Odds and Ends
Other Links
- Guide to
Historic Virginia
- American Memory
- America from the
Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the
FSA-OWI, 1935- 1945 (2,749 pictures from Virginia)
- Built in America:
Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
(2,397 images from Virginia)
- Railroad
Maps Collection (18 from Virginia)
- Civil
War Maps (20 from Virginia)
- Map Collections:
1500-1999 (129 from Virginia)
- The
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and
the West Indies, 1750-1789 (4 from Virginia)
- Panoramic
Maps 1847-1929 (21 from Virginia)
- Selected Civil War
Photographs (542 from Virginia)
- An American
Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
(224 from Virginia)
- Documents
from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
(among others, see the report concerning the conditions under which Virginia would
yield its claim to the lands northwest of the Ohio River)
- U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
- George Washington
Papers
- American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 (including a Ter-Centennial
Exposition, drawing: bird's eye view, Jamestown, VA)
- The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Books (10 from Virginia)
- Fiddle Tunes
of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (Henry Reed lived
in Glen Lyn, Virginia)
- Early Virginia
Religious Petitions
- First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (including Canal reminiscences : recollections of travel in the old
days on the James River & Kanawha Canal by George W. Bagby and Up From
Slavery by Booker T. Washington)
- Washington
as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
- Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company,
1880-1920 (including 680 from Virginia)
- Inflation Conversion
Factors for Dollars 1700 to Estimated 2010
- Conversion
Factors [clarifies "chains" vs. "feet" for colonial surveys, and other
measurements]
- Economic History Services
- Virtual Tour of the College of William
and Mary
- Williamsburg.com
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Virginia Indians
for Younger Readers
- Virginia Department of Historic Resources
- Historic Annapolis Foundation (the
Maryland equivalent to Williamsburg...)
- Spain's
Day in Court (Spain owned the Juno, a frigate that sank in 1802)
- George Mason and Gunston Hall
- Leesylvania
- George Washington Birthplace National
Monument
- Kenmore
- George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Washington's
School Exercises: Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation
(also at www.history.org/History/index.asp?src=/almanack/almanack.htm)
- Young Washington
in Pennsylvania (1753) [yes, Virginia claimed the charters gave it control
over the Forks of the Ohio...]
- Washington
sees "The Point" (future sight of Pittsburg) (see the map
of his 1753 trip)
- Dicovery.com
- Learner.org (Annenberg/CPB Project)
- Geography Topics
from the Librarians' Intex to the Internet
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- The Virginia Line in
the Continental Army - Revolutionary War
- find data on the 20,000 non-profits in Virginia
- LibrarySpot
- H-Net - discussion networks for
Humanities and Social Sciences Online
- History Matters
- Center for History and New Media
(at GMU)
- Historical
Media Review
- refdesk.com
- Virtual Reference Desk - The
Learning Center
- Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical
Reports & Related Reference Tools (by Gary Price)
- On-Line Books Page
- Project Gutenberg
- Virginia
section of FirstPlace.com
- North American Quilt
- Geography Resources (designed for grades 4-8, but stil useful for everyone...)
- Virginia Naturally
- Geography Network
- Geographic Learning Site - US
State Department
- New York High School Regents Exam Prep
Center
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
- Virginia Space Grant Consortium
- Satellite Images of Virginia
- Virginia Topical History
- Making of America
- Documenting the American South
- Nineteenth Century Documents
Project
- American Independence
- Rediscovering
Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society (1997)
- Places Named: Virginia
- Virginia Folklore Society
- Site for
Science (portal for National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology
Education Digital Library Program)
- SciTechResources.gov
- Stateline.org - Virginia
- Neither
Snow Nor Rain..." about the origins of the Postal Service (from American
History Magazine)
- The People's Geography Project
- Academic Info: Geography
- University of California San Diego:
Data on the Net
- Insiders Guide to:
- Kentucky Revolutionary
War Warrants
- National Park Service:
Historical Themes in America
- National Park Service - Nature & Science
- World Regional Geography
textbook, by Lydia M. Pulsipher
- World Statistics
and Atlases
- Geocaching and Letterboxing
- Orion Online ("The Orion Society
promotes place-based thinking, and works to nurture the shift toward sustainable
living taking place throughout so many segments of our culture.")
- Powers
of 10 (Florida State University - Interactive Java Tutorial)
- NOVA (Public Broadcasting System)
- Southeastern
Division of the Association of American Geographers)
- Radford
University - Commonwealth of Virginia
- Department of Geography and Planning
- Appalachian State University
- West Virginia Department of Geology and
Geography
- American Library Association
- How Much
Is That Worth Today?
- The National Center for Public Policy
Research
- WorldAtlas.com
- Virginia
- WorldAtlas
- The Pilgrims'
1621 Thanksgiving
- Living Earth
- Virginia
Geography (Netstate)
- Virginia
Standards of Learning for World Geography
- The American Colonist's
Library
- Digital Library for Earth System Education
- Geography Discipline Network (GDN)
- Statistical Resources on the Web
- Geography Matters
- NASA - Geography
- Life in Old Virginia (NOTE: a 1907 publication)
- Who's in Virginia Graves?
- including Stonewall Jackson's left
arm... and only his arm. The rest of him is in Lexington. (Now if we could only match the burial location of
Jackson's left arm with the location of the right arm of Christopher Newport... but then again, he lost that arm
before bringing the first group of colonists to Jamestown in 1607, and before Newport News was named.)
- Virginia's roadside oddities
- Commonwealth of Virginia "Naturists"
- Talking History radio program sponsored by the Organization of American Historians
- History from the National Park Service
- Southern History
- Careers in Virginia
- InfoNation
- PlacesOnLine
- The Geographer's Craft (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience
- State of Mine - Virginia
- The Battle to Stop Disney's America
- Geo-images
- Project GeoSIM (Virginia Tech)
- Local Legacies (Library of Congress)
- NationMaster.com
- Virginia factoids
- Virginia genealogy
Geography of Virginia