Table of Contents:
  • A Brief History of the Internet
  • What Is the Internet: When and How Did It Emerge?
  • From Text to Graphics: The Internet Goes Multimedia
  • Knowledge as Hypertext: Text, Images, and Sound
  • Connecting to the Net: Modems, T-1/T-3 lines, and ISDN, Cable Modem, and DSL
  • Summary of Internet History
  • Browser Basics for Surfing the Net
  • Using Your Browser: The Basics
  • Making the Browser a Practical Utility
  • Adding to the Power of Your Browser
  • Knowledge as Hypertext and Interactive Learning
  • The Web as Hypertext
  • The Web as an Interactive Learning Space
  • History and the World Wide Web
  • The Web as Historical Archives
  • Historical Inquiry on the Web
  • The Web and Historical Simulation
  • Multimedia Sources on the Internet
  • Historical Discussion and Collaboration on the Internet
  • E-Mail and Discussion Lists as Learning Tools
  • Electronic Mail
  • Electronic Discussions
  • H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
  • Search Engines and Evaluating Web Sites
  • Search Engines
  • Evaluating Web Sites
  • Student Papers--Putting History Online
  • Student Uses of the Net
  • This Day in History
  • Primary Text Sources
  • The Sounds of the Past
  • Visual Sources
  • Possibilities for Multimedia History
  • Constructing Web Sites
  • Creating Online History
  • Multimedia History: Sights, Sounds, and CD-ROMs
  • CD-ROMs and History
  • CD-ROMs for Text Storage and Retrieval
  • The American Civil War and CD-ROMs
  • History Textbooks and More on CD-ROM
  • Documents, Images, Sounds, and Interpretation.