| Avalon
Project |
Yale
University site that offers transcriptions of documents in law, history,
and diplomacy; organized by centuries and topics. |
| Commodities of Empire Project |
Joint research collaboration between the Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and London Metropolitan University's Caribbean Studies Centre. Include working papers. |
| The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative |
Collaborative
project to produce an interactive electronic atlas of the world from which selected data from regions, eras, and disciplines can be instantaneously accessed. |
| The
Great Buildings Collection |
Documents 1,000
buildings and other structures (e.g., bridges) with images, drawings,
and downloadable 3-D models This currently
highlights links to its pages on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
| Historical
Information Resources |
Refdesk.com's
links to historical websites. |
| History
of Cartography |
UW-Madison site
on Professor David Woodward's the six-volume history of cartography. |
|
Images of Early Maps
on the Web |
Comprehensive listing, comprising almost 600 links - updated each month.
Part of the Map History/History of Cartography website (see below). |
|
International Meridian Conference, 1884 |
Out of
this conference, convened by the U.S., apparently in response to naval
interests, came an international agreement establishing the meridian
passing through Greenwich, England, as the international or prime
meridian. Available on the web are page
images of the conference proceedings, thanks to Joseph S. Myers of
Cambridge University, and a Project Gutenberg
transcription of the proceedings. Thanks to Wikipedia for
these links. |
| Map
Collections: 1500-1999 |
This portion of
the Library of Congress's American Memory site (see below under
U.S.) is devoted to maps. |
|
Map
History/History of Cartography |
Comprehensive
site maintained Tony Campbell , Map Library (retired), British Library.
It provides a gateway to a wealth of information on non-current (old,
early) maps.. |
| Money
- Past, Present & Future |
Site
created by Roy Davies, Exeter. |
| New
York Public Library |
A wealth
of links to history sites. |
| World
War I Aviation: Pictorial History 1914-1918 |
Commercial site -
no indication how or by whom it was authored, so use with care; lots of
photos plus technical and biographical information. |
| Ad*Access |
Online
collection of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. |
| David
Rumsey Collection |
Offers more than
11,000 maps, mainly 18c & 19c North and South
America but some for other parts of the world and other kinds of
resources-- rapidly expanding; superb resolution and zoom-in capabilities. |
|
Fundación
de los Ferrocarriles Español |
Historical
data on railroads in Spain and Latin America. |
|
Native
North American Resources - Documents |
New York
Public Library links to sites with online documents. |
|
Native
North American Resources - History |
New York
Public Library links to historical sites. |
United States |
|
| Abraham
Lincoln online |
Online
collection of the presidential papers of Abraham Lincoln; intended to be
complete by 2009. |
|
American Currency
Exhibit |
The
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's online exhibit includes images of
currencies since the colonial era. |
| American Memory Collection |
The Library of
Congress's marvelous collection of images, documents, recordings, movies,
and maps now includes 19th-c. books and periodicals as well. |
| Brooklyn
Bridge |
Links to several
sites about the Brooklyn Bridge. |
| Built
in America |
Images
and docs on some 35,000 structures and sites from 17th to 20th c. (Lib.
of Cong.) |
| California
Heritage Collection |
Online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history
and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library, University of
California-Berkeley. |
| A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation |
Library
of Congress's searchable database of U.S. Congressional documents and
debates, 1774-1873. |
| Coolidge-Consumerism Collection |
"The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929," on the Library of Congress's American Memory website |
| Colorado
Digitization Project |
Links to Colorado
museums and archives offering historical images and documents. |
| Corporate
Reports Online |
Facsimiles
of annual reports (pdf format) in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Library.. |
| Do
History |
Introduces the
browser to "doing history," using Martha Ballard (of The
Midwife's Tale) as a case study; topic categories in its archive of
primary documents include "finance and commerce" and
"money." |
| Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917 |
This site "makes available two fully searchable databases that allow users to examine in micro and macro detail the evolution of one of America's definitive plantation crops, namely cane sugar." |
|
Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive - Business History |
Links to
websites on business history (organized by individuals, companies, etc.). |
| Economic
Report of the President |
Downloadable and
searchable editions, 1996-2001. |
| Ellis
Island immigration records |
Searchable
database of passengers who arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and
1924. Includes images of ships and ship manifests. |
| Emergence
of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 |
Searchable
database of some 9,000 images in the collections of Duke
University. |
| ePodunk
-- The Power of Place |
Devoted to the
history of small towns; includes images of historical postcards and a
multi-media tour of the Erie Canal. |
| The
Great Chicago Fire [1871] and the Web of Memory |
Joint venture of
the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University; texts and
images. |
| Guide
to Business History Resources |
Library of
Congress guide compiled by Richard F. Sharp for "[r]esearchers
seeking historical information about an old company or an extinct
firm"; includes a master company list. |
| Henry
Ford Museum |
Link to
the Ford Museum's online exhibits. |
| Historic
American Sheet Music |
More than 3,000
images of pieces published in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920; from the
collections of Duke University. |
|
History Matters |
A joint
project of the City University of New York and George Mason University,
this site serves as a gateway for teachers of U.S. history survey courses.
Outstanding. |
| Images
of American Political History |
Collection of
more than 500 images believed to be in the public domain; includes maps. |
|
In Motion: The
African-American Migration Exprerience |
Online
exhibit at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem, NY).
This includes a section with images, text, and bibliography on "The
Domestic Slave Trade," a topic that business historians have ignored. |
| Lincoln
and the Civil War |
HarpWeek's
searchable collection of 14 illustrated newspaper, opening in spring
2002. |
| Making
of America (MOA) |
Digital library of primary
printed sources (books, pamphlets, periodicals) in
U.S. social history ca. 1815-1877. |
| Manhattan
Transformations |
Fascinating site
that uses computer modeling to depict Manhattan's development in
four dimensions. |
| Museum
of American Financial History |
Founded
in 1988, the museum offers a few images online from its current
exhibits. |
|
New York Times, 1851-1999 (UW access only) |
Full-text
searches of the New York Times. |
|
Pennsylvania Session Laws |
Includes
Pennsylvania Statutes at Large, 1682-1809; Smith's Laws, 1700-1802;
Pamphlet Laws, 1980-2002. The Legislative Reference Bureau plans to
add Pamphlet Laws, 1801-1979. |
|
Regional Oral History
Office |
Division
of the Bancroft Library at UC-Berkeley that creates oral history for
public use. Included are interviews on the California wine industry
and twentieth-century western mining. |
| Saugus
Iron Works |
National
Park Service site on Iron-making in 17th-century Massachusetts.
This "Teaching with Historic Places" lesson plan includes
descriptions of iron-making, diagrams, and maps. |
| Seneca
Village - NYC |
New York
Historical Society website about the village of African Americans and
European immigrants that was razed in building Central Park in the
1850s. |
| Sloss
Furnaces |
Pig-producing
furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama, that have been designated as a National
Historic Landmark. |
|
Samual Gompers
Papers |
Includes
detailed information on U.S. labor history (ca. 1850-1924) and images and
transcriptions of a selection of documents from the Gompers collection. |
| Third
Person, First Person |
Slave voices from
the Special Collections Library, Duke University. |
| Thomas
Jefferson Papers |
Online images of
some 83,000 items in the Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress. |
| "Touring
West" |
Online version of
the New York Public Library's exhibition on 19th-century performing
artists on the overland trails. |
| The
Urban Landscape |
Digital Image
Access Project: database of 1,000 images from various collections
held by Duke University. |
| The
Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and
Virginia. |
Pioneer site in
demonstrating the possibilities of hyper-history; sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. |
| Wal-Mart
Stores |
Links to
the company's annual reports since 1972 (in pdf format). |
|
Wisconsin Pioneer
Experience |
UW-Madison's digital collection of original sources documenting
19th-century Wisconsin history -- diaries, letters, and other personal
narratives. |
|
Women Working, 1870-1930 |
Online
access to digitized resources from Harvard's collections on women's work
between the Civil War and the Great Depression. The collection
currently [as of Feb. 2005] contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075
photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections. There may be
incidental attention to women as capitalists, but the emphasis is on women
as laborers. |
