Digital Resources for Historians

Research Tools

Assessing the Field / Preliminary Research

Paley Library History Subject Guide
http://guides.temple.edu/history

H-Net
http://www.h-net.org/

Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts

Organizing Data

How to make your own information dashboard
http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-see-field-at-glance.html

Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/

Focussed Research

Google Books
http://books.google.com/books

Google News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch

flickr: The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Google Patents
http://www.google.com/patents

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Quick Tools

AHA Archives Wiki
http://archiveswiki.historians.org/index.php/Main_Page

Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

Local History Digital Sources

Temple University's Philadelphia Guide
http://guides.temple.edu/content.php?hs=a&pid=2615

Philadelphia Area Consortrium of Special Collections Libraries (PASCAL)
http://www.pacscl.org/library/catalogs

Pennsylvania State Archives
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/

PhillyHistory.org
http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Home.aspx

Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network
http://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/index.cfm

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/

Historic Street Name Index
http://www.phillyhistory.org/HistoricStreets/

WEB 2.0 for Teachers

Virtual Classrooms and Blackboard Alternatives

PsycHo
http://psyc.horm.org/#PsycHo!

voicethread
http://voicethread.com/#home

dimdim
www.dimdim.com

Second Life
http://secondlife.com/

Tools for Student Projects

SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/

Photosynth
http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

Google docs survey tool
http://docs.google.com/

Academic Job Searching

H-Net Job Guide
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/

Chronicle Jobs
http://chronicle.com/section/Jobs/61/

HigherEdJobs.com
http://www.higheredjobs.com/

Academic Jobs Wiki
http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/History_2009-2010