History students will find a wealth of resources on the World Wide Web. In its present form, the Web is too uneven and fragmented to support serious research, but you will find many interesting collections of historical materials -- including photographs, posters, editorial cartoons, government documents, and the like. In turn, the Web is an excellent source for basic information about other history departments, libraries, and historical archives, and it offers many interactive discussion lists of interest to historians. While it is perilous to try to summarize what is available in a medium whose content and organization are constantly changing, the following should serve as useful starting points:

• From the University Home Page, follow the path "Libraries" to "InfoHawk" to "Reference Sources by Subject" to "History."
• H-Net provides moderated discussion lists by subject area, and some of the subject areas (H-Labor, H-Women, H-Teach, etc) maintain home pages which archive discussion threads and provide subject-oriented links. The H-Net home page is at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/
• One of the founders of H-Net also maintains a very useful Scholar’s Guide to the WWW at http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/index.html
• Women and Social Movements documentary collection

Other sites of interest include:

• The American Studies Web
• Labor and Working Class History Association with links to resource pages helpful in teaching.
• The Library of Congress, with online searching of the Library’s collections.
• The Library of Congress’s American Memory Project which includes online audio, photographic, and film exhibits.
• The National Archives: with links to other archives (including the Presidential Libraries) and other government resources.