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Last updated : January 24, 2008  Page Editor: Michael Unsworth



Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, Economics, and Diplomacy -- "...digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document."

Best of History Web Sites -- "aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories. BOHWS has been designed to benefit history educators and their students, but general history enthusiasts will find the site useful as well. Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages. However, useful general resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well.

Center for History and New Media -- uses "digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people--scholars, students, and the general public--learn about and use the past. We do that by bringing together the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship." Includes links to thematic projects, history journals, departments of history web sites, and other digitized historical resources.

Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research -- "designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston...Our website offers a variety of ways for students and teachers to actually do history. We have created 72 inquiry-based interactive modules that we call eXplorations. These modules provide extensive primary sources on" a variety of topics.

ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online: Science, Technology and Industry -- "portal to over 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. This guide helps researchers find the exact information they need while also granting curious browsers a forum for exploration.."

H-BOT: "I'm ready to assist you. Please keep in mind that I don't know everything and currently can only answer certain types of questions. I'm pretty good at telling you the year in which something happened (and sometimes the date too), or providing basic information about a historical topic or person."

H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) -- "H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public."

Historical Text Archive -- "publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects."

History Guide / InformationsWeiser Geschichte -- "provides access to scholarly relevant websites and digital texts in history via the special subject gateways History Guide / InformationsWeiser Geschichte. All resources are described and evaluated with a set of Dublin Core metadata."

History Open Access Journals -- part of the Directory of Open Access Journals, this"service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages."

International Institute of Social History -- "one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular." Contains a number of digital resources.

Map History / History of Cartography -- "Old maps, early maps - non-current maps in general - are the subject of this site. Whether you are an academic, family historian, collector, teacher, parent or surfer - WELCOME! Use this site to find the worthwhile information about old maps, both on the web and in the real world. The site's 100 'pages' offer comment and guidance, and 4,500 annotated links - selected for relevance and quality."

OAIster -- an "...union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by 'harvesting'their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)."

Picture Collection Online -- produced by the New York Public Library, this collection is "is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. "

 


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