TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trinkle,Dennis A.
AU  - Auchter,Dorothy
AU  - Merriman,Scott A.
AU  - Larson,Todd E.
TI  - The History Highway: A 21st-Century Guide to Internet Resources
SN  - 9780765617941
AV  - D16.117 -- .H55 2006eb 
U1  - 025.06 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - History -- Computer network resources
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Getting Started -- 1. The Basics -- History of the Internet -- Uses of the Internet -- Sending and Receiving E-Mail -- E-mail Addresses -- E-mail Security -- Reading and Posting Messages on Newsgroups -- Reading and Posting Messages on Discussion Lists -- Word of Warning About Discussion Lists -- Blogging -- Logging Onto a Remote Computer With Telnet -- Transferring Files With File Transfer Protocol (FTP) -- Browsing the World Wide Web -- 2. Signing On -- Getting on the Internet -- Hardware -- Software -- Web Browsers and E-mail programs -- Netiquette and Copyright -- General Netiquette -- Rules for Newsgroups and Discussion Lists and Blog Posts -- Copyright -- Evaluating Online Resources: Tools, Tips, and Terms -- The Web Today -- Information Literacy and Peer Review -- The Democratization of Information -- Evaluating Web Sites: What to Look For -- The Questions -- Bringing It All Together -- Searching the Web -- When in Doubt. . . . ASK! -- Part II. Internet Sites for Historians -- 3. Futuring Methods, Practitioners and Organizations -- 4. Future Issues -- 5. General History -- 6. Ancient History -- 7. Medieval History -- 8.Renaissance and Reformation History -- 9. African History -- 10. Middle Eastern History -- 11. Asian History -- 12. Australian and New Zealand History -- 13. Canadian History -- 14. Latin and South American History -- 15. European History -- General European History -- British History -- Eastern Europe -- French History -- German History -- Irish History -- Italian History -- Mediterranean History -- Nordic (Scandinavian) History -- 16. United States History -- General United States History -- African-American History -- Native American History -- American West -- Colonial American History (1492-1763); Revolutionary America -- Early United States History (1783-1860) -- American Civil War History -- Gilded Age and Progressive Era History -- The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The Great Depression -- World War II-Home Front -- World War II-Military History -- The Cold War -- General Twentieth-Century United States History -- 17. Women's History -- 18. World History -- 19. History of Computers -- 20. History of Science -- 21. History of Technology -- 22. Holocaust Studies -- 23. Legal, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights History -- 24. Modern Military History -- 25. Historiography -- 26. Historic Preservation and Conservation -- 27. Urban History -- 28. Living History and Historic Reenactment -- 29. Genealogy -- 30. State and Provincial Historical Societies -- 31. History Book Sources on the Internet -- 32. History and Social Studies Organizations -- 33. Maps and Images -- 34. Resources for Teachers of History: K-12 and College -- 35. Electronic Journals -- 36. Libraries -- 37. Archives and Manuscript Collections -- 38. Special Collections -- 39. Digital Collections -- 40. Archival Exhibitions Online -- 41. Environmental History -- 42. Immigration History -- 43. Oral History -- 44. Business and Economic History -- 45. Natural History -- 46. Popular Culture -- 47. Online Reference Desk -- Glossary -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index
N2  - Intended for students, teachers and researchers seeking a guide to history sites on the web. This work provides information on more than 3000 web sites; covers US and World history and all sub-fields; and features ten chapters, with coverage of futurism, environmental history, immigration history, and Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history
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