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Archaeology and Anthropology Links:

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.



Indexing Resources:

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



General Resources:

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 American History:

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

Liberty Ships Index

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.




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