Cindy Vallar

Author, Columnist, & Editor
P. O. Box 425, Keller, TX  76244-0425

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Favorite Research Links
(updated 4 May 2008)

American History

General
American Centuries
American Christmas 1840-2000
American Folklore
American Journeys
American Life Histories
American Presidency Project
American Women through Time
Archive of Early American Images
Archiving Early America
The Circus in America: 1793-1940
Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders
Experiencing War
1st-person Narratives of American South
Folklife in Louisiana
History Resources-US
History Wired
Legends of America
Letters from America’s Wars
Love Letters
Lynchings in America
Nebraska Toy Stories
U.S. History - PBS
USMA Digital Collections
Vanished Worlds, Enduring People
(native peoples)

16th - 19th Centuries
19th-century Schoolbooks
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life
Ben Franklin
Colonial House
Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
The Gentleman's Page
(Practical Guide for the 19th Century American Man)
Klondike Gold Rush Historical Database
From Revolution to Republic
Mayflower History
Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Thomas Jefferson Papers

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
Virtual Jamestown
Voices from the Days of Slavery
(Former Slaves Tell Their Stories)

Civil War
American Civil War Homepage
Battle of Antietam on the Web
 Christmas in the Confederate White House
Civil War Letters of Forrest Little
Civil War Love letters
Civil War Soldier - Wild Cat Regiment
 Civil War Through a Child's Eyes
Civil War Weapons
Civil War Women - Archival Collections
 Civil War Women - Primary Sources
 CivilWar@Smithsonian
Gilmer Civil War Maps
Reconstruction: the Second Civil War
Unlocking a Civil War Prison
 Valley of the Shadow
Washington During the Civil War

20th Century
1900 Storm - Galveston Hurricane
1906 Earthquake and Fire
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
America in the 1930s
Crash of 1929
Hurricane of '38
Kansas City: Jazz Age
Looking Back at the Crash of ’29
Some Enchanted Evenings
(American Picture Palaces)
Teenage Hoboes in the Great Depression
The Vietnam Project
Wessels Living History Farm
(1920s-1940s - Nebraska)

Asian History

China
Chinese Paper Gods
Naxi Manuscript Collection
Scrolls of the Mongol Invasion of Japan

Costume History

Accessories
Bata Shoe Museum
Big Hair
(Wig history of Consumption 18th-century France)
Fan Museum
Hand FAN Productions
Modee In Hats and Headdress
Vintage Hair Fashion

Celtic Costume
Before the Clearances
Buying your kilt
Celtic Dress of the 16th Century
Evolution of the Kilt
Historical Scottish Clothing Project
On the Dignity of Wearing Kilts
Scottish Clothes
Scottish Men’s Clothing
Scottish Tartan Museum

General Reference
Best Dressed: 250 years of Style
Bissonnette on Costume: a visual dictionary of fashion
Corsets and Crinoline
Costume Gallery
The Costume Institute
Costume History at The Costumer's Manifesto
Dressed to the Nines
(baseball uniforms)
Historical Clothing
History of Costume by Braun & Scheider
History’s Closet
Living History 1660-1715
Milieux: the Costume Site
Museum of Costume, Bath
Realm of Venus
(clothes of Italian Renaissance)
Reconstructing History Patterns
Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914
The Salacious Historian's Lair
Standardization of Women’s Clothing
Textile Museum
Timeline of Costume History

English & Welsh History

BBC Online History
Cross Roads in England and Wales
(1738-1825)
British Library Online Newspaper Archive
Camelot Village: Tower of London
Capital Punishment
Civil Wars, Commonwealth, & Protectorate 1638-1660
British Library's Collect Britain
City of Shadows: Gothic Tour...Vict. London
Conflict
Dictionary of Victorian London
Edwardian Life
English History, 55 BC-1688 AD
Gathering the Jewels
Historical Directories England and Wales
(1750-1919)
History of Parliament
History of the Modern UK Rail Network
(1825-Present)
Imperial War Museum Collections
In Search of Shakespeare
Island at War
Literary Liaisons
Life in Elizabethan England
Linley Sambourne House
(Victorian)
Living History UK – Help with Homework
London: A Life in Maps
London House
London Maps
London’s Burning
London’s Transport Museum
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oliver Cromwell
Renaissance Festival Books
Saint Valentine's Little Tokens of Love
Servants: Their Hierarchy and Duties
Tower of London: History
Victorian...Servant Hierarchy...Wage Scale
Victorian London: Booth Poverty Map Project
Victorian Times
The Workhouse
World of Chaucer
WWI: Experiences...English Soldier

European History

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
The Borgias
The Great Hunger
Guillotine Headquarters
Holocaust Encyclopedia
In Search of Ancient Ireland
Ireland’s History in Maps
Irish Resources in the Humanities
Letters to Sala
(Young woman’s life in Nazi Labor Camps 1939-1945)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
(Exploring the French Revolution)
Life After the Holocaust
Love Customs in 18th Century Spain
Medici Archive Project
Napoleonic Guide
 Paris in the 19th Century
Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Peterhof
Poulet Gauche: 16th Century French Tavern
Roman Empire in the First Century
Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825
Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Rising Museum

Food and Drink

American Diner Museum
Candy USA!
Did You Know? Facts about Mediterranean Food History
Elizabethan Food
Feeding America
Flagon and Trencher Society
Food Timeline
Food Timeline
History of Eating Utensils
History of Sandwiches
Medieval & Renaissance Brews
Medieval & Renaissance Culinary Terms
Medieval Cookery
Not by Bread Alone
Topher’s Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

General Reference

Architecture
Castles on the Web

Currency
Current Value of Old Money
How Much Is That?
Purchasing Power British Pound 1264-2006

Entertainment
Games We Play
History of Toys and Games
Toys of Our Childhood

Folklore, Mythology, Religion 
Celtic Folklore
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
House Shadow Drake

History
Book of Household Management
Crime Broadsides Project
Deb’s Historical Research Page
eHistory
Historical Country Names
Historical Fencing Manuals
History Detectives
The History Index
Regnal Chronologies
Rogue’s Gallery
Torture, Fighting, and Death: a History of Violence
Walk Through Time

Home and Family
Hearth: Home Economics Archive
Making of a Homemaker
Wealth of Kings...Persian Carpets

Magazines, Newspapers, Primary Resources
Blacksheep Ancestors
Do History
(Use of Primary Documents in Research)
Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports
Eyewitness to History
FreeFullText.com
Historic American Newspapers
Historical Voices
Internet Library of Early Journals
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Journal of 17th-Century Music
Paper of Record
Repositories of Primary Sources
Time Magazine Archive
(1923-Present)
Resources for Research: Periodicals

Maps
16th- Early 20th-Century Maps of Africa
David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection
Historic Cities: Maps & Documents
Historical Maps
Louisiana Digital Map Library
(historical maps)
Mapping History

Museums
LC Rare Book & Special Collections
Museum of Online Museums
NYPL Digital Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Vatican Museums

Names
Behind the Name
Irish Baby Names
Popular Baby Names
Seventh Sanctum Character Name Generators
Think! Baby Names

Nature
Bewick's History of British Birds
Ornithology of Anglo-Saxon England
UK Birds
(broad-leaved woodlands)

Photography
Picture History

Reference (General Resources)
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Calendars through the Ages
Guide to Declassified Documents
Intute
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Life Histories of North American Birds
Literary Forensics
Portals to the World
Reference Desk
Visual Dictionary
When Do You Want to Go Today?

Weaponry
Armour Archive
Online Historical Fencing Manuals and Texts

War
Beyond the Fire – Teen Experiences of War
Christmas at War
A Soldier's Heart
War Times Journal
World War One Document Archive

History of Medicine & Medical Research

1918 Influenza Pandemic
Anesthesia and Pain History Resources
Anesthesia History Calendar
Barber Surgeon
Benjamin Rush, Yellow Fever, Birth of Modern Medicine
Beyond Affliction
 (Disability History Project)
Celebration of Ether
Chinese Medicine History
 Civil War Medicine
Deadly Virus
Dream Anatomy
Greek Medicine
History of Biomedicine
History of Medicine Online Exhibits
History of the Body
History of the Health Sciences
Influenza 1918
Influenza Digital Archive
Insects, Disease, and History
Intute: Medical History
Islamic Medicine
Medical History on the Internet
Medicine in the Americas 1610-1914
Most Dangerous Woman in America – Typhoid Mary
National Library of Medicine
Red Gold: Barber Surgeons
Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms
Welch Medical Library: Institute...History of Medicine
Women Working, 1800-1930
(medical college)
Zeno's Forensic Site

Languages & Dictionaries

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
American Dialect Society
British Dialect Translator
 Covey Crump Slang (British Royal Navy)
A Dictionary of Slang
Dictionary of the Scots Language
Faclair Gaidhlig: Gaelic-English Dictionary
Glossarist
How to Speak 19th Century
Icelandic Dictionary Online
Language Construction Kit
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Middle English Dictionary
Non-verbal Dictionary of Signs & Gestures
Old Celtic Dictionary
OneLook Dictionary Search
Online Etymology Dictionary
Sabhal Mor Ostaig
(Scottish Gaelic College)
Separated by a Common Language
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes - Hard-boiled Slang
Word Detective
World Wide Words
(Investigating Inter'l English from a British Viewpoint)
Your Dictionary

Law & Copyright

AuthorsLawyer.com
(Copyright Resources - Piracy & Infringement)
Copyright Law 101
Copyright Term and the Public Domain
Dumb Laws
Guide to Law Online
NOLO Trademarks & Copyright Law
Publishing Law Center
Right to Display Public Domain Images
U.S. Copyright Office

Medieval Times & the Viking Era

Castles...Fortifications...England...Wales
Corsair
(Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts)
The Crusades
Double Given Names Before 1600
Female Heterosexuality in Late Medieval Europe
Footwear of the Middle Ages
Gaddgedlar-Medieval Re-enactment
History of the Crusades
Hypertext Medieval Glossary
Index of Medieval Medical Images
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Knights in Central Park
The Legend of Robin Hood
Life in a Welsh Castle
Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Page
Medieval Castle
Medieval English Towns
Medieval Hunting and Falconry
Medieval Names Archive
Medieval Page
Medieval Siege (NOVA)
Most Medieval
Mostly Medieval (Scotland)
Murthly Hours
Odin's Castle of Dreams and Legends
Pro Sponso et Sponsa
(Christian Marriage rituals in Northern Europe)
Regia Anglorum
Scottish Medieval Bibliography
Scottish Medieval Languages
Two Medieval Manuscripts Reunited
Unicorn Tapestries
 Viking Answer Lady
Vikings - PBS' Nova
Virtual Pilgrim
William Marshal
Year Books
(Medieval English law)

Readers' Sites

 Aleta Tenney
Amber Quill Press
Baldwin Children's Literature Project
Bibliomysteries
Book Review Cafe
Ebooks: New Releases and Contests
Essence of Romance
Historical Novels Review Online
 Historical Romance Writers
In Need of Rescue: Non-Fiction
Kei Swanson
Knowing Poe
LibriVox
Louis L'Amour
Operation Paperback: Recycled Reading for the Troops
Rare Book Room
Romance Reader at Heart
Romantic Times
Tribute to St. Nicholas Magazine
Vive la Legion or, How I Became Hungarian
Wendy J. Dunn
What Book Got You Hooked?
Why Do Books Cost So Much?

Rodeo, the Old West, & the Western Frontier

American Cowgirl
Cowboy Photographer: Erwin W. Smith
Donner Party
Drawing the Western Frontier
History of the American West
Jesse James
Old West
Professional Bull Riders Association
Western Trails

Scotland

Books and Articles on Scotland
The Capital Scot
Clan Cameron
Clan Gregor
Clan MacPherson
Electric Scotland
General Register Office for Scotland
Glen Discovery
Heart o' Scotland
MacDonald of Keppoch
Plant Life in the Scottish Highlands
Popular Scottish Forenames
Rampant Scotland Directory
Scotland's Clans
Scotlands People
(genealogy)
Scottish Connection in Kansas
Scottish Natural Heritage
Scottish Storytelling Center
US Scots

Scottish History

The 1745 Association
The 1745 Rebellions
Acts of Union
Albanach.org
Accessing Scotland's Past
Battle of Culloden
BBC In Search of Scotland
Bloody Culloden
Clan Cameron Archives
The Clearances
Culloden Battlefield Memorial Project
Dalriada
Darien Scheme
Darien Venture
Did You Know? - The Quaich
English and Scottish Uniforms 1660-1914
Gordon’s Scottish Castles Resources
The Highland Clearances
John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet
Highland Home
History of Scotland
Lochaber College UHI...Electronic Library
Lothene Experimental Archaeology
Lyon in Mourning
Maps from NLS Collection
Medieval Charters of Scotland
Murthly Hours
Napier’s Commission
National Committe on Carved Stones
Records...Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
Rise & Fall of the Jacobite Rebellion
Scone Palace
Scotland's "Domesday Book"
Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
Scottish Archive Network
Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speeches
Scottish Crannog Centre
Scottish Handwriting
Scottish History Club
ScottishHistory.com
Scottish History Online
Scottish History in Print
Scottish Medieval Bibliography Index
Scottish Taxation Records
Sites and Monuments Record: Aberdeen
Union of the Crowns 1603-2003
William Wallace - the Truth Behind the Man
Word on the Street

Transportation

Anatomy of the Bicycle
Ancient Trade Routes
Steamboats!
Taking the Wheel
Travel in America, 1750-1920

Women & Women's History

Annie Oakley
Before Victoria
(Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era)
Early Modern Women Database
The Education of Women
Hannah Snell
No Job for a Woman
(Effects of war on women’s lives in 20th & 21st centuries)
Other Women's Voices
The Spectacular Female Body
Women and the Holocaust
Women as Warriors in History
Women Military Reenactor's Homepage
Women of Ravensbruck
Women in Scottish History
Women of the Century

Writers' Sites

Agents
Agent Query
Association of Authors' Representatives
Literary Agent Jeff Kleinman
Literary Agents
How to Pitch...at a Writing Conference
Preditors & Editors
Waiting to Hear Back from...Literary Agent
Why You Need An Agent

Contracts
Book/Literary Contracts
How Lucky Can You Get?
(What Can Happen After You Sign a Contract)
How Much Should I Charge?

General
31 Places to Monitor Your Reputation Online
AA Independent Press Guide
Articles for Writers and Publishers
Burry Man Writers Center
C. Dillon's Resources...Romance Writers
Copyright Navigator
Crash Course in Copyright
Dead Trees to Dell.com
Fair Use – Copyright
Fiction Factor
Four Paths to Publishing
Funds for Writers
Handling Writing Income and Expenses
Long Ridge Writer's Craft
The Passionate Pen
Pen Names
Postage Chart for Writers
Publication of Photographs
Tax Tips for Small Businesses
That Difficult First Novel
What Are Book Editors Looking for?
What's In a Name?
Writer's Hood
Writer’s Life Magazine
WritersWeekly.com

Genres
Hey, There’s a Dead Guy...Living Room
Some People Don’t Like Historicals

Grammar and Style
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Citation Style Guides
Elements of Style
Guide to Grammar and Style
Guide to Grammar & Writing
The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors
Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See
Truth About Editing
Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives

Marketing and Promotion
Ask the Experts
Be Your Own Publicist
Book Promotion
Booksigning Tips from Larry James
Building a Writer’s Business Plan
Ebooks: New Releases and Contests
How to Work a Book Festival
Free Book Promotion Checklist
Marketing for Authors
Practical Book Promotion for Writers
The Real World of Virtual Book Touring
Take...Mystery out...Promoting Your Book

Queries and Submissions
ABC's of ARC's
Analysis of a Literary Agent Form Letter Rejection
Preparing E-mail Queries
Ten Minutes to Glory...Editor/Agent Pitch

Research
Copyright Renewal Database
Literary Liaisons
Our Time Lines
Research and Documentation
Using Body Language
You Can’t Say That!

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