Amazon.com, Seattle WA

Hua Wei Industrial Park, Shenzhen

Chet Pete, Bangalore

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowledge economies

Silicon Valley Archives (Stanford University). The world's greatest repository of materials related to the history and development of Silicon Valley. Also see Silicon Genesis, an oral history of the semiconductor industry, including interviews with early leaders of Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, and more.

OECD Guide to Measuring the Information Society. Data and standards for measuring growth of internet and related technologies worldwide, and their social impact.

Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Academies. Access to full text of major reports relating to innovation and technology-driven economies in the US and abroad.

Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Why increased public investment in higher education and research is absolutely essential.

 

Global cities

Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. Research and commentary on land use, regional governance, transportation, education, and housing in American cities and suburbs.

Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC). A core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme of Global Environmental Change, featuring original research and resources on urbanization and environmental indicators worldwide.

Globalization and World Cities (Loughborough University, UK). Interdisciplinary web resource featuring research briefs and other publications, data sets on world cities, and original research projects.

Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. Research institute devoted to metropolitan growth and governance in the US and elsewhere.

European Urban Knowledge Network. Fifteen EU member countries participate in this collaborative forum for research and practice.

Urban Age. Independent research institute addressing urban sustainability in the world's megacities.

Robert Moses and the Modern City. Online accompaniment to 2007 exhibition about greater New York City's master builder at the Queens Museum.

 
Politics and policy

Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) Program. Research initiative based at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Includes links to public lectures, syllabi, publications about American political development and world affairs.

American President. Also based at the Miller Center, contains refereed online resources on American Presidents and the Presidency, from the founding to the present.

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004. Online exhibition from the American Museum of the Moving Image.

History News Network (HNN). Putting today's headlines in a historical context, featuring articles and other commentary by leading political historians.

 

Teaching and writing history

History Matters (George Washington University). The most comprehensive compilation of primary documents, reviewed and annotated websites, and tools for teaching American History.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Robust website includes online exhibitions of digitized primary source materials, links to other online resources for historians, bibliographies, and tools for teaching college-level and K-12 history.

Exploring the West (Stanford's Bill Lane Center). Online curriculum designed for high school teachers and students of the North American West, containing modules on urban growth, maps, cowboys, and more.

How to Give a Lecture. The prize-winning Stanford historian David M. Kennedy explains how it's done.

H-Urban Teaching Center. Syllabi, primary resources, and other tools for teaching about cities and suburbs.

Directory of History Journals. Database of scholarly journals of history, compiled by the American Historical Association.

AHR Conversation on Transnational History. Roundtable discussion from December 2006 featuring six leading historians addressing the opportunities presented by transnational approaches. PROPRIETARY DATABASE, REQUIRES UNIVERSITY ID.

Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History, by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin, American Historical Review 108:2 (April 2003). Outlines a new approach to business history that incorporates and helps explain the origins of the knowledge economy. PROPRIETARY DATABASE, REQUIRES UNIVERSITY ID.

Resources for Graduate Students. Links to advice on grant writing, the job market, and more from University of Iowa historian Jennifer Sessions.