These projects are the work of students from HSTY3080 American History on the World Wide Web II, the second part of a two semester Honours seminar taught by Dr. Stephen Robertson, in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, in 2002.

The project required students to create an on-line hypertext centred on primary sources relating to a topic in American history of their choice. They had to provide contexts for the sources that they chose, and to develop a design that made use of the unique character of hypertext, and of links in particular, to promote understanding and interpretation of that material. A site currently being developed by Stephen Robertson, centred on The Social Evil in Chicago, an early twentieth century investigation of prostitution, provided an example for the students.

• More on the course, American History on the World Wide Web
  • HSTY3079: American History on the World Wide Web 1
    the first part of the course, focused on hypertext, and on developing an approach to analyzing historical sites on the internet
  • HSTY3080: American History on the World Wide Web 2
    the second part of the course, devoted to doing history in hypertext

• More on the projects: Stephen Robertson, "Doing History in Hypertext," Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7, 2(August 2004)

• More on the teacher, Stephen Robertson

Sam Indyk

Ilse Scheepers

Alison Leung

Robert F. Kennedy's Frozen Legacy

Amelia Toy

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Elizabeth Shute