Department of History & Philosophy
History Student Resources
The Larry A Jackson Library
David Rumsey Map Collection includes over 15,000 copyrighted
maps online focusing on 18th and 19th century maps of the Americas as well as other historic world
maps including Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Most of the digitized maps are high
resolution--at least 300 pixels per inch of the original map size. Noncommerical use of the maps
are permitted under the Creative Commons License and several different downloadable viewers are
provided whereby different maps may be viewed in various ways, including side-by-side.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected
Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in
1973-74. Now out of print, the Dictionary is published online with the help of Scribner's and the
Electric Text Center at the University of Virginia. The dictionary includes articles on the
historical development of a broad spectrum of ideas in philosophy, religion, politics, literature,
and the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Google Earth. Satellite imagery and maps are searchable
(with the free Google Earth download) to locate and view specific geographical locations in high
resolution: buildings, cities, countries, or other specific terrain. Images can be zoomed-in,
tilted, rotated, saved, downloaded, and printed. Featured content with selected layers of maping
information is available for overlays with
Rumsey Historical Maps,
Wikipedia articles, and
Discovery
Networks World Tour, among other multimedia sources. Use of the site is free with no
registration.
Self-described as "a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine,
H-HistMajor
is a moderated internet discussion forum of, by, and for undergraduate history majors" co-edited
by both history faculty and undergraduate students from various institutions. The listserv
orginates from Michigan State University. Discussion topics include information concerning
graduate programs, conferences, job prospects, and international study. Subscription to the
listserv requires completing an application-questionaire.
History Matters, subtitled "The U.S. Survey Course on the
Web," is a gateway for the study of U.S. History originating from the American Social History
Project/Center for Media & Learning, City University of New York, and the Center for History
and New Media, George Mason University. The site contains primary documents, research
techniques, guides to other U.S. History sites, forums, student projects, web-based assignments,
and teaching strategies. The web resource focuses on the activities of professional
historians, history teachers, and history students.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook The Internet Modern History Sourcebook, first
created in 1997, is one main part of the
Internet History
Sourcebooks Project edited by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. Access to hundreds of
public domain historical, cultural, and scientific documents relevant to survey courses in World,
European, and North-and-South American history is provided. Some texts are on site and some are
available
via links.
The Labyrinth, developed by Deborah Everhart and Martin
Irvine and sponsored by Georgetown University, provides unique search menus for online materials
and resources in medieval studies. Categories for searches include archaeology, architecture, art,
astronomy, cartography, ethics, religions, magic, manuscripts, medicine, music, philosophy,and
languages, among others.
The ORB
(the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies), edited by Kathryn Talarico, is maintained by
medieval scholars and is sponsored by the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
The site includes a medieval studies encyclopedia, textbook library, specialized search engine,
e-texts, and teaching resources. All articles are peer reviewed. Quick links are provided to other
important sites for medieval studies:
Labyrinth,
Internet Medieval Source book,
Netserf, and
WWW Virtual Library/Medieval.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. On this
University of Texas Libraries site, not only is advice on displaying, resizing, editing, and
printing images outlined, but also external imaging packages, both commercial and shareware are
briefly discussed. Unique features of the sight include over 11,000 maps in the public domain and
the presence of an interactive "Ask a Map Question" form-feature. Links to other major maps sites
are also provided.
Spartacus Educational: The searchable site, inspired
by the educational ideas of psychologist Jerome Bruner, is designed for active learning by John
Simkin. Emphasized topics include World, European, British, and American history, as well as
studies of often-debated specific events. A unique aspect of
Spartacus includes the presence of an "Ask an Expert"
feature--although question submission requires registration with the site. If you don't have Adobe
Flash Player, you'll have to deal with the occasional pop-up request to download it, but, if you
choose not to do so, you'll still have access to site-content.
Carnell Learning Center Entry on the Lander University Campus
College of Arts and Humanities
Department of History and Philosophy
320 Stanley Avenue, Greenwood, SC 29646-2099
Phone: +1 864 388 8265 Fax: +1 864 388 8020
email:
histphil@lander.edu
