Teaching Resources
- World History Matters
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/index.html - World History Network
http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org/ - World Lecture Hall
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm - World History Connected
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/ - Winks, Robin W. ed. The Historian as Detective:
Essays on Evidence. NY: Harper and Row, 1969.
King Library D13 .W65
Classic set of essays by renowned historians that provide concrete examples of how to use and interpret primary source evidence. - D'Aniello, Charles
A. ed. Teaching Bibliographic Skills in History:
A Sourcebook for Historians and Librarians . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
King Library Z675.H5 T4 1993 - Davidson, James West and Mark Hamilton Lytle.
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection. 5th ed. Boston : McGraw-Hill,
2005.
King Library E175 .D38 2005 - Cohen, Daniel J. and Roy Rosenzweig. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. See also the website: http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
Directories and Webliographies
General
- Librarian's Internet Index
http://lii.org
Extensive list of sites categorized by subject by librarians. - BUBL Link
http://bubl.ac.uk/
A directory, similar to the Librarians' Internet Index, but British in origin, and contains many more British and European sources. - Intitue
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Large directory of websites with good coverage for Europe and Canada. - MERLOT
(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org
Provides ratings and descriptions of websites that are more academic in nature and usually designed to supplement teaching. Includes links to assignments created by professors and teachers - Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Scholarly directory established in 1994 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Long lists to search through, but useful. - Stanford University Library Guides
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/index.html - Yale University Library
Subject Guides
http://www.library.yale.edu/guides/
History Specific
- WWW-VL: History
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Massive directory of sites focused on history and covering all eras and countries imaginable - Best of History Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
Selective collection of sites for students and teachers of all levels and all areas of history.
- History Guide Online
http://www.historyguide.de/
Very comprehensive. German site, but multilingual with scholarly websites. European focus.
Primary Sources
Photographic/Still Image Collections
- Image Base (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
http://www.famsf.org/fam/about/imagebase/
From the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Non-commercial use is permitted. Sometimes the zoom will not work, so the images are hard to view.
- Acunet/AP Photo Archive
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
A subscription based product. Contains photographs, current and historical in the Associated Press' archive. Coverage is worldwide. Includes an audio section. Check the online agreement for reproduction rights.
- Time/Life Picture Collection
http://www.thepicturecollection.com/
Selected collection of photos from Time-Life photographers. If you wish to use most of these photographs, there will be a fee involved. You must register to use the database, although registration is free. - International
Center of Photography
http://www.icp.org/
Series of exhibitions. - Life Magazine Covers and Photo Essays
http://www.life.com/Life/lifeclassic.html
Search or browse covers of Life Magazine. Reproduction is limited. - PastPix
http://www.pastpix.com/
British product of over 15,000 historical images for educational use. If you register (at no cost) you will have full access to larger images. - ARTSTOR
http://www.artstor.org/
A subscription product. Contains images of all types of artwork, paintings, statutes, architecture, material culture objects, and more. Coverage is worldwide and all periods of history. - Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/
Images, primarily photographs, from a number of cultural institutions throughout Canada, searchable in one single spot. - British Library Images
Online
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/
Images from the British Library for images throughout British history. Searching is free. - Harrapa
http://www.harappa.com/
Images of South Asia prior to 1947. - Abandoned Places
http://www.abandoned-places.com/
Interesting collection of abandoned buildings across the world.
Motion Pictures
- Internet Archive Moving Image Archives
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Archive of freely available shorts, clips of movies, advertisements, etc. - Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University).
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
Subscription service that indexes most of the nightly news broadcasts since the late 1960s. - Movietone News
http://www.movietone.com/
Movie/Television and Newsreels, Site has become restrictive and requires registration to view any of the contents. - ITN Archive
http://www.itnsource.com/
A wealth of footage that you can browse through if you register. However, there is a fee to actually use the footage. Includes such organizations as British Pathe, Fox News, Reuters, ITN, for much of the 20th century. - Film
Archives Online
http://www.filmarchivesonline.com/
Another site that you must register. Similar to the above.
Audio and Music
- Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/ Early Canadian music.
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine: Vintage Phonograph
Recordings, 1900-1939
http://dismuke.org/ - Smithsonian Folkways
http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html
Index to Smithsonian recordings of folk music and other recordings. You can purchase the recordings, they are not availble online through this site. - Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/clmu.htm
Subscription database that provides access to authoritative versions of classical recordings. Miami does not subscribe, but has been thinking about it. - Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/glmu.htm
Subscription database that provides historical tracts of folk, country, African American, world, and ethnic music. Miami does not subscribe, but has been thinking about it. - Naxos Music Library
http://www.ohiolink.naxosmusiclibrary.com/
Database of classical, jazz, and world music from major recording labels.
Archives and Manuscripts Repositories
- Unesco Archives
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/
List of archives world-wide with connections to libraries. Especially good for community and smaller libraries. - History Text Archive http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. - Avalon Project http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, including links to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
Documents
- World History Archives http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/
World History Archives, by Hartford Web Publishing, offers documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective.
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Film Studies
Film Studies Guides
- Cross Cultural Film Guide from American University
http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/
aufderheide/aufderhe.html
List of films and summaries available from Africa, Asia, and Latin America at American University. Has not been updated since 1992. - Internet Guide
for Chinese Studies: Chinese Films and Movies
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igfilm.htm
Extensive list of web links that cite films and provide links to descriptions and criticism. - Chinese Movie Database http://www.dianying.com/en/
List of films with descriptions
- Arab Films
http://arabfilm.com
Feature and documentary films by country. Available for purchase. Mostly summaries. - PFA Pacific Film Archive (University of California)
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/resources/film_notes/
Searchable database of 14,000 films with critcal summaries. - Facets MultiMedia
http://www.facets.org/
Online catalog of distributor of hard to find foreign films. - African Films
and Video (guide from Stanford Libraries)
http://library.stanford.edu/africa/film.html
Extensive list of distributors as well as guides to African images of all types. - African Studies: Film (Columbia University)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/
africa/cuvl/video.html
Similar to the Stanford site. - LANIC: section on Latin American Films
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/cinema/
Extensive list of links to Latin American film resources - BIFI: Bibliotheque du Film http://www.bifi.fr/public/index.php
European Sources for Cinema. - Bollywood Movie Database http://77.182.188.32/cgi-bin/database/db.pl?
The IMDB for Indian film. - CineGrapf http://www.cinegraph.de/
German Cinema - Russian Archive http://russianarchives.com/index.html
Russian Cinema - Kino World Cinema http://www.kino.com/
International Film distributor. Good for titles
- Guides:
- AcademicInfo: Film Studies http://www.academicinfo.net/filmintereurope.html
- Film Websites (Yale) http://www.library.yale.edu/humanities/
film/webdirectories.html - Internet Sources for Film Study (U. Delaware) http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/film/internet.htm
Blogs, Discussion Lists, and Associations
Discussion Lists
- H-Net
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/
Organization that mainly organizes discussion lists for all humanities scholars. From the main website you can search for and join lists and browse previous postings - History News Network
http://hnn.us/
Organization that discusses the current news related to history and historians activities. You can post your opinions as well as look at other historians' discussions on current events and historical debtes. Also has a jobs section. - h-world (see h-net)
Blogs
- World History Blog http://www.worldhistoryblog.com/
Historical Associations
- World History Network
http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org/
General Guides to the Practice of History Research
Guides to History Research
- Presnell, Jenny L. Information-Literate Historian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Storey, William Kelleher. Writing History: A Guide for Students . 3nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Reading,
Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for Students. Patrick Rael,
Bowdin College
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/ - Marius, Richard and Melvin E. Page. A Short Guide to Writing About History . 5th ed. NY: Pearson/Longman, 2005.
- Brundage, Anthony. Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing. 4th ed. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2008
- Howell, Martha and Walter Prevenier. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History 4th ed. Great Britain: Pearson Education, ltd.2006.