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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

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 Bookstore

Argus Login Page

UWF Libraries

UWF Catalog: Advanced Search Page (see also the Combined Catalog of the State University Libraries of Florida)

Course Reserve Desk

e-Journal database

General Writing Resources

MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Guide (see also here)

APA (American Psychological Association) Style Guide (see also here)

Chicago Manual of Style

Turabian Style Guide

AAA (American Anthropological Association) Style Guide

SAA (Society for American Archaeology) Style Guide

Scholarly Abbreviations

Dictionaries, Foreign Languages

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")

Ultimate Cool Characters (comprehensive list of codes for inserting foreign language symbols in documents; also in printable version)

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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.

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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

Library of Congress Map Collection (extensive online imagery)

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)

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

Documents Pertaining to the French Colonial Period at Natchez (an excellent compilation of direct links to online imagery of a wide variety of maps and other original documents relative to French colonial activities along the northern Gulf coast; compiled by Vin Steponaitis at UNC Chapel Hill)

WebLuis (Library User Information Service, State University System of Florida; includes catalog of statewide holdings)

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)

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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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