Stuff for Starving Students

Since I am a history major I am always on the lookout for cool (read: nerdy) history sites.

Two of my favorite places to go for video and photos are the Internet Archive and Shorpy’s Blog, respectively. These two sites are chock-full of videos and photos from 20th Century America.

To start off, the Internet Archive. With over 150,000 “moving images” (as the I.A. so calls them) it is great place to search around and find old film clips and moving images of just about anything. For you ladies out there that are interested in becoming secretaries this video will be sure to help!

But seriously the Internet Archive is a treasure trove of video, photos, and audio. Whether you want a good laugh or need some primary sources to help you understand the past, Internet Archive is a good resource.

Next on the list is Shorpy.com. Shorpy’s Blog has hundreds of high-resolution images from the Civil War era to the 1950s. I’ve used photos for many presentations and I’ve even printed out some photos and hung them up in my room (did I mention I was a history nerd?). All of these photos can be freely used and there are images from such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Mathew Brady. I can’t emphasize how high-resolution these images are, they beat anything you can find on google.

So next time try the train…err or Shorpy.com

Hope this is helpful for you history buffs and nerds out there. Great resources for free, now thats my kind of stuff.