An Appetite for History - May 06, 2008
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 29, 2008
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 23, 2008
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 22, 2008
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 07, 2008
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 02, 2008
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 - April 01, 2008
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 31, 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 26, 2008
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 24, 2008
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 05, 2008
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 03, 2008
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 25, 2008
You may know Wells Fargo & Co. as a bank, but do you know it as a blog?
This Month in History - January 29, 2008
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 22, 2008
“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 18, 2007
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 10, 2007
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 04, 2007
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 27, 2007
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 21, 2007
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 13, 2007
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 30, 2007
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 23, 2007
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 17, 2007
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 15, 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 09, 2007
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 03, 2007
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 02, 2007
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 26, 2007
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 26, 2007
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 25, 2007
The letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, those quintessential letter-writing Victorians, are now available online through Duke University Press.
Today In History - September 18, 2007
Across the web the question “What day is it?” has taken on new meaning…
Exploring the Nation’s Capitol Online - September 17, 2007
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 13, 2007
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 10, 2007
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 06, 2007
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 05, 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 30, 2007
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 28, 2007
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 27, 2007
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 16, 2007
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 06, 2007
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 19, 2007
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 18, 2007
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 02, 2007
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 26, 2007
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 25, 2007
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 21, 2007
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 12, 2007
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 31, 2007
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 29, 2007
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 02, 2007
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 02, 2007
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 16, 2007
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 12, 2007
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 05, 2007
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 03, 2007
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 02, 2007
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 27, 2007
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 14, 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 12, 2007
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 06, 2007
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 05, 2007
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 - March 01, 2007
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 27, 2007
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 26, 2007
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 21, 2007
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 06, 2007
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 29, 2007
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 25, 2007
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 23, 2007
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 22, 2007
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 17, 2007
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 16, 2007
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 29, 2006
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 19, 2006
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 14, 2006
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 06, 2006
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 30, 2006
Google has juxtaposed the old world and the new, with the addition of Rumsey Historical Maps to the Google Earth application.
Oh Canada! - November 28, 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 27, 2006
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 24, 2006
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 20, 2006
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 16, 2006
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 08, 2006
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 - November 01, 2006
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 26, 2006
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 25, 2006
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 24, 2006
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 21, 2006
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 18, 2006
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 17, 2006
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 16, 2006
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 12, 2006
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”.
New Tool Launched to Facilitate Archival Research - March 14, 2006
Did you ever wish, while sitting at your desktop and beginning a new project, that you could locate archival documents on, say, the Aswan dam, Che Guevara, Karl Popper, or the Union Pacific Railroad? Now you can do so, thanks to ArchiveGrid (located at http://www.archivegrid.org), an innovative Internet tool launched by RLG, a nonprofit organization of more than 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other repositories.