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HISTORICAL DATABASES at MOORE LIBRARY
- America History & Life / Historical Abstracts (index to historical scholarship)
- JSTOR (full-text)
- Project Muse (full-text)
- History Cooperative (full-text)
HISTORY on the WEB
Finding primary sources has never been easier. These excellent web sites place history at your fingertips.
A Student's Online Guide to History
Princeton University Library: Selected Historical Resources
Top U.S. History Sites - General
American Memory (Library of Congress holdings including Woman Suffrage Movement, American Life Histories from the Federal Writers’ Project (1936-1940), and Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s and much more)
Avalon Project at Yale Law School (includes colonial charters, the Constitution, the Cold War, Treaties between the U.S. & Native Americans, and World War II)
Digital History
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (includes the "Amistad" affair and the role of African American troops in the Civil War)
History Matters (Strong in the WWI period)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (very strong in 20th century pictures and documents on US themes)
National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults (interactive website makes more than 1,200 items available)
OYEZ: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia (Features audio files, abstracts, transcriptions of oral arguments, and written opinions from more than 3,300 Supreme Court cases)
Top U.S. History Sites by Period / Topic
Early America
Virtual Jamestown
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Lewis & Clark Journals
Slavery and the Civil War
American Slave Narratives
Africans in America
Bleeding Kansas
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Modern America
America in the 1890s
The Spanish American War in Motion Pictures (rare collection of early films reveals how the birth of cinema emerged alongside, and shaped, changing ideas of gender, race, sexuality, and nation)
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
World War II Resources
World War II in Posters
Densho: The Japanese-American Legacy Project (presents 500 hours of video interviews and 8,300 images, providing first-hand accounts of Japanese Americans interned during World War II)
Civil Rights Special Collection
Virtual Vietnam Archive (archive offers full text of more 80,000 documents, 60,000 photos and slides, hundreds of interviews with veterans, audio and video recordings, maps, museum objects)
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004 (a valuable resource for students of American political history, consumer culture, and advertising history)
Top European History Sites by Period / Topic
Ancient
Internet Ancient History SourcebookThe Roman Empire in the 1st Century
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Medieval
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (collection of 11,000 manuscript illuminations drawn from close to 400 manuscripts from France and the Low Countries dating from the 8th -16th centuries)
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Early Modern
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Exploring the French Revolution
Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
20th Century
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The World War I Document Archive
Top Asian History Sites by Region
East Asia
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumtsu-Meiji Period (collection of western travel photographs taken during the second half of the 19th century when Japan formed a modern nation-state)
South Asia
Digital South Asia Library (wide range of materials for studying South Asia, including 1,200 Excel spreadsheets of statistical information on British India between 1840 and 1920)
A Student's Guide to the Study of History
Some Tips for Writing History Papers (Cornell Univ.)
Strunk and White: The Elements of Style (classic reference guide for writing)
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