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History Website of the Week - Archive

Week of 5/12/2008
Smithsonian Global Sound | www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/
This is the Smithsonian's gateway to the music of the world.

Week of 5/5/2008
Marty Stuart | www.martystuart.net/
Website for country legend Marty Stuart whose collection of memorabilia is the subject of the Old State House's new exhibit: Sparkle & Twang

Week of 4/28/2008
Montgomery Bus Boycott | www.montgomeryboycott.com/
Excellent site on Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Week of 4/21/2008
National Geographic Magazine | ngm.nationalgeographic.com/
When you think it couldn't get better, this website improves.

Week of 4/14/2008
New Orleans Sites
Festival International de Louisiane | www.festivalinternational.com/site47.php
New Orleans Jazz Festival | www.nojazzfest.com/
If Mardi Gras is not your cup of tea, here are two other excuses to visit the Crescent City.

Week of 4/7/2008
NPR Podcasts | www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
National Public Radio has the best selection of podcasts on the Internet.

Week of 3/31/2008
Open Secrets | www.opensecrets.org/
This website follows Deepthroat's advice and "follows the money" in American politics.

Week of 3/24/2008
Mid America Museum | midamericamuseum.org/
After languishing for a time, Arkansas's largest science museum is back as an associate of the Smithsonian

Week of 3/17/2008
Southern Foodways Alliance | www.southernfoodways.com/
So good it will make you slap your Ma

Week of 3/10/2008
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange | www.southernexposure.com/
Great site for heirloom tomato seeds and Southern gardening history

Week of 3/3/2008
Arkansas Toothpick | www.arkansastoothpick.com/
This is the website of the Arkansas Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Week of 2/25/2008
Arkansas in the Civil War | www.lincolnandthecivilwar.com/Activities/Arkansas/Arkansas.asp
The Civil War in Arkansas as seen through Harper's Weekly.

Week of 2/18/2008
Jamie. C. Brandon | www.projectpast.org/jcbrandon/
This is the website of an Arkansas anthropologist. Note his blog, Farther Along.

Week of 2/11/2008
Mike Huckabee & Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton | www.hillaryclinton.com
Mike Huckabee | www.mikehuckabee.com/
Two presidential candidates with Arkansas ties

Week of 2/4/2008
Class Brain: Arkansas | www.classbrain.com/artstate/publish/cat_index_11.shtml
An excellent guide to Arkansas information for school kids.

Week of 1/28/2008
One History: Online Images | www.onehistory.org/ImagesOnline.htm
This is an excellent portal to historical image collections on the Web.

Week of 1/21/2008
Arkansas Arthropods in History & Folklore | entomology.uark.edu/museum/folk.html
More than you ever wanted to know about chiggers ans other creepy crawlers.

Week of 1/14/2008
Mirrors: Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison, 1915-1937 | csac.buffalo.edu/mirrors/mirrorsimages.html
A collection of haunting images found and printed by Bruce Jackson

Week of 10/1/2007
Stax Museum of American Soul Music | www.soulsvilleusa.com/
Second only to Detroit's Motown Records, the Memphis-based Stax Records brought black "rhythm and blues" to a broad popular audience. The new museum is just in time for the labels 50th anniversary.

Week of 9/24/2007
Cornell University Digital Initiatives | campusgw.library.cornell.edu/about/digital.html
The extensive digital offerings include agricultural history; ornithology; veterinary science; home economics; gardening; America's culinary heritage; historic games; Medieval manuscripts; historic monographs; labor history; women's periodicals; witchcraft; presidential elections; abolitionism; New York state history; the French Revolution; race, ethnicity & religion; and the ambitious Making of America Project.

Week of 9/17/2007
Columbia American History Online | www.caho.columbia.edu/
The site offers actual online seminars on topics in American history taught by Columbia University professors.

Week of 9/10/2007
Ouachita National Forest | www.fs.fed.us/r8/ouachita/
It is the 100th anniversary of the South's oldest and largest national forest, which was established by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Week of 9/3/2007
History Now | www.historynow.org
This online quarterly journal from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History should serve as a model for online history journals.

Week of 8/27/2007
Central High 50th Anniversary of Integration | www.arkansasglobecoming.com/
One-stop shopping for all the events surrounding the 50th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School.

Week of 8/20/2007
The Academy of Achievement | www.achievement.org/
This is arguably the best biography site on the Web.

Week of 8/13/2007
The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument and Pioneer Village | www.archway.org/
Although less than a decade old, Kearney, Nebraska's tribute to the settling of the west has already been immortalized in the Jack Nicholson film About Schmidt.

Week of 8/6/2007
International Spy Museum | www.spymuseum.org/
The International Spy Museum is the poster child of 21st-century museums. Is it so tightly wrapped in clever marketing and the myths of popular culture that truth somehow falls by the wayside?

Week of 7/30/2007
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum | www.thestoryoftexas.com/
Deep pockets and a flair for showmanship have arguably made the Bullock the most successful state history museum in the nation. Is it a model other states could follow?

Week of 7/23/2007
Themed Entertainment Association | www.themeit.com/
Edutainment has an international organization. A perusal of this site will lead you to some compelling exhibitry. What does all this mean for traditional museums?

Week of 7/16/2007
BRC Imagination Arts | www.brcweb.com/
BRC is unquestionably the hottest museum design firm in the world. Visit their website and tour some of their projects.

Week of 7/9/2007
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum | www.alplm.org/
This Springfield, Illinois, marvel is a model of the sort of 21st-century exhibitry that designer BRC Imagination Arts calls an "Experience Museum."

Week of 7/2/2007
The American Revolution
Age of Revolution | www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/boisterous/section4_5.html
America: Living the Revolution | www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/livingrev/livingrev.htm
The Road to Independence | odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap3.htm
New Nation: Illustrations of the American Revolution & Early American History | digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=history&collection=ANewNationTheThomasA&col_id=166
The above sites are all intended as resources to aid the teaching of the American Revolution.

Week of 6/25/2007
It Pays to Advertise 2
John Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History | library.duke.edu/specialcollections/hartman/
KnowThis.com: Marketing & Advertising History | www.knowthis.com/general/marketinghistory.htm
Marketing & the Modern Era: Trade Catalogs | www.library.hbs.edu/hc/exhibits/trade/
United Kingdom Advertising Archives | www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/

Week of 6/18/2007
It Pays to Advertise
Advertising Age Timeline | adage.com/century/timeline/
Advertising in 19th Century America | advertising.harpweek.com/
Eisner American Museum of Advertising & Design | www.eisnermuseum.org/

Week of 6/11/2007
Even More Tawdry Amusements
RoadsideAmerica.com | www.roadsideamerica.com/
Sideshow Art | www.sideshow-art.com/
World's Largest Roadside Attractions | www.wlra.us/
Yesterdayland: Discontinued Disneyland Attractions | www.yesterland.com/

Week of 6/4/2007
More Tawdry Amusements
Disneyland Postcards | www.disneylandpostcards.com/
Laff in the Dark: Dark Ride & Fun House Amusements | laffinthedark.com/
Mike's Historic Amusement Parks | www.geocities.com/le_cachot/home.html
Palisades Park | www.palisadespark.com/

Week of 5/28/2007
Tawdry Amusements
The Lost Museum | www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/intro.html
American Experience: Coney Island | www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/
Coney Island, USA | www.coneyisland.com/
Defunct Amusement Parks | www.defunctparks.com/

Week of 5/21/2007
Riverfest Arts & Music Festival | www.riverfestarkansas.com/
Arkansas's premiere festival will celebrate its 30th anniversary on May 25-27 in Little Rock's Riverfront Park.

Week of 5/14/2007
First Annual Little Rock Film Festival | www.littlerockfilmfestival.org/
This first time event premieres May 17-20 at the Riverdale Theaters.

Week of 5/7/2007
Arkansas Heritage Month | arkansasheritage.com/heritage_month/addevents2007.asp
May is Arkansas Heritage Month, spawning dozens of events around the state.

Week of 4/30/2007
Ugly Mascot Festivals
Armadillo Festival, Hamburg, Arkansas | www.armadillofestival.com/
May 5-7
Toad Suck Daze | www.toadsuck.org/

May 3-6

Two sites for events kicking off the festival season in Arkansas


Week of 4/23/2007
Public History Resource Center | www.publichistory.org/
This outgrowth of a project by graduate students at the University of Maryland is a clearinghouse of information about public history projects, particularly on the Internet. One of its most useful features are reviews of history websites.

Week of 4/16/2007
Arkansas Literary Festival | www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org/
Not only does this Little Rock event serve a worthy cause, adult literacy, it has become one of the most educational and downright fun happenings of the year.

Week of 4/9/2007
The Smithsonian Institution | www.si.edu/
Each of the Smithsonian's more than a dozen components would each rank among the world's largest museums in their own right.

Week of 4/2/2007
Amistad Research Center, Tulane | www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
After suffering the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, this black history website is back and better than ever.

Week of 3/26/2007
Ozark Foothills FilmFest | www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org/
This 6th annual celebration of low-budget but high-talent independent films will expand beyond greater metropolitan Locust Grove, Arkansas, to include venues at Little Rock's Cox Center and the Market Street Cinema. The festival runs from March 22 to April 1.

Week of 3/19/2007
From Domesticity to Modernity | rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/
What was home economics? Was it simply a device to keep women in the home? Or was it necessary to teach women the skills required to function as the principal consumers of the 20th century?

Week of 3/12/2007
Hosts of Golden Daffodils
14th Camden Daffodil Festival | www.camdenfestival.com/
March 9 & 10
Wye Mountain Daffodil Festival | www.wyemountainumc-daffodilfestival.com/Daffodil%20Festival.htm
March 10 & 11, 17 & 18
39th Jonquil Festival, Old Washington | www.oldwashingtonstatepark.com/calendar-of-events/

March 16-18

Wander lonely as a cloud or take the whole family to see a crowd, a host of golden daffodils.


Week of 3/5/2007
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition | www.yale.edu/glc/index.htm
Yale's Lehrman Center is attempting to take the study of slavery past the blame game to examine the impact of slavery not only upon slaves and their descendants, but also upon society as a whole. The result is an entirely new appreciation of the role of African Americans in history.

Week of 2/26/2007
Arkansas Ties | www.arkansasties.com/
Perhaps one of the most unusual Arkansas-history related websites is this eclectic assemblage of photographs of historic sites, excerpts of 19th-century articles from the Arkansas Gazette, and daily blog by Pris Weathers.

Week of 2/19/2007
The Quilts of Gee's Bend | www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/
In honor of the Old State House Museum's new exhibition of A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans, we chose to feature the website of the quilters of Alabama's fabled Gee's Bend.

Week of 2/12/2007
Crystal Bridges | www.crystalbridges.org/
The most exciting cultural development in Arkansas since the Clinton Library is undoubtedly Alice Walton's vision of a world-class museum of American art in Bentonville. The 25,000 square foot museum designed by renown architect Moshe Safdie will reside in a 100-acre oasis amidst northwest Arkansas's urban sprawl.

Week of 2/5/2007
Arkansas Post Office Murals | www.uca.edu/cfac/art/murals/homepage2.htm
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the New Deal's Works Progress Administration sought to provide employment for artists on projects such as the painting of post office murals. Those in Arkansas are documented here on the University of Central Arkansas website.

Week of 1/22/2007
African American World | www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
Yes, it's another Web exhibit from PBS. This one serves as a portal to diverse offerings on African American history, art, and culture.

Week of 1/15/2007
Slavery & the Making of America | www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/
The website of PBS's 2005 series on slavery in America, unlike many other PBS companion sites, is a first class resource independent of the television version.

Week of 1/8/2007
National Humanities Center | www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/
Although geared toward academics and unabashedly eggheaded, this site provides a wonderful array of resources, particularly for teachers. It is also extremely well organized.

Week of 1/1/2007
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project | digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/
This website provides full-text access to 76 vintage American cookbooks from Michigan State's "Cookery Collection" of over 7,000 volumes. The website also features a video tour, a glossary of cooking terms, hundreds of antique cooking implements, and seemingly countless recipes.

Week of 12/25/2006
American Antiquarian Society | www.americanantiquarian.org/
The website of the Worcester, Massachusetts archive of this august society features collections of American engravings and children's books, as well as exhibits on the history of valentines, Christmas in America, and women's work.

Week of 12/18/2006
History Channel: Christmas | www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/christmas/
Find out about world traditions, the origins of the Christmas tree, and the evolution of Santa. The heart of the offerings here is a section entitled: The Real Story of Christmas.

Week of 12/11/2006
History Matters: U.S. Survey Course on the Web | www.historymatters.gmu.edu/
This site by the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) is intended as the ultimate resource for students and teachers of American history.

Week of 12/4/2006
H-Net | www.h-net.msu.edu/
Michigan State University's H-Net is the king of list servers for the humanities and social sciences, including history.

Week of 11/27/2006
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton | www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org
American Experience: The Duel | www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/index.html
Hamilton Project: The Rise & Fall of Alexander Hamilton | xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/ham/hamilton.html
Three websites on the forgotten Founding Father and champion of American capitalism.

Week of 11/20/2006
Bob Hope & American Variety | www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/
In a career that went from Vaudeville to motion pictures to television, Bob Hope's life mirrored the transformation of the mainstream of American entertainment.

Week of 11/13/2006
De Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America | xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html
Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America | www.tocqueville.org/
Before you order those "freedom fries" and switch to wine-in-a-box, it might be worth remembering that perhaps the most insightful book ever written about America was penned by a Frenchman.

Week of 11/6/2006
American Studies Museum | xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/toc.html
All of these Web exhibits are from the American Studies program of the University of Virginia.

Week of 10/30/2006
Avalon Project | www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Yale Law School's Avalon Project has put together a digital archive of some of the most important documents in American history.

Week of 10/23/2006
Archiving Early America | earlyamerica.com/
In spite of the pop-ups and some really annoying ads, this website has lots of very useful content about colonial and revolutionary America, including the online magazine Early America Review.

Week of 10/16/2006
Race & Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South | www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/
This collection of related materials on Charlottesville, Virginia's black history should serve as a model for how local libraries might organize similar resources in a comprehensive and yet comprehensible manner.

Week of 10/9/2006
The History Cooperative | www.historycooperative.org/home.html
This site is a joint effort of the American Historical association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Academic Press, and the University of Illinois Press, making enumerable history resources available free to the public.

Week of 10/2/2006
Organization of American Historians | www.oah.org/
If you are a history professional or simply a fanatic you should consider joining the Organization of American Historians. This would give you online access to the OAH's Journal of American History and Magazine of History and make scores of others available through the History Cooperative.

Week of 9/25/2006
Institute of Historical Research: National Centre of History, UK | www.history.ac.uk/
The IHR is part of the School for Advanced Studies of the University of London. Its website provides access to its ejournal Reviews in History and to History On-Line, its resource for teachers, as well as to such partner sites as the Centre for Contemporary British History and the Centre for Metropolitan History.

Week of 9/18/2006
Spanish Conquistadors
Conquisators, PBS | www.pbs.org/conquistadors/
Spanish Conquest of Native America | www.floridahistory.com/
These are two websites on the Spanish Conquistadors and their conquest of Native Americans. The PBS site is from a series of programs on four famous conquistadors. The second site features Hernando de Soto and his journey through North America. Its navigation is often clunky and the music will make you grind your teeth, but the content is excellent.

Week of 9/11/2006
Museum of Civilization | www.civilization.ca/
The Museum of Civilization is Canada's Smithsonian. If you feel you don't know enough about our neighbors to the north, you might want to pay this site and its thousands of pages of information a visit.

Week of 9/4/2006
American Studies Electronic Crossroads | crossroads.georgetown.edu/
This site seems to have been revamped after being neglected for a time. It is a wonderful resource. Be sure to check out the Visible Knowledge Project.

Week of 8/28/2006
Acknowledging the Obvious
Open Directory > History | dmoz.org/Society/History/
Yahoo Directory > History > U.S. History | dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the most obvious approaches are often the best. I use Google so much I neglect old-fashion directories like Yahoo. It is in such lists that you stumble across gems you wouldn't find otherwise.

Week of 8/21/2006
History World | www.historyworld.net/
History World and its related OCEAN Index are unlike anything else on the Internet. As near as I can tell it is an attempt to fashion the next generation of Web site, one that applies knowledge management principles as it grows, constantly implanting self-references so that it is self-aware no matter how big it grows. The potential is almost limitless information delivered by extremely intelligent interfaces, but it will be just the opposite of the wide-open Web we are used to. The problem with this inner-directedness will be avoiding a closed system with no checks on the veracity of its content. Check out World History. Take a peak at the future.

Week of 8/14/2006
History Detectives | www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/
I love this show. It makes historians look like the folks on CSI.

Week of 8/7/2006
Center for American History, University of Texas | www.cah.utexas.edu/
Despite it name, the CAH focuses on Texas and University of Texas history, but does an excellent job covering these subjects. The University of Arkansas could take some pointers from this website.

Week of 7/31/2006
Afro-American History | www.aawc.com/aah.html
This is the black history page of the African American Web Collection offering links to an impressive range of websites on black history. Other links relating to black culture are available on the rest of the AAWC site.

Week of 7/24/2006
Princeton University Library History Resources | www.princeton.edu/~pressman/history.htm
This is another good university history gateway, it gives an excellent overview of the resources available, although some of those listed are only available for Princeton students at the library.

Week of 7/17/2006
eHistory | ehistory.osu.edu/
This Ohio State University history gateway consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps.

Week of 7/10/2006
The American Experience: Coney Island | www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/
Just for fun and because it is summer, we chose this PBS history of America's first amusement park. While you are at it, check out the park's website at http://www.coneyisland.com.

Week of 7/3/2006
The Founding Fathers
The Founders' Constitution | press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
Charters of Freedom: A New World Is at Hand | www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/charters.html
FoundingFathers.info | foundingfathers.info/
In honor of the 4th of July, we thought we'd feature three websites about the Founding Fathers. The National Archives' Charters of Freedom is the star of the trio. The first website is a scholarly analysis of the Constitution, while the third is almost a fans' page.

Week of 6/26/2006
British Museum: Compass | www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/
Compass provides access to over 5,000 artifacts from the British Museum's extensive holdings. These are organized into comprehensible "collections" and viewed via online "tours" that help provide an interpretive context. This is a model for how a museum might make its treasures available to the public.

Week of 6/19/2006
Voyages of Captain Cook
A Curious Variety of Mazes & Meanders | www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/cookmenu.htm
Captain Cook: Celebrated North Country Navigator | www.captcook-ne.co.uk/
Two websites about the fabled explorer. The first is little more than an illustrated bibliography. The second site is well illustrated and quite extensive. Its oddest feature is its Sid Scurvy Fun Pages for children.

Week of 6/12/2006
Mariners' Museum | www.mariner.org/
This website has some of the best online exhibits anywhere. Be sure to check out The Age of Discovery. Captive Passage recounts the Atlantic slave trade. Other exhibits include Birth of the Navy and the U.S.S. Monitor. Also check out the museum's amazing image collection.

Week of 6/5/2006
Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage | www.folklife.si.edu/
I'm not certain, but I think the Smithsonian may have invented multiculturalism. At any rate they do it better than anyone else.

Week of 5/29/2006
Lewis & Clark
Rivers, Edens, Empires | www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/
Lewis & Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery | www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
2005 was the centennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition, so naturally we waited until now to feature these two websites on their journey.

Week of 5/22/2006
The Henry Ford: America's Greatest History Attraction | www.hfmgv.org/
The modest subhead says it all! It is fitting that the website opens with a marketing splash page and that recent exhibits have included one on Disco and another on Disneyland. The current offering is Baseball As America. The controversial Ford, with its accompanying, authenticity-challenged Greenfield Village, has long been America's most commercial history museum, not to mention one of the most successful. The website continues that tradition.

Week of 5/15/2006
BBC History | www.bbc.co.uk/history/
American history is obviously not this site's strongest suit. It is, however, the portal of choice for all things British and European from ancient times to the present. The History Trails section is a good place to start, particularly the one entitled: How to Do History.

Week of 5/8/2006
Arkansas Arts Council | www.arkansasarts.com/
May is Arkansas Heritage Month and this year's theme is Arkansas Artists: Treasures Discovered. We therefore felt it was appropriate to feature this website of our sister agency at the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Week of 5/1/2006
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture | www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net
The website of the long-anticipated Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture launches May 2, 2006. Everyone should check it out.

Week of 4/24/2006
National Museum of Japanese History | www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index_ne.html
Although the Rekihaku is a history museum, its website's emphasis is on historic artifacts rather than narratives, giving its website the feel of an art museum. In photographs of the interior of the museum, you see that diagrams and dioramas were used to aid interpretation. Similar techniques would have benefited the website.

Week of 4/17/2006
Thomas Jefferson Turns 263
Thomas Jefferson Online, PBS | www.pbs.org/jefferson/
Thomas Jefferson Exhibit, Library of Congress | www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/
The Thomas Jefferson Papers | memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/
In honor of Jefferson's birthday, we chose these three sites.

Week of 4/10/2006
Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum | www.northlr.org/maritime-museum/
Since the steamboat and restaurant the Arkansas Queen is slated to join the submarine U.S.S. Razorback, we thought we'd call attention to this North Little Rock park's website. And check out their blog at http://www.aimmatnlr.blogspot.com/

Week of 4/3/2006
Benjamin Franklin, PBS | www.pbs.org/benfranklin/
To quote the website: He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has ever known. Born into the family of a Boston candle maker, Benjamin Franklin became the most famous American of his time. He helped found a new nation and defined the American character. Writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, civic leader, international celebrity . . . genius. Explore the life of a remarkable man.

Week of 3/27/2006
Washington Duo
Academic Info: History Gateway | www.academicinfo.net/hist.html
Although this site's organization is straight forward and unpretentious, it provides access to an amazing array of resources.

Week of 3/20/2006
Best of History Web Sites | besthistorysites.net/
This site provides a portal to nearly a thousand history-related websites. One of the BOHWS's best features is that it allows you to Google these sites collectively to find just the information you are seeking.

Week of 3/13/2006
Sequoyah Research Center | anpa.ualr.edu/
This website for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock home of the American Native Press Archive offers a unique perspective on American Indian history and culture, including materials on the Trail of Tears in Arkansas and on the writings of John Rollin Ridge.

Week of 3/6/2006
Arkansas Archeological Survey | www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/
In honor of our new exhibit, Sam Dellinger & the Raiders of the Lost Arkansas, we thought we should choose the Arkansas Archeological Survey as this week's winner. There's access to a lot of information here if you follow all of the links.

Week of 2/27/2006
Ashley County Ledger: County History | ashleycountyledger.com/history/
This website is a model of how a local newspaper can inform its readers about the community's history. More Arkansas newspapers should follow the Ledger's example.

Week of 2/20/2006
George Washington
George Washington: A National Treasure | georgewashington.si.edu/
Rediscovering George Washington | www.pbs.org/georgewashington/
We missed his birthday by a month, but this week's choices are two sites about the Father of Our Country by the Smithsonian and PBS.

Week of 2/13/2006
George Washington's Mount Vernon | www.mountvernon.org/
Mount Vernon was the first building in America to be preserved through the effort of the public. Visit its website and take a "virtual tour."

Week of 2/6/2006
Southwest ARchives | www.southwestarchives.com
Even after a recent facelift, the website of the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives is still a little clunky. The Robert Walz collection of photographs are worth the trouble.

Week of 1/30/2006
History Now | www.historynow.org/
This wonderful online magazine is from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Week of 1/23/2006
America's Story from America's Library | www.americaslibrary.gov
This kid-friendly but not condescending site from the Library of Congress is a great gateway to American history for children.

Week of 1/16/2006
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History | www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
This site's links give you access to hundreds of primary source documents in American history.

Week of 1/9/2006
History News Network | historynewsnetwork.org/
News about history and historians as well as a look at the news from a historical perspective.

Week of 1/2/2006
Built in America | lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
This is the website of the Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey & Historic American Engineering Record, a collection of photographs and measured architectural drawings of historic structures all over America made in the 1930s.

Week of 12/26/2005
Holiday Greetings
Greeting Card History | www.greetingcard.org/thegreetingcard_history.html
Greeting Card Museum: History of Greeting Cards | www.emotionscards.com/museum/museum.html
Livaudais History of Christmas Cards | www.livaudaisnet.com/xmas/xmascard01.htm
Though the oldest known valentine dates from 1400, Christmas cards are relatively new. The earliest is attributed to John Calcott Horsley in 1843. The first site here gives an overview greeting card history. Choose "History of Greeting Cards" on the second for a more exhaustive chronicle. The third site has dreadful navigation, but offers many examples of vintage Christmas cards.

Week of 12/19/2005
Discovery Channel History Guide | dsc.discovery.com/guides/history/history.html
This Web page is a nicely designed gateway to the history resources on the Discovery Channel's website. While the Discovery folks have a tendency to over sensationalize and to occasionally cross the boundary of fiction with their speculations, they are masters of using computer simulation to bring history to life.

Week of 12/12/2005
America at Work, America at Leisure | memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html
This Library of Congress website features film clips of Americans working, playing, or at school from 1894 to 1915. There are images from Buffalo's Panamerica Exposition and other World's Fairs and fascinating factory footage from Westinghouse. My personal favorites, however, are "Babies rolling eggs," "New York City 'ghetto' fish market," and "Rube and Mandy at Coney Island."

Week of 12/5/2005
Remember Pearl Harbor
Remembering Pearl Harbor | plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
Naval Historical Center: Pearl Harbor Raid | www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm
Pearl Harbor - Imperial War Museum | www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/25/pearl_harbour/index.htm
In honor of the anniversary of the attack, we thought we'd feature three websites on the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. The first is by the National Geographic; the second is from the U.S. Naval History Center; and the third is from the Imperial War Museum.

Week of 11/28/2005
Digital History | www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
If you teach American history, there is no better gateway to the materials you need than this website by the University of Houston. There are resource guides organized by dates and subject matter, an online textbook, essays on the art of historical analysis and interpretation, online exhibits on the Civil War and Reconstruction, and links to images on almost every subject.

Week of 11/21/2005
Project Past | projectpast.org/
This website by self-styled "loose network of anthropologists, archeologists and historians" features several Arkansas projects.

Week of 11/14/2005
Best Millennium Best-of Lists
Time Magazine: 100 Most Important People of the Century | www.time.com/time/time100/index.html
New York Times Magazine: Millennium's Best | www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m1/index.html
Two more end-of-the-millennium looks back, this time in the form of best-of lists. One is from Time and the other from the New York Times Magazine. What is your vote as the best legume of the last 1,000 years?

Week of 11/7/2005
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture | www.americanpopularculture.com/
This site offers a wide variety of resources on American popular culture presented magazine-style in two distinct venues. The default is the lowbrow—perhaps I should say "pop"—Magazine Americana. If you prefer something more scholarly you can opt for Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture.

Week of 10/31/2005
I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts | www.pbs.org/immaw/
This 1999 PBS series filmed by Blackside Productions provides an overview of black art in the 20th century. While PBS has maintained the website, numerous links to resources at Blackside are no longer supported. It would be a public service if someone restored these.

Week of 10/24/2005
The Underground Railroad
The Rokeby Museum | www.rokeby.org/
The Underground Railroad in Illinois | www.ugrr-illinois.com/
William Still Underground Railroad Foundation | www.undergroundrr.com/
National Geographic: The Underground Railroad | www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | www.freedomcenter.org/
The actual extent of the "Underground Railroad" is a source of contention among historians. Presented here are five websites championing the notion, the most notable of which is the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Week of 10/17/2005
Lyon College Regional Studies Center | www.lyon.edu/webdata/groups/library/rcol/rcol2.htm
Brooks Blevins is doing wonderful things with Ozark history at Lyon College's Regional Studies Center. Note in particular the John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection which allows you to download Sacred Heart gospel, delta blues, and traditional mountain music.

Week of 10/10/2005
Christopher Columbus
1492: An Ongoing Voyage | www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
Columbus Navigation Homepage | www.columbusnavigation.com/
Columbus and the Age of Discovery | muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/
In honor of Columbus Day, we chose these three sites.

Week of 10/3/2005
American Heritage | americanheritage.com/
In case you hadn't noticed, American Heritage, long this country's most popular his