CHICAGO HISTORY 1750-1850 September 9, 2009
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Help with Assignments, Web Resources.trackback
Here are some online resources for students in Ms. Boe’s History of Chicago course who are working on their group projects. I will be covering print resources as well as some tips for researching in my presentation tomorrow. If, in the course of your research, you find other good sources, whether print or online, I hope you will post them here to share with others.
Encyclopedia of Chicago Online (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org)
Librarians’ Internet Index (http://www.lii.org)
Britannica Online (http://www.school.eb.com)
Internet Public Library–Stately Knowledge–Illinois (http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/il1.html)
Daily Life Online — War of 1812 and other general U.S. History topics (http://dailylife.greenwood.com)
Illinois Harvest — a public gateway to digitized and born digital resources on Illinois (http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu)
Chicago Ancestors — Newberry Library — 1834 Map of Chicago (http://www.chicagoancestors.org) Go to Tools menu, then look for “Other Maps” along the right side.
Newberry Library — Mapping the French Empire in North America (http://www.newberry.org/smith/exhibits/fe/fe.html)
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Here’s one more to add to your list of possible resources. I’m not sure how I missed it in the first place!
American Memory from the Library of Congress (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)