Beyond Borders: The Real Geography of America and Russia
Fascinating comparison of two continental nations based on geography.
Citation Machine
You can make a correct bibliography in MLA style using this site.
International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
Learn more about the IBO, its programs, and its schools.
International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)
International network of teachers and students participating in a variety of projects. I work with YouthCAN and the Kindred project at the moment.
National Council for History Education
'nuff said.
National History Education Clearinghouse
A project of the Center for History and New Media and GMU, it is what it says it is. Useful and interesting.
New York Public Library
This is the web site for the public libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. Cut and paste the following links into your browser:
If you want to register for a Branch Libraries library card (for checking out books or using databases from home) go to: http://www.nypl.org/books/cards.html.
To search the catalog of books, go to: http://leopac.nypl.org.
For online databases, go to: http://www.nypl.org/databases.
If you want to check out books, do NOT go to the big library with the lions on 5th avenue – you cannot check out books there.
New York State Regents Exams
Download copies of past Regents exams straight from the source. No need to buy one of the red Barron’s books – they’re all here.
Project Gutenberg
Transcribed out of print super interesting books.
Queens Borough Public Library
This is the web site for the Queens libraries. Cut and paste the following links into your browser: If you want to register for a library card, go to: http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?section_id=4&page_id=210. To search the catalog of books, go to: http://aqua.queenslibrary.org. The best libraries to go to for real research materials are the ones in Flushing and Jamaica.
Regents Prep
Practice for the Regents, why not?
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
American political cartoons. Man, political cartoons rule.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
This is a database of documents related to diplomacy and law in European and American history.
Bedford St Martin's Make History
This site is from a textbook company, but has good links to primary sources elsewhere on the web.
British Cartoon Archive
Political cartoons from Britain. WOW.
eHistory at Ohio State University
A useful document database for American and European history topics. I think the original version of this site was put together by the father of a guy I knew in college. Is the world tiny, or what?
Eyewitness to history
More primary source documents. US and Europe.
Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History
This is an interesting document collection for American history. Mostly jpgs.
History Cooperative
This is a web site with links to a number of scholarly journals (magazines with historical articles) that can be useful for research. Some of the journals that you can read completely are the American Historical Review, Journal of World History, Law and History Review.
History Now
This is an online historical journal for American history produced by the Gilder Lehrman institute. There are articles on specific American history topics organized by theme. Be sure to look at the Past Issues link at the bottom of the page.
Historyteacher.net
And I thought I had a lot of links on my site...Created by a teacher in Westchester county.
Images of American Political History
It's just what the title says. There is little commentary about the images, but many of them come from the Library of Congress. You may be able to find more information about particular images through www.loc.gov.
Internet Archive - Universal Newsreels
In the pre-TV era, people in the US saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theaters. Newsreels were shown before every feature film and in dedicated newsreel theaters located in large cities. Universal Newsreel, produced from 1929 to 1967, was released twice a week. Each issue contained six or seven short stories, usually one to two minutes in length, covering world events, politics, sports, fashion, and whatever else might entertain the movie audience. These newsreels offer a fascinating and unique view of an era when motion pictures defined American culture and were a primary source of visual news reporting.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
This is a database of primary sources on a variety of historical topics. Incredibly useful for topics in European and US history.
Library of Congress
This site has lots of documents, maps, films, photographs, etc related to American history. Specific groups of documents are found through American Memory from the Library of Congress (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)
New York Heritage
Digital database of images (mostly) related to New York State history.
Primary Sources from Latin American history
This is a useful site maintained by a professor at NC State University. There are also links to other such sources.
Sources and General Resources on Latin America
This website is maintained by a professor at Oberlin College and is a ridiculously comprehensive listing of links to historical, language, current events and political information about the region and each country in the region. I was too stupid to take a class with this guy when I attended Oberlin, which is clearly my loss
World Digital Library
Mostly a collection of images rather than texts, but quite interesting.
Alan Singer's NY Slavery Curriculum
This web site is on slavery in New York, produced by Prof Alan Singer from Hofstra University. In each section there are a number of documents that can be useful for research.
America in the 1930s
An amazing web collection put together by the American Studies dept at the University of Virginia. Includes video, radio clips, photos, etc.
American Social History Project
Creators of the book and documentary series Who Built America?, their web site includes documents and images related to the 1877 railroad strike and the Spanish American War, among other topics.
Asia for Educators
'nuff said. Project of Columbia University's East Asian studies department
Bob Corbett's Haitian history web page
Haitian history web page from Webster University
Census information from the 1890 census
Census information from the 1890 census.
Chinese Propaganda Posters 1937-present
This is an online collection of images of propaganda posters from the government of the PRC.
Chinese Propaganda Posters, 1937-present
From the homepage: "Chineseposters.net is dedicated to the Chinese propaganda poster as it has been produced from 1937 till the present day. These posters literally cry out to be seen. We present them in a gallery of highlights, in web exhibitions ("To Read Too Many Books is Harmful"), and in themes. The site provides related images as well as additional information in artists' biographies, a bibliography and a growing selection of rare texts on Chinese art, propaganda and posters.
This website is an initiative of Stefan R. Landsberger (Leiden University, University of Amsterdam) and the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam."
Chronology of 20th Century China
Cold War - Learning Curve
Web site from the British national archives on the Cold War
Cold War CNN documentary
Companion web site to CNN documentary on the Cold War. Great maps, not as great documents.
Cold War International History Project’s Cold War files
More documents, maps, etc than you can shake a stick at on the Cold War from beginning to end.
Community District Profiles from NYC Department of City Planning
Learn more than you ever thought you could know about your neighborhood.
Companion site to documentary from Britain’s Channel 4 on World War I
Companion site to documentary from Britain’s Channel 4. More awesome than the PBS site.
Companion site to PBS documentary The Great War
Companion site to PBS documentary. Fabulous maps, documents, audio files, video files, etc.
Companion web site to PBS documentary on the US-Mexican War
Companion web site to PBS documentary on the US-Mexican War (or the Mexican War, or the American War, depending on your perspective). Includes maps and useful documents as well as basic background information.
Companion web site to PBS series on the American west
Companion web site to PBS series on the American west. Includes maps, documents, etc.
companion web site to the PBS documentary America:1900
List of primary sources from the companion web site to the PBS documentary America:1900. The political cartoons are particularly interesting.
Companion website to PBS documentary "The War"
This recent documentary is based on interviews with American veterans of WWII.
Consitutional Convention: Federalists and Anti Federalists
Chronology of Federalist and Anti-Federalist Debates Over the Constitution: (anti-Federalist include: Robert Yates, James Wilson & John Mercer); (federalist writers include: John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton)
Constitutional Convention: Constitution Society documents
Links to a large number of documents related to the writing and ratification of the Constitution.
Constitutional Convention: Debates by Topic and Date
Constitutional Convention Debates Broken Down By Topic and Date
Constitutional Convention: National Archives
From the National Archives, information on the development and ratification of the Constitution, including jpgs of the final document and biographies of the convention delegates.
Constitutional Convention: Teaching American History
Outlines the political process leading up to the Constitutional Convention; the “Major Themes” section summarizes the major debates and positions.
Densho - Japanese American Legacy Project
This is a documentary project about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Some snippets of videos from this project are available on YouTube.
Eagleton Archive of American Politics
This site has a summary and links to a number of primary source documents from around the web related to American political controveries. Was referenced on an IB exam, interestingly enough.
Firstworldwar.com
Useful, comprehensive site on WWI. Includes maps, audio files, and more data that you could possibly need.
Gilder Lehrman Online Exhibition: The Dred Scott Decision and its Bitter Legacy
Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia around 1800 and died a free man in Missouri in 1858. Most contemporary accounts describe his life and habits as typical for someone of his place and time. Yet along the way, he gave his name to what has become the most infamous Supreme Court decision in American history.
Gilder Lehrman Online Exhibition: Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery
This exhibition presents a variety of original documents and images highlighting the story of the abolition of slavery between 1787 and 1865 in England and America. Each item has its own historic significance as well as a place in the broader progress of abolitionist thinking, from the moment William Wilberforce joined the British abolition campaign through the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Although its implementation proceeded in fits and starts, abolitionism was an idea whose force ultimately proved unstoppable across the English-speaking world.
Grandeguerre.org
General web site on WWI en français.
Heroes & Villains: Churchill and the Bombing of Dresden
Documents and other information from the British national archives on the controversial February 1945 firebombing of the German city.
Heroes & Villains: Kennedy & the Cuban Missile Crisis
Documents and other information from the British national archives on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Heroes & Villains: Truman & the Atomic Bomb
Documents and other information from the British national archives on the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Historical Thinking Matters
A project of the Center for History and New Media, this website provides a very useful structure for guiding students through thinking in a historical way about primary sources. At the moment (May 2008), there are 4 units on the Spanish American War, Scopes Trial, the creation of Social Security and Rosa Parks.
History Today magazine
This section of the web site of this British history magazine has links to articles from the magazine that are helpful for understanding 20th century European history. The articles are available for pay on this site; they are available for free through Academic Search Premier in nypl.org/databases.
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
A fabulous web site through the New York Public Library with an enormous amount of information on blacks in the US from the beginning to now.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook on World War II.
'nuff said.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: American Independence
'nuff said.
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
Journal of Cold war Studies
Sample articles from this journal. The full text of articles from this journal are available through JSTOR.
Kamikaze Images - WWII from Japanese & American perspectives
Making the History of 1989
Website that includes documents and historians' analyses of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Super cool.
Media Burn Independent Video Archive
National Security Archive
A project of George Washington University, this is an archive of declassified and publicly available American documents related to national security issues. A great resource for primary documents from an American perspective.
Newseum Technology of War Stories
Panfletos del período de la dictadura militar (1973-1988)
This website includes pamphlets and posters from the Pinochet period in Chile. The site seems to be supported by the current Chilean government.
PBS documentary site on William Lloyd Garrison
PBS site on women's history
List of links to a variety of web sites on US women’s history.
Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Court records, maps and other documents about the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Prague Spring thinkquest
An excellent, thorough site on the events before, during, and after the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia during the spring of 1968. The site presents a complete narrative of the story, divided chronologically into background, spring '68, and the aftermath. The image and movie galleries are extensive and include many never-before-published documents. (quote from http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/makehistory/BFW10/Player/pages/Main.aspx)
Presidential Speech Archive - Miller Center for Public Affairs at UVA
Texts, audio and video of significant presidential speeches from presidents 1 through 44.
Red Tape from Red Square
An online exhibition through Rutgers-Newark of political cartoons from Russian and Soviet critiques of the government from the 19th century through the Communist era. Very interesting.
Russian Archives Online - Soviet Propaganda
Propaganda posters from the USSR.
Seventeen moments in Soviet history
Slave narratives - online exhibit of the Museum of the African Diaspora
Slavery and the Making of America
Companion web site to PBS documentary series Slavery and the Making of America. Large number of documents, images and maps including slave narratives.
Slavery: Documenting the American South
Database from the University of North Carolina that includes a number of sources on slave life (through slave narratives), letters and other records documenting life in the south for blacks and whites before the Civil War.
Slavery: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Go to the classroom link to find documents relevant to the topics.
Soviet poster gallery
Really really interesting. Unfortunately, the text on the posters is not translated. Will try babelfish or something to get an idea of what's going on...
Spanish American War exhibition through the New York Public Library
Documents relating to the war
Sputnik Media
This is the website for a movie that came out this year about the American paranoia about the launch of Sputnik in 1957. One of the people interviewed in the documentary is Sergei Khrushchev, who recommended the movie at the Cold War workshop I attended in DC in July 2008.
The Internationale in 40+ languages
It is what it says it is. Audio files of the song sung in a bunch of languages and in different styles.
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (Library of Congress)
Silent films of the war, the earliest American war documented through motion pictures.
The Wars for Viet Nam 1945-1975
America's longest war ended more than two decades ago, yet a number of significant and important questions remain unanswered: What was the nature of the modern Vietnamese revolution? How can we explain the American intervention? Why did the war drag on so long?
Critics of the American intervention claim that the war was unnecessary and immoral and that policymakers in Washington dragged the country into an unwanted war. In contrast, a small group of scholars and military leaders offer an emotional defense of American intervention. A careful examination of the myriad sources reveals that neither view is entirely accurate and that the interplay of events was far more complicated than most accounts suggest.
This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents. Brigham was the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. Included here are his translations of some of the Hanoi documents, offered for examination and study.
The Watergate Files
This website is from the Gerald Ford library and museum. I find this extremely interesting, since Ford was the president after Nixon, and ran into a lot of political controversy by pardoning Nixon of any and all crimes once Ford came into office.
Throughout the Ages
A document collection (mostly visual) from the New York state archives. Only a few documents in various categories, but the ones for WWI, WWII are interesting.
US Census
US census web site – crazy huge amounts of information, but it takes patience to figure out how to get the information that you need.
Virtual Jamestown
Court records, narratives, letters, and other documents that describe life in the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
Voices Across Time - American History Through Music
Watergate info
An obsessive collection of material, primary and secondary, on this event.
Watergate, by the Washington Post
This website is an overview of the Watergate scandal from the Washington Post website. The Post is the paper that broke the scandal.
World History Matters
Documents and articles on, well, world history.
World on the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Created by the JFK Library and Museum.
World War I - Learning Curve
Web site on WWI from the British national archives.
World War II documents at Mt Holyoke International Relations program
Wow. Just wow. A humongous database of primary sources related to World War II. Example: Did you know that Canada declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor? Read their declaration of war!
Colbert Nation
Yes, I've joined the other side.
Goodreads
Yes, I am a dork.
New York Times
Screw you, Colbert – great newspaper.
On this day in history - from the New York Times
Just what it says...
Paleo-Future
The site bills itself as "a look into the future that never was." It's a fascinating collection of images and articles from the 19th and 20th century that predict the future (mostly incorrectly). Really really cool.
PostSecret
Fascinating.
Strange Maps
A really interesting blog about maps and cartography.
The Guardian Online
UK newspaper.
Two (Awesome) Geeks and a (really cute) Baby
Say hi to my friends' baby in Maryland.
Wikipedia article on Jeopardy!
Ever wonder what I did in high school?
International Spy Museum
This museum is in Washington DC, and the website has a lot of interesting information about how espionage worked in the past, particularly in the Cold War.
Museum of Television and Radio
Weeksville Preservation Society
Brooklyn history!
NYC project: A Walk through Queens
This is the web site of a PBS/channel 13 documentary on Queens. Interesting historical stuff.
NYC project: About.com list of photos of Queens neighborhoods
NYC project: Crossing the Blvd
This is the companion website to the radio series and book, Crossing the Blvd. The series and book consists of a series of interviews with residents of the many communities in Queens that surround Queens Boulevard. Most of the people interviewed are recent immigrants who discuss interesting incidents in their New York lives or their reasons for coming to the US.
NYC project: Dept of City Planning - Population Division
NYC project: Forgotten New York
This web site has sections on various neighborhoods, interesting historical photos and information about all five boroughs.
NYC project: Forgotten New York: Links to Neighborhood Information
What it says.
NYC project: Forgotten NY: East Elmhurst history
NYC project: Forgotten NY: Rego Park history
NYC project: Forgotten NY: Rosedale history
NYC project: Forgotten NY: Sunnyside history
NYC project: Gotham Gazette list of Queens history web sites
This is a list of various historical and informational web sites on Queens. It includes links to the historical societies for various neighborhoods (a great source for pictures, as well as information).
NYC project: Laurelton history from Queens Public Library
NYC project: New York City CensusFactfinder
Type in your address, and get a lot of demographic information about the census tract that you live in.
NYC project: New York: A City of Neighborhoods
This is a map of New York City that you can click on to find out which city community district your neighborhood is in. I like maps that you can click on. They make me happy.
NYC project: Robert Moses - Remaking the City
This is a fan-tabulous website related to current museum exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York and a gallery at Columbia University. It has maps of the areas that Moses impacted and will tell you more about what he was up to.
NYC project: US House of Representatives web site
Click on 'Find a representative' in the upper left hand corner to find out who your Congressional representative and which Congressional district you live in.
Plannyc 2030
This is Mayor Bloomberg's 2007 plan for improvements and adjustments to the city for the next 20 years. The plan is broken down by community board and projects an increase in NYC's population of 1 million people. Yikes!