Historically
Surfing 

 
 
American Memory: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library http://memory.loc.gov/
This Library of Congress web site is a gateway to primary digitized resources relating to the history and culture of the U.S. There are over 7 million digitized items from 100 historical collections. The collection includes: photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
H-NET http://www.h net.org/
H-NET is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet. The edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The site offers mailing lists for students and professionals in the field of history to foster communication between people with common interests.

http://www.h net.msu.edu/~teach/
One of these mailing lists is H-TEACH, which encourages scholarly discussion on a wide range of policy issues involved in teaching history. H-TEACH is interested in methods of teaching history at all levels--high school, university, and graduate--in diverse settings. Special attention is paid to the use of new technologies in and outside of the classroom.

http://oldwww.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/
The H-NET Job Guide covers positions in history, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as listings in rhetoric and composition. A weekly index is posted to many of H-NET's E-mail lists. They particularly encourage listings of replacement or temporary jobs. 
 

The Avalon Project  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access to primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. They add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. They provide as many internal links within a document as are necessary to facilitate study and navigation. 
The Project contains many controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for balance and because in some cases they are referred to by another document. 


History Matters  http://history-matters.com/

The History Matters Archive contains tens of thousands of pages of scanned reports, transcripts, and other documents, dozens of hours of audio, and a variety of photographic materials. It includes both old and new from reports published in the 1960s to formerly-secret records declassified as recently as the year 2000.

The goal of this web site is to serve as a repository and focal point for education and research on the subject of the JFK assassination and related topics in Cold War history. History Matters "sister" web site, created on behalf of the AARC [Assassination Archives and Research Center], will expand to include far more detailed materials of interest mainly to scholars.  (from the web site)
 

Core Documents of US Democracy
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html
These documents are collected from various federal web sites including the Library of Congress, and the National Archives. Many pages include not only the full text of these important documents, but facsimile copies so users may experience the feel of the original material. Among the materials included in the collection are: 
Articles of Confederation 
The Bill of Rights 
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 
The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and   Interpretation 
The Declaration of Independence 
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 
The Emancipation Proclamation 
The Federalist Papers 
The Gettysburg Address 
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress 
Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders,      4/13/1945-1/20/1989 
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 
"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations 
Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress 
Supreme Court Decisions, 1937 - 1975 
Supreme Court Decisions, 1992/93 - present 
The Freedom Papers (This is a series of seven papers that provide practical information, case studies, and sources of information on issues of democracy-building. Topics include: free and independent media; teaching democracy; the role of the legislature; an independent judiciary; administering higher education; public access to government information; and creating and disseminating law. They were created by the US Information Office, a division of the Dept. of State)


St. Martin's Press History Links                                      http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/history/links/get.htm?page=links_frame.htm

History Links allows you to browse a database of more than 350 carefully reviewed and annotated United States and Western history links by historical subject area and textbook chapter. Spanning history from ancient Mesopotamia to the Culture Wars of the 1990s, the database contains material as diverse as sites on historical archeology, primary documents collections, photograph and illustration galleries, map collections, secondary sources, and audio downloads. Teachers can assign these links as the basis for homework assignments and research projects, or students may use them as a point of departure for their own explorations. 




Compiled by Prof. Jocelyn Berger-Barrera email the professor

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