Computers and Audiovisual Resources in History
Computers and Audiovisual Resources in History
Computers, Teaching, and History
- Internet Tutorials (University of Albany Libraries)
- History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
- Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research (University of Houston)
- Using Primary Sources on the Web (Reference and User Services Association, History Section, American Library Association)
- Net Day Compass: Your Guide to the World of Ed[ucational] Technology
-
Camille Paglia, "The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age," Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 11 (Winter 2004).
- Humanist Discussion Group [computers and the Humanities]
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (C.W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston Library)
- Humanities Resource Zone (Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services, United Kingdom)
- The Internet for Historians (Virtual Training Suite, JISC, United Kingdom)
- The Internet for History and Philsophy of Science (Virtual Training Suite, JISC, United Kingdom)
- Humanities computing units and institutional resources
(Willard McCarty, King's College London, and Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Kentucky)
- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (University of California, Berkeley)
- Association for History and Computing
- Historical Media Review
- Journal of the Association for History and Computing
- International Digital Media & Arts Association
- International Digital & Media Arts Association Journal
- Journal of MultiMedia History
- Journal of Research on Technology in Education
- The American Association for History and Computing
- Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents (S. Townsend, C. Chappell, O. Struijvé)
- Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)
- Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research (University of Houston)
- Humanist Discussion Group [computers and the Humanities]
- Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with INfokrmation Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
- Teaching History with Technology
- AcademicNet
- "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education," October 1997 (David F. Noble)
- David Noble's articles on Digital Diploma Mills
- Envisioning the Future: The Classroom of the 21st Century, East Lansing, MI, September 26-28, 1997
- Computers and History (University of Toronto)
- Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection (OTA Report)
- Center for Instructional Technology (University of North Carolina)
- Academic Technology Center (UCLA)
- Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
- The Computer History
Musuem
- Humanities Computing Unit (University of Oxford, U.K.)
- Computers and Texts (Computers and Teaching Initiative,
University of Oxford, U.K.)
- TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative
- Computers in Teaching Initiative for History (University of Glasgow, U.K.)
- Social Science Computer Review
- H-MAC (History and Macintosh Society site)
- APSA Information Technology and
Politics Section
- Shop PBS presents PBS Video
- American Social History Project (City University of New York)
- Eyewitness to History.com: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
- The Lost Museum [P.T. Barnum museum, 1841-1865] (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
- Spartacus Educational
- The New Media Classroom: Narrative, Inquiry, and Technology in the U.S.
History Survey (American Social History Project)
- History and MultiMedia Center (Department of History, University of Albany, SUNY)
- Media History Monographs
- Great American History Machine information
- British Pathe
- The Newsfilm Libary at the University of South Carolina
- WPA Film Library (MPI Media Group)
- Blackside Films
- DocuSeek: Film and Video Finder
- H-Bar Enterprises (Folio Infobase Publishers)
- Video Librarian Online: The Video Review Guide for Libraries and Video Fans
Course Packs and Course Software Online
Historical Images
- Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools
- HADDON: The Online Catalogue of Archival Ethnogaphic Film Footage, 1895-1945
(University of Oxford, U.K.)
- American Journey Online (Pimrary Source Media) [subscription required]
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- Archivia.Net: On-Line Research Tool (Library and Archives Canada)
- The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
- Ease History (Michigan State University)
- The Picture Collection (Time, Inc.)
- Corbis: The Place for Pictures on the Internet
- Fotosearch Stock Photography
- Digital Image Database Project (New York Public Library)
- Georgetown Book Shop [historical prints and posters]
- Google Image Search
- ImageFinder (Berkeley Digitial Library SunSITE)
- Images of American Political History (Teaching Politics)
- Interactive Multimedia Learning Tools (Instructional Resources Corp.)
(includes CD-ROM's for U.S. History and Western Civilization)
- National Geographic Image Collection
- Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
- Eye of the Storm [Civil War photographs]
- Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
- When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood (Library of Congress)
- American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers, 1900-1980 (R. Elozua)
- [art work from] The Masses [1913-1917]
- Photos of the Great War: World War I Image Archive (University of Kansas)
- The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
- French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
- The Major Museums of Europe Commemorate the 80th Anniversary
of the Armistice of 1918 [art of the First World War]
- League of Nations Bibliography
(League of Nations' Photo Archive, Indiana University Center for Study of Global Change)
- League of Nations' Photo Archive (Indiana
University Center for the Study of Global Change)
- Hedda Morrsion Photographs of China, 1933-1946 (Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard College Library)
- The Newsfilm Libary at the University of South Carolina
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Works Progress Administration [WPA] Art (Chicago Public Schools Art Collection)
- New Frontiers in American Documentary Films (University of Virginia)
- Reaping the Golden Harvest: Pare Lorentz, Poet and Filmmaker (University of Virginia)
- Documenting Our Pat5: The Tenne Harris Project [photographs of African Americans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1930's to 1960's]
- World War II pictures (Corbis)
- The World War II Picture of the Day
- Ease History (Michigan State University)
Multimedia Formats and Virtual Presentations
Audio and Video Tools and Resources
Looking for Images, Video, Audio, and Animation Materials
Historical Speeches and Sounds Sites
- Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
- British Library National Sound Archive
- National Archives video online (National Archives/Google)
- Online [Music] Classics
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- History and Politics: Out Loud
- Talking History: A Radio Show
(Departments of History, University of Albany, SUNY and Creighton University and WRPI-FM)
- National Gallery of the Spoken Word (Michigan State University)
- Vincent Voice Library (Michigan State University)
- American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Historical Speeches Archive (Webcorp) [Mostly modern U.S. History]
- Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
selected from the collections of Brown University
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Surfing the Aether (A Brief History of Radio)
- Library of American Broadcasting (University of Maryland Libraries)
- United States Early Radio History (T.H. White)
- Radio Days: A Soundbite History
- Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (American RadioWorks)
- Recorded Sound Reference Center: Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound (Library of Congress)
- Yesterday USA Superstation OnLine (radio shows from the 1920s through the 1950s)
[requires RealPlayer audio/video player]
- Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
- Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Radioinfo: Radio's Complete Resource Center
- Radio stations by state (Newslink)
- Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
- Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
- Eyewitness Records (Pacific Multimedia Corp.) [mostly post-1945 U.S. Political/Presidential speeches]
- Native Ground Music
- Doing Oral History
- U.S. History Out Loud (Oyez, Oyez, Oyez at Northwestern
University)
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi,
University of Albany, SUNY)
- Mercury Theatre on the Air (requires RealAudio RealPlayer)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
- LBJ in the Oval Office (RealAudio sound file format)
- The Pacifica Foundation/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project
- Online [music] Classics
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, Ohio)
- FestivalFinder (Music Festivals of North America)
- Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
Audiovisual Resources
General Multimedia Resources
Digital Library Projects Online
History-Oriented Electronic Exhibitions
- Internet Country Codes
- Electronic Exhibits from the Library of Congress
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
- American Memory Collections Finder (Library of Congress)
- Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age
- National Archives video online (National Archives/Google)
- NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)
- "Revealing Things" (Smithsonian Without Walls Project)
- National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.)
- Splendors of Ancient Egypt (Museum of Fine Arts Houston)
- Mysteries of Egypt (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
- Scrolls from the Dead Sea (Library of Congress)
- The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War, and Faith (The British Library)
- Learning about Leonardo [Da Vinci] (John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, New York)
- The Tokugawa Art Museum [Tokugawa period, ca. 1603-1868]
- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Library of Congress)
- African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress exhibit)
- Special Collections Digital Center (University of Virginia Library)
- Charleston Multimedia Project (Charleston County Library)
- Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas
(University of Pennsylvania Library)
- Virginia Center for Digital History (University of Virginia)
- American Political Prints, 1766-1876: Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress (HarpWeek)
- Thomas Jefferson (PBS/American Experience)
- Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS)
- "A Midwife's Tale" (to accompany PBS' The American Experience series)
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress (American Memory, Libraryof Congress)
- The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895 (Yale University)
- Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (PBS/Ken Burns film)
- Exploring the West From Monticello: A Perspective in Maps From Columbus to Lewis and Clark
(University of Virginia Library)
- Virtual Exhibitions at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
- The Lost Museum [P.T. Barnum museum, 1841-1865] (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation (National Portrait Gallery)
- A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920
(University of North Carolina)
- Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project (Northern Illinois University)
- Vatican Exhibit (Library of Congress)
- Digital
Collections of Primary Sources in Women's History (Middle Tennessee State U.)
- New Perspectives on The West (WETA/PBS)
- The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory (Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University)
- Digital Images from the American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University)
- Cartoons
of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
- Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings [1880's to 1980's] (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
- Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
- Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
- American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Votes for Women (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)
- William P. Gottlieb Photographs of the Golden Age of Jazz (Music Division, Library of Congress)
- Hall of Presidents (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
- Imperial War Museum Online Exhibitions (United Kingdom)
- "The Great Depression," 1993 film series by Blackside Films
- FDR Cartoon Archive (Niskayuna High School)
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- WPA Film Library (MPI Media GrouFDR Cartoon Archive (Niskayuna Hisgh School, New York)p)
- A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
- Southern Folklife Collection (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- America in the 1930s (American Studies Program, University of Virginia)
- California Heritage Digital Image Access Project (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
- Soviet Archive Exhibit (Library of Congress)
- Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
- Toon Tracker: Home of the Lost Cartoons
- The Art of War (war comics)
- The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China (Int'l. Institute of Social History)
- The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photos in Stalin's Russia (Newseum)
- Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution" (China News Digest)
- Vietnam Pictures Archive at SunSite
(University of North Carolina)
- The Psychedlic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change (University of Virginia Library)
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement (photographs by Ron Enfield)
- Russia: How Has Change Affected the Former USSR?
(Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection)
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace [Tiananmen Square, June 1989] (Frontline/PBS)
- Information Age: People, Information & Technology exhibit (National Museum of American History)
- Museum of Television & Radio
- Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
Museums and Art Resources
- Museum Computer Network
- Archives & Museum Informatics
- Museum Professionals Lists
- Art Museum Network
- Art Museum Image Consortium
- Museum Spot
- Online Educational Materials at Museum, Gallery, and Aqarium Web Sites (Institute for Academic Technology)
- College Art Association
- World Wide Arts Resources
- The Greatest Painters on the Web
- Extended Tour of the Sistine Chapel (Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi)
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The British Museum
- The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property, 1933-1945
- Imperial War Museum (United Kingdom)
- Rembrandthuis Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
- National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
- National Gallery of Art--The Collection (Washington, D.C.)
- National Museum of American Illustration (Newport, RI)
- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, CA)
- Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
- Museum & Organizations of the Smithsonian Institution
- National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
- Association of Historians of American Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- National Portrait Galley Exhibitions (Smithsonian Institution)
- Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings [1880's to 1980's] (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- National Museum of Women's History
- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.)
- The Major Museums of Europe Commemorate the 80th Anniversary
of the Armistice of 1918 [art of the First World War]
- El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY)
- The Art Gallery (University of Maryland)
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
- Museo Picasso Virtual (E. Mallen, Texas A & M
University)
- Picasso (official site)
- Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Collecióncisneros.org [focus on Latin American art and culture]
Maps, Geographic Name Locators, Photographs, and CD-ROMs
- Atlas of World History.com (free software)
- Historic Cities
(Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library)
- Map Resources (Library, National Defense University)
- Historical Map Bibliographies (Air University Library, Maxwell AFB, AL)
- World History Maps: Historical Maps of the World for every year in recorded history
- Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe (Christos Nussli)
- Map Machine (National Geographic Society)
- Xpeditions Atlas: Maps Made for Printing and Copying (National Geographic)
- Map History (Institute for Historical Research, London, England)
- IEG-Maps (INSTITUT FÜR EUROPÄISCHE GESCHICHTE - MAINZ) [Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany]
- MapForum.com: Specialist Antique Map Magazine
- Geography (The Mining Company)
- World Flag Database (MultiMeida Corporation)
- Geography and Map Reading Room (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
- Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Map Collections: 1554-1996 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
(University of Texas at Austin)
- Map-Related Web Sites
(University of Texas at Austin)
- Historical Maps
(University of Texas at Austin)
- Historical Map Web Sites
(University of Texas at Austin)
- Japanese Historical Maps (East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley)
- OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource
(University of Oregon)
- Panoramic Maps Collection (Geography and Map Div., Library of Congress)
- David Rumsey Collection, Cartography Associates (18th and 19th maps of the United States)
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States (1895 state maps) (Johns Hopkins
University)
- Cultural Maps (University of Virginia)
- Tennessee Electronic Atlas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Rare Map Collection of the Hargrett Library
(University of Georgia Libraries)
- National Geographic Society
- Map Machine (National Geographic Society)
- Mapping Canada (Canadian Geographic)
- The British Library Map Collections
- DeLorme
- Geo s. mile: Maps & More
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty Information Institute)
- Geographic Names Information System (U.S. Geological Survey)
- History Central (MultiEducator, Inc.)
- NARA Audiovisual Information Locator (National Archives)
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- American Shores: Maps of the Midle Atlantic Region to 1850 (New York Public Library)
- Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
- Civil War Maps (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Selected Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress)
- Siege and Commune of Paris Photographs (Northwestern
University)
- The Gallery of the Open Frontier (University of Nebraska Press/National Archives)
- FDR Cartoon Collection (Basil O'Conner)
- Radio Program Archives (University of Memphis)
- Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (American RadioWorks)
- H-Film (History of Film) Archives (H-Net)
- Guide to Interactive Multimedia and Study of the United States
- Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)
- New Media & Technologies in American Studies (American Crossroads Project)
- H-Net Review Project (Michigan State University)
- Review article on recent history-related CD-ROM titles
- Five Points Multimedia Experience in Social History (CUNY)
- Who Built America? text in CD-ROM version
- Controversy Over Who Built America CD-ROM
- Editorial: Apple and CD-ROM Censorship (Voyager Co.)
- MultiEducator History Web site
- Culture Finder
- Built in America: Historic American Buidlings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
Public Opinion Polling and Research
Ownership and Control of Mass Media
Film and History
- Film and Society (Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)
- Bibliographical Aid in Filmresearch (M. Westermann)
- Teach with Movies (D. Elliott and J.A. Frieden)
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- How to Find and Purchase Films and Videos (Film & History)
- Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
- Recorded Sound Reference Center: Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound (Library of Congress)
- The
Documentary Center (George Washington University)
(program in Historical Documentary Filmmaking
- DocuSeek: Film and Video Finder
- National Archives video online (National Archives/Google)
- Society for Cinema Studies
- The Greatest Films of All Time (T. Dirks)
- National Film Preservation Board
- National Film Preservation Foundation
- Internet Archive
- HADDON: The Online Catalogue of Archival Ethnogaphic Film Footage, 1895-1945
(University of Oxford, U.K.)
- Cinema U. (Reel.com)
- New Day Films (many historical documentaries)
- American Film Institute Online Cinema
- Directors Guild of America
- Writers Guild of America
- "Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide," P. McEldowney
(University of Virginia)
- TV Links Film and Television Website Archive
- Guide for Theater, Film, and Television mailing lists
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- NARA Audiovisual Information Locator (National Archives)
- Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1916 (Library of Congress)
- Silent Movies page
- The Silents Majority: The On-line Journal of Silent Film
- CowboyPal: Home of the Silver Screen Cowboys
- Universal Studios Archives & Collections
- Origins of American Animation (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- The Picture Show Man, 1890-1960
- New Frontiers in American Documentary Films (University of Virginia)
- British Pathe
- Reaping the Golden Harvest: Pare Lorentz, Poet and Filmmaker (University of Virginia)
- Biography (Arts & Entertainment Network)
- The Film Festivals Server
- Cannes Film Festival Official Web Site
- 50th Cannes Film Festival [1997] (Film Scouts on the Riviera)
- Cannes Film Festival 1996 (Le Monde)
- 49th Cannes Film Festival [1996] (Film Scouts on the Riviera)
- Sundance Film Festival
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Academy Awards [Oscar Awards}
- Oscar.com
- Movies (New York Times)
- QUICKchecker (Reviews of Recently Released Movies from Major Newspapers and Magazines
- Internet Movie Database connections
- Internet Movie Database (United States)
- Internet Movie Database (United Kingdom)
- Movie Review Query Engine
- Movies and Film Information (Yahoo)
- Clamen's Movie Information Page (Carnegie Mellon U.)
- Movie Guide (TV Guide)
- Film Scouts
- Roger Ebert Film Reviews (Chicago Sun Times)
- Tony Awards Online
- Video Librarian Online (Reviews of videotapes)
Television Sites of Potential Interest
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