History Resources

History related materials and resources can be found on various Internet sites. Places to begin include societies, associations, and organizations. These include the American Historical Association http://www.theaha.org the Organization of American Historians http://www.indiana.edu/~oah the National Council on Public History http://www.iupui.edu/it/ncph the Society of American Archivists http://www.archivists.org Genealogical and Historical Societies http://www.outfitters.com/genealogy/gens... and the Archives Association of British Columbia http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc

Sites that include a variety of information are the Center for History and New Media http://chnm.gme.edu the Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online http://www.h-net.msu.edu and History Net http://www.TheHistoryNet.com There are also sites that have a more specific targeted audience. These include sites related to libraries like LibWeb, which includes links to numerous libraries, at http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Libweb and the site for the Library of Congress, http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html Another publication related site is one entitled Southwestern Archivist and the Guide to Archival and Manuscript Repositories http://lib-04.lib.uh.edu/ssa/ssa.htm There are also numerous sites related to museums. You can find web sites of museums throughout the world on the Web Museum Network at http://watt.emf.net and you can find museums at the Virtual Library museums site http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other... You can also locate specific museum web sites through search engines like http://yahoo.com You may want to find the National Atomic Museum, for example, which can be found at http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/index.c... If you are interested in finding a specific History department, use History Departments Around the World at http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts

You can also locate resources for your specific area of interest. For U.S. History, you may want to look at the 1492 Exhibit http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit... the White House http://www.whitehouse.gov or the FDR Cartoons page http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/fdr/FDRcar... If you more specifically want information related to the American West you may be interested in West Web http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb or New Perspectives on the West http://www.pbs.orh/weta/thewest/wpages/w... There are numerous sites on the web that focus on various periods and regions of history. For a look at Shakespeare, for example, try http://www-tech.mit.edu/shakespeare/work...

Historical resources can be useful both personally and professionally. Use either general sites or a search engine to find sites relating to your specific topic of interest.

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