Best of the Web
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A collection of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880.
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Online companion to a PBS documentary concerning American conscientious objectors to World War II.
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The Local History Division of the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library. The Division is located at 5th Avenue and 42nd St. in Manhattan and has extensive holdings of NYC and Staten Island History.
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The Society of this Victorian actor-manager includes selections from past and present newsletters with illustrated articles describing Irving's life and cultural milieu.
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A look at life, health, and urban transformation from the Civil War to the end of World War I.
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A rich collection of 19th century books and journals from the University of Michigan. Topics range from American social history from the antebellum period, through reconstruction.
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The story of how the bridge got its name.
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Information about Genealogical Research in New York City. The Society is located in Manhattan but holds records for Staten Island as well.
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Learn about the resources and services of the Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.
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The history and other interesting information about the NYC subway system.
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A rapidly expanding Digital Library from Tufts with a plentiful collection of Greek playtexts and other classical resources. The site also contains full-text versions of Christopher Marlowe's work, an edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, and source material on the history and founding of London. Atlases identify places mentioned in the collection of online texts.
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Comprehensive list of politicians who were born, lived, or died in Bronx County. Also arranged by cemetary or memorial site.
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Since its organization in 1977, the Preservation League of Staten Island has supported the preservation of Staten Island's historic built environment through a variety of activities.
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This site provides access to documents, photographs, recordings and digitized collections from the presidential libraries of last century's presidents.
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Leads to a variety of informative resources on Beckett, his influence, his work.
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This project's goals are to use electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
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Index to the Staten Island Historical Society's publication "The Staten Island Historian". Contains hundreds of articles about Staten Island history and is available on Staten Island at the St. George Library Center and the Staten Island Historical Society Library at Historic Richmond Town. (PDF Format)
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Located on the main floor of Staten Island Borough Hall are thirteen large, newly restored, murals depicting scenes from Staten Island history.
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The optical semaphore signal that announced the arrival of ships in New York Harbor on what was known as Telegraph Hill.
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A comprehensive history of tenant organizing in Manhattan, from the first World War through the 1980's.
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A list of the 100 most important Island events as chosen by the readers of the Staten Island Advance.
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The Winter/Spring 2001 issue of the Staten Island Historian describing the development of forests and agricultural trees in Historic Richmond Town and on Staten Island.
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Includes a timeline, a bibliography, and brief visual and textual commentary on the plays, casts, and staging of Restoration Drama, as well as on life in 17th Century London.
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Jack Wolcott's spare but lucid directory of theatre history resources, regularly maintained.
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Jerry Bangham, a theatre history scholar, has organized a multitude of theatre history sites from the Greeks to early 19th and 20th Century American theatre. The link at the bottom of the page will take you to a large list of general theatre sites, organized by subject.
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A searchable guide with information about the foundations of government, its institutions, and processes, both past and present.
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An article about Henry David Thoreau's stay on Staten Island from "Literary Traveler".
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A searchable full-text collection of the publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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Significant dates from prehistory to the present day.
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The official Times Square website which includes an online exhibition celebrating the centennial of Times Square and other links that explore the historic heritage and current highlights of Times Square.
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An article from the Staten Island Register by Angie Mangino
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The second part of Angie Mangino's article.
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This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) held by the Cornell University Library. You will find original documents, oral histories, and photographs.
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Working conditions exposed [1911].
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Provides access to video recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors, as well as a searchable archives catalog, additional education information and links. Site hosted by the University of Southern California.
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This digital archive presents a hypermedia archive of primary sources providing a social history of a northern and a southern community from 1859 through the Reconstruction period.
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The record of Giovanni da Verrazano's 1524 voyage to the new world and Staten Island.
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History, statistics, and photos of the bridge.
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Collects and preserves stories of wartime service.
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This project by the Library of Congress provides access to a collection of oral histories, and documentary materials of America's war veterans and those who served in support of them.
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VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and toaiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period. VRW is intended to supply a handy set of tips and links to help Victorianists find the practical information they need, whether it's an archive catalogue, a bibliography, a listserv address, a sample syllabus, a place to stay in London, or a journal's submission guidelines.
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This searchable site features oral histories, documents (such as official military records) and photographs.
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A gateway site to United States history sites arranged by general subject headings.
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"This web resource consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust." A British Library site.
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A list of the Staten Island volunteer fire companies from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s with their locations and dates of organization.
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A history of the college, which moved to Grimes Hill in 1918.
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Directory of the History Department faculty at Wagner.
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Projects created by the students of Wagner College include materials on: Native Americans, Huguenots, Park Hill, the Civil War, World War I, 19th Century transfomations, Edwin Markham, Prohibition Park...
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Thirteen Online's Web companion takes you on a virtual tour of New York's most populous borough with David Hartman and historian Barry Lewis.
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A searchable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 317 Kodachrome slides documenting the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans evacuated from California, Oregon, and Washington by the War Relocation Authority during World War II.
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This site hosts the historical writings of James Renner and other history pieces on Washington Heights and Inwood.
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Information on geography, history, and current issues. Includes an annotated list of links to othter Kurdistan Web resources.
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This ongoing project contains a series of linked chronologies that depict world, regional, and cross-cultural history.
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A selection of archival materials, including primary source materials, related to the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest.
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Alternate explanations from Barry Popik and the Gotham Center for New York City History.
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Click on a name or a play for multi-faceted resources on African-American Women playwrights and their plays.
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This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression by providing access to historical manuscipts, images and other primary sources.
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This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression by providing access to historical manuscipts, images and other primary sources.
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A online exhibit from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History relating to the Fresh Kills Landfill recovery operations and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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This timeline includes images, posters, maps, political cartoons, newspaper clippings, and diagrams.
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Includes photos from its archive collection and museum exhibits, a chronology of the Holocaust, and links to related sites.