WEB Links to History Sites

Some of the following sites are portals, while others are databases.  More websites will be added.

http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/guides/arts/internet/history.html  This is a portal to a wide variety of topically-oriented history web-sites.

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm This website is a database of many significant diplomatic documents in international history.

www.archives.gov/index.html This is the website of the United States National Archives

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html This is the US Library of Congress's website featuring documents and collections in many areas of American History

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html This is the collection of Slave Narratives on the Library of Congress website.

Several addresses for finding US Census data:

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus

http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/census/db.htm

http://www.census.gov/mp/www/Tempcat/Catalog.html

For worldwide population statistics, go to the United Nations site:  http://www.un.org/popin

Documents and information on World War II (these sites are endless)  http://ibiblio.org/pha/index.html  This is a portal with connections to sites and with texts of documents on World War II

Holocaust  http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm This is a well-maintained portal with links to many sites on the Holocaust

British Historical Database on-line:   http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbh.asp

American National Biography:  http://www.anb.org

US Civil War:

Ulysses S. Grant Association: http://www.lib.siu.edu/projects/usgrant/

University of North Texas Civil War History portal: http://www.hist.unt.edu/web_resources_mil/am_civil_war1.htm

Internet Library of Early Journals:  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej

Internet History Sourcebooks: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Russian History portals and document archives: 

    Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php

    European University http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/Index.html

    Marxists.org http://www.marxists.org

The Cold War International History Project archive: http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=library.Collection

What is a database?

http://www.library.arizona.edu/rio/db2.html

http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/d/database.html

http://library.humboldt.edu/infoservices/OWLS/OWL4-What.htm

Article selection: find the thesis.  Choose two of the following hyperlinked articles, and read as far as you need to in order to locate the article's thesis, the statement that tells you what the article's main point, or main argument, will be. Be prepared to discuss in class how authors presented their thesis (hidden, obvious).  How does one write an effective thesis?   

1. David Wolcott, "Juvenile Justice before Juvenile Court: Cops, Courts and Kids in turn-of-the-century Detroit," in Social Science History 27, no. 1, 2003: 109-136.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_science_history/v027/27.1wolcott.html

2. Tamara Plakins Thornton, "Between Generations: Boston Agricultural Reform and the Aging of New England, 1815-1830," New England Quarterly, 1986, 59(2): 189-211.

3. Jennifer Scuro, "Exploring Personal History: the Case Study of an Italian Immigrant Woman," Oral History Review, 2004, 31(1): 43-69.

4. Julie Livingston, "Physical Fitness and Economic Opportunity in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1930s and 1940s," Journal of Southern African Studies, 2001, 27(4): 793-811.

5. Stephen Behrendt, "Markets, Transition Cycles, and Profits: Merchant Decision Making in the British Slave Trade," William and Mary Quarterly, 2001, 58(1): 171-204.

6. Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The World of Ostap Bender: Soviet Confidence Men in the Stalin Period," Slavic Review, 2002, 61(3): 535-557.