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America on the Move
This site describes how transportation has effected and affected American history.American and British History Resources on the Internet
Librarians from Rutgers University Libraries have created links to scholarly Internet resources about American and British history. The authors' credits are listed at the bottom of the page.The American Civil War Homepage
George Hoemann, a lecturer for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, has compiled links to resources about the American Civil War (1861-1865).American Experience Online
"American Experience Online premiered in November of 1995 and has since won accolades from viewers and critics alike. To date, American Experience Online has produced over 60 feature sites. These sites complement the viewing experience by encouraging in-depth exploration of the issues surrounding each documentary subject beyond the television screen. American Experience Online has been recognized by a number of online and print publications including Yahoo, USA Today Online, Broadcasting and Cable and TV Guide." It is sponsored by PBS and has more than sixty sites in its archives.The American Historical Review
The American Historical Association publishes this periodical. The table of contents for this journal and abstracts for some articles are available at this site.American Journeys-Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center
" Documents were selected to provide a wide range of geographical, cultural, and chronological information about the exploration of North America by Europeans and, later, Americans. Roughly equal numbers of pages are devoted to each of six regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, Southwest and California, and Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. Culturally, works by Spanish, French and English writers necessarily predominate but Russian, Dutch, German, Italian, and Native American authors are also well represented (the last usually embedded within documents produced by whites). In general, the earliest eyewitness accounts from each geographic region were selected, along with others that have become "classic" through widespread quotation or republication. An editorial advisory committee of scholars and librarians across the nation have helped to select texts included in this project."American Memory
The Library of Congress National Digital Library has created this resource offering links to primary and archival materials relating to American culture and history. Use the Collection Finder to locate information categorized by topic.American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
"American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites." This site is part of the American Memory collection from the Library of Congress.American Social Hygiene Posters
This collection, from the University of Minnesota, includes digitized images of social hygiene posters from throughout Twentieth Century America.
American Studies at the University of Virginia
The American Studies Department at the University of Virginia has created this comprehensive Web site that includes links related to ethnicity, gender, literature, philosophy, religion, popular culture, regional studies, social sciences and science and technology. Highlights of the site include an online museum, hypertext resources, cultural maps, an online tour of Washington DC, links to electronic courses in American Studies and a variety of student full-text projects.American Treasures of the Library of Congress
"The American Treasures of the Library of Congress exhibition is an unprecedented permanent exhibition of the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past, drawn from every corner of the world's largest library. On display in the Jefferson Building Treasures Gallery in Washington, D.C., the American Treasures exhibition presents more than 250 items arranged in the manner of Thomas Jefferson's own library, the seed from which the present collections grew: Memory (History); Reason (Philosophy, including Law, Science and Geography); and Imagination (Fine Arts, including Architecture, Music, Literature and Sports)."Antietam on the Web
"AoW attempts a comprehensive presentation of the American Civil War battle at Antietam. It is maintianed by an amateur historian who is very thorough in his representation of the sources he uses to learn about the battle. Both primary and secondary sources for information are documented in the content."
Archives of the West
This PBS site includes "a selection of the memoirs, journals, letters, reports and images that went into the making of THE WEST."Atlantic Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
"Drawing on the holdings of the New York Public Library (in particular the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection), and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this online exhibit is devoted to offering a number of
historically significant maps of the Mid-Atlantic region up to 1850" (as described by the Internet Scout Report, January 24, 2003).The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
This "is a bilingual, multi-format English-Dutch digital library that tells the story of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World War II period.The collection is intended for use by students, scholars, and researchers worldwide. The goal of the project, which is part of the Library's Global Gateway initiative, is to digitize and present important collections of books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials that relate to the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands over the last four centuries. The initial focus of materials is the colonization and settlement of New Netherland up to 1664."
The Avalon Project
Fray and Spar, librarians at the Yale University Library, CO-direct this project which links to digital documents related to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.Best of History Web Sites: United States History
"The bulk of the research for this site has been done by Thomas Daccord (B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Universite de Montreal), history teacher and instructional technology consultant at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts."Briefing Books
"National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books provide online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more."Brown v. Board of Education Online
"This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present. The archive is divided into four main areas of interest: Supreme Court cases; busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas; school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District; and recent resegregation trends in American schools." The University of Michigan hosts this site.Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Web Pages
These pages provide a wealth of information about Mayflower history and genealogy. Click on About the Author to read about the author's credentials.California Heritage Collection
"The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley."The Calvin Shedd Papers: The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier
"The Archives and Special Collections Department at the University of Miami Library houses a series of remarkable letters written by Calvin Shedd, a carpenter from New Hampshire, who enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers and served the Union Army during the Civil War from 1862 - 1863. In these letters to his wife and three young daughters, Shedd recorded the debilitating physical hardships, the incredible tedium and the ever-present dangers of military life in Key West, Fort Jefferson and St. Augustine, Florida. Shedd wrote these fifty-three letters with great love, painstaking attention to detail, and a calm, reassuring hand. These documents convey the extraordinary circumstances that life in the Union Army offered one New Hampshire solider during the early years of the Civil War. Calvin Shedd has left us a lengthy commentary on a soldier's life in a sub-tropical military camp, with observations on the political and social implications of military decisions, and thoughtful discourses on the people, terrain, animals, fruits, climate, culture and the vagaries of life in the southernmost regions of Florida."Campfire Stories with George Catlin
"In the 1830s, George Catlin (17961872) packed his paintbrushes and trekked through remote Indian country in the Great Plains. Committed to documenting traditional Native culture, he visited more than 140 tribes and painted in excess of 325 portraits and 200 scenes of American Indian life. Catlin's prolific works, both his art and his writings, illustrate Indian cultures on the precipice of radical changechange that would come with U.S. expansion into tribal territories. This Website presents and interprets hundreds of Catlin's artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection. Text resources include Catlin's primary source documentsa handwritten sketchbook and his 1841 publication Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians."
Center for American History: Exhibits
Several online exhibits relating to Texas history are available at this site affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin Library Online.The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
"The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives special treatment as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States. Also included is documentation of smaller Chinese communities throughout California, as well as material reflecting on the experiences of individuals. Although necessarily selective, such a large body of materials presents a full spectrum of representation and opinion. The materials in this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley; and The California Historical Society, San Francisco."
A Chronology of US Historical Documents
This site is maintained by the University of Oklahoma College of Law. It includes digitized copies of historical documents from United States history sorted by time period.Churchhill and the Great Republic
" This exhibition preview examines the life and career of Winston Spencer Churchill and emphasizes his lifelong links with the United States--the nation he called 'the great Republic.'"
Civil War Resources on the Internet
Librarians from Rutgers University Libraries have created links to scholarly Internet resources. Links are provided to maps, full-text documents, diaries, letters, newspaper articles, military histories, and online bibliographies.Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS)
This National Park Service searchable database site includes basic facts about soldiers serving on both sides of the Civil War, regimental information and battles.Classics of American Colonial History
This site is a selection of scholarly works on colonial America. It is a growing list with a goal of adding four documents from the public domain every two weeks.Coffin Nails: The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century
"This websites title'Coffin Nails'comes from a nineteenth century slang term for cigarettes; it was featured on April 4, 1896 in a full-page advertisement for a tobacco-addiction 'cure.' As a public service, HarpWeek has compiled this 50-plus year history of tobacco controversy and criticism as shown in the editorials, articles, news briefs, cartoons, illustrations, poetry, and advertisements of Harpers Weekly. The items are augmented with historical commentary by HarpWeek historian Dr. Robert C. Kennedy."The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000
"The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 (CITY2000) includes half a million photographs created in the year 2000 with the support of the not-for-profit Comer Foundation. They document every feature of a vibrant metropolis through its millennial year. More than 200 photographers recorded the people of Chicago in every feature of their public and social lives as well as the buildings and landscape they occupied."The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
"This archive enables students and other researchers to use primary documents in their study of political, economic, social, religious, racial and gender issues from the Jacksonian Era to the Gilded Age."Current Cites
This is a service of the Berkeley Digital library SunSITE. In this site "[a] team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for a free publication. The resulting issue of 10-15 annotated citations of current literature is E-mailed to a mailing list.. The user can dynamically create their own Bibliography On-Demand. The items that are freely available on the Internet are also retrieved and indexed so that the user can perform an Article Search of the full-text of these items."Digital History of the United State
"This Digital History web site will be most welcome find for teachers (and students) of American History. Developed in collaboration with the University of Houstan, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houstan and several other entities the sites include an online American history textbook, an interactive timeline, a multimedia section, and a very rich selection of primary source materials.Digital Library: History
"Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York." This site includes a number of annotations recommending history resources.Digital Library of Canada
This site includes the full text of digitized primary documents from Canadian history. The collection is a part of the National Library of Canada.
Documenting the American South
"Documenting the American South (DAs) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century." Read digitized oral history documents and selected full text literature related to southern United States history available at the University of North Carolina.
The Dramas of Haymarket
Works of art and artifacts have been photographed and digitized.Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album
"Of the many photographic albums in the National Anthropological Archives, perhaps the most interesting and historically important is a scrapbook kept by an American illustrator, James E. Taylor (1839-1901). A professional artist, Taylors newspaper illustrations served to popularize stereotypes of the Western frontier during the post-Civil War years. Like other illustrators and writers of the period, he depicted Indian-White relations in terms of savagery versus civilization and encouraged Americans to visualize the nations Westward expansion in heroic terms. In many ways, Taylors professional legacy as a "reporter" is lodged between the technological juncture that existed between newspaper publishing and photography in the 19th century."The Exhibit Hall
The Exhibit Hall, at the National Archives and Records Administration, includes links to digital copies of the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Apollo 11 Flight Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and more. Use the "Search" function on this page to determine if primary sources about your area of interest are available.The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
"The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress."Federal Bureau of Investigation: FBI History
This site chronicles the history of the FBI and includes copies of documents from the Bureau's founding.Federal Township Plats of Illinois (1804-1890)
"The Illinois State Archives has "digitized 3,457 federal township plats of Illinois . . . .These hand-drawn plats show Illinois' landscape as it was before American settlement."The Flint Sit-Down Strike: 1935-1937
This site includes audio recordings of interviews with participants in the Flint Sit-Down Strike.Freedom: A History of Us
This Web site provides resources that extend the content of a 16 part series produced by PBS.Genealogy: Internet Resources
David L. Langenberg, a librarian at the University of Delaware Library, has created a comprehensive catalog of web-based genealogy resources.George Washington Resources
This site links to the full text of George Washington's writings and other resources that provide information about the first President of the United States.The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition: Related Links of Interest
This page includes links to a number of historical sources including narratives from slaves. "The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition is a division of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Directed by David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History, the Gilder Lehrman Center is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction."The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
The Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University have created a site that includes eyewitness accounts and digitized photographs of this event. There are also a number of digitized copies of photographs and documents related to United States history available via the Chicago Historical Society site.Guide to Law Online
"The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the US Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), is an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law available online without charge. It includes links only to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations, although none of these sites have yet qualified for full GLIN recognition for the completeness, accuracy and officially certified authenticity of the legal texts they provide."Hanford Cultural and Historic Resources Program
This site's "resources include history, both tribal and settler, the Manhattan and Cold War Eras, the built environment, and engineering achievements" related to the Hanford site in the state of Washington.Hanover Historical Texts Project
"In 1995, the History Department and Hanover students initiated the Hanover Historical Texts Project. The Project's principal aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses." The text of documents from a wide range of time periods and geographic locations are available at this site.Historic Documents
The University of Michigan Documents Center maintains an excellent page of links to both primary and secondary sources from Europe, the Middle East & North Africa, and North America.Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource
Interactive maps help students study cultural and historical changes.Historical Maps of the United States
This University of Texas Libraries Online site provides links to historical maps in electronic format.History Channel.Com
Use the search box to locate sources on the History Channel's Web site.H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Used primarily by history teachers, this site includes bibliographies, teaching materials, reviews and an online journal.A Hudson River Portfolio
"This selection of original and rare resources aims to provide students, scholars, and general audiences with direct access to a representative range of nineteenth-century materials for the art and culture of the Hudson River and its region. The prints, maps, photographs, guidebooks, histories, and literature digitally assembled here are drawn from the collections of the New York Public Library."Institute: Arts and Humanities
This site,supported by Oxford University, provides links to several full-text history resources. The staff of the site are professional philosophers, librarians, and social scientists. Areas of emphasis include Archaeology; Classics and Ancient History; English Studies (and American Studies); History; Linguistics; Modern Languages and Literatures; Philosophy; and Religion and Theology.HyperHistory Online
This resource includes timelines covering more than 3,000 years of world history. Separate time lines list people, history, events and maps.Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
The full-text of presidential inaugural addresses are available at this site which is a part of the Bartleby.com historical texts.Indian Mounds of Mississippi
"This guide to the publicly owned, visitor-accessible American Indian Mound sites of Mississippi provides a compact source of information on these impressive landmarks of the ancient past."
Internet Archives
"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections."Journal of American History
The current issue and tables of contents of past issues of this periodical published by the Organization of American Historians are available at this site.King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Areas
"King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities."Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the American Civil War
Bill Proudfoot, a librarian at West Valley College, created this site that allows examination of letters written by a private in the Union army.Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition
"The Missouri Historical Society's Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition follows the Corps of Discovery from the banks of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers through the human geography of western North America."
Library of Congress
Search the Library of Congress' collection and catalogs. Users may also access online exhibits, information on copyright laws, organizations.Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is: to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America. Digitized tours of tenements are available here.Middle East Reporter Online
"MERIP is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC. A completely independent organization, it has no links to any religious, educational or political organizations in the US or elsewhere. . . . MERIPs editorial committee, composed of twenty scholar-activists and leading journalists, meets three times annually to plan, with the editor, upcoming issues of Middle East Report. . . . Middle East Report provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources. The magazine has developed a reputation for independent analysis of events and developments in the Middle East."Missouri: Images from the Past--Teaching with Documents
The Missouri State Archives has digitized forty-one primary documents in the hopes of providing students with access to primary documents.Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
This organizational site includes a number of resources relating to Thomas Jefferson's lifestyle and opinions, including a study of the parentage of Sally Hemings' children.Myth of American Isolationism
This paper is authored by Bear F. Braumoeller, Assistant Professor at Harvard University. According to the author's abstract, "America in the 1920s and 1930s is often characterized as having been isolationist in the realm of security policy. This article offers a critique of this characterization. American diplomacy in the 1920s was subtle but ambitious and e effective American policy in the years leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor was in fact quite responsive to events on the European continent. Isolationists did exist, of course, but they never came close to constituting a majority. In short, American isolationism is a myth.National Archives and Records Administration
This site, from the National ARchives and Records Administration, includes an exhibit hall, records management, a research room, a digital classroom, federal register and a search engine of national archival information and other information.National Security Archive
This organization "is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, DC The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)."The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
"These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children that were educated in them."Oregon State University Archives Exhibits
Oregon State University Archives online exhibits provide digitized information about Oregon history.Papers of George Washington
This site at the University of Virginia contains links to electronic reproductions of selections from George Washington's papers, online exhibits, and articles about Washington's papers.The Papers of John Jay
"The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829 is an image database and indexing tool comprised of thousands of pages scanned from photocopies of original documents gathered by the John Jay publication project staff during the 1960s and 1970s under the direction of the late Professor Richard B. Morris."Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
"Witness World War II through rare color film, and read letters from a nation redefining itself."Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
"This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper. Most of the photographs were taken in Chicago, Illinois, or in nearby towns, parks, or athletic fields. In addition to many Chicagoans, the images include politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came to Chicago. Also included are photographs illustrating the operations of the Chicago Daily News itself and pictures taken on occasional out-of-town trips by the Daily News's photographers to important events, such as the inauguration of presidents in Washington, DC"Pioneering the Upper Midwest
This site "portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division. The collection's 138 volumes depict the land and its resources; the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural traditions; and the development of regional and national leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics, religion, law, journalism, education, and the role of women."Plimouth Plantation: The Living History Museum of 17th Century Plymouth
"Founded in 1947, the museum has grown from one small re-created house on the Plymouth waterfront to include three major open-air exhibitsthe 1627 Pilgrim Village, Hobbamocks Wampanoag Indian Homesite, and Mayflower IIas well as other facilities, exhibits and programs." Many photographs of this model village have been digitized for the Web. Information about the Plymouth Colony is also available here.Presidential Libraries
This list provides links to the thirteen presidential libraries. Several of the libraries provide links to the full text of some primary documents.Radical America
Digitized copies of a periodical entitled Radical America, published from 1966 through the early 1990s, can be viewed at this site. "Radical America grew out of a program begun in late 1966. The original intent was to bring about the beginnings of a learning process inside SDS ranks about the radical traditions of this country and to provide a forum for students of American radicalism to exchange views on their field."Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library
Digitized copies of religious materials, advertisements, photographs, sheet music, letters, and publications relating to women's history and ancient Egypt are available at this site.Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources
Tulane University's archival web site offers links to archives, sites to help archivists, archival search tools, and professional resources for archivists.Reporting Civil Rights
This site describes "the reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement."Repositories of Primary Sources
This University of Idaho Library worldwide directory includes more than 5,000 web sites for locations where primary sources are available.The Rutgers Oral History Archives
"The 'Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II,' directed by Sandra Stewart Holyoak, is an enterprise to record the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the homefront and overseas. It is based on in-depth interviews of individuals who lived through World War II, beginning with an initial target group of Rutgers College alumni and Douglass College alumnae (formerly, New Jersey College for Women)."San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
"The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, located in the San Francisco History Center, contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and California views from 1850 to the present.Seattle Municipal Archives Home Page
"The Seattle Municipal Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for research the records of City agencies and elected officials. Records date from the 1870s to the present."Shaker Historic Trail
This site was created by the National Parks Service includes essays about Shakers and Shaker settlements.The Sociosite/ICAAP Journals Database and Distribution Centre
"Criteria for inclusion in this database are stringent. Only quality, full text and inexpensive (usually free) scholarly resources are included. All items are categorized by the type of peer review (standard, editorial, peer commentary, student reviewed, or none), type of resource (scholarly journal, compilation or index, magazine or political pamphlet), language and country of origin. The elimination of those resources which are thin attempts to advertise paper versions, and the strict categorization of resources by type, makes this database an invaluable resource for scholars, librarians and students." A number of history sources are linked from this site.Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
"The site features maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures from the Library of Congress. These selected items relate to Spanish influence and interaction with other cultures existing in the geographic areas of North America, the Caribbean, and present-day Mexico between 1492-1898. Bilingual, English/Spanish access is provided throughout the site whenever possible. An interface with search and browse by Subjects, Titles, Geographic Locations features, supports navigation to 118 maps, two rare books, and one book from the United States Congressional Serial Set. In addition, links are offered to eight relevant American Memory collections and three Exhibitions from the Library of Congress. The American Memory format emphasizes direct access to primary source materials via specialized search and browse list tools for each collection. The Exhibitions format features a blend of historical context and images of historical treasures which have been displayed at the Library of Congress."Spy Letters of the American Revolution
"Many of the letters highlighted in this digital exhibit were pivotal to the success and failures of sieges, battles, and surprise attacks." This site is associated with the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1919-1919
"From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition."Strategic Studies Institute: Study Program and Publications
The United States Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute maintains electronic access to documents relating to military strategy.The Supreme Court Historical Society
This site lists all Supreme Court Justices and includes special presentations about cases involving students, Women's Rights, and Supreme Court history.Territorial Kansas Online
"Through a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas present Territorial Kansas Online, a vivid illustration the time period 1854 through January 1861, when Kansas entered the Union . . . Visitors to the site have access to government documents, diaries, letters, photographs, maps, newspapers, rare secondary sources and historical artifacts. The emotions of the times are conveyed in handwritten documents, which, with misspelled words and blotted ink make their creators and the events described tangible to the modern day reader."Thomas Jefferson
This Library of Congress Web site includes information chronicling Thomas Jefferson's life.Thomas Jefferson Papers
This Library of Congress Web site includes digitized copies of Jefferson's papers. It is part of the American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans
This site includes digitized images of treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans.University of Arizona Library Web Exhibits
"Among the Library's nearly thirty distinct exhibits are archival collections such as the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives, The War Relocation Camps of Arizona 1942 - 1946, USS Arizona - "that terrible day," and Bisbee Deportation of 1917; community-based sites such as The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage, Cuentos de Nuestros Padres: Tucson's Hispanic Community, and In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage; and historical sites such as The Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood, Hooves and Rails: A History of the Tucson Street Railway 1897 - 1906; and topical exhibits such as Sabino Canyon: Our Desert Oasis, Southern Arizona Folk Arts, and Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert."US Department of State
This site includes information about current activities of the Department of State, an overview of US Diplomatic history, and an archive of Department of State documents from the Clinton administration.U. S. Founding Documents
View scanned copies of current and historical United States Documents at this site at Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk.United States Historical Census Data Browser
Historical census data is available at this Harvard University site. Information about the site is listed on the front page.United States History
This page, available via the Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville Web site, provides links to United States government documents and other pages about United States history in the following categories: American Battlefield Protection Program; American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century; Kingwood College Library; American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress); American Revolution; American Indians/Native Americans; Annals of Congress; Biography of America, A (Annenber/CPB); Black American History; A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation; Chronology of American History (Avalon Project); Civil Rights; Civil War; Cold War; Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873; Constitution of the United States; Cuban-American Relations; Custer, George Armstrong; Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (Annals of Congress); Declaration of Independence; Depression, Great; Dictionary of American Fighting Ships; Federalist Papers; Flag of the United States; Foreign Relations of the United States; Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; Great Depression; Historical Documents; Iran-Contra; Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979-1980; Journal of the Senate; Journal of the House of Representatives; Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate; Kentucky History; Lewis and Clark; Louisville History; Making of America (University of Michigan); Myth of American Isolationism (Harvard University); National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT); Oral History Online; Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm); Portrait of the Nation, 1846 (Smithsonian Institution); Presidency and Presidents; Railroad History; Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress); Selected Historical Data (US Census Bureau); Slavery; Timeline of US Diplomatic History (US Department of State); Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911; Star-Spangled Banner: US National Anthem; US Presidency and Presidents; Virginia History; Vietnam War; War of 1812; Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion 1820-1890; (American Memory, Library of Congress); Women's History; Women's Suffrage; Works Progress Administration; World War I; and World War II.United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This site provides an introduction to the museum in Washington, DC, suggestions for Holocaust educational programs, guidelines for teaching about the subject, links to archives and information on Holocaust organizations and historical sites. Some primary documents and photographs are included in online exhibits available at this site.Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
"Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963, uses historical documents, images, interpretive essays, biographies, and works of social science, urban geography, literature and memoir. The documents range from archival materials including correspondence, scrapbooks, institutional records, diaries, journals and unpublished manuscripts to printed materials not easily available: newspaper clippings, articles from magazines and journals, broadsides, pamphlets, posters, government reports. Images include photography, illustrations, architectural renderings, maps and art work."ushistory.org
This site provides information about the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history. This site is sponsored by the Independence Hall Association.Vietnam War Bibliography
Edwin E. Moise, Clemson University, has created an extensive bibliography of Vietnam War print sources and a few Internet resources. It is an excellent starting point for research.Virtual Jamestown
This site includes digital copies of primary sources relating to the history of Jamestown and Virginia.Voice of the Shuttle: History
"VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors)." This site includes a number of links to US History sites, as well as world history sites.The War of 1898: Spanish-American War
"This presentation provides resources and documents about the Spanish-American War, the period before the war, and some of the fascinating people who participated in the fighting or commented about it. Information about Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States is provided in chronologies, bibliographies, and a variety of pictorial and textual material from bilingual sources, supplemented by an overview essay about the war and the period. Among the participants and authors featured are such well-known figures as Presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as Admiral George Dewey and author Mark Twain (United States), together with other important figures such as Antonio Maceo and José Martí (Cuba), Román Baldorioty de Castro and Lola Rodríguez de Tió (Puerto Rico), José Rizal and Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippines), and Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and Ramón Blanco (Spain)." It is available via the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975
Digitized copies of primary sources relating to the Vietnam Conflict are available via this site. Robert Brigham of Vassar College has developed this site for a senior seminar course.Washington State Pioneer Life Database
"The Washington State Pioneers database is a collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Special Collections Division collections that recount the early settlement of Washington, the establishment of homesteads and towns and the hardships faced by many of the early pioneers." It is hosted by the University of Washington.Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
"Weekly Compilation documents from 1993 to the present can be found by performing key word searches." "This document is sponsored by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration on the United States Government Printing Office web site."The White House
The White House site provides valuable historical information concerning the history of the White House, Presidents and First Ladies. Information about the current administration is also available.The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
"The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Included in the collection are correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives. The Wright Brothers' letters to aviation pioneer and mentor Octave Chanute, from the Octave Chanute Papers, were also selected for this online collection. The Wright Papers span the years 1881 to 1952 but largely cover 1900 to 1940. This online presentation includes the famous glass-plate negative of the "First Flight" at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, as well as diaries and letters in which Wilbur and Orville Wright recount their work that led to that day."Wisconsin Pioneer Experience: A Digital Collection of Original Sources Documenting 19th-Century Wisconsin History
" The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The project has been made available through the partnership of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS)."Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
"Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress features the collections that the Library has amassed and is still receiving about the tragic events." This is a collection of primary sources--visual, oral, written, and html--from the events of that day.
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