Contemporary (Post-WWII)

Where Were You? September 11th, 2001

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.wherewereyou.org/

Excerpt:

"Where Were You When America Was Attacked?"
This site exists to gather the thoughts and emotions of everyday people to the events on and after September 11, 2001.

Annotation:

The production of three college students, Where Were You? invited visitors to share their experiences of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Between September 15, 2001 and September 15, 2002 more than 2,500 stories were collected through the website. The stories are grouped by state, country, and age and the text is fully searchable. The contributors were of all ages and came from many locations, making this a noteworthy collection of personal narratives of the September 11 attacks.

Critical Infrastructure Protection Oral History and Digital Archive Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/cipdigitalarchive/

Excerpt:

In October 2003, the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Oral History Project launched Phase One of its three-part study of the evolution of CIP in the United States. The first phase will document the history of critical infrastructure protection policy from its roots up to the unveiling of Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63) in 1998. The two subsequent phases will look at later CIP developments, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. At the heart of all three phases of the project will be a series of face-to-face and telephone sessions with key CIP policymakers and those responsible for implementing and assessing critical infrastructure initiatives and programs. At the same time, we're eager to collect information and insights from visitors to our web site. We hope you'll take time to contribute to the historical record yourself by completing our online survey. The form is easy to fill out and will require only a few minutes of your time.

Annotation:

This multi-faceted project documents the history of the nation's efforts to protect what has come to be called critical infrastructure -- the systems and structures that are vital to the smooth and safe functioning of our economy, society, and way of life. Examples of critical infrastructure include the country’s electrical grid, banking network, distribution pipelines, transportation corridors, and emergency response systems, among other things. Many of these systems are interdependent and rely on computer technology to operate.

A major focus of the CIP Oral History and Digital Archive Project is an ongoing interview program centered on the evolution of critical infrastructure protection -- or CIP -- during the 1980s and 1990s, up to the formation of the Department of Homeland Security in November 2002. Many of our interviewees are federal policymakers who have helped to shape and guide the CIP debate at the highest levels of government. You’ll find summaries of their interview transcripts in the Archive section.

In addition to gathering first-hand insights into recent CIP history, the project also looks at the broad historical context of CIP in the United States during the last three centuries. The Overview section sketches out some of the major issues in CIP, supplemented by a Timeline offering a detailed overview of key events and developments in CIP history. The Archive section provides easy access to a collection of materials selected for their relevance to the "big picture" of CIP. The Bibliography section gives suggestions for additional background reading available from other sources.

Moving Here

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.movinghere.org.uk

Excerpt:

The vision of Moving Here is to explore, record and illustrate why people came to England over the last 200 years, and what their experiences were and continue to be. The site mainly looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities but we are growing all the time!

This web site offers free access, for personal and educational use, to online versions of original material related to migration, including photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps and art objects, as well as a collection of sound recordings and video clips.

Annotation:

A collaborative effort of thirty archives, museums, and libraries, the Moving Here website explores, records, and illustrates the motivations and experiences of immigrants to England over the past 200 years. There are exhibits and galleries outlining the experiences of Caribbean, Irish, Jewish, and South Asian immigrants, and a searchable database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents, and audio files. The site also provides a guide to researching family history. Visitors are invited to share their family's migration story and provide personal images through the website. There are already more than 500 stories and images gathered through the website and contemporary community groups.

Atomic Veterans History Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/

Author:

Keith Whittle

Excerpt:

The Atomic Veterans History Project contains over 600 personal narratives about the military duties and memories of US Servicemen who witnessed these atomic and hydrogen weapons tests. Many veterans have sent photos, certificates and newspaper articles which we have added. There are over 500 photos from the recently declassified DOE atomic test films. Over 2500 files (stories, pictures and documents) are posted.

Atomic Veterans are invited to email their personal recollections. Information on researching your atomic military history is provided.

Annotation:

The Atomic Veterans History Project collects and presents the personal narratives of US Servicemen who witnessed atomic and hydrogen weapons tests. The site includes photographs, newspaper articles, official documents in addition to more than 600 personal narratives submitted via e-mail.

Business History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/GUIDES/business_history.html#INTERNET

Excerpt:

Business History
Scope: This is a categorized and annotated list of selected cross discipline information sources for doing research on the history of business. Email the subject area specialist at lg30@umail.umd.edu or call 301-405-9278 for more information.

Table of Contents

Subject Headings
Guides to the Literature
Chronologies and Encyclopedias
Bibliographies
Biographical Information Sources
Corporation Reports
Company and Industry Overviews
Periodical Indexes
Federal Government Publications
Statistical Information Sources
Internet Sites
Other Information Sources

The History of Computing Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.thocp.net/

Excerpt:

the History of Computing Project

Companies that created most of the mile stones in the computing industry
Biographies of computer poioneers and inventors
Timeline of the main events in the history of computing
Hardware developments that made an impact on the development of computers
Software that set a trend in the development of computing
History of Video games

Annotation:

The History of Computing Project is a non-profit, collaborative initiative "to record and publish the history of the computer and its roots in the broadest sense of the word." The site is a large collection of short reports divided into six subcategories: Companies, biographies, timeline, hardware, software, and video games. The site contains many images that supplement the historical text, and there are links to outside sources. The site is growing and as the editors add information to address all of their topics completely, this site will become a one stop source for any computer background topic. As it is, the site is large enough to seem a little unwieldy, and it is not searchable, but the division of categories, and the occasional alphabetical or chronological index, organizes the material into segments that are more accessible.

Ingenious: Seeing Things Differently

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/

Author:

National Museum of Science and Industry

Excerpt:

Ingenious is a new website that brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture. It weaves unusual and thought-provoking connections between people, innovations and ideas. Drawing on the resources of NMSI, the site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates.

History of the Health Sciences Web Resources

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm#his

Excerpt:

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links

Organizations in the History of the Health Sciences
History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives
History of the Health Sciences Educational Programs
Organizations and Museums with History of the Health Sciences Interests
Important Figures in Health Sciences - Their Lives & Works
Databases
Links Pages
Oaths, Prayers and Symbols
For Children
The History of Diseases
Bibliographies/Chronologies/Histories
Listservs
Newsgroups
Journals

WWW Virtual Library Economic and Business History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://www.neha.nl/w3vl/resources.html#intech

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History of Economic Thought

Adam Smith Page at the University of Texas at Dallas. Bio- and bibliographical information.
Akamac E-text Links Links to texts to 400 historically important economists and related theorists in philosophy, political science and other social sciences.
Archival Resources in the History of Economics maintained by the History of Economics Society. Searchable database of over 70 important collections.
August Ludwig von Schloezer: Briefwechsel This site contains a digital version of a collection of letters of August Ludwig Schlözer Briefwechsel, meist historischen und politischen Inhalts (Göttingen 1778). Schlözer (1735-1809) was an German enlightened historian, statistician and philogist. The work consists of five volumes with an index.

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

URL:

http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/index.html

Author:

Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University

Excerpt:

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor.

Current online holdings: Pages: 743,919 Books: 1,527 (1,585 Volumes) Journals: 6 (288 Volumes)

Annotation:

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) site covers an enormous range of agricultural literature dating from the middle of the nineteenth century. The library suggests that the history of the United States can not be understood without attention to American rural and agricultural life. Thus the site acts as a virtual companion to a compilation of 4500 key documentary texts that have been identified and evaluated by a team of historians. The CHLA boasts over 1500 of these books and journals available online. Facsimiles of these works are provided in PDF format. The collection is searchable, or a researcher can browse the holdings by title or by author.