Selected Sites

Center for the Study of the American South

was established in the summer of 1992 to consolidate and to build upon the longstanding tradition of Southern regional studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

French and Indian War

is a page on the French and Indian War (1755-1763) devoted to the French soldiers who came to fight, and many of whom remained behind to marry the Canadian women. The page includes a list of names of most of these soldiers (continuously updated), A brief history of the war, References, and places to visit related to the war.

HistNews

is an on-line newsletter geared to the dissemination of news and information of interest to historians.

Holocaust Memorial Museum

in Washington, D.C., summons all who enter its portals to rise to an important and extraordinary challenge: to remember and immortalize the 6 million Jews and millions of other Nazi victims of World War II -- Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, the handicapped, Jehovah's Witnesses, political and religious dissidents, Soviet prisoners of war -- who were murdered in the most horrifying event of our time: the Holocaust.

The Labyrinth

is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and hypertext links provide automatic connections to databases, services, and electronic texts on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Internet and World Wide Web.

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War

are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three year period that he served as Company A's clerk. Scott's letters are filled with rich details of the war and the living conditions in the Union camps in Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas.

Mississippi State History Archives

contains a variety of resources of interest to historians. These include ASCII files of historical documents and scholarly papers (principally for the Americas), GIF files , software, library search programs, diaries, and bibliographies.

POW/MIA Database

assists researchers investigating the U.S. government documents pertaining to U.S. military personnel killed, missing, or imprisoned in Southeast Asia during or after the American involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. The database is searchable by last name, country name, service branch, or keywords, and copies of desired documents may be obtained from the Library of Congress.

US History documents

from the University of Minnesota gopher site mirror of Project Gutenberg

Vietnam Veterens

provides an interactive on-line forum for Vietnam Veterans and their families and friends to exchange information, stories, poems, songs, art, pictures, and experiences in any publishable form.