Selected U.S. History Resources on the Web
Directories
Those looking for U.S. history sites on the Web are fortunate that there are some excellent subject-based directories.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Web page for humanities research is maintained by Prof. Alan Liu of University of California at Santa Barbara. It includes links in a number of areas in the humanities, including a directory for U.S. history arranged by period.
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/history.html
- Some Interesting History Linksfrom University of California at Riverside provides a topical approach to history resources on the Web. The site is maintained by Prof. Ronald C. Tobey.
- http://www.ucr.edu:80/history/othhist.html
- American Studies Web, a guide to American Studies resources on the Internet is maintained by David Philips, a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Yale. See especially the section "Historical Essays and Archival Resources" for a selective annotated list of available resources.
- http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~davidp/amstud.html
- WWW History Resources, by Prof. James B. Ross of North Dakota State University provides links to U.S. history resources.
- http://134.129.87.200/jrhome.html
- History Departments Around the World, based at the History Department of George Mason University, makes links to history department with Web sites.
- http://web.gmu.edu/departments/history/research/depts.html
Sample Web Sites in U.S. History
- American Memory, a WEB site maintained by the Library of Congress, consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history. At this time, three photographic collections, one recorded sound collection, one manuscript collection (under construction) and a trio of early motion picture collections have been prepared for Internet access.
- http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
- The Valley of the ShadowThe Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia is a product of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It also combines a narrative and an electronic archive of the sources on which the
narrative is based.
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html
- From Revolution to Reconstruction, an HTML-hypertext on American History, from the colonial period until the First World War. This is a project in collective authoring out of the Netherlands.
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http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
- Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935, maintained by Doctoral Student Jim Zwick of Syracuse University, is an example of a page devoted to a particular area of study by providing access to the text of otherwise hard-to-find documents.
- http://web.syr.edu/~fjzwick/ail98-35.html
Electronic Texts
- History of the United States. This is primarily an archive of historic texts, which is located at the University of Mississippi.
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http://www.msstate.edu:80/Archives/History/USA/usa.html
- UMLibText, a project of the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan, provides a fully-searchable collection of electronic texts. Many texts are restricted to UM faculty, staff and students.
- http://www.lib.umich.edu/libtext/
- JSTOR is a project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for development of a digital library in support of the
arts and sciences. It will initially consist of about ten journal titles in the areas of economics and history and will initially contain approximately 750,000 journal page images. This World Wide Web site at the University of Michigan is the beginning of the JSTOR system.
- http://index.umdl.umich.edu/jstor/
Examples of approaches to history pages: the Civil War
Check out these sites to see the variety of types of resources on the Web devoted to U.S. History. Some of these are institutionally-supported; others are labors of love for some individual or group.
- American Civil War Homepage
- http://cobweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/warweb.html
- 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A.
- http://fly.HiWAAY.net/~dsmart/
- The Valley of the Shadow
- http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow
- Civil War Battlefields, a project of the National Parks Service
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/Contents.html
- Larry's Site
- http://www.infinet.com/~lstevens/
Last updated 9/20/95
Judy Avery, British and American Studies Librarian
209 Graduate Library
e-mail: javery@umich.edu
764-1148