Lagniappe

13 June 2014

Lagniappe. The term means "a little gift," or "a little something extra"—its contents unpredictable but delightful. Today, EE's lagniappe is a halfdozen of our own favorite sites whose riches may help you in your research.

• Biographical Database of Australia (http://www.bda-online.org.au/)
• International Institute of Social History (http://socialhistory.org/en/collections/documentation)
• Internet Library of Early Journals: A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
• Library of Congress, Colonial and Early America, multimedia resources & teaching materials (http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/colonial-america/exhibitions.html)
• U.S. Army, Center of Military History (http://www.history.army.mil/)
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/search-collections?gnis)

IMAGE SOURCE: W. L. Williams, "Plymouth in 1622" (Plymouth, Mass.: A. S. Burbank, [c1901?], Reproduction number LC-USZC4-4992; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington; imaged online at Library of Congress, Colonial and Early America (http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/colonial-america/exhibitions.html : downloaded 30 May 2014).