HIST 306 Introduction to Public History

Guidelines for the website review assignment

Website Review Guidelines from the Journal of American History.
Use these as general guidelines for your review (ignore the parts that pertain specifically to JAH review format). You can review the following types of websites (including, but not confined to, examples that follow):

Archives, such as one of the collections at the McCord Museum in Montreal or American Memory at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Virtual Exhibits, such as The Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 from the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association and the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Mass.

Digital Scholarship, such as Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd, an article published in the American Historical Review in 2005.

To find websites on a topic of your choice, you can browse website annotations at World History Matters and History Matters. You may also use Google to find a historical website, but make sure to choose an online resource of good quality.