1. YAHOO: Yahoo, a commercial operation, is the most useful starting point. It adds 1000+ sites every day
2. Yahoo's excellent guide to popular & semipopular history resources:
3. AltaVista: most powerful search tool; may produce too many hits
4. Webcrawler excellent searches
5. METACRAWLER simultaneously uses several search engines
6. LYCOS good searches
7. EXCITE good conceptual searches
8. how to set up your own www page
9. H-Net Guide to citing WWW sources
10. MLA Style manual

1. Business history
2. business history reference source web page
3. Economic History Services
4. Italian economic history
5. NBER Macro-Economic History Database

1. college & university web pages; access is also good through Yahoo
2. Chronicle of Higher Education abbreviated version & jobs free; full version to paid subscribers
3. H-Net Job Guideupdated weekly
4. college classes on WWW
5. Distance Learning Sample Internet Sites
6. K-12: U Minnesota Ed School
7. K-12 geography
8. History of Education in US

1. U of Kansas Lynn Nelson's excellent guide to history sources.
2. Assoc for History and Computing Very good collection of texts, esp for US politics and diplomacy
3. Canadian Journal of History full text of scholarly articles on non-Canadian topics
4. Early Church encyclopedia
5. full text of articles from popular history magazines
6. French Les programmes officiels d'Histoire des colleges et lycees francais
7. H-Net pages for 70+ email lists
8. Hanover College: Historical texts and documents, a very ambitious approach to putting translated documents and secondary works on- line for undergraduate history classes
9. Historical Text Archive; equally ambitious; worldwide, esp Latin America
10. History of Science/Technology/Medicine
11. Labor history
12. ORB Medieval Studies
13. NCSS National Council for Social Studies
14. Tennessee-Tech: with many additional links full text of Standards
15. Victoria Research Web; 19c Britain
16. World War I documents

1. 1950s course, & excerpts
2. American Social History Project,
3. Another good source from Virginia with many links
4. Center for Military History (includes full-length books, esp the "Army Green Series" of official ww2 histories)
5. Chicago Fire Impressive exhibit from Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern U.
6. Civil War Center at LSU
7. Early National: E-Journal
8. historical US documents
9. Immigration History Research Center
10. Indiana Historical Society
11. Kansas Historical Society
12. Library of Virginia 600,000 images in colonial history & WW2 photos
13. Martin Luther King project
14. New Deal Cartoons
15. US South
16. Old South: includes ICPSR census data on southern counties, 1790- 1860
17. Thomas Jefferson in ATLANTIC MONTHLY
18. Truman Presidential Library
19. Vietnam bibliography
20. Valley of the Shadow social history of Virginia, 1850s-'60s
21. WestWeb Western USA

1. American Historical Review
2. American Social History project
3. Australian history links
4. Center for History & New Media, George Mason U
5. global list of all history depts, from George Mason U
6. Institute for Historical Research, London: [this is a well-respected British history center, NOT to be confused with a Holocaust denial operation in California that calls itself "The Institute for Historical Review"]
7. U of Montreal
8. Ohio State U.
9. Russian Academy of Sciences
10. Scholarly Societies all fields
11. U of Saskatchewan

1. NCC: National Coordinating Committee weekly updates on US government & humanities
2. detailed guides, with evaluations of sites [from U Michigan Library students]
3. Art Museums
4. National Endowment for Humanities
5. The Humanist Web
6. Judaica
7. T- AMLIT American Literature
8. UNESCO World Heritage List, pictures 450+ properties

1. OPAC (On-Line Public Access Catalogs) Most major library OPACs are available. (Yahoo tracks them.) One of the best is the U of California system, with vast holdings and the ability to email searched back to you (MAIL TO usernam and to subscribe to updates of new listings (UPDAT . Melvyl is not on WWW; you must have your browser configured to use a TELNET helper. (answer "VT100" for terminal question.
2. Archives (Britain & overseas)
3. Archives (US National Archives)
4. British Libraries
5. Articles: CARL has very complete guides to most journals (coverage from late 1980s to last month)
6. The CARL REVEAL service [select: terminal = vt100, "Uncover"] $20/year for TOC of 50 journals
7. Harvard- Yenching Library/ Asian Studies
8. History bibliographies
9. Law reviews
10. Library of Congress
11. Navy Department Library (many links)

1. British Historical GIS Programme
2. Great set of links to many maps
3. U Texas collection
4. free classroom outline maps
5. View anywhere on globe.

1. NewsLink Web page includes free links to several thousand newspapers, broadcasters, magazines, on-line news services, and other useful sites.
2. Australian Broadcasting Online
3. BBC
4. National Public Radio, with real audio
5. Reuters reports.
6. Times Higher Education Supplement
7. US Network TV News archives detailed, searchable abstracts of major news shows, 1968 to 1996
8. US Information Agency [daily news]
9. Washington Post [daily news]

1. Americana Encyclopedia articles on US politics
2. American Political Science Association
3. APSA section on Computers and Multimedia
4. Political Science research
5. Political science conference papers & abstracts
6. Political science department home pages
7. Houghton Mifflin's Politics Now resources for textbook users
8. Foreign Policy
9. International relations, primary documents
10. Supreme Court (famous cases)
11. Yahoo Guide to Politics
12. Election 96
13. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report Fullest reports on Congress; roll calls; analysis of issues
14. National Election Studies/ICPSR, 1948-1994
15. Roper Center [polls]

1. American Studies Electronic Crossroads
2. British
3. French Ministry of Culture
4. Internet Movie Database
5. Library of Congress "American Memory" [photos, sound, film]
6. Local historical societies
7. A Museum Guides
8. Popular Culture

1. Amazon = largest commercial bookstore
2. Dial-A-Book complete text of first chapter new books; browser's paradise
3. Washington PostThe Book Review section features the first chapter of hundreds of recent fiction and nonfiction books, plus the Post's review.
4. Project MUSE Johns Hopkins U.P. journals
5. Links to hundreds of publishers
6. H- Net's scholarly book reviews
7. Copyright and fair use information
8. Guide to Copyright
9. Copyright and Internet excellent guide to recent and ongoing lawsuits in US courts

END OF SCHOLARS'S GUIDE 2-24-97