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Multimedia

The History Channel
Features information on "this day in history," a quiz, a history classroom, and audio files of speeches by Kennedy, Hitler, Martin Luther King, and others.

Remembering Yesterday
Catherine Walker, Coordinator of the Humanities Electronic Media Project at Claremont Graduate University, has created a site that profiles Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln.  The site features audio and video interviews with those who knew King, a timeline for all three men, an image bank, and a link to a presentation that discusses the use of digital technology in historical research and writing.

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Research

American Studies Web
An essential Internet research tool for American Studies scholars. The site has numerous links to sources on American literature, history, art, material culture, gender studies, performing arts, religion and psychology, legal studies, race and ethnicity, economics, politics and social sciences.

Library of Congress
Links to legislative information on the Internet, an online gallery, and the American Memory Project, "America's story in words, sounds, and pictures."

Starting Points for Historical Research
Created by UW Libraries' history subject librarian Teresa Mudrock, this page contains links to article indexes, research guides, databases of primary sources, electronic journals, and Web pages on history.  Use this page to begin research projects in English 198 and History of the Americas 201.

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
Authored by UCLA librarian Esther Grassian, this page offers criteria for evaluating World Wide Web sites and links to another page on evaluating disciplinary World Wide Web sites.  Writers can use Grassian's list to help them decide whether a particular web source is appropriate for an academic research paper.

Voice of the Shuttle History Page
Alan Liu, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, has organized this page of history research links by geographic era and topic.  Liu has also included a search function to help users find resources within the site.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: U.S. History
The materials on this page are organized by chronological period as well as historical topic.  The Virtual Library links to reference resources, including databases, e-texts, journals and archive.

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Writing

A Sense of History: Some Components
Gerald W. Schlabach, Assistant Professor of history at Bluffton College, offers thirteen tenets for thinking historically.

Citation Guidelines
Created by libary staff at Concordia University, this page contains guidelines for APA, MLA, and Turabian documentation formats.  The page also includes information on citing electronic sources in all three formats.

Reading, Writing, and Researching for History:  A Guide for College Students
This page features material on how to read primary and secondary sources, keep a research journal, develop and structure arguments, work with evidence, revise a first draft, and cite sources properly.

UW History Writing Center
Click on the buttons within the History Department frame to get to The Writing Center.  The Center's page contains information about hours, staff, and upcoming workshops and electronic handouts on writing in history.

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