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Maritime History on the Internet


Peter McCracken's regularly featured column in Sea History provides useful information about using the internet for research, tapping into a community brought together by knowledge and interest in maritime topics.

Sea History articles, by topic:
American Civil War [Sea History 108: page 31]

archives "Internet Archive: Finding Lost Things on the Web"
[Sea History 120: page 20]

art, art history [Sea History 114: page 31]

book searches [Sea History 110: page 18]

digital resources: Mystic Seaport's digital resources [Sea History 118: page 36]

directories [Sea History 112: page 19]

discussion lists [Sea History 116: page 18]

E-books [Sea History 117: page 20]

foreign-language resources "Searching the Web in Languages You Don't Speak"
[Sea History 122: page 42]


images "Locating Maritime Images" [Sea History 121: page 26]

USS Monitor (ironclad) [Sea History 108: page 31]

music [Sea History 115: page 30]

navigation [Sea History 109: page 18]

"pathfinders" (academic library) [Sea History 114: page 31]

photoblogs [Sea History 113: page 33]

podcasts [Sea History 113: page 33]

research [Sea History 106: page 35]

sea shanties [Sea History 115: page 30]

search engines [Sea History 112: page 19]

"Web 2.0: The New Internet" (sources offering user-generated content)
[Sea History 119: page 30]

weblogs  [Sea History 113: page 33]

whaling, 18th- and 19th centuries [Sea History 107: page 33]

Peter McCracken is the director of Electronic Content Management and co-founder of Serials Solutions Inc.(www.serialssolutions.com) out of Seattle, Washington. He holds a Master of Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Masters in Maritime History from East Carolina University. McCracken created and maintains the following website:

Index to Ships and Books:
www.shipindex.org


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