When I’m researching links for my Monday’s Link Roundup, I’m always amazed by the richness of material available for those interested in personal and oral histories, storytelling, and genealogy. Today’s list is no exception. My favorite link is the Newseum. You can hover your mouse cursor over a city anywhere in the world and the front pages of that city’s newspapers are highlighted. Very cool!
- Unique photo gift ideas. “Your hard drive’s holding gigabytes of digital photos you’ve been snapping for years hostage, keeping all those memories of people and places in the digital dark. Your photos can make others smile on a personalized photo gift, for a holiday or for no reason at all.”
- Google Digitizes the Ottawa Citizen Archives. “Google has digitized and made available online most of the archives of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, putting about 2.5 million articles at your fingertips, the earliest from 1890. You may be amazed at the speed and ease with which you can find family history.”
- Online Oral History Projects. “Many museums, historical organizations, universities, and special interest groups have not only created digital archives, but also oral history projects that cover spectrums of historical themes. The following sites offer a look into the expansive realm of online oral history projects.”
- African-American Roots: Websites and Resources. “To start off Black History Month, here are some of my top picks for soaking up African-American history and genealogy knowledge.”
- Newseum Blends High-Tech With Historical. “The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. The Newseum is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., on America’s Main Street between the White House and the U.S. Capitol and adjacent to the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall.” [Thanks to RJ McHatton of Inventive Productions for alerting me to this site.]
- Researcher gave the Chumash a gift: their heritage. “John Peabody Harrington relentlessly studied Indian families for decades. Today, a 71-year-old woman who considered him a pest is grateful for his intense scholarship.”
- This I Believe. “…an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. Over 70,000 of these essays, written by people from all walks of life, are archived here on our website, heard on public radio, chronicled through our books and television programming, and featured in weekly podcasts. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.”
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