Social History Websites that Bring Your Ancestor's Story to Life
Gena Philibert-Ortega, MA, MAR
DoHistory <http://dohistory.org/>
Victoriana: the 19th Century Online <http://www.victoriana.com/>
Memorial Hall Museum Online <http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/home.html>
Eyewitness to History <http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html>
GenWriters <http://www.genwriters.com/>
A Pictorial History of Kentucky Coal Mining <http://kycoal.homestead.com/>
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
<http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/index.html>
Fashion Era <http://www.fashion-era.com/>
American House Styles from This Old House
<http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,1228909,00.html>
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
<http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm>
Vintage Patterns Wiki < http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page>
Retronaut <http://www.retronaut.co/>
The Workhouse <http://www.workhouses.org.uk/>
Ephemera Society of America <http://www.ephemerasociety.org/>
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Old Magazine Articles <http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/home.php>
Nineteenth Century American Children & What They Read
<http://www.merrycoz.org/kids.htm>
Agricultural and Farm Innovations
<http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarm.htm>
A Digital Archive of American Architecture
<http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/>
GenDisasters <http://www3.gendisasters.com/>
Recipe Curio <http://recipecurio.com/>
Digital Public Library of America <http://dp.la/>
What Did You Do In The War Grandma? (WWII)
http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
Library of Congress-American Memory
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html>
National Museum of Civil War Museum http://www.civilwarmed.org/
America’s Quilting History <http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/>
Lowell Mill Girls <http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/Mill_girls.htm>
David Rumsey Map Collection <http://www.davidrumsey.com/>
National Museum of Funeral History <http://www.nmfh.org/>
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Union Pacific-Past and Present Railroad Job Descriptions
<http://www.up.com/aboutup/history/past-present_jobs/index.htm>
Hairstyle History <http://www.pasthairstyles.com/>
PhotoTree.com <http://phototree.com/>
Tracking Down the Roots of our Sanitary Sewers
<http://www.sewerhistory.org/index.html>
How to Build a Log Cabin <http://www.2020site.org/cabin/index.html>
New York Times-Immigration Explorer
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigrationexplorer.html?hp&_r=0
Tenement Museum <http://www.tenement.org/>
Click Americana <http://clickamericana.com/>
History of American Education <http://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/>
The Online Guide to Traditional Games
<http://www.tradgames.org.uk/index.html>
The Truth About Civil War Surgery <http://www.historynet.com/the-truth-aboutcivil-war-surgery-2.htm>
A Garbage Timeline <http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/timeline.htm>
Tax History Museums
<http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/TaxHistoryMuseum?OpenDoc
ument>
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Common-Place <http://www.common-place.org/>
U.S. Migration Route Maps
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tqpeiffer/Documents/Americ
an%20Migration%20Gallery%20ToC.htm>
America in the 1930s <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html>
Yale Law School –The Avalon Project <http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp>
A History of Wigs <http://www.randomhistory.com/2009/02/24_wigs.html>
Library of Congress-Performing arts Encyclopedia
<http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/>
Maps of WWII <http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/index.htm>
Groceteria. A Supermarket History <http://www.groceteria.com/>
Brief History of the Groundfishing Industry in New England
<http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/stories/groundfish/grndfsh1.html>
Shorpy Photo Archive <http://www.shorpy.com/>
Flickr The Commons <http://www.flickr.com/commons>
Story of Farming <http://historylink101.com/lessons/farm-city/story-offarming.htm>
The Poorhouse Story <http://www.poorhousestory.com/>
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