Best of the Web: History & Social Sciences

Housed at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, this Website includes a resources directory, a calendar of events, online discussion groups, and information for educators.

Comprehensive list of organizations that produce Great Books Foundation titles in formats suitable for the visually impaired. Formats include books produced in large print, Braille, and audio books on tape.

The Greater Astoria Historical Society, chartered in 1985, is a non-profit cultural and community oriented organization dedicated to preserving the past and promoting Long Island City's future.

Green-Wood Cemetery is one of the worlds great cemeteries. Founded in 1838 as the third rural cemetery in America, it is the final resting place of nearly 600,000 persons, including some of history's most memorable figures.

First full-scale valuation of property in Ireland published between 1847 and 1864. It allows researchers to locate 'occupants' to see who lived where.

A collection of annotated links "relating to African American history". This Cornell University Library site "reviews several existing websites and digitization projects and lists noteworthy digitization projects that are forthcoming." These sites are searchable and browsable by the name of the institution or the title of the colelction.

Contains more than 1,600 old names of streets and other urban features that are no longer on the map.

Directory of links to texts, commentaries, other agencies, and additional online resources.

"H-Women is an international electronic discussion group that has been set up at Michigan State University to provide a forum for college and university historians to discuss women's history." As well as threaded discussions, the site includes book reviews, course syllabi, bibliographies, and links to other resources.

The best way to access information about American Indians in Texas is to use the search box.

Full text of the American Anthropological Association's publication.

This site presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia University about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods.

An online exhibition from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

"Through applied research and service, the Harvard Project aims to understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations."

An index to over 800,000 obituaries, death & marriage notices from Ohio from the 1830s to the present day.

"Healthy Measures introduces the concept of new ways for women to measure their health and also promotes new healthier measures or steps that women can take to better their health, without focussing on weight loss. Healthy Measures is based on a three-pronged approach of being active, eating well and being yourself." From the Ontario Association of Local Public Health Agencies.

Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. For those interested in Jewish life in America, the site reproduces more than a thousand books and over two hundred journals published in Hebrew in the United States from 1860 to the present.

Links to genealogical and historical online research resources.

A peer-reviewed, academic journal "dedicated to the study of Northwestern Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire. This journal is intended to be for the use ofprofessionals, students, and amateurs alike." Founded Autumn 1998.

"This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web." From the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of JErusalem and the Jewish National and University Library.

A digital library of local and trade directories from England and Wales from 1750-1919.

Digitized text of the New York Times for those years. Searchable by date or browsable by topic.

The untold story of the first Native American encounter in 1492, an essay by Chief Petro Guanikeyu Torres.

This University of Virginia site provides searchable data, taken from the federal census, about the people and the economy of the United States for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

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A gateway site to U.S. History material on the web.

This site describes the history of beer, brewing process, various styles including homemade and specialty beers, brewpubs, and cooking with beer.

The subject areas of this extensive site include: general information politics society culture and telecommunications. Covers the indigenous peoples of North and South America.

A brief history of Queens from the Office of the Queens Borough President.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1908 to the present.

Information on the origins of whiskey, its production around the world, the methods of distillation, and the differences among various types and characters.

This online exhibit "dispels the myth that the Holocaust was a secret amd explores the reasons why America's newspapers downplayed the horrifying reports from Europe."

This site provides research, fact sheets, and links to government and private organizations.

An organization whose "mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard."

An archive/timeline of US interventions, coups, humanitarian incursions, covert actions, freedom fighters/terrorists and multilateral offensives.

Online publication featuring articles, book reviews, and links with the goal of bringing "into communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might."

In association with National Coming Out Day on October 11th, 2007, this resource provides "a map for planning your coming out conversations with yourself, family and friends. It also provides basic information and resources about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people."

This collection provides access to over 400 items relating to the inauguration of every president since Washington.

This site from Cornell University contains a wide range of authoritative information on Abolition.

IDEA is an electronic journal created for the exchange of ideas related, mainly, to cults, mass movements, autocratic power, war, genocide, holocaust, and murder.

An e-mail discussion list spanning three continents and a range of worldviews and backgrounds. While some posts are personal, most focus on news, views and solutions to homelessness.