History on the Web
History 268
September 12, 2002

Searching for Oberlin History on the Net

Currently Preferred Search Engine:
Google--be sure to try an image search

Ohio Historical Society: www.ohiohistory.org
--check out the Exhibits, especially "Kilroy Was Here"
--check out research tools; look at the Ohio Memory Project
--check out African American Experience in Ohio

American Memory, compiled by the Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program
http://memory.loc.gov/
--trying the Oberlin search (In 2000, this revealed 99 items; this year 233)
--searching within a document (Delazon Smith)
--specific search: Lincoln and Oberlin, 1861 Letter by John Keep and Henry Cowles
--browse collections
--look at Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar
--look at the Learning Page, and at its Lessons

Making of America at the University of Michigan

Making of America at Cornell University

The Underground Railroad: A National Geographic Site

The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago Historical Society

The Problems of More Current Material