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Eighteenth-Century Resources
A collection of Internet resources related to the 18th century, including literature, art, history, and the history of science. Also includes a complete catalog of electronic texts from the 18th century, roughly from Milton to Keats. Maintained “as a labor of love” by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor, English Department, Rutgers University, Newark Campus.
The US-Mexican War (1846-1848)
Included at this rich site are: histories, articles, and essays produced by historians, scholars, and other experts; a detailed timeline, which provides a chronological context for events occurring on both sides of the border; a moderated, interactive discussion area for visitors to post their ideas and responses; and a resources section to guide visitors to other relevant Web sites. Sponsored by KERA, PRS Online.
Lincoln/Net (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
Historical materials from Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln’s writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.
The Victorian Web
Prepared by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University. The WWW translation of Brown University’s Context 61, which serves as a resource for courses in Victorian literature.
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
A series of Web guides on the decades of the twentieth century, prepared by Peggy Whitley, Kingwood College.
America in the 1930s
This site, from the The American Studies Group at The University of Virginia, is “an attempt to shed light on [the 1930s] and describe its importance to modern American thought and culture.”
World War II Resources
Primary documents, including the Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings, speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British, French, and German documents. Maintained by the Pearl Harbor Working Group.
The Sixties Project and Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
A collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic
resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for
researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
At Stanford University. The Web site is intended to complement the primary work of the project—the compilation and publication of an authoritative edition of King's writings. Until the fourteen-volume The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. is completed, researchers and students can use the resources on the Web site, which include many of King's speeches (in full text), a biography, a chronology, and scholarly articles written by project staff, including Stanford Professor Clayborne Carson, the senior editor and director of the project.
Vietnam War
Bibliography, by Edwin Moïse
An extensive list of books, government documents, microform collections, and other materials relating to the Vietnam War and related issues, such as Vietnamese history and culture, the antiwar movement, the Tonkin Gulf incident, and the effects of Agent Orange.
The Virtual Vietnam Archive
This site, from Texas Tech University, features public-domain material from their Vietnam Archive.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally. Divided into these rubrics: Early Modern World; The Transformation of the West: Scientific, Political, and Industrial Revolution; the 19th Century and Western Hegemony; World Wars and the End of Western Dominance; the World since 1945.