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Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide |
Library of Congress |
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African-American Archaeology, History and Cultures |
University of Illinois |
| The African
American Mosaic |
a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and
culture |
| African American
Odyssey |
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| AMDOCS: Documents For the Study of
United States History |
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| America In the
1930's |
American Memory, Library of Congress |
| American Folklife Center |
Library of Congress |
| American Memory:
Historical Collections for the American Digital Library |
Library of Congress |
| American
Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 |
253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors of their
travels in the colonies and the U.S. |
| American Presidency Project |
Originally
UC-Santa Barbara, now a stand-alone site containing 86,419 documents
related to the study of the Presidency |
| American
Slave Narratives |
From the 1930's WPA writers project |
| American Social History
Online |
CUNY, Center for Media and Learning |
| American Studies Web aka
Crossroads |
comprehensive platform for pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional
information for the American Studies community; housed at Georgetown |
| American Women: |
A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's
History and Culture in the United States |
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American Women Through Time |
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| American
Women's History: A Research Guide |
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| ANES: American National Election
Studies |
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| Antietam on the Web |
a site totally dedicated to this battle; a clear overview and useful maps;
sources are comprehensive and the site is well-maintained; navigation is
simple and obvious; loading quick |
| Appalachian
Treasures Gateway |
a directory of sites for research on central Appalachian culture, images,
stereotypes, social customs, history, and the physical and social
environment |
| Archives.gov |
The National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) site is
convenient, artistically designed, and updated on a near-daily basis. |
| BlackPast.org: Remembered &
Reclaimed |
Online Reference
Guide to African American History; U Washington |
| A Biography of
America |
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| The
Bisbee Deportation of 1917 |
specific to the state of Arizona; an online exhibits examines this event
in which over 1,000 copper miners in Arizona were loaded onto livestock
railcars and forcibly transported across state lines to Columbus, New Mexico
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| The Booker T.
Washington Papers |
Univ. of Illinois; the links to digitized collections relevant to his
work are particularly helpful |
| Campfire Stories with
George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures |
a Smithsonian award-winning web site; goal is to use the paintings of
George Catlin to teach American Indian history and culture |
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Catherwood Digital Collections: Labor Studies |
Cornell |
| Center for History and
New Media |
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| Center for Jewish History |
includes a major sub-section of the U.S. |
| Center for the Study of the North
American West |
Stanford |
| Center of the American West |
Univ. of Colorado; topics include energy policy, economic theory, land
usage, and social interaction in various contexts of western history |
| A Century of Lawmaking For
a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875 |
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| Chronicling America:
Historic American Newspapers |
Library of Congress |
| Civil Rights Digital Library |
University of Georgia; an excellent resource for educators wishing to
incorporate primary source material into the classroom; site materials are
organized according to Events, Places, People, Topics, Media Types,
Contributing Institutions, and Educator Resources; may also browse
alphabetically. |
| Civil Rights in Mississippi
Digital Archive |
University of Southern Mississippi; 150 oral histories, some with audio
files; more than 7,000 pages of text are available. |
| Civil Rights Movement Veterans |
this is a site produced of, by, and for Civil Rights Movement Veterans;
the greatest amount of material centers on Freedom Summer, and other aspects
of the movement in the South before c. 1966 |
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Cold War International History Project
| Wilson Center |
| CRS Annotated Constitution |
Cornell University Law School |
| David Rumsey Map Collection |
Extensive digital gallery of maps, globes, atlases, charts, school
geographies, and so on; site focuses on cartography of the Americas from
the 18th and 19th centuries |
| The Decisive Day is Come:
The Battle of Bunker Hill |
Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Digital Library of
Georgia |
University of
Georgia |
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Discovering American Women's History Online |
A dedicated labor of love by Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at
Middle Tennessee State University. Coverage of topics is broad and includes
those one would expect to find like suffrage, feminism, and home economics.
Specialized topics are included as well, ranging from women rodeo performers
and pilots to architects. Historical periods range from the 17th to the 21st
century, with emphasis on the 19th century and later. More than 400 collections
are available; CONTENTdm provides the database to allow researchers to use
advanced search options.
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| Documenting the American South |
Univ. of North Carolina |
| Documents from the Continental
Congress & the Constitutional Convention, 1764-1789 |
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| Documents from the Women's
Liberation Movement: an on-line archival collection |
Duke |
| The Dred
Scott Case |
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| The E Pluribus Unum Project:
| subtitled: America in the 1770s, 1850s and 1920s
The project examines these three critical periods of strain and conflict in
US History. It provides texts from these periods to illustrate issues and
multiple perspectives. |
| Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-
c. 1802 |
Maryland Institute
for Technology in the Humanities |
|
Edwin Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War |
Clemson |
| The Electric Ben
Franklin |
a very user friendly site and an excellent introduction to the life and
work of Benjamin Franklin. |
| Eugenics Archive:...the American Eugenics Movement |
well-organized and easy to use; offers the following topics: Social Origins,
Scientific Origins, Research Methods, Traits Studied, Research Flaws,
Eugenics Popularization, Marriage Laws, Immigration Restrictions, and
well-documented sections on authors |
| First Amendment
Center |
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| The
First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 |
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| First Person Narratives of the
American South, 1860-1920 |
Univ. of North Carolina; Documenting the American South |
| France in
America=La France en Amerique |
outstanding, bilingual web site; that houses books, maps, prints, and
other documents from both the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque
Nationale de France
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| Frontline
Diplomacy: |
The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic
Studies and Training American Memory |
| The
Hanford Site Historical District: Manhattan Project, 1943-1946;
Cold War Era, 1947-1990 |
relatively few images; some of the language is highly technical; primarily
a site for the serious researcher |
| Historic [U.S.] Government Publications
from World War II |
More than 200 World War II era pamphlets, digitized and supported by SMU |
| Historical United States
Census Data Browser |
1790-1960 |
| History Gateway at Kansas |
the original WWW-VL History site |
| History Matters: The U.S.
Survey course on the Web |
Designed for teachers of US history survey courses at the high school
and college level. |
| The History of
Televised [Presidential] Debates |
One section of the site contains links to excerpts of film footage, still
photos, newspaper & magazine reactions for each televised debate from 1960 to
2000. Real Player is required to view some areas of the site. |
| "I Will Be Heard":
Abolitionism in America |
Highlights examples of the materials housed in the antislavery collection
at Cornell University. The documents themselves were donated to the University
by the abolitionist Samuel J. May in 1870. |
| Immigration to the
United States, 1789-1930 |
Harvard |
| In Motion: The
African-American Migration Experience |
sponsored and prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture; provides access to more than 16,500 pages of text, 60 mpas and over
8,000 illustrations. |
| IPL: African and African American Resources on the Internet |
Internet Public Library |
| The
James Madison Papers |
American Memory project |
| July, 1942: United
We Stand |
America after Pearl Harbor; Smithsonian |
| Lincoln/net |
Jointly sponsored by a number of Illinois institutions.
Focuses on pre-Civil War Lincoln. |
| The
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s |
University of Pennsylvania |
| The Living Room Candidate:
Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1954-2004 |
An extraordinary resource for those who study or teach political communication
or US political history; one reviewer said it is simply interesting [and]
voters, marketing professionals or even those looking for something memorable
to watch on the Web will enjoy visiting the site. The site includes a
brief introduction of every presidential campaign year and has notes on a
handful of individual ads. |
| The Malcolm X
Project |
Columbia University |
| Making of America |
MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction. |
| Making the History of 1989 |
Web site on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe; includes 300
primary sources which are downloadable as pdf files. A brief analysis
accompanies each document; documents can be found using keyword searching
or by browsing the teaching modules and case studies. |
| Map Collections:
American Memory |
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| National Congress of American Indians |
the oldest and largest tribal government organization in the US; provides
a forum for "consensus-based policy development" among its membership of more
than 250 tribal governments from every region of the country |
| Native American
Heritage |
Smithsonian |
| NativeWeb |
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A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1776-1825 |
Tufts University
and The American Antiquarian Society |
| North American Slave Narratives |
Univ. of North Carolina; Documenting the American South |
| Presidential Timeline of
the Twentieth Century |
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| Public History Resource
Center |
created in 1999 by 4 graduate students at the University of Maryland;
the site attempts to "curate the field of public history"; information includes
a history of historical societies through the U.S.; bibliographies; links to
many public history like web sites, and so on |
| The Public Records of the
Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776 |
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| Radical America:
The Magazine |
Radical America was a magazine launched in 1967 by radical
students in Madison, Wisconsin, ...Its early mimeographed issues bore the
inscription "An SDS Journal of the History of American Radicalism," the
initials referring to Students for a Democratic Society, the primary 1960s
student radical organization. SDS broke up in 1969, but the journal lived on,
thriving in the 1970s, surviving the 1980s, and dissolving in the early 1990s.
Brown University Library has digitized the first 24 years. |
| Raid on Deerfield:
The Many Stories of 1704 |
29 February 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts by 300 French and Native
allies |
| The Rise and Fall of Jim
Crow |
a PBS documentary |
| The Rutgers Oral History Archives:
World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War |
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| Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture |
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September 11, 2001, Documentary Project |
Library of Congress |
| The Sixties
Project |
University of Virginia |
| Smithsonian
American Art Museum: George Catlin's Indian Gallery |
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| The Supreme Court Historical
Society |
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| The Tennessee Encyclopedia of
History and Culture |
comprehensive, covers the prehistoric to the present; more than 1,500
entries; many entries end with lists of further readings, and cross-references
to related entries. |
|
This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage |
The online exhibit covers the chronology of women's suffrage in the
American West and provides biographical information about notable figures from
the ten featured states (CA, CO, ID, KS, NM, OR, TX, UT, WA, WY). |
| Thomas Jefferson Digital
Archive |
Univ. of Virginia |
| Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia |
Created by the staff of the Jefferson Library at Monticello; a wiki-based
encyclopedia. Only the library and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation staff may
add to the wiki and tag entries. The site is a resource for reputable
information concerning Jefferson, but cannot substitute for more tradiational
resources. |
| Tracked in America.org |
this site in association with various civil rights organizations,
explores US government "tracking" of its citizens from about 1900 forward.
Readily accessible, easy to navigate, also has enhancements such as
lesson plans geared to grades 9-12. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin
and American Culture: A Multi-media Archive |
University of
Virginia; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Endowment for
the Arts |
| The Underground Railway: Niagara's
Freedom Trail |
for full viewing needs Flash Player |
| The United States
and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures |
A joint project of the Library of Congress and the National Library of
Brazil, examines the history of Brazil and its interaction with the US and
parallels and contrasts the two cultures from the 18th century to the
present. |
| The United States
Historical Census Data Browser |
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| U.S.
"Tiananmen Papers" |
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| Urban Experience in
Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 |
includes primary source documents, historical illustrations, and
retrospective essays. |
| Vanderbilt Television News
Archive |
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| The Veterans History Project |
Library of Congress |
| The Vietnam Center and Archive |
Texas Tech |
| Voices of Civil Rights |
Well-organized and easy to navigate; extensive primary resources. |
| Votes for Women:
1848-1921 |
Library of Congress |
| Voting America: United
States Politics, 1840-2008
| University of
Richmond |
| The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975 |
Vassar |
| Web Guide
to U.S. Supreme Court Research |
LLRX.com |
| Women Working, 1870-1930 |
Harvard; massive amount of primary material organized thematically;
the site has very little explanatory text for historical context. |
| WWW Virtual Library:
American Indians |
Includes Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
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| WWW Virtual Library:
The American West |
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| WWW Virtual Library:
Slavery |
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