Celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall - November 02, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
To celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, we’ve compiled a list of web sites below for your enjoyment, enlightenment, and education.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Africa Past and Present Podcast - Q&A with Dr. Peter Alegi - October 20, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
This interview follows Monday’s post on the Africa Past and Present podcast site. The following is an interview with Peter Alegi, the host.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Africa Past and Present: The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics - October 18, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
Podcasts continue to gain popularity in both social and academic realms, becoming a routine part of Internet lingo. Africa Past and Present offers podcasts that center on the history, culture, and politics of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Forum Network – Free lectures online - October 12, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
The Forum Network is a collaboration of PBS and NPR, bringing together audio and video lectures online for free. The site contains hundreds of lectures, which visitors can search through by topic, series, and speaker. Searching for content is both exciting and daunting, so for this post, we highlight just five series from the site, and just three lectures from each of these series. Do note some familiar names below, including Eric Foner, Jill Lepore, and James M. McPherson.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
The U.S. Supreme Court – Past, Present, and Future - October 06, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
A recent article, “Down the Memory Hole,” by Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times anticipates the release of former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s papers. inding Greenhouse’s article (which will appear in Thursday’s What We’re Reading post) led to some internet wandering for more Supreme Court news and resources.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Slavery in America – Online Resources - October 04, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
The University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) recently announced the launch of its new online Digital Library on American Slavery, “a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.” This new resource has the potential to be of great use to researchers, and inspired us to bring you a roundup of some other slavery resources covered previously on the blog and in the pages of Perspectives on History.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
War Posters in the World Digital Library - September 29, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
It’s easy to lose hours perusing the World Digital Library, stumbling across fascinating finds, clicking from place, to time, to topic, to type of item, to institution. We’ve searched the World Digital Library, and come across a number of interesting war posters.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Exploring the Google News Timeline - September 08, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
The Google News Timeline, introduced by Google this past April, creates a visual and interactive chronological view of recent and historical events. It pulls data from Google news, digitized magazines and newspapers, blogs, sports scores, Wikipedia, and Freebase.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Scribd: YouTube for Writers - August 24, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
Scribd, a new “social publishing company,” aims to marry social networking with self-publishing. Known as the YouTube for Writers, the creators believe that everyone is a writer and a publisher.
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Podcasts from the Gilder Lehrman Institute - August 18, 2009
By David Darlington
Fans of history podcasts should check out the web site of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for a list of podcasts on American history subjects by famous historians.
Article By: David Darlington
Cycling through History - August 04, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
In two recent editions of “What We’re Reading” (June 4 and July 30) we’ve linked to articles from the New York Times about cyclists on historic rides: biking the Underground Railroad and the Iron Curtain Trail. With the sunny days of summer upon us, it’s a good time to get out there on your ten-speed and experience history while perched atop two wheels. Check out the following resources for ways to cycle through history.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Snapshots of the Past: The Commons on Flickr – Take 2 - August 02, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
Flickr has various areas to explore and themes to peruse, such as The Commons, where museums and other international historical institutions create digitized versions of their photographic collections (check out our original Flickr post for more detail).
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst - July 19, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
Fire, flooding, earthquakes; disasters come unexpectedly in many shapes and forms. And the ways to prepare for such events are just as varied. Below we’ve put together a list of a number of classes and online resources that specifically target libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions that maintain collections. They outline how to plan for and prevent disasters, and how to recover if the worst does occur.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
iTunes U: Fun for Academics and Eternal Scholars Alike - July 12, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
Since its origin in January 2001, iTunes has grown to include movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, music videos, and games, all of which are a simple mouse-click away. Adding to this list of fun features is iTunes U, offering over 175,000 free downloadable educational audio and video files…
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The Teachers Page – From the Library of Congress - July 05, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
In a recent post on the Library of Congress blog, Matt Raymond, the LOC’s director of communications, introduced the newly launched web portal for teachers. He notes that this is just the latest step to make materials from the LOC accessible to K-12 teachers.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Hidden Lives Revealed: Archive of Children in Care 1881-1918 - June 28, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
The Hidden Lives Revealed site draws from archival materials of the Waifs and Strays’ Society, which took care of “poor and disadvantaged children” from England and Wales from 1881 through WWI. The main concentration of the site is 150 case files, presented as both high-quality scanned images and in transcribed form.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Remembering Our First Ladies - May 31, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
The White House has not only seen its fair share of great men walk its hallways, but also great women. We thought we might pay tribute to some of the leading First Ladies, highlighting some of their social and political contributions, as well as giving fun trivial tidbits. In addition to the sites listed below on individual First Ladies, you may also want to visit EdSitement’s “Remembering the Ladies” and the New York Times’ Leading Ladies lesson plans for supplementary material in the classroom. Additionally, White House 101 offers fun activities for students of all ages, covering topics from presidential facts to White House pets.
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Henry Hudson Meets Google Maps - May 26, 2009
By David Darlington
Along the lines of Perspectives on History’s May 2009 theme issue of history and digital technology, historians may be interested in the web site Henry Hudson 400. This site celebrates the 400th anniversary of explorer Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage to the Americas in search of a water passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Article By: David Darlington
Ask not what YouTube can do for you… - May 25, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
YouTube continues its transformation from blooper archive to legit online video resource with the new U.S. Government YouTube channel.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Listening to the Past: Oral History Online - May 17, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
In past AHA Today posts we’ve touched on the availability of oral history resources online, often briefly mentioning them as an element of a larger online resource. For instance, the recent Digital Archives post notes oral history recordings and transcripts at a number of sites online. And our post on StoryCorps (also mentioned below) was about an organization that collects and preserves oral histories. We’ve even once put up a post about an oral history fellowship.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Civil War Resources - May 05, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
This past Monday actor Robert Duvall sent news agencies buzzing when he said “he will help preservationists in ‘chasing out’ [Wal-mart] from a site near the Wilderness Battlefield” where they are planning on building a 138,000 square-foot supercenter (a fight that began last year).
Preserving Civil War history is an important, and sometimes contentious topic. In this post we bring you a host of Civil War related resources online, for use in the classroom, in research, or in one’s free time.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Digital Archives - May 04, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
As a pillar of preservation, archiving plays a pivotal role in the study of history. Many organizations have decided to supplement their physical archives with digital ones, making historic texts and images accessible to masses (arguably a major asset of the internet). The following are just a few digital archives available for both academic and personal exploration.
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The Great Pandemic - May 03, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
In light of the recent swine flu pandemic, it seems timely to look back at the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, often referred to as the Great Pandemic. The deadly virus hit the world at a vulnerable time, as World War I had just come to a close in the early fall of 1918. Unfortunately, Allied soldiers caught the virus in the infamous European trenches and brought it back to their home countries as they celebrated the close of the Great War with their loved ones.
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StoryCorps – Oral Histories Collected by Loved Ones - April 26, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
Memories and tales of past events have been shared in conversations between friends and family members probably since language began. Some stories continue to be passed down, while others are eventually lost. StoryCorps, a nonprofit organization, recognizes the value of preserving these oral histories, and since 2003 has been recording them and archiving them through the Library of Congress for future generations.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
YouTube EDU - April 20, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
When we mentioned YouTube EDU briefly on AHA Today, in the April 2, 2009 edition of What We’re Reading, we thought it seemed like a promising resource. In this post we take a closer look to see what all the site has to offer.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Teaching with Historic Places - April 19, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
The opening of this year’s 123rd annual meeting in New York City included a roundtable discussion on The Pleasures of Imagination. One of the great things about studying history is the room for imaginative creation—reading a text and painting a subsequent picture to match, for example. However, visiting historic sites takes this imaginative creation beyond the text, opening a window into the past (both physically and imaginatively). Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP), a web site that branches from the National Park Service Heritage Education Services Office, embraces the power of teaching history through historic sites and promotes the implementation of such sites into curricula.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
In Memoriam: Abraham Lincoln - April 14, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. –President Lincoln
Words spoken by our 16th president, who met his tragic fate 144 years ago today while attending the comedy, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
History Podcasts, Take 3 - April 06, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
From lectures to speeches, from the Revolutionary War to World War II and beyond, history enthusiasts everywhere are likely to find a podcast that suits their fancy. Download onto your computer and/or your MP3 player and away you go into yesteryear. Below are just a few podcast options you can find online.
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Office of the Historian’s New Web Site - April 05, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
The Office of the Historian, within the U.S. Department of State, has launched a new, sleeker, and more interactive web site. Their old site explains that, “You have asked for more resources at your fingertips for all things related to U.S. diplomatic history, and we have responded.”
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Vaulted Treasures: Digitized Medical Books from UVA - March 29, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
How exciting to enter the vault at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and experience the treasures that lay within. But for those who can’t make the trip to Charlottesville, just make a stop online to view high quality digital images from 50 books in the collection.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Image Resource Roundup - March 24, 2009
By Elisabeth Grant
Using images in the classroom can more fully engage and excite students, making history come alive. AHA Today has posted a number of articles on image resources online, and below we share some from our archives, as well as a few new finds.
Article by: Elisabeth Grant
Women’s History Month - March 22, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
Beginning with International Women’s Day in 1911, progressing to Women’s History Week in 1981, and expanding to an entire month in 1987, Women’s History Month, celebrated every March, has come quite a ways over the last century. Compiled below is a list of a good number of web sites that highlight some of history’s most extraordinary women and give insight to their fight for gender equality.
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Celebrating 157 Years of Uncle Tom’s Cabin - March 19, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
Uncle Tom’s Cabin began as a series in a Washington, D.C. anti-slavery weekly called National Era in June of 1851. It quickly became a hit and was released in book form on March 20, 1852. Today is the 157th birthday of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, of one of the nation’s best-selling novels. Listed below are a few web sites to explore in the celebratory spirit of the day.
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Celebrate Black History Month Online - February 24, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
As most of us know, February is Black History Month, and while it’s nearly over there is still time to delve into some resources on African American history. Black History Month 2009 is particularly special because of this year’s historic inauguration. In the spirit of this month, many organizations have created digital spotlights dedicated to Black History Month, which include everything from biographies to games to trivia. Below are a variety of web sites offering informative and often fun resources that can be used throughout the year.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Comparing History and the Humanities: What We Know and Why We Should Care - February 02, 2009
By Robert B. Townsend
As a number of our members have observed, the data reported by the AHA tends to offer a fairly narrow view—generally only studying trends in the history discipline. The new Humanities Resource Center provides a contextual mirror that can provide a better perspective on where we are as a discipline, where we might be headed, and what our obligations should be as a profession.
Article By: Robert B. Townsend
History Podcasts, Take 2 - January 12, 2009
By Jessica Pritchard
With digital history growing exponentially, it seems new history podcasts are popping up nearly daily. Consequently, we’ve decided to run a supplementary article (to our earlier podcast post) to note other interesting podcasts you might enjoy.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Snapshots of the Past: The Commons on Flickr - December 21, 2008
By Jessica Pritchard
No matter who the society or where the location, there have always been pictorial representations of people, places, and things dating back centuries. Now explore these images in a new way, through The Commons on Flickr.
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History Podcasts - December 02, 2008
By Jessica Pritchard
One of the many perks of teaching in a digital era is the multitude of alternative teaching methods. The same goes with learning for both students and enthusiasts of various disciplines; there are endless forms of interactive digital tools that can make learning a bit more engaging and, well, fun. Take history podcasts, for example…
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Civil War Historians Sought for Times Topics - November 17, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The New York Times is seeking the help of Civil War historians for their Times Topics project. The Times Topics site is organized into about 15,000 subjects, which pull from past New York Times articles to make pages that cover historical topics.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Presidential Recordings Program - November 11, 2008
By David Darlington
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has a useful resource for historians in their Presidential Recordings Program (PRP). The PRP was established in 1998 to make accessible to historians the secret White House recordings of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt through Richard Nixon.
Article By: David Darlington
Picturing U.S. History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence - November 03, 2008
By Jessica Pritchard
It seems everywhere we turn today we’re reading and hearing about new digital media fronts, especially when it comes to scholarly research and alternative teaching methods. Picturing U.S. History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence, a collaborative project between the American Social History Project and the Center for Media and Learning at City University of New York Graduate Center, is certainly no exception…
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Blogging Back in Time - October 27, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
This past weekend the New York Times blogged about voting properly in the upcoming election. Except the upcoming election they were referring to was William Howard Taft vs. William Jennings Bryan. The post was from October 25, 1908.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Commission on Presidential Debates - October 20, 2008
By Jessica Pritchard
With the highly anticipated 2008 presidential election less than a month away, all eyes seem fixed on recent debates. In fact, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)—a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1987 to organize all presidential and vice presidential debates—called these recent debates “a breakthrough in the history of televised debates.” The CPD, who has sponsored presidential and vice presidential debates since 1988, makes sure Americans receive and understand each candidate’s platform come election time.
Article By: Jessica Pritchard
Black Americans in Congress - October 06, 2008
By Jessica Pritchard
The House of Representatives’ Office of the Clerk recently created the web site Black Americans in Congress detailing the plight of African Americans in attaining full civil rights in the federal legislature.
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David Rumsey Map Collection Online - September 30, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Almost two years ago we reported the addition of David Rumsey Historical Maps to the Google Earth application. But did you know that 120 Rumsey Historical Maps have also been integrated into Google Maps? This mashup has the same features as the Google Earth/Rumsey Map combination (like the ability to adjust the transparency of the map overlay) but without the need to download other software.
Article by: Elisabeth Grant
Country Music Foundation Concludes Oral History Project - September 29, 2008
By David Darlington
The Country Music Foundation, Inc. (CMF), which operates the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, has just completed a major oral history project. The project involved re-recording and transcribing interviews with 638 individuals involved in the country music industry since the 1920s.
Article By: David Darlington
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database - September 23, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
From datasets to CD-ROM to online project, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database was decades in the making. And it was time well spent. Voyages (the web site of the project) allows users to experience information on nearly 35,000 slave voyages through a clean and well-designed interface.
Article By: Elisabeth Grant
Hear ye! Hear ye! Read all about it… online - September 08, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Yesterday the Official Google Blog announced the launch of Google’s newspaper digitization project, a new initiative meant to digitize millions of newspapers and make them available online. While Google’s newspaper digitization project is definitely newsworthy, there are already similar resources available online. Read on to revisit some online newspaper sites AHA Today has covered in the past.
The History Engine - September 07, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
“We learn by doing,” Aristotle supposedly said. And this is a philosophy that the History Engine appears to embrace. This collaborative online project “gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian.”
Ghosts of Elections Past - September 02, 2008
By David Darlington
“Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008” is a new online project of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. As we reported last week this site examines the evolution of presidential politics in the United States across the span of American history.
Mapping History - August 19, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The Internet has transformed (like so many other things) the way we see and use maps. But whether it’s the use of a new map, or the reinterpretation of an old one, it’s the interactive nature of these online maps that is so fascinating (and fun).
Women and War Resources - August 18, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
At this summer’s America in the Civil War Era, 1829–77: A History Institute for Teachers, participant Jane E. Schultz “Women and the Civil War.” Since then, she’s put together an excellent selection of “Women and War Primary Digital Resources.”
The Orwell Diaries - August 11, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The Orwell Prize web site has unveiled a new feature: George Orwell’s Diaries presented in blog format. The introductory post appeared on the blog on July 23rd, but the actually diary posts began August 9, 2008 with Orwell’s August 9, 1938 entry. And that’s how the posts will continue, each one coming 70 years to the day from when it was originally written.
Olympics History - August 10, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Media coverage of the 2008 Olympics started months ago, but the actual games began last Friday, August 8th and will continue through the 24th. But despite whether or not you’re into this year’s events, you may be interested in a few informative, or just plain fun, resources online about the rich history of the Olympics, including…
Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive - August 05, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Find hundreds of high quality digital images on the Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive site, from the Massachusetts Historical Society. The online collection includes two catalogs of Jefferson’s books (one from 1783, the other from 1789, a manuscript version of the Declaration of Independence, a Farm book, a Garden book, a manuscript copy of his Notes on the State of Virginia (still under development), and an array of Architectural Drawings…
Exploring Early Modern London - July 28, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The Map of Early Modern London site is like Google Maps for Shakespeare’s time. But instead incorporating traffic patterns, restaurants, and shortest routes, this experimental map shows wards, churches, and livery companies.
Lesson Plans from the Library of Congress - July 21, 2008
By David Darlington
Teachers looking for lesson plans for grades 4-12 will want to visit the Educational Resources page on myLOC.gov. Here, they will find lesson plans and online activities featuring historical materials from the library’s collection.
Blogging the Poplar Grove Project - July 13, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Last month in a What We’re Reading post we linked to an article about the Poplar Grove plantation in Maryland where documents from as far back as the 1600s had been found in attics and other buildings. While there’s much to go through, researchers are taking the time to share some of the most interesting finds on the Poplar Grove Project blog.
Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004 - July 08, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
It’s hard to ignore them. They’re on whenever your turn on the TV; ready to pull your heartstrings, call on your patriotism, or give you a guilt trip. They’re presidential campaign television ads, and they’ve been around since the fifties. Whether you love or hate them, you can find a collection of over 250 of them on The Living Room Candidate web site…
The East Is Read All Over Again - July 06, 2008
By Pillarisetti Sudhir
The East is not red anymore. If anything, in China, where, until recently, the old song was sung everyday, the East is increasingly cast in Financial Times pink. Precisely for this reason perhaps, the East is being read all over again, to paraphrase from the punning slogan of a new blog, “The China Beat.”
Gulag History Goes Live - June 30, 2008
By David Darlington
As we noted in January, George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has been working on an online Gulag history project in conjunction with scholars in Russia. That site, Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives, went live in June.
Civil Rights Digital Library - June 03, 2008
By David Darlington
Our readers who are teaching 20th-century U.S. history this fall may be interested in the new Civil Rights Digital Library, based at the University of Georgia. Covering the 1950s and 1960s era of the civil rights movement, the digital library initiative seeks to document one of the most important social movements in U.S. history.
The National History Education Clearinghouse - June 02, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is a project designed to create a “central online location for accessing high-quality resources in K-12 U.S. history education.”
Wanted: Your Used Books - May 26, 2008
If spring cleaning has you inching your old books and journals ever closer to the trash, stop right there and consider donating them instead. To aid you in this endeavor, here are a few organizations that accept donations of books and periodicals…
A Museum for Everything - May 12, 2008
By David Darlington
If you’re interested in art, art history, or just cultural artifacts in general, visit The Museum of Online Museums (MoOM)...
An Appetite for History - May 05, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Digitization projects like Google Books are hot topics right now, but some sites have been scanning and displaying books for years. Case in point is the Feeding America site, a project of the Michigan State University Libraries, that has been up and running for nearly a decade.
A Wise Guide, Eh? - April 28, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The Library of Congress’s Wise Guide is a flashy web portal meant to introduce visitors to what the LOC has to offer online. Each month the site highlights about half a dozen online features, presenting a brief article and related links for each.
“Best of the Web” Awards Showcase Museum Web Sites - April 22, 2008
By Debbie Ann Doyle
Each year the Museums and the Web conference, put on by Archives & Museum Informatics, picks winners for their “Best of the Web” awards, which recognize “the best work in museum web design and development.” This year there are some fascinating sites among the recipients.
Women’s History Lesson Plans for Middle and High School Teachers - April 21, 2008
By David Darlington
The National Women’s History Museum, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is now posting some women’s history lesson plans online free-of-charge. These lesson plans, which are targeted to middle and secondary school students, cover subject matter such as voting rights, women reformers in the Progressive area, American women athletes in the Olympics, and women in journalism.
Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial from Footnote.com - April 06, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Footnote.com is part of Web 2.0 for historians. Check out their newest feature, the Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Jobs and Careers in History - April 01, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Jobs for history majors. Careers in history. Why study history? These are some of the most popular search phrases that bring people to the AHA’s web site. To help all of these groups find answers look to the AHA’s web site and the plethora of job and career related resources available there.
Revisiting the Carnival - March 31, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Just about a year ago, we put up a post here at AHA Today highlighting a number of history carnivals available online (with the help of Cliopatria’s history blogroll). In this post we’re highlighting a handful of some recent carnivals, to remind you that they’re out there and describe some topics they cover.
History of Baseball - March 30, 2008
It’s that time of year again, a time for hot dogs and home runs. That’s right, we’re talking about baseball season. And while you may be looking forward to all the upcoming games, do you ever wonder about baseball’s past?
American Conversations with the Archivist of the United States - March 25, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
The National Archives has produced a series of “American Conversations with the Archivist of the United States,” and has more planned for the future. In these “conversations,” Archivist Allen Weinstein sits down historians, scholars, politicians, First Ladies, and others who have “shaped the dialogue about the interpretation and use of American heritage.”
Aluka – Free until June 2008 - March 23, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Aluka, an “online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa,” is accessible for free (when you create an account) until June of this year.
Are You Living in a Sundown Town? - March 04, 2008
By David Darlington
University of Vermont sociologist James Loewen has created a web site where visitors can explore a controversial topic in American history: sundown towns.
Resources for Creating Online Exhibits - March 02, 2008
By Debbie Ann Doyle
Two new tools for creating online exhibits and walking tours offer exciting opportunities for presenting public history and developing creative class projects.
History and Wells Fargo on the Web - February 24, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
You may know Wells Fargo & Co. as a bank, but do you know it as a blog?
This Month in History - January 28, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
Enjoy finding out what happened today in history? Well then you’ll love EDSITEment’s online calendar, which covers not only what happened today in history, but also what happened this month in history.
History and Gaming: Beyond Oregon Trail - January 21, 2008
By Elisabeth Grant
“Oh no! Jane has dysentery and I lost a wagon wheel!” Strange statement? Maybe, but not if you’re playing Oregon Trail, a game meant to teach students about the lives of pioneers in the 1800’s, once popular in elementary school classrooms. While Oregon Trail may be more popular on Facebook now than it is in the classroom, using games to teach history is still a serious subject for some scholars.
The Visible Past Project - December 17, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The Visible Past Project uses a wiki, Google Earth, and even a CAVE (Configurable Automatic Virtual Environment), to teach history in a whole new way: “using visual interfaces”.
MIT for High Schoolers - December 09, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
MIT has extended its OpenCourseWare project with a new section specifically designed for the high school classroom. The new “Highlights for High School” section is a carefully crafted assortment of course materials, videos, labs, study aids, and more.
reCAPTCHA: Digitizing Books and Saving the World from Form Spam - December 03, 2007
By Vernon Horn
A team at Carnegie Mellon has developed a program dubbed reCAPTCHA that uses the CAPTCHA process and the millions of people filling out web forms to help digitize books that will ultimately be made available for free by the Internet Archive.
C-SPAN’s Q & A - November 26, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Devoted C-SPAN watchers probably already know that each Sunday night the channel airs their Q & A series, showcasing interviews with “interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology.” But non-devotees and casual watchers alike may be pleased to learn that past episodes of this series can be viewed online at C-SPAN’s Q & A site.
House History - November 20, 2007
By David Darlington
The web site of the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives has an interesting new feature: The House History Timeline. A colorful animated history of important events in the governing body’s history, the timeline covers 1789 to the present.
Library of Congress Celebrates Native American Heritage Month on the Web - November 12, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The Library of Congress, along with a half dozen other agencies, has created a site to recognize Native American Heritage month. There you can find out about the origins of Native American Heritage Month (first called American Indian Day), the month’s events (including lectures and performances), and extensive resources on Native American history.
The Illinois State Archives Supports Teaching through Primary Sources - October 29, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The Illinois State Archives has created and made available online teaching packets that focus on primary documents. The most recent teaching packet released online is Early Chicago, 1833-1871, which uses 50 scanned documents to create a “kaleidoscopic picture of Chicago history for the years 1833-1871.”
"Celebrating Research" with the Association of Research Libraries - October 22, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
To honor the Association of Research Libraries’ 75th anniversary, the ARL has created a book and web site to highlight “selected rare and special collections available for use in the major research libraries of North America.”
A Plethora of Lesson Plans at EDSITEment - October 16, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
You may have heard of EDSITEment before, maybe even from this blog, but do you really know about all that the site has to offer? This site is a clearinghouse of links to respected educational web sites, but its real draw should be the lesson plans available to teachers…
Perusing the Calendar - October 14, 2007
The AHA’s online calendar allows organizations and universities the opportunity to advertise meetings and seminars, research opportunities, awards & fellowships, internet resources, and exhibitions & interpretive resources. Submit an announcement today, through the online form. Here are some of the latest postings on a few of the sections of the AHA calendar…
UC Berkeley Shares Courses Through Webcasts and iTunes - October 08, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The University of California at Berkeley has been sharing webcasts of course lectures at their webcast.berkeley site since 2001. While these courses have always been available to both Berkeley students and the public alike, the university is reaching an even larger audience with the launch of their new UC Berkeley YouTube site.
History Graduate Students’ Resources Page Gets Updated and Redesigned - October 02, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The Committee for Graduate Students, chaired by Elise S. Lipkowitz, has updated and redesigned the Resources for History Graduate Students page on the AHA web site. The page is now broken into three sections…
Visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture Online - October 01, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Even though construction on the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) isn’t scheduled to start until July of 2012, visitors can already access a wealth of information at the NMAAHC web site.
Remembering the Little Rock Crisis in Documents - September 25, 2007
By David Darlington
On September 25, 1957, fifty years ago yesterday, nine African American students attended school at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the watchful eye of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, a mob of angry segregationists, and media the world over.
Edsitement Provides Resources for National Hispanic Heritage Month - September 25, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Edsitement, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is recognizing National Hispanic Heritage Month with a special page of resources.
Carlyle Letters Online - September 24, 2007
By Vernon Horn
The letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, those quintessential letter-writing Victorians, are now available online through Duke University Press.
Today In History - September 17, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Across the web the question “What day is it?” has taken on new meaning…
Exploring the Nation’s Capitol Online - September 16, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
With housing now open for the AHA’s upcoming Annual Meeting, some of you may be thinking about a trip to D.C. You may want to learn more about the history, the research opportunities, and the current events.
Bibliography Built Right In - September 12, 2007
By David Darlington
Just in time for back-to-school, Mozilla is offering a “campus edition” of its popular web browser, Firefox 2.0.
KGB Documents Revealed Online - September 09, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
A group of historians from Lithuania have posted once-secret documents from the KGB online at www.kgbdocuments.eu for the entire world to see. Dalia Kuodyte, director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center, explained that the site was created to “prove beyond doubt that the Baltic states were occupied by the Soviet Union after World War II”.
Asia for Educators - September 05, 2007
By David Darlington
Columbia University has an interesting online curriculum project that those teaching Asian history might be interested in. Sponsored by the university’s East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, Asia for Educators incorporates previous Columbia University teaching workbooks in Asian history into one site.
Now Online: History Department Evaluators - September 04, 2007
History departments occasionally call the AHA to request names of expert reviewers who would be willing to evaluate their department. To facilitate this process, the AHA compiles and maintains a list of qualified reviewers…
Experience “Turning the Pages” at the British Library Online - August 29, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The British Library is reaching out to readers online by allowing them to digitally “leaf through our great books” on their Turning the Pages page. Through the use of Adobe’s Shockwave player, visitors can interactively page through exceptional digital copies of a number of volumes from the library’s collections.
Tracked in America - August 27, 2007
By Vernon Horn
Trackedinamerica.org is a new web site that provides a short history of U.S. government surveillance in America from the colonial era to the present.
Historical Moments Captured in the Newseum’s Front Page Archive - August 26, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
While the physical Newseum, the interactive museum of news, is yet to open in D.C., its web site is very much up and running. One of the features available there may be of interest to historians and curious news junkies alike…
Get the Feed from the Library of Congress - August 15, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Not only did the Library of Congress join the blogosphere, they’ve also wholeheartedly embraced all things RSS, to keep the public up to date on all the happenings at the library and its web site. Their RSS feeds page features eighteen different feeds organized into three separate groups.
BlackPast.org – An Online Gateway to African American History - August 05, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
BlackPast.org, led by University of Washington Professor and former AHA Council member Quintard Taylor, contains an abundance of resources on African American history. This site features an online encyclopedia containing 800 plus entries, transcripts of speeches from 1789 to 2004, collections of links and info on hundreds of other resources, and so much more.
Doc of the Day - July 18, 2007
By David Darlington
The National Archives’ web site has an interesting little feature called “Today’s Document.” Each day a scanned image of a historical document is posted on the site, complete with a description and archives citation, as well as a brief paragraph or two on its historical significance.
Accessing the Government Online - July 17, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
You may have visited the Library of Congress’s web site, or even the National Archives online, but you’re missing out if you haven’t yet been to GPO Access. GPO Access is a site run by the U.S. Government Printing Office to “disseminate official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.”
Old Pictures Get New Life on Shorpy - July 01, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Shorpy, the self-proclaimed “100-Year-Old Photo Blog,” displays images from the “dawn of photography to the 1940s.” Images like, “Cutting Crew: 1911,” of child laborers; “Barber Shop Octet: 1943,” of Japanese-American women in a World War II relocation camp; and “Brooklyn Bridge: c. 1915.”
BibMe: Build Bibliographies in a Couple of Clicks - June 25, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The new website BibMe claims to be “the quickest way to build a works cited page.” While that assertion is yet to be tested, the site does offer some pretty cool features displayed on a very clean interface, and did we mention it’s free?!
Yellow Pages for the Academic Blogosphere - June 24, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
There are tons of blogs out there (upwards of 70 million according to Technorati founder Dave Sifry), but the overwhelming abundance can leave one daunted and left with nothing good to read. Luckily, there are a few sites out there that have filtered through the masses to find academic blogs and present them in a manageable way.
Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright - June 20, 2007
By David Darlington
Though Library of Congress receives about 2,400 copyright applications per business day, the process of registering a copyright is still a confusing one for many people. At the library’s web site, however, there is a clever resource to assist teachers in explaining the whys and hows of copyright to their students.
Visiting Ancient Rome via the Web - June 11, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
For the past ten years, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia has been working with a number of groups from UCLA, and other institutions around the world, to build a 3D model of ancient Rome (notional date of model June 21, 320 A.D.) as well as a digital version called Rome Reborn 1.0. Yesterday, June 11th, the model was shown at a ceremony in Rome and “video fly-throughs” of the digital city were posted on the Rome Reborn 1.0 web site.
Electronic Archive of Charles Darwin's Correspondence Now Available - May 30, 2007
By Vernon Horn
Over the course of his life Charles Darwin, like so many Victorians, was a prolific letter writer, corresponding with as many as 2,000 people. Darwin’s letters, which cover a wide range of topics, from scientific inquiry to the implications of his theory of evolution for religion, have now been released to the public at http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/index.php
Ancestry.com Makes Military Records Open to the Public Until June 6, 2007 - May 28, 2007
By Vernon Horn
From Memorial Day 2007 (yesterday) until D-Day, June 6, 2007, the popular web site ancestry.com is making all military records open to the public for free. They boast that their collection has a complete list of WWI Draft Registration Cards, WWII Army Enlistment Records, as well as a Civil War collection, and an array of records stretching back to the Revolutionary War.
Archiving Tragedy, Promoting Healing - May 01, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
On April 16, 2007, just a few short weeks ago, Virginia Tech experienced a tragedy that made headlines across the world as the worst shooting in U.S. history. The initial shock and horror of the event has now given way to reflection and thoughts of memorials. This past Monday the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) at Virginia Tech announced the launch of the April 16 Archive, a digital repository created with support from George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM).
Food for the Intellect - May 01, 2007
By Robert Townsend
Judging from the faculty listings in the AHA Directory, you might think that intellectual history had fallen on hard times. But the evidence in the blogosphere suggests otherwise…
New York Times Archives 1851 to present - April 15, 2007
By Vernon Horn
In mid-March the New York Times announced that it would make its popular TimesSelect service available free to college students. TimesSelect offers access to columnists and other premium content. But perhaps the best part is the ability to search the Times back to 1851.
Come One, Come All, To The History Carnival - April 11, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The blogosphere is rich with blogs on history. To get a peek at all that’s out there, visit Cliopatria’s history blogroll. But keeping up with blogs can be a daunting and overwhelming endeavor. Carnivals are a good way to catch up on what you may have missed.
The Raw Data on Graduate Programs - April 04, 2007
By David Darlington
When looking for a graduate school, many sources should be considered and factors weighed. Faculty advisors, the history department (faculty and fellow students), parents, the U.S. News rankings, and the AHA’s Directory of History Departments should all be consulted. And now, PhDs.org’s Graduate School Guide, now in public beta, promises to be a useful tool in deciding on a graduate program.
Archiving Hurricane Memories - April 02, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
It’s amazing to think that hurricanes Katrina and Rita wreaked their havoc almost two long years ago. The memories, and challenges of rebuilding, are still fresh for many people, and thanks to the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank they won’t fade quite as much over the passing of time.
New Features at JSTOR - April 01, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive, recently announced new features it has added to make searching article PDFs and finding keywords in articles easier. Articles in the High Quality PDF format on the site have been replaced with a new PDF format, which, besides making searching easier, also allows users to copy text, use screen-reading software, and download the files faster. JSTOR has also added “search term highlighting.” When users search using keywords, these words will now be highlighted throughout the JSTOR page images, making researching faster and more efficient.
First Drafts of History at Your Fingertips - March 26, 2007
By Pillarisetti Sudhir
Thanks to “Chronicling America,” a digital project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, you can now access 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.
If You Post It, They Will Come - March 13, 2007
The AHA offers two ways for organizations and universities to promote the grants, fellowships, and awards they offer to potential applicants: The Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes of Interest to Historians directory and the Awards and Fellowships section of the AHA’s online calendar.
Yizkor Books Project Wins ABC-CLIO Online History Award - March 11, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Faith Jones, librarian in the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library, has been presented the ABC-CLIO Online History Award for her Yizkor Books Project. The award committee also recognized three sites with honorable mentions.
Celebrating Women’s History - March 05, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
March is Women’s History Month, and for the occasion the Library of Congress is honoring a variety of women from U.S. history on their Women’s History Month site.
The Next Generation of History Teachers - March 04, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Edward Ayers and other participants at a national summer conference in 2006 discussed the question of how to better prepare future K-12 history teachers. Their dialogue led them to focus on history departments, and how historians in those departments can mentor future teachers. Those ideas have been collected in an online paper titled, The Next Generation of History Teachers, which is now available on the AHA web site.
Google Tools for Students and Scholars – Part 3: Sketching in 3D - February 28, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
There are many possible educational uses for Google SketchUp, ranging from students creating structures from ancient Rome to designing additions for their current schools. In addition to its possible academic applications, it’s also just kind of fun.
Exploring the Presidential Timeline - February 26, 2007
By David Darlington
Last week, on President’s Day, the Learning Technology Center at the University of Texas at Austin, in conjunction with twelve presidential libraries and Terra Incognita Productions, launched the interactive Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century on the web (as briefly noted in a recent AHA post.) This extensive multimedia project brings together digitized resources from the presidential libraries to create a single point of access for students, teachers, and interested adults from around the world.
Google Tools for Students and Scholars – Part 2: Easier Online Projects - February 25, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
Group projects are a guaranteed part of the undergraduate experience, but coordinating group members’ conflicting schedules to share work can become the bane of any student’s existence. This is why every student should know about Google Docs and Google Notebook. Both tools allow users to store documents and notes online through their free Google account, and then share them with others.
Google Tools for Students and Scholars – Part 1: Search like an Academic - February 20, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
The Google search engine has become so ubiquitous it’s now a verb (“I googled it”). But while the search engine is widely known, many of Google’s other tools go less noticed. Over a series of future posts this blog will examine a number of tools from Google that students and scholars alike may find particularly useful. This series begins by highlighting two other search options Google provides. These are Google Scholar and Google Book Search.
History Teacher Creates Popular Podcasts - February 05, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
By day Lars Brownworth teaches American history at the Stonybrook School, but by night he creates podcasts for an audience of over 100,000. Brownworth’s podcasts, titled “12 Byzantine Rulers,” focus on Byzantium’s 1200-year history, from Diocletian in 284 to Constantine XI Palaeologus in 1453.
Milestones in Cyberspace - January 28, 2007
By David Darlington
The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress recently reached a milestone of sorts, with the posting of its 10,000th map online.
Seeing Results: Online Projects Funded by TAH Grants - January 24, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
As mentioned recently on this blog, the U.S. Department of State is again accepting Teaching American History Grant applications, and has even organized a workshop to demystify the process. Still deciding whether to apply? Check out the Center for History and New Media’s Teaching American History site to see five online projects created with funding from the TAH grant program.
For that Home Away from the Archives - January 22, 2007
By David Darlington
Traveling for research is a part of any historian’s job description, and arranging housing for an extended research stay can be a hassle. Since 2000, the web site SabbaticalHomes.com has been connecting academics around the world in all disciplines in an effort to make arranging housing for extended research trips much easier.
Publish or Perish - January 21, 2007
By Andrew Bell
Your friends at the AHA are trying to make it easier for you to get your research published. How? By creating an online database that provides helpful links to English-language journals that publish in various fields of history. We call it the “Publish Your Paper!” website.
When Less is More: “The History Guide” – A Scholarly Search Engine - January 16, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
A recent Google search of the term “civil war” produced 114,000,000 sites, ranging from well-produced digital projects by university teams, to much more amateur personal websites. The same search on the History Guide/InformationsWeiser Geschichte generated 114 sites, all of which were “scholarly relevant websites in history.”
Researching Online: When Google is Not Enough - January 15, 2007
By Elisabeth Grant
When is Google not enough? When it comes to scholarly research, the answer is pretty much always. Google and other mainstream search engines are often the first place students go to do research, but as Daniel C. Mack and Susan Hamburger explained at their session at the annual meeting, there are many better online research options out there.
Explore Historic Federal Courthouses - December 28, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
The Historic Federal Courthouses site, created by the Federal Judicial Center, is a compilation of hundreds of images and detailed information on federal courthouses across the nation.
Three new volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States Series Released - December 18, 2006
By Carl Ashley, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Anyone interested in the details of the recent diplomatic history of the U.S. will want to take a look at the vast and growing archive of the Foreign Relations of the United States series, produced by the Department of State’s Office of the Historian. The online archive currently contains several of the recent volumes available for free online.
Discover the Digital History Reader - December 13, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
The Digital History Reader, an online resource, aims to help students “develop skills of historical analysis,” by presenting “conflicting accounts and interpretations” of events in US and European History.
American History Through Manuscripts - December 05, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
A recent article in the Washington Post noted that the website AmericasHistory.org bought 140 letters written by Dwight D. Eisenhower during the years of 1941 to 1947. How many of these letters will appear on Americashistory.org, is yet to be determined, but the ones that do will add to a wide ranging collection of documents that relate to many of the critical moments and controversies in American history.
Google Earth Goes Back In Time - November 29, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
Google has juxtaposed the old world and the new, with the addition of Rumsey Historical Maps to the Google Earth application.
Oh Canada! - November 27, 2006
The AHA’s database of History Doctoral Programs now lists programs in Canada. Did you know that Ontario has 15 schools that grant PhDs? Visit the Canada map to search by province and find universities from Alberta to Saskatchewan and everything in between.
Visit Historic Campuses Online - November 26, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
Students use a variety of criteria to pick their future University. They look at class size, course offerings, sports, and if they’re smart they check out the cafeteria. Now, thanks to the Council of Independent Colleges’ Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP) students can also check out a University’s “places of historical significance.”
Talking ‘bout my Generation - November 23, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
Phil Mariage’s public radio program, “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” brings together speakers from three generations to discuss issues ranging from politics to fads to auto repair. In one of his most recent programs he spoke with John Hope Franklin, Peter Stearns, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage on the topic of history.
Ready to Recycle Scholarship? - November 19, 2006
By Pillarisetti Sudhir
Is your office or home filled up with books and journals that you have been contemplating for some time, while wondering what you should do with them? This post suggests a number of organizations that will accept your book and journal donations.
It’s a Library Thing - November 15, 2006
By David Darlington
Historians tend to have large collections of books, for both personal and professional reasons. LibraryThing.com promises to make management of one’s library much easier.
Dissertation Diva to the Rescue - November 07, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
Liena Vayzman is the Ann Landers of ABDs. On her new blog “Ask the Dissertation Diva”, Vayzman dispenses supportive and constructive advice to dissertation writers of all stages.
HistoryWired: An Online Field Trip - October 31, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
You want to visit the National Museum of American History, but you’d like to avoid the crowds, the metro, and leaving your house. Or perhaps you want your students to examine a historical artifact that is hundreds of miles away. No problem, just visit HistoryWired
Wikimapia: “Let’s Describe the Whole World!” - October 25, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
What do you get when you combine the images and functions of google maps with the collective editing power of wikipedia? You get Wikimapia.
Check the Calendar - October 24, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
While AHA Today is a brand new resource, created to keep up with the latest happenings in the history profession and at the AHA, there’s an established place on the AHA web site that is just as valuable: the AHA Calendar.
History by Email - October 23, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
At work, at school, and at home, we’re always checking our email. Email has become a necessity and an obsession, and for good or bad most of us are checking our inboxes multiple times a day. The creators of DailyLit have created a service that takes advantage of the email obsession and allows users to multi-task even more.
One-Stop Shopping for History Web Sites - October 20, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
Oh the joys of the web, so many sources and sites with so much information to be found. Of course the abundance of resources comes with a price: your time. On the road to finding excellent web sources one must wade through many sites that are just a waste of time. Thank goodness for portals like Best of History Web Sites, a place to find thousands of links to quality history web sites.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Free Learning at your Desktop - October 17, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
No login? No membership? No fees? No problem! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare site, is a free online collection of materials from 1,400 MIT courses, including a number in history.
Archives-wiki, Part II: How It Will Work - October 16, 2006
By Robert Townsend
Over the past few years, Internet programmers have developed a new open source program called “wiki,” which creates an online environment in which users can add content and the larger community can edit and update. This collaborative process will allow the Archives-wiki to harness the local knowledge of tens of thousands of researchers and archivists…
Archives-wiki, Part I: A Proposal - October 15, 2006
By Robert Townsend
One of the more ambitious projects that we hope to unveil this winter is Archives-wiki—a web-based guide to archival collections by and for researchers on historical subjects.
Making Bibliographies Fun - October 11, 2006
By Elisabeth Grant
Citing your sources just got easier. Zotero, a new (and best of all, free) web research tool developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University promises to combine “the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)… and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes”.