H-Women Internet Links
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~women/links/
H-women is the well-run discussion network for scholars interested in women's history, and their weblinks are extensive. They are organized in the following categories: general resources and associations, images and sound, interactive and viewable atlases, online journals, miscellaneous, and media sources.

Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
A useful portal site with links to a wide range of sites dealing with the historical study of women, as well women in ancient, medieval, and modern cultures around the world. Within each grouping of sites (ancient Egypt, for example), the links are grouped into categories: general sites, great women, women's oppression, the structure of women's lives. women's agency, and gender contruction. So you will find links to everything from the birth of Hatshepsut, to the complete transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, to the correspondence of Florence Nightingale, to Marco Polo's comments on Chinese women.

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
This was put together by the same people who organized National Women's History Month. It offers an interesting set of weblinks, a catalog of women's history books, CDs and tapes, and lists of women's history events in programs in all fifty states and overseas.

A Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/WomenGender/links.html
This is a guide to specific information about archives, libraries, and other repositories that have primary source materials by or about women. Repositories are indexed alphabetically by state. The listings are not complete, but this is an ongoing project of the Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project at the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries, and includes an extensive page of weblinks to other resources.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com
Short bios of women searchable by subject or name. The user is linked to bios written for on-line encyclopedias (such as Encarta) and numerous other sites. Some of the bios are more reliable than others, but there is a lot here to browse through.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1830-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
This website is intended to introduce students, teachers, and scholars to primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Each project poses a question and provides 15-20 documents that address the question. Topics include such subjects as: Lucretia Mott's Reform Networks, 1840-1860, African-American Women and the Chicago World's Fair, 1893, Women and the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912, etc. A useful set of links to websites on women and social movements today, as well as links to archival sources, can be found at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/links/mainlink.htm.

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (NCWHS)
http://www.ncwhs.org/
This group supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life. The Collaborative makes women's contributions to history visible so that all women's experiences and potential are fully valued.

Websites with rich collections of women's manuscripts can be found at:

Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/

Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/digitalcoll.html

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
An excellent portal site for American history, offering annotated links to hundreds of sites. Designed for high school and college teachers of US History, it includes interesting exercises that explore the historian's craft by analyzing evidence. It also offers: an annotated list of websites useful in teaching US History, teaching assignments that use existing Web resources, first person documents about the experiences of "ordinary" Americans, a monthly history quiz, examples of student work on the web, articles and resources that link the past with current issues and events, teaching strategies and techniques shared by teachers, annotated syllabi, and a dialog area. The site is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
A wonderful, well-funded, deep site that gets better all the time. American Memory includes vast quantities of well-displayed primary materials from the collections of the Library of Congress: film, audio, photographs, drawings, music, original documents, and printed books are all included. Subjects range from the American variety stage to baseball cards to folk music to the early motion picture industry to George Washington's papers.

The National Park Service: Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
A user friendly site that provides information for people planning trips to the nation's parks, and teaching tools for students and educators. Users can explore archeology, Civil War history, US historic places, structures, and landscapes, maritime history, and peoples and cultures featured at US National parks.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
This portal site links to thousands of documents dealing with modern Western history, organized by subject. Categories include: historiography, the early modern world (reformation, everyday life, colonial history), the transformation of the west (scientific, political, and industrial revolution), 19th century and Western hegemony, world wars and the end of Western dominance, and the world since 1945.

Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
This portal site links to thousands of documents dealing with medieval history. The site links you to full text sources, selected sources, and documents dealing with the saints' lives.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
This portal site links to thousands of documents dealing with the origins of humans, ancient Near Eastern civilizations, Greek civilizations, and Roman civilization.

Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media site includes links to their selection of the "best history websites," clearly presented information about teaching history and history scholarship, and links to sites they maintain, including history matters, exploring the French Revolution, English matters, and others.

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/
This is the home of many content rich humanities projects for the internet. Here you can find a wide variety of research reports and technical reports. Embedded in this site is the remarkably ambitious project of Ed Ayers, The Valley of the Shadow, which includes a vast assortment of documents (newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records) from two communities, one northern and one southern, before and during the American Civil War. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/)

The Journal for Multimedia History
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/
Only several volumes have been published so far, but this journal is aiming to offer a centralized forum where scholars, students, and the public can read, view, and hear multimedia research in all fields of history, or enjoy reviews that offer audio and video samples from the works reviewed. The group producing the journal hope to promote and legitimate innovations in historical teaching and research, and "utilize the promise of digital technologies to expand history's boundaries." Unlike other film and history journals, this is not a paper journal that has migrated to the web. The site is a project of the State University of New York in Albany.

Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis/
This journal has been in existence since 1971, and its articles cover a broad range of subjects ranging from the black image in film, to the historical work of Oliver Stone, to the American frontier in film. For specific historical subjects or films (documentary or dramatic), this is a good place to look for articles dealing with questions of authenticity and history. There is an index of Film and History articles at the site. Unfortunately, you will need to go to a library (or order a $500 CD with back issues) to read them. The journal was founded by John E. O'Connor, who also wrote a very useful guide with the American Historical Association called "Teaching History with Film and Television", which has a companion book and CD called "Image as Artifact."

Lists of films about the past can be found at:

Ancient History in the Movies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbookmovies.html
A listing of movies about ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Medieval History in the Movies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medfilms.html
A lengthy and interesting list of movies dealing with medieval history, ranging from pagan and Christian late antiquity to Byzantium, the Vikings, the Crusades, Arthurian England, medieval women, transgendered characters, the Renaissance, the Mongols, medieval fantasy and heresy. Lists of best and worst medieval movies are included. There's lots to see: eight separate movies about Joan of Arc are listed.

Modern History in the Movies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbookmovies.html
A rather predictable, not very long listing of movies about subjects ranging from the beginnings of the modern state up to life in England in the 1980s.

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Internet Movie Database
http://uk.imdb.com/
A remarkably comprehensive searchable movie database online, this is the place to find information about feature films, and TV films. The site also includes feature articles, games and contests, a message board, and a place to ask for help.

The Media and Communications Studies Site: Film Studies Section
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/advert.html
The Media and Communications Studies Site is gargantuan and well organized, encompassing everything from textual analysis to media influence to pop music, and advertising.. The Film Studies section of the site includes links to articles, books, and other websites dealing with: film and gender, general film studies, film institutions, movie databases, film-related newsgroups, film journals, other film related links.

Film Sound Design and Theory
http://filmsound.org/
This in an excellent collection of resources and links for anyone interested in film sound. Here one can find excellent articles, demonstrations, bibliographies, and weblinks.

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Karolinska Institute
http://www.kib.ki.se/
Here you will find an extensive searchable set of updated website links arranged by subjects in history of biomedicine: general overview, ancient period, medieval period, early modern period, modern period (broken down by 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries).

Historical Center for Health Sciences (University of Michigan)
http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/
This site has a shorter list of website links, as well as links to online catalogs, and online discussions.

The National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html (for the history of medicine division of NLM)
The medical images at this site can be searched by keyword or browsed. The collection includes nearly 60,000 images: portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

John Hopkins University Institute of the History of Medicine
http://www.welch.jhu.edu/ihm/iohmlibrary.html
Hopkin's site has a listing of online databases, lists and electronic conferences, and an extensive bibliography that includes sections on: general reference sources, guides to the literature, dictionaries and encyclopedias, secondary bibliographies, periodical indexes, primary bibliographies, periodical lists, biographical sources, treatises, chronologies, manuscript lists and archival guides, and special topic bibliographies (including women in science and medicine).

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American College of Nurse-Midwives
http://www.acnm.org/
This prominent organization of nurse-midwives has a "web resources" section with links to other midwifery and health sites including major organizations worldwide, major libraries, and journal directories.

Midwives Alliance of North America
http://www.mana.org/
The primary organization of lay midwives, MANA's site has an excellent bibliography including primary reference sources, secondary reference sources, text books, other helpful books, and even "entertaining reading."

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History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
An excellent portal site for American history, offering well annotated links to hundreds of sites. Designed for high school and college teachers of US History, it includes interesting exercises that explore the historian's craft by analyzing evidence. It also offers: an annotated list of websites useful in teaching US History, teaching assignments that use existing Web resources, first person documents about the experiences of "ordinary" Americans, a monthly history quiz, examples of student work on the web, articles and resources that link the past with current issues and events, teaching strategies and techniques shared by teachers, annotated syllabi, and a dialog area. The site is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
http://www.emporia.edu/rescentr/
The index to this journal is at the site. Unfortunately, the articles are not in cyberspace.

Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that show teachers how to bring historic places into their classrooms, including ready-to-use lesson plans, education kits, and professional development materials and workshops.

Humbul Humanites Hub History links
http://www.oup.co.uk/humbul/
Operated out of Oxford University, this is a useful set of links to good history sites worldwide.

Media Literacy links
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/meded04.html
A very useful set of weblinks and suggested readings, put together by the Media and Communications Studies site.

Media Literacy Teaching kits
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/catalogue/index.cfm
A lengthy list of teaching tools (with prices and ordering information) divided into subject areas such as: advertising, film, gender representation, health, history, news, television, etc. This is part of the site maintained by the Media Awareness Network.

Online PBS Teacher's Guide for A MIDWIFE'S TALE
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/midwife/tguide/index.html
Two of the people who worked on DoHistory, Judith Moyer and Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, created an online teachers guide to be used with the film "A Midwife's Tale." The site actually includes two guides, and a film index (very useful when trying to find video segments in class). There is a teacher's guide dealing with historical research and early America, with lesson plans based upon the themes: money and currency, courtship, premarital pregnancy and marriage, textiles, and midwifery. All of these lesson plans make use of the film and historical documents that are reproduced online. In addition, there is a filmmakers guide that teachers can use to teach basic media literacy skills. In this guide, students are taken behind the scenes into the making of the film. Short interviews with some of the key players are included.

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USA People Search: Big List of Geneaology Links
http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-big-list-of-genealogy-links.aspx
This page offers links to several dozen online geneaology resources, from well known sites to the fairly specific, such as cemetary research and immigration data.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
http://www.cyndislist.com/
Cyndi's List is the site genealogists rely on the most for links: there are more than 56,000 links from this site. It is well organized and frequently updated.

The Genealogy Page of the US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy
This section of the National Archives site provides links to genealogical research guides, genealogical data, microform catalogs and finding aids, information about policy issues affecting genealogists, genealogy workshops and courses, genealogical resources on the internet, and descriptions of the National Archives research facilities.

Intro to Genealogy: An Online Course, at the site of the National Genealogical Society
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/Courses/Course.cfm?CID=1
In this online course, one can learn how to record genealogical information; get started with information in family and published sources; find twentieth-century vital records; find birth, death, and marriage information for ancestors who lived in earlier centuries; use online finding aids and library catalogs; and write source citations for birth, death, and marriage information.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Resources
http://www.familysearch.org/
Because The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collects vast numbers of disparate family records, this site is a useful guide for people who are not involved with the church, as well as those involved with the church. There is information here about the FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service, which provides access to the extensive genealogical resources collected by the LDS church.

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The Center for Maine History: Maine Historical Society
http://www.mainehistory.org

Old Fort Western Museum
http://www.oldfortwestern.org
Information about the 1754 National Historic Landmark fort, store and house museum on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine.

Maine Resource Guide
http://www.maineguide.com/
This is a good place to find travel information, information about events in Maine, and links to the websites of institutions and businesses in the state.

Maine State Library
http://www.maine.gov/msl/
The research and reference services at this url will link you to the library's online catalog, and to genealogical resources (what is at the library and names of local researchers who can help you if you can't travel to Augusta, Maine). This is the library that owns Martha Ballard's diary.

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