Jeff Nichols' Home Page
Welcome. I'm Jeffrey Nichols, associate professor of history at Westminster
College in Salt Lake City. My research interests include the nineteenth
century American West,
Links
Phi - Eta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at
Westminster College
Check out our weblog!
http://westminsterphieta.blogspot.com/
Fall 2011:
Environmental History of the United States (History 320)
Colonial Latin America (History 340)
There are a number of excellent research and writing
sites on the web. Here's some of the best:
Making
Sense of Evidence at the History Matters website
Reading,
Writing, and Researching for History by Patrick Rael at Bowdoin College
The website of Prof.
Richard Slatta, North Carolina State University
Many thousands of primary sources have been digitized and
are available with a few keystrokes. Try these sites:
Repositories
of Primary Sources
Librarians'
Index to the Internet
General Westminster information:
Westminster College Home Page
Resources for Western and Utah History:
WestWeb
This page was developed and maintained by Catherine Lavender
of the
College of New York. It contains wonderful information
and links on many aspects of western history.
H-WEST
This is the home page of H-WEST, the western history discussion
list maintained by H-NET (see below).
You can search this site for academic discussions of
thousands of issues in the historical and present-day
West.
The High Country News
The News is based in
Utah History Research
Center
This page allows you to search the
Resources for general U.S. History:
H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
This site provides entry to the many lists and resources
of H-NET. Here you can read discussions by
hundreds of academics about nearly every aspect of history,
and links to tons of resources.
The Library of Congress Catalog
This site gives entry to the nation's official library,
where you can find bibliographic references to
virtually every book ever published.
Today in History
This is the Library of Congress's site for important events
that happened on any given day. You can also
access many of the Library's magnificent archives of primary
documents, photographs, and maps.
Statistical
Abstract of the United States
The Abstract gives answers to any number of demographic
questions about the
percentage of Asian-born persons living in
Historical United States
Census Data Browser
An easy way to find historical statistics about the
Browse these interesting sites to find the wealth of historical information available online. History, like the WWW, is always evolving, changing, open to interpretation and analysis . . . Let us hear from you!
For my stuff, see: Prostitution, Polygamy,
and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918 (
““These Waters Were
All Virgin”: Finis Mitchell and Wind
River Wilderness,” chapter in Preserving Western
History, ed. Andrew Gulliford (
Archive of Phi Alpha Theta Newsletters
And check out our "War Room" blog at:
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at jnichols@westminstercollege.edu