HISTORY 250/ FALL 1999 MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY PROF. FRIEDHEIM

Nixon meets Elvis/ National Archives

WEB BASICS

• Prof. Catherine Lavender's Web Tutorial (College of Staten Island)
• Learn the Net -- An Internet Tool

EVALUATING WEB SITES

• Evaluating information found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins)
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA)

SEARCH ENGINES

• Internet Search Engines: How Some of Them Work
• Power Searching For Anyone

HISTORIAN'S TOOLS FOR MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY SURVEY

• History Matters (ASHP/CUNY/GMU)
• Humanities-Net (NEH/Michigan State)

LISTS OF HISTORY LINKS

• American Studies Web Georgetown)
• Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara)
• American and British Resources on the Web (Rutgers)
• Index of Resources for History (Kansas)

HISTORICAL ARCHIVES/ GALLERIES/STATISTICS/ DATA

• American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
• Making of America (Michigan)
• National Archives and Records Administration
• New York Public Digital Library (NYPL)
• Historical, Economic, Demographic Data of U.S. (Harvard)
• Historical income and Poverty Pages (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Douglass -- Archives of American public Addresses (Northwestern)
• Historical Atlas Resources -- North America (Oregon)
• Inaugural Addresses of Presidents of the U.S. (Columbia)
• Helios: National Museum of American Art: Photographs (Smithsonian)
• National Museum of American Art: Posters (Smithsonian)
• Graphical Arts/ The Art of Propaganda
• Media History Project

GILDED AGE/ PROGRESSIVE ERA (1877-1916)

• Anti-Imperialism in the United States (1898-1935)
• 1890s Timeline
• World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath
• Harper's Weekly--Images of American Cultures in the 1870s
• The Great Chicago Fire (Northwestern/Chicago Historical Society)
• Pullman
• Triangle Strike and Fire (Assumption College)
• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Cornell)
• Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (ASHP/CUNY)
• Immigration & Settlement: Map Division of Library of Congress
• "How the Other Half Lives"
• On the Lower East Side - Observations on Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (St. Marys University/Minnesota)
• Frederick Winslow Taylor/ Scientific Management
• The Gilded Page

FROM WORLD WAR TO WORLD WAR

• Propaganda Posters -- First World War
• Recordings from World War One and the 1920 Election
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive
• The New Deal Network
• New Deal Cultures
• A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
• Voices from the Dustbowl
• American Life Histories: Federal Writers Project (1936-1940)
• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs
• Japanese American Internment
• War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
• Camp Harmony (internment)
• Women at War
• World War Two Posters (Northwestern University)
• World War Two Posters (National Archives)
• Hiroshima Archive
• Remembering Nagasaki
• Trinity Atomic Web Site
• Enola Gay Controversy
• A Teachers' Guide to the Holocaust

FROM COLD WAR TO MILENNIUM

• Historic Sound Clips: McCarthy, Nixon, Civil Rights et al (Webcorp)
• By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson
• Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
• Cold War Hot Links
• When Nixon Met Elvis (National Archives)
• Virtual Greenbelt (Suburbia/1950s/Material Culture)
• CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
• Hard Hat Riots (Pro-war Demonstrations in NYC)
• Martin Luther King Papers (Stanford)
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Chicano: History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Sixties Generation and Vietnam Inc Project
• U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art

THE WEST

• WestWeb
• New Perspectives on the West (PBS)
• Native American Documents Project
• Borders/Fronteras
• Lakota Information Home Page

MULTICULTURAL

• Border Crossings/Diaspora (Iowa)
• South Asia Diaspora (UC/Berkeley)
• Asian-American Chronology (MIT)
• Chicano/Latino Network
• Images of African-Americans from the 19th Century (Schomburg)
• African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Schomburg)
• The Archives of African-American Music and Culture (Indiana)
• Negro League Baseball Links
• Black African Related Sources (Penn)
• Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers (UCLA)
• Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual Studies
• Votes For Women: NAWSA (Suffrage Association) 1848-1921
• Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
• 95/75 - 75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage
• Women's Rights Chronology
• Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (National Archives)
• Native Links
• Lakota Information Home Page
• Curriculum for U.S. Labor History
• Movies, Race and Ethnicity (UC Berkeley)

NYC HISTORY

• Moving Uptown: 19th Century Views of Manhattan
• Tenement Museum
• Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
• Triangle Strike and Fire (Assumption College)
• Harlem 1900-1940 (NYPL-Schomburg Exhibit)
• Harlem- Mecca of the New Negro (Univ. of Virginia) - 1925 Survey Graphic
• On the Lower East Side - Observations on Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (St. Marys University/Minnesota)
• "How the Other Half Lives"
• Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building -- 1930-1931 (NYPL)
• Berenice Abbott: Changing New York -- 1935-1938 (NYPL)
• Reading Photographs of NYC (New Deal Network) 
• The Blackout History Project: NYC 1965/1977 
• Digital Atlas of NYC
• Museum of the City of New York