History
Other Useful Sites

• Academic Info: History -- covers world and regional with dictionaries and teaching resources too.
• American Family Immigration History Center--22 million passengers between 1892 & 1924, searchable by name, country, etc... and includes original manifestos and photos of the ships. This site gets a lot of traffic.
• Archival Data Online Repository--includes data on US civil disorders, 1961-68 and Russian and French bureaucracies of 18th and 19th centuries.
• Best of History web sites -- online directory by subject with quality ratings. Excellent.
• Citing Electronic Information in History Papers--from Maurice Crouse, professor of history at University of Memphis.
• CoOL: Conservation Online -- resource for Conservation professionals.
• Electronic Text Collection of History sites -- from Hanover College.
• Employment: History -- there are other jobs for History majors than just teaching it!
• Essays in History -- "on-line academic journal published 1990-2000. A peer-reviewed journal by the graduate students of the Corcoran Department of History, Essays in History seeks to publish articles based on primary sources in all fields of history by all scholars, from undergraduates to tenured professors. Full-Text
• EuroInternet -- a comprehensive collection of Internet resources for all aspects of European integration. (Temporarily Down)
• Geography Dictionary
• History Buff -- A historical reference to press coverage from the 16th to 20th century
• History Data Service -- collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching.
• History Departments Around the World -- Center for History and new Media -- helps historians incorporate new technologies into their discipline.
• History Journals Guide
• History Matters -- Designed for college teachers and students,History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
• History Web Ring
• How much is that? -- "Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today."
• Humbul Humanities Hub -- "discovers, evaluates and catalogues online resources in the humanities of use to students, teachers and researchers, with a strength in resources for History. . . "
• Humbul Humanities Free access Online Journals -- peer-reviewed.
• Inflation Conversion Factors Scale
• Making Sense of Evidence -- “Scholars in Action ” segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources, allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis.
• Migration Policy Institute -- "provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels. It aims to meet the rising demand for pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, presents to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world."
• People with a History--- an online guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual history, ancient to modern with full-text documents.
• Researching Non-U.S. Treaties -- provides information on where to look for treaty information and links to full-text treaties on the Internet.
• Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements -- provides information on where to look for treaty information and links to full-text treaties on the Internet.
• TimeSearch -- creates timelines in history by area theme or/and date. Defines terms and links to images. A great resource for papers!
• UNdata -- an excellent portal to the wealth of information at the United nations.
• What Can I Do with a History Major? -- a short exposition, valuable.