History Day Links
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The following list of links are an excellent place to start your history day research and to get information about history day. |
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History Projects |
D.C. Everest Oral History
Projects covering WWII and Hmong true stories. |
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National History Day |
Provides program information on National History Day; explains the theme; links to useful sites; provides updates on this year's theme. |
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American Association for the History of Medicine |
Lists the names and phone numbers of all of their members in the United States by state. |
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American Institute of Physics |
Has some online exhibits. |
| American
Memory |
The home page for the American
Memory Historical Collections from the Library of Congress. American
Memory provides free access to historical images, maps, ... |
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Chemical Heritage Foundation |
Gives biographies of chemical engineers; links to sites of science-related libraries with online scholarly articles. |
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Colonial Williamsburg |
Has a search engine for online historical resources about the 1700s (under "Search This Site") |
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The East Asian History of Science Library |
Access to their library of East Asian science history; access to the work of Joseph Needham; allows
telenetting to their online documents. |
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Exploratorium ExploraNet |
Gives history on some of their exhibits. |
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The Faces of Science:
African Americans in the Sciences |
Lists African Americans with doctoral degrees in science. |
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Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village |
Histories of innovations and innovators online. |
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The History of Mathematics |
Gives biographies of mathematicians. |
| History
Net.Com |
Information from the
world's largest history magazine publisher. |
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Horus Gets in Gear: A Beginner's Guide to Research in the History of Science |
Links to history of science sites; search engine for history of science. |
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IBM Patent Server |
Allows patent searches by invention; reproductions of actual patents from January 5, 1974, to present; links to other web patent searches; bibliographical information on the patents. |
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IEEE History Center |
Online documents on the history of electrical engineering. |
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Index of Resources for Historians |
Links to 40 different sites dealing with science, technology and medicine. |
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation |
History of some inventions; access to archival information; links to other good sites related to invention and innovation. |
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The Library of Congress |
Online catalog to the Library of Congress Online documents. |
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National Archives and Records Administration |
Has a section to help National History Day students get started. |
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National Inventors Hall of
Fame Inventure Place |
Biographies of inventors; search by inventor or invention; good secondary source of background information. |
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National Park Services History |
History of the National Park Service; offers access to historians specializing in various aspects of American history, including science and technology, via e-mail under "Ask A Historian"; information on historic sites. |
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Native American Knowledge Resources on the Internet |
To learn about the Native American knowledge of science and technology. |
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The Nobel Prize Internet Archive |
Lists Nobel Prize winners in all categories. |
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Science and Technology
in Western Civilization |
Links to primary document sites; links to sites on the history of science and technology; organized by time period. |
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Smithsonian Institution Research Information System |
Allows a search of Smithsonian documents. |
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The Society for the History of Technology |
Online scholarly articles; links to other online publications, libraries, archives, museums, etc. |
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Ultimate Resource of Famous Inventors |
A list of famous inventors
who have helped extend the boundaries of the human experience. |
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U.S. National Library of
Medicine Internet Grateful Med |
Online documents about medicine, including historical articles. |
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
Access to all patents given by the U.S. federal government. |
| Wisconsin
Historical Society |
The Wisconsin
Historical Society collects and disseminates knowledge of Wisconsin and
of the trans-Allegheny West. |
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WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine |
Hundreds of links to historical articles and sites; organized for easy reference; very good starting point. |
