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The core database for this discipline is America: History and Life.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

Web Sites

The core database for this discipline is America: History and Life.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

• NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)
  

  NINES “is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.”

• African Studies Internet Resources
  

  A collection of links specifically on Africa, compiled by Columbia University.

• African-American Mosaic Exhibition
  

  Primary Sources on African American History: Exhibits and digital material from the Library of Congress’s collections.

• American Black Journal
  

  From Detroit Public Television

• American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
  

  Links to numerous primary documents, audio recordings, images and more. Browse by topic of search by keyword.

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
  

  Samples of slave narratives compiled by journalists between 1936 to 1938 funded by the WPA.

• Avalon Project
  

  “The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. “

• Black Abolitionist Archive
  

  “The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files. “

• Boston African Americana Project
  
• City Mayors – Mayors Running the World’s Cities
  
• Commission on Presidential Debates
  

  The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners. Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan , 501(c)(3) corporation, sponsored all the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.

• County and City Data Books
  

  This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).

• DATABASES: Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog
  

  “The Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog is a catalog for discovering and gaining access to electronic research tools (e-resources). The catalog includes licensed resources and free resources on the Web recommended by our reference staff.”

• Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930
  

  “The Digital Harlem website presents information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930.”

• Digital History (U.S.)
  

  A collaborative effort to provide digital access to secondary and primary materials in U.S. history.

• Digital Library of American Slavery
  

  “The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.”

• Documenting the American South
  

  DocSouth provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. From the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• EuroDocs
  

  “These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.
  These open access sources are readily available to all — without fees or subscriptions.”

• Famous Firsts by African Americans
  

  List of firsts by African Americans.

• FBI Records – The Vault
  

  The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.

• Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  

  From the University of Pittsburgh, based on the exhibition created by Robert Hill and exhibited at the Heinz History Center from October 25, 2008 to April 5, 2009.

• Freedom in the 50 States
  

  “This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.” From the George Mason MERCATUS Center

• HaithiTrust
  

  HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.

• Harlem History
  

  Images and text collected and digitized by Columbia University.

• Historical Census Browser
  

  “In addition to basic counts of population and housing units, all decades contain information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition. Beginning with 1840, some economic characteristics such as education and occupation are included. Later decades have many variables, including ancestry, literacy, and income variables. In a few cases, the census data were augmented with information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Council of Churches of Christ.”

• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
  

  An excellent compilation of free full text access to important documents from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Documents date from the 1950′s onward.

• History Cooperative
  

  “The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship.” University of Illinois Press, Organization of American Historians and JStor.

• History News Network – from George Mason University
  

  “The concept behind HNN is simple: We provide historians with a national platform so that they
  can help shape public debates about vital issues in the news. Every Monday we feature a dozen
  new articles on the latest news and trends. In our ten years we have published more than 5,000
  original articles. Most are written by PhDs.”

• HistoryMakers Digital Media Archive
  

  310 African American video oral history interviews. Requires free registration. A Collaboration between The HistoryMakers and Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Project.

• Internet Archive
  

  3 million out of copyright texts, music, video and more!

• Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
  

  “The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists is a compact but highly complex, multi-layered compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images.”

• JFK Presidential Library and Museum – Digital Archives
  

  The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum collects, preserves, and makes available primary-source materials, in all formats, pertaining to the life and times of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. The Library’s holdings include the papers of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Rose Kennedy, as well as close to 400 other collections: those of Kennedy family members, Kennedy administration officials and associates, and pertinent individuals, authors, and institutions.

• Library – Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  

  Provides full text access to a selection of intelligence documents. The Historical Collection and Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room contain historical documents.

• Library System – Howard University: Guides: African Americans (Internet Links)
  

  Howard University’s compilation of web sites related to African Americans. As well as including sites on history, culture, and literature, they also list sources on demographics, health, and science.

• Lowcountry Digital Library
  

  “Primary sources from private and educational/cultural institutions focused on South Carolina history and culture.”

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
  

  Include the King Papers.

• NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
  

  Library of Congress Exhibition

• National Archives
  

  Exhaustive index to archives housed by the National Archives in Washington DC. Some fulltext online access available.

• New Jersey Information – From NJ State Library
  

  N.J. Digital Collections, N.J. Genealogy, N.J. Legal Resources, N.J. Newspapers, N.J. Searchable Publications, N.J. State Databases, N.J. by Topic, State of New Jersey Website

• New York Public Library Research Centers
  

  List locations of research centers. These centers offer online collections

• NJDARM – New Jersey Archives
  

  Over 7,100 images from our photograph and manuscript collections are presented below and in our Documentary Treasures area. Consult the Guide to Reproduction and Research Services, Policies and Fees for information on reproduction of these and other images available from the New Jersey State Archives.

  Military and Wartime Activities
  Cultural Resources and Historical Geography
  Governors’ Documents and Institutional Records
  County and Municipal Records
  Family Papers and Non-Governmental Organizations

• Nuremberg Trial Project – A Digital Document Collection
  

  The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

  The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity.

• NYPL Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers the 19th Century
  
• Political Graveyard: Search
  

  “A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 224,230 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.”

• Primary Sources- Sondiata and Mansa Musa on the Web
  

  Primary Sources on medieval West African History

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  

  Digital Schomburg- Material from New York Public Library’s premiere collection on African American history and literature.

• Slavery & Abolition in the US
  

  Select Publications of the 1800s that “digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery.” Run by Dickinson College & Millersville University

• Southern Education Foundation – publications
  

  “The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) works to advance creative solutions to ensure fairness and excellence in education for all.” Publications date back to the 1950′s

• States Perform
  

  “States Perform provides users with access to interactive, customizable and up-to-date comparative performance measurement data for 50 states in six key areas: fiscal and economic, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education. “

• Texas Slavery Project
  

  The Texas Slavery Project examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850.

• The King Center
  

  “Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century. “

• World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
  

  THE MISSION OF WCJLN
  1. To develop specific ways of sharing services and criminal justice information on a global scale.
  2. To enhance communication among WCJLN members
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• Writing in College – A Short Guide to College Writing
  

  From the University of Chicago