HIS 371 Movies and American Society

"Filmsite.org is an award-winning website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed plot synopses, review commentary and film reference material are just some of the features available on the site. The site also contains film analysis, original content, information on the top films and most memorable movie scenes, "Best of..." articles, and the most popular film quotes in all genres of film. Its many resources include a comprehensive overview of film history, a complete survey of the Academy Awards (Oscars), milestones and turning points in the industry, and background and descriptions for hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language movies from the last one hundred years."

An introduction to the first decade of cinema.

IMDb is a near-comprehensive database of movies, actors, directors, awards, and others and is constantly updated, even including movies that have not yet released.

"The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access."

"The American Presidency Project (APP), non-profit and non-partisan, is the leading source of presidential documents on the internet. Our archives contain 119,753 documents and are growing rapidly."

"We have compliled a selection of recommended websites as a starting point for those insterested in online research. Some sites contain searchable archives while others provide information on new literature concerning the Civil War."

"Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs."

An archive of images, text, and maps detailing migration of African Americans to and throughout the United States.

"At the core of the NDN is a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period)."

"The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages
that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history."