Recommended Websites for Primary Sources on Chicago History
Finding and Using Websites for History Fair Research
History Fair
www.uic.edu/orgs/cmhec/
History Helpers hosts our Resource Directory and Guide to evaluating and citing internet sources. It also contains rubrics for evaluating primary sources. History Fair hosts info about the events and leads to topics essays.
Chicago Historical Society
www.chicagohistory.org
Research and Education leads to the History Fair bibliographies, internet links, and the on-line catalog to CHS materials (note: most recent items). Digital projects includes hundreds and thousands on primary sources centered on the Chicago Fire, Haymarket, Daily News photographs, recent
immigration.
Chicago Public Library
www.chicagopubliclibrary.org
Search the catalog on-line to help plan for the visit. Students can know what the books are on their subject and where to find them (or, at least begin!) Learn Chicago contains bibliographies, guides to special collections, helpful timelines, and primary sources. Magazines and Databases
allow off-site research to many key databases-with a library card.
Library of Congress
www.memory.loc.gov
American Memory is the largest collection for historians, though not the only source. Many thematic or specialized collections are housed within the AmMem site, from African-American Pamphlets to the Coolidge Era to the Works Progress Administration. Students may look in particular collections or through all of
them; they can narrow the search to a particular time period, type of source, etc.
National Archives
www.archives.gov
ARC is the database that will lead students into the vast holdings of the National Archives-at least 20 per cent of it!
http://www.archives.gov/facilities/il/chicago.html
Among government documents, many pertaining to Chicago, is a
collection of photographs of Black Chicago in the 1970s. The Great Lakes Regional office of NARA is located at 79th and Pulaski; personal help by staff and access to documents and microfilm.
Northern Illinois University
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/
Houses a number of digital collections: Early Illinois, Gilded Age, Lincoln, Civil War. It also holds the back issues of Illinois History Teacher and other state government magazines.
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Imagebase
www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase
Focus on maps and other data on Chicago neighborhoods, especially those around the university, and downtown.
Urban Experience in Chicago
www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/
A mammoth collection of primary sources based on turn of the century Chicago through the work of Hull House-but the wealth of materials makes it a must-search for many topics based in the time period.
Great Migration/Primary Sources links and worksheets
www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/pt3/greatmigration.html
Chicago History Project
www.chicagohistoryproject.org
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History grants, the project is a collaboration of CMHEC, CHS, Constitutional Rights Foundation, UIC, and the Newberry Library. Websites for American History are reviewed and linked.
Canal Corridor Association
www.canalcor.org
Information about the Illinois and Michigan Canal; will link to the archives at Lewis University
Digital Projects
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/
On-Line from Illinois libraries and historical societies
Digital Past
http://www.digitalpast.org/
The Northern Suburban Library System members digitized the collections of 15 historical society collections.
Illinois Labor History Society
www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/
Jazz Age Chicago
http://chicago.urban-history.org
Teaching with Historic Places (National Park Service)
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/53black/53black.htm
On Bronzeville; also a TWHP on Columbus Park
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
http://newdeal.feri.org
Illinois State Archives
www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html
Teaching Politics (Images)
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/
Census
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
http://www.census.gov
University of New York at Binghamton
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/projectmap.htm
Primary sources on women include a number who were active in Chicago such as Ida B. Wells and Florence Kelley
Primary Sources on Illinois History from a teacher at IMSA
http://staff.imsa.edu/socsci/skinner/coverpage.html
Making of America
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
19th century publications scanned and searchable.
Search Engines and Websites that Cluster History Links
Vivisimo.com
a cluster search engine
Virtual Library on History-based Websites for all Over the World
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Local Archival Collections from Research Centers With On-Line Finding Aids or Lists of Collections:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/linkchi.html
Links to special collections in Chicago area, including the Chicago Archvists' "repository finder"-doesn't THAT sound worth checking out?!
Center for Research Libraries
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/
a consortium of university libraries and research centers
University of Chicago Special Collections
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/
Chicago Public Library
http://www.chicagopubliclibrary.org/008subject/012special/main.html
University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/
Northwestern University, McCormick Special Collections
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/
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