Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), http://timea.rice.edu. Rice University.
This extensive collection of images, texts, and maps document European and American travels to Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection includes photographs, book illustrations, postcards, stereographs, museum and exhibition catalogs, travel guides, travel narratives, and cultural studies of Egypt and Cairo. It can be browsed by title, place name, creator, date range, or broad subject categories, such as Art and Artifacts, History and Politics, and Religion and Festivals. In addition to primary sources, it includes educational modules that contextualize the material and offer research strategies, as well as GIS maps with information about historical and religious sites, place names, water, elevation, and political boundaries. Gathering hard-to-find material, TIMEA should be useful to researchers at all levels interested in Western interactions with the Middle East in this period.—Michelle Baildon, MIT Libraries, Cambridge
Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade, www.slavevoyages.org. Emory University.
This resource, sponsored by Emory University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a visually rich and authoritative website that provides information on the slave trade that spans (and is organized by) five continents. In addition to the text-based resources of traditional bibliographies, Voyages also includes maps, images, lesson plans, and a database of African names. Content (much of which is downloadable) is organized so that users can navigate the website in many different ways, such as searching by material type or geographic region. New users will find the website’s glossary helpful in understanding specialized terminology. Because of the website’s unique interface, the scope of information available, and the fact that the content is available to the general public via the Web with software demonstrations, Voyages would be a recommended resource for both introductory and advanced research.—Marika Soulsby, Penn State Greater Allegheny, McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Woodward, David R. America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-language Sources. New York: Routledge, 2007. 432p. $150 (ISBN: 0-415-97895-5).
This is an update of a bibliography published in 1985 by David R. Woodward and Robert Franklin Maddox. Primarily, it includes English-language materials (both originally published works in English as well as English translations of materials). Concentration is given to those works published prior to 2006. The arrangement is by subject and includes the sections “Reference Works and the Internet,” “Manuscript Depositories and Libraries,” “Origins and Outbreak of the War,” “Military Aspects of the War,” “Home Front,” “Social and Cultural Impact of the War,” “Diplomacy of the War,” and “Peace Settlement.” The stated objective is “to give wide coverage, including both landmark works and a sampling of the literature for a particular subject.” Dedicated posthumously to Maddox, this book would be a valued addition to most scholarly collections.—Brooke Becker, University of Alabama at Birmingham
RUSA History Section Historical Materials Committee contributing members: Brooke Becker, Chair; Michelle Baildon; Patricia Clark; Suzi Williams Kaplan; Jean Schmidt Kiesel; Joel Kitchens; Janalyn Moss; Jenny Presnell; Marika Anne Soulsby; and Alicia White.
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