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Washington Places
http://arch.virginia.edu/dcplaces/

Michael Bednar at the University of Virginia Architecture School assembled this site which tracks the history of the most important blocks of Sixteenth St., Pennsylvania Ave., and Massachusetts Ave. Eventually some of the ornamental circles and the Mall will be added. Sanborn-based maps are provided for the important downtown blocks of each street going back to roughly 1900 with photos of significant buildings. There's a good text and bibliography, but no links.
(12 Sep 2001)

Welcome to the Drive-In Theater!
http://www.driveintheater.com/index.htm

This commercial site (it encourages owners of drive-ins to advertise) contains many photos, attendance data and links.
(26 June 2003)

Western History Collection, Denver Public Library
http://gowest.coalliance.org/

Lots of urban photos, especially of Denver.
(28 Jul 2001)

Why the Towers Fell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/

A companion to a PBS video by that name of the World Trade Center, this online exhibit contains videos, animations, interviews, reports, stunning photographs and illustratations, and a bibliography. Video clips and animations require special programs that are available for free.
(16 Oct 2002)

Williamsburg Bridge
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/williamsburg/

Historic and recent photographs of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, New York, as well as the details of its history.
(19 Nov 2001)

Williamsburg Theater Project
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/WTP/

Arthur Knight, Associate Professor of American Studies and English at the College of William and Mary, has assembled a history of the movies in Williamsburg, Virginia, including a searchable database of all the movies that ever played in the town. There are also "contextual materials, including photos, census records, and timelines."
(26 June 2003)

Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm

Contains a short narrative and good bibliography.
(28 Jul 2001)

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)

World City Links
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/links.html

The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group and Network at Loughborough University put together this useful portal to international urban organizations and databases. The main site features full-text research reports like the "Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban Change" (2001); lists of urban research groups; and data sets.
(15 Feb 2003)

World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Chicago)
http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/bookfair/bftoc.html

Architectural photos of the Fair and the full text of The Book of the Fair by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Chicago, San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893). This site was created and maintained at Illinois Institute of Technology by Kristin Tandaert.
(16 Aug 2001)

WTC Monument
http://www.skyscraper.org/exhibitions/wtc/

This online monument began as a cooperative gallery and online exhibit between the Skyscraper Museum and the New York Histocial Society (http://www.nyhistory.org/). Curated by Carol Willis of the Skyscraper Museum, this site of many images with text is a  "tribute to the Twin Towers, examining the history of the complex in its conception, design, and construction from the 1960s through the mid-1970s -- and their destruction on the morning of 9/11."
(16 Oct 2002)

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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