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This page contains links to websites outside UIS. For links to UIS websites, please see our Program Links page.

General Writing & Reference Resources

• A+ Research & Writing for High School and College Students
• Acronym Finder
• Citing Electronic Information
• Dictionary.com
• Finding Information on the Internet Tutorial
• Lexical FreeNet Connected Thesaurus
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
• Purdue’s Professional Writing Handouts and Resources
  

Historical Archives and Link Databases

• History Departments Around the World
• Labor-Management Documentation and Archives (Kheel Center)
• Library of Congress
• Links to the Past: Historic Parks and Sites
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Smithsonian Institution
  

Historical Resources by Topic

• Cold War International History Project
• East Asian Studies Resources
• Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources
• Illinois History Resource Page
• Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
• New Deal Network
• Triangle Factory Fire (Cornell)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil
  War
• Women’s Studies Database

Professional Associations & Employment Resources

• American Historical Association
• Chicago Historical Society
• National Council on Public History
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Organization of American Historians
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Society of American Archivists
• Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  

Scholarships and Awards

• Gilder Lehrman Institute History Scholars Program

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