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• Web Site Reviews-- Historians and public history professionals, applying PHRC's Rating System, analyze history-oriented Web sites
• Public History Town Hall -- Readers voice their opinions on particular history-oriented Web sites

Prior to reading the reviews listed below, you may first wish to learn about PHRC's Rating System and read our essay on Evaluation Criteria. PHRC invites people to submit reviews for consideration or to answer our most recent Call for Reviews.

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Presentations of Public History Online: Web Site Reviews

Web sites reviewed range from more traditional producers of public history, such as museums, archives, and historical societies, to a growing number of history professors, hobbyists, and other organizations who utilize the ease of Web publication to present their research, story, or passion.

Currently reviews are arranged by Review Issue (in reverse date order). Within each Review Issue, organization is alphabetical by the title of the site being reviewed. Each Review Issue contains an introduction to the issue, ratings of the sites, abstracts of the reviews, full-length reviews of the sites, and a list of additional Web sites of interest pertaining to the topic of the issue. Click on the issue name below to access abstracts and additional sites of interest, or go directly to the full-length review by clicking on a review title.

People, Places, Politics, and Social Movements of the Progressive Era
January 2004
Follow the above link to read a brief introduction to this issue, scan the ratings and abstracts of all of the sites reviewed below, and see a list of additional sites of interest.

• 1912: Competing Visions of America
• Alaska’s Gold
• Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933
• Chicago Historical Society’s: The History Files
• City Sites
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
• Coney Island: The Ups and Downs of America’s First Amusement Park
• Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
• 'Doing the Pan': A Review of the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo
• The Early Moderns
• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• The Feather Trade and American Conservation
• FirstWorldWar.Com: The War to End All Wars
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
• In Flanders Fields Museum
• Influenza 1918
• Labor-Management Conflict in American History
• Learning Curve: The Great War
• Native American Documents Project
• An On-Line History of the United States: The Age of Imperialism
• Panama-California Exposition ~ San Diego ~ 1915-1916
• PBS' American Experience: Woodrow Wilson
• The Presidential Campaign: 1896 - Cartoons and Commentary
• The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures: A Review
• Theodore Roosevelt.org
• This Shall Be the Land For Women: The Struggle for Western Women’s Suffrage, 1860-1922
• Welcome to the Crystal City: 1890s in Bowling Green, Ohio
• Women of Valor: Emma Goldman, 1869-1940
• Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company: A Virtual Museum of Pioneer Aviation

Focus on Work & Labor History
August 2003
Follow the above link to read a brief introduction to this issue, scan the ratings and abstracts of all of the sites reviewed below, and see a list of additional sites of interest.

• America at Work, America at Leisure
• The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 - A University of Arizona Library Web Exhibit
• Review of Born in Slavery
• Review of Born in Slavery, Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
• Review of Bridgeport Working: Voices From the 20th Century
• Review of Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
• Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886-1887
• Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory
• History of Mining in Cape Breton
• History of the Canadian Automobile Workers
• Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
• Labor Arts
• Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
• Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy
• Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
• The Triangle Factory Fire
• U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
• U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
• Virtual Prostitution Museum
• Voices from the Dust Bowl

PHRC's Rating System in the Class Room: Three Reviews of Canadian Web Sites
April 2003
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• The Canadian West Virtual Exhibition: Gateway Through Time
• Newfoundland and the Great War
• Urban Life Through Two Lenses

Focus on Entertainment
July 2001
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• Review of American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870 - 1920
• Anarchy Archives: An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism
• Barnum Museum Web Site
• Review of Baseball Cards, 1887 - 1914
• Review of Blaxploitation
• Review of Coney Island History Site
• Review of The Psychedelic 60's: Literary Tradition and Social Change
• Review of Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces

Focus on the US Civil War
April 2001
Follow the above link to read a brief introduction to this issue, scan the ratings and abstracts of all of the sites reviewed below, and see a list of additional sites of interest.

• Review of African American Odyssey, Civil War Section
• Review of Alton in the Civil War
• Review of Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• Review of Crisis at Fort Sumter
• Review of The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
• Review of Valley of Shadow
• Review of Wet With Blood: The Investigation fo Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak

Colonial American History
December 2000
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• Archiving Early America
• Review of Colonial American Gazette
• Review of Common Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
• Review of Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas
• Review of Florida History Internet Center

Focus on World's Fairs
July 2000
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• Review of Terry's 1904 World's Fair Page
• Review of World's Columbia Exposition of 1893
• Review of World's Columbia Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath
• Review of World's Fairs and Expositions Defining America and the World, 1876-1916

Focus on Women's History
March 2000
Follow the above link to read a brief introduction to this issue, scan the ratings and abstracts of all of the sites reviewed below, and see a list of additional sites of interest.

• All American Girls Professional Baseball League 1943-1954
• A Few Missing Links: A Feminist Review of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II

Focus on African American History
February 2000
Follow the above link to read a brief introduction to this issue, scan the ratings and abstracts of all of the sites reviewed below, and see a list of additional sites of interest.

• Father Ryan High School's Blacks in the Military
• The Great Migration of African Americans from the Rural South to the Urban North
• The Kendall Whaling Museum's, Heroes in the Ships, African Americans in the Whaling Industry
• The Ohio Historical Society's, The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850 - 1920

Miscellaneous

Follow the above link to read a brief introduction to this issue, scan the ratings and abstracts of all of the sites reviewed below, and see a list of additional sites of interest.

• The Computer Museum History Center
• New Deal Network

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