United States History
American Studies Sites
- History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
- Locating Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
- Using Primary Sources on the Web (Reference and User Services Association, History Section, American Library Association)
- Internet Country Codes
- Resources (Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University)
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- America at a Crossroads (PBS)
- World Press Review
- Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
- Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, sixth edition edited by Peter N. Stearns (Bartleby.com)
- Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
- American Historians [oral history interviews] (Oral History Research Office, Columbia University)
- Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center,
University of Virginia Library)
- Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research (University of Houston)
- National Digital Newspaper Program
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Modern Library
- nationmaster.com [statistical comparisons among countries by category]
- Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Essex Human Rights Review
- Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
- Books for Understanding Current Topics (American Association of University Presses)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- The History E-Book Project (American Council of Learned Societies)
- National Digital Newspaper Program
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
- Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
- Historicale: weblog maintained by The Historical Society
- UNESCO Archives Portal
- Facing History and Ourselves: Examining History and Human Behavior
- Guide to Archives and Historical Collections in the Washington [D.C.] Metropolitan Area (German
Historical Institute)
- Opportunities in American Studies (American Studies Crossroads Project)
- U.S. and World Politics, Culture, and History
(University of Maryland)
- American Studies Association
- American Quarterly
- Canadian Association for American Studies
- International American Studies Association
- European Association for American Studies
- British Association for American Studies
- American Studies Web (American Studies
Association)
- American Studies WWW Server (Yale University)
- American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown University)
- American Studies Programs on the Web: Programs Inside the United States (by state)
- American Studies Programs on the Web: Programs Outside the United States (by country)
- American Studies Association of Turkey
- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
- Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
- Americana: The Journal of
American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present
- ASRP: American Studies Research Portal: An Online Resource for American Studies Researchers in the UK
- ARNet: On-line Resources for American Studies (American Studies Resources Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
- Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London, United Kingdom)
- Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies (American Quarterly)
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- American Catholic Historical Society
- United States Catholic Historical Society
- U.S. Catholic Documentary Heritage Archives
- Immigration & Ethnic History Society
- International Digital Media & Arts Association
- International Digital & Media Arts Association Journal
- American Studies Center of the Salzburg Seminar, Austria)
- Americana in German Archives: A Guide to Primary Sources Concerning the History of the United States and Canada (German Historical Institute)
- Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Salzburg Seminar, American Studies Center, Austria
- Research Institute for European and American Studies
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
- American Studies in the Secondary Schools
(Crossroads/American Studies Association Secondary Schools Committee)
- Americana :The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
- Norman Lear Center: Exploring Implications of the Convergence of Entertainment, Commerce, and Society
(University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication)
- A Hypertext on American History: From Revolution to Reconstruction, a WWW Project in Collective Writing
(University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Journal of American Studies (sponsored by the British Association for American Studies)
- Journal of American Studies of Turkey
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress: A Selective Guide
- Center for U.S. Studies (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
- Literature@SunSITE (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
- Writing Black (literature and history written by and about African Americans)
(Keele University, United Kingdom)
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)
- Women Physicians, 1850's-1970's (Archives and Special Collections, College of Medicine Drexel University)
- Encyclopedia of the Midwest
- American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming
- Center of the American West (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans
- Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture (State and University Library at Goettingen, Germany)
- Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (Georgetown
University)
- Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
(Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture, Georgetown University)
- National Portrait Galley Exhibitions (Smithsonian Institution)
- Virtual Exhibitions at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
- NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)
- American Studies Programs (U.S. Information Agency)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau) [.pdf format]
- Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Connect to GPO Access Databases (U.S. Government Printing Office)
- United States Government Manual (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Helpful Hints for Searching the U.S. Government Manual
- "Historiography of American Political History" (R.J. Jensen)
- Political History On-Line (R. Jensen)
- The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- U.S. Politics Gopher (Northwestern University)
- The Democracy Project (PBS)
- Election '98 (The Democracy Project, PBS)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- State and Local Government on the Internet
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet)
- U.S. Election Campaign Information
- Electoral Studies (University of North Texas)
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
- Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
- Policy.com: The Policy.Community online
- Policy.com Community
- Think Tanks (Policy.com)
- Electronic Policy Network
- Election Connection '96 (The Atlantic Monthly)
- Cap Web: A Guide to the U.S. Congress
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
- Center for Legislative Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Congressional Quarterly
- The Great American Web Site (Inside Information, Inc.)
- Geography (About.com)
- Building the 48 States
(University of Wisconsin)
- United States Government--States (Policy.com)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- Tennessee State Government Officials (Policy.com)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Beyond the 49th Parallel II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Higher Education Resource Hub
General U. S. History
- Internet Tutorials (University of Albany Libraries)
- History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
- Historicale: weblog maintained by The Historical Society
- Eyewitness to History.com: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
- American Historians [oral history interviews] (Oral History Research Office, Columbia University)
- Talking History: A Radio Show
(Departments of History, University of Albany, SUNY and Creighton University and WRPI-FM)
- History Matters: The US [History] Survey Course on the Web
(American Social History Project/Center for History and the New Media)
- WWW-VL History: United States
- Academic Info U.S. History Page
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
- America's Story from America's Library (Library of Congress)
- National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
- Pluralism and Unity (Michigan State University and H-Net
- American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers University)
- History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale Group)
- Making History on the Web: Creating On-Line Materials for Teaching
(University of Virginia)
- HNSource--Central Information Server for Historians
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to American History
(University of Wisconsin)
- Links to U.S. History Related Sites
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Making of America Project (Cornell
Digital Library)
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- The Making of America (University of Michigan)
- Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- The Historical New York Times Project
- Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age
- Speech Archives (The History Channel)
- American Journey Online
(Primary Source Media) [subscription required]
- Virginia Center for Digital History (University of Virginia)
- Hypertexts @ the University of Virginia
- Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
- H-Net WWW Web History Pages Directory
- Historical Text Archive
(D. Mabry)
- [United States] Historical Documents (THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet)
- A Chronology of US Historical Documents
(University of Oklahoma Law Center)
- U.S. Historical Documents Archive
- State and Regional Gateway (H-Net)
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Famous American Trials
(University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)
- Association of Historians of American Art
- U.S. History Out Loud (Oyez, Oyez, Oyez at Northwestern
University)
- History of Education (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
U.S. History Textbooks and Course Syllabi Online
Major Documents of United States History
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (U.S. Government Printing Office)
- Constitution Day, September 17, 1787 (National Archives and Records Administration)
- The Annotated Constitution (GPO/Congressional Record Service)
- "Special Issue on the Constitution," Common-Place: A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice, July 2002
- Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- Making of America Project (Cornell
Digital Library)
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
- Writing Black (literature and history written by and about African Americans)
(Keele University, United Kingdom)
- Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
Editor: Robert H. Bremner
Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
- Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)
- The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
Voter Registration Information
U.S. Election Campaign Information
Registration and Voting Information for Tennessee Residents
Presidents in U.S. History
- APSA Net: The American Political Science Association On-line
- Political Resources on the Net
- FirstGov: Your First Click to the U.S. Government
- Government Guide: Government Services Made Easy
- Center for the Study of the Presidency
- Guide to Political Research (Center for the Study of the Presidency)
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library)
- The American Presidency: Selected Resources (R. Matlick)
- American Presidents: Life Portraits (C-Span)
- C-Span Survey of Presidential Leadership (American Presidents: Life Portraits)
- The American President (PBS)
- The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden (National Museum of American History)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
- The Presidents (The American Experience, PBS)
- Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
(American Memory, Library of
Congress)
- Presidential Preview (American Memory, Lib. of Congress)
- The Presidents of the United States
- Getting the Message Out: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Northern Illinois University)
- Presidential Elections: 1860-1996
(Geographic Information Center, University of Virginia Library)
- The Presidential Elections,
1860-1912 (HarpWeek)
- Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
- The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000 (American Museum of the Moving Image)
- Presidential TV Ads, 1960-1996 (J.G. Geer, Vanderbilt University)
- Presidential Market 2004: Where the Futures are Political (Frontline, PBS and KCET)
- The American Presidency (Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Interactive)
- Presidential Elections and the Electoral College (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Academic American Encyclopedia articles on The American Presidency (Grolier Online)
- Hall of Presidents (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
- Vice Presidents.com
- The White House (National Park Service)
- The White House Historical Association
- White House History and Tours
(Information about White House, Presidents, and First Ladies)
- The First Ladies of the United States (Official White House site)
- President site (Sunsite)
- First Ladies (Presidential Libraries IDEA Network)
- National First Ladies Library (Canton, Ohio)
- "I Do Solemnly Swear...":Presidential Inaugurations (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby Library)
- Archive of Presidential Speeches (The American Presidency)
- Eyewitness Records (Pacific Multimedia Corp.)
- U.S. Presidents (Inaugural, State of the Union, and Farewell Addresses since 1789)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
- State of the Union Archive (Since 1934) (Northwestern University)
- 1997 State of the Union Address
-
Scandals Throughout Presidential History (Washington Post)
- Conferences on the American Presidency (Hofstra University)
- Dead Presidents (includes pictures of presidential burial sites)
- White House Offices and Agencies (Official site)
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- U.S. Capitol Historical Society (Washington, D.C.)
The Congress in U.S. History
United States Supreme Court Decisions
U.S. Diplomatic History
- Watching America.com: Discover What the World Thinks about U.S.
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- America at a Crossroads (PBS)
- Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs
- World Press Review
- Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
- nationmaster.com [statistical comparisons among countries by category]
- Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
- World History Resource Center (Thomson/Wadsworth)
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
- Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
- War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
-
- Timeline of [United States] Diplomatic History (U.S. State Department)
- Flags of the World
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
- SHAFR Roster and Research List
- Diplomatic History
- American Diplomacy
- Foreign Policy
- H-DIPLO-DIPLOMATIC HISTORY (H-Net list, Michigan State University)
- Diplomatic History Links (H-DIPLO)
- The National Interest
- Documents in International Relations (Mount Holyoke College)
- Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, Pre-1898 (Mount Holyoke College)
- Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (Mount Holyoke College)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
- Foreign Relations [of the United States], FRUS
(U.S. State Department)
- U.S. Diplomatic Historians Web Page Index
- U.S. Diplomatic History Index (N. Sarantakes)
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Conscientious Objection in America: Primary Sources for Research
(A.M. Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
- The Council on Foreign Relations
- Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
- Foreign Policy Association
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Cold War (CNN Perspectives)
- Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson Center)
- Cold War International History Project Electronic Bulletin
- Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
- Cold War International History Project Bulletin (Adobe .pdf format) (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
- Red Files (PBS)
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Declassified Documents Index and Abstracts Online [subscription required]
(Primary Source Media)
- Declassified Documents Reference
System-US (Primary Source Media)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown
University/Organization of American States)
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
- The European Union Agenda 2000
- NATO Pictorial History Database
(NATO Office of Information and Press Media Library)
- Information Sources on Bosnia
- Patterns of Global Terrorism (Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
- Terrorism Knowledge Bank (National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism)
- America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
- START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
(U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
- Combating Terrorism Center at [U.S. Military Academy,] West Point
- U.S.-China Summit 1998 (New York Times)
- TransAfrica Forum
- American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
(Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
- Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power,"
Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
- Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
- The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant
Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
- Frontline documentary series (PBS)
- The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
- The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
- Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
- Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on
Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
- Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
- The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
- Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
- America at a Crossroads (PBS)
- Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
- North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
-
Korean Peninsula information (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
- War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
- Essex Human Rights Review
U.S. Military History
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
(National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.)
- The History Page
(Military.com)
- Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
- National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
- Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
- Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
- Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
- Books for the Military Professional (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Combined Arms Research Library (U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Books for the Military Professional (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Guide to the Study and Use of Military History by John E. Jessup, Jr. and Robert W. Coakley (1988)
- Bibliographies and Special Lists (Combined Arms Research Library)
- Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- MERLN (Military Education Research Library Network, National Defense University)
- Military.com
- Armed Forces History (Smithsonian Institution)
-
U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List
- Leavenworth Papers (Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS>
- Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
- Strategy Page (J. Dunnigan)
- War Letters (American Experience, PBS)
- Belle & Blade War Video
- U.S. Naval Historical Center (Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island)
- U.S. Naval Institute (Annapolis, Maryland)
- National Museum of the [U.S.] Marine Corps
- Marine Corps Gazette
- U.S. Army Center of Military History (Washington, D.C.)
- United States Military Academy (West Point, New York)
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
- U.S. Army War College and Military History Institute (Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania)
- Military History
- Staff Rides and Events (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York)
- Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
- Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
- The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant
Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
- Frontline documentary series (PBS)
- The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
- Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
[official site with mostly untranslated primary source documents capture by U.S. Army]
- Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on
Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
- Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
- The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
- Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
- The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
- Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
- America at a Crossroads (PBS)
- Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
- North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
-
Korean Peninsula information (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
- Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
U.S. National Defense and Security Sites
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
- War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
- Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
- National Security Study Group (The Hart-Rudman Commission)
- U.S. Department of State (Official site)
- Top of the News (Official site for U.S. State Department current policy)
- Recruitment for U.S. State Department
- U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (includes text of many treaties)
- DefenseLINK (U.S. Department of Defense Official site)
- The Pentagon Book Store
- Center for Defense Information
- National Security Council (Official site)
- The Intelligence Community (Official site)
- The Central Intelligence Agency (Official site)
- Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
- National Reconnaissance Office (Official Site)
- Patterns of Global Terrorism (Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
- START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
(U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
- Strategic Intelligence Links (Loyola College)
- Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- United States Navy History: A Bibliography (Naval Historical Center)
- U.S. Coast Guard (Official site)
- U.S. Coast Guard Historical Bibliography (U.S.
Coast Guard official site)
- DoD Celebrates African American History Month (U.S. Department of Defense)
- History of Black Military Service
(Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
U.S. Social History
- Eyewitness to History.com: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
- Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Social Change site (E. Shackman)
- Pluralism and Unity (Michigan State University and H-Net
- National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
- A History of American Agriculture, 1776-1990
(Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (Cornell University)
- American Folk
- Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project (Michigan State University)
- American Religious Experience Project (West Virginia University)
- Martin Marty Center, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (University of Chicago Divinity School)
- American Catholic Historical Society
- United States Catholic Historical Society
- U.S. Catholic Documentary Heritage Archives
- State and Regional Gateway (H-Net)
- Encyclopedia of the Midwest
- Journal of Southern Religion
- Social Welfare History Archives (University of Minnesota)
- PBS History (Public Broadcasting Service)
- American Social History Project (City University of New York)
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- The Lost Museum [P.T. Barnum museum, 1841-1865] (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
- Studs Terkel: Conservations with America
- History and Media Institute (University of Albany, SUNY)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Labor History Bibliography (T.G. Borden, OAH Magazine of History)
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi,
University of Albany, SUNY)
- WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Walter P. Reuther Library (Wayne State University)
- Industrial Relations Libraries, Urban and Labor Archive Links (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- Tamiment Institute Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives (Bobst Library, New York University)
- Reference Sources in U.S. Labor Studies (Bobst Library, New York
University)
- Wisconsin Labor History Society
- Southern Labor Archives (Georgia State University)
- Center for Working-Class Studies (Youngstown State University)
- Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (K.L. Callahan)
- Native American History and Studies
- African-American History and Studies
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler,
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
- 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
(Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
- African-Americans the the U.S. Navy (Navy Historical Center)
- Timeline Special: Women in the United States (New York Times Magazine)
- American Women's History: A Research Guide
(Middle Tennessee State University)
- Women Physicians, 1850's-1970's (Archives and Special Collections, College of Medicine Drexel University)
- Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
- Immigration & Ethnic History Society
- Asian American Resources (M.I.T.)
- National Association of Ethnic Studies
- Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery, Yale University)
- Course Syllabi Resource Bank (Institute on Race and Ethnicity,
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee)
- Views of the Famine
- Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850
(University of Virginia)
- The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (PBS)
- Ellis Island Museum (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
- Save Ellis Island
- Explore Your Family History at Ellis Island (records of immigrants arriving in 1892-1924 period)
- Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
- Port of Entry: Immigration Teaching Material (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Immigration (Ethic-America-On-Line)
- Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
- Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide to Published Sources (Library of Congress)
- History,
Genealogy and Education (U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service)
- From Melting Pot to Mosaic: The Changing Role of Immigration in American Life
(Salzburg Seminar, American Studies Center, Austria)
- FEEFHS: Web Site for Central and East European Genealogy
- American Italian Historical Association
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
- Polish American Historical Association
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY)
- American Jewish Historical Society (Waltham, MA)
- Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (Hebrew Union College)
- Jewish Women’s Archive
- The Carpathian Connection (genealogy focus)
- Asian American Studies Center (UCLA)
- National Council of La Raza: Making a Difference for Hispanic Americans
- American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
- 100 Titles: A Basic Library on Japanese Americans (Japanese American National Museum)
- Center for Hawaiian Studies (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
- United States Historical Census Data Browser [1790-1970]
- United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
- From the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- History Page (Social Security Administration)
- L. Gordon, "Share-Holders in Relief: The Political Culture of the Public Sector"
(Russell Sage Foundation)
- Disability History Project
- Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
- Occupational Employment Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Money Income in the United States:
(U.S. Census Bureau)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- Poverty in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
- Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Martin Scorsese presents The Blues (PBS, 2003)
- Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
- Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Native Ground Music
- Folk Music Archives
- Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- International Bluegrass Music Museum (Owensboro, Kentucky)
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939
Southern States Recording Tour (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
- Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Ciivil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
- Radical History and Politics
- Diversity (D. Boals)
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Gender History and Studies
- Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the National
Portrait Gallery
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (SUNY, Binghamton)
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
- Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)
- The Pill (American Experience, PBS)
- Women in Politics
(University of Maryland, College Park)
- Center for the American Woman and Politics (Rutgers University)
- Women and the Welfare State Bibliography (P. Roper)
- Society for the History of Children and Youth
- Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
Editor: Robert H. Bremner
Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
- History of Education/Childhood Research Project Database
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Progress of Nations 1997 (UNICEF)
- Childhood Under Threat: State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF)
- Connect for Kids: Guidance for Grown-Ups
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
- El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY)
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
- Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) (SUNY, Albany)
- LatinoWeb
- Making Faces, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist homepage
- The Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
- Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (American RadioWorks)
- Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues (National Public Radio)
- Communal Studies Association
- Communal Studies Bibliography (Communal Studies Association)
- FestivalFinder (Music Festivals of North America)
- McGuinn's Folk Den (R. McGuinn)
Public Opinion Polling and Research
Historical Sounds Sites
- Studs Terkel: Conservations with America
- History and Politics: Out Loud
- History and MultiMedia Center
(Department of History, University of Albany, SUNY)
- Vincent Voice Library (Michigan State University)
- National Gallery of the Spoken Word (Michigan State University)
- Historical Speeches Archive (Webcorp) [Mostly modern U.S. History]
- Surfing the Aether (A Brief History of Radio)
- Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (American RadioWorks)
- Library of American Broadcasting (University of Maryland Libraries)
- Radio Days: A Soundbite History
- The Newsfilm Libary at the University of South Carolina
- Yesterday USA Superstation OnLine (radio shows from the 1920s through the 1950s)
[requires RealPlayer audio/video player]
- Eyewitness Records (Pacific Multimedia Corp.) [mostly post-1945 U.S. Political/Presidential speeches]
- J. M. Mancini, "Vox Pop: Reviving the Folk Revival," Common-Place 3 (October 2002)
- Native Ground Music
- History of Country Music (Roughstock Productions)
- U.S. History Out Loud (Oyez, Oyez, Oyez at Northwestern
University)
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive (G. Zahavi,
University of Albany, SUNY)
- LBJ in the Oval Office (RealAudio sound file format)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (American RadioWorks)
- Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues (National Public Radio)
- International Bluegrass Music Museum (Owensboro, Kentucky)
- FestivalFinder (Music Festivals of North America)
- Live Radio and Television from Around the World (Broadcast-live.com)
Oral History
- Studs Terkel: Conservations with America
- Using Oral History (Library of Congress)
- Historical Speeches Archive (Webcorp) [mostly U.S. History]
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- U.S. History Out Loud (Oyez, Oyez, Oyez at Northwestern
University)
- H-ORALHIST network (H-Net)
- Oral History Association
- Oral History Review
- An Introductory Bibliography of Oral History Sources
(Martha Ross Center for Oral History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
- Oral History Techniques and Procedures (S.E. Everett, Center of Military History)
- Tips on Doing Oral History Interviews
- Oral History Links on the Web
(Townsend Oral History Working Group, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)
- Oral History Internet Resources (Michigan Oral History Association)
- Oral History Links (Utah State University Oral History Program)
- Oral History Program (Utah State University)
- Southern Oral History Program (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Oral History Sites and Resources
(Georgia Government Documentation Project, Georgia State
University)
- Oral History sites on line (George Mason University)
- Regional Oral History Research Project (UC, Santa Cruz)
- Regional Oral History Office (Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)
- Suffragists Oral History Project
(University of California Berkeley Library)
- Center for Life Stories Preservation (St. Paul, MN)
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi,
University of Albany, SUNY)
- Oral History and Folklore of the Miami Valley, Ohio (Miami University)
- Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
- Oral History Archives of World War II (Rutgers University)
- Historical Archives, Eisenhower Center for American Studies (University of New Orleans)
- What did you do in the war, Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II (South Kingston High School)
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Ciivil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
Living History and Historical Reenacting
U.S. History by Subject/Time Period
Pre-Historic, Colonial, and Revolutionary Era U.S. History
- Ancient Mexico.com: The Art, Culture, and History of Ancient Mesoamerica
- Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (K.L. Callahan)
- Mystery of the Maya (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
- Mystery of the Maya
- Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts
- Native American History and Studies
- The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction [14th to mid-19th centuries]
- Early Printed Books on Religion from Colonial Spanish America, 1543-c. 1800 (holdings from the British Library
- International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (B. Bailyn, Harvard University)
- Transatlantic History program,
University of Texas, Austin
- Columbus and the Age of Discovery
(Millersville University)
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, & the American Frontier [In English and Spanish] (Library of Congress)
- The Spanish Missions of California
- France in America /France en Amérique (Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas
(University of Pennsylvania Library)
- Colonial and Early American Web Resources (DePauw University)
- International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World (B. Bailyn, Harvard University)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- Workshop in Early American History and Culture (University of Georgia)
- Classics of American Colonial History (Dinsmore Documentation)
- The American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
- Program in Early American Economy and Society (The Library Company, Philadelphia, PA)
- Virtual Jamestown (Virginia Center for Digital History,
University of Virginia)
- Jamestown Rediscovery (Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities)
- Mayflower Web Page (C. Johnson)
- Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
- Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (University of Virginia)
- Official Tourguide and Historical Reference for Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts
- Old Sturbridge Village
- Historic Latta Plantation
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference
- Internet Links (Institute of Early American History and Culture)
- The Early America Review
- Archiving Early America (DEV Communications, Inc.)
- Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
- Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic (Penn State
University)
- Gullah Gourmet Online (Gullah language and history)
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Eighteenth Century Resources (J. Lynch, Rutgers University)
- 18th Century History (R. Brainard)
- Jonathan Edwards.com
- A Midwife's Tale: Eighteenth-century America through a woman's eye (American Experience, PBS)
- Benjamin Franklin: An Extraordinary Life, An Electric Mind (PBS)
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Yale University Library)
- Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man (Franklin Institute)
- Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History (J. Lemay,
University of Delaware)
- Patriots Day: Lights! Camera! Revolution! [battles of Lexington and Concord] (American Experience, PBS)
- Declaration of Independence Road Trip
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
- Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
- The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Constitution Society)
- Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
- Declaration: Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation
(Center for History and the New Media/Journal of American History)
- Thomas Paine National Historical Association
- Charleston Multimedia Project (Charleston County Library)
- Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
- Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS)
- The American Revolution (H-Net site to accompany PBS series)
- The American Revolution HTML Project
- American Revolutionary War (Northeastern University)
- The American Revolution: The Struggle for Independence (R. Brainard)
- George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
- Papers of George Washington (University of Virginia)
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
- Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (New York Historical Society)
- Thomas Jefferson (PBS/American Experience)
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- The Papers of James Madison
(University of Virginia)
- Constitution Day, September 17, 1787 (National Archives and Records Administration)
- The Annotated Constitution (GPO/Congressional Record Service)
- The National Constitution Center (U.S. Constitution information)
- "Special Issue on the Constitution," Common-Place: A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice, July 2002
- The Constitution Community (lesson plans from the National Archives)
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (Library of Congress)
- "A Midwife's Tale" (to accompany PBS' The American Experience series)
- Do History (Martha Ballard [1735-1812] diary to show use of primary sources)
Early National and Antebellum U.S. History
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
- Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
- The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Constitution Society)
- Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
- The Papers of James Madison
(University of Virginia)
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center
- Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (PBS/Ken Burns film)
- Lewis and Clark Bicentennial (official site)
- The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895 (Yale University)
- Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Inc.
-
- Lewis & Clark on the Information Superhighway (J. Rasmussen)
- Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark (Washington State University)
- Exploring the West From Monticello: A Perspective on Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark
(University of Virginia Library)
- James Madison Museum
- The Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
- A History of New Orleans (L. Madere)
- Essays on New Orleans' History (New Orleans Online)
- Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
- A History of American Agriculture, 1776-1990
(Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (Cornell University)
- Accessible Archives, Inc.: Primary Source Material from 18th & 19th Century Periodicals (subscription based)
- The Road That Built the Nation [The National Road]
- United States Historical Census Data Browser [1790-1970]
- Tales of the Early Republic (Hal Morris)
- Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History
(Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation/Society for the History of Technology)
- America's Quilting History (A. Johnson)
- Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin,
ca. 1820-1910 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
(Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
- The Hermitage: The Home of Andrew Jackson
- Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler (1904)
[includes pre-removal treaties with the Five Civilized Tribes and other tribes]
(Oklahoma State University)
- The Cherokee Nation
- The Cherokee National Historical Society
- Peopling North America: Population (University of Calgary)
- Encyclopedia of the Midwest
- The Oregon Trail (M. Trinklein and S. Boettcher)
- Immigration & Ethnic History Society
- Views of the Famine (Emory University)
- Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850
(University of Virginia)
- The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (PBS)
- Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery, Yale University)
- Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920
(University of North Carolina)
- A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920
(University of North Carolina)
- Southern History and Resources (J. Sears)
- The Levi Jordan Plantation [Texas, 1848]
- Historic Latta Plantation
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (re the history of slavery in U.S.)
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard U.)
- The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
- Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
- North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
- Black Studies sites
(University of Missouri, St. Louis)
- African American Historical Documents
(University of Missouri, St. Louis)
- African American History (MIT)
- African American Culture and History
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (American Experience, PBS)
- Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
- Darrell Reeck, "The Spirit of the Amistad in the United Methodist Church,"
New World Outlook magazine of the United Methodist Church)
- The Amistad Case (teaching materials from the National Archives)
- The Amistad Incident (W.W. Norton)
- La Amistad Links, New World Outlook magazine of the United Methodist Church)
- Review of "Amistad" (film by Stephen Spielberg) by Sally Hadden, Florida State University
- The Amistad Case: 'Outright Plagiarism' or 'Who Owns History?' (Cornell Law School)
- Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
- American Colonization Society: Records and Photographs of teh American Colonization Society (Library of Congress)
- Alexander Barnes Dyrer, "Our Liberian Legacy," The Atlantic, July 33, 2003
- Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
- Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University)
- Influence of Prominent Abolitionists (African-American Mosaic, Library of Congress)
- Taking the Train to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (National Park Service)
- Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Registry Travel Itinerary
- The Underground Railroad (National Geogaphic Online)
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Romantic Circles (University of Maryland)
- The Lost Museum [P.T. Barnum museum, 1841-1865] (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
- Alcohol and Temperance History Group
- Communal Studies Association
- Ephemera: 19th Century American Spiritualism
- Remember the Alamo (American Experience, PBS)
- The Alamo
- Texas History (Kingwood College Library)
- The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) [site to accompany PBS documentary]
- The Mexican War (Rose-Hulman Institute)
- The History Guy: The Mexican-American War (R. Lee)
- The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Mexican War Journal
- The Mexican-American War (Hillsdale College) [primary source documents]
- Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
- America in the 1850's: An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)
- Mormon History Resource Page
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (SUNY, Binghamton)
- The National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Fall's New York)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online (Rutgers University)
- The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (University of South Carolina)
- "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Women Physicians, 1850's-1970's (Archives and Special Collections, College of Medicine Drexel University)
- Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical
Association/University of Texas Libraries)
- Texas History (Kingwood College Library)
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation (National Portrait Gallery)
- The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Dred Scott Case (Washington University, St. Louis)
- Harpers Ferry Historical Association
Civil War and Reconstruction
- Getting the Message Out: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Northern Illinois University)
- The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
(University of Pennsylvania)
- Secession Era Editorials Project (Furman University)
- Presidential Elections from 1860-1884 (HarpWeek)
- James McPherson, "For a Vast Future Also: Lincoln and the Millenium," Jefferson Lecture, March 27, 2000
- Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum
- Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (Northern Illinois University)
- The Lincoln Legal Papers (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Search the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Association)
- The Time of the Lincolns, 1809-1882 (PBS)
- Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Archives
- The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Rice University)
- Robert E. Lee Papers (Special Collections, Washington and Lee University)
- Charleston Multimedia Project (Charleston County Library)
- Selected Civil War Photographs
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Eye of the Storm [Civil War photographs]
- Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
- The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
(University of Pennsylvania)
- Crisis at Fort Sumter (R. Latner, Tulane University)
- U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State U.)
- The American Civil War Homepage (Sunsite at
University of Tennessee)
- U.S. Civil War Network
- Civil War @Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
(National Portrait Gallery)
- Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
- The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
- Civil War Interactive
- Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook
- Civil War Research Center
(Tennessee's Backroads Heritage/Motlow State Community College)
- Deep Delta Civil War Symposium (Southeastern Louisiana University)
- American Civil War Institute (Campbellsville University)
- Links to Other [Civil War] Sites (K. Fraser)
- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States (K. Fraser)
- Band Music from the Civil War Era (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Civil War Maps (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Guide to Virginia's Civil War Battlefields & Sites
- National Heritage Area on the Civil War in Tennessee
(Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University)
- Stones River National Battlefield [Murfreesboro, Tennessee] (National Park Service)
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
- Ulysses S. Grant Association (Southern Illinois University)
- Ulysses S. Grant Homepage (C. Scott)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (North Georgia)
- The Blue and Gray Trail: The Civil War in North Georgia and Chattanooga (North Georgia)
- Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
- Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc.
- Military Service Records: A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications
(National Archives and Records Administration)
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (National Park Service)
- American Civil War Research Database (Historical Data Systems)
- Gilder-Lehrman History Online Guide to Civil War Prisons (R. Jensen)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler,
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
- The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
(National Archives teaching materials)
- African American Military History (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
- United States Colored Troops in the Civil War (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
- United States Colored Troops (Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System, National Park Service)
- The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
(National Archives teaching materials)
- Roanoke Freedmen's Colony (P.C. Click)
- Civil War Related Sites in the National Park Service
- Civil War Battles by State (National Park Service)
- The Civil War Ironclads Page (M.F. Jenkins)
- Friends of the [C.S.S.] Hunley
- American Battlefield Protection Program (National Park Service)
- The Civil War Preservation Trust
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Civil War Women (Special Collections, Duke University)
- Guide to Virginia's Civil War Battlefields & Sites
- The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania
(University of Virginia)
- Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and Related Links
- Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library
- The Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA)
- "The Last