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The AIDS History Project is a collaboration of historians, archivists, AIDS activists, and others preserving the history of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. The current phase is sponsored by the University of California, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives & Special Collections. The primary objective of this phase of the AIDS History Project is to secure documentation of the response to the AIDS crisis in the city of San Francisco and particularly the development and effect of community based organizations and activist coalitions. The site provides information about AIDS history project collections including images, periodicals, oral histories and institutional records. Lastly, the site has a detailed chronology of the history of AIDS in San Francisco.

Part of the International Institute of Islamic Medicine, this page provides an introductory account of the development of medical practices in the Islamic world.

The research conducted by the Planck Institute has led to, often in collaboration with other organizations, a number of online projects on the history of science. Topics of these sites include an open digital library for the history of mechanics, a repository for European cultural heritage, a collection of Albert Einstein papers, an account of scientific voyages to the Canary Islands, and a collection of drawing and optical devices, among others. Abstracts and preprints of papers produced by the Institute are also available.

This site offers several excellent resources for online researchers interested in the history of medicine and biology. Collections cover topics such as the history of pain, the photographs of Donald Ryder Dickey, neuroscience, bloodletting, Charles Darwin, and smallpox. There are also links to other Internet resources and a listing of the library's manuscript collections.

This is a collection of six historical essays on the development of the Apple Macintosh computer designed to place technological development within a cultural context. Each essay, 300 to 500 words, links to primary and secondary source documents and provides a suggested path through the sources. A 500-word historiographic essay explains the rationale for each section. Sources accessed through the site include more than 100 images, 20 technical drawings, 13 interviews, and excerpts from The Book of Macintosh, a collection of essays and specifications written by developers of the Macintosh. The site will be interesting to cultural historians as well as historians of technology.

In 1876, the United States celebrated its 100th birthday with a Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. This site, presented by The Free Library of Philadelphia and funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, presents more than 1500 digitized images of silver albumen photographs related to the Exhibition. The site is divided into four broad categories. ¨Exhibition Facts" contains a wide variety of statistics and brief (250-word) explanations of aspects like the Fair's organization, attendance, costs to visitors, transportation, food, grounds, and management. This section features photographs of buildings erected by participating foreign nations, images of the Library's Centennial Sheet Music Collection, and various other Fair attractions. Addressing the economic and cultural significance of the Fair, the site provides eight quotes about the Fair from public figures and contemporary writers, as well as a bibliography of more than 150 related scholarly works. A timeline traces the Fair's creation from the 1871 Act of Congress that created the U.S. Centennial Commission to plan the Philadelphia exhibition, to the removal of the exhibits in December 1876. In the Tours section visitors can click on sections of an interactive map of the fair grounds to find details and photographs of buildings and spaces in the Centennial Exhibition. The ¨Centennial Schoolhouse offers activities for students and teachers, including excerpts from a 17-year-old boy's diary about his visit to the Fair, a list of five children's books about the Fair published in 1876, and three newer children's books on the Fair. There are also ideas about how history, art, English, and world language teachers can use the site in their classrooms. Visitors can search the site by keyword or subject. This site is ideal for exploring the nationˆs first Worldˆs Fair and United States cultural history in general.

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is most renowned for his work in developmental psychology, knowledge theory, and genetic epistemology, though he also wrote philosophy and studied the history of science. This site was developed by the Jean Piaget Archives. This website provides a brief biography and catalogues many original documents, including notebooks, correspondence and published work. The site also includes information about accessing information at the archive, Piaget related conferences and details about applying for grants related Piaget's work.

Sponsored and hosted by the University of California-San Francisco Library & Center for Knowledge Management, this site offers access to organizational records and personal papers about the tobacco control movement, digital libraries of tobacco industry documents, and other resources relevant to tobacco control issues. Fifty million pages of previously secret tobacco industry documents are publicly accessible on the Library’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu) and the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (http://bat.library.ucsf.edu). All documents are full-text searchable. Also included at the site are a guide to searching tobacco industry websites, full-text reports on tobacco industry activity, and links to related resources.

This site includes a broad array of William James' works in digitized full text as well as full text reviews, lesson plans, biographies and images of William James. Researchers in the history of psychology, or of William James in particular, will find this site to be very useful as it includes full text editions of most of James' work in addition to essays about James' impact on the field of psychology and comparisons between James and other psychologists. Some of the links here are dead, but otherwise researchers will find the navigation and layout of the site friendly and the information comprehensive.

Chronologically organized, this site offers a timeline of advances in sound recording and delivery systems with hyperlinks to capsules with more detailed accounts of selected innovations. The site also contains a bibliography and links to other online resources.