I note that although there is much garbage on the internet, there are also gems of information and myriad useful sites. If you know of sites and links that would be of interest to students in this course, please notify me. The internet is a huge potential resource, but it must be used with caution.

http://www.thenation.com/issue/960930/0930vida.htm

Gore Vidal ruminates on how the media manipulates opinion and the effect
this has on American history.

http://www.tfy.drugsense.org/warathome.htm

Another Gore Vidal article, this one discussing the erosion of the U.S. Bill of Rights. It was this article which moved Timothy McVeigh to write to Vidal, ultimately striking up a correspondence and later inviting the author to witness his execution.

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~shgape/bibs/immig.html

Historiographical essay on turn-of-the-century immigration.

http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/biblio.html

Bibliography of American imperialism.

http://www.courttv.com/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti/

Glitzy page dealing with the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Famous American trials, including the Salem witch hunt, the Scopes "Monkey" trial,
and the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg case.

http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/links.htm

Online resources dealing with the Great Depression and the New Deal.

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/archivehome.html

Anarchist archive; many good resources here.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/nuclear/e/text/sumiso.htm

The Enola Gay and the Atomic Bomb: the cancelled Smithsonian exhibit.

http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html

Eclectic collection of links relating to the Cold War.

http://www.iww.org/

Home page of the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the Wobblies. Do check out
their history page.

http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/index.html

A special page at the Kent State library dealing with the events of May 4, 1970.

http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/nixon.htm

Audio collection of Richard Nixon's more memorable speeches.

http://www.cruzio.com/~blackops/

Encyclopedia of Conspiracies home page.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/

Text of The Jungle as well as letters and postcards to Upton Sinclair from Jack London.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/histindx.html

The history of Social Security in America.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Political_Opinion/Conspiracy/

Good general starting point.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Political_Opinion/Conspiracy/United_States/

Where to start, where to start...

http://afgen.com/miscella.html

The New World Order exposed.

http://www.mnsinc.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/

Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

Theories about JFK's assassination; claims that all evidence in this case proven to
be forged has come from the conspiracy side.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/People/Presidents/Kennedy__John_F___1917_1963_/Assassination/ Theories/

Many links, including "Elvis Shot JFK", a response to Noam Chomsky, an alleged Nazi
connection and a theory that LBJ was involved.

http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/index.html

Shoots down claims that the moon landings were staged.

http://www.lovearth.org/pathfind/

Pictures from the Mars Pathfinder mission that NASA supposedly doesn't want you to see.

http://www.conspire.com/

A site that keeps tabs on the "conspiracy nation" while still retaining a sense of humour
about the whole thing.

http://www.suck.com/daily/96/07/12/

"But if it's true that the 'paranoiac as hero figure' has disappeared from our view
screens like so much disintegrating tape, perhaps that's because the cultural touchstones
that made that archetype resonant have shifted from 'unsettling suspicions' to 'unsettling
assumptions'."

http://www.conspire.com/curren33.html

Some thoughts on the current trendiness of conspiracy theories.

http://home.stlnet.com/~cdstelzer/mlk.html

Questions surrounding the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.

http://members.aol.com/subseven/tupac.html

Is Tupac Shakur really dead?

http://www.acts17-11.com/conspire.html

Christians and conspiracy theories: a call to repentance. Also check out FAQ (frequently
asked questions) and suggested links and books.

http://www.larouchepub.com/

Lyndon LaRouche's page.

http://www.columbia.edu/~afg5/Review.html

Review of The End of Victory Culture.

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/human_rights_quarterly/17.4renteln.html

A Psychohistorical Analysis of the Japanese American Internment, by Alison Dundes
Renteln, which appeared in the Human Rights Quarterly, 17.4 (1995), pp. 618-648.

http://www2.trincoll.edu/~dcruzuri/anti-catholic/history.html

Links dealing with the history of anti-Catholicism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474911.stm

Proof that conspiracies are not limited to American politics (see bottom of article).

alt.conspiracy.jfk

Usenet newsgroup devoted to the presidential assassination.

alt.conspiracy.area51

Usenet newsgroup devoted to, well, we're not sure...

alt.conspiracy

One of the weirder corners of Usenet.

soc.history.moderated

Usenet newsgroup; has good content due to being moderated to keep the
flakier posts and spam out.

http://cnn.com/HEALTH/AIDS/9909/15/aids.heresies3/index.html

CNN article from September 15, 1999, AIDS heresies: From maverick science
to conspiracy theories.

http://www.snopes.com

The mother of all urban legend pages.

http://ac.acusd.edu/History/documents/mediabookmarks

Schoenherr's bookmarks for mass media history. Lots of great links!

http://censored.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/

Project Censored: Tracking the news that didn't make the news. This annual nationwide
research project was created in 1976 by Dr. Carl Jensen, Professor of Communications
Studies, for a seminar in mass media at Sonoma State University.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

CIA World Fact Book.

http://www.ellisisland.org

Ellis Island, where many immigrants arrived in America.

http://www.totse.com/files/FA007/ciacid.htm

Chapter 1 of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion by Martin A. Lee
and Bruce Shlain (New York, 1985).

http://www.malaran.com/wtc/

Touching photo essay of the changed NYC skyline.

http://www.conspiracy-net.com

A great trove of conspiracies, aliens, JFK, etc.; take time to prowl the archives.

http://kenrahn.com/JFK/JFK.html

The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site, "[u]nderstanding the assassination with principles of evidence, critical thinking, and physical science."

http://www.trueconspiracies.com

Everything for the conspiracy buff: the Illuminati, One World Government, international bankers, and more, including the Jesuits (Public Enemy #1 for a record 400 or so years).

http://matmcveagh.50g.com/tbp/conspiracy/index.htm

Another interesting conspiracy page, describing the creation of a "Prison Planet".

http://www.thesmokinggun.com

The Smoking Gun is world-famous for its exposes of controversial and hidden documents. Watch for this course syllabus to appear there someday.

http://www.disinfo.com

A site claiming to expose the truth behind what the media tells us.

http://www.npr.com

Home page for NPR (National Public Radio, a US equivalent to CBC One). Internet audio feed requires Apple Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or RealAudio (contact the HIST 275 web lackey if you need technical assistance).

http://www.csicop.org/hoaxwatch

The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal tracks hoaxes, "prophecies" and scams in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Next time you get one of those "the sky is falling emails", send your friend(s) to this site and to the Snopes "Rumours of War" page. Also worthwhile (though not as good as Snopes in the web lackey's 'umble opinion) is The Urban Legend Zeitgeist.

http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/conspiracy/index.html

As you might suspect, a compilation of Salon.com articles dealing with conspiracies and paranoia.

http://slate.msn.com/BackStory/98-05-09/Backstory.asp

A 1998 article by David Greenberg discussing political assassinations and conspiracy theories.

http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/01

Secret societies deconstructed in true suck.com style.

http://www.sondheim.com/shows/ass.html

A Steven Sondheim musical about assassins. Really.

http://www.politicalusa.com/specials/traitors.htm

Conservatives take names.

http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/02/12/1.html

More about assassinations.

http://www.danielpipes.org/books/conspiracychap.shtml

Why and how the paranoid style flourishes in America.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,588446,00.htm

A satirical look at American war aims.

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