HHS 312 - Technology & Society in America


Week Two (Jan. 26) - Digital History I: The History Web

Library of Congress, American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

United States National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/

George Mason University, Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/

Wikipedia, "Digital History"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_history

Links and notes for Cohen and Rosenzweig, Digital History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/links/

 

 


Week Three (Feb 2) - Digital History II: Engineering and Technology

George Mason University, Project ECHO - Science, Technology, and Industry
http://echo.gmu.edu/


Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications, 1968-1988
http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/index.html

Computer History Museum, Selling the Computer Revolution
http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/

Computer History Museum, The Silicon Engine
http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/

Stanford University, Silicon Genesis
http://silicongenesis.stanford.edu/about.html

IEEE Global History Network
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Home

American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/oralhistory.html

 

 


Week Four (Feb 9) - Oral History Websites

Oral History Association
http://www.oralhistory.org/

Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/

The ComputerWorld Honors Program
http://www.cwhonors.org/archives/histories.htm

IEEE GHN Oral History Collections
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Special:OralHistories

Chemical Heritage Foundation Oral Histories
http://www.chemheritage.org/research/policy-center/oral-history-program/projects/index.aspx

 

 

 

 

 


Week Eight (March 9) - the State of the Art in Oral History and Digital History

The State of the News Media, 2010
http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/

Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
http://csszengarden.com/

A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites
http://www.alistapart.com/

Tutorials and References for Web design from W3schools.com
http://w3schools.com/

Sputnik Observatory for the Study of Contemporary Culture
http://www.sptnk.org/

Computer History Museum, Selling the Computer Revolution
http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/

Computer History Museum, The Silicon Engine
http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/

The ComputerWorld Honors Program
http://www.cwhonors.org/archives/histories.htm

IEEE-GHN: MIT Rad Lab, Oral Histories
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:MIT_Radiation_Laboratory

IEEE-GHN: Oral History with David M. Young
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:David_M._Young_Jr.

American Experience: The Pill
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/index.html

The Texas Slavery Project
http://www.texasslaveryproject.org/

Baseball and Jackie Robinson
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
http://hurricanearchive.org/

ACTUP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) Oral History Project
http://www.actuporalhistory.org/