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Images from the Jazz Age and Belle Epoque
2008-01-21 03:51:00 Mariana Pinheiro has a wonderful blog, Art Deco, which is chock full of beautiful images from the 1920s and 1930s. Besides feasting your eyes on the images, scroll down to her Deco Links on the left-hand side of the page.By the way, Mariana offers images from before the First World War at another blog, Beautiful Century. [image source]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Jazz , Images , Belle , Ages
Typewriters
2008-01-17 17:11:00 My father had an electric typewriter, but the family typewriter was manual. So were the typewriters I learned on in high school. The electric typewriter that I got for my birthday in 1980 was a fantastic present. The school year was almost over, but I was heading to college the next year and needed one. I belonged to the last generation of students who used one on a regular basis, although I had to type grant application forms as late as 1997. Do you remember using a typewriter? Or perhaps you are younger and have only heard of them? Either way, you can now follow the history of the typewriter and see many images at The Virtual Typewriter Museum. Another worthwhile site is The Classic Typewriter Page by collector and connoisseur Richard Polt. See also the history resources at IBM. Know of any other gems? Leave a link in a comment here.[Source of Image: Wikimedia Commons]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
Holiday Break
2007-12-19 03:59:00 I've decided to take a little break over the holidays. I will not be reading and moderating comments during that time either. See you in 2008! Happy holidays everyone! Happy New Year!© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Holiday , Break
AHA Today: The American Historical Association Blogs
2007-12-12 03:48:00 AHA Today is a blog by the American Historical Association. It offers posts on a variety of topics mainly of interest to professional historians and graduate students, but there are also regular gems of broader interest. Here are two samplers. Click on the headlines for the full posts. House Historyby David Darlington (Nov. 20th) The web site of the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives has an interesting new feature: The House History Timeline. A colorful animated history of important events in the governing body?s history, the timeline covers 1789 to the present. . . . International Tracing Service Opens Holocaust Archive to the Publicby Vernon Horn (Dec. 2nd)The International Tracing Service?s archive of Nazi documents, located in the town of Bad Arolsen, Germany, is now open to the general public. . . . The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is hosting a searchable version of the inventory. . . . Unfortunately, the blog does not have a list of categories, as mo... More About: Blogs
Letters from an English Soldier in the Great War
2007-11-26 02:59:00 Since 2006 there has been a blog by a man who fought in the Great War. Really. Well, he did not start WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier himself, but his letters are being posted there 90 years to the day after he wrote them. [hat tip]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Letters , Great War
Users Bring Archive Contents Online in Britain
2007-11-26 02:41:00 Gavin Robinson at Investigations of a Dog points to an interesting new project of the National Archive s in Great Britain . Over the last week I?ve been exploring the possibilities of Your Archives, the wiki based site set up by the UK National Archives where users can contribute their own knowledge and transcripts of documents. The site has huge possibilities, and so far I feel like I?ve only scratched the surface. To start with I?ve been mostly concentrating on First World War records, as the Great War Forum provides both an immediate audience and lots of potential contributors. Getting these people involved could make a very big difference to the project. [read full post] This sounds like an exciting project indeed. Has anyone heard of similar efforts being made by other archives?© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Great Britain , Web 2 , Online
Google News Archive Search
2007-11-21 13:48:00 Messing around this morning with Google , I found a piece about Thanksgiving from eighty-nine years ago in the New York Times that begins thus: Religious services of Thanksgiving in the churches today will be mingled with honors paid to American and allied soldiers and sailors and with discussions by soldiers and statesmen of the problems of demobilization and reconstruction confronting the country. Till now I had tended to overlook the news results for searches I did on Google, but today I was interested, not least because I was thinking about putting together an American Thanksgiving post. Having opened my eyes today, I noticed that there is a separate Google News search page. Even more interesting, that page has a link to a Google News Archive Search link. When you type in your search term there, you can choose between two buttons, Search Archives and Show Timeline. The latter returns results in chronological order. When I typed "Thanksgiving" I got stories from 1980 forward, but ...
Reichskristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
2007-11-12 04:11:00 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a page devoted to the Reich skristallnacht, aka Night of Broken Glass , a devastating Nazi pogrom against Germany's Jews that occurred on November 9, 1938. The page contains links to further resources, including an online exhibit and the video testimony of an eyewitness. I found out about this page through the museum's e-Newsletter. Images from Wikipedia.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Nach
Courses and Podcasts on the Web
2007-10-06 05:13:00 Open Culture reports that YouTube is offering content from universities now, including courses and special events. It will be interesting to see how this initiative develops. Open Culture itself offers university courses as podcasts, including history courses. I have yet to try these out, but how could one go wrong with a European history course from the Renaissance to the present by Thomas Lacquer and Margret Anderson of UC Berkeley?© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Podcasts , Casts
The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71
2007-09-30 04:31:00 I am looking for sources and images online about the the Franc o -Prussian War. So far the results have been interesting, if meagre. If you know of other material, please tell about it. I welcome leads on French and German material, but I am especially interested in finding sources in English that would be accessible to undergraduate students in the United States. Here is what I have so far: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany (1866-1890) at German History in Images and Documents (GHID) offers some general background information on the period, though unfortunately little on the war itself. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook contains a scanty amount of material on German nationalism and the making of a German nation-state in the nineteenth century. It also has an account by a British war correspondent about a few adventures at the beginning of the war, including his barely avoiding execution by some francs-tireurs. Its page of links on nineteenth-century France contains a secti...
History of Computers
2007-08-25 02:00:00 And now for something different. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California hosts digital exhibitions, including a timeline for computing history, a history of the internet, and a history of microprocessors. There is also an exhibit called Selling the Computer Revolution: Marketing Broshures in the Collection, which offers both small images and full-size PDF files. The museum is not just for engineers. Much of the material is accessible to ordinary people who have no clue about how the magic inside their computers works. Also worth a visit is PC World's A Brief History of Computers , As Seen in Old TV Ads, which contains lots of clips from the early days of home computing. [image source]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Tory
U.S. Government Documents from World War II
2007-08-13 07:17:00 Southern Methodist University (SMU) has a digital library of Historic Government Publications from World War II. See, for example, the pocket guides to foreign countries prepared for American servicemen. There are nineteen in all, including a 1943 guide to Iraq . The titles are available as PDF documents made from scans of the original guides.SMU also has the Melvin C. Shaffer collection of photographs online. Shaffer took them between 1943 and 1945 in North Africa, Italy, Southern France, and Germany.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Middle East , World War
Fascism in Italy
2007-08-04 04:33:00 Italian Life under Fascism : Selections from the Fry Collection. Online exhibit from the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This site offers images and descriptions of sources that cover a wide variety of topics, including imperialism, propaganda, education, women, youth, Mussolini, culture, race, resistance, and the end of the fascist regime.Benito Mussolini, "What is Fascism" (1932), at the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.Benito Mussolini in Pictures claims to be "the most extensive Mussolini Website available." The core of the collection are gruesome pictures of Mussolini's execution, although there are a handful of good pictures from his career.Only One Heart, Only One Will, Only One Decision.The silhouette shows Benito Mussolini.(I found this image years ago on the internet—source unknown.)© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Italy
Turning the Pages? at the British Library
2007-07-25 05:51:00 The British Libra ry has a section called Turn ing the Pages ,™ which allows readers to turn and magnify selections from some of their great and rare books. See, for example, sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, a hand-written history of England by Jane Austin, and a notebook by William Blake. Or perhaps you would like to look at Elisabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal (1737-39), which contains stunning botanical illustrations, including those shown here. There are also beautiful medieval illustrations and the first atlas of Europe. Headlining the current collection are three rare holy books: a Hebrew Bible, a Qur'an, and a Christian Bible from Ethiopia.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
United States Government Documents
2007-07-23 04:06:00 How about a little American history? AHA Today has posted an informative contribution called Accessing the Government Online. It has also announced a new Doc of the Day feature at the National Archives. You can see the document of the day on this page, or you can subscribe to its RSS feed.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: United States , United , States , Documents
Industrial Revolution
2007-07-21 06:19:00 Aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain --- A seminar by Gerard M. Koot with many useful resources, including primary sources.Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution --- This section on the Industrial Revolution lives up to the reputation of the whole sourcebook.The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System --- Contains images, texts, and data. By Julia Lee and Robert Schwartz.Charles Dickens, Hard Times --- Learn a bit more about this 1854 novel at Wikipedia.Archive for the History of Economic Thought --- Excellent archive, but you will need to know the authors you are looking for. One good place to start is Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884).Marxists Internet Archive --- Can you really talk about the Industrial Revoluiton without reference to the interpetation of Marx and Engels?Gustave Doré, "Over London by Rail" (ca. 1870) [Wikimedia Commons]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Rial
Finding Academic Blogs
2007-06-29 23:13:00 Elisabeth Grant discusses some useful resources for listing and finding academic blogs in her post from 6/25/07 on AHA Today entitled Yellow Pages for the Academic Blogosphere.See also Come One, Come All, To The History Carnival from 4/12/2007.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Blogs , Logs , Cade , Demi
Imperialism
2007-06-29 02:09:00 European Imperialism at the Internet African History Sourcebook. Sources include personal narratives as well as analysis and criticism from the time.The Imperialism section at the Internet Modern History Sourcebook has loads of good material. Besides Africa, it considers China, India, the Middle East, Japan, and the United States.Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa at the Marxists Internet Archive offers biographical and bibliographical information, as well as documents.Joseph O'Brien offers a variety of relevant primary sources on his Information for Students page at CUNY.The "New" Imperialism offers documents from the eighteenth into the early twentieth century.The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, in PDF or HTML. Gandhi critiques modern civilization and makes his case for passive resistance. I sometimes use this book in my classes on modern European history.Google searches for "Imperialism," "New Imperialism," and "... More About: Rial , Peri
Slave Trade
2007-06-27 02:00:00 There are many good resources on slavery on the internet, but most of the ones I have found deal with post-colonial America. For the colonial period, which bears directly on the history of early modern Europe, see The Impact of Slave ry at the Internet African History Sourcebook. This site includes interesting personal narratives, including some from former slaves.The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record offers a searchable database of some 1,200 images. (Collection by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr.; hosted by the University of Virginia Library.)There is a short reference to the first Africans in Virgina in 1619 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. The National Park service offers a chronology of African Americans at Jamestown with suggestions for further reading, and Virtual Jamestown offers a selection of seventeenth-century slave statutes.The poster shown here looks like it is from the eighte...
Radical History Resources
2007-06-26 06:54:00 The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649) by Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers. One of many early modern texts available at Renascence Editions.Marxists Internet Archive. Writings, biographies, and other reference materials.Anarchy Archives. Devoted to the history and theory of anarchism, this site offers biographical and bibliographical information about key figures as well as many of their writings.Jay's Radical History Links. This list is huge, and there are some treasures to be had. Unfortunately, there are also some dead links, and the provenance of the linked sources is not always clear. Like research in any other area of history, be prepared to spend time separating the wheat from the chaff.Street Corner Society. According to the author of this site, its "pages explore the common history of groups such as quakers, diggers, rainbow family, christians, taoists, civil libertarians, democrats, republicans, and other divers radicals."Stepterix: A personal journey through the w... More About: Resources , Sources , Tory
Absolutism
2007-06-24 20:09:00 The Library of Congress has an online exhibit called Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotèque Nationale de France. This exhibit runs from the Middle Ages to the present. Two sections deal with absolutism: The Path to Royal Absolutism : The Renaissance and Early 17th Century and The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy: Grand Siècle and Enlightenment.Various documents are available at the Internet Modern History Sourcebook's listings for absolutism.The Constitution Society offers the full text of Six Books of the Commenwealth by Jean Bodin. See the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for more information on Bodin's thought.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
The Spanish Civil War
2007-06-24 07:20:00 The Visual Front: Posters of the Span ish Civil War from UCSD's Southworth Collection.Spanish Civil War Portal. This site is available in many languages, including Spanish.Shots of War: Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War.Spanish Civil War: Dreams and Nightmares at the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive (Great Britain)Spanish Civil War Archive at the Anarchy Archives.La Cucaracha: The Spanish Civil War Site. This site sees itself as a memorial to those who fought against fascism in Spain. Its content (in English, Spanish, and German) includes images and songs.Essays on the Spanish Civil War by Albert Weisbord (an American Communist).Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. Established by veterans of that brigade for pedagogical purposes.Art from the Spanish Civil WarImage: Guernica by Papblo Picasso (1937)© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
The Spanish Civil War
2007-06-24 07:20:00 The Visual Front: Posters of the Span ish Civil War from UCSD's Southworth Collection.Spanish Civil War Portal. This site is available in many languages, including Spanish.Shots of War: Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War.Spanish Civil War: Dreams and Nightmares at the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive (Great Britain)Spanish Civil War Archive at the Anarchy Archives.La Cucaracha: The
Newspapers and Magazines
2007-06-19 05:51:00 I would like to find links to old European newspapers and magazines that are not locked up in a password-protected database. If you know of any, please share the link in a comment here. So far I have made one interesting find in English, the Penny Illustrated Paper (Great Britain, 1861-1913) at the British Library.Image: English coffee house, where people read and discussed the news [Source with further information on this phenomenon: Cabinet Magazine Online]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: Magazines , Newspapers , Newspaper , Papers
Newspapers and Magazines
2007-06-19 05:51:00 I would like to find links to old European newspapers and magazines that are not locked up in a password-protected database. If you know of any, please share the link in a comment here. So far I have made one interesting find in English, the Penny Illustrated Paper (Great Britain, 1861-1913) at the British Library.Image: English coffee house, where people read and discussed the news [Source with More About: Magazines , Newspapers , Newspaper , Papers
The Eighteenth Century
2007-06-16 05:13:00 Jack Lynch offers lists of Eight eenth Century Resources for different fields, including eighteenth-century history. Lynch has identified many, many excellent resources. His focus is on England, Ireland, Colonial America, and the Atlantic World, although there are also useful links for other parts of Europe and the World.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
The Eighteenth Century
2007-06-16 05:13:00 Jack Lynch offers lists of Eight eenth Century Resources for different fields, including eighteenth-century history. Lynch has identified many, many excellent resources. His focus is on England, Ireland, Colonial America, and the Atlantic World, although there are also useful links for other parts of Europe and the World.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
2007-06-12 05:11:00 It is unfortunate, but true. Often the only way to learn about non-elites is through records of their encounters with the law. Hence, the incredible value of having The Proceedings of the Old Bailey , London 1674 to 1834 online. According to the site's main page, it offers "a fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." Besides offering excellent search options, it contains information on how to search for specific segments of London's population. The topics include Black Communities of London, Homosexuality: Gay and Lesbian Subcultures, Gypsies and Travellers, Irish in London, and Jewish Communities. I am dumbfounded by the wealth of source material here available to one and all.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman More About: The O
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
2007-06-12 05:11:00 It is unfortunate, but true. Often the only way to learn about non-elites is through records of their encounters with the law. Hence, the incredible value of having The Proceedings of the Old Bailey , London 1674 to 1834 online. According to the site's main page, it offers "a fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, More About: The O
Darwin Correspondence Online
More articles from this author:2007-06-12 03:44:00 The Darwin Correspondence Project is now making Charles Darwin's correspondence with some 2000 people available online. From the site:Darwin's correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. They provide a remarkably complete picture of the development of More About: Online , Line , Responde 1, 2, 3 |
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