Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas, http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/index/cultural.html. Created and maintained by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania. Reviewed Feb. 1-4, 2009

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The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews appear both in the printed journal (and its online companion at http://www.historycooperative.org) and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand Web sites for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the best Web sites and to summarize their strengths and weaknesses with particular attention to their utility for teachers. The Web reviews are edited by Kelly Schrum; please contact her at kschrum@gmu.edu if you would like to suggest a site for review or write a review. We also welcome comments on our review guidelines, which are available at http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/submit/websitereviews.html. This Web site is based on two 1997–1998 exhibitions of rare printed books and manuscripts held...