History Internet Resources

Bob's Russian History Class/Ben's World Cultural Geography Class
http://www.websher.net/inx/link.html -- index of links to websites on all things Russian
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/ -- searchable comprehensive index of electronic resources
http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/gateways.html -- WorldWideWeb Virtual Library Russian history gateways & indices
http://www.bucknell.edu/x17601.xml -- Bucknell University's Russian History Resources web page
http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op=viewslink&sid=53 -- links to Russian history documents
http://www.alexanderpalace.org -- a truly beautiful museum site on the Romanovs
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale -- exhibit site on Jews in Russia
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ -- Prokudin-Gorskii's photographs (many in color!) taken between 1907 and 1915

Ben's World Cultural Geography Links for the Russian Revolution
History Guide Lectures on 20th-century Europe:
-- February - October, 1917 - http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture5.html
-- Red October and the Bolshevik Coup - http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture6.html
-- Russian Revolution Resources - http://www.historyguide.org/europe/rusrev_links.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook39.html
Lenin Internet Archive - http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
Leon Trotsky's The History of the Russian Revolution - http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-hrr/
Spartacus Encyclopaedia - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Russian-Revolution.htm
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
America's Intervention in the Russian Civil War - http://secretwar.hhsweb.com/

Outline maps for Bim's Cultural Geography
About.com World Atlas - http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm
Maps.com Blank Outline Maps - http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF
National Geographic Map Machine - http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/countryprofiles.html
(once you find your country profile, click on the "printable outline map" link, then "basic" for detail level)
University of Texas Library Map Collection - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

Links for Cultural Geography classes
CIA World Factbook - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Country Reports - http://www.countryreports.org
Library of Congress Country Studies - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs
Lonely Planet Travel Guides - http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations
U.S. State Dept. Background Notes - http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
World Press Review - http://www.worldpress.org/

Ben's Links to Evaluating Web Sites
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Opinion? You Decide! - http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm
WebQuest on Evaluating Websites - http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/evalwebstu.html
Trash or Treasure? - http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/eval.html
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web - http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html
UC Berkeley Library's Evaluating Web Pages - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Evaluating Internet Resources - http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic32.htm


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