July 24th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
As this website declares, “The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum celebrates women’s progress toward equality and their continuing contributions to our society.” Located on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., it holds the National Woman’s Party (NWP) historic collection of “records and artifacts that document the mass political movement for women’s full citizenship in the 20th century, both in the United States and throughout the world.” The physical and digital collection of the NWP consists of suffrage banners, the Suffragist magazine, political cartoons, and historic objects of women important to the suffrage movement, such as the chair of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the desk used by Alice Paul to write the Equal Rights Amendment. Visitors interested in browsing the collection can click on the “Browse Collection” tab at the top of the page to start browsing. The four time periods, “Suffrage”, “Equal Rights”, “International”, and “Contemporary”, are available to browse, and there is an interesting feature that allows the visitor to learn more about the period, before choosing one, by rolling their mouse over the title of a period. After visitors have chosen the period, the media type and media subtype can be chosen–everything from “Artifacts” “to “Sculptures” to “Records”.
Access: http://www.nwpcollection.org/NWPArchWeb/index.jsp
Tags: Citizenship, Civics, Primary Sources
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June 13th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
The Department of History and Civilization and the Library of the European University Institute, Florence, are pleased to announce the official launch of European History Primary Sources (EHPS), an index of scholarly websites that offer on-line access to primary sources on the history of Europe from Medieval and Early Modern History up to the most recent history of the European integration process. The purpose of European History Primary Sources is to provide historians with an easily searchable index of websites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe. As the number of digital archives and collections on the internet continues to grow, maintaining an overview becomes increasingly difficult. EHPS strives to fill that gap by selecting the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for individual countries. EHPS is updated continuously and several collaborative features are introduced in the portal. It is very easy to stay updated on new entries and registered users can bookmark entries, leave comments to add their experiences to the descriptions on EHPS listed websites, complete EHPS abstracts with their own individual experiences and suggest new websites to be included. Since the launch of a beta version in September 2008, EHPS has already attracted significant interest from historians. In order to improve the user experience you are invited to send your feedback and suggestions so that the portal can be developed further. The portal was built and is maintained by Dr. Gerben Zaagsma (University College London) with the open source content management system Drupal.
Access: http://primary-sources.eui.eu/
Tags: Primary Sources
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