Graduate Schools in the Digital Age:
Research and Publication
Organization of American Historians' Convention,
Memphis, TN, April 3, 2003
Patrick D. Reagan
Tennessee Technological University
Contact via e-mail at preagan@tntech.edu
Conducting the Literature Search
Library Catalogs and Connections
Internet Resources for Subject Searches
Doing Research on the Net
Some Examples of Well Done History Sites Using Electronic Sources
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
(E.L. Ayers, University of Virginia)
- American Social History Project (City University of New York)
- The Lost Museum [P.T. Barnum museum, 1841-1865] (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
- History Matters: The US [History] Survey Course on the Web
(American Social History Project/Center for History and the New Media)
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- The Making of America (University of Michigan)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (SUNY, Binghamton)
- American Journey Online (Primary Source Media) [subscription required]
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
- River Web: American Bottom Landing Site (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Famous Trials (D. Linder, University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)
- History and Politics Out Loud (J. Goldman, Northwestern University)
- U.S. Army War College and Military History Institute (Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania)
- World War I History Commission Questionnaires (Library of Virginia)
- The New Deal Network (Columbia University)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (Stanford University)
- The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 (Vassar College)
- Resources on the Vietnam Conflict (Texas Tech University)
- Virginia Center for Digital History (University of Virginia)
Some Experiments in Electronic Publication
Useful Software Programs and Tools in Completing Your Research
Book, Film, DVD, and Video Reviews
Surviving the Gauntlet: Support Groups for Graduate Students
American Historical Association
400 A Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003-3889 (202) 544-2422
fax:(202) 544-8307 or via e-mail at
aha@theaha.org or members@theaha.org.
Founded in 1884 as the first national historical organization in the
United States, the AHA was chartered by Congress in 1889. You should join as a
graduate student to take advantage of its low student rate.
Organization of American
Historians.
112 North Bryan Street, Bloomington,
Indiana 47408-4199. (812) 855-7311 8 am to 5 pm EST or FAX (812)
855-0696 or via e-mail at oah@oah.org.
One of the major national historical professional groups which includes
historians of the United States. You should join as a graduate
student and pay the discounted student membership rate.
The Historical Society
656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine, Boston, Massachusetts 02215-2010. (617)
358-0260 Fax (617) 358-0250 or via e-mail at
historic@bu.edu. Begun in 1999 in an attempt to revive the art of historical
interpretation without regard to ideology, interpretive approach, or subject matter,
the Historical Society includes historians of all geographical areas, thematic
approaches, time periods. Membership rates are discounted for both students and
the unemployed.
Reference Works: From Graduate School to the Job Market
- Barbara J. Howe. Careers for Students of History.
Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1989. Purchase
this invaluable guide from AHA, Publication Sales, 40 A Street
SE, Washington, D.C. 20003-3889. $6 member/$8 non-member.
- Robert E. Clark and John Palattella. The Real Guide to Grad
School: What You Better Know Before You Choose Humanities &
Social Sciences. New York: Lingua Franca Books, 1997. 532 pp.
#0-9630238-0-2 $24.95 paperback.
- Melanie Gustafson. Becoming a Historian: A Survival
Manual. Washington, DC: Committee on Women Historians and the American
Historical Association, 2003. 88 pp. #0-87229-117-0. A must-buy work for any serious
graduate student in history from http://www.theaha.org/pubs.
- Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick. The Academic Job
Search Handbook, Second Edition . Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 208 pp. ISBN #0-8122-1595-8 $14.95
paper.
- Directory of History Departments in the United States and
Canada, annually revised edition. Washington, D.C.: American
Historical Association, every year. You will want to review
graduate program information and faculty in specific historical
specializations in the departments you are interested in as
listed in this valuable reference work which is available for
your use in the Department of History office.
- Lesli Mitchell. The Ultimate Grad School Survival Guide.
Princeton: Peterson's, 1996. 209 pp. Available from Peterson's,
202 Carnegie Center, P.O.Box 2123, Princeton, NJ 08543-2123 or by
telephone at 1-800-338-3282. Based on author's personal
experience begun as an English graduate student at Georgia State
University and interviews with about 200 other graduates students
conducted on the Internet.
- The Resource Guide for Teaching and Marking Assistants in
History. Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Historical Association,
1993. 58 pp. $5.00. Available from Graduate Committee, Canadian
Historical Association, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Canada,
K1A 0N3. Fax 613-567-3110.
- Grants and Fellowships of Interest to Historians. Washington,
D.C.: American Historical Association, annual. Lists sources of
support for predissertation, dissertation, and post-doctoral
research.
- Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998)
(The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University)
- Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report
(The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University)
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