Selected
WWW Resources for Primary-Source Materials
Cynthia
L. Selfe
DA (Digital
Archives)Sites
focusing primarily on digital archives of primary-source materials:among
them, photographs, documents, diaries, posters, sheet music, drawings,
art works, maps, etc.
IDM (Interpretive
Digital Materials)Sites
offering interpretive material as a context for primary source materials.These
sites may include scholarship on primary-source materials, pedagogical
apparatus, or analysis of primary-source materials.
Ad*Access (DA)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
The
Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents
images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in
U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access
concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation,
Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number
of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular
advertising collection available at Duke University.
Advertising
Links(DA)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/pop/ads.html
This
site contains links to advertising sites and collections of advertisements.
African
American Sheet Music:1950-1920 (DA)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html
This
collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating
from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday
of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist
movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel
and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about
African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave.
Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings
of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American
popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese
Europe, and Will Marion Cook.
African
American Women (DA)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
This
site contains documents from the Special Collections Library at Duke University,
including the papers of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, Hannah Valentine and
Lethe Jackson, and Vilet Lester.These
documents are related to slavery in America.
Alex
Catalogue of Electronic Texts (DA)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/about.html
This
site is a collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the
collection include items from American literature, English literature,
and Western philosophy.
Users
can search for and display texts from the collection, and also search the
content of located texts.Moreover,
users can search the content of multiple documents simultaneously. For
example, users can first locate all the documents in the collection authored
by Mark Twain. Next, they can search selected documents for something like
slav*(which includes slave, slaves,
slavery, etc.) to draw out themes across texts.
Alexander
Graham Bell Family Papers
(DA)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
The
online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library
of Congress will comprise a selection of approximately 4700 items (totaling
about 38,000 images). This first release contains 1400 items consisting
of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles,
and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement
in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education
of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates
span from 1862 to 1939, but the bulk of the materials are from 1865 to
1920. Included among Bell's papers is his experimental notebook containing
the entry from March 10, 1876, describing the first successful experiment
with the telephone,during which
he spoke through the instrument to his assistant the famous words, "Mr.
Watson -- Come here -- I want to see you." Bell's various roles in life
as teacher, inventor, celebrity, and family man are covered extensively
in his papers. The digitization of this selection of the Bell Family Papers
is made possible through the generous support of the AT&T Foundation.
Alexandria
Digital Library
(DA)
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/other-sites/
The
Alexandria Project, based at the University of California Santa Barbara,
is created by a consortium of researchers, developers, and educators, spanning
the academic, public, and private sectors, exploring a variety of problems
related to a distributed digital library for geographically-referenced
information.This site includes maps
of the universe, the heavens, and volcanoes; information of comets, the
solar system, and astrophysics.It
provides links to all sorts ofgeo-physical
information on the web.
The
Alexandria Project is one of six projects sponsored by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects
Agency(ARPA), and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the inter-agency Digital Library
Initiative (DLI).The site also contains
links to digital libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University,
University of California at Berkeley , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and University of Michigan.
AMDOCS:Documents
for the Study of American History
(DA)
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
This
site has full text versions of hundreds of documents relating to American
politics.
American
Landscape and Architectural Design: 1850-1920 (DA)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
This
collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical
view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920.
It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted
Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent
landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views
of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a
complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views
of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models. Hundreds
of private estates from all over the United States are represented in the
collection through contemporary views of their houses and gardens (including
features such as formal gardens, terraces, and arbors ).
American
Memory Historical Collections
(DA/IDM)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
The
American Memory Project contains multimedia collections of digitized documents,
photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's
Americana collections. There are currently over 70 collections in the American
Memory Historical Collections.Broad
collection topics include agriculture, art and architecture, Business and
Economics, Education, Geography, History, Languages and Literature, Performing
Arts, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Law, Recreation and
Sports, Social Sciences, Technology and Applied Sciences.
American
Slave Narratives:An Online Anthology
(DA)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
From
1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were
interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress
Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the
slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their
experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives
remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four
million slaves. What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture
the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it
was experienced and remembered. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary,
microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping
composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some
of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including
labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and
religious
belief.
This
web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives,
and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.
The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed.,
The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press,1972-79).
American
Women’s History: A research Guide to Primary Sources (DA)
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-primary.html
This
site provides access to Archives & Manuscript Collections, Digital
Collections, Collections of Material Culture, Newspapers, Oral Histories,
Photographs, Public Records, Social Science Data & Reports,and
Periodicals.
Amos
Beebe Eaton:A Soldier's Journal
of the Second Seminole Indian War
(IDM)
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/eaton/index.html
The
diary of Amos Beebe Eaton begins on July 31, 1837 and concludes on August
24, 1838. This handwritten journal chronicles an extraordinary year in
the life of a young lieutenant who served in the Second Seminole Indian
War. The Eaton diary contains insightful personal observations, detailed
reports on military activities, occasional sketches and drawings, and extensive
commentary on the Seminole Indians and life in Florida. All
notations
are in Eaton’s hand, including the transcription of letters and military
documents. Selected entries consist of brief or incomplete sentences, The
text of the Eaton diary is reproduced here with all spelling and punctuation
intact. Brackets [ ] are used to identify uncertain words or phrases.Periodic
gaps in diary entries are often noted by Eaton, who sometimes went days
or weeks without recording a substantive comment.
Anacostia
Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (IDM)
http://www.si.edu/anacostia/anacexh.htm
The
Anacostia Museum is a community based and constituency focused museum that
increases public awareness of the Black experience through research, programs
and exhibitions.It is a national
resource for the identification, documentation, protection, and interpretation
of African American history and culture in Washington, D.C., and in those
areas of the rural South that have been historically significant to generations
of African Americans. The museum also examines the impact of contemporary
urban and rural issues such as housing, land loss, transportation, health
care, and economic development on African American communities.
An
American Nurse At War
(IDM)
This
site is devoted to WWI volunteer Red Cross nurse Marion McCune Rice, who
had the experience of traveling to France to participate in the exhilarating
and oftentimes overwhelming task of caring for wounded soldiers.This
role was common for women of
Marion's
class and education.The site offers
photographs, letters, video clips, and music.
Architecture
and Interior Design for Twentieth Century America:Photographs
by Samuel Gottscho and WilliamSchleisner:1935-1955 (DA)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html
The
Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily
of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes,
stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects
are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially
the New York City area, and Florida. Included are the homes of notable
Americans, such as Raymond Loewy, and of several U.S. presidents, as well
as color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Many of the photographs
were commissioned by architects, designers, owners and architectural publications,
and document important achievements in American 20th-century architecture
and interior design.
Beazley
Archive (IDM)
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/Script2/default.htm
The
Beazley Archive is a research unit of the University of Oxford's Faculty
of Literae Humaniores. The original archive of Sir John Beazley (1885-1970),
acquired by the University in the 1960's, was installed in the Cast Gallery
of the Ashmolean Museum in 1970. Under the direction of Dr Donna Kurtz
the original 'paper archive' of photographs (c.250,000), notes, drawings
and books relating to ancient Greek and Roman art has been catalogued and
greatly expanded. In 1979 Information Technology projects began with the
Pottery Database of Athenian figure-decorated vases of the 7th-4th centuries
BC. Since 1992 IT projects on other aspects of classical art have been
created.
Benjamin
Marston's Diary
(IDM)
http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Marston/Marston.html
This
site—sponsored by the University of New Brunswick Libraries, Electronic
Text Centre—focuses on Benjamin Marston's diary, which spans three volumes
and is located within the Winslow Papers at UNB Archives and Special Collections,
volumes 20, 21 and 22. The diary begins in 1776, volume 22, for 36 pages.
It then continues in volume 20 (1778-1780).Benjamin
Marston (b. 22 Sept. 1730, Salem, Mass., d. 10 Aug. 1792, Bolama, Guinea-Bissau)
was a prosperous and respected Harvard graduate whose peaceful and comfortable
life was torn asunder by the turmoil of the American Revolution. A declared
Loyalist, Marston quickly lost his wealth, position and family, and spent
the remaining 17 years of his life struggling to survive.
“Break
of Day in Trenches:Hypermedia Edition”
(DA)
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/humanities.old/rose/hyppoem.html
This
site focuses in Isaac Rosenberg’s World War I poem, 'Break of Day in the
Trenches,” first published in December 1916 in the Chicago journal Poetry.
Rosenberg wrote this poem while he was serving on the Western Front during
the Great War (1914-1918). It is possibly referred to in a letter by Rosenberg
written to Sir Edward Marsh on the 6th August (approx. a month after being
in the trenches): 'I am enclosing a poem I wrote in the trenches, which
is surely as simple as ordinary talk. You might object to the second line
as vague, but that was the best way I could express the sense of dawn'.
The poem is often regarded as Rosenberg's finest piece, praised by Siegfried
Sassoon as 'Sensuous frontline experience is there, hateful and repellent,
unforgettable and inescapable'. Apart from the other poems by Rosenberg
contained in this program, three pieces in particular should be read in
conjunction with 'Break of Day in the Trenches',namely 'In The Trenches',
'Marching', and “The Troop Ship.” From the main page readers can see the
manuscript variants, or explore the three main areas, ROSENBERG'S LIFE,
ANALOGUES, and WORLD WAR I. A MAP facility is also provided to ease navigation.
Built
in America:Historic American Buildings
Survey/Historica Amercian Engineering Survey: 1933-Present (DA)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html
The
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering
Record (HAER) are among the largest and most heavily used collections in
the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The collections
document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United
States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types
and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as windmills,
one-room schoolhouses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright.Digital images
include the pages of written histories for all HAER surveys and about 25%
of HABS surveys, 17% of the HAER survey photographs and a small sampling
of the HABS and HAER measured drawings.
By
the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (DA)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
The
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection
consists of 907 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters
produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection
of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph,
and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs;
cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances;
travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen
states and the District of Columbia. The posters were made possible by
one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were
added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s.
California
Museum of Photography(DA)
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photo/info.html
This
museum site—sponsored by the University of California at Riverside—promotes
understanding of photography and related media through collection, research,
exhibition, and instruction.
Calvin
Shedd Papers(DA/IDM)
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/shedd/project.htm
The
letters of Calvin Shedd, edited and reproduced here for the first time,
tell a story of personal integrity and sacrifice in the words of a simple
man who lived in a turbulent, complicated time. The Shedd letters add another
fascinating source to our national reservoir of primary source materials
relating to the Civil War.
Chicago
Imagebase (IDM)
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/index.html
This
project is aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of
the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images
and other data along with information on how to use this data to study
the city.
Cities/Buildings
Database (DA)
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/
This
site is a multi-disciplinary resource that contains over 5000 images of
cities and buildings in locations ranging from New York to Central Asia,
Africa to the Parc de la Villette; conceptual sketches; and models of Frank
Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original
slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. They are freely available
to anyone with access to the Web for use in the classroom, student study,
or for individual research purposes.
Civil
War Women(DA)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
This
site contains documents from the Special Collections Library at Duke University,
including the papers of Rosie O’Neal Greenhow and Sarah E. Thomson; and
the diary of Alice Williamson
Commercial
Archive(DA)
This
site hosts a random selection of television commercials from the past and
present, in both streaming and downloadable video formats.
Cultural
Maps(DA)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
This
site is dedicated to the graphical presentation of historical of America;
the immediate goal is to build a digital American Historical Atlas.
Cultural
Readings:Colonization & Print
in America (DA)
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html
This
site presents a sample of the texts generated by the colonization of the
Americas.It includes books, manuscripts,
illustrations, and maps.
Curating
on the Web (IDM)
http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/papers/dietz/dietz_curatingtheweb.html
Steve
Dietz, Director of New Media Initiatives, Walker Art Center provides guidelines
for curating on the web and links to many virtual exhibitions and museums.
Documenting
the American South
(DA)
http://www.ibiblio.org/docsouth/
This
site contains primary-source material on the American South from the Colonial
period to the first decade of the 20th cetnury.Collections
include first-person narratives of the South, slave narratives, Southern
literature, letters and diaries documenting homefront activities during
the Cicil War, etc.
Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
The
materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects
of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically
on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early
1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays
to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.The
items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from original
documents held in Duke's Special Collections Library.
Dolly
Madison Project(IDM)
http://moderntimes.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/index.html
This
site focuses on the life of Dolly Madison, telling her story through archived
images and letters.
Dramas
of Haymarket(IDM)
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/index.htm
The
Dramas of Haymarket, is an online project produced by the Chicago Historical
Society and Northwestern University. The Dramas of Haymarket examines selected
materials
from the Chicago HistoricalSociety's
soon-to-be-completed Haymarket Affair Digital Collection, an electronic
archive of CHS's extraordinary Haymarket holdings. The Dramas of Haymarket
interprets these materials and places them in historical context, drawing
on many other items from the Historical Society's extensive resources.
Early
Manuscripts at Oxford University
(DA)
This
site provides archived images of several kinds of early manuscripts:a
Greek philosophical(?) text, in a roll buried and carbonized in the library
of a villa at Herculaneum in A.D. 79 at the eruption of Vesuvius; Celtic
manuscripts ranging in date from the 9th to the 19th centuries
of Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton origin; and Medieval manuscripts ranging
in date from the 9th to the 16th centuries.
EDSITEment:Humanities
(DA/IDM)
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/websites.html
EDSITEment—sponsored
by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great
City Schools, MCI WorldCom Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities—is
a portal to high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas
of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and
history and social studies.This
sites leads to primary source materials in American history and literature,
world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, among other
fields.
Electronic
Literature Directory
(DA)
http://directory.eliterature.org/cgi-bin/texis/home/getTech.html?t=3
The
Electronic Literature Directory is a unique and valuable resource for readers
and writers of digital texts. It provides an extensive database of listings
for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive
entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant
use of electronic techniques or enhancements.Among
the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive
pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and
works that allow reader collaboration.
Electronic
Poetry Center
(DA)
http://epc.buffalo.edu/display/intro.html
The
EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics
produced at the University at Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet.
Our aim is simple: to make a wide range of resources centered on contemporary
experiments and formally innovative poetries an immediate actuality.
Electronic
Text Center(DA)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
The
Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and
off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related
images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page
images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
Europe
Map Archive (DA)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/europe/maps.html
This
site includes historic maps of Natural Resources & Trade, Ancient Near
East, Classical Greece, Hellenistic World & Roman Republic, Principate
& Empire, and Late Antiquity & Early Midieval.
Exodus:
Irish Emigration(IDM)
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/emigration/menu.htm
This
web site tracks Irish emigration emigration to America and Canada in the
nineteenth century.It givs readers
an insight into life at the time and the problems faced by the emigrants.The
site uses letters, diary extracts and illustrations as source material,.
Florida
Postcard Collection, Archives and Special Collections Department, Otto
G. RichterLibrary, University of
Miami
(DM)
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/cards/intro.html
This
site contains approximately 5,000 postcards of Florida buildings,landmarks,
cities and towns, tourist attractions, and other views. The Collection
includes postcards from all areas of the state, although the majority of
images relate to the South Florida region. Postcards offer a unique and
colorful representaton of Florida. Many images depict buildings, structures,
and scenes no longer in existence. The subject matter of postcards also
offers important insights into the social and cultural attitudes of the
time.
Forum
of Trajan in Rome
(IDM)
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Exhibitions/Trajan/commence.html
This
Web exhibition draws from "Beyond Beauty: Antiquities as Evidence," the
major opening exhibition (on view until January 17, 1999) at the new J.
Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center. This online exhibition focuses on
a virtual reality model of the forum built by the Emperor Trajan, one of
the most important monuments of Imperial Rome.
This
virtual reality (VR) model re-creates an ancient urban environment based
on the best archaeological evidence available today. The VR model and this
Web exhibition is the result of a collaboration of many people from several
institutions, including the Getty Education Institute, the J. Paul Getty
Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the UCLA School of the Arts and
Architecture.
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
(DA)
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
This
site contains primary source documents and phtographs relating to FDR.
Furness
Shakespeare Library:Engllish Rennaisance
Collection
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/furness/index.html
This
site—sponsored by The Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library,Department
of Special Collections, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania,—includes
collection of primary and secondary sources, texts and images, that illuminate
the theater, literature, and history of Shakespeare, Shakespearean texts,
theatrical production, and criticism
Gravesites
of Prominent Nurses
(DA)
http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/graves.html
This
site contains photographic images of the gravesites of prominent nurses.This
series began in October 1997 and will continue as long as new graves are
submitted
Great
Britain Historical GIS Programme
(DA)
http://www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/gbhgis/gis.html
This
project is creating a Historical Geographical Information System (GIS)
for Great Britain covering the period from the late 1830s, when modern
staistical data collection can be said to have started, until the early
1970s, when data starts to become available in digital form. The GIS has
two major components;accurate boundary
data for the changing administaive areas of Britain linked to a major database
of social, economic, and electoral statistics from throughout the period.
This, we hope, will become a major resource for researchers interested
in any or all of the period, as well as providing the backbone for the
production ofa major new atlas
covering British history over the past 200 years.
History
Place
(DA/IDM)
http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
This
site provides access to major collections of primary source materials on
American history.Current exhibits
include, but are not limited to, child labor in America, 1908-12; photographs
by Ansel Adams; photographs by Dorthea Lange; photographs of African American
soldiers in WWII; impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon,
and Bill Clinton; photographs of WWII.
Historic
American Sheet Music
(DA)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
The
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University
holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American
sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access
to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the
United States between 1850 and 1920.
The
Holloway Pages:Shakespeare Page
http://members.home.net/cjh5801/Shakespeare.htm
The
highlight of this site is a digital facsimile of Much Ado About Nothing,
extracted from a broken-up copy of the Second Folio of Shakespeare's works,
published in
1632.
Also included are some Shakespearean commentary by.Samuel Johnson, a small
gallery of Shakespeare images
Hospitals,
Surgeons, and Nurses
(DA)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/hospitalssurgeonsnurses.htm
This
site contains excerpts from the diaries of Civil War nurses,including
Baroness Von Olnhausen, Clara Barton, Susan Blackford, Kate Cumming, Cornelia
Hancock
How
Did African-American Women Define Their Citizenship at the Chicago World's
Fair in 1893? (IDM)
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/ibw/page1.htm
This
project draws together documents from African American women at the Chicago
World's Fair of 1893 and interprets their diverse expressions of women's
citizenship. By demanding increased participation in the selection of exhibits
at the fair and by exposing contemporary social conditions for African
Americans they contributed to an expanded definition of Black American
women's citizenship.
How
Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?
(IDM)
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/aswpl/intro.htm
African-American
women took the lead in the 1890s in vocally opposing lynching in the South.
The growth of an interracial movement after 1920 contributed to the organization
of white women in the Association of Southern Women to Prevent Lynching.
Under the leadership of Jessie Daniel Ames, the Association undermined
traditional justifications for lynching and mobilized middle- and upper-class
white Southerners to oppose the practice.
How
Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois toward Woman Suffrage
Change between 1900 and 1915? (IDM)
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/webdbtw/Intro.htm
The
documents included in this study specifically address the issue of woman
suffrage within the Washington/Du Bois debate. The following correspondence
and articles trace the changes that occurred in both men's positions in
the years between 1900 and 1915. Historians have tended to view the political
perspectives of these two African American
leaders
as diametrically opposed. However, Du Bois was not always an unwavering
advocate of woman suffrage, and Washington eventually found that it was
in his best interest to support woman suffrage.
How
Did White Women Aid Former Slaves during and after the Civil War and What
Obstacles Did They Face? (IDM)
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/aid/intro.htm
During
the Civil War, northern White women volunteered to assist freedmen and
women and sought to mobilize the Federal Government in support of these
efforts. With private assistance and through the Freedmen's Bureau these
women taught schools, dispensed charity, ran employment bureaus and assisted
migration. This project tells the storyof
their efforts and the conflicts that arose with male reformers who were
concerned that the freed people were becoming overly dependent on others.
Huxley
File
(IDM)
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/
This
site focuses on the works of T. H. Huxley, past President of the Royal
Society, and offers 680 pieces of published and unpublished text by THH;
148 pictures by and on him, with an uncounted number of pictures in text
by and for him; and 120 commentaries on him.The
site includes the entirety of the nine-volume Collected Essays;
40 selections from the five-volume Scientific Memoirs; a large number
of Huxley essays that were never collected; letters published in The
Times,
Nature, etc.; illustrations ranging from his doodles
and sketches to cartoons and portraits of him and 120 commentaries on him.
Images1(DA)
http://www.nla.gov.au/images1/
The
collection—from the National Library of Australia—is mainly Australian
in content and the original art works are predominantly dated in the nineteenth
century. Paintings, drawings and prints dated later than 1890 are rarely
collected, because by this time photography was well established and for
the twentieth century illustrations; photographs are usually preferred.
There are certain exceptions to this rule: for example, the Library purchased
a watercolour by Penleigh Boyd of the Canberra site in 1913, which has
outstanding historical importance. Portraits of eminent Australians, painted
this century, are often acquired if no comparable photographs are available,
and particularly if they relate to other collections held in the Library
such as the Manuscript Collection. It is recognized that a painting, drawing
or print may be more revealing and historically important than a photograph
of the same subject.
Images
from the History of Medicine
(DA)
This
site provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph
collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National
Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures
of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety
of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties
(DA)
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/intro.htm
This
site, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant,
seven
volume
compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native
American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with
Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive
orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII).
The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing
Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive
index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is
in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys,
legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins.
Interactive
Shakespeare Project
(IDM)
http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/index.html
This
site—which contains both primary and secondary materials—provides an interactive
environment for students of Shakespeare including definitions of words
that are either unfamiliar to modern readers or words whose meaning havechanged
over time, and textual exegesis; over 300 specific questions generated
by particular passages--ordered and numbered so that teachers may assign
level-appropriate questions; a range of essays dealing with thematic, historical,
performance and pedagogical issues; suggested pedagogical exercises for
the classroom with explanations; folio facsimles that allow, teachers and
students to compare specific passages of the Interactive Shakespeare edition
to an original Folio version of the play;over 350 videos of key transitional
moments in each scene of Measure for Measure that investigate performance
choices; a collection of performance reviews of various productions of
Measure for Measure in the United States and England; the Virtual Globe;
among other materials.
Internet
Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
(DA)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
This
site provides ditized images of Annual Register, Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine,Gentleman's
Magazine,Notes and Queries,Transactions
of the Royal Society, The Builder.These
journals are available for browsing. Each page of each journal has been
scanned and is displayed as an image.
Introduction
to Manuscript Study
(IDM)
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/manuscript/
This
site introduces editorial practices and manuscript studies. Readers participate
in creating an edition of “Dulce et Decorum Est,” a poem by Wilfred Owen,
going through three stages:study
of the primary sources (the manuscripts which retain the poem), choice
of a base manuscript, collation of manuscript variants, and the production
of an edition.
Investigating
Bellini’s “Feast of the Gods”
(IDM)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium/projects.html
Around
1512, the Duke of Ferrara commissioned Giovanni Bellini to paint this masterpiece
of the Italian Renaissance, whichnow
hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Dosso
Dossi subsequently decorated a gallery for the Duke, and, in 1522, painted
over half of Bellini's canvas. Seven years later, Titian repainted the
Feast of the Gods again. What did the earlier versions look like? How much
of each artist's work do we see today? What motivated these unprecedented
changes?
This
site attempts to explorethese question.
In the last Fifty years, technical innovations in conservation science
have enabled specialists at the National Gallery to obtain X-ray, infrared
and cross-section data. This information has proved crucial in dispelling
the mystery surrounding this painting. Digital Scriptorium Project.
This
site, sponsored by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
of
Duke
University, offers links to a range of online exhibits including photographs,
sheet music, images of cities, letters, etc.
Japanese
American Exhibit and Access Project(IDM)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/
The
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project is a multifaceted project
to create a permanent Web site which provides enhanced access to the UW
Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World
War II. Included in the project is a virtual exhibit focusing on the Puyallup
assembly center, Camp Harmony, and enhanced access to archival guides and
inventories of the UW Libraries Manuscripts and University Archives Division.
Jewish
Women’s Archives(IDM)
The
Virtual Archive, is the centerpiece of the Jewish Women's Archive's efforts
to recover the rich history of Jewish women. This site contains photographs,
documents, and facsimiles on the following figures: Bella Abzug, Rebecca
Gratz, Emma Lazarus, Barbara Myerhoff, Molly Picon, Justine W. Polier,
Bobbie Rosenfeld, G. Solomon, and Lillian Wald.
John
and James Booker Civil War Letters (IDM)
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/booker/
This
collection includes 22 letters (July 1861 - April 1864) from twin brothers
John Booker (1840-1864) and James Booker (1840-1923) of Pittsylvania County,
Virginia, to their cousin Chloe Unity Blair (1839-75).
John
and James were born to John Booker (1797-1859) and Nancy Blair Reynolds
Booker (1796-1859) on October 10, 1840, and both enlisted in the Confederate
Army on May 24, 1861, at Whitmell, Virginia, in Company D 38th Virginia
Regiment, Infantry (also known as "the Whitmell Guards"). They began writing
letters to their cousin soon after enlisting, and they continued until
they were both severely wounded in the Battle of Drewry's Bluff near Petersburg,
Virginia, on May 16, 1864. John died of his wounds in August 1864, but
James recovered, married Martha Ann Fulton ["Pat"] (?-1923) of Pittsylvania
County, on October 31, 1867, and lived until 1923.
John
Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, Oxford
(DA)
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/jidi/col_john.html
This
is a very large and diverse collection which covers the spectrum of social
and typographic history 1508 - 1939 with a separate post 1960 section.
It is strongest in Victorian and Edwardian ephemera.The
principal subject areas covered are: transport, sport, entertainment, theatre,
political /religious/social/economic history, art and artists, authors,
book trade, private presses, printing and typography and advertisements.
Kansas
Collection(IMD)
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/
This
site focuses on Kansas history through photogrpahs, books, letters, diaries.
Lewis
& Clark:The Journey of the Corps
of Discovery(IDM)
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
This
site makes available many of the historic materials used in the making
of Ken Burns’ film about Lewis and Clark.
Liberian
Letters(IDM)
http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/liberia/
The
Electronic Text Center's Liberian Letters consists of two collections of
letters written by former slaves from Virginia who settled in Liberia:
Samsonletters to David S. Haselden
and Henry F. Westfall, 1834-1835 and Letters from the former slaves of
Terrell, 1857-1866.
These
former slaves traveled to Liberia with the assistance of the American Colonization
Society, an organization formed in 1817 to help free blacks and emancipated
slaves establish a new life in the recently-founded Liberia. The Society
provided them with housing and food for six months while they built their
own houses and planted their own crops. Due to shortages of supplies and
tools, the new Liberians relied heavily on supplies from home. In all of
these letters, correspondents request that food, clothing, and tools to
be sent to them in Liberia--commonly requested items include pork, flour,
sugar, seeds,
tobacco,
cotton, guns, and hand tools. The Liberian Letters provide a fascinating
account of the hardships and successes that the Liberian settlers experienced
during their first few years in their new home. Above all, they reveal
much about the relationship between ex-slaves and their former masters
and about the process of adjusting to a life of freedom in a new and strange
land.
Library
of Congress Exhibitions(DA)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/
This
site provides access to past and present exhibitions sponsored by the Library
of Congress.It included archived
materials such as photographs, posters, books, maps, and historical documents.
Looking
at Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
(IDM)
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Beauty/index.html
This
Web exhibition presents images of and information about various artworks
from ancient Greece and Rome as well as questions to consider and activities
to try. The material is divided into four areas:Some
Things We Know About This Artwork(facts
and other details about the individual objects);Some
Things We Know About This Subject (facts and other details about the god,
goddess, or person portrayed); What Do You Think? (questions you might
ask as you learn about the artworks);Now
Try This (activities you can do that relate to the artworks).
Making
of America (MOA) (IDM)
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html)
This
site is a digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,sociology,
religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains
approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century
imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation
and electronic access to historical texts.The
Making of America collection is made up of scanned images of actual pages
in the 19th century volumes.
Mark
Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, Illustrations, and Early Reviews
(IDM)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/twain/huckfinn.html
This
collection offers a complete early edition of Huckleberry Finn, the 174
illustrations from the first edition, and the obscene illustration that
appeared in the sales prospectuses. Also included: dozens of early reviews
from newspapers and magazines across the country; early ads; the London
and American first edition covers; and a 1930 article by E.W. Kemble describing
his experiences illustrating Huckleberry Finn.
Martha
Ballard and a Man-Midwife:A Time
of Transition in Midwifery (IDM)
http://www.dohistory.org/man-midwife/index.html
This
site is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that
went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon
the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard. At
the end of the eighteenth century, some male doctors began to build their
medical practices by assisting normal births, previously the exclusive
sphere of women. A controversy raged in Britain and America about these
new man-midwives while Martha Ballard practiced midwifery in Maine.The
site contains, diaries, newspaper articles, advertisements, and medical
journal material.
Medical
History of WWI:Nursing Documents
(DA)
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/medical/Nindex.htm
This
site contains letters from American and Canadian nurses serving in WWI,
lists of equipment required for volunteer German Red Cross Nurses and British
Volunteer Aid Detachment Nurses (VAD) Volunteer Aid Detachment (VAD), and
Regulations Governing the Employment of Nursing V.A.D. Members in Military
Hospitals.
Medieval
and renaissance manuscripts acquired by the Bodleian Library since 1916
(DA)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/hef-proj/medieval/
This
projectoffers digital images of
about 500 medieval and renaissance manuscripts acquired by the Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford, since 1916, for which no published catalogue
is available.
Medieval/Renaissance
Food Page: Primary Sources
(DA)
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html
A
site that contains links to primary sources of information on Medival and
Renaissance food including recipes, lists of ingrediants, images.
Miami
Valley Cultural Heritage Project(IDM)
http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~oralhxcwis/
This
site documents the lives and histories of Appalachian people in the Miami
Valley through oral histories, exhibits, and photographs.
Monument
and Dust:The Culture of Victorian
London
(DA)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/mhc/
"Monuments
and Dust" names the work of an international group of scholars now assembling
a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian
London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first
urban metropolis.Theproject
seeks to extend both the terms and forms of the study of London, the dominant
metropolis of the nineteenth century, a center of social and cultural meanings,
through primary materials--journalism, literary works, paintings, census
data, maps, tracts, cartoons, sermons, and images.
Museums
in the USA (IDM)
http://www.museumca.org/usa/star.html
This
site contains links to numerous museums in the United States with online
exhibits.
National
Archives and Records Administration (IMD/DA)
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/teaching.html
This
site offers primary-source material suitable for teaching a wide range
of classes.Collections include,
but are not limited to, the following:The
Amistad Case, documents related to the circuit court and Supreme Court
cases; Lincoln's Spot Resolutions, archival documents; the Fight for Equal
Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War, historical documents and photographs
exploring the issues of emancipation and military service; Migration North
to Alaska,, letters, drawings, and acts highlight some of the economic,
social, and political factors that prompted thousands to migrate north
to Alaska; Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment, historical documents;
the Zimmermann Telegram, 1917, a coded message played a key role in America's
declaration of war against Germany and it allies during World War I;A
Date Which Will Live in Infamy, the first typed draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's
War Address; Powers of Persuasion, poster Art of World War II; Jackie Robinson:
Beyond the Playing Field, documents thattrace
Robinson's career as a civil rights leader.
New
Deal Network (DA)
This
site contains a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts
(speeches, letters, and other historic documents) from the New Deal period.
Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database, many of them previously
accessible only to scholars.
New
York Public Library—Digital Collections
(DA)
This
site includes digital materials and collections put online by the New York
Public Library.It includes photographs,
manuscripts, and exhibitions (e.g., Small-Town America, Stereoscopic views
from the Robert Dennis Collection; Images of African Americans from the
19th Century; African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, etc.)
19th
Century School books
(DA)
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/
This
site contains thirty 19th century books from the Nietz Old Textbook Collection
from the Digital Research Library, University Library System, University
of Pittsburgh.
The
entire texts of all books in the collection are searched. Searches will
retrieve every title containing the search term. Clicking on a title link
recovers bibliographic information about the book and a list of pages where
the search term was located. Choosing a link to an individual page displays
an image of the page.
North
America Map Archive(DA)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/maps.html
This
site includes historic maps of Territorial Expansion of the United States
1783-1898, Slavery Through 1860, and the Legal Status of Slavery Through
1860.
North
American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 (DA)
http://www.ibiblio.org/docsouth/neh/neh.html
This
site documents the individual and collective story of the African American
struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. When completed, it will include all the narratives
of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book
form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and
former slaves published in English before 1920.
One
Rape.Two Stories:What
Do You Think Happened?(IDM)
http://www.dohistory.org/two_stories/index.html
This
site tells a remarkable and chillingstory
of the rape of Rebecca Foster, the young minister's wife, by Joseph North,
a local judge. As is the case in the 20th century, most 18th century rape
cases were quiet. This one, however, made it to court.This
sites contains the official court, church, town records, and diary accounts
of what happened. Readers can investigate both sides of the story.
Oxford
University Library:Electronic Resources(IDM)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/elec-res.htm
This
site provides access to the electronic resources of The University of Oxford’s
Library including many digital collections of early art and manuscripts.
Papers
of George Washington
(DA/IDM)
http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/
This
site contains hundreds of papers written by, and to, George Washington,
first President of the Unitred States.The
correspondence volumes of The Papers of George Washington, 1748-99, published
in five series, include not only Washington's own letters and other papers
but also all letters written to him. The ten-volume Colonial Series (1744-75)
takes Washington through his command of the Virginia Regiment during the
French and Indian War and then focuses on his political and business activities
as a Virginia planter during the fifteen years before the Revolution. The
massive Revolutionary War Series (1775-83) presents in documents and annotations
the myriad military and political matters with which Washington dealt during
the long war. The papers for his years at Mount Vernon after leaving the
army and before becoming president have been published in a six-volume
Confederation Series (1784-88). The remaining years of Washington's life
are covered in the Presidential Series(1788-97),
which includes the papers of his two presidential administrations, and
the Retirement Series (1797-99), which includes his correspondence after
his final return to Mount Vernon.
Perseus
Project(DA)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PerseusInfo.html
This
site is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient
world and beyond. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct
a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on
the Archaic and Classical Greek world.The
library's catalogs document 523 coins, 1548 vases, over 1400 sculptures,
179 sites and 381 buildings. Each catalog entry has a description of the
object and its context; most have images. This web site currently publishes
over 33,000 pictures! Descriptions and images have been produced in collaboration
with many museums, institutions and scholars. Catalog information and keywords
have been taken from standard sources, which are cited in the entries for
each object.
Pictorial
Tour of Bowling Green, Ohio—1890s
(IDM)
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/pictour.html
This
site initially began as an American Culture Studies class exercise in The
American 1890s seminar at Bowling Green State University.Archived
images of local buildings.
Picture
Library Online(DA)
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/services/piclib/index.html
This
digital catalogue contains a selection of the best images from the Natural
History Museum’s (London) phenomenal collection of 78 million specimens.
Places
in Time:Historical Documentation
of Place in Greater Philadelphia
(DA)
http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/
This
project is an effort to bring together some resources -- images, documents,
tools, and links -- for pursuing historical information about place in
the five-county Philadelphia area: Bucks, Chester, Delaware. Montgomery,
and Philadelphia counties. The overarching idea is to use new media to
more effectively disseminate information about place, to enhance cross-institutional
access to documentary materials of this sort, to better connect people
with the history of their environment, and to thus enrich their lives here.The
site contains photographs, paintings and sketches, real estate atlases,
and travelers’ observations.
Plymouth
Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia (DA)
http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
This
Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of searchable texts, including
court records, Colony laws, seminar analysis of various topics, biographical
profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills, a Glossary
and Notes on Plymouth Colony, and Vernacular House Forms in Seventeenth
Century Plymouth Colony: An Analysis of Evidence from the Plymouth Colony
Room-by-Room Probate Inventories 1633-85, by Patricia E. Scott Deetz and
James Deetz, 1998.
Pompeii
Forum Project(IDM)
This
site is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologically based,
heavily dependent upon advanced technology, and so conceived as to address
broad issues in urban history and urban design. The site offers archival
photographs, investigations of seismic and volcanic structural response,
inscription translations, and images.This
evidence challenges commonly held and widely published notions about the
evolution of the forum, especially during the final years of the city's
life. The goals are to provide the first systematic documentation of the
architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence as it pertains
to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the
history of urbanism and contemporary problems of urban design.
PORT:Maritime
Information Gateway
http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/about.html
This
site is a subject gateway with a maritime focus, sponsored by the National
Maritime Museum in the United Kingdom. Subject gateways are online services
and sites that provide searchable and browseable catalogues of Internet
based resources. Users are offered access to a database of quality controlled
collections of resources organized around such topics as Art, Biography,
Environmental, Fishing, Government and law, Health and safety, Hydraulic
engineering, International relations and migration, Military affairs and
naval forces, Museums, Recreation and sport, Reference works, Transport
and trade, Travel and exploration, Water craft engineering.Users
can also browse by historical period:Ancient
History, Middle Ages (500-1500), 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century,
19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century.
Potweb:
Ceramics Online
(IDM)
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/PotWeb/
This
site, sponsored byThe Ashmolean Museum is an online catalogue of ceramic
collections.It includes historical
information about ceramics, information about the role of pottery in archeology,
images of pots of all kinds, and information about major collectors.
Race
and Place: African American Community History(IDM)
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/index.html
This
site includes archived documents and material on slavery and emancipation:
including bills of sale, newspaper articles, images, city directories.The
materials focus on South Charlottesville, Virginia;Augusta
County, Virginia; Franklin County, Pennsylvania during slavery and emancipation,
Reconstruction, and the era of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
Reflections
in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the present(DA)
http://www.si.edu/anacostia/reflections_in_black2.htm
This
site is an exhibition project which presents photographs and photo media
based art work produced by black photographers from 1840 to the present.
Renaissance
and Baroque Architecture (DA)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html
The
images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor
C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
(ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of
Architectural History. They are organized according to the following categories:Italy
in the 15th Century— Introduction, Florence in the 15th Century, Filippo
Brunelleschi, Brunelleschi's Lesser Works, Brunelleschi's Legacy in Florence,
Brunelleschi's Legacy (Continued) and Beyond, Elsewhere in Italy--Alberti;
Venice,Venice Concluded; the Quattrocento
concluded, The Sixteenth Century--Bramante and Roman Architecture, Bramante
and his Roman Patrons, The New Rome, More about Rome, New Classicism in
Italy, Italy in the 17th Century--The Baroque's Beginnings, Some Baroque
Projects and Masters, France Adopts the Revived Classicism, French Explorations
of the New Classicism, Further French Experience with the New Classicism,
Design on the Land, Buildings in the Land and a Land of Buildings, The
Holy Roman Emperor Rediscovers the Empire, England Accepts Classicism,
England
Robert
B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial
Material(DA)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/Honeyman/
This
site offers is one of the premier pictorial collections of The Bancroft
Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection, containing
over 2300 items, includes original paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks,
lettersheets, and other pictorial materials, with emphasis on early California
and the Gold Rush period.
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge Archive
(DA)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
This
site—housed at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia—provides
the full text of Coleridges’ poetry; tracts on literary theory and criticism;
commentary and journalism; science writing; work on theology and psychology,
and letters.Exploits Classicism (in preparation).
Sargent
at Harvard (DA)
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sargentatharvard/archive.html
Sargent
at Harvard is a searchable database that makes available images and textual
information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
in the
collections
of the Harvard University Art Museums and the Harvard University Portrait
Collection.
Shakespeare’s
Globe(IDM)
http://www.reading.ac.uk/globe/
This
site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing
background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions.
Centred around the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in
London, it includes pages devoted to the original Globe and other playhouses
in Early Modern London, reports and photographic documentaries on reconstruction
and performances at the New Globe,and
also some practical information.
Siege
and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871(DA)
http://www.library.nwu.edu/spec/siege/
This
site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded
during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images
in this set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500
caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and
pamphlets and about 1000 posters. Additions are made regularly. The originals
are located in the Charles Deering McCormick of Special Collections in
the Deering Library at Northwestern University.
Teaching
with Historic Places
(IDM/DA)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/index.htm
This
site uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register
of Historic Places to teach the history of African American, women, Asian-Pacific
Americans, Native Americans; the Civil War, the War of Independence; transportation,
and the Battle of Gettysburg, the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, among
others.Thousands of images, maps,
documents
Teaching
with Historic Places:African American
History (IDM)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/feb00.htm
Teaching
with Historic Places focuses on selected aspects of African American history.
Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals,
and educators, these lessons include material on Madame C. J. Walker and
J. C. Penny; Iron Hill School (a one-room school house); the struggle for
educational equity, and life on rice plantations.Lessons
maps, images, and readings.
Teaching
with Historic Places:Asian Pacific
Heritage(IDM)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/may00.htm
Teaching
with Historic Places focuses on selected aspects of Asian-Pacific history.
Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals,
and educators, these lessons include material on Locke and Walnut Grove,
California; and the USS Arizona Memorial.Lessons
maps, images, and readings.
Teaching
with Historic Places:Hispanic History (IDM)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/sep99.htm
Teaching
with Historic Places focuses on selected aspects of Hispanic history. Created
by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and
educators, these lessons include material on Ybor City, Castolon, and adobe
houses.Lessons maps, images, and
readings.
Teaching
with Historic Places:Native American
History(IDM)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/nov99.htm
Teaching
with Historic Places focuses on selected aspects of Native American history.
Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals,
and educators, these lessons include material on the Battle of Horseshoe
Bend and Spanish missions in San Antonio.Lessons
maps, images, and readings.
Teaching
with Historic Places:Women’s History
(IDM)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/nov99.htm
Teaching
with Historic Places focuses on selected aspects of women’s history. Created
by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and
educators, these lessons include material on Clara Barton’s House, the
M’Clintock House and its role in the women’s rights movement; Adeline Hornbek
and the Homestead Act; and Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill.Lessons
maps, images, and readings.
Texaco
Racial Discrimination Case? (IDM)
http://www.courttv.com/legaldocs/business/texaco/
This
site focuses on court case over Texaco’s racial discrimination policies.The
site includes text of Texaco’s Diversity Plan, the Settlement Agreement,
The Derivative Suit by Shareholders, a Report from Independent Investigator,
and the Order to Show Cause.
Treasures
from Europe’s National Libraries
(DA)
http://www.konbib.nl/gabriel/treasures/frame6.html
This
site contains a variety of images from European museums:tours
available on topics such a Bookbindings, Art and architecture, Decorated
paper and papermaking, Bibles, Drawings, Calendars, Manuscripts, Geography,
(Post-)incunabula, Historical works, Prints (engravings, woodcuts), Literature,
Sound files, Music,Typography and
design, Religious works.The Conference
of European National Librarians sponsors thisvirtual
exhibition with treasures from all over Europe, going back as far as the
8th century. The national libraries have selected some of the most stunning
artifacts in their collections, like rare and precious books, illuminated
manuscripts, bookbindings, drawings, prints and decorated papers. Together,
these treasures are a small but impressive representation of European cultural
heritage throughout the centuries.
The
exhibition has been designed in such a way, that the treasures can be browsed
in various ways. It is possible to look at the treasures from a particular
country, but they can also be found according to their format or their
content, independent of its present location. Short descriptions have been
added to provide essential information about the treasures and their provenance.
Twain
in His Times(IDM)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
This
interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection,
focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed
and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers,
scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said
about each other, in a way that can speak to us today.Contained
here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews
and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive
exhibits
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge Archive
(DA)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
This
site—housed at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia—provides
the full text of Coleridges’ poetry; tracts on literary theory and criticism;
commentary and journalism; science writing; work on theology and psychology,
and letters.
Uncle
Tom’s Cabin (IDM)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html
This
site brings together materials from a number of different archives, materials
that are extremely useful for teaching/studying Stowe's novel, including—but
not limited to— images of the text and advertisements of it, original reviews
of the novel, sheet music based on the novel, plays based on the novel,
anti-slavery and pro-slavery commentaries, related minstrel show materials,
and films based on the novel.
United
States Holocaust Museum
(IDM)
http://www.ushmm.org/exhibits/exhibit.htm
This
site offers online exhibitions sponsored by the United States Holocaust
Museum on topics such as holocaust poetry, the Berlin Olympics, images
of internment, and the Doctor’sTrial
section of the Nuremberg Code.
University
of Texas Advertising World:Links
to Advertising Resources (DA)
http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/Ads.html#Top
This
site contains links to print ads and commercials available on the web.
The
Urban Landscape:Digital Image Access
Project
(DA)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/diap/
This
site includes a database of images from various collections held by the
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
The database contains 1000 images pertaining to the theme "The Urban Landscape,"
from fourteen different
collections.
Valley
of the Shadow (IDM)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
The
Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one
Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project
is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before,
during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin
County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries,
photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census,
and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict
and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women,
African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families.
Victorian
Centre Project
(DA)
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/vichome.htm
The
Victorian Census Project at Staffordshire University aims to computerise
source documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth
century. These sources include:The
nineteenth century census abstracts, Vital registration statistics,The
returns of the Poor Law Commissioners, Agricultural Statistics, Statistics,Pigot's
and Slater's Topographies of Great Britain and Ireland.
Victorian
Women Writers Project
(DA)
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html
The
goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate
transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded
using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected
with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels,
political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of
poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy
and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions
of them.
Views
of the Famine(IDM)
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/
In
this site, Steve Taylor of Vassar has transcribed primary sources and scanned
contemporary images of the Irish Potato Famine.
Virtual
Resource Site for Teaching with Technologies
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/module1/media.html
This
site provides a guide to the technologies frequently used in Web-enabled
teaching and learning activities.Information
about each technology contains the following: brief descriptions, examples
of different uses; requirements for using on a computer; requirements for
using to create class materials.The
site covers synchronous and asynchronous communication, images, web text,
Power Point, web sites, animated graphics, authoring programs, and streaming
media, among others
Virtual
Seminars for Teaching Literature
(IDM)
This
award-winning site, sponsored by Oxford University, focuses on WWI poetry
and works of Wlifred Owens.The site
includes Owen’s Poetry, materials about WWI, photographs, letters, video
clips, newspapers, pamphlets, etc.
Virtual
Tours of Museums, Exhibits and Points of Special Interest (IDM)
http://www.educationplanet.com/search/redirect?id=6571&mfcount=190&mfkw=Virtual
Museum
These
site presents links to over 300 Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest
and
Real-Time
journeys which offer online multimedia guided tours on the Web. Most
of
the links lead to sites thatoffer
text and pictures; others in addition transmit sound and an occasional
movie.
Voice
of the Shuttle(DA/IDM)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/about.html
This
site offers over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related
resources
on
the Internet. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly
annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established
humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward
the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences
and social sciences and with new digital media.VoS
emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines
its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education,
professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included
students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general
population sectors).
Walks
in Rome (IMA)
http://meca.Princeton.EDU/almagest/pma/
This
project addresses the issue of CONTEXT in teaching in the humanities. Specifically
it examines the architectural development in Rome over the course of many
centuries. Various aspects of context(historical,
spatial, literary, supplemental) are explored by means of a complex database
and an intricate digitized map from the 18th century while thematic context
is explored in the animated Walks themselves.Here
three separate online "lectures" are built up from over 100 animated segments
that form a part of the sequence in the lectures but which can be used
as standalone components in the classroom. Two of these animated segment—on
the Trevi Fountain and on the Bascilica of St John Lateran—are available
on the demonstration site.
Walt
Whitman Hypertext Archives
(IDM)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/
The
Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive is a hypermedia environment for studying
the works of the nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. The archive
is a structured database holding digitized images of Whitman's works in
their original documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early
printed texts -- including proofs and first editions -- are stored in the
archive, in full color when possible, and available as needed. The materials
are markedfor electronic search
and analysis, and they are supplied with full scholarly annotations and
notes.
Who
Killed Will Robinson (IDM)
http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/index.html
William
Robinson was a real person, a Black American who was murdered on Salt Spring
Island in the British Colony of British Columbia in 1868. This site invites
readers to solve the murder by looking at archived newspaper stories, inquests,
trial documents, private correspondence, diaries, paintings, artist's reconstructions
and photographs.
William
Blake Archives(DA/IDM)
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/
A
hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sun Microsystems, and Inso Corporation. A free
site on the World Wide Web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived
as an international public resource that would provide unified access to
major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely
dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their
value, rarity, and extreme fragility. At this writing the Archive contains
fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 31 copies of 16 of
Blake's 19 illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic
information about each image, scrupulous "diplomatic" transcriptions of
all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies
Witchcraft
in Salem Village(IDM)
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
This
site includes materials of all sorts from the Salem witchcraft trials including
court documents, profiles of the accusers and the accused, profiles of
the judges and the jury members, and maps.
Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930(IDM,
DA)
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/
This
website is intended to introduce students, teachers, and scholars to a
rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements
in the United States between 1830 and 1930.Projects
include, but are not limited to, the Appeal of Female Moral Reform, 1835-1841;
Lucretia Mott's Reform Networks, 1840-1860; Bible Communism and Women of
the Oneida Community, 1848-1879; Male Supporters of Women's Rights Movement,
1850s;Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1878-1917; Southern
Women and Antilynching, 1890-194 ; African-American Women and the Chicago
World's Fair, 1893;Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woman Suffrage,
1900-1915; Local Branches of the American Association of University Women,
1900-1940; Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910;
the Impact of Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett on the Birth Control
Movement, 1915-1924; Women Suffragists and Partisan Politics, New York,
1919-1926; and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and
Right-Wing Attacks, 1923-1931
Women
in America:1820-1842
(IDM)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/FEM/home.htm
This
site contains accounts of eighteen women travelers—contemporaneous with
the travel accounts of Tocqueville and Beaumont.These
women—Irish, German, Scotch, English, and French—tell about American life
from their own perspective.The texts
can be accessed two ways: first, by a chronological listing of authors,
each accompanied by brief introductory remarks framing the visit and providing
comparison to the ideas of the other travelers; and second, by a topical
listing, so that the ideas of several authors on one subject may be more
directly compared.
Women's
Studies(DA)
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/diaries/index.html
This
site—sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Library/Schoenberg Center
for Electronic Text & Image—focuses on writings by women,particularly
in the United States and England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It
includes diaries, essays, and fiction.
The
Zwerdling NursingArchives (DA)
http://www.deltiology.com/healthcare.html
The
Zwerdling Nursing Archives specializes in fine art and rare photographic
postcards of the nursing profession from the late 19th century to the present.The
Archives includes over 4300 postcards, selected for composition, significance
and condition, representing 60 countries.The
primary function of the Archives is to make accessible depictions of nurses,
not found in any other format, for projects, studies, and collections.Services
are provided gratis to individuals researching nursing imagery for non-commercial
use.