Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History
William P. Tishler, Producer
Shane Hamilton, Web Editor
Complete Information on Sites, Part Three
Complete Information on Sites, Part Three
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Base Site: Articles from COPI and Deep Politics
Contact: Contact: David Stern
Email: dstern@copi.com
The "Deep Politics" site offers articles and archives relating to current political issues.
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Base Site: Foreign and International Law: Primary Documents and Commentary
Contact: None
Full-text historical documents from the Law Library at Cornell University.
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Base Site: Cold War Hot Links
Contact: Contact: David Price
Email: dprice@stmartin.edu
David Price, an anthropologist at St. Martin's College, is writing an historical account of the influences of the Cold War on American anthropology. This site is his contribution to the wider public audience.
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Base Site: Cold War Policies, 1945-1991
Contact: Contact: Steve Schoenherr
Email: ses@acusd.edu
Steve Schoenherr of the University of San Diego maintains an excellent site outlining the events of the Cold War, sprucing up the whole deal with some nice images.
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Base Site: WebCorp Multimedia
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@webcorp.com
One of the finest sites on the WWW, Webcorp offers historic audio (from Hitler and Chamberlin to Voices of the Civil Rights Era), multimedia (McCarthy and Nixon included), and "random silliness." Must be seen and heard to be believed!
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Base Site: US Historical Documents at Wiretap.spies.com
Contact: None
Full-text online versions of historical documents are conveniently stored on the wiretap.spies.com server. NOTE - unable to access webpage - 2/9/2000
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Base Site: WebCorp Multimedia
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@webcorp.com
One of the finest sites on the WWW, Webcorp offers historic audio (from Hitler and Chamberlin to Voices of the Civil Rights Era), multimedia (McCarthy and Nixon included), and "random silliness." Must be seen and heard to be believed!
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Base Site: Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
Contact: Contact: Kali Tal
Email: Kali.Tal@yale.edu
This site has won so many awards they can no longer fit them all on their page. Offers primary documents (tons of them!), photographs, essays, and just about anything else relating to the Vietnam War.
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Base Site: The Jackie Robinson Society
Contact: Contact: Eric E. Enders
Email: enders@aol.com
Brief essays, many photographs, and other materials celebrating the first black to crack into the big leagues.
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Base Site: Hystery, Mistory, Prophecy
Contact: Contact:
Email: oedipus@hicom.net
Very funny stuff. You'll be rolling, trust me. Incredibly strange, though.
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Base Site: USAF Museum History Gallery
Contact: Contact: Captain Pat Champ
Email: champpa.rr@usafa.af.mil
From pre-WWI to the Vietnam Era, the US Air Force has plenty of pictures and quality essays to document their role in America's foreign policy initiatives.
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Base Site: Civil Rights: A Status Report
Contact: Contact: Kevin Hollaway
Email: hollaway@ghcorp.com
Kevin Hollaway, who gives no information about himself, maintains an incredibly comprehensive and relatively balanced site on the history of civil rights in the U.S., spiced up with contemporary commentary. Highly recommended.
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Base Site: Images of the Southwest, University of Arizona Library
Contact: Contact: Roger Myers
Email: none
An excellent site, combining images, essays, and primary documents for a truly educational experience. The University of Arizona Library's web site is truly outstanding.
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Base Site: National Archives and Records Administration
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@nara.gov
Two sets of war posters, one focusing on positive propaganda posters meant to invoke patriotic feelings, the other focusing on posters meant to bring the reality of war home to complacent homefronters. Also includes sound files. Another excellent site from the NARA!
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Base Site: National Archives and Records Administration
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@nara.gov
Several hundred images of WWII, from the National Archives and Records Administration. Pictures range from "Movie star Rita Hayworth sacrificed her bumpers for the duration [of the war]" to "Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag after announcing the `peaceful' acquisition of Austria. It set the stage to annex the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, largely inhabited by a German- speaking population."
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Base Site: Oregon State University Archives
Contact: Contact:
Email: archives@ccmail.orst.edu
Excellent images and essay material assembled by the Oregon State University Historical Archive. (Several hundred images)
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Base Site: Redstone Arsenal Historical Information
Contact: Contact: Dr. Kaylene Hughes
Email: hughes-ka@redstone.army.mil
An absolutely fantastic site from our friends in the military. Historical essays of fine quality are combined with photographs, videos, and other archival materials. Topics range from pure techno-military-geek matter to more socially-oriented examinations, such as the article on women war workers.
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Base Site: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contact: None
Stanford's Martin Luther King Papers Project has assembled a site which includes a biography, a chronology, articles, reference sources, and access to the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Excellent material.
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Base Site: The Atlantic Unbound (Atlantic Monthly)
Contact: None
The Atlantic Monthly is a magazine of arts, culture, politics, and society, published since 1857.
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Base Site: Vietnam - A Country Study
Contact: Contact: Louis R. Mortimer
Email: none
A very complete research document, complete with histories, statistical essays, and photographs. The historical essays treat the issues of independence, French and Chinese domination, World War II and Japanese occupation, and the first and second Indochina wars.
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Base Site: Webcorp Multimedia
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@wecorp.com
One of the finest sites on the WWW, Webcorp offers historic audio (from Hitler and Chamberlin to Voices of the Civil Rights Era), multimedia (McCarthy and Nixon included), and "random silliness." Must be seen and heard to be believed!
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Base Site: The Hmong Homepage
Contact: Contact: Gary Lee
Email: drpao@lexicon.net.au
An excellent article covering the plight of Laotian refugess from the period from French domination to the era of Communist rule. Gary Lee (Nkaj Yias Lis) is a refugee from Laos now living in Sydney Australia. He has been involved in settlement work among Lao and other Indochinese refugees since 1976.
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Base Site: The Sixties Project
Contact: Contact: Kali Tal
Email: Kali.Tal@yale.edu
Kali Tal's intro is better than any I could write: "Viet Nam Generation, Inc. was founded in 1988. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary and educational corporation devoted to providing a forum for scholars, educators, librarians, students and the general public interested in the Sixties in general and the Viet Nam war in particular. We meet the needs of this community by providing a variety of services: The Sixties Project, SIXTIES-L email discussion list , Sixties Generations Conference, Book Catalog, and VIET NAM GENERATION: A JOURNAL OF RECENT HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE." NOTE - site address moved (?) - http.//lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties (2/9/2000)
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Base Site: A Conversation with Robert McNamara
Contact: Contact: Harry Kreisler
Email: kreisler@globetrotter.berkeley.edu
An interview placed online by UC Berkeley's Institute of International Studies. Includes McNamara's thoughts on everything from his college days to his foreign policy goals and actions during the Vietnam era to his life as a public servant.
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Base Site: Sonarchy Archives
Contact: Contact: Rob Potter
Email: none
Recorded in the mid 1960s, this is a RealAudio file of Carmichael speaking on freedom and white America. The Sonarchy Archives offer RealAudio music, sound, and historic and contemporary voice recordings.
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Base Site: US History Out Loud
Contact: Contact:
Email: j-goldman@nwu.edu
At this site, you can listen to some President Lyndon Johnson's most important speeches and peer into the Oval Office through secretly recorded conversations made by Johnson during his presidency. Listening to these audio files requires installation of the free RealAudio Player.
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Base Site: Watergate
Contact: Contact: Malcolm Farnsworth
Email: mfarnsworth@vcepolitics.com
This site blows everything else out of the water. Includes tons of images, essays, and primary documents on the following subjects: "What Was Watergate?," "Background to Watergate," "The Political Context," "The Watergate Burglary," "Casualties & Convictions Resulting from Watergate," "Aftermath," "Political Values and Watergate." Also includes the prerequisite links to other sites.
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Base Site: Bartleby
Contact: Contact:
Email: publications@columbia.edu
The title is rather self-descriptive: "Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: From George Washington 1789 to George Bush 1989."
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Base Site: The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
Contact: Contact: Al Filreis
Email: afilreis@english.upenn.edu
Al Filreis, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, has assembled several nice web sites, including one dealing with the American 1950s. He includes many primary sources in his work, and is obviously one of the more computer literate professors at U. Penn.
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Base Site: World War II Propaganda Posters
Contact: Contact: J. D. Ross
Email: jd@poly.union.rpi.edu
Twenty-six propaganda posters scanned by an avid WWII fan, ranging from "Victory Waits on Your Fingers" (urging secretarialism from women) to "Remember December 7th!" (or September 1st, if you're George Bush. . .)
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Base Site: George Wallace: A TNT Original
Contact: None
Site dedicated to Turner Broadcasting's movie on the life of George Wallace. Includes video clips and biographical and historical essays of good quality.
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Base Site: Character Above All: An Exploration of Presidential Leadership
Contact: None
Another fantastic site from PBS Online. Includes essays, character quotes, presidential links, and
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Base Site: ADVERTISING AGE'S 50 Best Commercials
Contact: Contact:
Email: webinfo@adage.com
Humorous, quirky, fascinating--what more could one want?
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Base Site: The American Experience: The Presidents
Contact: Contact:
Email: The_American_Experience@wgbh.org
PBS Online has some fantastic web sites. "The Presidents" presents feature sites on Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Ike, and Truman, combining brief introductory essays with some images and a very clean look.
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Base Site: The Ulevich Home Page and Image Attic
Contact: Contact: Neal Ulevich
Email: nulevich@csn.org
An excellent set of photographs from Neal Ulevich, who took pictures for Associated Press in Vietnam 1970-1975.
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Base Site: The National Civil Rights Museum
Contact: Contact:
Email: WebKeeper@NCRM
The National Civil Rights Museum's web site contains essays and photographs relating to topics ranging from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington to the March from Selma to Montgomery, as well as many others.
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Base Site: A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
Contact: None
Another excellent site from PBS, includes "In Search of A. Philip Randolph," an esay by Juan Williams, a biography of A. Philip Randolph, and a chronology of the civil and labor rights leader.
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Base Site: THE SEATTLE TIMES
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@seatimes.com
Several dozen photo vignettes on such subjects as Rosa Parks' defiance of transportation authorities and the Selma march.
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Base Site: David Andrew Kendrick's Private Page
Contact: Contact: David Andrew Kendrick
Email: kendrick@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
GOALS AND POLICIES FOR THE ECONOMY by David A. Kendrick, of the University of Texas, is a pamphlet intended to accompany standard college economics textbooks. It provides charts and graphs on the current economic situation and a description of the policy options considered by decision makers.
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Base Site: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library
Contact: Contact: Ronald E. Whealan
Email: library@kennedy.nara.gov
JFK, Edward, and Robert's speeches about the Presidency, space, the Cold War, and many other topics.
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Base Site: OnLine NewsHour
Contact: Contact:
Email: newshour@pbs.org.
George Kennan talks about his past and present, especially his role as the leading Cold War-era foreign policy intellectual.
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Base Site: Literary Kicks
Contact: Contact: Levi Asher
Email: brooklyn@netcom.com
A biographical essay of the beat poet supplemented with primary documents such as letters and photographs, along with a healthy dose of useful links.
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Base Site: NASA Homepage
Contact: Contact: Jim Dumoulin
Email: dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
Government documents and photographs relating to NASA's manned space missions.
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Base Site: Library of Congress's Soviet Archives
Contact: Contact: Frans van Hoesel
Email: Hoesel@chem.rug.nl
Primary documents relating to the Cold War, such as a note from Nikita Kruschev to JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As usual, an excellent site from the Library of Congress.
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Base Site: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees
Contact: Contact:
Email: staff@rockhall.com
Biographies and audio files of some of America's greatest rockers.
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Base Site: Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum
Contact: Contact:
Email: library@Truman.nara.gov
An outline of events occurring during Truman's presidency.
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Base Site: Encyclopedia Americana: The Presidents
Contact: None
The Encyclopedia Americana contains a "set of articles on the presidents, the presidency and American politics. This set is designed for school grades 6 through adult." NOTE - Site moved to http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/dixicrat.html (updated in dbase on 2/9/2000)
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Base Site: Sci-Fi Channel - The Twilight Zone
Contact: Contact:
Email: feedback@www.scifi.com
Includes a detailed episode guide, an essay about Rod Sterling, and a photo gallery. Very nice-looking, and it could even be useful. . .
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Base Site: NEWS FOR A PEOPLE'S WORLD [magazine]
Contact: Contact: Marcy Rein
Email: none
A letter from a man who REALLY didn't like Richard Nixon.
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Base Site: The History Net
Contact: none
Email: none
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Base Site: Project Whistlestop: Harry S Truman Digital Archives
Contact: Project Coordinator
Email: mailto:kvest@indep.k12.mo.us
Images, primary documents, and secondary overviews of the Berlin Airlift, from the Presidential Library of Harry S Truman.
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