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
