History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online

Based on the award-winning Center for History and New Media and American Social History Project Web site “History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web,” this unique resource pairs an annotated guide to 250 of the most useful Web sites for student research with an introduction on using the Internet for historical research.

ALAN GEVINSON, research assistant at the Center for History and New Media, has edited reference works in film history, including The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films and Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911–1960, published essays on aspects of entertainment and media history, and developed Web sites featuring Library of Congress audio collections.

KELLY SCHRUM, professor of history at George Mason University, has worked extensively in the areas of new media and history content development. She is the author of numerous articles on history and new media, including "Surfing the Past Online: New Media and History in the Classroom," in Perspectives (May 2003) and of Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1950 (2004).

ROY ROSENZWEIG, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of numerous books including The Park and the People: A History of Central Park; The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life; Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920; History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment; Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public; and the CD-ROM Who Built America?, which won the James Harvey Robinson Prize of the American Historical Association. He currently serves as Vice President of the American Historical Association.