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" The 1896 presidential election was one of the most exciting and complicated in U.S. history. This website provides an introduction to one aspect of the campaign: the hundreds of political cartoons published in newspapers around the country. Most of these cartoons have been buried in archival microfilms, where students can't reach them. They offer a window into political structures and issues, society, and culture in the United States, just before the turn of the last century." A great resource on the topic.

Nearly nine hundred images taken from 1894 to 1896 by the World's Transportation Commission during that last great experimentation with globalisation. And look how that ended...

Recent article on Empress Taytu Betel, leader of Ethiopian army that defeated an Italy army, 1896. Taytu Betel's husband was Menelik II, and this article credits her with providing the critical leadership in the conflict with Italy.

The National Museum of American History is engaged in a long-term project to create the first publicly accessible, annotated online edition of William Steinway's remarkable diary. This first installment of the Web site includes Edwin M. Good's complete transcription of all 2,500 pages of the Diary alongside high-resolution scans of each handwritten page.