United States History Online
Resources
General Information
Colonial America
Culture
Discovery
Politics and Presidents
The South
20th Century
Westward Expansion
General
History Matters: The US Survey Course
on the Web
Excellent site for teachers and students of U.S. History survey
courses. Includes primary source documents, links to high-quality
history websites, student exercises to assist in evaluation of historical
information and more. Developed by the Center for History and New
Media, George Mason University and the American Social History Project/Center
for Media and Learning at the City University of New York.
American
and British History Resources
From Rutgers University. Maps, treaties, documents, biographies,
book reviews, and more. Searchable by era.
Harper's Weekly
Information on social and political history, the Civil War, and
Reconstruction. Find cartoons, editorials, news articles, advertisements
and illustrations. Covers 1857-1916.
National Portrait Gallery
Photographs on a wide range of American culture and artwork of
American presidents.
American Memory Project
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded
sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana
collections. The FAQ section gives good information on how to search
the collections as well as how to cite the information found.
Digital History
Digital history of the United States from the University of Houston.
Statistical Abstracts
Of The United States: Historical Statistics
Download U.S. statistics including figures on population, immigration,
imports, revenue, debt and more. Helpful resource.
AMDocs: Documents
for the Study of American History
Index of primary documents from 1400 to the present. From the Kansas
Heritage Group.
Library of Congress: Prints
and Photographs Reading Room
Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, architectural
and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections
are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the
history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements
of the American people.
Footnote
Archival documents and photographs. Includes documents from the National Archives and Records Administration, but also from members and hobbyists. Be sure to cross-check references and question authenticity of user submitted documents or just stick to the known public archives.
Colonial America
Colonial
Williamsburg
Primary sources; cultural and political chronology of events from
1750-1783. A good place for hard-to-find biographies.
Virtual Jamestown
Although this website is a work-in-progress, by the time it is completed
in 2007 it may very well be the most comprehensive online resource
about this topic. It currently contains a wealth of primary source
documents including maps, letters, online accounts and the like.
Our Huguenot Ancestors
Power Point presentation on French exploration and settlement of
North America.
Cycles of U.S. History - Colonial
Cycle
1584-1700. Founding of 13 original colonies. Links
to other sites.
Benjamin
Franklin: A Documentary History
From the University of Delaware, this site provides in-depth
documentary history including descriptions of Franklin's activities
throughout his life.
The Papers
of John Jay, 1745-1829
An image database and indexing tool comprised of thousands of pages
scanned from photocopies of original documents.
Founding.com: A User's
Guide to the Declaration of Independence
Award-winning site provides original text of the Declaration of Independence,
in additon to its historical context and a wealth of related information.
American
Colonist's Library
Links to primary sources related to early American history.
Religion and the
Founding of the American Republic
A Library of Congress online exhibit that chronicles religion and
its relation to the founding of America.
Civil War Resources
The American Civil War Online, a comprehensive series of online Civil War collections, will be free through June 30. The series includes "Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera."
Culture
University
of Virginia Online Exhibits
Online exhibits of American history and culture including primary
documents from 1507 to the present day.
American
Cultural History: The 19th Century
From Kingwood College Library.
American Cultural History:
The 20th Century
From Kingwood College library.
American Life
This site is mainly a resource for foreign audiences seeking information
about American society, includes summaries of American art, education, sports, and innovations. Maintained by the Bureau of International Information
Programs (IIP), U.S. Department of State.
Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from
the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Discovery
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
From the Library of Congress. Primary documents, maps, timelines,
and more about the exploration of North America.
Mayflower
Information on the Mayflower including passenger lists, primary
documents, and biographies.
Explorers of
North America
Maps, timelines, essays and papers on many aspects of the discovery
of North America. From the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven of The
Netherlands.
The
Naming of America
Information on John Cabot and the debate on who first discovered
America. From the BBC History Website.
Politics and Presidents
National Archives and Record Administration
Online exhibits feature
historical documents, photographs, posters and letters, including
the full text of the Declaration of Independence. Also includes links
to the Presidential
libraries.
American Presidents:
Life Portraits
C-Span's site about the American Presidents contains a complete
video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming,
plus many additional resources.
AmericanPresident.org
Comprehensive, non-partisan resource on the history of the presidency
and the nature of policy making. From the University of Virginia's
Miller Center of Public Affairs.
The Presidents of the
United States
Official Whitehouse website provides short biographies and trivia
about the U.S. Presidents.
Vincent Voice
Library: US Presidents of the 20th Century
Contains sound recordings of American presidents since Benjamin Harrison.
Abraham Lincoln Historical
Digitization Project
Presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years
(1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as
other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.
Thomas Jefferson
A Library of Congress exhibit.
Churchill and
the Great Republic
A Library of Congress exhibit.
Watergate.info
Extensive Watergate information. Website created and maintained
by Mark Farnsworth, an Australian schoolteacher.
ACC Library Service's
Government Subject Page
Links to state, federal, and local government websites.
History of the
Federal Judiciary
Biographical database of federal judges since 1789, histories of
the federal courts, and historical documents related to the judicial
branch of government.
The South
Documenting the American South
In-depth website about the American South at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Primary sources and literature.
AmericanSouth.org
Digital library collection of information about the American South.
This is an ongoing project of Emory University in collaboration with
many Southern research libraries.
Slavery and
the Making of America
PBS companion website to its four-part series on slavery and U.S.
history.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American
Culture
Primary sources, texts, images, and timeline 1830-1930.
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-38
Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500
black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of
the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
20th Century
"The
Depression News"
articles on the Great Depression highlighting exhibits from the
Michigan Historical Museum, but with many topics of national interest.
America from the Great
Depression to World War II
Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War
Information, ca. 1935-1945.
American Life Histories
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940.
American Cultural
History: The Twentieth Century
Created by librarians at the Kingwood College Library in Kingwood,
Texas.
American
Photography: A Century of Images
Companion web site for PBS series featuring images of the 20th century.
Westward Expansion
Oregon Trail
Information about the trail and history of the trail.
Lewis & Clark
Trail Heritage Foundation. Articles on the Expedition.
Rivers,
Edens, Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of America
Library of Congress exhibit details Lewis and Clark's westward exploration
of America in the 19th century.
Old West
Outlines links according to subject. Includes museums, music, movies,
cowboy poetry, women, and so on.
Historical Gazette
Articles on the Pacific Northwest.
Mountain Men and the Fur
Trade
History of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountain West. Primary and secondary
sources, links to related sites.
Trails of Hope
A collection of the original writings of 49 voyagers on the Mormon,
California, Oregon, and Montana trails who wrote while traveling on
the trail. Also includes photographs and maps.
Discover Lewis and Clark
Small list of links to Lewis and Clark websites. From the University
of Montana.
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