*** feel free to forward *** The Public History Resource Center, an academic metasite devoted to curating the field of public history as it is practiced online, is currently soliciting reviews for a special section on the history of entertainment. "Entertainment" is used here in a broad sense, to include sites about the history of games, amusement rides, music, comedy, sports, and much more. If you would like to review one of the Web sites below, or if you know of another site that you would like to review, please contact us at [log in to unmask] The reviews should be approximately 1200 words in length and analyze - using a variety of criteria - a historically oriented Web site pertaining to the history of entertainment. PHRC has developed a comprehensive ratings system to aid reviewers in the analysis of a history Web site. 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Sites about entertainment during different time periods: Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/ The 1920s http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/ David Halberstam's The Fifties http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/fifties/ The Psychedelic '60s http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/ Sites about media entertainment: In Black and White http://www.nwlink.com/~dbmeek/ Some Enchanted Evening: American Picture Palaces http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/home.html The Museum of Television and Radio http://www.mtr.org Broadcasting in Chicago, 1921-1989 http://www.mcs.net/~richsam/home.html Cinema Treasures http://www.cinematrasures.org/index.html Inventing Entertainment: Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html History of Blaxploitation http://www.blackvoices.com/feature/blk_history_98/blaxploitation/ History of Atari http://www.atari-history.com History of Video Games http://www.videotopia.com Bellingham Antique Radio Museum http://www.antique-radio.org/ Sites about amusement parks and shows: Defunct Amusement Parks http://www.defunctparks.com/index.htm Barnum Museum http://www.barnum-museum.org Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus http://www.ringling.com/history Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/BUFFALOBILL/home.html The Carousel Organization http://www.carousel.org History of Coney Island http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/ Roller Coasters: Inventing the Scream Machine http://coasters.eb.com/ Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html Sites about sports and activities: Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues http://blackbaseball.com History of Surfing http://www.surfart.com/surf_history/ National Museum of Roller Skating http://www.rollerskatingmuseum.com/ Quilts and Quiltmaking in America http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qlthome.html Roman Board Games http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/roma/rbgames.html Online Guide to Traditional Games http://web.ukonline.co.uk/james.masters/TraditionalGames/index.htm Sites about collectibles and ephemera: Baseball Cards, 1887-1914 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html Posters American Style http://www.nmaa.si.edu/posters/ Bad Fads Museum http://badfads.com/home.html Sites about music: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html Wolverine Antique Music Society http://www.shellac.org/wams/wamsrap.html The Jazz Archive http://www.redhotjazz.com/ The Music House Museum http://www.musichouse.org/ Sites about Humor The Comic Page http://www.dereksantos.com/comicpage/portal.html Dr. Seuss Went to War http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ Comedy-O-Rama http://www.comedyorama.com/index.html The Cartoon Research Library http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/index.htm Miscellaneous entertainment sites: The History of Harley-Davidson (in Russian) http://www.quiknet.com/~bancollc/index.html The Elizabethan Costuming Page http://www.dnaco.net/~aleed/corsets/index.html Anarchy Archives http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/archivehome.html Molly Brown House Museum http://www.mollybrown.com The Lindbergh Case http://www.lindberghtrial.com Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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