Exploring History Web Sites

Tonight we will start to explore in more detail some of the exciting history web sites that have appeared in the past few years. You and your partner will explore one of the twenty sites listed below. You will evaluate it according to the "Lexicon of Critical Questions" developed by Randy Bass and available at http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/511/lexicon.html .

Spend some time exploring the site and answering the questions. (At the same time that you reflect on the site, you should also reflect on the critical lexicon; we should consider whether there are any ways to improve or sharpen the questions.) Be prepared to make a five-minute report on what you have learned to the class. Since we can’t all explore each site, your report will help other members of the class become aware of what is out there on the Web and the values and limitations of the Web as a source for learning about the past.

1. Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art

http://www.heard.org/edu/harvey/harveyhp.html

2. New Deal Network

http://newdeal.feri.org/

3. Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Maritime

Antebellum America

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html

4. Moving Uptown: Nineteenth Century Views of Manhattan

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/opening.htm

5. The Victorian Web

http: www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html

6. A-Bomb WWW Museum

http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/

7. Cybrary of the Holocaust

http://remember.org/

8. Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan

http://sfasian.apple.com/Mongolia/Home.htm

9. Remembering Nagasaki

http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki

10. Worcester Women’s History Project

http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Academic/history/WWHP/Front.html

11. Mining Company Guide to Mark Twain

http://marktwain.miningco.com/

12. Documenting the American South: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Libraries

http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/

13. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

14. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920; Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

15. Regarding Vietnam: Stories Since the War: P.O.V. Interactive, with P.B.S. Online.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/

16. Voices from the Dust Bowl: Migrant Worker Collection

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

17. NativeWeb: Resources for Indigneous Cultures Around the World

http://www.nativeweb.org/

18. Making of America

http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

19. WestWeb: Western History Resources

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb

20. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Database

http://oyez.nwu.edu/