Select
Sources with Annotations
The Association for History and Computing's History
Departments around the World can be viewed in alphabetical
order.
Search the World Wide Web for History Resources by using the
Yahoo Search engine with the category of "History" already
selected, just point to this URL: Yahoo History
Texas A & M Department of History has an excellent
list of history references
arranged in topical order.
Rice University maintains a gopher server on Texas
History.
The Library of Congress exhibition on 1492:
An Ongoing Voyage is exceptional.
The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum,Washington, DC is America's
national institution for the documentation, study, and
interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's
memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
The Museum's primary mission is to advance and disseminate
knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the
memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to
reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the
events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities
as citizens of a democracy.
The US Holocaust Museum offers:
Guidelines
for Teaching, Brief History, Questions about the Holocaust,
and tools for Accessing
the Archives and Holdings .
The Humanities Network (H-Net) is an international
initiative which assists humanities scholars and teachers to go
on-line, using their personal computers. H-Net operates daily
newsletters, maintaines 77 electronic discussion networks or
"Lists" where scholars
receive messages in their computer E-Mail boxes in North America,
Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. These "Lists" are searchableand
informative. It is interactive and has no subscription charges.
Each network has its own "personality," is edited by a team of
scholars, and has a board of editors; most are cosponsored by a
professional society. H-Net has over 39,000 subscribers and
includes professionals and students. It also provides Job Guides
and a "list of lists" page. The site is maintained by Michegan
State University. The H-Net Home
Page is located at http://h-net.msu.edu/. The H-Net provides
Links to
Additional Sites in the Humanities such as demographic,
economic, links to certain history and politcal science databases.
Here are some examples:
Links
to general historical databases at George Mason
University
Guide to
History Sources at the University of Kansas
University
of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities
University of
California Los Angeles National Center for History in the
Schools
Library of Congress "American
Memory" [photos]
British
museums
National Public Radio
(USA)
American
Studies: with links to hundreds of sites
Public Broadcasting Service
(USA)
American Association for
History and Computing
Association for
History and Computing (Groningen, the Netherlands)
Journal
of the Association for History and Computing
The AAHC Conference-2000
Site
The History
Computerization Project of the Regional History Center of
the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles City
Historical Society, in cooperation with the Conference of
California Historical Societies, is building a history information
network for the exchange of information between historians,
libraries, archives, museums, preservation groups, and historical
societies. The project has created a database representing
thousands of historical organizations, repositories, and
universities. The project's course textbook, Database Design:
Applications of Library Cataloging Techniques, by David L.
Clark, is published by the TAB division of McGraw-Hill.
Directories
of Historical Resources maintained by the Project list
sites in alphabetical order, according to the name of the host
institution. Sites within the same institution are shown in a
hierarchy. The sites listed were chosen for relevance to
historical research. Most offer directories of resources.
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University, P.O. Box 6134, Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 USA
E-mail: CETS@sfasu.edu
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