This site is one of the first ten or so that I ran into while searching, and I thought I'd blog on it because in some ways it is pretty credible while in others it is lacking.
First count for credibility: at the very top of the page, it lists the title - "Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights" - and the author, Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D.
It is made clear that she is a professor because after the brief introduction/overview of the site's material, there are tons of links to 'course material'; these links take you to even more information and links for syllabi, recommended readings, etc.
Followed by this, there are several links to recent publications/presentations of Linda's dating from 2007 all the way back until 1999. These links lead you to PDF files that you can download. I skimmed a few of the articles; they are, as you could assume, scholarly in nature and very well-cited.
There is no physical address for Linda listed on the website, but she does have a link to her email address, and a quick Google search (plus following the URL of the Holocaust information website) tells you that she is a professor of Psychology at Webster University which has campuses all over the world.
So, while the site doesn't have a visible publication or 'last revised' date, I would assume she updates it fairly regularly. Although, as I mentioned before, the most current publication posted to the site is from 2007.. makes you wonder.
Ugh. I just can't look at this site anymore, you guys. It's so cluttered! Messy! It's so..mid to late-1990's!
While not all of Linda's credentials are listed on this site, I would trust the information (even though it's so hideous. Bleck).
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/holocaust.html
1 comment:
I took a look at the website and I agree, it is messy. i think that the creator could do a better job of organizing the information and verifying some of her links. Some of the pages could not be found and some you need user information to access them at all. Despite her credibility, I would not refer to this site for information because it is not organized in such a way that shows respect for that time in the world's history.
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