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MLA Guidelines on documenting online sources |
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Sites |
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Center for History and New Media |
This George Mason University site offers
current projects (e.g., on U.S. survey courses [see History Matters below],
Sept. 11, science and technology, French Revolution, antebellum life and
culture) , tools (e.g., a free, cross-platform note-taking software for
historians), and resources (e.g., guides to history departments and to web
resources) |
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EH.net |
Gateway to economic history resources
(calendar, encyclopedia, book reviews, course syllabi, etc.) |
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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. |
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History
On-line |
Gateway
created by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of
London. |
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History
Sites by Subject |
Tennessee Tech
History Department's gateway page -- very comprehensive (though not
updated since 1999). |
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Refdesk.com |
Handy
private site. |
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WWW-Virtual
Library -- History Central Catalogue |
Integrated and international network of indexes,
now housed at the European University Institute |
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| Online Data |
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Bureau
of Labor Statistics |
Well
organized, searchable data, including historical time-series. |
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FRASER -- Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research |
New project of the Research Division of
the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis -- consists of links to scanned images
(in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical
publications, releases, and documents. Included is the Fed's 1959
publication, All-Bank Statistics, 1896-1955, which compiled
statistics not only on nationally and state chartered banks but mutual
savings banks and, for the first time, unincorporated or private banks. |
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FRED -- Federal Reserve Economic Data |
From the Research Division of the Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis, a database of 3,000 U.S. economic time series
that can be downloaded. New addition: ALFRED -- ArchivaL Federal
Reserve Economic Data, which furnishes vintage versions of data available on
specific dates in history (currently back to Dec. 12, 1996). |
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NBER
Macrohistory Database |
National
Bureau of Economic Research's database on
pre-WWI and interwar economies; mainly U.S. but some on U.K.,
France, and Germany. |
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OECD
Statistics Portal |
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development gateway |
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U.S.
Historical Census Data Broswer |
Census
data on US people and economy by state and county, 1790 to
1970. |
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World
Development Indicators 2000 |
The
World Bank's annual compilation of development data. |
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| Bibliographic/Data Searches |
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descriptions] |
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African American Biographical
Database |
electronic
collection of biographical information on African Americans, 1790-1950
(subscription-based; offers free trial) |
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Eureka on the Web (RLG) |
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FirstSearch: Databases |
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History Journals Guide |
Started as a student project at the
University of Cologne, this is an an international directory -- all
periods, all regions and all fields. |
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ICPSR
(University of Michigan) |
World's largest archive of computerized social science data |
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JSTOR (UW access only) |
Online access to complete runs of
journals except for the most recent five years. |
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Magazine
Stacks |
Tables of contents of historical
journals, monographic series, and occasional volumes (German, English, and a
few other languages) |
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UnCoverWeb 2.0 |
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UW
Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) |
Central repository of data collections used by the social science research
community at UW-Madison |
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| Other
Tools |
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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods |
Interesting and useful - both for its content and for its visual aids |
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The
Currency Site |
Commercial site
that includes historical tables; winner of Britannica award. |
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Current
Value of Old Money |
Links to many
useful tools (Roy Davies, Exeter) |
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Finding
Patent Records |
How
to find assignment, litigation, and extensions records for 19th-century
American patents (Carolyn C. Cooper, Yale University) |
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How
Much Is That? |
EH.net's tools for exploring the
comparative value of the dollar over time. Includes new interest rate series for the US and
UK. |
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Inflation
Calculator |
Bureau
of Labor Statistics home page, which includes an inflation calculator. |
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Web of Online Dictionaries |
index to dictionaries in a zillion languages and other linguistic tools
(Robert Beard, Bucknell) |
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