In Rod’s own words his site features, “The Amazing Worlds of Archaeology, Anthropology, & Ancient Civilizations – History, Social Studies and More”. Worlds? This website does contains worlds! My mind can barely grasp the universe contained within this one website. Polasky has more valuable links on just one of his index pages than 10 other good websites combined. He must live for this research because it represents thousands of hours of work. He must be fast, too, and a great typist unlike myself. The relevant cross-over between multiple disciplinary fields of study that he presents makes this site indispensable for history, culture, and social studies on virtually, and I’ll say it, any subject! Very few websites impress me as much as this one. Fewer still are as useful, meaningful, and valuable.
Incredible index of NPS experts in every field. Categorized by area of expertise, each historian’s specialty is listed with their contact Email address. Read the rules a the top of the page first! Rule Number 1 is to contact only one historian at a time per subject. Wait until you hear back before contacting another on the same subject otherwise they’ll be doing the same research and you’ll be wasting someone’s valuable time. I’ve used this site to do research on the miner who filed a 1902 claim on a silver mine at the Western edge of the Galiuro Wilderness. I own part of that remote land now and wanted to discover who the heck that crazy loner was. Dr. Robert L. Spude of the Cultural Resources and National Register Program at the NPS Intermountain Support Office in Santa Fe, N.M. was very helpful and pointed me in the right direction. What a resource if you love history!
Search page for the Historic Register. Yavapai County has 130 registered historic places and Coconino County has 147. Sedona lies partly within both counties and has only 5 or 6 registered places, some of which are archaeological sites.
Catherine Lavender’s incredible Western-everything website. Her pages are organized into categories of Texts, Images, Resources, and Links. Many website judging authorities such as World Best Website and educational award sites like Cool School Media and The Educational Source sponsored by Looksmart have deemed West Web as a top award-winning site. One visit and you’ll definitely know why. Not to be missed: her “Hand-Picked” sites that reveal her personal choices for outstanding resource websites.
