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| Week of 8/25/2008 |
| American Heritage | www.americanheritage.com/ |
| Their website has come a long way from being merely a promo for the print magazine. |
| Week of 8/11/2008 |
| Prelinger Film Archive | www.archive.org/details/prelinger |
| 2,000 advertising and amateur films spanning the 20th century are available for downloading. |
| Week of 7/28/2008 |
| Vincent Voice Library of American Presidents | www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/index.htm |
| Ever wonder what Benjamin Harrison sounded like? Hear him and every subsequent president at this Michigan State archive. |
| Week of 7/21/2008 |
| Arkansas Events Calendar | www.arkansas.com/calendar/ |
| This page on Arkansas Parks & Tourism's massive website is the best place to find out what is happening around the state. |
| Week of 7/7/2008 |
| Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame | www.arksportshalloffame.org/ |
| The Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame is located in North Little Rock's Alltel Arena. Their website is cool, but needs updating. |
| Week of 6/30/2008 |
| John Adams | www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/ |
| This HBO miniseries based on David McCullough's book is arguably the best historical drama ever to appear on television. |
| Week of 6/23/2008 |
| C.S.S. Arkansas: the Red Ironclad | www.steelnavy.com/OSNArkansas.htm |
| The website combines a comprehensive history of the Confederate warship with detailed instructions for building a scale model. |
| Week of 6/16/2008 |
| Land of (Unequal) Opportunity | scipio.uark.edu/ |
| The University of Arkansas collection of documents on the Civil Rights struggle in Arkansas is now accessible online. |
| Week of 6/9/2008 |
| University of Arkansas Resource Center for Heritage Visualization | www.cast.uark.edu/cast/nrchv/NRCHVWeb/index.htm |
| This is an interesting foray into the realm of virtual archeology. Keep tabs on this site as it adds additional material. |
| Week of 6/2/2008 |
| Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral & Visual History | libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/pryorcenter/ |
| Most of the Center's extensive collection of oral history interviews are now available online. Hopefully its collection of filmed lectures will soon follow. |
| Week of 5/26/2008 |
| 20th Century America | www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm |
| This is a comprehensive set of links to sites on various topics in American history. |
| Week of 5/19/2008 |
| Google Earth | earth.google.com/ |
| This site is the next best thing to having your own spy satelite. |
| Week of 5/5/2008 |
| Marty Stuart | www.martystuart.net/ |
| Website for country legend Marty Stuart whose collection of memorabilia is the subject of the Old State House's new exhibit: Sparkle & Twang |
| Week of 4/21/2008 |
| National Geographic Magazine | ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ |
| When you think it couldn't get better, this website improves. |
| Week of 3/31/2008 |
| Open Secrets | www.opensecrets.org/ |
| This website follows Deepthroat's advice and "follows the money" in American politics. |
| Week of 3/24/2008 |
| Mid America Museum | midamericamuseum.org/ |
| After languishing for a time, Arkansas's largest science museum is back as an associate of the Smithsonian |
| Week of 3/10/2008 |
| Southern Exposure Seed Exchange | www.southernexposure.com/ |
| Great site for heirloom tomato seeds and Southern gardening history |
| Week of 3/3/2008 |
| Arkansas Toothpick | www.arkansastoothpick.com/ |
| This is the website of the Arkansas Sons of Confederate Veterans. |
| Week of 10/1/2007 |
| Stax Museum of American Soul Music | www.soulsvilleusa.com/ |
| Second only to Detroit's Motown Records, the Memphis-based Stax Records brought black "rhythm and blues" to a broad popular audience. The new museum is just in time for the labels 50th anniversary. |
| Week of 9/24/2007 |
| Cornell University Digital Initiatives | campusgw.library.cornell.edu/about/digital.html |
| The extensive digital offerings include agricultural history; ornithology; veterinary science; home economics; gardening; America's culinary heritage; historic games; Medieval manuscripts; historic monographs; labor history; women's periodicals; witchcraft; presidential elections; abolitionism; New York state history; the French Revolution; race, ethnicity & religion; and the ambitious Making of America Project. |
| Week of 9/17/2007 |
| Columbia American History Online | www.caho.columbia.edu/ |
| The site offers actual online seminars on topics in American history taught by Columbia University professors. |
| Week of 9/10/2007 |
| Ouachita National Forest | www.fs.fed.us/r8/ouachita/ |
| It is the 100th anniversary of the South's oldest and largest national forest, which was established by President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Week of 9/3/2007 |
| History Now | www.historynow.org |
| This online quarterly journal from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History should serve as a model for online history journals. |
| Week of 8/27/2007 |
| Central High 50th Anniversary of Integration | www.arkansasglobecoming.com/ |
| One-stop shopping for all the events surrounding the 50th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School. |
| Week of 8/20/2007 |
| The Academy of Achievement | www.achievement.org/ |
| This is arguably the best biography site on the Web. |
| Week of 8/13/2007 |
| The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument and Pioneer Village | www.archway.org/ |
| Although less than a decade old, Kearney, Nebraska's tribute to the settling of the west has already been immortalized in the Jack Nicholson film About Schmidt. |
| Week of 8/6/2007 |
| International Spy Museum | www.spymuseum.org/ |
| The International Spy Museum is the poster child of 21st-century museums. Is it so tightly wrapped in clever marketing and the myths of popular culture that truth somehow falls by the wayside? |
| Week of 7/30/2007 |
| The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum | www.thestoryoftexas.com/ |
| Deep pockets and a flair for showmanship have arguably made the Bullock the most successful state history museum in the nation. Is it a model other states could follow? |
| Week of 7/23/2007 |
| Themed Entertainment Association | www.themeit.com/ |
| Edutainment has an international organization. A perusal of this site will lead you to some compelling exhibitry. What does all this mean for traditional museums? |
| Week of 7/16/2007 |
| BRC Imagination Arts | www.brcweb.com/ |
| BRC is unquestionably the hottest museum design firm in the world. Visit their website and tour some of their projects. |
| Week of 7/9/2007 |
| Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum | www.alplm.org/ |
| This Springfield, Illinois, marvel is a model of the sort of 21st-century exhibitry that designer BRC Imagination Arts calls an "Experience Museum." |
| Week of 5/21/2007 |
| Riverfest Arts & Music Festival | www.riverfestarkansas.com/ |
| Arkansas's premiere festival will celebrate its 30th anniversary on May 25-27 in Little Rock's Riverfront Park. |
| Week of 5/14/2007 |
| First Annual Little Rock Film Festival | www.littlerockfilmfestival.org/ |
| This first time event premieres May 17-20 at the Riverdale Theaters. |
Week of 4/30/2007
Ugly Mascot Festivals |
| Armadillo Festival, Hamburg, Arkansas | www.armadillofestival.com/ |
| May 5-7 |
| Toad Suck Daze | www.toadsuck.org/ |
May 3-6
Two sites for events kicking off the festival season in Arkansas |
| Week of 4/23/2007 |
| Public History Resource Center | www.publichistory.org/ |
| This outgrowth of a project by graduate students at the University of Maryland is a clearinghouse of information about public history projects, particularly on the Internet. One of its most useful features are reviews of history websites. |
| Week of 4/16/2007 |
| Arkansas Literary Festival | www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org/ |
| Not only does this Little Rock event serve a worthy cause, adult literacy, it has become one of the most educational and downright fun happenings of the year. |
| Week of 4/9/2007 |
| The Smithsonian Institution | www.si.edu/ |
| Each of the Smithsonian's more than a dozen components would each rank among the world's largest museums in their own right. |
| Week of 4/2/2007 |
| Amistad Research Center, Tulane | www.tulane.edu/~amistad/ |
| After suffering the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, this black history website is back and better than ever. |
| Week of 3/26/2007 |
| Ozark Foothills FilmFest | www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org/ |
| This 6th annual celebration of low-budget but high-talent independent films will expand beyond greater metropolitan Locust Grove, Arkansas, to include venues at Little Rock's Cox Center and the Market Street Cinema. The festival runs from March 22 to April 1. |
| Week of 3/19/2007 |
| From Domesticity to Modernity | rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/ |
| What was home economics? Was it simply a device to keep women in the home? Or was it necessary to teach women the skills required to function as the principal consumers of the 20th century? |
| Week of 3/5/2007 |
| Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition | www.yale.edu/glc/index.htm |
| Yale's Lehrman Center is attempting to take the study of slavery past the blame game to examine the impact of slavery not only upon slaves and their descendants, but also upon society as a whole. The result is an entirely new appreciation of the role of African Americans in history. |
| Week of 2/26/2007 |
| Arkansas Ties | www.arkansasties.com/ |
| Perhaps one of the most unusual Arkansas-history related websites is this eclectic assemblage of photographs of historic sites, excerpts of 19th-century articles from the Arkansas Gazette, and daily blog by Pris Weathers. |
| Week of 2/19/2007 |
| The Quilts of Gee's Bend | www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/ |
| In honor of the Old State House Museum's new exhibition of A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans, we chose to feature the website of the quilters of Alabama's fabled Gee's Bend. |
| Week of 2/12/2007 |
| Crystal Bridges | www.crystalbridges.org/ |
| The most exciting cultural development in Arkansas since the Clinton Library is undoubtedly Alice Walton's vision of a world-class museum of American art in Bentonville. The 25,000 square foot museum designed by renown architect Moshe Safdie will reside in a 100-acre oasis amidst northwest Arkansas's urban sprawl. |
| Week of 2/5/2007 |
| Arkansas Post Office Murals | www.uca.edu/cfac/art/murals/homepage2.htm |
| During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the New Deal's Works Progress Administration sought to provide employment for artists on projects such as the painting of post office murals. Those in Arkansas are documented here on the University of Central Arkansas website. |
| Week of 1/22/2007 |
| African American World | www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/ |
| Yes, it's another Web exhibit from PBS. This one serves as a portal to diverse offerings on African American history, art, and culture. |
| Week of 1/15/2007 |
| Slavery & the Making of America | www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/ |
| The website of PBS's 2005 series on slavery in America, unlike many other PBS companion sites, is a first class resource independent of the television version. |
| Week of 1/8/2007 |
| National Humanities Center | www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ |
| Although geared toward academics and unabashedly eggheaded, this site provides a wonderful array of resources, particularly for teachers. It is also extremely well organized. |
| Week of 1/1/2007 |
| Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project | digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/ |
| This website provides full-text access to 76 vintage American cookbooks from Michigan State's "Cookery Collection" of over 7,000 volumes. The website also features a video tour, a glossary of cooking terms, hundreds of antique cooking implements, and seemingly countless recipes. |
| Week of 12/25/2006 |
| American Antiquarian Society | www.americanantiquarian.org/ |
| The website of the Worcester, Massachusetts archive of this august society features collections of American engravings and children's books, as well as exhibits on the history of valentines, Christmas in America, and women's work. |
| Week of 12/18/2006 |
| History Channel: Christmas | www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/christmas/ |
| Find out about world traditions, the origins of the Christmas tree, and the evolution of Santa. The heart of the offerings here is a section entitled: The Real Story of Christmas. |
| Week of 12/11/2006 |
| History Matters: U.S. Survey Course on the Web | www.historymatters.gmu.edu/ |
| This site by the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) is intended as the ultimate resource for students and teachers of American history. |
| Week of 12/4/2006 |
| H-Net | www.h-net.msu.edu/ |
| Michigan State University's H-Net is the king of list servers for the humanities and social sciences, including history. |
| Week of 11/20/2006 |
| Bob Hope & American Variety | www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/ |
| In a career that went from Vaudeville to motion pictures to television, Bob Hope's life mirrored the transformation of the mainstream of American entertainment. |
Week of 11/13/2006
De Tocqueville |
| Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America | xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html |
| Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America | www.tocqueville.org/ |
| Before you order those "freedom fries" and switch to wine-in-a-box, it might be worth remembering that perhaps the most insightful book ever written about America was penned by a Frenchman. |
| Week of 10/30/2006 |
| Avalon Project | www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm |
| Yale Law School's Avalon Project has put together a digital archive of some of the most important documents in American history. |
| Week of 10/23/2006 |
| Archiving Early America | earlyamerica.com/ |
| In spite of the pop-ups and some really annoying ads, this website has lots of very useful content about colonial and revolutionary America, including the online magazine Early America Review. |
| Week of 10/16/2006 |
| Race & Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South | www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/ |
| This collection of related materials on Charlottesville, Virginia's black history should serve as a model for how local libraries might organize similar resources in a comprehensive and yet comprehensible manner. |
| Week of 10/9/2006 |
| The History Cooperative | www.historycooperative.org/home.html |
| This site is a joint effort of the American Historical association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Academic Press, and the University of Illinois Press, making enumerable history resources available free to the public. |
| Week of 10/2/2006 |
| Organization of American Historians | www.oah.org/ |
| If you are a history professional or simply a fanatic you should consider joining the Organization of American Historians. This would give you online access to the OAH's Journal of American History and Magazine of History and make scores of others available through the History Cooperative. |
| Week of 9/25/2006 |
| Institute of Historical Research: National Centre of History, UK | www.history.ac.uk/ |
| The IHR is part of the School for Advanced Studies of the University of London. Its website provides access to its ejournal Reviews in History and to History On-Line, its resource for teachers, as well as to such partner sites as the Centre for Contemporary British History and the Centre for Metropolitan History. |
Week of 9/18/2006
Spanish Conquistadors |
| Conquisators, PBS | www.pbs.org/conquistadors/ |
| Spanish Conquest of Native America | www.floridahistory.com/ |
| These are two websites on the Spanish Conquistadors and their conquest of Native Americans. The PBS site is from a series of programs on four famous conquistadors. The second site features Hernando de Soto and his journey through North America. Its navigation is often clunky and the music will make you grind your teeth, but the content is excellent. |
| Week of 9/11/2006 |
| Museum of Civilization | www.civilization.ca/ |
| The Museum of Civilization is Canada's Smithsonian. If you feel you don't know enough about our neighbors to the north, you might want to pay this site and its thousands of pages of information a visit. |
| Week of 9/4/2006 |
| American Studies Electronic Crossroads | crossroads.georgetown.edu/ |
| This site seems to have been revamped after being neglected for a time. It is a wonderful resource. Be sure to check out the Visible Knowledge Project. |
Week of 8/28/2006
Acknowledging the Obvious |
| Open Directory > History | dmoz.org/Society/History/ |
| Yahoo Directory > History > U.S. History | dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History |
| Sometimes it is easy to forget that the most obvious approaches are often the best. I use Google so much I neglect old-fashion directories like Yahoo. It is in such lists that you stumble across gems you wouldn't find otherwise. |
| Week of 8/21/2006 |
| History World | www.historyworld.net/ |
| History World and its related OCEAN Index are unlike anything else on the Internet. As near as I can tell it is an attempt to fashion the next generation of Web site, one that applies knowledge management principles as it grows, constantly implanting self-references so that it is self-aware no matter how big it grows. The potential is almost limitless information delivered by extremely intelligent interfaces, but it will be just the opposite of the wide-open Web we are used to. The problem with this inner-directedness will be avoiding a closed system with no checks on the veracity of its content. Check out World History. Take a peak at the future. |
| Week of 8/7/2006 |
| Center for American History, University of Texas | www.cah.utexas.edu/ |
| Despite it name, the CAH focuses on Texas and University of Texas history, but does an excellent job covering these subjects. The University of Arkansas could take some pointers from this website. |
| Week of 7/31/2006 |
| Afro-American History | www.aawc.com/aah.html |
| This is the black history page of the African American Web Collection offering links to an impressive range of websites on black history. Other links relating to black culture are available on the rest of the AAWC site. |
| Week of 7/24/2006 |
| Princeton University Library History Resources | www.princeton.edu/~pressman/history.htm |
| This is another good university history gateway, it gives an excellent overview of the resources available, although some of those listed are only available for Princeton students at the library. |
| Week of 7/17/2006 |
| eHistory | ehistory.osu.edu/ |
| This Ohio State University history gateway consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps. |
| Week of 7/10/2006 |
| The American Experience: Coney Island | www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/ |
| Just for fun and because it is summer, we chose this PBS history of America's first amusement park. While you are at it, check out the park's website at http://www.coneyisland.com. |
| Week of 6/26/2006 |
| British Museum: Compass | www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ |
| Compass provides access to over 5,000 artifacts from the British Museum's extensive holdings. These are organized into comprehensible "collections" and viewed via online "tours" that help provide an interpretive context. This is a model for how a museum might make its treasures available to the public. |
Week of 6/19/2006
Voyages of Captain Cook |
| A Curious Variety of Mazes & Meanders | www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/cookmenu.htm |
| Captain Cook: Celebrated North Country Navigator | www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ |
| Two websites about the fabled explorer. The first is little more than an illustrated bibliography. The second site is well illustrated and quite extensive. Its oddest feature is its Sid Scurvy Fun Pages for children. |
| Week of 6/12/2006 |
| Mariners' Museum | www.mariner.org/ |
| This website has some of the best online exhibits anywhere. Be sure to check out The Age of Discovery. Captive Passage recounts the Atlantic slave trade. Other exhibits include Birth of the Navy and the U.S.S. Monitor. Also check out the museum's amazing image collection. |
| Week of 6/5/2006 |
| Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage | www.folklife.si.edu/ |
| I'm not certain, but I think the Smithsonian may have invented multiculturalism. At any rate they do it better than anyone else. |
Week of 5/29/2006
Lewis & Clark |
| Rivers, Edens, Empires | www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/ |
| Lewis & Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery | www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ |
| 2005 was the centennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition, so naturally we waited until now to feature these two websites on their journey. |
| Week of 5/22/2006 |
| The Henry Ford: America's Greatest History Attraction | www.hfmgv.org/ |
| The modest subhead says it all! It is fitting that the website opens with a marketing splash page and that recent exhibits have included one on Disco and another on Disneyland. The current offering is Baseball As America. The controversial Ford, with its accompanying, authenticity-challenged Greenfield Village, has long been America's most commercial history museum, not to mention one of the most successful. The website continues that tradition. |
| Week of 5/15/2006 |
| BBC History | www.bbc.co.uk/history/ |
| American history is obviously not this site's strongest suit. It is, however, the portal of choice for all things British and European from ancient times to the present. The History Trails section is a good place to start, particularly the one entitled: How to Do History. |
| Week of 5/8/2006 |
| Arkansas Arts Council | www.arkansasarts.com/ |
| May is Arkansas Heritage Month and this year's theme is Arkansas Artists: Treasures Discovered. We therefore felt it was appropriate to feature this website of our sister agency at the Department of Arkansas Heritage. |
| Week of 5/1/2006 |
| Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture | www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net |
| The website of the long-anticipated Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture launches May 2, 2006. Everyone should check it out. |
| Week of 4/24/2006 |
| National Museum of Japanese History | www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index_ne.html |
| Although the Rekihaku is a history museum, its website's emphasis is on historic artifacts rather than narratives, giving its website the feel of an art museum. In photographs of the interior of the museum, you see that diagrams and dioramas were used to aid interpretation. Similar techniques would have benefited the website. |
| Week of 4/10/2006 |
| Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum | www.northlr.org/maritime-museum/ |
| Since the steamboat and restaurant the Arkansas Queen is slated to join the submarine U.S.S. Razorback, we thought we'd call attention to this North Little Rock park's website. And check out their blog at http://www.aimmatnlr.blogspot.com/ |
| Week of 4/3/2006 |
| Benjamin Franklin, PBS | www.pbs.org/benfranklin/ |
| To quote the website: He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has ever known. Born into the family of a Boston candle maker, Benjamin Franklin became the most famous American of his time. He helped found a new nation and defined the American character. Writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, civic leader, international celebrity . . . genius. Explore the life of a remarkable man.
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Week of 3/27/2006
Washington Duo |
| Academic Info: History Gateway | www.academicinfo.net/hist.html |
| Although this site's organization is straight forward and unpretentious, it provides access to an amazing array of resources. |
| Week of 3/20/2006 |
| Best of History Web Sites | besthistorysites.net/ |
| This site provides a portal to nearly a thousand history-related websites. One of the BOHWS's best features is that it allows you to Google these sites collectively to find just the information you are seeking. |
| Week of 3/13/2006 |
| Sequoyah Research Center | anpa.ualr.edu/ |
| This website for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock home of the American Native Press Archive offers a unique perspective on American Indian history and culture, including materials on the Trail of Tears in Arkansas and on the writings of John Rollin Ridge. |
| Week of 3/6/2006 |
| Arkansas Archeological Survey | www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/ |
| In honor of our new exhibit, Sam Dellinger & the Raiders of the Lost Arkansas, we thought we should choose the Arkansas Archeological Survey as this week's winner. There's access to a lot of information here if you follow all of the links. |
| Week of 2/27/2006 |
| Ashley County Ledger: County History | ashleycountyledger.com/history/ |
| This website is a model of how a local newspaper can inform its readers about the community's history. More Arkansas newspapers should follow the Ledger's example. |
Week of 2/20/2006
George Washington |
| George Washington: A National Treasure | georgewashington.si.edu/ |
| Rediscovering George Washington | www.pbs.org/georgewashington/ |
| We missed his birthday by a month, but this week's choices are two sites about the Father of Our Country by the Smithsonian and PBS. |
| Week of 2/13/2006 |
| George Washington's Mount Vernon | www.mountvernon.org/ |
| Mount Vernon was the first building in America to be preserved through the effort of the public. Visit its website and take a "virtual tour." |
| Week of 2/6/2006 |
| Southwest ARchives | www.southwestarchives.com |
| Even after a recent facelift, the website of the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives is still a little clunky. The Robert Walz collection of photographs are worth the trouble. |
| Week of 1/30/2006 |
| History Now | www.historynow.org/ |
| This wonderful online magazine is from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. |
| Week of 1/23/2006 |
| America's Story from America's Library | www.americaslibrary.gov |
| This kid-friendly but not condescending site from the Library of Congress is a great gateway to American history for children. |
| Week of 1/16/2006 |
| AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History | www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html |
| This site's links give you access to hundreds of primary source documents in American history. |
| Week of 1/9/2006 |
| History News Network | historynewsnetwork.org/ |
| News about history and historians as well as a look at the news from a historical perspective. |
| Week of 1/2/2006 |
| Built in America | lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ |
| This is the website of the Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey & Historic American Engineering Record, a collection of photographs and measured architectural drawings of historic structures all over America made in the 1930s. |
Week of 12/26/2005
Holiday Greetings |
| Greeting Card History | www.greetingcard.org/thegreetingcard_history.html |
| Greeting Card Museum: History of Greeting Cards | www.emotionscards.com/museum/museum.html |
| Livaudais History of Christmas Cards | www.livaudaisnet.com/xmas/xmascard01.htm |
| Though the oldest known valentine dates from 1400, Christmas cards are relatively new. The earliest is attributed to John Calcott Horsley in 1843. The first site here gives an overview greeting card history. Choose "History of Greeting Cards" on the second for a more exhaustive chronicle. The third site has dreadful navigation, but offers many examples of vintage Christmas cards. |
| Week of 12/19/2005 |
| Discovery Channel History Guide | dsc.discovery.com/guides/history/history.html |
| This Web page is a nicely designed gateway to the history resources on the Discovery Channel's website. While the Discovery folks have a tendency to over sensationalize and to occasionally cross the boundary of fiction with their speculations, they are masters of using computer simulation to bring history to life. |
| Week of 12/12/2005 |
| America at Work, America at Leisure | memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html |
| This Library of Congress website features film clips of Americans working, playing, or at school from 1894 to 1915. There are images from Buffalo's Panamerica Exposition and other World's Fairs and fascinating factory footage from Westinghouse. My personal favorites, however, are "Babies rolling eggs," "New York City 'ghetto' f | | |
