Web Links for Research Projects

Web Links

African American Unit - Fanning

African American

Aboard the Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground

African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

African American Odyssey
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

City College Libraries - Black Studies - links to 51 topics in African American history
http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html

Harlem Renaissance
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem

Harlem Renaissance
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm

The History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.undergroundrailroad.org

The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad

Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

Civil Rights Timeline
http://www.africanamericans.com/CivilRights.htm

Greensboro Sit-Ins
http://www.greensboro.com/sitins/

Little Rock Central High: 40th Anniversary
http://www.centralhigh57.org/

Martin Luther King Junior
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/

Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://home.att.net/~reniqua/

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

Civil War

The American Civil War Home Page
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

The Civil War Cookbook
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Systems
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss

The Time of the Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/index.html

Miscellaneous

Popular Names by Year from 1879 on
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

American Cultural History
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

Poetry - Marshall

          Poets - Biographies
          http://www.poets.org
          http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/index.htm
          http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm

Biographies - Marshall or Foster

Biography-center
http://www.biography-center.com/

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/

Infoplease.com: Biography
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

Internet Library for Librarians: Ready Reference: Biographies
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/biog.htm

Decades - Gifford

Decades: A Study of the Twentieth Century
http://www.unit5.org/cjhsimc/hotlists/decades/decades_main.htm
Fifties

The Fifties Web
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/music.htm

History Channel: The Fifties
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/fifties/

Levittown – Suburbs
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/

Levittown at Fifty
http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-levittown,0,850235.storygallery?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html

Character Above All: Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/character/essays/eisenhower.html

Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm

U.S. History – The Fifties
http://www.lkwdpl.org/lhs/fifties/

Sixties

The Psychedelic Sixties
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/

Sixties Fashion
http://www.sixtiescity.com/Fashion/Fashion.htm

The Sixties
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/sixties.htm

The Sixties: A Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog24/web/index.html

Seventies
American Cultural History 1970 - 1979
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html
1970s Flashback
http://www.1970sflashback.com/1970/Economy.asp
Eighties

American Cultural History 1980-1989
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade80.html
1980s Flashback
http://www.1980sflashback.com/1980/Economy.asp

Science Biographies - Foster

LibrarySpot – Science Biography
http://www.libraryspot.com/biographies/scientists/

Scientists of the 16^th and 17^th Centuries
http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/New/search1.html

A Science Odyssey – PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/bioindex.html

Women

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/field.html

4000 Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml

Brooklyn Bridge Research - Tuxbury

Brooklyn Bridge Website
http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge.html

Brooklyn Bridge – Historic Overview
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/brooklyn/

American Icon
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA03/pricola/bridge/intro.html

Wonders of the World Databank – Brooklyn Bridge
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/brooklyn.html

Brooklyn Bridge and it’s Railway
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/bbpage.Html

Library of Congress: Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun12.html

Brooklyn Bridge Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/brooklynbridge/timeline/

Brooklyn Bridge – Architecture
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Brooklyn_Bridge.html

The Roeblings

John Roebling and Sons & Co. – History Archive
http://www.inventionfactory.com/history/main.html

John Augustus Roebling
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/John_Augustus_Roebling.html

John Augustus Roebling
http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/roebling/roebling.htm

German American Corner: Biographies - Roebling
http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/roebling.html

The Roebling Story
http://www.inventionfactory.com/history/RHAgen/rstory/rsframe.html

The Brooklyn Bridge and a Marriage of Equals (British site)
http://www.inventionfactory.com/history/RHAgen/rstory/rsframe.html

The Roebling 80 Ton – Wire Rope machine
http://www.inventionfactory.com/history/RHAwire/80ton/

Washington Augustus Roebling
http://civilwarstudies.org/articles/Vol_3/roebling.htm

Emily Roebling
http://www.pausingtoremember.net/Emily's_Bridge.html

Pneumatic Caissons

Caisson – Britannica Online
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9018575

Caisson – Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.highbeam.com/ref/doc3.asp?docid=1E1:caisson

American Icon
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA03/pricola/bridge/icon.html

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