Conversations
with History
http://conversations.berkeley.edu/
"Interview program, broadcast nationally...Conceived in 1982 by Harvey Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times.." Includes over 500 interviews, 1982 to present.
EyeWitness
- History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Searchable collections include Ancient
World, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries, Civil
War, Old West, Photo of the Week, SnapShots, voices, History in Motion.
Historical
Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Massive collection of documents, photographs,
articles and books on the topics of: Africa, African-American, Asia, Europe,
Family, Internet, Hungary, Korean War, Latin American, Colonial Latin American,
Mexico, Persian Gulf, Religion, Rock n Roll, USA, World War I, World War
II, Old West, Maps.
History
and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically significant
audio materials
http://www.hpol.org/
Search the database or browse by title,
speaker or date. Covers 1930 to present.
History
Channel: Famous Speeches in History
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches
Audio collection of some of the most famous
broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century. Categories: Presidential, War, Civil Rights, Sports.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Covering Ancient through Modern times,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an online collection of about 3,500
objects which can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword.
National
Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/all
"The collection includes portraits, pictures
of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety
of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine."
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photgraphs and more."
Sunsite
Digital Collections
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
Diverse collection ranging from history
to literature from UC Berkeley.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/
Online versions of past and present exhibitions.
Viewable by exhibit summary or by directly accessing the images.
Speeches
& Transcripts
http://library.albany.edu/reference/speeches.html
Variety of speeches, many unique, such
as graduation speeches, Bill Gates's speeches, and Mark Twain speeches.
Also, transcripts of many radio and television shows such as Washington
Week and All Things Considered.
TIME.com
Photoessays
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/
Searchable Photo Essays from 1999 to present; Links to Europe and Asia photo essays.
UCR
California Museum of Photography
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/
Special Collections include Andy Warhol,
Black Panthers, Ike Ude, Afghanistan 1933, Carawans Life of Music, Korea
1900-1905, California Agricultural Community.
The
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/
Valley of the Shadow Project takes two
communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the American Civil
War. It is an archive of newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps,
church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.