H-Net Guide to WWW info & sites May 23, 1995
[H-Net would like to keep this Guide updated. Please send your
suggestions to H-Net@uicvm.uic.edu]
WWW INFO. 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. Commercial services, like Prodigy and America On-Line now have
their own web browsers. You can use them from your home machine
(service costs about $15/month, with no additional phone
charges.)
3. "Lynx" is a non-graphics text-based www browser at many campuses.
from the base prompt type LYNX.
a) 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
WWW sites of interest to humanists:
1. YAHOO: http://www.yahoo.com
the most useful site, covering nearly all the WWW. updated daily
(over 30,000 sites)
2. 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.
Use LYNX or WWW
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.htm
excellent guide to worldwide history sources (based at U Kansas)
* 1492 Exhibition*
* AAS: American Antiquarian Society (US)
* ABAA: The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
(Catalogue Seaches by Speciality (US)
* ABZU: The Ancient Near East (US)
* Academe This Week
* African-American Mosaic (US)
* African Art Graphics Files* (US)
etc etc
3. http://www.culture.fr
The French Ministry of Culture WWW homepage offers a
remarkable starting point for anyone wishing to learn about
France or Cyberspace in general, with an ambitious plan for
future expansion and an already - extraordinary collection
of online images.
4. HTTP://www.usask.ca = U Saskatchewan
5. Assoc Asian Studies: http://www.easc.indiana.edu/~aas
6. Houghton Mifflin publishers: http://www.hmco.com
7. http://www.virginia.edu/ U of Virginia
8. other Recommended Internet Destinations for Historians
The following sample internet destinations were recommended by
various H-Net list members. (H-Teach 4/8/95)
WEB SITES:
1. Association for History and Computing, Groningen, the
Netherlands: http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/
2. Cardiff's Movie Database:
http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
3. Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu
4. Demography statistics: http://opr.princeton.edu (link to data
archive through European Fertility Project)
5. Global Network Navigator (commercial, but useful):
http://gnn.com/gnn/gnn.html
6. Higher Ed Web Pages List (over 1000 university web page
locations): http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
7. IHR-Info (Institute for Historical Research), London:
ihr.sas.ac.uk:8080/ihr/ihr0101.html
8. International Affairs Resources:
http://www.pit.edu/~ian/ianres.html
9. Mississippi State -- historic documents, esp Latin America:
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html
10. Ohio State History Home Page:
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/humanities/history/histdep.html
11. United Nations Development Databases: http://www.undp.org
12. World History Standards Debate:
http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/stndrds.html
13. H-Net web page? --not yet folks