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New Acquisitions in History (by month)

• Tropy  Organize and describe your research photos.
• Zotero..."helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects)"
• Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media - Projects  "Open-source digital tools to preserve and present the past..."

• Today in History (Library of Congress)
• Top 50 World History Blogs (History Masters)
• BibliOdyssey
• The History Blog
• The Vault (Slate)

• America was Built with Pamphlets, Not Muskets (Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, May 26, 2021)
• ‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian Ad that Saved my Jewish father from the Nazis (Julian Borger, The Guardian, May 6, 2021)
• Don’t Forget the Butterfly Effect [review of: To Begin the World Over Again] (Brooke Allen, The Hudson Review, Autumn 2020)
• ‘Well, What Do You Mean, We Can’t Join the Klan?’ [Malcolm X] (Les Payne and Tamara Payne, Politico, October 24, 2020)
• Today’s Document from the [U.S.] National Archives

• The History Blog  Lots of historical archaeology.
• The History of Cartography ( UChicagoPress, 1987+)  Full text, 7 volumes!
• Medieval Manuscripts Blog: Bringing Our Medieval Manuscripts to Life (British Library)
• Native Land  A project mapping indigenous peoples' lands.
• Religion in American History  "A group blog on religion in American culture and history."
• Whaling History  A collaboration between Mystic Seaport and New Bedford Whaling Museum.
• Ancient History Encyclopedia
• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative  "This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire."
• New map blog from National Geographic: All Over the Map
• Napoleon Was Here! “...more than 1000 documents from Napoleon Bonaparte’s time with his army in Egypt (1798-1801).”
• Slavery 1790-1870 (Radical Cartography)
• History in Pictures
• Old Maps Online "a gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world"
• Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1932)
• Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data
• Links - Useful Links for Historians (UM History Dept.)

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