Monday, September 24, 2007

eHistory at Ohio State University OSU

eHistory at Ohio State University OSU [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/] - eHistory has been around in one form or another since 1995, when it was created by the budding historian Scott Laidig. These days, eHistory is operated and maintained by The Ohio State University’s history department. Dedicated to all things historical, the site contains primary sources and documents, original book reviews, digitized books, maps, and multimedia features. These multimedia features are uniformly quite good, and they cover topics such as the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II and responses to immigration over the past 125 years. Historians will want to look through the "Primary Sources" area at length, as it contains letters and diaries from the Civil War, along with the oft-cited "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" in all of its 128-volume glory [Descriptive information provided From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/ ]