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Selected Archaeology, Anthropology, and History Links

 

General Student Links /  Journals / Archives / Organizations / Miscellaneous

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General Student Links

UWF Anthropology & affiliated academic programs

UWF Department of Anthropology

Anthropology undergraduate courses (ANT)

Anthropology graduate courses (ANG)

UWF Department of History

UWF Maritime Studies Program

University of West Florida

Campus Map

Current UWF academic calendar

Current UWF catalog / UWF Current Course Offering Search

Full UWF course listings and descriptions

UWF Grading System

Student Code of Conduct (.pdf)

Academic Misconduct Code

UWF Writing Lab

UWF Student Learning Center

UWF Financial Aid Office

UWF Advising Center

UWF Bookstore

Argus Login Page

UWF Libraries

UWF Libraries Main Page

UWF Library Catalog: Advanced Search Page (see also the Combined Catalog of the State University Libraries of Florida and WebLuis (Library User Information Service for the State University System of Florida)

Course Reserve Desk

e-Journal database

Style Guides

AAA (American Anthropological Association) Style Guide

SAA (Society for American Archaeology) Style Guide

SHA (Society for Historical Archaeology) Style Guide

Turabian Style Guide (overview at the University of Georgia libraries)

Dictionaries, General Writing Resources

Oxford English Dictionary (English-English)

Real Academia Espanola (Spanish-Spanish; use top search box on the right)

SpanishDict.com (Spanish-English/English-Spanish)

Nuevo Tesoro Lexografico de la Lengua Espanola (historical Spanish dictionaries, including the early 18th-century Diccionario de Autoridades; click search button at top left, then enter search term in box entitled "Lema")

Scholarly Abbreviations (definitions for Latin abbreviations used in scholarly writing)

Ultimate Cool Characters (comprehensive list of codes for inserting foreign language symbols in documents, or see below)

Spanish Character Codes (my own printable short-list of common colonial Spanish character codes)

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Online Journals

JSTOR Journals

JSTOR Advanced Search

American Antiquity

Ethnohistory

American Anthropologist

Current Anthropology

American Historical Review

William and Mary Quarterly

Journal of Southern History

Other online journals with all or mostly free access

The Florida Anthropologist / Advanced Search

Florida Historical Quarterly (main page) / Browse FHQ / Search FHQ

Historical Archaeology

Current Anthropology (current issues)

Tequesta (Historical Association of Southern Florida)

Portal de Revistas Cientificas Complutenses (online Spanish journals of science and humanities, fully searchable; based in Madrid)

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Archives and Libraries

Please note that I have developed detailed instructions for first-time users of several of the most important Spanish archival websites (with indices of primary sources and online document imagery), which can be found on my Primer on Using Online Colonial Spanish Archival Sites. I will continue to add to this site as new online archival sites become available.

Spanish Colonial Archival Repositories

Portal de Archivos Espanoles (inventory and search engine, including extensive digitalized document imagery from the Archivo General de Indias and many other Spanish archives; see the appropriate section of my Primer on Using Online Colonial Spanish Archival Sites for detailed instructions on how to utilize this important website)

Bancroft Library Guide to the Archivo General de Indias (well-organized finding aid to AGI materials in the Bancroft collections, with brief text descriptions of each document in their holdings)

Biblioteca Nacional: Inventario General de Manuscritos (complete listing of manuscript collections in PDF format)

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (searchable image database from the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, with several Florida maps)

Archivo General Militar de Madrid (descriptive listing of documentation available at what is also commonly cited as the Servicio Historico Militar; includes extensive colonial map collections; no online images are available)

Institucion Colombina (web page, including searchable catalog, for the various libraries and archives associated with the Archbishopric of Seville, and the Cathedral of Seville; includes the surviving original library of Christopher Columbus and his son Fernando)

Archivo General de la Nacion (main page of the Mexico City archive, which includes a fully searchable Guide to holdings; see the appropriate section of my Primer on Using Online Colonial Spanish Archival Sites for detailed instructions on how to utilize this important website).

Archivo Nacional de la Republica de Cuba (main page of the Havana archive, with only general text inventories of holdings; see 5-page Guide describing date range and contents each archival section relative to the colonial period)

Archivo General de Centro América (main page of the archive in Guatemala, with only general information on holdings)

Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies, Vanderbilt Univ. (extensive digital imagery of original ecclesiastical documents in Cuba)

P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History (includes searchable calendar of holdings for the East Florida Papers and Papeles de Cuba)

Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, UWF (main page, which includes a Guide to holdings)

Maps and Land Records

Florida General Land Office Records (digital imagery of early Florida land plats and field notes, searchable by Township and Range)

Spanish Land Grants in Florida (digitized records relative to early land grants in Florida, from the State Archives of Florida)

Florida Map Collections (large database of map images from the Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida)

Historic Maps of Florida (high-resolution digital images of many historical maps from Florida and elsewhere; part of the David Rumsey Map Collection, soon to be housed at Stanford University)

Old Florida Maps (a nice selection of historic Florida map images, grouped chronologically; hosted by the University of Miami Libraries)

Historic Florida Maps (a chronologically-ordered selection of Florida maps from a website for social studies teachers)

Aerial Photography Florida (online digital imagery of historic USDA aerial photos dating as early as the 1930s; hosted by UF's Smathers Libraries; also see GIS interface)

Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, Univ. of Georgia (extensive online imagery)

Library of Congress Map Collections (extensive online imagery, hosted at the American Memory site)

Archival Materials (an excellent and extensive collection of digitized maps and texts from the colonial Southeast, maintained by Vin Steponaitis at UNC Chapel Hill; contains Early Maps of the American South, including the complete Crown Collection of Photographs of American Maps).

Selections from the d'Anville Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale (good selection of online French colonial map imagery, linked from the Library of Congress, Global Gateway)

Inventory of the Louis Charles Karpinski Collection (a detailed inventory of an extensive colonial map collection dating from 1500-1799; the original map copies from diverse archives are located in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California)

Miscellaneous

American Memory (the searchable Library of Congress website with a range of historical resources)

Archivos Digitales (a great listing of online digital archival collections in many languages; hosted by the Spanish-language site Archivistica.net)

Early Americas Digital Archive: Web Gateway (an excellent selection of online texts from a variety of different sources)

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement (a collection of online translations and transcriptions, sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society; includes some Florida sources, many from older translations)

University of Florida Digital Collections (links to a variety of online digital archival material)

PALMM (main page of the "Publication of Archival Library and Museum Materials" site for Florida libraries, including a wide variety of sources from historical texts and maps to mid-20th-century aerial photo series)

LABINS (Land Boundary Information System for the state of Florida; includes digital USGS topographic maps for the entire state; also see map interface)

National Geodetic Survey Datasheet Page (search engines leading to detailed elevation information for tidal and terrestrial benchmarks, searchable by latitude/longitude, USGS quad sheet, PID number, and by map interface)

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Organizations / Institutions

Pensacola Area

UWF Anthropology Department

UWF Archaeology Institute

West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc.

Florida

Florida Anthropological Society

Florida Public Archaeology Network  (for students, here are driving directions from the University of West Florida campus, from Google Maps)

Florida Archaeological Council

Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research / Staff Contact List

Florida Historical Society

Florida State Archives

Florida Humanities Council

Alabama

Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama

Alabama Archaeological Society

Alabama Historical Commission

Alabama Department of Archives and History

Georgia

Society for Georgia Archaeology

Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists

Georgia Archaeological Site Files

Georgia Historic Preservation Division

LAMAR Institute

Regional / National

Southeast Archaeological Center

Southeastern Archaeological Conference

Society for Historical Archaeology

Society for American Archaeology

Register of Professional Archaeologists

Archaeological Conservancy

American Anthropological Association

University Presses

University of Alabama Press

University Press of Florida

University of Georgia Press

Louisiana State University Press

University Press  of Mississippi

University of Nebraska Press

University of North Carolina Press

University of Tennessee Press

University of Texas Press

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Miscellaneous Links

Ecclesiastical Calendar Calulator (reliable site to calculate historical dates for Easter, as well as a table showing the related dates for other important Catholic feast days, which were commonly used instead of numerical dates in historical texts from the Spanish colonial era)

Patron Saints Index (comprehensive and easily-navigated site with information on Roman Catholic saints, whose feast days were commonly used instead of numerical dates in historical texts from the Spanish colonial era)

La legislación colonial española de Indias (good site in Spanish with historical details regarding legislation in the New World, including the full facsimile text of the Recopilacion de Leyes de los Reynos de las Indias de 1680)

ExploreSeville.com (excellent site in English detailing many facets of life in Seville, from hotels and food to sightseeing and festivals)

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