Sound, Image, Action.

This article begins with discontinuity. Its review of Web-based historical information discards traditional taxonomies and builds instead on the new capabilities that separate digital publishing from its paper-based predecessor. The article emphasizes dynamic, transformative, and multimedia sources that specialize in images, sound, search-ability, and the conversion of data into visually digestible tabular and spatial forms. The goal is not to make a one-to-one comparison with print resources, or in any way to denigrate them, but to highlight the kind of sources which a generation of historians brought up on Alistair Cooke's Americaand Ken Burns's Civil Warare learning to exploit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]