Best of the Web: History & Social Sciences

Written by Joan M. Jensen of New Mexico State University, the esaay provides a history and an evaluation of the women'swork in reflecting and portraying their culture to their own people and to the larger community and at the same time, making a contribution to the art of photography.

At this site you will find material on the history of Canada's Native peoples as well as current issues important to the Cree people, the Voisey Bay situation, and British Columbia.

This site will give you access to material on contemporary issues of importance to the Inuit, the Alaskan Natives and the Innu of Labrador and Quebec.

Directory of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them.

This is a major umbrella website for Native American artists, museums,collections and galleries. The site covers Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Online exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Centers mission is to facilitate and encourage citizen participation in the improvement and protection of New York Citys diverse neighborhoods. It is a place where the public is welcome to convene, strategize, and exchange information through its various services: public meeting rooms, temporary and virtual offices, and a resource referral service.

"Nestor is an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. . . . The primary geographic nexus of Nestor is the Aegean, including all of Greece, Albania, the southern coast of Bulgaria, the western and southern coasts of Turkey, and Cyprus. Its chronological range is the prehistoric period from the Palaeolithic through the end of the Geometric period. Within the topographic and chronological scope defined above, Nestor attempts to list all publications on any aspect of human activity. These include but are not limited to human interactions with the environment,material culture, social, political, and economic ctivities, structures, and organizations, and languages and systems of recording,writing, and accounting. Related topics are also included, such as Philistine culture within our chronological limits, 'ArchaeolgicaHomerica', the Classical Cypriot syllabary, and Indo-European linguistics especially concerning the development of Greek."

Directory of links in the categories of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Psychoanalysis.

This site features 20,000 items, including photographs, speeches, letters, documents, and exercises from the New Deal era.

Eye care facility, website contains information on eye conditions.

This site, developed and maintained by Steve Anderson, includes historic overviews, maps and photos of the highways, bridges and tunnels of the New York metropolitan area.

Information on how to order NYC Birth Records (1910+) and Deaths Records (1949+).

The New York City Coalition Against Hunger represents the more than 1,000 non-profit soup kitchens and food pantries in NYC, and the more than one million low-income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to both meet the immediate food needs of low income New Yorkers, and enact innovative solutions to poverty to help them move "beyond the soup kitchen" to self sufficiency.

A searchable database of the marriage indexes for Brooklyn Grooms (1864-1907), Manhattan Grooms (1866-1897), and Grooms of All Boroughs (1908-1936). Created by volunteers at the Italian Genealogy Group.

A pathfinder produced by the staff of Columbia University Libraries, which provides links to many useful resources covering the history of New York City.

The Neighborhood Preservation Center and New York Citys Landmarks Preservation Commission have joined together to provide free online access to Landmark designation reports. Designation reports explain the architectural, historical or cultural significance of an individual landmark or historic district. Work in Progress.

part of the NYC Department of Records & Information Services

Information on the holdings of New York City newspapers available in the Microforms Room (Room 100) of the Humanities & Social Sciences Library located at 5th Ave. and 42nd St.

Contain records on former members of the NYPD (1898-1970).

A photographic and historical tour of New York's first subway line, the IRT.

The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Search the collection for New York City images.

The premier place to go for New York State genealogical research.

Programs for children with blindness and visual impairments, as well as those with emotional, learning, or developmental disabilities.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy provides news and information about building preservation in New York, including repair work and financing resources.

Learn about the resources and services of the Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.

Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets

VESID, an office of the New York State Education Department, each year offers thousands of New Yorkers who have a disability an opportunity to become independent through education, training and employment.

Locate New York State Newspapers on microfilm and in print.

The PBS Series.

Include more than 4000 State and National Register of Historic Places nomination forms and their associated photographs.

The 8th episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its tragic demise in the fall of 2001 and extraordinary response of the city in its aftermath.

A portal for news, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, and alternative newsweeklies.

Library of Congress' list of online newpaper archives, indexes and databases, with links to both free and subscription services.

NewYorkHeritage.org is a portal to hundreds of free digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.

This online exhibit, from the Imperial War Museum in London, chronicles women's experiences during war in the 20th century.

Ross Publishing offers a growing list of current newspapers on microfilm, as well as a first-time publisher of various reference works in hardcopy and microform.

U.S. Department of State materials on North Korea.

Offers audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with ten influential New Yorkers, drawn from the collections of the Oral History Research Office of the Columbia University Libraries.

This New York City agency provides information about temporary emergency shelter, in partnership with public and private agencies.

Frequently asked questions about the history of the New York City Police Department.

A virtual tour of New York University and Greenwich Village history including a walking tour, biographical sketches and quotes.

Contains original content by medical practicioners and an annotated subject directory of links to other resources.

Research guides for individual states.

Free citations to published obituaries in newspapers contributed to and updated by volunteers.