the repository's web site
- Includes National Archives as well as numerous other public
and
private archives
- Directory of
Digitized Collections (UNESCO/IFLA)
- Index to web sites, primarily on historical and artistic subjects
around the world
- Samples include Connecticut history, Hungarian electronic library,
North American slave narratives, Gulliver's travels
- Index if browsable and search
- Entries provide good annotations and links to the web site
- Documents
in Military History (Hillsdale College)
- Over 300 documents on warfare from Ancient History through the 19th
Century
- Includes battle accounts and treaties
- Laws of War for the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Encyclopedia of
1848 Revolutions
- Numerous articles written by scholars on European revolutions of
1848
- Browsable by subject and contributor
- French
History (UMich)
- Research collections, microform sets, archives, and some web sites on
French history
- Historical
Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Indexes 2000 journals on world history since 1450 (excluding U.S. and
Canadian)
- HyperHistory
Online
- Timelines of world history beginning 1000 B.C.
- Color-coded sections on inventions, politics/war, culture and
religion
- History
Universe (UMich Only)
- Index to an extensive microfilm collection of U.S. political and
social history issued by University Publications of America
- Topics include: African American Studies, American Civil War,
Immigration Studies, International Studies, Jurisprudence, Labor Studies,
Military History and War, Native American Studies, Political History,
Southern History, Western U.S. History, Women's Studies
- Sample collections: the FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Office
Files; Lyndon Johnson National Security Files; Immigration
and Naturalization Service correspondence from the early 20th
Century; pacification in Vietnam; William Westmoreland
Vietnam files; Confederate military records
- Browsing by topic or
title yields the guide to the microform collection (HTML or PDF format)
- Search for individual entries in a single or all microform collections
by keyword and date
- Resulting entries refer to microfilm collection location
- Search MIRLYN by title for
the University of Michigan microfilm call number; contact Inter-Library
Loan those collections not available at the
University
- Nuremberg Trials
- Doctors
Trial (US Holocaust Museum)
- Excerpts from the trial on war crimes
committed by Nazi doctors during WWII
- Indictments, sentences, and Nuremberg code
- International
Military Tribunal (Nizkor Project)
- Full text of the Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Red
Set) trial and the British transcripts
- Nuremberg War Crimes
Trial (Yale)
- Known as the Blue Set
- Indictments, warrants, testimony of witnesses
- Official documents of Post WWI governments
- Huge web site, browsable or searchable by keyword
- Trial
of Adolf Eichmann (Nizkor Project)
- 1961 trial transcripts in Jerusalem for Nazi war criminal in WWII
- Includes court judgment
- United States
- America:
History and Life (UMich Only)
- Index and abstracts 2000 journals on U.S. and Canadian history
- Making of
America
- On-line texts of American social history, 1850-1900
- Searchable by author, title, subject and keyword
- University of Michigan/Cornell project funded by the Andrew Mellon
Foundation
- Nineteenth Century
United States Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies Online
(Washington State University)
- Text of historic documents, speeches, and writings beginning with the
colonial era through 1899
- Presidential papers, American Revolution and Civil War documents,
American Indian and women's history, books on social concerns
- Links to maps and cartoons
- Poole's Plus:
Digital Index of the 19th Century (UMich Only)
- Index to popular American journals, 1802-1906
- Browsable by journal; searchable by keyword, author
- Cites periodical, date and author
- United
States History
- Full text collections, microform sets and reference works on U.S.
history
- See also Federal
Government/Historic Documents
- Journalism
(University of Iowa)
- Comprehensive journalism links to various aspects of a journalism
career
- Includes discussion groups, associations, university departments,
research, job hunting and citation style
- News Watch
(Center for Media and Public Affairs)
- Daily publication analyzying truth in media coverage of
public affairs
- Sample subjects: 2000 Presidential campaign, Jon Benet Ramsey grand
jury, Chinese embassy bombing
- Archived since February 1999 and
searchable
- Academic
Universe (UMich Only)
- The full text of scholarly law reviews appears in its Legal section
- Hein
Online
- Full text of legal journals from the 19th Century to the President
- Historic Attorney General decisions
- Index to
Foreign Legal Periodicals (UMich Only)
- Indexes 450 legal periodicals published outside the U.S., Canada, and
Great Britain since 1985
- Approach by author, title, subject, and
keyword
- Western European languages, including English
- Index
to Legal Periodicals and Books (UMich Only)
- Indexes books and articles from 620 law reviews, legal journals, yearbooks, institutes,
monographs, bar association publications, and government publications
- Covers the
United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand
- LegalTrac
(UMich Only)
- Indexes major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and
legal newspapers
- Covers U.S. federal and state cases, laws, government regulations & legal
practice; British Commonwealth, European Union & international law
- Kimes
International Law Directory
- Search for lawyer specialties by a combination of country, language,
subject or name (e.g. lawyers in Belgium who speak English and specialize
in the environment
- Search results provide law firm, address, e-mail address, specialties
and languages
- Country Notes summarizes the legal system in individual locales
- Lawyers.Com
- Search for a lawyer by any combination of place, area of practice,
law school, language, and location where licensed to practice
- International in scope with comprehensive U.S. coverage
- Background on U.S. laws (wills, civil rights, medical malpractice)
for the public
- Martindale-Hubbell Law
Directory
- Search for lawyer or law firm in U.S.
- Use any combination of name, city, state or province, and specialty
- Provides biography
- Law and Politics
Internet Guide
- Nice selection of annotated links for the legal profession
- Includes law journals, book reviews, student legal sources,
directories of lawyers, legal forms
- Law
Engine
- Extensive links to legal dictionaries and encyclopedias, legal news,
news groups
- Covers various types of law, litigant guides, and application forms
- Law Library
(UMich)
- Federal, state, and international law links
- Links to legal topics and law firms
- Connection to the Law Library's on-line catalog
(Lexcalibur)
- Resources on Law (UMich)
- Key search engines for U.S., international and Michigan law
- Web
of
Justice
- Links to federal circuit and district court web sites as
well as
state courts
- Foreign national and city police and justice web sites
arranged by
country
- Extensive links to types of crime (fraud, computer, drugs,
gangs) as
well as corrections
- Some links provide statistical data
- Zimmerman's
Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers
- Extensive list of topics directly or indirectly related to legal
research from actors and bill jackets to military records and trade
secrets
- Provides a brief description of sources for research, including the
best free web sites (e.g. weight and measure converters, text of the
Vienna Conventions) as well as LEXIS or Westlaw databases
- Legal Forms
(AllLaw)
- Family law, business, real estate, employment and federal forms
- Also includes various wills and trusts
- Legal Forms
- Federal forms for bankruptcy, civil, and miscellaneous actions
arranged by Circuit
- Michigan is in the 6th Circuit; forms for Western Michigan but not
the Eastern Michigan District as of June 2000
- State legal forms, including probate, estates, guardianships, and
small claims for Michigan
- Legal Forms
(Lectric Law Library)
- Explanation and sample of business, general, and lawyer forms
- Includes living will
- Law Center (CNN)
- Current legal news
- Links to FINDLAW for subject compilations of the law
- Search engine for Supreme Court lawsuits
- Law Journal
Extra
- Daily legal news
- Includes numerous links to related documents
- Geographic names, tables of distances, flags, glossaries
- On-line maps of Michigan
- Description of Map Library's Geographic Information System
- Kappler's Indian
Affairs and Treaties (Okla.State Univ)
- Text of U.S. treaties with Indian tribes between 1778 and 1883
- Indexed by year, alphabetically by treaty name and tribe
- Search engine by keyword with a relevancy ranking for search
results
- Legislation Affecting
the American Indian Community
- Summary of federal and state bills and ballot proposals affecting
Native Americans (e.g. affirmative action, language)
- Native
American and Native Alaskan Web Links (UCSB)
- List of historical, cultural as well as current web sites on Native
Americans
- Many links have brief annotations
- Native American Constitution
and Law Digitization Project
- Text of current laws, codes, constitutions and charters
- Legal materials meant for Oklahoma Indians
- Land titles
- Native
American Geneaology Links
- Extensive list of geneaology and history links arranged by North
American Tribe
- Includes biographies, literature, culture, photographs and Indian
rolls
- WWW Virtual
Library: American Indians
- Comprehensive web links on art, culture, history, language, education,
geneaology
- Links to Native American tribe web sites
- Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Extensive discussions of people and concepts
- Browsable and searchable
- Philosophy Pages
(Kemerling)
- Dictionary of philosophy terms and biographies of philosophers from
ancient times to the present
- Timeline of philosophical history
- Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
- Lengthy articles and numerous hotlinks to related material
- Maintained by experts on a continual basis and still under development
- Links to meta-sources, journals, and associations
- ATLA
Religion Database (UMich Only)
- Indexes religious journal articles since 1949
- Descriptions of 63
Religions, Faith Groups and Ethical Systems
- Brief descriptions of sacred texts, beliefs, practices, sects, and
symbols
- Numerous links to related sites on that religion
- Focuses on toleration of diversity and represents that viewpoint
- Created by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
- Virtual
Religion Index
- Extensive annotated guide to religious studies
- Sections on various religions, religion by world region, and various
related fields (e.g. psychology, anthropology
- Social
Work (UMich)
- Internet sources for child abuse, bereavement, welfare, and public health
- International in scope but focus on Southeast MIchigan
- Social
Work Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Index to periodical articles since 1977
- Approach by subject, title, author, keyword, and date
- Socioweb
- Annotated links cover the range of academic research
- Sociological theory and its founders, associations, university
research departments, journals, specific topics
- American
Women's History: A Research Guide (Middle Tennessee State
University)
- Extensive annotated guide to print and online sources
- Sections include reference tools and biographies, subjects
(occupation, ethnicity), and state
- Each area subdivided into reference tools, biographies, journals, and
primary resources
- Analyzes microform collections
- Genderwatch
- Full text journal, magazine, news and newsletter articles on women's
issues since the 1970s
- Ranges from gender and societal roles to birth control, sexual
harassment, daycare, aging parents and eating disorders
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal and date
- Not Part
of My Sentence (Amnesty USA)
- Report on violations of women's rights in U.S. prisons
- Stories and recommendations on restraint, medical care, sexual abuse,
affect on children
- Fact sheets on women in prisons and a comparison of state laws
- Uncovering
Women's
History in Archival Collections (UTSA)
- Annotated guide to archives with women's history collections,
arranged by state
- Quest
for Equality (World Book)
- Biographies of women pioneers arranged by subject field and links to
women's history web sites
- Remainder is focused on women's movements at the K-12 level
- Women and Gender
Studies Web Sites (ACRL)
- Annotated bibliographies to women's studies web sites, discussion
groups, organizations, and printed bibliographies
- Subjects include women and history, politics, film, education, health
- Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries and
Yale University
- Women and Social
Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
- Class material on women's suffrage, slavery, international peace, and
labor
- Introduction, bibliography, and primary sources (letters, news
articles)
- Women in
Politics (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
- Bibliography of printed books, journal articles, biographies and
reports on women in politics worldwide since 1948
- Searchable by a combination of author, journal, controlled subject
vocabulary, country, language, and type of material
- The full text of the articles are not on the web but the data base is
extensive (e.g. numerous articles on women's political participation in
Africa)
- Women's
Studies (UCSB)
- Women's studies on an international basis
- Includes biographies, literary works, periodicals, political issues, teaching programs
- Part of the Voice from the Shuttle web
site
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