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Introduction | Questionnaire Summary | Field Agenda | Readings /Websites
PRELIMINARY READINGS/WEBSITES African Studies African Studies WWW Virtual Library, Columbia University Libraries African Studies Center On-Line Resources, University of Pennsylvania Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources, Stanford University Libraries African Studies Association of the United States American Studies The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It also combines a narrative and an electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based. The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. Part of UNC's Documenting the American South project. American Quarterly Hypertext Project Experimental issue of the American Quarterly which explored the nature of scholarship in a hypertextual context. A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. Latin American sites - Carolyn Palaima LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) a leading site for Latin America receiving on average 3 million hits a month. It is the most comprehensive information system for Latin American Studies on the Internet. LANIC has been online since 1992. Our main services are a directory of resources organized by country and subject, joint projects, hosted databases, and special initiatives. Brazilian Government Documents For those interested in a large-scale scanning project, featuring primary documents of the 19th and 20th centuries; it gives a good example of what can be done for a quarter-million dollars. Political Database of the Americas - The Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies This was founded in 1995 to fill a void in the electronic informational resources available to students,academics, policy analysts and government officials on Latin American politics. Internet Resources for Latin Americas - Molly Molloy (University of New Mexico) This provides a guide for accessing information resources for Latin America. Here are some other digital archives, or lists of links to other archives and full text sources: Album Comemorativo de la Guerra entre Mexico y Estados Unidos Museo Digital Arqueologico de El Salvador This is not a Latin American site, but it is a good site for showing how Internet-based information can be used in the classroom. EDSITEment offers a gateway for teachers,students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. The National Endowment for the Humanities along with other partners launched the site in 1997. Middle Eastern Studies "Scholarly
Publishing in an Electronic Age: 8 Views of the
Future."
Chronicle of "Interactive Web-Based Language Learning: The State of the Art" - Thursday July 16, 1998. Douglas G. Mills "Western Consortium Multi-Language Conference," MESA Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 169-174. Reviews the content of conference at a 1998 conference of teachers of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish presentations. Some concern innovative work in computer-assisted language teaching. Andrew Rippin's "The Study of Tafsir in the 21st Century: E-Texts and Their Scholarly Use" Raises important questions
about what can and cannot be done with
electronically available texts, and compares them
to what can be accomplished with printed
versions. http://dhamma.lamc.utexas.edu/hebrew/ Innovative use of technology in the Hebrew program at the University of Texas-Austin - has occasional papers, documents, translations & 1000's of pages of Arabic & Persian text in image format on the Bahai faith and history - public site for discussion & docs pertaining to the contemporary Arabian/Persian Gulf - enormous site on the Levant, with lots of text & photographs Sibawayhi (9th cent. Arab grammarian) - a major project to publish in hypertext the whole Kitab of Sibawayhi in all its editions and manuscripts, plus ... much secondary literature .... Renaissance Studies - William Bowen The English Renaissance in Context. Notable use of graphics and moving images in presenting scholarly materials. The World of Dante by Deborah Parker. Professor Parker will be joining us in Washington. A large research project in Florence. A commercial resource from Bell&Howell. Slavic/Russian Studies - Marshall Poe Internet Resouces for Russian Studies - by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center This is the best universal index site in our field at present. A monster and growing. H-Russia - moderated by Martin Ryle The biggest and best discussion list in Russian history. Very useful and often used (sometimes by Trotskyists and such). WWW Virtual Guide to the History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology - by Slava Gerotvich. An excellent example of a monographic page (a "monopage," as I call them). Sticks to the point and provides reference to the "book world." I would suggest it to a student with embarrassment. Alexander II and His Time - Walter Moss. A web-enabled and improved book by a respected old hand (who has surpassed his much younger colleagues in web-savvy). Fully suitable for classroom use (and free!). The American Bibliography of Slavic and Eastern European Studies A joint project of the AAASS and the University of Illiniois. A very good idea: an on line bibliography of everything published in our field. But, as you will see, they are a bit behind in their cataloging efforts (Russian studies ain't what it used to be!) For more information on Russian history URLs, I might immodestly suggest my own clumsy attempt to critically review "what's out there". |
