| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 424 pages) |
| Series |
History highway |
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History highway
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| Contents |
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. Canadian history -- 7. Latin and South American history -- 8. United States history -- 9. African-American history --10. Native American history -- 11. American West -- 12. Mexican-American history -- 13. Asian-American history -- 14. Colonial American History (1492-1763) -- 15. Revolutionary America -- 16. Early United States history (1783-1860) -- 17. American Civil War history -- 18. Gilded age and Progressive era history -- 19. The age of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 20. World War II -- 21. The Cold War -- 22. General twentieth-century United States history -- 23. Women's history -- 24. Modern military history -- 25. Historiography -- 26. Historic preservation and conservation -- 27. Living history and historic reenactment -- 28. Genealogy -- 29. Environmental history -- 30. Immigration history -- 31. State and provincial historical societies : Canada and United States -- 32. History book sources on the internet -- 33. History and social studies organizations -- 34. Maps and images -- 35. Resources for teachers of history: K-12 and college -- 36. Libraries -- 37. Archives and manuscript collections -- 38. Special collections -- 39. Online reference desk -- Glossary -- About the editors and contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This brand new addition to the acclaimed History Highway series is essential for anyone conducting historical research on North, Central, or South America. Complete with a CD with live links to sites, it directs users to the best and broadest, most current information on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American history available on the Internet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
History -- Computer network resources -- Directories
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History -- Research -- Methodology
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Internet.
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Internet
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Internet.
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History -- Computer network resources
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History -- Research -- Methodology
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Internet
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Research
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| SUBJECT |
America -- History -- Research
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| Subject |
America
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| Genre/Form |
Directories
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Trinkle, Dennis A., 1968-
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Merriman, Scott A., 1968-
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| ISBN |
9780765624611 |
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0765624613 |
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