General
Resources
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- about.com: History
Links (excellent links including War, Crime and Punishment, Labor History, 18th
Century, and Fun and Games)
- about.com: Geography (area
& ZIP codes; atlas; maps {US, world, street, road, historics, blank, outline}; census;
geography {education, for kids, culture, cities, physical, etc.}; weather; distances &
coordinates; Earth photos; finding places; rivers & water; time & time zon
- about.com: US Gov Info / Resources
(Agencies, Auctions/Surplus, Business/Finance, Census & Statistic, Congress &
Laws, U.S. Constitution, Consumers, Contacting Govt, Courts/Judiciary, Environment, Taxes,
Freebies, Forms, Grants-Contracting, Jobs/Employment, Gun Control, Getting it Done, Govt.
Services, Health/Medical, Historic Documents, Immigration, Family Sites, Military, Money
& Finance, Political System, The President, Public Safety, Social Security,
Technology, Veterans)
- about.com: Military History (tons of links)
- about.com: Role Playing Games
(searcher & lots of links)
- about.com: Women's History (tons of links)
- Amistad Story (rich site
includes teaching materials, a library of links to other sites, an abbreviated version of
the Amistad story and excellent illustrations)
- Atomic Archive ("the complex
history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb - a crucial turning point for all
mankind" .. Biographies, Documents, Glossary, Nuclear Data, Nuclear Test Sites,
Timeline, Arms Control Treaties, Photographs, Maps, Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fusion,
Teacher's Guide)
- Avalon Project by Yale Law School
(warning: "The Avalon
Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does
not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or
means employed by their authors. They are included for balance and because in some cases
they are by our definition a supporting document." ... "The Avalon Project
will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics,
Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add
value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of
the text." ... Documents: pre-18th
century, 18th century,
19th century, 20th century)
- Bowdoin College: Rael -
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students (excellent
site for writing research papers)
- the English Server - History ("works and links in history and
historiography")
- the English Server - Government ("materials in government, law, and their
social implications")
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
("Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is
intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at
Northwestern University.")
- EarthStation1
("the Internet's #1 sound & picture archive of the audio-visual history of the
media age" ... World War II
aircraft, historical sounds and
pictures, Holocaust Pictures Page,
etc.)
- EducationWorld - Lesson Plan Center
(searcher and links ... check left margin for your subject area)
- 50
States of the United States (US and state maps and flags, all kinds of state
information ... bird, song, commerce, etc. and links for them)
- Grolier's: Encyclopedia Americana:
The American Presidency (excellent set of resources on presidents, the presidency,
politics, Constitution, etc.)
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- Hanover College: The Department of History (literature, history, philosophy, theology, politics and web sites for
16th & 17th Centuries | 18th Century | 19th Century | 20th Century)
- HistoryNet - where
history lives on the web (world history; American history; Civil War; personality
profiles; great battles; World War II; arms, armies & intrigue; historic travel;
aviation & technology; links, etc.)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- iEARN ("The International
Education and Resource Network enables young people to undertake projects designed to make
a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people" ...
curriculum applications)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Less We Forget: The Untold History of America
(excellent Afro-American history site)
- Library of Congress: Resource
Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
- Library of Congress: Map
Collections, 1639-1988 ("Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of
Congress .. Cities and Towns, Conservation and Environment, Discovery and Exploration,
General Maps, Immigration and Settlement, Military Battles and Campaigns, and
Transportation and Communication")
- Library of Congress: Washington as
it Was ("Over 14,000 photographs of buildings, business, news and human interest
items in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area .. Broad topics: architecture, cities and
towns, war," includes pictures of portraits, documents, etc., that go back to
colonial times)
- McREL - Educator Resources ("links to resources teachers can
use in the classroom, as well as reports, articles, and directories that will help improve
learning for all")
- Marine
Art Information Center ("gallery of 100 marine watercolours and paintings
supplemented by information on maritime art: auctions, galleries, history, photography,
reference materials and museums")
- Oz's Kingdom: History of
Fashion/Food/Fun (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Military
History, Info, Stats (US and world military history ... lots of links, teacher
resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: General USA History
(lots of links, flags, monuments, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: Technology (timeline from1750 to
present ... from lightning rod to Hubble Telescope; invention of TV; forgotten inventors;
invention of telephone)
- Perry-Castaņeda
Library Map Collection ("holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the
world" ... FREE world and historical maps ... maps with reference to: time zones,
politics, religions, national products, geology, etc.)
- Quia ("a great starting point for new users
... a collection of thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas ... more
than 400,000 activities)
- Social
Studies School Service (free catalogs, links, lesson plans, etc.)
- United
States Information Agency: Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until
Modern Times (excellent site: outlines of American History, Economy, Government, and
Literature; Documents; Essays; Biographies; and Presidents)
- U of Albany: History Department (resources and
links)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (Pre-Colonial Era / 1600-49 / 1650-99 / 1700-74 / 1775-99 / 1800-24 / 1825-49 / 1850-74 / 1875-99 / 1900-24 / 1925-49 / 1950-74 / 1975-Present)
- U of Virginia: Hypertexts
(full-text of various American authors that can be used to understand our history)
- U of Virginia: History
Resources Available Through the World Wide Web (links for searchers, journals, guides,
etc.)
- U.S. History Interactive
("a wealth of biographical information to be accessed from this site as well as
documents which were key in the shaping of the nation. Found within this site is
information on the Constitution, the colonies, the Civil War, and the Presidencies. Read
about Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, George Bush, Ronald Reagan,
Theodore Roosevelt. Maybe you would prefer reading the likes of Geronimo, Eli Whitney or
dig up information on Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman or the
abolitionists. You can casually read through the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation
Proclamation, one of the Charters of Virginia, or any one of many other famous
documents." ... bios of historical literary figures, documents, texts and speeches;
Civil War page; histories and admissions of the states; US Constitution; Theodore
Roosevelt, history games, etc.)
- War,
Peace and Security (tremendous Canadian site with tons of info about Canada but also
links for Armed forces of the world, Contemporary conflicts. International
organizations, International relations, Military art and science, Military biography,
Peace and disarmament ... catalogs of books and periodicals along with full-text
periodicals)
- War Times
Journal (prehistoric to present-day war links, pictures, stories, weapons, etc.)
- WebRing: American History -
Past, Present, and Future (more than 20 sites dedicated to American history)
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Presidents
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- American Presidents: Life Portraits ("A
Site to Complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life
Portraits")
- First Ladies @ IDEA Network
("Presidential spouses have often played a major role in American history. In some
situations, the good works of first ladies live on after their husbands have left the
public stage. This information resource attempts to combine a focus on their
"official" duties while in office with their activities after. ")
- Grolier's: Presidents (excellent
set of resources on presidents, the presidency, politics, Constitution, etc.)
- HarpWeek: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
("Harper's Weekly coverage of the historic 1868 Johnson Impeachment - with over 200
excerpts from 1865-1869")
- History
and Politics Out Loud ("HPOL is a collection of invaluable audio materials
some available for the first time on this website capturing significant
political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials
range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone
conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. Our aim is
to provide an accessible source of audio information to enliven instruction and
scholarship in history and politics and to enable easy access for all persons to the rich
audio archives of American history and politics.")
- History Place: Abraham Lincoln
(time line: 1637 to 1865, pictures & links)
- History Place: John F. Kennedy
(time line, pictures & links)
- History Place:
Past Presidential Impeachment (Jackson & Nixon)
- James Madison: His Legacy ("This site
was developed to assist in teaching the early political development of the United States
at James Madison University ... the life of James Madison provides a unique unifying
perspective on the early development of the critical institutions and practices of the
government of the United States ... excess of three hundred documents, mostly primary
sources. Madison was a politician at a time when that term was not an epithet, and
he was also a scholar whose careful reading and preparation set him apart .
- Library of Congress: George
Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 ("complete holdings
representing about 65,000 items .. Broad topics: politics and government, military
affairs, family, agriculture, Revolutionary War, Native Americans, prominent
individuals")
- Library of Congress: Portraits
of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present ("Illustrated reference aid with
156 portraits depicting every American president and most first ladies.")
- Oz's Kingdom: US Presidents
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: The Presidents
(teacher guides, resources, screen saver, presidential record, in their own words, etc.)
- PBS: TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
("Cowboy, soldier, explorer, scientist-- and president by the age of 42. But behind
the success was a man haunted by tragedy., " biography, pictures)
- Project
Whistlestop (Harry S Truman archives: his papers, photos, life, etc.)
- Smithonian Institute: Theodore
Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century (history, cartoons, pictures)
- U of Virginia: Papers of George Washington
(selected "letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by
him")
- Texas A&M U: George Bush Presidential Library
and Museum ("primary sources documenting President Bush's long public career as
Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Liaison
to the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
Congressman, Vice President, President, and world leade", similar presidential links)
- Theodore Roosevelt @ Bartleby Library
(full-text of books written by TR, including The Rough Riders)
- Theodore Roosevelt @
US History Interactive (biography, bibliography, quotes, links)
- United
States Information Agency: Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until
Modern Times (excellent site: outlines of American History, Economy, Government, and
Literature; Documents; Essays; Biographies; and Presidents)
- U of North Carolina: The
Soviet Union and the United States (resources: Early Cooperation, Soviet and American
Communist Parties, World War II, Cold War)
- Yale Law School: Papers of
the Presidents of the United States
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Founding of
America to Pre-American Revolution (1492-1773)
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- about.com:
American History (tons of links)
- American Colonist's Library, The
("Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History --- An invaluable
collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics,
culture, and ideals ... a massive collection of the literature and documents which were
most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not
available online anywhere.")
- American
Revolutionary War: Thematic Unit (Grades 5-8, "using Internet resources and
engaging activities that challenge student thinking and provide educators and parents with
multimedia resources")
- Archiving
Early America ("a wealth of resources we hope are informative, instructive and
entertaining ... main focus is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all
displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life
on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago.")
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
@ www.history.org (resources for teachers and students, electronic field trips, etc.)
- Colonists and Native Americans
(historical documents and archives on the colonial period of American history)
- Constitution of the
United States @ National Archives and Records Administration (full text of Constitution,
pictures of the Constitution.
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Franklin Institute: Benjamin Franklin (lots
of good stuff! ... music, pictures, info)
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History
Net - Where History Comes Alive on the Web (world history, US history, Civil War,
Great Battles, World War II, etc.)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- History Place:
Early Colonial Era (time line: 1000 to 1700 & links)
- History Place:
English Colonial Era (time line: 1700 to 1763 & links)
- History Place:
Prelude to Revolution (time line: 1763 to 1775, pictures & links)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- James Madison: His Legacy ("This site
was developed to assist in teaching the early political development of the United States
at James Madison University ... the life of James Madison provides a unique unifying
perspective on the early development of the critical institutions and practices of the
government of the United States ... excess of three hundred documents, mostly primary
sources. Madison was a politician at a time when that term was not an epithet, and
he was also a scholar whose careful reading and preparation set him apart ... site is
organized in a roughly chronological manner:
- Library of Congress: Documents from
the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 ("Broad
topics: politics and government, war .. Printed broadsides offering an account of
America's struggle for nationhood.")
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Library of Congress: George
Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 ("complete holdings
representing about 65,000 items .. Broad topics: politics and government, military
affairs, family, agriculture, Revolutionary War, Native Americans, prominent
individuals")
- Mayflower Web Pages by Caleb Johnson
(excellent source of material: lists of who was on the Mayflower, ancesters, hoaxes, etc.,
Pilgrim clothing, weapons, etc. ... "While the Mayflower Web Pages are specifically
designed for genealogists and academic historians, it can certainly be utilized by
teachers and students during the Thanksgiving season, and I have designed a few areas of
my web page with this audience in mind.")
- MISD: Lessons and Project -
Children in Colonial America (learning exercises to find out how children lived then)
- Ogram's 17th Century New England Links
with special emphasis on the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 (genealogy, timelines,
primary sources, links, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: From Colonies to
Revolution (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Plimoth-on-web (teacher resource, Indian
dress, Pilgrim clothing, 1627 Pilgrim village, etc.)
- 1775:
The French and Indian War ("site is dedicated to the French Soldiers who came to
New France between 1755 and 1760 to fight in the French and Indian War. This conflict was
fought, in the most part, in the Lake George, Lake Champlain region of New York, at Quebec
City, and Montreal")
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (Pre-Colonial Era / 1600-49 / 1650-99 / 1700-74)
- U of North Carolina: 1492: An
Ongoing Voyage ("examines the first sustained contacts between American people
and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in
the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as
slaves. All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual,
irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their lives. The
dramatic events following 1492 set the stage for numerous cultural interactions in the
Americas which are still in progress - a complex and ongoing voyage.")
- UShistory.org
(Betsy Ross House, Liberty Bell, Valley Forge, links, etc.)
- U Georgia: Rare
Map Collection - Colonial Period
- U
Pennsylvania's Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas ("site
is grouped into six broad categories; it also includes scholarly essays on topics related
to the exhibition and a brief bibliography and list of web links")
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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American
Revolution (1774-1783)
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- American Colonist's Library, The
("Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History --- An invaluable
collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics,
culture, and ideals ... a massive collection of the literature and documents which were
most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not
available online anywhere.")
- Archiving
Early America ("a wealth of resources we hope are informative, instructive and
entertaining ... main focus is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all
displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life
on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago.")
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
@ www.history.org (resources for teachers and students, electronic field trips, etc.)
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Archiving Early America
("As you browse through these original documents, you will find it easier to
understand America's early residents, those who shaped and created the early Republic.
These archival materials .. are displayed in their original formats so they can be read
and examined close-up....in detail.")
- Emory Law School: The Federalist
("On September 17, 1787, the Philadelphia Convention proposed a new Constitution.
Almost immediately, opponents of the Constitution filled the New York newspapers with
editorials. ... Alexander Hamilton contacted Madison and Jay and proposed that they
compose a series of essays that clearly articulated the arguments for the Constitution.
Hamilton felt this was epecially important because states were electing members to
conventions which would decide whether to ratify the new Constitution.")
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History
Net - Where History Comes Lives on the Web (world history, US history, Civil War,
Great Battles, World War II, etc.)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- History Place:
Conflict and Revolution (time line: 1775 to 1776, pictures & links)
- History Place: An
Unlikely Victory (time line: 1777 to 1783, pictures & links)
- History Place: US
Declaration of Independence (pictures, audio & text of Declaration)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- James Madison: His Legacy ("This site
was developed to assist in teaching the early political development of the United States
at James Madison University ... the life of James Madison provides a unique unifying
perspective on the early development of the critical institutions and practices of the
government of the United States ... excess of three hundred documents, mostly primary
sources. Madison was a politician at a time when that term was not an epithet, and
he was also a scholar whose careful reading and preparation set him apart ... site is
organized in a roughly chronological manner:
- Library of Congress: US
Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873 ("Beginning with the Continental
Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their
proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and
the United States Congress comprise a rich documentary history of the construction of the
nation, the development of the federal government, and its role in the national life.
These documents record American history in the words of those who built our
government.")
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Library of Congress: A Century of
Lawmaking for a New Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
("Records of the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and 1st-2nd
Congresses, covering the time period from 1774 to 1793: the Journals of the Continental
Congress, Elliot's Debates, Farrand's Records, the House and Senate Journals, the Senate
Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress, and the Journal of William Maclay. There are
approximately 23,900 pages included.")
- Library of Congress: George
Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 ("complete holdings
representing about 65,000 items .. Broad topics: politics and government, military
affairs, family, agriculture, Revolutionary War, Native Americans, prominent
individuals")
- Songs & Poetry of the
American Revolution (400 years of American song and poetry)
- MCPS: Modern
History - A Soviet Viewpoint ("What is interesting about the book is that it
tells a very different story than is usually presented in American textbooks")
- Oz's Kingdom: From Colonies to
Revolution (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- revwar
links (Michael and Sonja Meals' American Revolutionary War links)
- Sons of the Revolution of California
(excellent site with military uniforms for all involved in the American Revolution,
history of flags from colonial period until present, founding fathers, battles, links,
etc.)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1700-74 / 1775-99)
- U.S. History
Interactive: Constitution ("separation of Church and State; Bill of Rights;
Constitution; Federalist Papers; order of ratification by the states")
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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The New
Nation and Expansion to Pre-Civil War (1784-1849)
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- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- American Colonist's Library, The
("Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History --- An invaluable
collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics,
culture, and ideals ... a massive collection of the literature and documents which were
most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not
available online anywhere.")
- American
West ("from the Frontier and Pioneer days of the Wild West, to today's Modern
West. Featuring: Westward Expansion, Western Trails, America's Freedom Documents, Cowboys,
Indians, Native Americans, Pioneers, Trappers, Scouts, Gunslingers, Outlaws, Gunbattles,
Ghost Towns, Gold & Silver Mining, Saloons, Dodge City, Tombstone, O.K. Corral,
Virginia City, Doc Holliday, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Davy Crocket,
Daniel Boone, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, Roy Rogers, Western
Theme Parks, Western Museums, Western Exhibitions, Western Art & Artifacts, the
Prairie, Buffalo, Horses, Rodeos, Guest Ranches, Wildlife Tours, Stage Coaches, The
Frontier Railroads, River Steam Boats, and anything of interest or of significance west of
the Mississippi River.")
- Archiving Early America
("As you browse through these original documents, you will find it easier to
understand America's early residents, those who shaped and created the early Republic.
These archival materials .. are displayed in their original formats so they can be read
and examined close-up....in detail.")
- Aztec.net: Mexican-American War and
Texas Independence (Mexican viewpoint of these and the Alamo)
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- CUNY: WestWeb ("Under each
topic heading, you will find collections of primary and secondary documents, biographical
and bibliographical resources, lists of hot links to other sites of interest, and
images".. surveying, women, culture, etc.)
- Education First: Donner Online
("use Donner Online to support your ... study of Westward expansion, the Oregon
Trail, or California history.")
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation ("On
August 10, 1846, the act establishing the Smithsonian Institution was passed by Congress
and immediately signed into aw by President James K. Polk. In commemoration .. of that
event, this exhibition looks back at the America of 1846.")
- Exploring Amistad @ Mystic Seaport
("site explores the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how we make history of it ... the
Amistad Revolt was a shipboard uprising off the coast of Cuba that carried itself .. to
the United States--where the Amistad Captives set off an intense legal, political, and
popular debate over the slave trade, slavery, race, Africa, and ultimately America itself
... Discovery ... Timelines ... Library contains
thousands of pages from over 500 primary documents including court documents, journal
entries, and newspaper stories. Each can be viewed in the original print or handwriting or
in transcription ... Teaching
contains curricular adaptations designed for use both in and outside of the
classroom")
- Hal
Morris' Tales of the Early Republic ("a organized collection of essays, original
sources, and reference material about a part of what is called the Early American
Republic. Nearly all of it is about the years from 1815 - 1850, and it is especially
focused on the 1830s.")
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History
Net - Where History Comes Alive on the Web (world history, US history, Civil War,
Great Battles, World War II, etc.)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- History Place: A
New Nation (time line: 1784 to 1790, pictures & links)
- Idaho State U: The Oregon Trail
("a complete compendium on the great western journey," fantastic facts)
- Idaho State U: Gold Rush ("the
greatest adventure the world has ever seen--the California gold rush. This site is your
comprehensive guide to the epic quest for gold")
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- James Madison: His Legacy ("This site
was developed to assist in teaching the early political development of the United States
at James Madison University ... the life of James Madison provides a unique unifying
perspective on the early development of the critical institutions and practices of the
government of the United States ... excess of three hundred documents, mostly primary
sources. Madison was a politician at a time when that term was not an epithet, and
he was also a scholar whose careful reading and preparation set him apart ... site is
organized in a roughly chronological manner:
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Library of Congress: A Century of
Lawmaking for a New Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
("Records of the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and 1st-2nd
Congresses, covering the time period from 1774 to 1793: the Journals of the Continental
Congress, Elliot's Debates, Farrand's Records, the House and Senate Journals, the Senate
Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress, and the Journal of William Maclay. There are
approximately 23,900 pages included.")
- Library of Congress: America's
First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864 ("Broad
topics: African Americans, celebrities and prominent individuals, politics and government
.. More than 650 portrait photographs, including many by the Mathew Brady Studio;
architectural views; street scenes; and occupational portraits")
- Library of Congress:
Railroad Maps of North America - 1820 to 1900 ("Railroad maps documenting the
growth of travel, settlement, industry, and agriculture in the United States. These maps
illustrate the development of cartographic style and technique, as well as highlight the
achievement of early railroaders")
- MCPS: Modern
History - A Soviet Viewpoint ("What is interesting about the book is that it
tells a very different story than is usually presented in American textbooks")
- Oz's Kingdom: The Civil War
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: 19th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: The Donner Party
("1846-1847 .. how .. the Donner Party's story struck down the myth of frontier
idealism .. examine the natural forces and flawed decisions that contributed to the Donner
Party tragedy")
- Smithonian Institute: Mathew Brady's
Portraits (biography, portraits, links)
- U.S. History
Interactive: States of Our Union ("brief look at the history of the states and
their admissions into the Union")
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1775-99 / 1800-24 / 1825-49)
- U of Virginia: Papers of George Washington
(selected "letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by
him")
- U of Virginia: Thomas Jefferson Online
Resources ("More than 1,700 Electronic Texts by or to Jefferson, Quotations,
Bibliographies, The UVa Jefferson Collections, Online Exhibitions with Jefferson Content,
Jefferson Organizations")
- War,
Peace and Security... tremendous Canadian site with tons of info about Canada but also links
for Armed forces of the world, Contemporary conflicts. International organizations,
International relations, Military art and science, Military biography, Military history,
Peace and disarmament ... catalogs of books and periodicals along with full-text
periodicals)
- Women in America 1820-1842
("eighteen travelers included here--Irish, German, Scotch, English, and
French--pieced together form a more complete and varied picture of the life of American
women than can be gleaned from the text of 'Democracy in America' alone.")
- Yale Law School: Papers of
the Presidents of the United States (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, and James Polk) Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
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Old West
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- American
West ("from the Frontier and Pioneer days of the Wild West, to today's Modern
West. Featuring: Westward Expansion, Western Trails, America's Freedom Documents, Cowboys,
Indians, Native Americans, Pioneers, Trappers, Scouts, Gunslingers, Outlaws, Gunbattles,
Ghost Towns, Gold & Silver Mining, Saloons, Dodge City, Tombstone, O.K. Corral,
Virginia City, Doc Holliday, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Davy Crocket,
Daniel Boone, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, Roy Rogers, Western
Theme Parks, Western Museums, Western Exhibitions, Western Art & Artifacts, the
Prairie, Buffalo, Horses, Rodeos, Guest Ranches, Wildlife Tours, Stage Coaches, The
Frontier Railroads, River Steam Boats, and anything of interest or of significance west of
the Mississippi River.")
- American West: Legends ("This
is the home of some of the most famous and notorious lawmen, theives, and murderers of the
American Old West. From Sheriff Wyatt Earp to bandit Jesse James, their tales are
remembered over 100 years later ... Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, Doc Holliday,
Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John
Wesley Hardin, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid ... Time Line, References and Links")
- Aztec.net: Mexican-American War and
Texas Independence (Mexican viewpoint of these and the Alamo)
- Central Pacific Railroad Photgraphic History Museum
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Education First: Donner Online
("use Donner Online to support your ... study of Westward expansion, the Oregon
Trail, or California history.")
- Hanksville
(links to Native American resources on the internet)
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- Idaho State U: The Oregon Trail
("a complete compendium on the great western journey," fantastic facts)
- Idaho State U: Gold Rush ("the
greatest adventure the world has ever seen--the California gold rush. This site is your
comprehensive guide to the epic quest for gold")
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- James Madison U: Internet School
Library Media Center - Native American Author Page ("biography, online e-texts
and critical reviews of selected authors ... biographical information, bibliographies and
other information related to authors and poets of Native American heritage")
- Library of Congress: California as I
Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 ("full
texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history
through eyewitness accounts.")
- Library of Congress:
Railroad Maps of North America - 1820 to 1900 ("Railroad maps documenting the
growth of travel, settlement, industry, and agriculture in the United States. These maps
illustrate the development of cartographic style and technique, as well as highlight the
achievement of early railroaders")
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- Oz's Kingdom: 19th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: The Donner Party
("1846-1847 .. how .. the Donner Party's story struck down the myth of frontier
idealism .. examine the natural forces and flawed decisions that contributed to the Donner
Party tragedy")
- PBS: New Perspectives on the West (Events in
the West [an interactive timeline]: To 1500 | 1500-1650 | 1650-1800 | 1800-1820 |
1820-1830 | 1830-1840 | 1840-1850 | 1850-1860 | 1860-1870 | 1870-1880 | 1880-1890 |
1890-1900 | 1900-1917; pictures, stories, old west links)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1775-99 / 1800-24 / 1825-49)
- Wild West (The Outlaws | The Lawmen
| The Women | The Towns)
- Women in America 1820-1842
("eighteen travelers included here--Irish, German, Scotch, English, and
French--pieced together form a more complete and varied picture of the life of American
women than can be gleaned from the text of 'Democracy in America' alone.")
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Civil War and
Reconstruction (1850-1876)
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- Cabildo Online Exhibit
("Introduction | Native Americans | Colonial Louisiana | Louisiana Purchase |
Territory to Statehood | Battle of New Orleans | Antebellum LA. - Politics | Antebellum
LA. - Immigration | Antebellum LA. - Death & Mourning | Antebellum LA. - Agrarian Life
| Antebellum LA. - Urban Life | Civil War | Reconstruction - A State Divided |
Reconstruction - Change and Continuity")
- Central Pacific Railroad (brief
history)
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Dakota State U: The American
Civil War (lots of links)
- Duke U:
African-American Women ("On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and
texts of the writings of African-American women. Includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson
Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina
plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the
estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia.")
- Duke U: Civil War
Women ("On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the
writings of women during the American Civil War. Includes the 1864 diary of Alice
Williamson, a 16 year old girl from Gallatin, Tennessee, the papers of Rose O'Neal
Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy, and the papers of Sarah E. Thompson, a spy for the
Union.")
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- HarpWeek: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
("Harper's Weekly coverage of the historic 1868 Johnson Impeachment - with over 200
excerpts from 1865-1869")
- HistoryNet - where
history lives on the web (world history; American history; Civil War; personality
profiles; great battles; World War II; arms, armies & intrigue; historic travel;
aviation & technology; links, etc.)
- History Place: A Nation Divided:
The US Civil War 1861-1865 (time line, pictures & links)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: Music for the
Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 ("Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music
registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano
music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and
instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra")
- Library of Congress: Civil War Photos
("contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of
Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and
battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union
officers, and a selection of enlisted men" .. timeline links, many other links)
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Library of Congress: Votes for Women:
Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
("165 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the campaign for Woman
Suffrage .. Broad topics: family, politics and government, women")
- Library of Congress: By Popular
Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 ("Illustrated reference aid
with 38 pictorial portraits and scenes documenting the fight to gain women the vote ..
Broad topics: family, politics and government, women")
- Library of Congress: Taking the Long
View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991 ("About 4,000 panoramic views of
American main streets, landscapes, bathing beauties, disasters, and other events .. Broad
topics: cities and towns, scenic views, group portraits, schools, fairs and expositions,
agriculture, industry, engineering work, military activities, transportation, and
sports.")
- Library of Congress: California as I
Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 ("full
texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history
through eyewitness accounts.")
- Library of Congress: Selected Civil War
Photographs, 1861-1865 ("Broad topics: celebrities and prominent individuals,
cities and towns, industry, scenic views, transportation, war ... 1,100 Civil War
encampments, battlefields, and portraits as captured by Mathew Brady and other
photographers")
- Library of Congress: The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 ("Broad topics: celebrities and
prominent individuals, natural world, politics and government .. Multiformat collection of
photographs, printed works .. and manuscripts documenting the Conservation movement in the
United States. Features an album of paintings, photographs, and scientific and literary
works produced by the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899")
- Library of Congress: A Century of
Lawmaking for a New Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
("Records of the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and 1st-2nd
Congresses, covering the time period from 1774 to 1793: the Journals of the Continental
Congress, Elliot's Debates, Farrand's Records, the House and Senate Journals, the Senate
Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress, and the Journal of William Maclay. There are
approximately 23,900 pages included.")
- Library of Congress: Pioneering the
Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 ("138
volumes portray 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")
- Lousiana
State U: United States Civil War Center ("We are trying to compile ALL Civil War
related links .. have Indexed over 2400 links, and counting!")
- MCPS: Modern
History - A Soviet Viewpoint ("What is interesting about the book is that it
tells a very different story than is usually presented in American textbooks")
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 19th Century
History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- MISD: Lessons and Project - The U.S. Civil
War ("This lesson uses several diary web sites to bring new information about the
U.S. Civil War to students. The lesson includes several activities that students could do
as part of this lesson.")
- National Underground Railroad Freedom
Center - Africans in America (history, pictures, video, links)
- Oz's Kingdom: The Civil War
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: 19th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Plainswar 1876 (lots of pictures and
info on Sitting Bull, Gen.. Custer, Indian accounts of wars, links, etc.)
- Smithonian Institute: Mathew Brady's
Portraits (biography, portraits, links)
- Ulysses S Grant (pictures, bio, nice links,
etc.)
- Union Pacific Railroad: History
(Chronologies & Overviews, Chronological History, Historical Overview, Significant
Individuals, Historical Equipment, Historical Equipment Still in Use, Museums, other
links)
- U.S. History
Interactive: Civil War Page 1861-1865 (links to bios of Northern & Southern main
players, causes of the war, Linocoln bio and quotes, abolitionists, Civil War Firsts, maps
and facts)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1850-74 / 1875-99)
- U of Tennessee: Civil War Homepage
(excellent links ... "gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most
useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War ... links .. are a
metaphor for the interconnections of the War's past with our present and future. Thus,
technology reveals the deep-structure of the human experience and helps to explain the
continuing American fascination with the struggle between North and South, free and
slave.")
- U of Virginia: John Brown
Homepage - John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow (pictures, newspapers, chronology,
conspiracy, etc.)
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- U.S.
Civil War Center (execllent site with extensive links: "Our Mission: To locate,
index, and make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War.
To promote the study of the Civil War from all perspectives of all professions,
occupations and academic disciplines.")
- War,
Peace and Security (Civil War
links ... tremendous Canadian site with tons of info about Canada but also links
for Armed forces of the world, Contemporary conflicts. International organizations,
International relations, Military art and science, Military biography, Military history,
Peace and disarmament ... catalogs of books and periodicals along with full-text
periodicals)
- War Times Journal: Civil War Series
(articles, links, archives, wargames, books, etc.)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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Industrialization
(1877-1915)
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- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 19th Century
History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Duke U: The Urban Landscape Digital
Image Access Project ("database contains 1000 images .. pertaining to the
theme 'The Urban Landscape'")
- Ellis
Island (history of the island and a tour of the museum)
- Francois Micheloud's Strategies of John D.
Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company 1863-1911 ("This text will explain you
the commercial methods used by John D. Rockfeller to conquer and rule the American oil
industry between 1863 and 1911. ... divided in three parts .. structures of the oil
industry at the time of the Standard .. the methods used by Rockfeller .. summarize
chronologically the events")
- Ghost
of the Klondike Gold Rush (records, chronologies and stories)
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- Hanover College: Texts and Documents - The
United States (literature, history, philosophy, theology, politics and web sites for
16th & 17th Centuries | 18th Century | 19th Century | 20th Century)
- History
Net (world history, US history, Civil War,
Great Battles, World War II, etc.)
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- History Place: Child
Labor in America 1908-1912 (time line, pictures & links)
- How the Other Half Lives:
Studies Among the Tenements of New York (info, pictures)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: Historical Eras
(resources, info, pictures, maps, etc.)
- Library of Congress: The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 ("Broad topics: celebrities and
prominent individuals, natural world, politics and government .. Multiformat collection of
photographs, printed works .. and manuscripts documenting the Conservation movement in the
United States. Features an album of paintings, photographs, and scientific and literary
works produced by the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899")
- Library of Congress: The American
Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 (Multiformat collection
of selected materials from the popular stage and allied arts. Photographs and memorabilia
of Houdini; English playscripts; Yiddish playscripts; a selection of playbills and program
books; motion pictures; and sound recordings.")
- Library of Congress: Pioneering the
Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 ("138
volumes portray 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")
- Library of Congress: Early Motion
Pictures, 1897-1920 ("Includes four groupings from the earliest period of the
medium: McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, New York City, San Francisco Before and
After the Great Earthquake and Fire, and The Westinghouse Works")
- Library of Congress: The
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 ("900 photographs of rural and small town life
at the turn of the century .. Broad topics: photographs, North Dakota, farms, rural life,
sod houses, schools, stores, agricultural machinery, children, families, laborers, horses,
oxteams, bison, plowing, threshing, tractors, sleds, snow, clothing, dress, automobiles,
bicycles, carriages, wagons, carts")
- Library of Congress: Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
("25,000 photographs of turn-of-the-century America ... Broad topics: cities and
towns, industry, scenic views, transportation")
- Library of Congress: Taking the Long
View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991 ("About 4,000 panoramic views of
American main streets, landscapes, bathing beauties, disasters, and other events .. Broad
topics: cities and towns, scenic views, group portraits, schools, fairs and expositions,
agriculture, industry, engineering work, military activities, transportation, and
sports.")
- Library of Congress:
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures ("Motion pictures of the Spanish-American
War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution produced between 1898 and 1901")
- Library of Congress:
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920, A Study Collection from the
Harvard Graduate School of Design (Approximately 2800 lantern slides, originally
assembled to support teaching and student presentations in the fields of architecture,
landscape architecture, and urban planning .. Broad topics: scenic views, lantern slides,
architecture, landscape architecture, .. cities and towns, buildings, parks, estates,
gardens")
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Henry Ford Museum Distance Learning Project ("instructional lessons for 4th through 8th grades
students .. to address the concept of technological developments and their affect on
society")
- MISD: Lessons and Project -
Immigrating to America! ("Learn and write about immigration to America in the
late 1880 and the early 1900's")
- MISD: Lessons and Project - The San
Francisco Earthquake of 1906 ("learn more about the great quake")
- Oz's Kingdom: 20th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: The Richest Man in the World:
Andrew Carnegie ("Time Period: 1848-1919 .. Themes: the American Dream, labor,
industrialization, philanthropy, " biography, pictures)
- PBS: TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
("Cowboy, soldier, explorer, scientist-- and president by the age of 42. But behind
the success was a man haunted by tragedy., " biography, pictures)
- PBS: Gold Rush ("1890-1900 .. The
1890s in America were desperate times. Economic depression caused bank and business
failures and forced millions of men and women from their jobs. When gold was discovered in
the frozen unsettled territory between Canada and Alaska, 100,000 people made the
treacherous journey in search of riches.")
- PBS: The Wright Stuff (background of
the Wright brothers, RealAudio file, QuickTime movie, downloadable transcripts)
- PBS: Around the World in 72 Days
("1864-1899 ... journalism, marketing, women's roles, social reform, the Gilded Age,
advocacy .. Nellie Bly .. went on to become known as 'the best reporter in America' ..
continually risked her life to grab headlines ... traveled around the world in just 72
days")
- Union Pacific Railroad: History
(Chronologies & Overviews, Chronological History, Historical Overview, Significant
Individuals, Historical Equipment, Historical Equipment Still in Use, Museums, other
links)
- U of Albany: U.S. Labor and Industrial
History World Wide Web Audio Archive (1896-present, audio files of speeches on labor,
"recordings are drawn from audio archives throughout the world")
- U of Michigan: Making of America ("MOA is a
digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th
century imprints.")
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1875-99 / 1900-24)
- Saint Mary's College: On
the Lower East Side - Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
("collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides ... 1880-1920")
- Smithonian Institute: Theodore
Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century (history, cartoons, pictures)
- Wall
of Honor (names of immigrants who came through Ellis Island that have been inscribed
on the wall ... search for a name)
- War,
Peace and Security (tremendous Canadian site with tons of info about Canada but also links
for Armed forces of the world, Contemporary conflicts. International organizations,
International relations, Military art and science, Military biography, Military history,
Peace and disarmament ... catalogs of books and periodicals along with full-text
periodicals)
- wNetStation: Lower East Side
Tenement Museum (history, laws, excavation / restoration, panoaramic movies and
pictures of New York City's Lower East Side tenements)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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Modern
United States and World War I (1916-1928)
(also see World History: World War I)
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- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro ("A
Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 ... the premier journal of social work in America in
the 1920s ... a special issue devoted to the African American "Renaissance"
underway in Harlem ... the first of several attempts to formulate a political and cultural
representation of the New Negro and the Harlem community")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History
Net - Where History Comes Lives on the Web (world history, US history, Civil War,
Great Battles, World War II, etc.)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: American Leaders
Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920 ("Political
speeches by American leaders during World War I and the presidential election of 1920 ..
Broad topics: celebrities and prominent individuals, industry, labor, war.")
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Louise Brooks Society: Flapper Culture and
Style - Louise Brooks and the Jazz Age (silent film star Brooks, pictures, cartoons,
links)
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- Music, Art and Culture of the
1920s (brief history, links)
- Old-Time Radio: Radio History (1918-1945,
"examples of old-time radio during its developmental period ... first-hand memories,
gleanings from radio archives and other sources")
- Oz's Kingdom: World War I (lots of
links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: 20th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Past Patterns - The Historical Pattern Company
(commercial site but with a lot of clothing drawings from 1830's to 1920's, pattern size
information, buttons, FAQs, related links)
- PBS: Influenza, 1918 ("Time
Period: 1918 .. Themes: influenza epidemic of 1918, World War I, public health policy,
history of medicine .. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic
that killed 675,000--more than in all the wars of this century combined--before
disappearing as mysteriously as it began.")
- PBS:
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (interviews, pictures, interactive
timeline with links, maps, and searcher for specific place, battle, person or date)
- President Wilson's Declaration of War
speech
- Roaring Twenties - An overview of one
of the wildest periods in American history (topics: Art, Music, Literature, and
Recreation; Prohibition; Politics; Industrialization; Famous Trials; 1920's Trivia)
- World
War I: Trenches on the Web ("information on the people, places, and events that
comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history. Entire kingdoms were to
vanish in the clash. The map makers of the world would be busy indeed! ... explore the
"The Great War" at your own pace and in your own manner ... Reference Library .. is a complete catalog
of everything out here")
- World War I Document Archive (excellent site,
sections: Armory; Biographies Index; Document Archive; Artwork; Map Room, Multimedia
files; Photo Archive; Posters from The Great War; Reviews of Great War Related Books /
Documentaries & Movies/Videos; Timeline Index; Trivia; War Atlas Index)
- U of Memphis: Radio Archive
(1920-present, "this radio collection from original transcriptions, private
collectors and other institutional collections ... goal was to preserve for research and
scholarship what people had once heard over American radio. It was decided not to attempt
to collect every program of every series which exists, but a representative sampling of
most series and shows.," history of broadcasting, links)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1900-24 / 1925-49
- U of Virginia:
World War I - Neutrality (also, The War At Home,
Entering the
War, The Home
Front, Aftermath)
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- War Times Journal: The Great War Series
(articles, links, archives, wargames, books, etc.)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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The Great
Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
(also see World
History: World War II)
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- A-Bomb Museum (pictures, sounds, stories,
links, etc.)
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- EarthStation1
("the Internet's #1 sound & picture archive of the audio-visual history of the
media age" ... World War II
aircraft, historical sounds and
pictures, Holocaust Pictures Page,
etc.)
- Encyclopedia
Britannica: Normandy, 1944 (excellent multimedia coverage of the "buildup,
invasion, fighting inland, breakout, Normandy in memory")
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- History
and Politics Out Loud ("HPOL is a collection of invaluable audio materials
some available for the first time on this website capturing significant
political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials
range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone
conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. Our aim is
to provide an accessible source of audio information to enliven instruction and
scholarship in history and politics and to enable easy access for all persons to the rich
audio archives of American history and politics.")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- HistoryNet - where
history lives on the web (world history; American history; Civil War; personality
profiles; great battles; World War II; arms, armies & intrigue; historic travel;
aviation & technology; links, etc.)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- History Place: U.S.
in World War II in the Pacific (time line, pictures & links)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: America from the
Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
("Nearly 45,000 black-and-white and 1,600 color photographs from the Farm Security
Administration-Office of War Information .. emphasizing rural life, the Great Depression,
farm mechanization, the Dust Bowl, and the mobilization effort for World War II. Broad
topics: African Americans, agriculture, cities and towns, ethnicity, family, industry,
labor, scenic views, transportation, war, women")
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Library of Congress: Voices from
the Dust Bowl ("Multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting the
everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central
California in 1940 and 1941 ... audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials,
publications, and ephemera ... Broad topics: music, ethnicity, labor, work camps,
California, recreation, camp council meetings, court proceedings, conversations,
storytelling, narratives, Dust Bowl refugees.")
- Library of Congress: The New Deal
Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 ("Playscripts,
production materials, photographs, and administrative records selected from the output of
a New Deal WPA arts project. Broad topics: celebrities and prominent individuals, the
arts, comedy and drama, music, recreation. ")
- Library of Congress: Built in
America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record,
1933-Present (Drawings, photographs and written histories documenting achievements in
architecture, engineering, and design in the United States. Representing about 35,000
sites. Broad topics: bridges, commercial and residential buildings, courthouses and civic
structures, estates, farms and ranches, historic sites, industry and transportation
facilities, military bases, monuments, religious buildings, urban and rural
structures.")
- Library of Congress: American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 (Typescript
interviews .. offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life. Broad
topics: African Americans, agriculture, cities and towns, emigration and immigration,
ethnicity, family, industry, labor, recreation, women")
- Lindbergh Case - Trial of the Century (info
on kidnapping and trial, photographs, archives, links, timeline)
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- Old-Time Radio: Radio History (1918-1945,
"examples of old-time radio during its developmental period ... first-hand memories,
gleanings from radio archives and other sources")
- Oz's Kingdom: World War II (lots of
links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: Riding the Rails (1929-1941 ..
At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million teenagers were living
on the road in America, many criss-crossing the country by illegally hopping freight
trains .. tells the story of ten of these teenage hobos; from the reasons they left home
to what they experienced, all within the context of depression-era America.")
- PBS: D-Day (links, letters from the
front, battle info, etc.)
- PBS: Surviving the Dust Bowl
("1931-1939 .. Lured by the promise of rich, plentiful soil, thousands of settlers
came to the Southern Plains, bringing farming techniques that worked well in the North and
East. The farmers subsequently plowed millions of acres of grassland, only to have the
rains stop in the summer of 1931. The catastrophic eight-year drought that followed led
observers to rename the region 'The Dust Bowl.'")
- U of Memphis: Radio Archive
(1920-present, "this radio collection from original transcriptions, private
collectors and other institutional collections ... goal was to preserve for research and
scholarship what people had once heard over American radio. It was decided not to attempt
to collect every program of every series which exists, but a representative sampling of
most series and shows.," history of broadcasting, links)
- U
of North Carolina: World War II Resources ("Primary source materials on the Web.
Original documents regarding all aspects of the war .. over 1,000 internal links")
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1925-49)
- U of Washington:
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project (TONs of links in addition to this
"multifaceted project .. [that] provides enhanced access to the UW Libraries holdings
on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II")
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- What did you do in the War, Grandma?:
An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II (interviews, timeline,
links, "Written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High
School ")
- Yale Law School: Papers of
the Presidents of the United States (Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project:
World War II Documents (excellent, extensive set of resources)
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Postwar &
Korean War & Postwar (1946-1961)
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- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- Hanover College: Hanover Historical Texts
Project (world & US history .. "aim is to make primary texts readily
available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The
texts scanned for the project are all in public domain")
- History
and Politics Out Loud ("HPOL is a collection of invaluable audio materials
some available for the first time on this website capturing significant
political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials
range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone
conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. Our aim is
to provide an accessible source of audio information to enliven instruction and
scholarship in history and politics and to enable easy access for all persons to the rich
audio archives of American history and politics.")
- History in Song (song
words, links)
- History
Net - Where History Comes Lives on the Web (world history, US history, Civil War,
Great Battles, World War II, etc.)
- History Place (excellent site US &
World history, time lines, pictures, info & links)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: Buckaroos in
Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 ("Broad topics:
buckaroos, buildings, cattle, cowboys, employment, farm machinery, foodways, haying,
horses, immigration, landscapes, Native Americans, ranching, rodeos, war.")
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- Library of Congress: Carl Van Vechten
Photographs ("1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten
(1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964 .. portrait photographs of celebrities, including many
figures from the Harlem Renaissance" and some landscapes)
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- Oz's Kingdom: Cold War thru Desert
Storm (lots of links for Korean War, Vietnam & Desert Storm, teacher resources,
etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: 20th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Project
Whistlestop (Harry S Truman archives: his papers, photos, life, etc.)
- Seattle Times: Fifty Years from Trinity
("On July 16, 1945, a brilliant flash in the New Mexico desert changed the world. In
the 50 years since history's first atomic explosion .. the history, impacts and future of
atomic weapons and nuclear power")
- U of Memphis: Radio Archive
(1920-present, "this radio collection from original transcriptions, private
collectors and other institutional collections ... goal was to preserve for research and
scholarship what people had once heard over American radio. It was decided not to attempt
to collect every program of every series which exists, but a representative sampling of
most series and shows.," history of broadcasting, links)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1925-49 / 1950-74)
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- Yale Law School: Papers of
the Presidents of the United States (Harry S Truman)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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Vietnam War
Era (1962-1970)
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- Chris DeWitt's Berlin
Wall Website (essay, picures, archives, links)
- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- History
and Politics Out Loud ("HPOL is a collection of invaluable audio materials
some available for the first time on this website capturing significant
political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials
range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone
conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. Our aim is
to provide an accessible source of audio information to enliven instruction and
scholarship in history and politics and to enable easy access for all persons to the rich
audio archives of American history and politics.")
- History Place: Apollo
11 Lunar Mission (time line, pictures & links)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- MISD: Lessons and Project - Vietnam: A
Soldier's Perspective: ("most materials in textbooks tend to view the anti-war
side of Vietnam. They seem to encourage the stereotypes created in the media. The movies,
especially, have created an extremely negative view of the Vietnam Veteran on whom the
loss of the war was incorrectly blamed.")
- Oz's Kingdom: Cold War thru Desert
Storm (lots of links for Korean War, Vietnam & Desert Storm, teacher resources,
etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: 20th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: Vietnam Online (downloadable
transcripts: Roots of a War | America's Mandarin | LBJ Goes to War | America Takes Charge
| America's Enemy | The Tet Offensive | Vietnamizing the War | Cambodia and Laos | Peace
is a at Hand | Homefront USA | The End of the Tunnel )
- U of Berlin: Berlin Wall
(1.Background, 2.Construction, 3.Measurements, 4.Fall, 5.Memorial and links)
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1950-74)
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- U.S. Census Burreau:
Voting and Registration (1964-present, "Information on reported voting and
registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics .. Detailed
information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected areas is listed below.
Projections of the voting-age population by age, race, Hispanic origin, and gender")
- Vietnam
Veterans Home Page ("Purpose: To honor Vietnam Veterans, living and dead, who
served their country on either side of the conflict. Mission: To provide an
interactive, on-line forum for Vietnam Veterans and their families and friends to exchange
information, stories, poems, songs, art, pictures, and experiences in any publishable
form." ... maps, links)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
- Yale Law
School: Avalon Project: The Cuban Missile Crisis - Foreign Relations of the United States:
1961-1963 .. Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath (links, memoranda, editorials, people,
etc.)
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Contemporary
United States (1971-Present)
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- Costumer's
Manifesto: One-stop Site for Costume Information and Images (excellent site for the
costumes of the period ... from Babylon to Present ... links)
- History
and Politics Out Loud ("HPOL is a collection of invaluable audio materials
some available for the first time on this website capturing significant
political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials
range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone
conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. Our aim is
to provide an accessible source of audio information to enliven instruction and
scholarship in history and politics and to enable easy access for all persons to the rich
audio archives of American history and politics.")
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Modern History Sourcebook | Modern History Course
- Library of Congress: Words &
Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years (Pre-1775 | 1775-1799 | 1800-1824 | 1825-1849 | 1850-1874 | 1875-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-Present)
- About.com:
American History (tons of links)
- About.com: 20th Century
History (tons of links)
- Oz's Kingdom: Cold War thru Desert
Storm (lots of links for Korean War, Vietnam & Desert Storm, teacher resources,
etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: 20th Century America
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: Troublesome Creek
("1985-1990 .. By the late 1980s, Iowa farmers Russ and Mary Jane Jordan had
accumulated a large debt. Faced with losing their farm, The Jordans came up with a
dramatic solution to hold onto their family farm as massive foreclosures swept the
nation.")
- PBS: RegardingVietnam - Stories Since the
War (personal accounts / stories)
- U of Albany: U.S. Labor and Industrial
History World Wide Web Audio Archive (1896-present, audio files of speeches on labor,
"recordings are drawn from audio archives throughout the world")
- U of Oklahoma: A Chronology of US Historical
Documents (1950-74 / 1975-Present)
- U.S. Census Burreau:
Voting and Registration (1964-present, "Information on reported voting and
registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics .. Detailed
information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected areas is listed below.
Projections of the voting-age population by age, race, Hispanic origin, and gender")
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History ("the official history of the Army in both peace
and war ... traces its lineage back to the work of those historians .. who compiled .. a
monumental documentary history of the Civil War begun in 1874, and to a similar work on
World War I" .. pictures, links, etc.)
- U.S.
Navy: Naval Historical Center ("the official history program of the Department of
the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library
by President John Adams. The Center now includes a museum, art gallery, research library,
archives, and curator as well as research and writing program")
- WashingtonPost.com:
The Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides (3rd article, links
to 1st & 2nd, links)
- WashingtonPost.com:
Watergate ("refresh your memory with a timeline and take a look at what happened
to some of the key players in the case .. also analyze the suspects in the mystery of Deep
Throat .. two memoirs of what it was like inside The Washington Post at the time .. full
text of a selection of Post Watergate stories")
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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