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This page serves as a
gateway to various resources on the Web for understanding and
investigating history.
Three Worlds Meet
(Beginnings to 1620)
- Sipapu: The Anasazi Emergence
into the Cyber World
- Site developed by John Kanter, Assistant Professor, Department
of Anthropology & Geography, Georgia State University.
- Using
Quicktime, enter and explore a "Great Kiva." By studying the material artifacts
left behind by the Chacho Anasazi Indians, ancestors of the indigenous people
of the Southwestern United States, you can understand some of the religious
rituals and social customs of this society.
- Link:
http://sipapu.gsu.edu/
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- "1492: An Ongoing
Voyage"
- Sources from the Library of Congress
- This
"exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and
European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600." Through maps,
material objects, manuscripts, and photographs, the Library of Congress
challenges us to rethink the various meanings this 15th century encounter had
for peoples of Africa, America, and Europe. Accompanying these illustrations is
an interpretative text.
- Link:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
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- Discovery and Exploration
- Sources from the Library of Congress
- From the
late fifteenth century to the seventeenth, Europeans mapped coastlines and
waterways as they explored new territory and engaged in colonial projects.
These sources are organized by subject, creator, geographical location, and
title. In addition, they can be searched by keyword. Within this collection,
there are also maps of the domestic interior from the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries generated by Lewis and Clark and other government-sponsored
surveyors.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/dsxphome.html
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Colonization and
Settlement (1585-1763)
- The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North
America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- As
European colonial powers vied for control in the Americas, they desired more
accurate documentation of its geography. This collection of over two thousand
maps and manuscript drawings is broken down by geographic area, subject,
creator and title. According to the Library of Congress, you "can compare
multiple editions, states, and impressions of several of the most important
maps of the period, follow the development of a particular map from the
manuscript sketch to the finished printed version and its foreign derivatives,
and examine cartographic styles and techniques of surveyors and mapmakers from
seven different countries: Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Holland,
Italy, and the United States."
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
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- Virtual Jamestown
- Site supervised by faculty at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University and the University of Virginia
- This is a
digital archive of court records, labor contracts, public records, letters,
newspapers, manuscript drawings, maps (some of which are interactive), and
other documents related to life in the Chesapeake region. One of the unique
resources at this site is its collection of John White's drawings of indigenous
peoples, land and animals from 1585. The site also includes some possible ways
in which to use these materials in the classroom.
- Link:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/
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- The Plymouth
Colony Archive Project
- Site composed and supervised by faculty at the University of
Virginia
- This
digital archive contains wills, probate inventories, maps and images of
archaeological artifacts from the Plymouth colony. These materials are keyword
searchable and topical essays provide insights into this historical period.
There are also some suggestions for lesson plans.
- Link:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
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Revolution and the New
Nation (1754-1820s)
- A Midwife's Tale: The
Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary: 1785-1812
- Site developed by the Film Study Center at Harvard
University
- This site
"invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary
people in the past." Online are newspapers, diaries, letters, and public
records which relate to the life and work of Martha Ballard and the community
of which she was a part. These documents are searchable by type and by topic
(domestic life, religion, law and justice, finance and commerce, geography,
medicine) . In addition, this site provides two guided but interactive examples
where you become the historian and piece together evidence to make sense of the
past.
- Link:
http://www.dohistory.org/home.html
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- The First American West: The Ohio River Valley,
1750-1820
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- This
"collection documents the travels of the first Europeans to enter the
trans-Appalachian West, the maps tracing their explorations, their relations
with Native Americans, and their theories about the region's mounds and other
ancient earthworks. Naturalists and other scientists describe Western bird life
and bones of prehistoric animals. Books and letters document the new settlers'
migration and acquisition of land, navigation down the Ohio River, planting of
crops, and trade in tobacco, horses, and whiskey. Leaders from Thomas Jefferson
and James Madison to Isaac Shelby, William Henry Harrison, Aaron Burr, and
James Wilkinson comment on politics and regional conspiracies. Documents also
reveal the lives of trans-Appalachian African Americans, and African Americans,
nearly all of them slaves; the position of women; and the roles of churches,
schools, and other institutions."
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html
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- The
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
- Site composed and supervised by faculty from the University
of Virginia
- "The
hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of
sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. The images are
arranged in eighteen categories. These categories serve as rough guides to the
contents of the collection, but the categories are not mutually exclusive. For
example, an image categorized under 'marketing' may also contain images of
'free people of color,' and an image found under 'urban scenes' may also
contain materials appropriate to the category of 'miscellaneous occupations.'
Use the word search to find specific terms (e.g., food, whipping, children,
Ashanti), or places and countries (e.g., Brazil, Virginia, Jamaica)."
- Link:
http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/slavery/index.html
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Expansion and
Reform (1801-1861)
- "Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American
Expansion,1820-1890"
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- Taken
from the library's Mystic Seaport archival collections, this site contains
digitized images of "logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published
narratives of voyages and travels." According to the library, "these materials
offer a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences
associated with the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the
Pacific Northwest." In addition, "various themes are touched upon, including
whaling, life at sea, shipping, women at sea, and native populations."
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html
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- Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- The
sources in this collection are various "progress report surveys for individual
lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants
and rights-of-way, and route guides published by commercial firms." These
documents are useful for illustrating travel routes, settlement patterns, and
industrial and agricultural developments.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
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- Slaves
and the Courts, 1740-1860
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- This site
"contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and
1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and
African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The
documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and
cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions,
proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Of
the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great
Britain. Among the voices heard are those of some of the defendants and
plaintiffs themselves as well as those of abolitionists, presidents,
politicians, slave owners, fugitive and free territory slaves, lawyers and
judges, and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Significant names include John
Quincy Adams, Roger B. Taney, John C. Calhoun, Salmon P. Chase, Dred Scott,
William H. Seward, Prudence Crandall, Theodore Parker, Jonathan Walker, Daniel
Drayton, Castner Hanway, Francis Scott Key, William L. Garrison, Wendell
Phillips, Denmark Vesey, and John Brown."
- Link:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html
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Civil War and
Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- "Voices from the
Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Story "
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- "All known
recordings of former slaves in the American Folklife Center are included in
this online collection. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975,
capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823
and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. Several of the people
interviewed were centenarians, the oldest being 130 at the time of the
interview. The almost seven hours of recordings were made in nine Southern
states and provide an important glimpse of what life was like for slaves and
freedmen. The former slaves discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders,
how slaves were coerced, their families, and, of course, freedom. It is
important to keep in mind, however, that all of those interviewed spoke sixty
or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives,
rather than their lives during slavery, that are reflected in their words. They
have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s,
and beyond. As part of their testimony, several of the ex-slaves sing songs,
many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. Sound
recordings in American Memory are offered in three formats:
RealAudio; MPEG 2, Layer
3.wav (WaveForm)."
- Link: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/
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- Drafting the
Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Sources from the Library of Congress
-
Accompanying its reproduction of various drafts of the Gettysburg Address and
their transcriptions, the Library of Congress provides copies of the speech's
translation into various languages, the only known photograph of Lincoln at
Gettysburg and the invitation he received to attend. In addition, the Library
of Congress has included information on its preservation techniques.
- Link:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
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- The Valley of the
Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- A
University of Virginia Research Project
- "The
Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one
Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a
hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and
after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County,
Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs,
maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military
records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their
own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans,
farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families." Working with teachers, the
developers of this project have also developed a section devoted to finding
ways to use these materials in the classroom.
- Link:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
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- The Great
Chicago Fire
- Sources from the Chicago Historical Society
- There
are two ways to experience the Great Chicago Fire through this website. One is
to examine contemporary documents. The other is to examine the ways in which
the Great Chicago Fire has been remembered. Each section is divided into
"essays," "galleries," and "libraries." The essays provide historical context.
The galleries provide a wide variety of primary sources. The library provides
both primary and secondary sources for further study.
- Link:
http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/index.html
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The Emergence of
a Modern Industrial America (1877-1930)
- Like a Family:
The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
- Sources from the Southern Oral History Program in the Piedmont
Industrialization Project of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- This
project set out "to record the voices and experiences of men and women who came
from agricultural backgrounds and worked in the early textile, tobacco,
hosiery, and furniture factories that transformed the region." By the time of
its completion the project had "documented the life histories of more than 360
individuals in seven major sites: Bynum, Burlington, Charlotte, Durham, and
Catawba County in North Carolina; Elizabethton, Tennessee; and Greenville,
South Carolina." The site is divided into three sections: Life on the Land,
Mill Village and Factory, and Work and Protest. Each section includes an
introductory essay, images, interviews in audio format and ideas for how to use
these materials in the classroom.
- Link:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/index.html
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- Remembering Jim Crow
- Produced in cooperation with the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University
- Created
by American Radioworks ®, the national documentary unit of Minnesota Public
Radio, this documentary attempted to capture the experiences of white and black
Americans as they remembered them during Jim Crow. The site is divided into
themes and under each are interview excerpts (You will need Real Audio to
listen to them) and a series of photographs. In addition, the site provides
transcriptions of some of the interviews (see the link "Read personal histories
of segregation" on the home page.)
- Link:
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/index.html
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- Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
(1902-1933)
- Sources
from the American Memory Project, the Library of Congress
- "This
collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate
negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily
News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the
enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only
about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the
newspaper. Most of the photographs were taken in Chicago, Illinois, or in
nearby towns, parks, or athletic fields. In addition to many Chicagoans, the
images include politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in
Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came
to Chicago. Also included are photographs illustrating the operations of the
Chicago Daily News itself and pictures taken on occasional out-of-town trips by
the Daily News's photographers to important events, such as the inauguration of
presidents in Washington, D.C." The collection is searchable by keyword,
subject, and name.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html
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- Haymarket
Affair Digital Collection
- Sources from the Chicago Historical Society
- "The
Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide
on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket
Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago's past and a pivotal event in the
history of the American labor movement." The sources are provided with a
"minimum of interpretive information." For those interested in an "interpretive
web site," Northwestern University in cooperation with CHS has developed "The Dramas of
Haymarket" based on the materials in this collection.
- Link:
http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/index.html
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- The
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)
- Sources from the Kheel Center (Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives) at Cornell University
- "This
web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle
Fire" and the safety laws passed in its wake. This site also places the strike
within the context of labor history, offering documentation on the Uprising of
Twenty Thousand the preceding year. "The bulk of the primary sources were drawn
from the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Archives which, along
with the records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, form the basis
for the archives of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
(UNITE!) which reside at Cornell." The sources include documents, photographs,
and a few oral histories, which you can listen to over the internet.
- Link:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/default.html
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- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works,
1904
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- "The
Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views
of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the
Westinghouse Machine Company. The films were intended to showcase the company's
operations. Exterior and interior shots of the factories are shown along with
scenes of male and female workers performing their duties at the plants." You
can search these films by title and subject. You will need Quicktime or
RealMedia to view these.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html
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- America
at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- "Work,
school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are
featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized
for the first time. Highlights include films of the United States Postal
Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging,
calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing,
expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events." You will
need Quicktime or RealMedia to view these.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html
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- Anti-Imperialism in the United States,
1898-1935
- Site edited by American Studies scholar Jim Zwick
- "This
site introduces the first organizations formed to oppose U.S. territorial and
economic imperialism and makes available many of the otherwise hard-to-find
documents they produced. Among them is a large collection of anti-imperialist
literature. Much of it was written by authors whose works are still appreciated
and studied today but whose roles in the anti-imperialist movement are not
widely known. Other literary responses, like the numerous newspaper and
magazine verses written in response to Rudyard Kipling's 'The White Man's
Burden,' are restored here from near-total obscurity. These writings, and the
many pro- and anti-imperialist political cartoons scattered throughout the
site, represent part of the important cultural response to imperialism."
- Link:
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/index.html
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The Great
Depression and World War II (1929-1948)
- The New Deal
Network
- Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
& the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia
University
- The New
Deal Network "is a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts
(speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period). . .
. Unlike many databases on the Web, which represent the holdings of a
particular institution, NDN is drawing from a wide variety of sources around
the country." In addition to providing access to primary materials, the site
highlights features that focus on a particular topic or set of documents. Also,
the site pays particular attention to generating activities for middle school
and high school classrooms.
- Link:http://newdeal.feri.org/
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- The Ad*Access
Project
- Site created by Duke University
- This
project "presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements
printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television,
Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II" to provide "a coherent
view of a number of major campaigns and companies." You can browse by subject
or search the database using keywords.
- Link:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
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- America from
the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm Security
Administration-Office of War Information Collection, 1935-1945
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- "Created
by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every
part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and
the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust
Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the
mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of
about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. . . The FSA-OWI photographers also
produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project."
These photographs are searchable by keyword, subject, photographer, and
geographic area.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
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- Voices
from the Dust Bowl
- Sources from the American Memory Project, the Library of
Congress
- The
Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection "is an online
presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the
everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work
camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio
recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera
generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of
American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).
Todd and Sonkin, both of the City College of New York (currently the City
College of the City University of New York), took disc recording equipment
supplied by the Archive of American Folk Song to Arvin, Bakersfield, El Rio,
Firebaugh, Porterville, Shafter, Thornton, Visalia, Westley, and Yuba City,
California. In these locales, they documented dance tunes, cowboy songs,
traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings,
camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal
experience narratives of the Dust Bowl refugees who inhabited the camps."
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
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- Los Angeles at Work:
1920-1939
- Sources from the Los Angeles Public Library
- "The rich
assortment of images in this exhibit “Los Angeles At Work: 1920
-1939,” was chosen from an archive of thousands of negatives made by
Chamber of Commerce photographers for its publication during those years. In
the upswing economic heyday of the 1920s the Los Angeles Area Chamber of
Commerce spread the word of opportunity in the Southland. An unequaled climate,
inexpensive 'open shop' labor, raw materials, the Harbor - these all contribute
to a successful campaign to lure Eastern manufacturers to Los Angeles. During
the Depression the Chamber of Commerce sought out the persevering and the
creative business people who turned misfortune into possibilities."
- Link:
http://www.lapl.org/photo/laatwork/
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- "Produce
for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front 1941-45"
-
Sources from the National Museum of American History
- "Government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an
array of poster images linking the military front with the home front--calling
upon every American to boost production at work and at home." These posters
appeared on billboards, in schools, factories, offices and store windows among
other places. This exhibition of World War II posters is organized into the
following themes: Every Citizen a Soldier, The Poster's Place in War Time,
Retooling for Victory: The Factory Front, Efficient Workers, War Aims Through
Art: The U.S. Office of War Information, Fighting an Ideal America.
- Link:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/index.htm
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The Cold War and
Second Reconstruction (1948-1968)
- Civil Rights in
Mississippi Digital Archive
- Sources from the University of Southern Mississippi
- "The
University of Southern Mississippi is located in Hattiesburg, site of the
largest and most successful Freedom Summer Project. The civil rights materials
collected at the University are an indigenous resource of the region. They
document a local history with truly national significance." Over a hundred oral
histories are available including civil rights leaders Charles Cobb, Charles
Evers, Aaron Henry, and Hollis Watkins as well as governor Ross Barnett,
national White Citizens Council leader William J. Simmons, and State
Sovereignty head Erle Johnston (these are in transcript form although in some
cases there are audio excerpts). Also, the project has made available letters
of civil rights activists and "four diaries of freedom school teachers" (see
manuscripts.) Including items from the library's manuscript and photograph
collections, there are more than 7,000 pages to look at on this site.
- Link:
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/
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- Brown v Board of
Education at 50: The State of Public School Integration
- Web site put together by the Lewis Mumford Center for
Comparative Urban and Regional Research at the University at Albany
- "The
Mumford Center has created a new data webpage on school segregation
(1968-2000), and legal cases related to desegregation (since 1950).
[They] provide information on most school districts in the country, including
racial/ethnic composition of elementary enrollment since 1968 and segregation
measures. If there has been a legal case related to school segregation,
[they] list the case, provide a capsule summary, and offer a link to a
description of the case from Westlaw. This is the first web-based
inventory of school segregation litigation."
- Link:
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/brown/
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- The Free Speech
Movement Digital Archive
- Sources from the University of California Berkeley Library and
the Bancroft Library
- The goal
of this archive is to "document the role of Mario Savio and other participants
in the Free Speech Movement." In addition to newspaper, administrative records,
and other assorted texts, the archive was attentive to conducting oral
histories in order to bring to light information about "FSM participants,
leaders, witnesses and subject areas that have not been covered in depth
before: the participation of women and minority students, faculty-student
relationships, legal counsel, and the press."
- Link:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
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- Documents from the
Women's Liberation Movement
- Sources from The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library, Duke University
- "The
materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the
Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the
radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items
range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an
actual grassroots group." You can search through the materials by keyword or
choose from one of eight topics: General and Theoretical, Medical and
Reproductive Rights, Music, Organizations and Activism, Sexuality and Lesbian
Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Women of Color, Women's Work and Roles.
- Link:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
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Conservatism and
the Reorientation of Federal Powers (1968-1991)
- Making the Macintosh:
Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley
- Sources from Stanford University Library
- "The
Macintosh stands at a cusp in the history of computing and Silicon Valley: it
brought together (and sometimes transformed) a number of technical and
conceptual threads in computing that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, but it
also was responsible for sparking new movements in computing. This project
collects and publishes primary material on the Macintosh's development and
early reception. The exhibit features primary documents, such as memos tracing
the evolution of the Macintosh mouse; images, such as technical drawings,
stills from commercials, notes from user tests; and interviews with members of
the Macintosh development team, technical writers, and founders of user
groups."
- Link:
http://library.stanford.edu/mac/
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- National Security
Archive
- Sources from the national government obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act. The website is maintained by a not-for-profit
District of Columbia-based corporation.
- National
Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books provide online access to critical
declassified records on specific issues, including U.S. national security,
foreign policy, military history, intelligence policy, and more." This site is
organized by the following topics: Europe, Latin America, Nuclear History,
China and East Asia, U.S. Intelligence, Middle East and South Asia, The
September 11th Sourcebooks, Humanitarian Interventions, and Government Secrecy.
- Link:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
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Contemporary United States
History (1991-present)
- The Gulf
War (1990-1991)
- Sources put together by Frontline, an American public
television series on public affairs
- This site
documents the events of the Gulf War of 1990-1991. It provides transcripts of
oral histories conducted with American and Iraqi leaders, testimonials of
American soldiers and descriptions of the various weapons used in conducting
the war. Maps are also provided.
- Link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/
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- The Fabulous Ruins of
Detroit
- Sources compiled by Lowell Boileau, a self-learned fine art
painter and computerist.
- This
website documents the transformation of Detroit in the wake of
deindustrialization. This particular tour focuses on automobile-related
factories (and you might want to examine the map of the "Detroit Ruins" which
indicates the location of these various sites). You can also take a similar
tour of the downtown area.
- Link:http://detroityes.com/home.htm
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- Unseen
America: Photos and Stories by Workers
- Sources compiled by Bread and Roses, a not-for-profit cultural
arm of New York's Health and Human Service Union.
- "Bread
and Roses was founded in 1979 as a cultural resource for union members and
students in New York City who would otherwise have little access to the arts."
In this project, participants were given cameras with which to document their
lives. "Participants include Polish asbestos removal crews, Filipino nannies,
Chinese garment and restaurant workers, homeless senior men, migrant workers in
Long Island, domestic violence victims in the Bronx, Local 32-B janitors and
doormen, and students from throughout the city."
- Link:http://www.bread-and-roses.com/galleryindex.html
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- The September 11 Digital
Archives
- Site organized by the American Social History Project/Center
for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center and
the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
- "The
September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and
present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia,
and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them. . . . The Digital Archive
will contribute to the on-going effort by historians and archivists to record
and preserve the record of 9/11 by: collecting first-hand accounts of the 9/11
attacks and the aftermath (especially voices currently under-represented on the
web), collecting and archiving emails and digital images growing out of these
events, organizing and annotating the most important web-based resources on the
subject, and developing materials to contextualize and teach about the events."
- Link:http://911digitalarchive.org/
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