In recent years there has been an explosion of excellent historical and food-related material put online for researchers to draw upon. Here I’ll list those sites whose quality and value I can vouch for…
Quality History Websites:
• Learning to Do Historical Research (educational website by William Cronon)
• Not Even Past (blog-site by the UT Austin History Department)
• New Books in Science, Technology, & Society
Professional Blogs on History, STS, Food and Whatnot
• Nutrition Bibliography (My dormant wiki on history of food and nutrition lit)
• Historically Corrected (New York Times Opinion Page)
• O say can you see? (National Museum of American History Blog)
• The Salt (NPR’s Food Blog)
• Through the Looking Glass (An STS blog by Alice Bell)
• Edo Ergo Sum (An STSer turned foodie blogs about it… kindred spirit?)
• American Science: A Team Blog (Several excellent junior historians of science blog about it)
• Advances in the History of Psychology Blog (hosted by York University)
• Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog
• Nursing Clio (Team blog by historians of science correcting the record)
• CASTAC (Official Blog for the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing)
• Savage Minds (Group blog by anthropologists reaching out)
• The Center for Genomic Gastronomy (Artist-led think tank taking creative action on food)
• The Maintainers (Stevens Institute of Tech project focusing attention on the people who maintain our modern technological world)
• The American Table (Blog on American culinary history)
• Food Tracks (Blog by a “food futurist” interested in food history and policy)
• The Food Geographer (Food studies enthusiast blogging about food around the world)
Public Use Historical Materials:
• National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons Page
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Relevant Societies, Interest Groups, and other Interesting Fuddy-duddies:
• EnviroTech (A SHOT interest group on environment and tech)
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