Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/
“The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.”
Advertisements and marketing schemes for commercial products offer a fascinating and entertaining glimpse into the history of our culture. Hosted by Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, this archive features magazine advertisements from the early to mid 20th century. It is divided thematically and also can be searched via an internal search engine. The WWII Era propaganda adds for War Bonds, rationing, and other social programs to support the war are particularly interesting and potentially usable in the classroom. Other ads for beauty and cosmetic products may not be as useful in the classroom, but amusing nonetheless. The simple organization of the archive and search engine should facilitate easy access and research. These ads could be effectively incorporated into a wide range of lessons dealing with the early 20th century and World Wars. (BR)
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
The University of Kansas’s Carrie Full Text Electronic Library is the brainchild of a frustrated history professor who tired of his printer running out of paper. It constitutes an enormous collection of documents, images, digitized books and manuscripts. For those interested in U.S. history, the Documents for the Study of American History will be the most useful. The archive is not as elaborately organized as others, and has no internal search engine. Nevertheless, any deficiencies in its simple chronological layout produces are well compensated by the sheer size of the archive. It contains nearly 1,000 documents, images or audio files (a rough estimate). These documents, images and audio files range from the 1400’s to President George W. Bush’s 2005 inaugural speech (they obviously update the page often). Along with the chronological format, the presidential terms are marked and separate the documents into groups. This website, nearly 10 years in the making, is an invaluable resource. (BR)
America on the Move
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/
“America on the Move explores the role of transportation in American history. Visit communities wrestling with the changes that new transportation networks brought. See cities change, suburbs expand, and farms and factories become part of regional, national, and international economies. Meet people as they travel for work and pleasure, and as they move to new homes.”
For those desiring to learn more about transportation and its revolutionary effects on American society, America on the Move is the place to start. Based on an exhibition at the National Museum of American History, this website traces the evolution of transportation from the Early Republic to Modern American History. Images and historical narratives show how transportation methods influenced the size and composition of cities, businesses and commerce throughout the nation, even the types of food that Americans eat. Finally, interactive games make this website enjoyable for younger browsers, while lesson plans proffered on the site can help teachers with in class activities.
America’s Wars
http://www.va.gov/pressrel/amwars01.htm
From the Department of Veteran’s Affairs comes the webpage America’s Wars. This page, similar to that of Statistical Summary: America’s Major Wars, has the main function of providing the visitor with statistical data on the topic of war. Some of the statistics that can be found on this page are death statistics, wounded statistics, current living veteran statistics, last living dependents of different wars, last widows of different wars, and estimations of living veterans up through the year 2020. While there is not a lot of information other than statistical, the page would be a good source of information concerning wars, and their veterans.
American Journeys
http://www.americanjourneys.org/index.asp
“American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.”
Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Wisconsin State Historical Society, and National History Day, American Journeys is a website created for the purpose of providing a legion of primary documents and images about the exploration and settlement of the North American continent. With the assistance of renowned historians, this project has collected digital images and reproductions of key documents, pictures, and illustrations in American History. Moreover, the website offers teachers material concerning problematic issues that arise when teaching history (nomenclature, geography, choosing a topic, sensitive content). In the near future, American Journeys will expand this feature to include lesson plans.
An American Time Capsule:
Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
"The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total the collection comprises 28,000 primary source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American History…”
An American Time Capsule brings together a great collection of advertisements, leaflets, proclamations, timetables (train schedules for example), and many other printed sources from American history. With the ability to search this site by genre, title, author, and geographic location it is easy to locate information. As with other American Memory websites, the information comes in the form of scanned images, making them great for overhead displays or PowerPoint slides. With the wide ranging variety of items covered (a list of deserters from Pennsylvania regiments, Gettysburg, Oct. 6, 1866 among others) this site provides an interesting view of all sides of our country’s past.
Close Up Foundation
http://www.closeup.org
“Close Up's mission is built on the belief that textbooks and lectures alone are not enough to help students understand the democratic process and make it work.”
The Close Up Foundation website is the nation’s largest nonprofit (501(c)(3)), nonpartisan citizenship education organization which offers civic education programs for high school and middle school students, as well as teachers and adults. This site brings together a tremendous number of digitized full text documents ranging from the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) and the Declaration of Independence (1776), to the Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls (1848) and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963). Also worth noting on this site is the vast amount of links to other civic-related information, such as the Constitution and the three branches of our federal government.
Cuban Heritage Collection Digital
http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.shtml
“The CHC brings together in one repository many kinds of materials in different formats, including audiovisual resources, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, memorabilia, photographs, postcards, and posters. Here you will find finding aids for our collections of personal and corporate papers and special format materials.”
From the Spanish-American War of 1898 to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban-American relations have played a significant role in national history. In contemporary American society, these issues remain in the form of immigration, economic relations, and foreign relations. The Cuban Heritage Collection offers some of this history in the form of primary documents and photographs of Cubans, Cuban-Americans, and Cuban exiles living in the United States. The Manuel R. Bustamonte Collection contains beautiful images of Cuban society, landscape, and industry. The Tomás Estrada Palma Collection offers viewers stunning images of the Presidential Palace in Havana. Primary documents are found in abundance at this site, some in English and others in Spanish. For students and teachers seeking to learn more about Cuban culture, CHC Digital provides bibliographic sources.
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
“This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston.”
A combined project of the University of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and Project for the Active Teaching of American History (PATH), this information source is extensive. Digital History provides its readers with a massive list of materials including, but not limited to, a digital textbook and encyclopedia; images, pictures, interactive games and activities, and political cartoons (good for research or sheer enjoyment); lesson plans; primary documents; and a guide on writing and researching history. The latter item on this list captures the interest of those acquainted with typical on-line resources. A website offering capable suggestions and guidelines on researching and writing history is a rarity. The lessons teach students and novices valuable tools such as choosing a topic, finding primary sources, locating information in journals, and utilizing archives and local institutions. Finally, Digital History contains links to other websites and organizations. Overall, this site is a useful and easily accessible source of information.
Douglass Archives of American Public Address
http://douglassarchives.org/
“Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University.”
The Douglass Archives of American Public Address hold a good selection of important speeches in U.S history from John Winthrop in 1625 to George W. Bush in 2003. These speeches can be searched by author, title, chronology or issue (topic). In addition to these speeches, the site provides an extensive list of links to off-site “speeches, documents and resources across the Web.” These links are divided and grouped chronologically and can be easily navigated. Under the U.S. History link this site also provides the text of An Outline of American History, one of the oldest continuing publications of the United States Information Agency (USIA). This survey of U.S. History serves as an excellent source for background information and for understanding broad historical trends. This site is a great source for historic speeches, information on U.S. history and links to other useful sites. (BR)
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850 - 1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
“The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress. The collection consists of 62 books and pamphlets, 140 Federal statutes and Congressional resolutions, 34 additional legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, 360 Presidential proclamations, 170 prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and 2 motion pictures.”
The synopsis above, taken from the Library of Congress website, makes clear the impressive content of this virtual exhibit. The most obvious value are the number and range of primary documents dealing with the Conservation Movement. The time period spans 70 years and organizes the content into a timeline. Within the timeline is information about events and links to the aforementioned primary sources. The events in the timeline are described in an easily understandable fashion and the primary sources are an excellent supplement. The exhibit may also be searched by a number of parameters and is easily navigable. This is a great blend of primary documents with the necessary background information and historical context.
Eye Witness to History: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
This is one of the most user-friendly and informative collections of primary documents available on the Internet. It includes both the primary documents and background information to help contextualize the primary sources. The documents are all eyewitness accounts of the different historical events. Each entry first gives historical background, then introduces the eyewitness and then gives their account. Citations for the primary sources are provided. The documents are split up into chronological and thematic categories. The “Voices from the 20th Century” has a good selection of audio clips including presidential speeches, the crash of the Hindenburg and many others. The Snapshots offers similar glimpses into history through photographs. The presentation of primary documents in this contextualized fashion is an excellent resource. The casual browser could easily spend hours reading and exploring the fascinating content presented on this site. (BR)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/
"The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West…”
In association with the Library of Congress, American Memory, and the University of Chicago Library, The First American West offers the visitor great primary documents. With the ability to search by subject, name, title, theme, or keyword, information is easily and quickly located. On this site one can find maps, documents, pictures, and even pictures of historical documents (i.e. book pages, etc.) serving to offer many sources of primary documents for the classroom.
From Revolution to Reconstruction . . . and what happened afterwards
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
This database of primary documents concerning American History began as a classroom project at the University of Goningen, Department of Humanities Computing. Since its inception in 1994, the project has grown through the work of Dr. George M. Welling and his various teams of students. Visiting the website, browsers can read and reference a number of historical documents ranging from the Magna Carta to President George W. Bush’s inaugural speech. The site is user friendly and constantly updated. Overall, this website is a great resource tool for students and teachers of history.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
“Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute’s initiatives target audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public.”
This website contains a wide range of useful resources for teachers, students, and history fanatics. From the digital collections, readers can access original documents, letters, literature, and artwork. The Lehrman collection spans a significant portion of American history, and the digital reproductions are of a very high quality. In addition to general information and special collections, teachers visiting the site will discover a wide variety of lesson plans. They generally include easy-to-follow outlines; an overview of the time period; primary documents; reading assignments accompanied by review questions; high quality pictures; quizzes; timelines; detailed maps; a recommended readings list; and the sources utilized while formulating the lesson plan. The daily assignments focus on instructing students in the proper use of archives, databases, primary and secondary sources, and other history resources. Moreover, the activities are group-oriented to nurture social skills and teamwork.
Immigration: The Changing Face of America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.html
“This feature presentation links educators to primary sources from the Library of Congress' online collections. These Web resources can make history come alive for students! The feature provides an introduction to the study of immigration to the United States. It is far from the complete story, and focuses only on the immigrant groups that arrived in greatest numbers during the 19th and early 20th centuries.”
As conceded by this website’s overview, it is only an introduction to U.S. immigration. Nevertheless, it is definitely worth looking at as it goes far beyond an average cursory introduction. Along the left hand side of the main page there are small images that link to different nationalities of immigrants. Within each section, the story of that group’s immigration to the United States is summarized. These presentations are enhanced by the inclusion of primary source materials from the Library of Congress (mainly images). Other Library of Congress websites with relevant information are also linked within these summaries. The historical information and explanations give an excellent picture of the reasons for, modes of and diverse groups that participated in U.S. immigration. Other features include several interactive games provided for students about the “Irish” language and Native American place names, interviews with recent U.S. immigrants, an international cookbook and a few excellent teacher lesson plans. This website is indeed an excellent introduction to U.S. immigration and offers many avenues for more in-depth investigation and interest. (BR)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
“The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of a series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.”
This site covers a wide variety of subjects, countries, and time periods. Nonetheless, American history students and teachers can benefit greatly from its resources. Speeches from World War II leaders, charters from British colonies in the Americas, or general American History documents are found on this website in an easily referenced, easily accessed format. Moreover, the designers provide links to images, maps, and audio/visual format. For instance, browsers can access pre-1920 Victrola recordings from one of the links. Last but not least, teachers can accentuate their lectures or group activities by using the primary materials located on this site. Overall, a great, comprehensive website on modern history.
Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction..."
Making of America is an excellent resource for an educator looking to provide primary sources to their students in the classroom. The search feature on this website allows the visitor to not only search through books, but also journals. Once a search has been performed the visitor can view their information via scanned pages stored digitally. The page images are clear, and would print out nicely for classroom use. With 3,166,450 pages and 3,166,450 volumes in their holdings, there is a great chance of finding what you are looking for.
Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.masshist.org/welcome
“In the two centuries since the founding of the MHS, its mission has remained constant: to collect, preserve, and communicate historical information about Massachusetts and the nation to the widest possible audience.”
The Massachusetts Historical Society website surveys a wide spectrum of the state’s history. Utilizing primary documents, pictures, illustrations, maps, and narratives, this site gives browsers an introduction to the defining events of Massachusetts history, and in some cases, American History. Also, teachers can access a lesson plan on John Quincy Adams. The lesson plan is applicable for an individual or classroom setting, and the web team has provided the necessary text and images. Finally, this site deserves high marks for accessibility. Browsers should experience minimal difficulty finding what they need here.
NARA Archival Research Catalog
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/
“The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.”
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival Research Catalog links you to descriptions of 982,221 cubic feet of holdings. This represents only 20% of the NARA’s holdings and they aim to continue adding to what is available online. The database is searchable by time period, type or location. One drawback is that not all of the records are available to view digitally. Thankfully, there is an adjoining catalog, the Access to Archival Databases (ADD) system, that contains only digital resources. The enormity of the archives assures that resources can be found for most topics in American History. Many of these come in series, containing numerous documents that could be incorporated into lesson plans and classroom activities. (BR)
Nebraska Studies
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/
“Nebraskastudies.org offers teachers, students, and history buffs access to archival photos, documents, letter, video segments, maps and more capturing the life and history of Nebraska from pre-1500 to the present.”
This is by far one of the best websites on Nebraska history. It not only offers some amazing resources, but it does so in a very organized and easily navigable way. The site is set up on a timeline stretching from pre-1500 to the present. Within each segment there is a timeline featuring important events in Nebraska history as well as corresponding events on the national and international scene. Each topic includes extensive historical analysis, primary documents, stories, images and audio/visual resources. The Tools section provides teachers some useful worksheets and resources on interpreting and understanding primary documents. There is also a Teacher Resources section that provides full lesson plans complete with primary documents, worksheets, student assignments and quizzes. Teachers will find here not only ideas for lesson topics, but also background information for their own understanding and more than enough resources for bringing it into the classroom. The site should definitely be examined by any teacher wanting to teach lessons on almost any topic in Nebraska history. BR
PBS American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/index.html
“As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. American Experience Online premiered in November of 1995 and has since won accolades from viewers and critics alike. To date, American Experience Online has produced over 85 feature sites.”
This resource is valuable as a companion to the PBS American Experience programs or simply as a resource website. Be sure to check first with the season schedule to see what programs are going to be run soon on your local PBS station. The program sites are listed thematically, alphabetically, and chronologically. They can also be searched by keyword. Within each site there are primary documents, biographies and often games, video clips and other multimedia resources. There is a good selection of topics so it should be easy to find something of interest. This site would be great for students to learn about new topics and find out what events in history interest them the most. If coupled with a viewing of one of the programs, the teacher resources would prove very helpful to facilitate good classroom activities. BR
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
“Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 13,000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.”
Literature and intellectual thought have played an important role in the formation and evolution of American culture and ultimately our history. This archive is an excellent resource for utilizing literature in classroom settings. From the 13,000 books that are digitized here, there are certain to be many useful titles relevant to a host of U.S. history subjects. Some of the more famous American authors found here include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hundreds of others. There are also some audio e-books, digitized sheet music, presidential inaugural addresses and historically significant speeches. The search engine makes navigating and finding useful titles simple and easy. The use of these texts would be an excellent way to give new perspectives on historical events and trends. The story of American history is much more that dates and names, and these titles can help fill in and animate that story.
September 21, 1939: A Day In Radio
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Radio/day/radio.html
September 21, 1939: A Day In Radio is a website that offers the visitor access to one full day of radio programming from 1939. From sign-on in the early morning to the last show of the evening this site gives a small peek into the times and lives of Americans over 60 years ago. Among the daily programming one can find news, music (orchestra and big band primarily), and radio shows. This site allows students a small glimpse into the past by providing them with an audio primary source that is interesting and engaging.
The Social Studies Help Center
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/index.html
“Social Studies help for the 11th grade American History and 12th grade Economics and AP Government. There are class notes, numerous Supreme Court case summaries and information on how to write a research paper inside.”
David K. Miller, a teacher of 12 years and recently promoted assistant principal, started this website six years ago to help his students with their social studies classes. Since its inception, it has grown to include information ranging from American History to AP American Government. History materials include narratives about the major issues, periods, and events, which are reinforced with a variety of primary documents. Also, students looking to supplement their class notes can find resources here, since portions of his material come in the form of outlines. Just as important, Mr. Miller offers his visitors information on writing a research paper and documenting sources. Teachers also stand to gain from this website. There is a section with sample rubrics for general assignments or thematic papers. Finally, Miller supplements his website by providing links to others.
Social Studies Sources
http://education.indiana.edu/%7Esocialst/
“This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students.”
With content areas of General History, Government/Politics, Geography/Culture, News Sources, Cultural Diversity, and U.S. History, the Social Studies Sources website offers teachers excellent lesson plans in all of the categories, but of particular interest are the lesson plans in the U.S. History section. Along with the lesson plans, this site offers links to other credible websites (like American Memory from the Library of Congress), that serve to bring primary documents into the classroom. Some of the more interesting primary document-based websites that Social Studies Sources lists on its site are the Civil War Photographs Home Page (from the American Memory collection), the History of the United States (from Mississippi State University), and Abraham Lincoln Online.
Subject Research Guides: American and British History
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
This is one of the most impressive portal sites around! It is hosted as a research guide by Rutgers University Libraries. Besides the enormous content of the site, it is wonderfully organized. The categories are Reference Resources, Archival and MSS. Guides, General History Portals, Sites Organized by Subject, Sites Organized by Period, Full-text Documents by Period and History Associations & History Listservs. Obviously, there are a wide variety of research approaches offered. Within each category, there are hundreds of links that include explanatory annotations. Although much of the content deals with British history as indicated in the sites title there is an equal amount of American history resources. The resources on American history merit the time requisite to sorting through any unrelated British links. (BR)
Teaching American History
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/
This website, hosted by the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, offers some very useful resources. Foremost is the digital library. It offers an extensive selection of documents on American political thought from the revolution through the 20th century. The documents are organized chronologically in the Founding, Expansion, Civil War, Progressive and Post World War II Eras. Within each Era, the documents are listed by author and topic as well as in a category entitled “General Readings.” This additional category offers a host of other significant documents related to the time period. One feature that sets this digital library apart from others of similar content is its internal search engine that makes browsing and researching much easier. This collection is an indispensable collection of the most important primary documents in American History and should be used often in lesson planning and presentation. Also available on this website are audio recordings of lectures and seminar presentation on various topics. Another feature is a link to all Teaching American History Grant websites. (BR)
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/
“The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose since its inception in 1992: To build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML-encoded texts and images…To build and maintain user communities adept at the creation and use of these materials.”
The most useful collection in this online library is The Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present). Within this collection there are primary documents from African American and Native American sources, the American Civil War, the Colonial era, Women Writers and many others. These documents range from runaway slave advertisements to works of early American fiction. This collection has many of the common documents that are easily found elsewhere, but also contains thousands of unique resources. The selection offers the opportunity to go beyond well-known sources and to utilize new and fresh documents. This collection is an excellent place to find primary documents for classroom use. Though not directly applicable to U.S. History there are also interesting sources for European and world history. (BR)
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and its Neighborhoods, 1839-1963
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/contents.htm
“This is a history website constructed at the University of Illinois at Chicago and sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the College of Architecture and the Arts. It provides documents and images from archival collections that are arranged to engage students and scholars in new approaches to the study of urbanization in American history”
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963, is an interesting sociological website that serves to bring attention to a rather tumultuous time in Chicago’s past. Consisting of historical documents, images, interpretive essays, biographies, and literature and memoirs, this site is able to bring light to issues of social science. The historical documents on this website range from archival materials (correspondence, scrapbooks, institutional records, diaries, journals and unpublished manuscripts) to printed materials from the time (newspaper clippings, articles from magazines and journals, broadsides, pamphlets, posters, and government reports). There is a tremendous amount of information present on this website serving to make it one worth viewing.
The World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
“This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.”
This online archive has received 7.5 million hits for good reason. Not only has it cataloged and digitized thousands of documents and images, but their content represents a wide range of topics and sources. The nine major categories are Conventions, Treaties, & Official Papers, Documents by Year, Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences, Special Topics and Commentaries, WWI Biographical Dictionary, WWI Image Archive, The Maritime War, The Medical Front and Other WWI Sites. Within each of these categories, the documents are further divided and organized in an easily navigable fashion. In addition to the site’s excellent organization, it contains numerous internal search engines that can make finding documents even easier. The impressive content of this site would be good enough, but its user-friendly organization makes it even more appealing. Any search for primary documents from WWI should definitely start (and likely will end) here. (BR)

