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It is a resource for "in-depth information on US public opinion on international issues. The site includes The Digest, which provides comprehensive analyses of polling on various international topics." A search feature is provided or users may browse by issues. Resource: Access to Archival Databases Access: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ Description: Designed to provide access to some of the information in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The system gives online access to nearly 50 million historic electronic records from over 20 federal agencies. It is recommended that first time users consult the Getting Started page. Resource: Administration for Children & Families Access: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ Description: ACF is a federal agency which funds state, territory, local, and tribal organizations in order to provide family services and child services. The site provides information on the various programs available. Resource: African American History Resources - Library of Congress Access: http://www.loc.gov/topics/africanamericans/ Description: This page is a compilation of resources available from the Library of Congress related to African American history. It highlights historical events, people, and documents and provides links to related LOC collections. It also provides a special section for teachers. Resource: African American Mosaic Access: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html Description: A Resource Guide for the study of Black History & Culture designed by the Library of Congress. Includes sections on Colonization, Abolition, Migration and the WPA. Resource: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Access: http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/ Description: "... is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader." Resource: AgingStats Access: http://www.agingstats.gov/ Description: This Federal Government site provides access to statistics regarding older Americans. It was created in 1986 in order to encourage cooperation among government agencies with aging related data. Resource: America in the 1930's Access: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s/front.html Description: A site created by the University of Virginia. It examines the decade of the 1930's in America. The site began in 1998 and continues to be updated with new sites and resources. The site has an index and is divided into the following sections: On Film, In Print, On Display, On the Air, and Timeline. Resource: American FactFinder Access: http://factfinder.census.gov Description: This website is from the U.S. Census Bureau. It provides an "online source for population, housing, economic and geographic data that presents the results from four key data programs." Users can find informational maps, tables, and reports. It also provides links to related Census Bureau sites. Access Fact Sheet for basic demographic profiles. Use People to locate popular topics for an area such as age, income, race, etc. Housing provides information related to home buying, mortgages, home values, etc. Business and Government is where to locate data on topics such as foreign trade and government finances. Data Sets provides access to all the data available in American Fact Finder. Maps and Geography gives "access to Reference and Thematic Maps with tips on creating, using, downloading and printing maps in AFF." Includes a keyword and a geography search on the main page. Resource: American Folklife Center Access: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ Description: A site designed by the Library of Congress, the center was "created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to "preserve and present" this great heritage of American folklife through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training." Folklife reflects the culturally richness of the ordinary American through everyday life. It covers things from songs and stories to crafts. The Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, established in the Library of Congress in 1928, which is "one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world." The website provides an introduction to the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture and provides information on programs, activities, online presentations, and the variety of other resources available for folklife research. Resource: American Heritage Project Access: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/amher/ Description: From the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The project "will investigate one of the most serious problems facing knowledge seekers everywhere, the geographic distribution of both collections of primary source material and the written guides describing and providing access to them." The site plans to solve this problem using a "virtual archive" to integrate archival finding aids to describe and provide access to primary sources "from collections documenting American culture and history held by four major academic research libraries." Resource: American Memory Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ Description: This is an extensive collection of valuable documents and other assorted information available from the Library of Congress. It "provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience." An excellent site for locating primary source materials related to American History. Resource: American Memory Collection - American Variety Stage 1870-1920 from the Library of Congress Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html Description: A multimedia anthology that illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Resource: American Memory Collection - Dance Manuals from the Library of Congress Access: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html Description: A collection of over 200 dance manuals. Includes dance instruction manuals, antidance manuals, histories, treaties on etiquette and other items. Resource: American Memory Collection - The New Deal Stage from the Library of Congress Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html Description: Includes over 13,000 images from the Federal Theater Project. In addition the site includes 68 other playscripts and 168 documents from the administrative records of the Federal Theater Project. Resource: American Presidency Project Access: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php Description: Created in 1999 by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Contains documents for the study of the U.S. Presidency. The archive contains public papers of Presidents, addresses, speeches, FDR's Fireside Chats, debates, etc. Documents can be browsed or searched. The site also provides links to Presidential Libraries, election data, and an audio/video archive. Resource: American Religion Data Archive Access: http://www.thearda.com/index.asp Description: Funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. it "acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)." Files can be browsed or searched. Provides religious congregation and membership maps and reports. List of other related internet sites is also available. Resource: American Women's History Access: http://www.mtsu.edu/%7Ekmiddlet/history/women.html Description: A Research Guide to American Women's History maintained at MTSU Library. Provides information on places to find both primary and secondary sources. There is an index to resources by Subject or by State. Resource: American Writers Access: http://www.americanwriters.org/ Description: "American Writers: Journey through history and American Writers II: The 20th Century are now available as permanent archives for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the C-SPAN series." The first part of the series covers the period from 1600-1929. The second part covers 1901-1975. The site provides information on writers and their works. The C-SPAN series "invites experts to discuss the featured writer's background and literary significance, the time period the writer lived in and wrote about and the homes and historic sites important to the writer and the works." Also includes resources for classroom use. Resource: Annual Reports Service Access: http://wsjie.ar.wilink.com/asp/WSJ3_search_eng.asp Description: This is a free service from WILink and the Wall Street Journal. It provides access to annual reports and other information on companies. Reports can be accessed alphabetically by company name, searching by company name, or browsing by industry type. Resource: Archiving Early America Access: http://www.earlyamerica.com/ Description: A documentary source for 18th and early 19th Century America. Includes an online journal, the Early America Review. Interesting sections of the site include the Famous Obits and Portraits sections, as well as the short films of noteworthy events in American History. The site can be searched or browsed. Note: There is a great deal of advertising to aid in paying for the site which can be somewhat distracting, but if users can get past it they may be able to find useful information. Resource: Asclepion Access: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eancmed/intro.HTM Description: "... devoted to the study of ancient medicine. This page was designed to be an internet source that presents the study of ancient medicine in a manner that is both accessible and useful to the general public and to students in the history of medicine courses at Indiana University Bloomington." The site includes texts, articles, and links to other ancient world resources. Pictures of instruments are also available. Resource: askSam Free E-Books Access: http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/default.asp Description: askSam provides access to a variety of digital books available for searching and downloading. Users may also need to download the free askSam viewer application. It includes literature, legislative texts, government reports, etc. Resource: Augustine of Hippo Access: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html Description: This site created by James J. O'Donnell, a professor of Classical Studies, this site provides information on Saint Augustine of Hippo. Includes links to texts, some latin and others that have been translated. Also provides other research resources. Resource: Avalon Project Access: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm Description: This Yale Law School project was designed to provide digital access to documents in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. The project's site can be searched or browsed. Browsing can be done by Authors, Subjects, Titles, or by a specific collection of documents such as American Diplomacy: Bilateral Treaties 1778-1999. Documents are also available to browse by time period beginning with the pre18th Century and continuing to the 21st Century. Resource: Bartleby.com Access: http://www.bartleby.com/ Description: "... publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant." This site provides free access to reference tools such as: the Columbia Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of World History, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, the American Heritage Dictionary, thesauri, quotations, and much more. The site also includes the full-text of poetry anthologies, fiction and non-fiction works. The site can be searched or browsed. Resource: Benjamin Franklin Web Portal Access: http://ben.clusty.com/ Description: Researching Benjamin Franklin? This site would be a good place to start. It bills itself as "a comprehensive, one-stop site that includes carefully curated educational resources, Franklin's own writings and proverbs, and tens of thousands of websites scattered throughout cyberspace. Befitting this founding father's leadership in establishing the country's first public library, this free site, in honor of his Tercentenary, is accessible to anyone with an internet connection." Resource: Berkeley Digital Collection Access: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ Description: "The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. We are sponsored by The Library, U.C. Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc." The Berkeley site provides access to a number of digital collections. Many of these collections focus on California, but other collections are more general such as the Digital Scriptorium, a project to make rare books and manuscripts of the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library and Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University available on the web. To assist in finding what you need the site provides catalogs, indexes, a search feature, and a Fast Access feature for those who know what they want. Users can also browse the collections to get an idea of what is available. For a list of the available collections with descriptions see: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/ . Resource: Best of History Websites Access: http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml Description: "... an award winning portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. "It provides annotated links to history related websites, lesson plans, teachers guides and more. The site can be searched. Browsing of the site is also available by categories such as: Prehistory, Ancient/Biblical, U.S. History, General Resources, Maps, etc. Resource: Bibliomania Access: http://www.bibliomania.com/ Description: Access free e-books, poems, short stories, etc. The site also provides study guides, teacher resources, message boards, and reference works. Free registration is required to access most resources. Resource: Black Studies Access: http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html Description: This page is from the Libary at the City College of New York. It contains resources in over 50 categories such as abolition, black power, politics, slavery, etc. The categories contain annotated links to websites. Resource: Booknotes Access: http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp Description: "...from 1989 to 2004, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb interviewed contemporary non-fiction authors for one hour, discussing their books, their research, and their lives. The resulting archive of 800 interviews is a valuable collection of late twentieth century American scholarship, capturing the intellectual work of some of the country's best non-fiction writers, as well as the biographies and memoirs of notable contemporay political figures." Read transcripts, search by keyword, watch videos, and download audio. Resource: British History Online Access: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Description: This digital library for British historical resources was created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. It provides "text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period." Users are encouraged to register with the site (for free) in order to use the available advanced features. A full-text search feature is available or the collections can be browsed. Resource: British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Access: http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/bopcris/digbib/home Description: A bibliographic database covering the period 1688 - 1995. Search approximately 39,000 selected British official publications within this period. The database includes details such as: Title, Author, Series, Publisher, detailed Abstract and Library of Congress Subject Headings. Text images are not provided within this site at the moment. The abstracts may be freely used for education and research purposes, provided that the BOPCRIS source is acknowledged. In time it is hoped to provide full text images for these publications. Resource: Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 Access: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ Description: Digitized and searchable version of this newspaper available from the Brooklyn Public Library. Resource: Business Plan Archive Access: http://www.businessplanarchive.org/ Description: Access business plans from the dot com era. The collection is provided in partnership with the Library of Congress, The Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries. Registration is required. Resource: Capitol Project Access: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7ECAP/cap_home.html Description: A site from the University of Virginia, this project was created to explore the notion of the "National Capitol as an American icon -- the cathedral of our national faith, the map of our public memory, and the monument to our official culture." It includes a virtual tour of the capitol, an alphabetic index, and a graphics archive Resource: Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage Access: http://www.usm.edu/oralhistory/ Description: A project from the University of Southern Mississippi relating to Civil Rights history. Includes transcripts and some actual voice recordings of oral history interviews. Some are from "Mississippi Voices," an award winning radio series. Resource: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Access: http://www.cdc.gov/ Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships." The website can be used to find statistical information and a variety of publications. It can also be used to find information on a number of health related topics including information for traveler's, vaccines, and workplace safety. The site has an index available or can be searched by keyword. Resource: Cervantes Project (Miguel de Cervantes) Access: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/V2/CPI/index.html Description: Also available in Spanish (http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/V2/index.html) The Cervantes Project is housed at Texas A&M University and is a collaboration of TAMU Department of Hispanic Studies, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL) (part of the TAMU Engineering Program), and Dr. Fred Jehle of Indiana-Purdue University. The Project includes the following: Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO) - "a comprehensive bibliography of studies, editions, and translations of Cervantes's works." Cervantes Digital Library (CDL) - "contains several electronic editions of Cervantes's complete works, including flexible interfaces and search engines with multiple options for searching and displaying results. Copies of his comedies, plays, and other related works are located in the CDL. " Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI) - "aims to develop a digital archive of photographic images on Cervantes's times and works suitable for teaching and research purposes." Resource: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Access: http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ Description: This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Resource: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Access: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Description: "... a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives. The facts about the soldiers were entered from records that are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration." A cooperative effort by the National Parks Service. Resource: Classical Language Instruction Project Access: http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eclip/nav.shtml Description: Created by Princeton University the site provides samples of Greek and Latin prose and poetry text, read by a variety of scholars. The site is "designed to help students of the classical languages acquaint themselves with the sound of Greek and Latin and to practice their own reading skills." Must allow pop-ups for the page to work correctly. Resource: Classics in the History of Psychology Access: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/ Description: A site that provides access to the full-text of classical works in psychology. The site was created by Christopher D. Green, a Psychology Professor at York University in Canada. Access texts by Author or Topic. The site also provides a search feature. In addition there is a Special Collections area and links to related documents. Resource: Classroom Electric, The Access: http://www.classroomelectric.org/ Description: "The Classroom Electric is a constellation of web sites on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and nineteenth-century American culture. Here users can explore images of original manuscripts, rare photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters, and maps in sites informed by cutting-edge scholarship. While each site works as a stand-alone case study useful to students and teachers, the sites also link to each other, to other resources, and to the Dickinson Electronic Archives and the Walt Whitman Archive." Resource: CNU Subscription Access Databases Access: http://library.cnu.edu/moreresc.html Description: Access databases to which the library pays a subscription fee. Many provide full-text! Access is for CNU Faculty, Staff and Students only. If you are not on campus - you will need to login using your last name and barcode number. Resource: Collect Britain Access: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/ Description: A site showcasing a fraction of the holdings available at the British Library. View selected collections, virtual exhibits or take themed tours. A search feature for the site is also available. Resource: Connectitcut History Access: http://www.cthistoryonline.org/ Description: "Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society." The site contains a variety of resources available for those interested in the history of Connectitcut. Resource: Constitution Finder Access: http://confinder.richmond.edu/ Description: This site from the University of Richmond is an index that "offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are listed alphabetically, and each is linked to its constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet." Resource: County and City Data Books Access: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/ccdb/ Description: "... provides access to the electronic versions of the 1988, 1994, and 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets." Use to find statistical information on a variety of topics at the county and city level of states. The Census Bureau website also provides access to the 2000 version (http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html) in .pdf format. Resource: County Business Patterns Access: http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html Description: The U.S. Census Bureau compiles the annual County Business Patterns information to provide economic data by industry. "Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets. Government agencies use the data for administration and planning." The data is available for downloading or can be accessed on the site. Resource: Crash Profiles Online Access: http://ai.volpe.dot.gov/CrashProfile/CrashProfileMainNew.asp Description: "... are summarized crash statistics for large trucks and buses involved in fatal and non-fatal Crashes that occurred in the United States." Some information on the site is restricted to authorized users. Resource: Cultural Maps in American Studies - UVA Access: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EMAP/map_hp.html Description: A University of Virginia site "dedicated to the graphical presentation of non-graphical information -- whatever that turns out to mean. At present, it has something to do with maps in the ordinary and normal sense of the term; the immediate goal is to build a digital American Historical Atlas." In addition to providing an American Historical Atlas online, the site also includes a section on Historical Geography which links to an exhibit from the Alderman Library, as well as links to other collections of historical map collections online. Resource: Digital History Access: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Description: A website from the University of Houston designed to aid in the teaching of American history in K-12 schools and in colleges. The site includes a history textbooks, access to primary source materials, as well as essays and a variety of reference resources. It includes a "Ask the Hyperhistorian" feature which allows users to ask questions of a professional historian. Resource: Digital Media Lab Portfolio Access: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/DML/portfolio.html Description: From the Library at the University of Virginia, this website was created to show selected projects created with the support of the Digital Media Lab. Several of the presented projects cover historical topics: The Atlantic Slave Trade , Viewing Pompeii , and The University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dress . Resource: Digitized Primary American History Sources Access: http://www.library.uni.edu/instruction/digitalhistory.shtml Description: From the University of Northern Iowa Library, this site provides links to sites with primary sources related to American history. Resource: Digitized World History Sources Access: http://www.library.uni.edu/instruction/digitalworldhistory/ Description: Links to internet resources provided by the University of Norther Iowa. Provides links to landmark historical documents and additional resources arranged by continent. Resource: Documenting the American South Access: http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Description: A website from the University Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This digital project "provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture." Indexes are provided by author, title, subjects, or geographic area. Users may also browse or search collections. Collections include : "First-Person Narratives of the American South" , "Library of Southern Literature" , "North American Slave Narratives" , "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865" , "The Church in the Southern Black Community" , "The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" , and "North Carolinians and the Great War" . The site provides information on citing the documents and lesson plans and activities for classroom use. Resource: DocuTicker Access: http://www.docuticker.com/ Description: This site provides information about new reports from government agencies, think tanks, ngo's and other groups. The postings are arranged by subject or date and a search feature is provided. It covers a wide variety of topics. Resource: Duke Papyrus Archive Access: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/ Description: "The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt." A cataloging note provides descriptions in English. Resource: Early Canada Online Access: http://www.canadiana.org/eco/index.html Description: The site is available in English and French. "Early Canadiana Online is a digital library containing over 1,630,000 pages in more than 9,100 volumes." Note: Non-members have free access to a limited subset of the collection. Resource: Early Manuscripts at Oxford University Access: http://image.ox.ac.uk/ Description: A site from Oxford University that is created of more than eighty manuscripts from seven separate libraries. Images of the manuscripts are provided for personal use, please read the copyright information for further details.