The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains
thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large
that they were crashing many browsers.
See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals.
See the Help! page for all the help on research
I can offer.
Although I am more than happy to receive notes if you have comments on this web site,
I cannot answer specific research enquiries [and - for students - I cannot, or rather will
not, do your homework.]
The Modern History Sourcebook now works as follows:
This Main Index page has been much extended to show all
sections and sub sections. These have also been regularized in a consistent hierarchy.
This should allow rapid review of where texts are.
To access the sub-section pages, simply browse the sections
below and select the highlighted (white text with green background) section title on the
left.
In addition there are now two navigation bars on the left of each page
for every sub-section
The top - and smaller - navigation bar directs you to the other main parts of the Sourcebook - this overall Index page [clicking IMS logo will also take you
there if you ever get lost]; the Full Texts page; the Multimedia page: the Search page; and a new HELP! page, which you should consult if you get lost, or need research assistance.
The lower - and larger - navigation bar will take you directly to any of the
sub-sections from any of the other sub-sections, each indicated by a short title.
All URLs of documents remain unchanged - only index pages were reorganized.
Additional Study/Research Aids
In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and
students.
Since some faculty members had built into their course pages direct links to the Sourcebook's old indexes, these remain available, but will not be updated with materials added
after 12/31/1998.
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history
primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college
survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World
Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now
contains hundreds of texts made available locally.
The great diversity of available sources for use in modern history classes requires
that selections be made with great care - since virtually unlimited material is available.
The goals here are:
To present a diversity of source material in modern European, American, and Latin
American history, as well as a significant amount of materal pertinent to world cultures
and global studies. A number of other online source collections emphasize legal and
political documents. Here efforts have been made to include contemporary narrative
accounts, personal memoirs, songs, newspaper reports, as well as cultural, philosophical,
religious and scientific documents. Although the history of social and cultural elite
groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color,
lesbians and gays are also well represented here.
To present the material as cleanly as possible, without complicated hierarchies
and subdirectories, and without excessive HTML markup. What you get here is direct access
to significant documents, not the efforts of some whizkid "website designer". In
other words, we are interested here in the music, not the Hi-fi!.
Within the major sections, to indicate a few high quality web sites for further
source material and research.
Files posted to various places on the net. In some cases, the source URL no
longer exists.
Shorter texts created for class purposes by extracting from much larger texts. In
some cases, the extracts have been suggested by a variety of commercial sourcebooks.
Texts scanned in from printed material. In some cases the printed book may be
recent, but the material scanned is out of copyright.
Texts sent to me for inclusion.
Links to other online texts. In almost all these cases I have made local copies,
so please inform me if links no longer work.
Efforts have been made to confirm to US Copyright Law. Any infringement is
unintentional, and any file which infringes copyright, and about which the copyright
claimant informs me, will be removed pending resolution.
