Locating and Evaluating Online Sources
Types of Sites on the History Web
Archives
- Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [http://docsouth.unc.edu/]
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, Harvary University Library’s Open Collection Program [http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/]
Exhibits
- Mapping Colonial America [http://www.history.org/history/museums/online_exhibits.cfm]
- A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution (NMAH) [http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/]
Discussion and Organizational Sites
- H-Net [http://www.h-net.org/]
- History News Network [http://hnn.us/]
Wikipedia and Reference
- Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]
- Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past, by Roy Rosenzweig [http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42]
- Bartleby.com [http://www.bartleby.com/]
Search
- Google [http://www.google.com]
- Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/]
- National Archives [http://www.archives.gov/]
- Gilder Lehrman [http://www.gilderlehrman.org/]
- New York Public Library Digital [http://www.nypl.org/digital/]
- History Matters: WWW.History [http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory/]
Hands-on Digital Primary Sources: Analyzing Sources
Context is Everything
Photographs
Oral Histories
Resources
- History Matters: Making Sense of Evidence [http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/]
- World History Sources: Unpacking Evidence [http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmunpacking.html]
- World History Sources: Analyzing Documents [http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmdocuments.html]
- Women in World History: Analyzing Evidence [http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/evidence.php]
Digital Environments
- The Jamestown Online Adventure [http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/]
- Historical Thinking Matters [http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/]
- Object of History [http://objectofhistory.org/]
- Raid on Deerfield [http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/]
- Plimoth Plantation’s “The First Thanksgiving” [http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html]
- Exploring U.S. History [http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/]
