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Other Subject Guides
Specialized guides: Pacific Northwest
Books
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Journals
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Internet sites
- American Memory Project
Sponsored by the Library of Congress, provides a searchable database of
collections of digitized primary source materials relevant to the study of American
history.
- Best of History
Web Sites
An online directory of more than 700 highly-rated history Web sites.
- Digital History
A web site designed and developed to support the teaching of American History
in K-12 schools and colleges. Includes an online U.S. history textbook; primary
sources on slavery, Mexican American, Asian American, and Native American history,
and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history
of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and
reference resources that include a database of annotated links, classroom handouts,
chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by
historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images.
- Handbook
of Latin American Studies
A comprehensive bibliography on Latin America edited by the
Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Annually, more than 130 academics
from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously
published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide
to available resources.
- Historical Census Browser
Provides access to historical U.S. census data. Provides tools that support analysis and mapping of data. Produced by the University of Virginia.
- History and Politics
Out Loud
A searchable archive of historically significant audio materials. Emphasis
on political history.
- Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong
in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion,
and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500
books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
News service providing coverage for Russia, Transcaucases, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Includes full-text archives of news stories and weekly reports that provide in-depth analysis of certain issues.
- REESWeb
A searchable index of web-accessible resources relevant to Russian and East European studies.
- Voices of civil rights
A joint project sponsored by AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress that collects and preserves personal accounts of the history of the struggle for civil rights in the United States. The web site features a searchable online archive of selected stories submitted by people from every corner of the country and from all walks of life. In addition, there are interactive features, essays, interviews, and special reports.
- Internet Public Library: History
Provides an extensive and well-organized listing of links to history-related
Internet resources.
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Grants and Foundations
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Organizations
- American
Historical Association
A non-profit membership
organization founded in
1884 and incorporated
by Congress in 1889 for
the promotion of historical
studies, the collection
and preservation of historical
documents and artifacts,
and the dissemination
of historical research.
Web site provides information
about awards, fellowships
and grants for historians.
- American Council of Learned Societies
A private non-profit federation of sixty-eight national scholarly organizations. Dedicated to the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. Web site provides information about fellowship and grant programs sponsored by ACLS.
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Promotes the study and love of American history. Offers fellowship programs and awards for faculty and students. Web site provides access to selected primary materials from its collection.
- Organization of American Historians
The largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Promotes the study and teaching of the American past through a variety of programs and activities.
- Oregon Historical Society
An organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of Oregon.
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