Internet Resources

Several free search engines are available for exploring the Internet. Each offers detailed instructions for entering a search query and will retrieve a variety of materials, including news articles.  Some of the following sites were retrieved using Google.com:

1. General web sites:

American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The Library of Congress provides access to many historical collections from its American Memory Site. There are millions of digital primary sources online that document American history and culture. You can use the Collection Finder to see a list of collections by Region or by Time period.

• African American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
   
• America in the Great Depression to World War II, Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
   
• American Women, Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

Denton County, Texas [Official County Home Page] http://www.co.denton.tx.us/
Includes links to county departments and services, and to news and other information about the county.

Denton County Courthouse,1450 E. McKinney.
http://dentoncounty.com/
The County Clerk’s Office holds vital records (birth and death certificates), and property transaction records (deeds, bills of sale). In Probate, are wills and probate records. Downstairs in Records Management students can view district court civil and criminal cases, including divorce cases, suits involving property, misdemeanors, and felonies. These records are on microfilm. You can access all parts of the Denton County offices at http://dentoncounty.com/. Each office has its own webpage. Tax records are in the County Tax Office, 300 E. McKinney.

Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum and Research, 110 West Hickory.
http://dentoncounty.com/dept/main.asp?Dept=72&Link=452
The Museum holds many local books that are out of print, records on individual property appraisals, city directories, Sanborn Insurance maps, and photographs dealing with Denton County, It also works with the Texas Historical Commission to create historical markers. Curators Roslyn Shelton, Administrative Assistant to the Denton County Historical Commission, and Kim Cupit, Curator of Collections for the Museum. Georgia Caraway is the Executive Director of Museums. In case you can’t find it: 940-349-2860.

Denton County History Page http://www.dentonhistory.org/Dentonhistorypage.html (on Official County Home Page) Compendium of information about the rich history of Denton County. Includes links to settlers accounts, old public records, historic photos and postcards, general histories of the county, and more.

Denton Public Library
Online Catalog
http://library.cityofdenton.com/search/

Denton Public Library Homepage
http://www.cityofdenton.com/pages/library.cfm
Please note: there have been problems reported about
using the Denton Public Library site with Netscape. It
seems to work well with IE.

Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
This site provides access to more than 1200 documents on Southern history from the colonial period to the early 20th century.

Fort Worth Public Library
Online Catalog http://www.fortworthlibrary.org/opac.htm
FWPL Homepage http://www.fortworthlibrary.org/

H-South
http://www.h-net.org/~south/
H-South is the H-Net discussion list dealing with the culture and history of the American South.
H-Net is an international consortium of scholars and teachers. It creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
H-Net sponsors over 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters ("lists") edited by scholars. H-Net lists reach over 100,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. Each network has its own "personality," is edited by a team of scholars, and has a board of editors; most are cosponsored by a professional society. The goals of H-Net lists are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on the literature in their fields.

Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin. Once you are in the site, read the introduction for further details. To search the Handbook of Texas Online: enter key words to find all articles containing any of the words. Or you may browse articles by title and subject. There is a master browse list.

Historical Census Data Browser (University of Virginia)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
Provides census data from 1790 to 1960.

How to Evaluate Web Sites [UNT Libraries]
http://www.library.unt.edu/genref/internet/evaluate.htm
UNT Librarian Frances May answers the question, "How should users today approach searching on the net and critically evaluating the data they find?"

Library of Virginia’s Digital Library Program http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave
This site includes books, magazines, newspapers, state and Federal publications; county and city government records, state government records, architectural drawings and plans, Bible records, business records, organization records, personal papers, genealogical notes and charts; maps, rare books, broadsides, sheet music, posters, prints and engravings, postcards, paintings, sculpture and photographs.

Making of America [Univ. of Michigan and Cornell Univ.] http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp
and http://library8.library.cornell.edu/moa/
The Making of America is a collection of 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles from the 19th and early 20 century. You can browse by author and title or search the collection.

New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp
The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state. On this site you will find articles and images on nearly every aspect of Georgia as well as convenient links to other Web sites related to the history, culture, and life of the state. NGE is a project of the Georgia Humanities Council in partnership with the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO.

Texas Historical Commission: Texas in World War II
http://www.thc.state.tx.us/militarysites/milwwII.html
The Texas Historical Commission (THC), located in Austin, is the state agency for historic preservation. The Friends of the Texas Historical Commission is currently seeking outside funds to support its Texas in World War II Project. Preliminary plans call for historical markers, a heritage tourism brochure and a special commemorative edition of our newsletter, The Medallion (pdf). Please check back to this web page periodically for updates on related programs and links.

Texas remembers the tumultuous war years in many ways. The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has recognized many World War II related sites, personalities and events through historical markers. In addition, historical and archeological investigations have been conducted on several military bases, including Camp Swift, Fort Sam Houston and Fort Hood.
 
Contents of the Texas in World War II page:

• The Medallion http://www.thc.state.tx.us/medallionmag/medallionPDFs/MDWWII-05.pdf
• Texas in World War II (brochure): http://www.thc.state.tx.us/publications/brochures/WWIIbrochure05.pdf
• Texas in World War II Oral History Links: http://www.thc.state.tx.us/militarysites/Word/WWIIoralhistory.doc
• Texas in World War II Museums and Resources Links:
  http://www.thc.state.tx.us/links/lkmilww2.html
  
  Main Phone: 512/463-6100
  Main Email: thc@thc.state.tx.us
  Mailing Address:
  P.O. Box 12276 Austin, TX 78711-2276
  Physical Address — Main:
  1511 Colorado, Austin, TX 78701

Texas State Library and Archives Commission
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/
The Archives and Information Services Division includes the Texas State Archives, the State Library's Reference/Documents Collection, the Genealogy Collection, and Cataloging department. This division is responsible for acquiring, evaluating, organizing, and preserving permanently valuable government records in addition to providing expert reference services to the public from the following four collections:

• Texas State Archives
• Reference/Documents Collection
• Genealogy Collection
• Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center

Texas Woman’s University Archives, Denton, TX
Woman's Collection, Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey Library http://www.twu.edu/library/woman/

Dawn Letson, Archivist DLetson@mail.twu.edu (940) 898-3754; Ann Barton, Library Assistant.
They have a collection of archival documents, photos, and printed materials on “Women Airforce Service Pilots, WWII”.
The finding aid for this collection is on their website, http://www.twu.edu/wasp/oral.htm There is also an oral history collection of approx 300 interviews with men and women in connection with the WASPs, which you can learn more about on the website. They have quite a bit of information on the Executor Director of the WASP, Jackie Cochran, but her papers are located at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.
Archives is open 8:00-5:00, M-F. They would appreciate your calling ahead or emailing ahead of time, but it’s not required.
Oral histories and books in the Archives can be checked out.

University of North Texas: Oral History Program
http://www.library.unt.edu/ohp/
The largest public university collection of oral history interviews in Texas, with one of the nation’s pre-eminent World War II oral history collections.
Interview transcripts of the UNT Oral History Collection cannot be loaned. The vast majority of the interviews are available for photocopy for a fee.
The Oral History Collection Index is fully searchable as a PDF document. Click on the above link and use Ctrl-F to perform keyword searches. Hint: search the phrase world war. The index requires a viewer such as Adobe Reader.

Todd Moye, Program Director
University of North Texas Libraries
Oral History Program
1516 W. Highland St.
Denton, TX 76201
mailto:moye@unt.edu
940.565.4523
Send Mail To:
P.O.Box 305430
Denton, TX 76203
Oral History Collection Index:
http://www.library.unt.edu/ohp/documents/pdf/OHP_catalog.pdf

Web Resources on the American South [as recommended by Emory University Library]
http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/humanities/history/
hist349.html#web

World War I and II Posters and the Federal Newsmaps collections (UNT Libraries Digital Collections)
These are online. They can both be viewed and searched in the Libraries' Digital Collections at http://digital.library.unt.edu/ . Just select them from the 'Collection' drop down box. The Collection names are "World War Poster Collection" and "Federal Newsmaps." The viewing of the newsmaps is very good. You can click on the map to zoom in and see details.
Go to this link for a description of the UNT Libraries posters collection: http://digital.library.unt.edu/browse/collection/wwpc/
The Newsmaps were more recently added online, so there isn't a description yet online at the Digital Library site. One will be added during the spring 2007 semester.

2. Southern Women’s History Online Resources for Term Papers

African-American Women On-line Archival Collections, Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War, University of Virginia
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/hearts/

Norfolk, Virginia, Women’s Oral History
http://www.lib.odu.edu/special/oralhistory/womenhistory/

Online Manuscript Resources in Southern Women’s History, Emory University
http://marbl.library.emory.edu/DigProjects/swh/home.htm

University Archives of Virginia Tech: First Black Women at Virginia Tech
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/blackwom/

Women Airforce Service Pilots ("WASPS") project is at Texas Women's University http://www.twu.edu/wasp/oral.htm

Women’s History Resources (University of Wisconsin)
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/
hist.htm#American

Women at the University of Virginia
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/women/