The Journal for
MultiMedia History


Volume 1 Number 1 ~ Fall 1998

[Still in production. Estimated completion date: November 8, 1998]


Editors' Introduction

Feature Articles

The 1939 Dairy Farmers Union Milk Strike in Heuvelton and Canton, New York
Thomas J. Kriger, Associate Director of Research, United University Professions

American Women and the Making of Modern Consumer Culture
Kathy Peiss, Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Message from the Wilderness of North America: Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, c. 1960
Claude A. Clegg, III, Department of History, Indiana University at Bloomington

Student-Constructed Websites for Research Projects: Is It Worth It?
Adrienne Hood, Department of History, and Jackie Spafford, History of Art Department, University of Toronto

Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology
Corinne Blake, Department of History, Rowan University

Reviews

CD-ROM/DVD

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)
Reviewed by Joel D. Kitchens, Social Science Reference Librarian, Texas A&M University

Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914
Reviewed by Andrew Darien, Department of History, New York University

The American Civil War, 1861-1865
Reviewed by James Marten, Department of History, Marquette University

Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina
Reviewed by Dean R. Snow, Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University

StarSites: Celestial Navigation
Reviewed by Corinna Snyder, Anthropologist, Wiley Technologies

The First World War and Its Consequences
Reviewed by Stanislao G. Pugliese, Department of History, Hofstra University

To Save a Life: Stories of Jewish Rescue
Reviewed by Neal Robert McCrillis, Center of International Education, Columbus State University

Web Sites

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Reviewed by Paul Harvey, Department of History, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

The Seneca Village Website
Reviewed by Ellen Noonan, NYU Libraries, New York University

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Reviewed by Rondall R. Rice, United States Air Force Academy

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Reviewed by Ann M. Nicgorski, Art Department, Willamette University

Film and Video

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Reviewed by Kristen D. Robinson, Department of History, University of Kentucky

Immigration: Promise and Hope for Generations
Reviewed by Scott H. Tang, History Department, University of California at Berkeley

Romeo and Juliet in Sarejevo
Reviewed by Linda Kelly Alkana, Department of History, California State University, Long Beach

Eastern Europe, 1939-1953
Reviewed by Jacqueline M. Olich, History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Red Empire
Reviewed by John McCannon, History Department, and Pamela Jordan, Department of Political Science, Norwich University

Links to Noteworthy WWW Sites

American Memory: Library of Congress collections and exhibits. The Library of Congress' extensive�and ever-growing�collection of on-line photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present. An on-line exhibit based on an actual physical installation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (NMAH).
Cyber Exhibit on the Enola Gay and the Atomic Bomb: The Smithsonian exhibit that never was. Japanese NHK-TV's on-line version of the cancelled controversial 1995 exhibit�originally scheduled to open at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the spring of 1995.
Making of America (MOA). A digital library of primary sources related to U.S. social history published between 1850 and 1877. A collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
The New Deal Network. The New Deal Network (NDN) is a rich history database of photographs, political cartoons, speeches, letters,