Historic Southern Indiana

Building The Story: Foundations of Interpretation
Abe Martin Lodge
Brown County State Park
Nashville, Indiana

A SCHOLAR'S GUIDE TO THE WEB: BRIEF LIST
Dr. Darrel E. Bigham

1. Browsing and Searching the WWW
http://www.google.com
http://www.adstation.com
    This combines a number of search tools listed below.
http://altavista.digital.com/
    Most powerful search tool; probably gives too many hits.
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/
    Popular, semi-popular history resources
http://webcrawler.com/
    Excellent searches.
http://www.metacrawler.com/
    Uses several search engines simultaneously.
http://www.excite.com/
    Good for conceptual searches.
http://www.lycos.com/
    Good searches.
http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html2/present.htm
    How to set up your own www page.

2. Historical Sources
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL
    Index to Historical Resources--excellent guide.
http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html
    History texts and documents on line for undergraduates
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html
    Many primary sources on-line; virtual library
http://www.nara.gov
    National Archives
http://www.loc.gov
    Library of Congress
http://www.biography.com
    Biography.com (A and E)
http://www.hamrick.com/names/
    US Surname Distribution since 1850
http://www.multiEd.com/elections
    History of elections
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History
    Historical Texts
http://www.thehistorynet.com
    The History Net
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/start.htm
    Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://www.lib.texas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/histus.html
    University of Texas US History Maps
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
    Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html
    American and British library resources on the internet
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
    Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth
    Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.earlyamerica.com
    Archiving early America
http://www.remember.org
    Library of the Holocaust
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/
    American Social History Project
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
    Univ of Oklahoma Law Center History Documents
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
    Historical census browser, by state and county, 1790-1970
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seminar/links.html
    Good source--many links.
http://www.history.org
    Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us
    Hagley Museum and Library
http://www.nps.gov/inde/visit.htm
    Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark
    Lewis and Clark Expedition
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
    The Oregon Trail
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad
    Underground Railroad
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow2.html
    Social history of Va. and Pa. before Civil War
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
    Civil War Home Page
http://www.umdl.umich.edu
    Making of America-thousands of original nineteenth century documents, such as books and articles in popular magazines. Search by key words for references, for instance, to your town or city.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898
    Spanish American War
http://www.worldwar1.com
    World War I
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/
    The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
http://www.academic.marist.edu/fdr
    FDR Library and Museum
http://www.feri.org
    New Deal Network
http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mainpage.html
    Second World War
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
    MLK references, papers
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk
    Civil Rights Movement
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html
    Vietnam War Bibliography
http://vcepolitics.com/wgate.htm
    Watergate

Area Studies:
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/
    History of Africa
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
    African Studies Assn
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan.html
    Japanese studies, K-12
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/subject_maps.html
    Guides to American Studies.

3. Links to Other Sites
http://www.ai.org
    Access Indiana homepage—statewide government agencies,
including Ind Dept of Education, State Library and Historical Bureau
http://www.education.indiana.edu/~socialst/
    Social Studies Sources Page
http://www.ssdc.ucsd.edu
    Social Studies Data Collection
http://:www.vlib.stanford.edu/Overview.html
    Virtual Library
http://www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay/links.html
    National History Day
http://www.aflcio.org
    AFL-CIO archives
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl
    Migrations and Ethnic Relations Virtual Library
http://www.epinet.org/datazone/
    Economic Policy Institute Data
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html
    History Text Archive
http://www.pharos.bu.edu/Egypt
    Egypt Links
http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/links.html
    Organization of American Historians
http://www.theaha.org
    American Historical Association
http://www.members.aol.com/dann01/webguide.html
    Scholars= Guide to the Web

4. Teaching, Educational Resources
http://www.refdesk.com
    My Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
    Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching
    National Archives Teaching Units
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu
    National Council for History Education
http://www.ideanet.doe.state.in.us
    Indiana Dept of Education
http://www.ihc4u.org/iche/
    Indiana Council for History Education
http://www.ihc4u.org/relhist.htm
    Teaching the role of religion in American history
http://www.csulb.edu/~histeach/
    Society for History Education
http://www.aaslh.org
    American Association for State and Local History
http://www.ncss.org
    Natl Council for Social Studies
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
    History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers
http://www.TheAAHC.org/workshop.htm
    American Assn for History and Computing
http://www.indianahistory.org
    Indiana Historical Society
http://www.statelib.in.us
    Access to Indiana State Library, Indiana Historical Bureau
http://www.indiana.edu/~ahr
    American Historical Review
http://www.preservation.org/links.html
    A large collection of links to preservation and conservation sites
http://www.mystic.org/~alhfam/
    Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums
http://www.nthp.org
    National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.reenactor.net
    Links to reenactment groups, events, organizations
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/departments/genealogy.html
    Historical Genealogy Dept, Allen County/Fort Wayne Public Library, second largest North American genealogical repository

5. Maps
http://www.newslink.org
    NewsLink Web page includes free links.
http://www.city.net
    City Net
http://www.vtourist.com/webmap/
    Virtual Tourist World Map
http://www.iTools.com
    Map Reference Links

6. Discussion Groups
Check the various discussion groups under Humanities Net. To subscribe by email, send a message to listserv @h-net.msu.edu enter the name of the group to which you wish to subscribe (for example, H-Teach, H-Civwar, H-Japan). For historic sites and museums, especially helpful lists are H-Indiana and H-Local. Or you can access H-Net through its WWW site and subscribe on-line (http:www.h-net.msu.edu).

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