Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History
William P. Tishler, Producer
Shane Hamilton, Web Editor
Complete Information on Sites, Part One
Complete Information on Sites, Part One
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Base Site: Historical Documents Library of the Secular Web
Contact: Contact:
Email: infidel@infidels.org
"Secular Web" is a site maintained by a group known as the "Infidels" which, in their own words, "provide[s] a virtual library of information on nontheistic worldviews, including agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and secularism." Very interesting and well-designed site with nicely-indexed primary documents.
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Base Site: From Revolution to Reconstruction
Contact: Contact: George M. Welling
Email: usa@let.rug.nl
Primary focus of "From Revolution to Reconstruction," as implied by the name, is the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th. Offers primary documents, essays on historical topics (mainly by college students), biographies, timelines, and presidential speeches and biographies. A very useful site with a great deal of potential, though it falls outside the scope of History 102's course material.
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Base Site: From Revolution to Reconstruction
Contact: Contact: George M. Welling
Email: usa@let.rug.nl
Primary focus of "From Revolution to Reconstruction," as implied by the name, is the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th. Offers primary documents, essays on historical topics (mainly by college students), biographies, timelines, and presidential speeches and biographies. A very useful site with a great deal of potential, though it falls outside the scope of History 102's course material.
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Base Site: From Revolution to Reconstruction
Contact: Contact: George M. Welling
Email: usa@let.rug.nl
Primary focus of "From Revolution to Reconstruction," as implied by the name, is the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th. Offers primary documents, essays on historical topics (mainly by college students), biographies, timelines, and presidential speeches and biographies. A very useful site with a great deal of potential, though it falls outside the scope of History 102's course material.
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Base Site: From Revolution to Reconstruction
Contact: Contact: George M. Welling
Email: usa@let.rug.nl
Primary focus of "From Revolution to Reconstruction," as implied by the name, is the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th. Offers primary documents, essays on historical topics (mainly by college students), biographies, timelines, and presidential speeches and biographies. A very useful site with a great deal of potential, though it falls outside the scope of History 102's course material.
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Base Site: The United States in the Progressive Era: Guide to Resources
Contact: Contact: Robert Bannister
Email: rbannis1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Robert Bannister, the intellectual historian from Swarthmore College, has assembled a fine site of resources for those interested in the Progressive Era. Includes bibliographies, links to primary documents in the public domain, and links to other sites of particular interest.
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Base Site: Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Contact: Contact:
Email: mgk3k@virginia.edu, cdt3h@virginia.edu
A hypermedia edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number, one of the most influential works of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes pieces by Alain Locke, W. E. B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer and many others.
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Base Site: Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
Contact: Contact:
Email: lcweb@loc.gov
An extremely valuable resource, this Library of Congress site provides images and essays documenting Chicago's role in the Great Migration.
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Base Site: A Great Day in Harlem: A Look at the "Jazz Age"
Contact: Contact:
Email: wb@harlem.org
Biographies and photographs of some of the greatest jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century.
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Base Site: The Atlantic Unbound (Atlantic Monthly)
Contact: Contact:
Email: none
The Atlantic Monthly is a magazine of arts, culture, politics, and society, published since 1857.
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Base Site: From Revolution to Reconstruction
Contact: Contact: George M. Welling
Email: usa@let.rug.nl
Primary focus of "From Revolution to Reconstruction," as implied by the name, is the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th. Offers primary documents, essays on historical topics (mainly by college students), biographies, timelines, and presidential speeches and biographies. A very useful site with a great deal of potential, though it falls outside the scope of History 102's course material.
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Base Site: UnionWeb
Contact: Contact:
Email: sales@interac.com
UnionWeb claims to be the comprehensive site for organized labor on the WWW, although they have a limited number of links. Nonetheless, the "Short History of American Labor," which isn't all that short, is an informative essay and worth reading.
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Base Site: The Illinois Labor History Society
Contact: Contact:
Email: ilhs@mcs.com
Contains essays, biographies, primary documents, and photographs dealing with issues in labor history. Eugene Debs, the formation of the CIO, Samuel Gompers, and the Haymarket Massacre are all topics covered.
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Base Site: James Gleick's Home Page
Contact: Contact: James Gleick
Email: gleick@around.com
James Gleick originally wrote a piece called "Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism" for a 1992 issue of the New York Times Magazine. The article is as relevant today as it was then, and with the pending Department of Justice attacks, maybe even more so.
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Base Site: Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources
Contact: Contact: Bill Roach
Email: zzroac@acc.wuacc.edu
Provides a bewildering array of Horatio Alger resources ranging from online e-texts like Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward to essays on the "self-made man" and Alger's political and cultural legacy.
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Base Site: US Political Thought
Contact: Contact: Joseph Boland
Email: jboland@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Professor Boland of the University of Oregon Political Science Department has assembled a web page for his course in US Political Thought. Includes brief lecture notes and supplements for topics ranging from Constitutional thought to responses to industrialization to Cold War democracy.
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Base Site: Mark Twain
Contact: Contact: Jim Zwick
Email: marktwain.guide@miningco.com
Jim Zwick, author of the famous Anti-Imperialism site, has assembled by far the best-looking and most complete site on Mark Twain. Includes links to available E-texts, a bulletin board and newsletter, and updated feature essays.
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Base Site: Nineteenth Century Documents Project
Contact: Contact: T. Lloyd Benson
Email: lloyd.benson@furman.edu
The noble aim of this site is to provide "accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity." Most primary documents are pre-Civil War.
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Base Site: The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
Contact: Contact:
Email: none
Another excellent offering from PBS. "The Richest Man in the World" introduces surfers to Andrew Carnegie's life and times with excellent essays supported by beautiful images and an eye-catching layout. From a millionaire's screensaver to a virtual tour of the Carnegie mansion, you're sure to be entertained while you learn.
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Base Site: Federal Statutes -- The Public Lands
Contact: Contact:
Email: none
Assembly of primary federal documents providing an understanding of the legal, economic, and cultural forces shaping the late 19th-century West.
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Base Site: On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
Contact: Contact: William L. Crozier
Email: none
Collection of articles written at the turn of the century about immigrant life in the tenement districts of New York City. Included are such pieces as William Dean Howells's "An East-Side Ramble," Ida M. Van Etten's "Russian Jews as Desirable Immigrants," and Jacob Riis's "The Jews of New York". An excellent resource!
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Base Site: Scott Nelson's Home Page
Contact: Contact: Scott Nelson
Email: srnels@facstaff.wm.edu
Professor Scott Nelson of the College of William and Mary has put 4 chapters of this classic satirical work online for his course on the Gilded Age.
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Base Site: Cornell Science and Technology Magazine
Contact: Contact:
Email: scitech@cornell.edu
Cornell undergraduates publish a magazine on issues in science and technology and have put recent issues of said magazine on the WWW. Generally very good quality work, but most of the issues have little to do with History 102. The article on Hernstein's and Murray's Bell Curve gives interesting background to the contemporary debate, and ties in nicely with Lecture 09.
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Base Site: Historical Documents Library of the Secular Web
Contact: Contact:
Email: infidel@infidels.org
"Secular Web" is a site maintained by a group known as the "Infidels" which, in their own words, "provide[s] a virtual library of information on nontheistic worldviews, including agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and secularism." Very interesting and well-designed site with nicely-indexed primary documents.
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Base Site: From Revolution to Reconstruction
Contact: Contact: George M. Welling
Email: usa@let.rug.nl
Primary focus of "From Revolution to Reconstruction," as implied by the name, is the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th. Offers primary documents, essays on historical topics (mainly by college students), biographies, timelines, and presidential speeches and biographies. A very useful site with a great deal of potential, though it falls outside the scope of History 102's course material.
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Base Site: F. X. Micheloud's Site
Contact: Contact: Francois Micheloud
Email: micheloud@switzerland.isyours.com
An excellent article, covering the tactics of Standard Oil in a very even-handed an scholarly manner.
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Base Site: Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics
Contact: Contact: Dan Backer
Email: dhb7u@virginia.edu
An online master's thesis by Dan Backer of the University of Virginia. An excellent example of how the academic community can be expanded through the power of telecommunications. Besides, the pictures are neat!
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Base Site: The Atlantic Unbound (Atlantic Monthly)
Contact: Contact:
Email: none
The Atlantic Monthly is a magazine of arts, culture, politics, and society, published since 1857.
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Base Site: The Native American Adventure
Contact: Contact: Glenn Welker
Email: nativelit@earthlink.net
Perhaps one of the least organized sites existing on the web, although the page on Sitting Bull is rather well-done, if not exactly beautiful.
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Base Site: Douglass: Archives of American Address
Contact: Contact:
Email: freddoug@nwu.edu
An excellent site just swimming with primary sources of great value. Well organized, looks very good.
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Base Site: The Illinois Labor History Society
Contact: Contact:
Email: ilhs@mcs.com
Contains essays, biographies, primary documents, and photographs dealing with issues in labor history. Eugene Debs, the formation of the CIO, Samuel Gompers, and the Haymarket Massacre are all topics covered.
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Base Site: The Gilded (P)age
Contact: Contact: Scott Nelson
Email: srnels@facstaff.wm.edu
The author's intro to the site: "This is a collection of electronic texts written by US authors or widely read by Americans in the Gilded Age (loosely defined here as 1866-1901). I asssign these as primary sources for William and Mary students doing projects in my postbellum US history courses." NOTE - site moved to www.wm.edu/~srnels/gilded.html (updated in dbase on 2/9/2000).
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Base Site: Catholic Issues and Facts
Contact: Contact:
Email: gsj@cici.catholic.net
The "Catholic Issues and Facts" site is published by a group known as the Catholic Information Center. The site includes essays on such topics as Darwinism and evolution, written from a Catholic point of view but of interest to any inquiring reader. "The Death of Darwinism" is an essay which carefully distinguishes between evolutionary theory and Darwin's theory of natural selection.
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Base Site: The Baobob Press
Contact: Contact:
Email: none
The Baobob Press is an international news service which informs English-speaking African nations of American foreign policy issues. Their web site includes an archive of printed articles covering topics ranging from eugenics to the United Nations.
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Base Site: Blues Web
Contact: Contact: Gary Jones
Email: gjones@qb.island.net
Terrifically ugly and difficult to navigate, but nonetheless a very cool site dedicated to the blues.
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Base Site: Revealing Family Ancestry Revealing Family Ancestry, by Jon S. Berndt
Contact: Contact: Jon S. Berndt
Email: jsb@hal-pc.org
Jon S. Berndt shares the Civil War correspondence of his ancestors.
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Base Site: Business Biographies Database of St. Francis College
Contact: Contact:
Email: none
A relatively well-written biography of one of America's most famous wealthy businessmen.
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Base Site: Abraham Lincoln Online
Contact: Contact:
Email: lsneller@netins.net
Presents letters, writings, and speeches of Lincoln in readable, easily accessible format.
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Base Site: Henry Morrison Flagler Museum
Contact: Contact:
Email: flagler@flagler.org
Constructed by a museum in Palm Beach, Florida, this site offers some nice scans of the palatial homes of wealthy industrial barons like William K. Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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Base Site: The Limited Liability Company Website
Contact: None
An attorney clarifies the difference between current business structures, emphasizing the values of a new form of business organization, the Limited Liability Company.
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Base Site: The Newport Mansions
Contact: Contact:
Email: mcdonneb@salve2.salve.edu
Photographs of mansions of the rich and famous, such as William K. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and other wealthy patrons of the Newport area.
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Base Site: The Talk.Origins Archive
Contact: Contact:
Email: archive@talk.origins
From the authors: "Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology." The archive is fully searchable and has a very clean look.
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Base Site: ETHICS MANUAL FOR MEMBERS, OFFICERS, AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Contact: None
Email: no description
Cowboy PoetryContent=3, Presentation=2, Audience=High School
Base Site: Agricomm Cowboy Poetry
Contact: Contact:
Email: cowbopo@agricomm.com
Not exactly a beautiful page, nor is it entirely relevant to History 102, but nobody said life was a bowl of cherries. Find a few cowboy poems and some other hoof-lickin' good links on this page.
People of Color on America's FrontierContent=3, Presentation=2, Audience=High School
Base Site: Lest We Forget
Contact: Contact: Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
Email: lwf@coax.net
"Lest We Forget" claims to be the "Super Web Site of African-American History, Culture and Current Events." The site offers little original material, relying mainly on links to other sites.
The West (with Ken Burns)Content=3, Presentation=5, Audience=High School
Base Site: The West
Contact: Contact:
Email: thewest@pbs.org
Assembles many of the documentary materials that went into the making of Ken Burns's and Stephen Ives's PBS series, "The West." Includes biographies, documents, and images relating to the series.
"Jim Crow at the Bat: Apartheid in Baseball, 1846-1900," by Harlan S. WilliamsContent=3, Presentation=3, Audience=High School
Base Site: Shadowball: Remembering the Negro Leagues
Contact: Contact: Harlan S. Williams
Email: harlansw@iwaynet.net
Dedicated to keeping alive the spirit of the Negro Leagues, this site includes biographies of great black baseball players, quotes, quizzes, films, pictures, essays, music, and links to related sites. A very good site overall, in terms of both design and content.
The W. E. B. DuBois Virtual UniversityContent=4, Presentation=3, Audience=College
Base Site: The W. E. B. DuBois Virtual University
Contact: Contact: Jennifer Wagner
Email: wagerj@gusun.georgetown.edu
Includes bibliography and biographies documenting DuBois's life and work.
"Overcoming the 'Sour Grapes' Version of Southern History," by John P. GeorgeContent=3, Presentation=5, Audience=College
Base Site: The Southern Patriot
Contact: Contact: George Paul Kalas
Email: independence@dixienet.org
The official bi-monthly journal of the Southern League, which seeks to promote: "A free and prosperous Southern Republic. Our own nation founded on private property, free association, fair trade, sound money, low taxes, equal justice before the law, secure borders, and armed and vigilant neutrality. Self-governing states and local communities invoking the favour and guidance of Almighty God. A bold, self-confident civilisation based on its European roots." Yankees beware!
Plessy v. Ferguson: "Separate but Equal"Content=3, Presentation=3, Audience=High School
Base Site: School Integration in the United States
Contact: Contact:
Email: lcozzens@sidwell.edu
Essays on the history of school integration in the United States, written by a high school student from Washington, D.C.
"Black Cowboys," by Kenneth Wiggins PorterContent=3, Presentation=2, Audience=High School
Base Site: Lest We Forget
Contact: Contact: LWF Publications
Email: lwf@coax.net
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Booker T. WashingtonContent=2, Presentation=3, Audience=High School
Base Site: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Contact: Contact:
Email: ndlpcoll@loc.gov
The Library of Congress offers this site, and offers the following introduction: "The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love."
President Grant's ScandalsContent=2, Presentation=2, Audience=College
Base Site: Politics and Government, Ripon College
Contact: Contact:
Email: WebMaster@Ripon.EDU
The Politics and Government site of Ripon College offers a section on the American presidents, including outlines of achievements and failures as well as brief introductory essays on important events occurring during each president's term.
Carol Simpson Productions Labor CartoonsContent=1, Presentation=5, Audience=High School
Base Site: Carol Simpson Productions Labor Cartoons
Contact: Contact: Carol Simpson
Email: carolsim@mcs.com
Incisive and biting cartoons "aimed at America's corporate establishment and its wholly owned subsidiary the U.S. Government." Updated weekly!
"Reconstruction," by Frederick DouglassContent=5, Presentation=4, Audience=College
Base Site: Virginia E-Texts
Contact: none
Email: none
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Lower East Side Tenement MuseumContent=5, Presentation=5, Audience=College
Base Site: wNET Station Thirteen - New York
Contact: none
Email: mailto:web@wnetstation.wnet.org
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