ResearchBuzz: History Archives

The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center has announced a new presentation, The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project, available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/ . Instead of a media archive, this is an archive of the reactions of people in the months that...

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If you're stilll into natural language searching, check out H-Bot at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/h-bot/ . H-Bot answers historical questions, and while it's not always right, it was better than I thought it would be. I always start messing with these things by...

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I have an ugly confession to make. I read Westerns. It started years ago with a little innocent Louis L'Amour, but after I finished reading all those I got my hands on, I progressed to Elmer Kelton (my current favorite),...

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You know that little Ziggyesque statement about there being three kinds of people: those who make it happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Though I suspect I'm in the last category I still enjoyed...

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If you're interested in the history of the Titanic, you can get a huge amount of information on the passengers and crew at the Encyclopedia Titanica ( http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/index.php ). The site has a simple keyword search for information (but if...

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What better way to ring in 2004 than to look back at 2003 with the Year of Lists. Fimoculous has published a look back at year 2003 lists in several categories, including books, music, dance, comics, and ideas, at http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review-2003.cfm...

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The James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, located at http://members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html , is a site containing links, stories, and documents related to the CCC. This site has a surprising amount of depth, more than you'd think from the front page....

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If you're the type who likes a little fresh air with your history, check out Step Into History at http://www.stepintohistory.com/ . The site contains over 550 places across the United States which present living history or outdoor museums. The state...

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History Guide, at http://www.historyguide.de/start.php, has a great way to explore the over 3,000 resources available at this site via browsing pages or a neat pull-down menu. Let's explore the pull-down menu first, from the front page. Here you can search...

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You may already know that there's an archive dedicated to saving Web sites as they appeared around the time of the September 11 attacks (and if you don't, it's available at http://september11.archive.org/ .) Now there is an archive being created...

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George Emery has put together a really interesting directory of timelines at http://www.canisius.edu/~eme ryg/time.html . Its directory style is very basic. On the left side of the screen there are five categories. Pick one and you'll be transported to an...

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