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A presentation regarding online resources for loacal history research, with a case study for researching the removal of Indians from Spokane, Washington.
Local history online
- 1. A Northwest Historians Tour of the Internet Larry Cebula Washington State Digital Archives Eastern Washington University Spokane Mayor Burch with "Biggest Indian" Contest Winner Charles Libby, 1909.
- 4. Documenting the American South
- 5. Fold3.com
- 7. Washington State Digital Archives
- 9. LOC Chronicling America Historic Newspapers Project
- 13. Digital Collections from WSU
- 14. Case Study: Indians and the City Beautiful in Spokane, 1880-1910 What online resources are available? Where do we look? What necessary resources are not available? Do we find things that we would have overlooked in traditional research?
- 15. Google Book Search for keyword Spokane limited to full text
- 16. C. B. Carlisle, Spokane County as it Is: Solid Facts and Actual Results (Spokane, 1883) 42-43.
- 17. Matsura Collection Images matching the keyword Spokane.
- 19. Historical Newspapers in Washington from the Secretary of State
- 20. Advanced Searching of Historical Newspapers in Washington
- 21. Spokane Falls Review 損 6/16/1883 損 Page 2 損 Column 2
- 22. To Be Removed Spokane Falls Review 損 1/19/1884 損 Page 3 損 Column 4
- 23. Two Articles from Page 1 of the Spokane Falls Review: Somewhat Tough and An Indian Ishmaelite
- 25. The Making of America database has a sophisticated search engine.
- 27. Washington State Digital Archives
- 28. Death Certificate for Spokane Garry, Jan. 14, 1892
- 29. Jeremiah Indian, 11/20/1904
- 30. UVA Historical Census Browser
- 31. Univ. of OK: Indian Claims Commission Records
- 32. PDF versus Scanned Text!
- 33. Additional Possible Online Sources Census Data Additional Historical Image collections Digitized Oral histories A good starting point for Spokane history is this page at the MAC: http://www.northwestmuseum.org/index.cfm/R
- 34. What are We Missing? Modern Secondary Sources Ruby and Brown, Children of the Sun Youngs, Fair and Falls Most Archival Records Newspapers not Digitized Holding of Small Historical Societies Etc. etc.
- 35. Needs and Prospects Digital primary sources have a place in the classroom Digital primary sources have a place in published scholarship Historians need to keep up! We need a centralized resource page for deep digital archives