Best of History Web Sites: Research Sites Print

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Library of Congress
An outstanding and invaluable site for American history and general studies. Contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures. The LOC's American Memory Historical Collections, a must-see, contains the bulk of digitalized materials, but the Exhibitions Gallery is enticing and informative as well.

The Internet Public Library
The Internet Library is the first public library of and for the Internet community and features online collections and exhibits as well as more traditional library holdings.

National Archives and Records Administration
The NARA offers federal archives, exhibits, classroom resources, census records, Hot Topics, and more.

The History Journals Guide
The Guide is a web directory for history journals, trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa

Project Gutenberg
A major source of historical electronic texts that can be searched by author or title

Historical Research in Europe
University of Wisconsin Digital Content Group has developed this Web site to assist researchers seeking to use European libraries and archives. The database can be searched by keyword or subject headings.

World Wide National Archives
Has links to national archives around the world as well as extensive genealogical resources

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history
A great new site that includes: a U.S. history e-textbook; over 400 annotated documents, primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; short essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.

Electronic Journals for History
A collection of online history journals that offer free access.

Scout Report: Archives
The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over seven years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 12671 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists.

Perseus Project (Tufts U.)
A worthwhile resource for Greek and Classical resources that features a search function. Site contains an extensive library of art object.

L.S.U. Libraries:History Resources
This Louisiana State University site offers primary historical sources, electronic journals and images, electronic texts, and more

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journals Archive
Excellent access to the most popular academic journals in history, but your institution must purchase access to the site.

H-Net links
H-Net provides a set of links to libraries, historical organizations, societies, museums, online exhibits, documents, and book and journal publisher

Historical Text Archives
Has articles, books, documents, photographs, links and a Google search engine

BUBL
BUBL offers free access to over 12,000 selected Internet resources. Links are extensive and all sites are reviewed.

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
The Smithsonian offers this useful gateway to libraries and exhibits on the Web

The Avalon Project (Yale): Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
A great research site from Yale University rich with primary source documents relating to world history. Searchable database is organized into three periods: pre-18th century, 19th century, and 20th century .

United States Historical Census Data Browser
Provides data from census records and other government sources for 1790-1970. Users can view extensive population- and economic-oriented statistical information at state and county levels, arranged according to a variety of categories. Also includes an essay on the history of the census.

The NY Times Project
Under construction, but the New York Times has begun to digitize its archives; currently online is the NY Times Civil War edition. You can register to be e-mailed notices of updates to the website.

Reviews in History
An electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education. Free subscription.

CNN.com:Archives
The CNN Archives feature special reports on many key World and American events, issues and personalities

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public to more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. Collections include: Web, Moving Images, Texts, Audio, Software.

TIME Newsfiles
Newsfiles are single-topic collections of content on issues, events and people that are most often searched for on TIME.com They contain: cover stories and images, photo essays, columns and essays published by TIME and TIME.com, and links to web resources. Newsfiles offer plenty of informative articles on topics such as The Middle East, World War II, Watergate, Osama bin Laden, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, Abortion, AIDS, and Christianity. Some articles and features are restricted to Time subscribers or Time Archive pass holders.

The New York Times Learning Network
This informative site offers detailed lesson plans and quizzes built around NYT articles. Check out the Lesson Plan Archive and search by keyword, subject, or grade level. Social studies lesson plans are objective and standard-based and are well supported by charts, graphs, and images.

The Research Guide
The Research Guide is a free, no frills education site designed for students, teachers, and the general public. It has been selected as a Feature Site by Wall Street Executive Library and is currently listed under All Reference - Libraries, etc. at http://www.executivelibrary.com/. The site has received over 3.8 million page views, or over 2.4 million unique visitors since its inception in July 1998.

AOL@School: Research a Topic
Search an extensive collection of external links by subject and grade level.

Fact Monster
This is an Online Almanac, Atlas, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia for kids. Also includes Homework Center, Games and Quizzes,

Population Statistics
Population Statistics provides a historical, demographical and statistical overview of the population of all the countries in the world, their administrative divisions and their important cities

Historytoday.com
Popular history magazines with online articles

Research guides:

Noodle Tools
NoodleTools is a free suite of useful interactive tools designed to aid in online research. NoodleTools provides strategies and resources to make online research more effective

A Visit to Copyright Bay
A fun tutorial that lets you navigate"Fair Use Harbor", visit "Murky Waters", and crash on "Infringement Reef". Includes information about AV Materials, Multimedia, and more.

Internet Paper Mills
A librarian has collected links to 250 digital paper mills and also plagiarism detection services.

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
a brief but useful article

EasyBib.com
EasyBib provides a free service to teachers and students who want to create proper bibliographic citations.

Jo Cool or Jo Fool: An Online Game about Savvy Surfing
Includes a checklist for helping you decide if "Jo" is making a good surfing choice. Has a 20 question quiz at the end, and a 50 page pdf to help teachers use the site.

BookFinder.com: Search for Out of Print and Used Books
Searches Amazon and used-book sources

Oral Histories
This website, run by the Oral History Society, provides some good practical advice on how to start an oral history project.