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General References

GENERAL REFERENCES (some not urban sites)

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

The largest on-line bookstore, but also a useful bibliographical source. The best place to check for recent or about to be published English language books, especially to find tables of contents and brief reviews. If you send them a request about a particular topic, such as "urban history", they will e-mail you every time a new book on that topic is published. Amazon.UK (United Kingdom), Amazon.FR (France), and Amazon.DE (Germany) are now on-line also.
(28 Jul 2001)

American Council of Learned Society's History E-Book Project
http://www.historyebook.org/

This project offers libraries a subscription service which includes electronic texts of more than 800 recent historical monographs which are now out of print. The project expects to expand this list considerably over the next five years, adding 250 works a year, and also to publish 85 new works selected by established university presses. The site solicits suggestions for other works to be included. Details are available at the website.
(22 November 2002; 17 November 2004)

American Memory (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

The U.S.A. Library of Congress has produced an amazing collection of 80,000 largely-American photos, a large proportion of them urban, plus maps, "birds-eye" views and documents in their American Memory collection. While it is well indexed and easy to obtain copies, the collection is so huge that the search function is often overwhelmed. Clearly the best place to look for iconography. The site contains images, plans and documents for both the Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER). There are special collections that cover architectural photography; African-American materials; baseball; the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photos from the 1930s and 1940s; a number of early twentieth-century records and early films (many depicting urban streets, parades and the like); photos from the Loeb Library at Harvard University documenting American architectural and landscape design 1850-1920; and hundreds of city maps and panoramic views culled from the Library's collection of 4.5 million items.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 7 Aug 2002)
Review of The American Memory website done for H-Urban on February, 1997 by Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania.

Bethlehem (PA) Digital History Project
http://bdhp.moravian.edu/

Documents, including visitor's accounts of this Moravian settlement from 1741 to 1844.
(9 Feb 2004)

Current Value of Old Money
http://www.ex.ac.uk/%7ERDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html

A calculator, which includes a broad array of comparions, mostly for the U.S., but also Europe (especially Britain) as far back as 1600.
(9 Feb 2004)

Jewish Women's Archive
http://www.jwa.org/index.html

Very ethnocentric, but with useful short biographies and documents for such important figures as Lillian Wald, Emma Goldman, Bella Abzug. Some documents and illustrations.
(9 Feb 2004)
Review of this site (H-Survey, 15 Jan 2004), by Judy Kutulas, Dept. of History, St. Olaf College, Minnesota, USA.

Making of America
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

Digitized copies of virtually every nineteenth century book or periodical in the libraries at Cornell and Michigan. Its not always clear what the extent of the collection is. U.S. urbanists may find the reproductions of statutes and city council proceedings for various cities useful. Easy to search. 600,000 pages have been digitized and more in the works.
(28 Jul 2001)

National Library of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/

The National Library of Canada site offers 22 million catalog entries to 500 libraries, the equivalent of the First Search system in the U.S. (chapters.indigo.ca). This site is also the Canadian equivalent of Amazon.com for current bibliography.
(29 Jul 2001)

National Register of Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/

Organizational information and a cross-indexed listing of all 71,000 historic places in the U.S. Not always easy to figure out.
(28 Jul 2001)

Preservation Map of Europe
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/map/

The European Commission on Preservation and Access has put together this set of links to preservation organizations public and private everywhere on the continent.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 23 Jul 2002)

Public History Resource Center
http://www.publichistory.org/

Created by the private, non-profit group, the Public History Resource Center (PHRC), this site "seeks to curate the field of public history, particularly as it is exercised on the Web, by providing a structure of information which contextualizes and supports public history's recent invigoration." It includes information on the field of public history and presents an excellent methodology for reviews, as well a number of full length reviews. Some readers may be especially interested in their "Reviews of World's Fair Websites" at http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/view_issue.asp?IssueNumber=3
(16 Jun 2001; updated 30 June 2003)

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu

An ambitious site with over a thousand (13,000 are planned!) well-introduced documents on a variety of reform movements including prohibition/temperance, age of consent, anti-prostitution, birth control, suffrage anti-racism and others. There is also a "Teacher's Corner" and some useful links.
(9 Feb 2004)

The WWW Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/index.html

A collection of not always updated links.
(28 Jul 2001)

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