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.The holdings may be searched bykeyword and the system is simple enough for beginners to navigatecomfortably.For any topic in United States history requiring primary sources,a virtual visit to the American Memory website is mandatory.Its holdings areregularly supplemented and researchers should check periodically to see whatnew resources have been added to existing files.Complementing the holdings of the Library of Congress are the collections ofthe National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/.NARA’s homepage is also easy to navigate, and has many direct links to onlinedocumentary records.NARA also links directly to the various presidentiallibraries, which contain a wealth of digitized information.Although the volumeof online records is less than the number digitized by the Library of Congress,the site allows sophisticated searches for manuscripts and other records foundamong its holdings.National archives outside the United States may be similarly searched.Manynations and institutions around the globe have established online catalogs orhomepages that link to indexes of documents or digitized images.They some-times include information about ordering hard copies of their holdings or order-ing materials through interlibrary loan, though some actually have hypertextrecords online.For instance, the National Archives of Canada/Archives natio-nales du Canada at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/, with links in English and French, explains how to order copies or request microfilm items from itscollections through interlibrary loan.Such materials may even be borrowedthrough libraries and institutions outside Canada.Like many others, theCanadian National Archives offers information for beginning researchersexplaining how to consult its holdings.Some document categories may beaccessed and consulted online.For example, the diaries of former PrimeMinister William Lyon Mackenzie King may be searched by date, word, orphrase.The Colonial Archives database offers online access to more than500,000 documents found in the Canadian National Archives.These materialsdocument the British and French colonial periods in Canada, as well as theCatholic Church.30C H A P T E R 2In addition to state archives worldwide, researchers should consult onlinelibrary holdings.Many universities, colleges, departments, and individuals havepioneered efforts to digitize primary sources (most often, though not exclusively,those found in their own special collections).Beginners should be aware thatmost require a user ID and password, and are therefore closed to outsiders; how-ever, many resources are open and available.Copyright laws, however, govern allsuch digitized sources and researchers should make certain they understand andfollow all regulations.The proper citation of these and all other records will bediscussed in Chapter 6.Five examples illustrate the range of source possibilities currently available:■History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/, is an excellent site for various materials on United States history.Maintained by George MasonUniversity, it includes numerous primary sources, guides to analyzing variouskinds of primary sources, as well as reviewed and annotated links to otherwebsites pertaining to United States history.■The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall, is another collection of public domain historical texts intended foreducational use.The sourcebooks include materials for ancient, medieval,and modern histories and the collection for medieval and Byzantine studiesis especially rich.The site also includes Asian and African resources and iseasy to navigate.■Documenting the American South, found at the Academic Affairs Library of theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://docsouth.unc.edu/, is a comprehensive digital archive.It is an outstanding collection of materialsrelating to Southern history from colonial times through the first decades ofthe twentieth century.There are more than 1,000 books and manuscripts inthe collection and it continues to grow.■The Records of Earls Colne, http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/intro/project.htm, is a comprehensive compilation of materials on an English village spanning from the late medieval period to the mid-nineteenthcentury.It includes all estate, ecclesiastical, and state records for the village.■The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/, contains a variety of public and private sources on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and Staunton, Virginia.The research topic certainly determines the primary sources that should beconsulted, and historians should now consider the types available through theInternet when completing a research trail.Student Jack Sheehan located manyprinted primary sources through his research trail; however, he lacked an officialcontemporary account that described the actual fire of London to corroborateinformation contained in diaries, letters, and other sources.His online searchesled him to the newspaper the London Gazette for early September 1666, http://www.adelpha [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.The holdings may be searched bykeyword and the system is simple enough for beginners to navigatecomfortably.For any topic in United States history requiring primary sources,a virtual visit to the American Memory website is mandatory.Its holdings areregularly supplemented and researchers should check periodically to see whatnew resources have been added to existing files.Complementing the holdings of the Library of Congress are the collections ofthe National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/.NARA’s homepage is also easy to navigate, and has many direct links to onlinedocumentary records.NARA also links directly to the various presidentiallibraries, which contain a wealth of digitized information.Although the volumeof online records is less than the number digitized by the Library of Congress,the site allows sophisticated searches for manuscripts and other records foundamong its holdings.National archives outside the United States may be similarly searched.Manynations and institutions around the globe have established online catalogs orhomepages that link to indexes of documents or digitized images.They some-times include information about ordering hard copies of their holdings or order-ing materials through interlibrary loan, though some actually have hypertextrecords online.For instance, the National Archives of Canada/Archives natio-nales du Canada at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/, with links in English and French, explains how to order copies or request microfilm items from itscollections through interlibrary loan.Such materials may even be borrowedthrough libraries and institutions outside Canada.Like many others, theCanadian National Archives offers information for beginning researchersexplaining how to consult its holdings.Some document categories may beaccessed and consulted online.For example, the diaries of former PrimeMinister William Lyon Mackenzie King may be searched by date, word, orphrase.The Colonial Archives database offers online access to more than500,000 documents found in the Canadian National Archives.These materialsdocument the British and French colonial periods in Canada, as well as theCatholic Church.30C H A P T E R 2In addition to state archives worldwide, researchers should consult onlinelibrary holdings.Many universities, colleges, departments, and individuals havepioneered efforts to digitize primary sources (most often, though not exclusively,those found in their own special collections).Beginners should be aware thatmost require a user ID and password, and are therefore closed to outsiders; how-ever, many resources are open and available.Copyright laws, however, govern allsuch digitized sources and researchers should make certain they understand andfollow all regulations.The proper citation of these and all other records will bediscussed in Chapter 6.Five examples illustrate the range of source possibilities currently available:■History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/, is an excellent site for various materials on United States history.Maintained by George MasonUniversity, it includes numerous primary sources, guides to analyzing variouskinds of primary sources, as well as reviewed and annotated links to otherwebsites pertaining to United States history.■The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall, is another collection of public domain historical texts intended foreducational use.The sourcebooks include materials for ancient, medieval,and modern histories and the collection for medieval and Byzantine studiesis especially rich.The site also includes Asian and African resources and iseasy to navigate.■Documenting the American South, found at the Academic Affairs Library of theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://docsouth.unc.edu/, is a comprehensive digital archive.It is an outstanding collection of materialsrelating to Southern history from colonial times through the first decades ofthe twentieth century.There are more than 1,000 books and manuscripts inthe collection and it continues to grow.■The Records of Earls Colne, http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/intro/project.htm, is a comprehensive compilation of materials on an English village spanning from the late medieval period to the mid-nineteenthcentury.It includes all estate, ecclesiastical, and state records for the village.■The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/, contains a variety of public and private sources on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and Staunton, Virginia.The research topic certainly determines the primary sources that should beconsulted, and historians should now consider the types available through theInternet when completing a research trail.Student Jack Sheehan located manyprinted primary sources through his research trail; however, he lacked an officialcontemporary account that described the actual fire of London to corroborateinformation contained in diaries, letters, and other sources.His online searchesled him to the newspaper the London Gazette for early September 1666, http://www.adelpha [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]