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WWW Resources in American History |
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Databases
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| America:
History & Life |
Contains citations and abstracts from
2100+ international journals, books, and dissertations; film and video
reviews from 1988 to present. 1964 - present. |
| Lexis/Nexis |
Full text articles, documents, and other
materials from newspapers, business and trade journals, general interest
magazines, company reports, legal and tax documents. Dates vary,
usually from 1980 - present. |
| JSTOR |
Full text articles from journals in the
humanities, social science, and mathematics and statistics. |
| ProjectMUSE |
Full-text of articles published in over
100 journals from from Johns Hopkins University Press and other university
and academic publishers. |
| Reader's
Guide |
Current events and news, fine arts, fashion,
education, business, sports, health and nutrition, consumer affairs,
and others. 1983 - present. |
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Biographical Sources
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| Biography
& Geneaology Master Index |
Index to biographical sources on over
4 million people. BGMI indexes current, readily available reference
sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover
individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity
and from all areas of the world. |
| Biography Channel |
Search for a biography for over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past
and present from A&E's award winning television series/channel. |
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Documentary Sources
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| Online
Archive of California |
Part of the UCB Digital Library project.
Provides links to other digital projects such as: American Heritage
Virtual Archive, California Heritage Collection, Free Speech Movement
Collections, Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, and the
Museums in the Online Archive of California. |
| Library
of Congress |
Links to the American Memory Project and
exhibits. |
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Organizations
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American Historical Association |
Site of the American Historical Association, an organization
for professionals in the field. |
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California
Historical Society |
The California Historical Society is a statewide
membership-based organization. Its mission is to engage the public’s interest and
participation in collecting, preserving, and presenting art, artifacts, and written
materials relevant to the history of California and to support historical research,
publication, and educational activities. |
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Speeches
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| Douglass:
Archives of American Public Address |
Douglass is an electronic archive of
American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general
scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern
University. |
| Gifts of
Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World |
Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving
and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women
from around the world. Created and maintained by Sweet Briar
College. |
| American Rhetoric |
Indexes and provides the full text, or audio and video streaming versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events. Be sure to review the Fair Use guidelines as many of the speeches are not in the public domain. |
| Historic
Speeches |
Multicultural Pavilion: Resources and
Dialogues for Educators, Students, and Activists. Developed and maintained
by Dr. Paul Gorski. |
| The
History Place: Great Speeches |
The History Place is a private, independent,
Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated
with any political group or organization. We present a fact based,
common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity,
prepared by knowledgeable writers and historians. |
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