Founded in 1979 by a group of environmental archaeologists at the University of London, the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) was established to provide a way for the diverse set of persons working across the discipline to communicate research findings and to develop a broad range of networks. Interested visitors to the site will want to learn about the AEA’s mission, their...

From the University of Iowa Libraries comes The Atlas of Early Printing, an interactive map and timeline that illustrates the rise of the printing press in fifteenth century Europe. Users are invited to manipulate the timeline in order to explore how printing and institutions related to printing (such as universities and paper mills) spread across geography and time. Visitors can learn more about...

For visitors with an interest in urbanology, city planning, and the growth and transformation of the Cleveland region, this trove from the Cleveland Public Library is quite a find. It contains over 110 maps, plans, and aerial photos that document the urban area from the early 20th century to the present day. On the homepage, visitors can learn more about the collection and view sample images, such...

How did the atomic age start? It's a very good question and this digital exhibit from the Oregon State Universities Libraries Special Collection offers some wonderful archival material that tells part of this story. The materials here are divided into 17 different sections, including The Manhattan Project, Civil Defense, and Nuclear Engineering. Each of these sections includes various ephemera...

Located in Amsterdam, the Atria Institute on Gender Equality and Women's History describes itself as "a national knowledge institute [that] collects, manages and shares the heritage of women and, on the basis of research and facts, promotes equal treatment of women and men in all diversity." Here, readers can explore highlights from Atria's extensive collections, many of which stem from the...

Augustine H. Folsom owned a carpet factory in late 19th century Boston and he was also a professional photographer. He took hundreds of shots of Boston Public Schools along with many shots of various school activities and his own Roxbury neighborhood. This collection from the Boston Public Library brings together 662 of his photos. Over a 30 year period he documented Boston Latin, Boston English,...

Starting with its rather lyrical title, visitors to this particular National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary website will be taken on a breezy and visually stimulating tour of some of the sites that document America’s aviation history. All told, the site provides information about over 100 sites, including airfields, research and testing facilities, and launch and control facilities....

The tagline for the Bata Shoe Museum is "For the Curious". It's an appropriate motto, as this provocative museum in Toronto contains over 10,000 shoes within its prodigious holdings. The museum opened in 1995, and visitors to this site can traipse through sections such as "Exhibitions" and "Collections" to learn more about their interpretive mission and their thematic areas. Most visitors will...

Founded in 1970, the Baylor University Institute for Oral History has been collecting interviews ever since. To date, the Institute has collected more than 5,800 interview transcripts, 3,500 of which are available for free online to anyone who might like to view them. In addition, the Institute began to upload audio files of interviews in 2013. The collection is easily browsable and may be...

Produced by the BBC, The Secret History of Our Streets is a touching chronicle of Great Britain, as told through the lens of the changing landscapes of its cities and towns. Over the course of nine episodes and two seasons, the filmmakers draw out themes of class and gender, changing values, two world wars, and the rise and fall of an empire. On the site, viewers may peruse short clips from each...