AMAZING LINKS
Web sites you should visit at least once

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.History and/or Genealogy Collections. (Photographs, Artifacts, Documents)

American Centuries--View from New England - Memorial Hall Museum online, with an online collection of historic artifacts and documents from New England (searchable).

American Memory, Library of Congress - a searchable database of historical photographs and documents.

Colonial Williamsburg Multimedia - slideshows of colonial life

Connecticut Online - a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society. 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date.

Cornell University's "Making of America" - a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Digital History - materials to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges. The site includes an online U.S. history textbook, over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and includes primary sources on slavery, Mexican-American, Asian-American, and Native American history; also U.S. politicial, social and legal history.

Footnote.com -  images of original documents containing information and stories about your ancestors and the times in which they lived.
    * Military records from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War
    * Naturalization records
    * Personal Histories and much more

Gilder Lehrman Institute of America - (searchable) more than 60,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times.

GoogleBooks - discover and browse books online. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given them permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

Google News Archive Search -  search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

Harvard University VIA (Photographs) - visual resources at Harvard University, focusing on artistic and cultural materials.VIA includes catalog records for objects or images owned, held or licensed by Harvard.

Internet Archive: Subject New Hampshire - the famous Waybackmachine archive provides historical documents of interest to New Hampshire researchers.

Internet Archive: Universal Newsreels - In the pre-TV era, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theaters. Newsreels were shown before every feature film and in dedicated newsreel theaters located in large cities. Universal Newsreel, produced from 1929 to 1967.

Michigan University's "Making of America" - a searchable collection (digital library) of documents and photographs that are NOT restricted to Michigan.

New Hampshire Political Library - online library and archives, educating audiences about the tradition of the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire presidential primary.

New Hampshire State Papers - the provincial state papers of New Hampshire, originally published between 1867 and 1943; these archives are downloadable in PDF format. You probably want to view the index first (the first link on that page).

New Hampshire Underground - archeology in New Hampshire; sometimes outdated

New York Times Search Engine - search the New York Times newspaper for current (1981-today) and archived issues (1851-1980).  Some articles are free in both HTML and PDF format, others available for a small fee.

NPS Historic Photo Collection - The National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection is comprised of more than two million images which cover a wide variety of subjects: Park architecture, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Native American heritage, NPS personnel, roads and transportation, scenic views, and much more.

NYPL Digital Library - NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints  and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Searchable.

Old Photographs - A private web site with a collection of old photographs, many presented in "themes."

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - online collections and exhibits. Browse a special collection or to perform a search according to your own interests. Especially suited for those researching New England Native Peoples and other cultures.

Photographic Archives of Michigan - early photographs, civil war soldiers, architecture, music, plus Michigan-specific photographs, music, towns, oral histories.

University of New Hampshire - Milne Special Collections (searchable)

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.Historical Societies and/or Libraries.

American Historical Association - the professional association for all historians

Bartlett Historical Society - this organization works to preserve the history of the villages of Bartlett, New Hampshire (Bartlett, Glen and Intervale)

Blog: Educational Tour Marm - A fun and informative site dedicated to quality, curriculum-based Educational Student Travel. Explore new ways to enhance the journey!

Book Notes New Hampshire - Occasional notes on New Hampshire's book community from the Director of the Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library

Hampton's Lane Memorial Library - local history for Hampton New Hampshire (seacoast) ; articles, records, documents, photographs

Merrimack Public Library Blog - news from the reference department of the Merrimack (New Hampshire) Public Library

New England Ancestors aka New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) - both free and subscription (membership) -based databases that include New England families and individuals.  Free resources primarily  SSDI.

World Vital Records - although most information is only available through paid subscriptions, NEW databases are free for 10 days.

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.History Lessons & Tools.

Adventures in Cybersound - histories of communications, computing and media.  How did it all start?

Best of History Web Sites - an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - Project Gutenberg EBook of 1811, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Captain Grose et al. - Fashionable SLANG of the times.

History Matters - designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

Online Entymology Dictionary - explanations of what our words mean and/or how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society - the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible.

The American Experience - American Experience Online (PBS) premiered in November of 1995 and has produced over 100 feature sites. These sites encourage in-depth exploration of the issues surrounding each documentary subject beyond the television screen.

World Wide Words - international English from a British viewpoint. Explanation of terms.

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.Search Engines.
Google is great, but not always the best, depending on your personal needs.  Try a few of these on for size!

Alltheweb Livesearch - a nice search engine alternative, find it all.

Clusty, the Clustering Search Engine - Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.

Icerocket Blog Search -a unique search engine built just for blogs and bloggers.  Track, trends and more!

Internet Wayback Machine - did you ever wonder what a web site looked like a year ago? was it around five years ago?  Now you can find out (you must know the URL).

jux2 Meta Search Engine - compare Google, Yahoo and MSN with one search. Lets you know how the results are rated at a glance.

Pagebull - visual Internet search engine. Shows the results of your internet search by visually presenting what each web page result looks like.

RSSMicro: RSS Feed Search Engine - 65,000,000 feeds, blog posts, and news articles fully searchable

Sphere - a search engine that connects blogs and news

SwikiCentral - directory of live search engine swickis

Tailrank - tracking blog news

Windows LiveSearch - customizable search engine

WorldCat - search for books, videos, music and documents in  libraries (searchable by title, subject, person)

Zuula Search - Search engines often return very different results for the same terms. So checking multiple search engines will give you the best results, and Zuula makes it easy. Currently, Zuula offers Web, Image, Video, News, Blog, and Job searches.

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.Blog and Web Site Helpers.

Babel Fish Language Translator - Through the magic of Altavista, you can translate a word, a block of text, or add translation to your web site or blog.  Languages include English to Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and some vice versa.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School - they help law students at Harvard Law School, lawyers, policy-makers and others who practice in this area, and the public at large, to learn about cyberspace issues

FEEDJIT - Live traffic widgets for blogs and web sites

Keyword Spy - shows the last ten keywords used to reach your blog or web site, your ad rank for those words, and number of competitors.  Currently set for Cow Hampshire.

Google Ranking Factors - "over 200 SEO factors" that Google uses to rank pages in the Google search results (SERPs). What are the search engine optimization rules?

Internet Traffic Report - The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections. 

Ping Bloggers - a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.

Quantcast Internet Ratings - the only open internet ratings service. Find ratings on the top web sites and blogs, or see how your own rates. Learn your full network reach.

ResearchBuzz - News about search engines, databases, and other information collections.

SEO Tools - more blog and web site tools than you can shake a stick at!

Shrink Links - have a humongously long link you need to shrink?  I don't know how they do it, but it works.

The Blog Herald - the latest and greatest information in the blogosphere.  Blogging news and helpful articles.

Tips for New Bloggers - A dummies guide, blog tips, tricks, help for all new bloggers on Web templates, Blog templates, designs, widgets, layout, JavaScript, HTML codes, SEO, Google AdSense, gadgets, diagnostic tools, and how to monetize Blogger or Blogspot blogs.

W3C Link Checker - Enter the address (URL) of a document that you would like to check, and it produces a list of good and bad links on that page.

Widgetbox - world's largest widget directory.  Need a special blog widget? Make one here.

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.Minority History and Current Events.

Huffington Post - history is happening right now

Indian Country Today - current news affecting Native Peoples

Museum of African American History - Boston MA museum. See the Online Exhibits under the "Exhibits" tab. 

Webmaster's Blog: Native American Resources - historical events impacting Native Peoples