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History/Archaeology Special Interest Group |
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History/Archaeology Special Interest Group |
American Association of Anthroplogists - the world's largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology
Archaeological Institute of America - includes information about publications, fieldwork, and news
The Athena Review: Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration - includes back issues, glossaries, exhibition reports and a guide to archaeology on the Internet
Bibarch - a glossary of biblical archaeological terms and phrases
Society for American Archaeology - an international organization dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas
History:
Organization of America Historians
Library of Congress Civil War Maps - materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia
US Regulars Civil War Archive - a library of key works on Civil War strategy, tactics & drill used by the Regular Army, Volunteers, and at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Publications - documents produced by the History/Archaeology Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing
American Society for Indexing (ASI) ASI online reference tools
Other ASI Special Interest Group Websites
Librarians' Index to the Internet - a reliable, publicly funded website that features tens of thousands of reliable sites. Created by librarians and updated weekly.
The Open Directory Project - the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. Updated by volunteers.
Spider's Apprentice - a
helpful guide to choosing and using major search engines.
Name Authorities:
Library of Congress - a very useful site for verifying names. You can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations
Huridocs (the Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation Series - guide to recording names of persons
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Senate names of present and past members
US House of Representatives - member directory, includes a link to a PDF file of members with duplicate or similar names
Making Sense of Botanical Names - from Virginia Tech
International Plant Names Index - a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names.
Personal Names - the etymology and history of first names
Japanese names - 100 most common Japanese given names
Medieval Names - collection of articles on medieval and renaissance names
Geographical Names - The Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names Online
African Diaspora Archaeology Network - information about African American archaeology, history and cultures
BlackPast.org - This website is dedicated to providing reference materials on the history of people of African ancestry around the world. It includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African American history, Global African history and specifically the history of African Americans in the West. BlackPast.org also has full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present.
Ships:
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships - Naval Historical Center site
Naval Technical Board – History - an archive for essays about technical naval matters from various authors
Miscellaneous information:
Greek Alphabet - mathematical site
Units of Measurement Dictionary - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site includes paper sizes, metric conversions, hat sizes, etc.