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The American history highway : a guide to Internet resources on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American history / Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman, editors.
LIBRA E16.5 .A46 2007 1 v. + CD-ROM
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Research--Methodology.
- History--Research.
- History--Computer network resources.
- History.
- Research.
- America--History--Research.
- America.
- History--Computer network resources--Directories.
- Internet.
- Genre:
- Directories.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 424 pages ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2007]
- Summary:
- Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "live links."--P. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Part I Getting Started
- 1 The Basics
- History of the Internet
- Uses of the Internet
- Sending and Receiving E-Mail
- E-mail Addresses
- E-mail Security
- Reading and Posting Messages on Newsgroups
- Reading and Posting Messages on Discussion Lists
- Word of Warning About Discussion Lists Blogging
- Logging Onto a Remote Computer With Telnet
- Transferring Files With File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Browsing the World Wide Web
- 2 Signing On
- Getting on the Internet
- Hardware
- Software
- Web Browsers and E-mail Programs
- Netiquette and Copyright
- General Netiquette
- Rules for Newsgroups and Discussion Lists and Blog Posts
- Copyright
- Evaluating Online Resources: Tools, Tips, and Terms
- The Web Today
- Information Literacy and Peer Review
- The Democratization of Information
- Evaluating Web Sites: What to Look For
- The Questions
- Bringing It All Together
- Searching the Web
- When in Doubt. . . . ASK!
- Part II Internet Sites for Historians
- 3 Futuring Methods, Practitioners, and Organizations
- 4 Future Issues
- 5 General History
- 6 Canadian History
- 7 Latin and South American History
- 8 United States History
- 9 African-American History
- 10 Native American History
- 11 American West
- 12 Mexican-American History
- 13 Asian -American History
- 14 Colonial American History (1492-1763)
- 15 Revolutionary America
- 16 Early United States History (1783-1860)
- 17 American Civil War History
- 18 Gilded Age and Progressive Era History
- 19 The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 20 World War II
- 21 The Cold War
- 22 General Twentieth-Century United States History
- 23 Women's History
- 24 Modern Military History
- 25 Historiography
- 26 Historic Preservation and Conservation
- 27 Living History and Historic Reenactment
- 28 Genealogy
- 29 Environmental History
- 30 Imigration History
- 31 State and Provincial Historical Societies: Canada and United States
- 32 History Book Sources on the Internet
- 33 History and Social Studies Organizations
- 34 Maps and Images
- 35 Resources for Teachers of History: K-12 and College
- 36 Libraries
- 37 Archives and Manuscript Collections
- 38 Special Collections
- 39 Online Reference Desk.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780765616296
- 0765616297
- OCLC:
- 72699413
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