History 110 Internet History Resources



Here is a list of themes and links to sites within Twentieth Century American history. It is suggested that you look at some sites related to areas of interest/coursework and incorporate you findings on these sites into your own project.

An excellent search engine for finding further information about a topic you are interested in researching further is: http://www.alltheweb.com/


African-Americans

http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh122.html
A general encyclopedia type site full of general information.

http://jarl.cs.uop.edu/~ajenkins/
A site dedicated to various African-American leaders throughout American history. The site includes a list of good links for further information.


Civil Rights:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
This site has a timeline with short descriptions of some major events from the civil rights movement. It also has links to short biographies and articles on people and events, and is fairly general and encyclopedic in style.

http://www.seatletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/photo_index.html
This site has some good photos.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
A site of primary documents based upon the life and work of Martin Luther King, including transcripts of speeches.

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/afrores.htm
A good index of black history web sites


Cold War:

http://www.coldwar.org/

http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html


Crime:

http://www.drugwarinfo.com/fact%20Book.htm
This site deals more with the recent history of the War on Drugs. It includes a variety of statistics and a good table of contents that looks at drugs and its relation to society.

http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu:800l/Liberty/Tales/CrimeAndDrugWar.Html

http://pbs.bilkent.edu/tr/wgbh/pages/amex/crime/crimeline.html


Presidents:

http://www.americanpresidents.org/
This site provides basic information for each President, but includes several links to more detailed sites about particular Presidents. It is a good place to begin research.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Another general site with basic information that does a good job in linking numerous primary documents to a President's page.


Radicalism:

http://www.lib.msu.edu/spc/digital/radicalism/sub/_struct.html
This is the "Radicalism Collection" located at MSU's Special Collections. Among its material are a variety of good primary documents. Topics include: AIM, Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, KKK, Birth Control movement, and Japanese-Americans.


Social Movements:

http://www.columbia.edu/~kj75/social/social_movements.htm
This site is an outline for a course at Columbia University and includes movements from the 50's until now: Civil Rights, Peace Movement, GLBT, Environmental Movement, and Religious Right are included. This site is useful mainly as a starting point to other research.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook56.html
A series of links to primary documents relating to black power, feminism, and lesbian and gay rights.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/smc/smcglos.html
This is a glossary of some of the dominant theories about social movements and terms related to them. It is useful as a general resource.


Vietnam:

http://www.vhfcn.org/stats.html

http://esp.sun.space.swri.edu/vn101/index.html


World War II:

http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/

http://webwizard.org/wwii/



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