Resource:       The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Provider:        Virginia Center for Digital History and University of Virginia Library URL:                  http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/ Review by:       Jessica Perea   The Valley of the Shadow website allows the reader to locate and read stories [...]

Resource:       Primary Documents in American History Provider:        Kenneth Drexler and Mark F. Hall, Digital Reference Specialists URL:                  http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html   Review by:      Tiena Candia This virtual library provides access to a compilation of documents from the Library of Congress. The site focuses on providing primary source [...]

Resource:       Investigating U.S. History Provider:        The City University of New York URL:                 http://investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu/ Review by:      Amanda Gutierrez Investigating U.S. History was a project funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the Chancellor’s Office of the City University of New York (CUNY). [...]

Resource:       National Jukebox Provider:        The Library of Congress URL:                http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/ Review by:     Review by: Matthew Akers The National Jukebox presents a collection of over 10,000 historical acoustical recordings, made between 1901 and 1925 (when electrical recording began becoming the norm). The [...]

Resource:      National History Education Clearinghouse URL:                  http://teachinghistory.org/   Review by:    Amanda Gutierrez Teachinghistory.org is a website funded by the U.S. Department of Education designed to help K-12 history educators’ access historical materials and online resources to enhance education in U.S. history classrooms. Teachinghistory.org includes a wide array [...]

Resource:       Living Room Candidate Provider:        Museum of the Moving Image URL:                  http://www.livingroomcandidate.org Review by:    Matthew Akers The Living Room Candidate features a collection more than 300 presidential campaign commercials, spanning from the first presidential appearance on the television screen of Ike in 1952 to the present. The [...]

Resource:       Slave Voyages Provider:        Emory University URL:                   http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Review by:     Tiena Candia The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database was created as an effort to inform the public of the coercion of African peoples into slavery between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The site is largely funded and [...]

Resource:       El Paso County Historical Society: El Paso County History Provider:        El Paso County Historical Society URL:                   http://www.elpasohistory.com/history.html Review by:     Jessica Perea The website is designed to inform readers on the history of the city of El Paso, TX.  On the left hand side you come [...]

Resource:       The Avalon Project Provider:        Yale Law School URL:                   http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asap Review by:     Yessica Irigoyen The Avalon Project provides information about laws, history, and diplomacy of many different countries around the world. The website includes detailed information about laws, policies, and constitutions. It is organized by a [...]