A. H-Net Guide to WWW info & sites August 17, 1995
WWW = World Wide Web = addresses on the Internet with graphics &
text.
1. Netscape is the viewer of choice. Mosaic is considered a bit
behind the times.
2. "Lynx" is a non-graphics text-based www browser at many campuses.
It can be used with a slow modem from home--you get the text but
not the graphics.
LYNX COMMANDS in WWW: -- press space for next page --
Arrow keys: Up and Down to move.
Right to follow a link; Left to go back.
O)ther cmds H)elp G)oto P)rint M)ain screen Search: /
o)ptions Q)uit
to email yourself a document: P for print, enter username
B. General Purpose & Search
1. YAHOO: WWW http://www.yahoo.com
the most useful site, covering nearly all the WWW. updated daily
(over 40,000 sites)
2. Global Network Navigator http://gnn.com/gnn/gnn.html
3. Ziff Davis: good on computing & Internet news
www http://www.ziff.com/
C. WWW sites of interest to humanities & Social Sciences
1. Demographics/Social data
a) Maison des Sciences de l'Homme www.msh-paris.fr
b) Essex Social Science Data Archives dawww.essex.ac.uk
c) Danish Data archive. www.dda.dk
d) Demographic statistics: http://opr.princeton.edu (link to
dataarchive through European Fertility Project)
2. Economic Data
a) Cliometric Society
http://cs.muohio.edu/
b) NBER Macro-Economic History Database = gopher://nber.harvard.edu
or http://nber.harvard.edu and then select ``NBER
Macro-Economic History Database.'' This is a WAIS searchable
database.
c) General Social Survey [annual poll of USA]
http://www.soc.qc.edu
superb guide to social science citations & abstracts of all
studies that used this major data base. The complete GSS can even
be downloaded.
3. Higher Ed Web Pages List (over 1000 university web page
locations):
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
4. HISTORY
global list of all history depts:
http://gopher.gmu.edu/other/history/research/depts.html
a) Association for History and Computing, Groningen, theNetherlands:
http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/
b) George Mason U: http://gopher.gmu.edu/other/history/research
c) IHR-Info (Institute for Historical Research), London:
ihr.sas.ac.uk:8080/ihr/ihr0101.html
d) Lynn Nelson & the folks at U Kansas have put together a wonderful
guide to history sources. You select the item you want, click,and
connect direct to it.
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/
e) Mississippi State -- historic documents, esp Latin
America:http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html
f) Montreal: http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~otisy/CCHI3_23.html
g) Ohio State:
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/default.html
h) Saskatchewan, U of: http://www.usask.ca
i) Social Studies teaching:
http://www.halcyon.com/howlevin/social.studies
j) Texas-Austin: http://www.gar.utexas.edu
k) Virginia, U of: http://www.virginia.edu/
1) http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow2.html
[Ed Ayer's The Valley of the Shadow (US History)]
l) World History Standards Debate:
http://
neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/stndrds.html
and
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
5. Media
a) NewsLink Web page includes free links to 431 on-line newspapers,
350 on-line broadcasters, 466 on-line magazines, 465 on-line news
services, organizations and other special sites.
http://www.newslink.org
b) US Information Agency [with daily news]
http://www.usia.gov
6. National Endowment for Humanities: http://www.neh.fed.us
7. Political Science/International Affairs
a) Assoc Asian Studies: WWW http://www.easc.indiana.edu/~aas
b) http://www.culture.fr
The French Ministry of Culture WWW homepage.
c) International Affairs Resources:
http://www.pit.edu/~ian/ianres.html
d) The POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH PAGE URL
-http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~jwholbro/psrp.html
e) United Nations Development Databases: http://www.undp.org
8. Popular Culture, Museums
a) American Studies: http://www.cis.yale.edu/~davidp/amstud.html
with links to hundreds of sites
b) ASEC (American Studies Electronic Crossroads)
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/crossroads.html
c) T-AMLIT American Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/info/tamlit_info.html
d) Library if Congress "American Memory" [photos]
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
e) Cardiff's Movie Database:
http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
f) Museums, guide to: http://cwis.usc.edu/lacmnh/other.html
g) British:http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
9. Publishers, Media
a) Am Assoc Univ Presses:
http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu:70/
b) Australian Broadcasting Online
http://www.abc.net.au
c) American Historical Review:
www http://www.indiana.edu/~amhrev
d) Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu