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Web Site Review


Roy Rosenzweig
Contributing Editor

The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web <http://historymatters.gmu.edu>, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews will appear both in the printed journal (and its online companion at <http://www.historycooperative.org>) and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than eight hundred Web sites for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the best Web sites and to summarize their strengths and weaknesses with particular attention to their utility for teachers.
      The Web reviews are edited by Roy Rosenzweig; please contact him at <roy@gmu.edu> if you would like to suggest a site for review or write a review. We also welcome comments on our review guidelines, which are available at <http://chnm.gmu.edu/jah/>.


Digital Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639–1800) (access by subscription). Readex, a Division of Newsbank, Inc. <http://www.readex.com>. Reviewed Jan. 24, 2005, to March 31, 2005.
The online Evans digital collection, part of Readex's Archive of Americana, consists of more than 2.3 million page images of microform copies of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides—every known American imprint prior to 1800, as listed in Charles Evans's American Bibliography (14 vols., 1903–1959). The online Evans series includes neither books by American authors printed overseas nor overseas imprints popular in America, so it is not a complete body of what early Americans read, but it does contain a large portion of it. An optical character recognition (OCR) engine has been used to scan the microforms and translate the page images into ASCII text. The OCR engine provides the main feature of the collection, the ability to perform full-text searches on the complete corpus. The collection is expensive, costing initially somewhere between $20,000 and $100,000 depending on the size of the sub scribing institution, with an annual maintenance fee of $2,000. . . .
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