Resource Page

Step 1: Always start with a QUESTION

Useful Links for NHD

STEP 2: Google Search Tips

Links to Start With

• Google Search: Museum and Primary Sources

• Google Search: Advance Search- Adding and subtracting Words

• Google Search: Loc.gov

Step 3- Newspaper archives

• LOC Newspaper- Online library of newspaper articles

  • https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/index.html

• Proquest Newspaper Archives - Online library of newspaper articles

  • Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the article.” Title of the newspaper, First name Last name of any other contributors, Publication date, Location (generally page numbers, if available). Title of the database, Location (such as a URL).

Step 4- BADGER LINK RESOURCES FROM NHD and Wisconsin Turning Points

Step 5- Loc.gov and https://catalog.archives.gov/ and https://www.docsteach.org/

Step 6 - 7th Grade Field Trip 2 and Digital Public Library of America records

Step 7- DiscoveryEd: Text/Primary Sources

Step 8- Political Cartoons and charts and graphs.

Last Step - Cite your information

Research Links

• Historical Society Resources

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

• https://www.gilderlehrman.org/

Library Links & Book Resources - This section can be useful for finding books

• Germantown Library

• Hartford Library

• Menomonee Falls Library

• BadgerLInk - Primary source newspaper information

• ArCat - Archives Catalog

• MadCat - Madison library

• PantherCat - UWM Library

• Amazon.com - if you want to purchase books

• googlebooks.com - sometimes, you can find books here for free. Copy screen to paint, then print them.

Process Paper & Annotated Bibliography

• Annotated Bibliography - How to write an annotated bibliography.

• Process Paper Samples - How to write your process paper.

• Noodle Tool - Site any kind of source imaginable using Noodle Bib Express

OTHER RESEARCH LINKS

Web Resources for Teachers of American History

Compiled By Stephen Kercher, UW Oshkosh for TASAH

• Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research

• library.si.edu/digital-library/history-and-cultureDigital Librian

• American Studies at the University of Virginia http://xroads.virginia.edu/

• History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ A History Matters is a wonderful online resource for history teachers and students. Among the many digital resources are lesson plans, syllabi, links, and exhibits.

• EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/

• http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtml --a great place to start for multimedia resources in U.S. History

• The EDSITEment experience includes links to 72 of the top humanities sites and online lesson plans, which bring EDSITEment to life for teachers, students, and their families.

• Teaching American History Programs

• http://teachingamericanhistory.org/tahgrants/

  • Teaching American History Resource Center--http://www.oah.org/teaching/

• Libraries, Archives, Museums, Government Agencies and other Institutions with American History/Culture Web content

• Chicago Historical Society http://www.chicagohistory.org/

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

• UW Milwaukee Library, Division of Archives & Special Collectionshttp://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/teaching.htm

• FBI Files through FOIA http://foia.fbi.gov/history.htm

• The National Security Archive http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.

• Links to the Past (National Park Service) http://www.cr.nps.gov/ If you are interested in becoming actively involved in archeology, ethnography, historic preservation, and/or museum management, you will want to explore the tours, events, internships, volunteer programs, study guides, glossaries, curricula and other educational tools and opportunities available on this Web site. The site's History in the Parks section lists parks based on their cultural and historic significance (e.g., African Americanheritage, Women's history, Civil War).

• National Building Museum http://www.nbm.org/ Created by an act of Congress, the National Building Museum is America’s premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning.

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) http://www.archives.gov/index.htmlEnshrined for posterity in the original building in Washington, DC, are the cornerstone documents of our government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United states, and the Bill of Rights.

• National Museum of American History (NMAH) http://americanhistory.si.edu/ The National Museum of American History, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, collects, cares for, and preserves over 17 million artifacts that document our national heritage in technology, industrial development, military history, transportation, textiles, costume, domestic life, sports, the arts, and community life. Items on display include the Star-Spangled Banner, Ford's 1913 Model-T and Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz.

• Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/

• Metropolitan Museum of Art American Paintings and Sculpturehttp://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=2

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

• National Public Radio

• Fresh Air http://freshair.npr.org

• To The Best of Our Knowledge http://www.wpr.org/book/

• NPR http://www.npr.org/

• Public Broadcasting Service

• Start at http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html

• The American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/

• American Masters http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/index.html

• Oral Histories and Other Audio Sources

• WhiteHouseTapes.org Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations while in the White House. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. http://whitehousetapes.org/

• The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture

• Talking History http://www.talkinghistory.org/

• Historical Voices

• Earliest Voices: A Gallery from the Vincent Voice Library http://www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices

• History and Politics Out Loud-- a diverse collection of audio -- speeches and private communications -- relating to U.S. history and politics. http://www.hpol.org

• Studs Terkel http://www.studsterkel.org/ghits.php

• U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project Recordings relating to American labor history.http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/

• The History Channel http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html

• Vincent Voice Library http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/ Samples from the collections at the MSU Libraries.

• Historic Audio Archives http://www.webcorp.com/test/audioarchive.htm A hodge-podge of mostly short audio clips and some video. Includes among others Richard Nixon, Joe McCarthy, and Leon Trotsky.

• Great speeches http://www.chicago-law.net/speeches/speech.html A few excerpts and some complete speeches from American history, 1940s through the 1990s.

• National Gallery of the Spoken Word http://www.ngsw.org From Thomas Edison's first cylinder recordings, to the voices of Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale, and Studs Terkel's timeless interviews, the National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) will preserve and, within the limits of copyright law, make these and other historically significant voice recordings freely available and easily accessible via the Internet. The NGSW will create a significant, fully searchable, online database of spoken word collections that span the 20th century. The project is in the early stages of its development.

• The Archer Audio Archive: http://www.archervalerie.com/audio.html Lots of historical sound clips including Martin Luther King Jr., many US presidents, Thomas Edison, The Beatles, and many other people.

• C-Span American Political Archive C-Span American Political Archive

• History Channel Speech Archives http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive.html

• Visual Sources and Advertising

• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/

• Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html

• Other Sites

• U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

• White House Tapes: The President Callinghttp://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/index.html

• Remembering Jim Crowhttp://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/index.html

• Pluralism and Unity http://www.expo98.msu.edu/ Exploring the idea of Americanism in the early part of the 20th century. With audio clips from figures such as Jane Addams, Samuel Gompers and Woodrow Wilson.

• John F. Kennedy http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/tapes_1998.html From the Kennedy Library. Samples of recordings of President Kennedy's meetings, conversations, phone calls and dictation. Tapes include conversations with Presidents Hoover, Eisenhower & Truman.

• Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans http://metalab.unc.edu/storytelling/index.htmlStories from Cherokee, Lumbee, and Occaneechi tradition. Sound and video.

• History Happens: Cool Stories! http://www.ushistory.com/cool.htm

• Radio Advertising Bureau Collection http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/AUDIO/soundbites.htmlSamples of vintage radio commercials from the University of Maryland Library of American Broadcasting.

• Radio Days http://www.otr.com

• Normandy: 1944 http://normandy.eb.com/

• The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968The resource contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998. Members of the Sophomore Class at SKHS interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections of the year 1968. (/)

• Broadcasting in Chicago, 1921-1989 http://www.mcs.net/~richsam/home.html

• Historical Text Archive http://historicaltextarchive.com/

• African-American Studies Web Guide http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ecuip/diglib/afam/guide/

• THE FATHOM ARCHIVE http://www.fathom.com/

• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950sHttp://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

• Nixon White House Phone Calls http://www.c-span.org/executive/presidential/nixon.asp

• Richard M. Nixon: The Watergate Tapes http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/watergate.html

• Websites with an emphasis on Wisconsin state history

• UW Oshkosh Area Research Center http://www.uwosh.edu/archives/

• Wisconsin Historical Society http://www.wisconsinhistory.org

• Pioneer Experience: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/wipionexp/

• American Journeys: http://www.americanjourneys.org/

• Local History and Biography Articles: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/

• Great Lakes Maritime History: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/GreatLakes.html

• History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life:http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/USAINAbout.html

• The new Wisconsin Goes to War site (under development):http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/WIWarAbout.html

• McMillan Memorail Library (Wisconsin Rapids)http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/mcm/local/local_history.html

• Oshkosh Public Library Digital Collections http://oshkoshpub.cdm.oclc.org/

• Milwaukee Neighborhoods (when working)http://www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/Milwaukee/index.html

• For an inventory the Wisconsin Heritage On-line is creating of Wisconsin digtial projects go here and search by keyword http://heritage-stwi-url.autographics.com/agurl.asp?sid=5BB4126ED009467985B91B0490356711&w=c

• Appleton Public Library Local History Collectionhttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/AppletonPlatsAbout.html

• Outagamie County Historical Society and Appleton Public Library

• http://www.foxvalleymemory.org/

• Oshkosh Public Museum Virtual Exhibit http://publicmuseum.oshkosh.net/Virtual/

• Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

• American Slave Narratives, An On-Line Anthology (a guide to WPA narratives):http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

• Born in America, Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project (Library of Congress):http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

• North American Slave Narratives (bibliography of writings by slaves and former slaves):http://www.dinsdoc.com/slavery-3.htm#cult

• Environmental History- http://www.geocities.com/athens/delphi/5777/

• Environmental History on the Internet: an index of web pages dealing with environmental history and related topics http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/eh-internet.html

• Environmental History— http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/

• H-Environment: Internet discussion group for professional environmental historianshttp://www.h-net.org/~environ/

• American Labor History http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/index.html

• Women’s Labor History http://www.afscme.org/otherlnk/whlinks.htm

• UFW http://www.ufw.org/history.htm

• Local History – Labor (Sites for specific strikes)http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/1968/topics/labor.html

• Illinois Labor History Society http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/

• Slavery http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/

• Flint Sit Down Strike http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/

• Haymarket http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/

• Inside a Factory: The Westinghouse Workshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

• Labor Arts http://www.laborarts.org/

• Labor History Bibliography http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/labor/labor-bib.html

• Wisconsin Labor History http://wisconsinlaborhistory.org/

• New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

• Like A Family: Life in a Southern Cotton Mill http://www.sohp.org/laf/index.html

• Lost Labor: Photography of Work http://www.lostlabor.com/

• Posters on the WWII Homefront http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/

• Sources on US Women’s Labor Historyhttp://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/women/cover.html

• Women and US Social Movements http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/

• Who Built America? American Social History Project http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/

• Pacific Northwest Labor History Project

• Triangle Factory Fire

• Sources on Women’s Work 1870-1930 http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ Factory Life in Patterson, NJ

• http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/plantation.html “Plantation America: The Work of Slaves.” Let your students browse documents and images from southern plantations.

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/index.html “Africans in America: Revolution 1750- 1805.” PBS site w/ great links to descriptions and documents on the American Revolution.

• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjhome.htm Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Full text online version of a slave narrative classic. Shows the determination and creativity one slave woman employed to overcome the cruelty of enslavement.

• Wisconsin Electronic Reader http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Contents.htmlStories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history