Web Sites of Interest

Use the links below to access recommended sites from faculty members.

Dr. Chris DeRosa

Professor Susan Douglass

Dr. Katie Parkin

Dr. Karen Schmelzkopf

 Dr. Chris DeRosa

For Cold War research and fun

• The Cold War Files - Interpreting History Through Documents
• CONELRAD: All Things Atomic

For US political research

• The Political Graveyard

Professor Susan Douglass

Holocaust

• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Facing History and Ourselves
• The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
• Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance
• Web Genocide Documentation Center
• Yad Vashem
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Katie Parkin

Fun historical resources for teaching and research

• The National Archives Experience - Digital Vaults
• Turning the Pages - The British Library
• Martha Ballard's Diary Online
• The Triangle Factory Fire
• Visit Presidential Libraries and Museums
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• Smithsonian: Museums
• The National Archives
• Library of Congress
• Newspaper Archive
• Princeton University Library - History Resources
• Princeton University Library - Guides to World Archives and Libraries
• The Valley of the Shadow - Virginia Center for Digital History
• A History Teacher's Bag of Tricks
• Home Economics Archive - Cornell University Library
• Famous Trials - University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School
• Center for History and New Media - George Mason University
• The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
• Historical Newspapers Online
• ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers - Newspaper Digitization

Dr. Karen Schmelzkopf

Online map collections

• David Ramsey Historical Map collection
• University of Texas Libraries Historical Maps of the United States
• University of Georgia Hargett Library Rare Map Collection
• Library of Congress Map Reading Room
• Historical Maps of New Jersey