American History

American History

General Links	American Revolution	AP U.S. History	The Twentieth Century	Black History	Immigration
Journals in US History	French and Indian Wars	The Civil War	Women's History	Cold War	Primary Sources
Industrial Revolution	North American Colonies	Presidents	Twenties	Mrs. Gorovitz	Civil Rights
Wars of the 20th Century	The War of 1812	Underground Railroad	Lewis and Clark	Thirties	The Decades / American Studies 50s Television Show

Be sure to check Beyond Books.com and GaleNet's Student Resource Center

For Primary Sources

General Links

**Biography of America http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/

A & E Biography http://www.biography.com/find/find.html

African American Almanac http://toptags.com/aama/

America's Story From America's Library http://www.americaslibrary.gov/

AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

American History 102 (college lecture notes) http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/

American Memory Learning Page http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/

American Memory Collection Finder http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html

American Social History Project http://www.ashp.cuny.edu

American Studies Crossroads Project http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/

American Studies Web http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/cndls/asw/

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

Beyond Books.com http://www.beyondbooks.com (See Mrs. V. for passwords)

Broadcasting History http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mbensman/history1.html

The Century http://www.thecentury.com

Conversations with History http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

dMarie Time Capsule http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/

Douglass Archive of American Address http://douglassarchives.org/

E Pluribus Unum Project (1770s, 1850s, 1920s) http://www.assumption.edu/ahc

Famous Trials of the 20th Century http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm

Fashion, Food, Fun http://www.teacheroz.com/fashion.htm

FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (comprehensive textbook, annotated sources, handouts, and AV) http://www.gliah.uh.edu/index.cfm

Gov Spot http://www.govspot.com/

Great American Speeches http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm

Historical United States Census Data Browser http://fisher.lib.Virginia.edu/census/

History Central: America's Wars http://www.historycentral.com/wars.html

History Channel http://www.historychannel.com

History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu

History of Eating Utensils http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/

History of Food food.html

History of the American West http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/

History Net http://www.thehistorynet.com

History Place http://www.historyplace.com

History/Social Studies Web Site http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html

HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things (Smithsonian) http://historywired.si.edu/index.html

How Much is it Worth Today? http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php

Hypertext on American History http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/index.htm

I Hear America Singing http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas.cgi

Images of American Political History http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/

Immigration 1900-1920 Ellis Island http://cmpl.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html

Immigration and Naturalization Service http://www.ins.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/teacher/Resources.htms

Links to the Past (Nat'l Park Service) Links to the Past http://www.cr.nps.gov

Making of America (primary sources) http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

Multicultural American West http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/index.html

National Archives and Records Administration Digital Classroom http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html

Nineteenth Century World http://www.harpweek.com/

North American Map Archive http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/maps.html

Nineteenth Century Documents http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/

Oral History Online! http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/#collections

Oyez Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia Database http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/

Patterns of Our Lives: American History http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/tour2.html

Places Where Women Made History http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/

Political Cartoons and Cartoonists http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html

PoliticalCartoons.com http://www.politicalcartoons.com

Popular Songs and American History http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html

Posters American Style http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/mainmenu.html

History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html

Public Papers of the Presidents http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/help/hints/ppapers.html

Smithsonian Without Walls http://www.si.edu/revealingthings/

Spartacus Encyclopedia of US History http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USA.htm

ThisNation http://www.thisnation.com/

United States History http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.htmls

U.S. Founding Documents http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/

U.S. Historical Documents http://www.law.ou.edu/ushist.html

U.S. History.org (Philadelphia area) http://www.ushistory.org

Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World http://www.nypl.org/utopia/

Voice of the Shuttle http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle

WebChron: Historical and Cross-Cultural Chronologies http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/

Welcome to West Web (American West) http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/

WestWeb http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb

Who's Who in American History http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/bios.html

Women's History http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/womenshistory/index.html

Civil Rights

About.com Civil Rights Movement http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/civilrights/

African American Almanac http://toptags.com/aama/

African American Journey http://www2.worldbook.com/features/features.asp?feature=aajourney&page=html/bh002.html&direct=yes

African American Odyssey: Civil Rights Era http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

Black Panther Chronology http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.html

Civil Rights Documentation Project http://www-dept.usm.edu/~mcrohb/

Civil Rights Movement 1955-65 http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/

Civil Rights Timeline http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

Greensboro Sit-ins http://www.sitins.com

Historical Text Archive http://historicaltextarchive.com/

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/

Little Rock Nine http://www.centralhigh57.org/

MLK Web http://martinlutherking.8m.com/

Martin Luther King, Junior http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/

Martin Luther King, Junior Papers Project http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

NAACP http://www.naacp.org/

National Civil Rights Museum http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Segregation http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/085_disc.html

Psychedelic 60s: The Civil Rights Movement http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/civil.html

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

SNCC 1960-66 Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

See also Black History Links inqlinks.html

Women's History

Mrs. V's Women's Links women.html

National Womens History Project http://www.nwhp.org/

Quest for Equality: Women's History http://www.worldbook.com/fun/whm/home.html

Suffragists Oral History Project http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html

Votes for Women http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1830-1930 - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

Women's History http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Women's History http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/womenshistory/index.html

The Twentieth Century

For the Thirties

For Ms. Maher's and Mr. Meder's interview project

Facts.com http://www.2facts.com

*20th Century History by the Decades (Chico High School) http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decsg.html

*Alameda County Library Decades http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/decades.asp

*American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

*American History Timeline http://fs.dai.net/ac/379032/E01.html?http://historytimeline.com/Norm/normindex.htm

*American Photography: A Century of Images http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

AdFlip http://www.adflip.com/

Ad Access Database (advertisements) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/browse.html

American Advertising Museum Resources http://www.admuseum.org/museum/mainmenu.htm

American Experience: The Dustbowl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/dustbowl/

*American Presidency http://www.grolier.com/presidents/ea/ea_toc.html

Fifty Years of Coca Cola Advertisements http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html

Beat Generation (50s) http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/topics/BeatGen.html

*Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1910s http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson129.shtml

*Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1920s http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson128.shtml

Conversations With History http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

Costume Gallery http://www.costumegallery.com/

Costumers' Manifesto http://www.costumes.org/

Crossroads Project: American Culture in the 30s http://www.let.uu.nl/ams/xroads/1930proj.htm

Cycles of US History http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/era.html

Dining Through the Decades http://www.leitesculinaria.com/features/dining.html

Decades in 20th Century America http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/decades.asp

Fifties http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm

*1966: Fab Fashions of the Swinging Sixties http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/5362

80s Server http://www.80s.com

*ESPNs Sports Century http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/

Famous Trials of the 20th Century http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm

Film History by the Decade http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html

*Flappers 2 Rappers (slang) http://www.m-w.com/lighter/flap/flaphome.htm

Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Grammy Awards http://www.grammy.com/

Great American Speeches http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm#General

*History Central: 20th Century http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html

*History of Fashion, Food and Time http://member.aol.com/TeacherNet/FaFoTime.html

Hollywood Ten http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html

Home Plate: Baseball in the l930's http://rampages.onramp.net/~wordwork/index.html

How Much Is That Worth Today? http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php

*Internet Movie Database "In This Year . . ." http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/

It Seems Like Yesterday http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com/

Life Magazine's Top 100 Events of the Last Millennium http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/millennium/events/100.html

Millennium: The Best http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m1/

Modern World 1900-45 http://history.evansville.net/modern.html

Modern World: Recent Times 1945-present http://history.evansville.net/recent.html

Multnomah Homework Center: American History http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/amhsthc.html#20th

Museum of Advertising Icons (CreatAbiliTOYS!) http://www.toymuseum.com/main.html

New Deal for the Arts http://www.archives.gov

New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/

New Americans http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/

Nixon White House Tapes http://www.c-span.org/executive/presidential/nixon.asp

*Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/

People's Century: Episodes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/index.html

*POTUS: Presidents of the United States http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II http://www.archives.gov

Prices Then and Now (the Depression) http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/kidstuff/depressn/costlist.html

*Pulitzer Prize http://www.pulitzer.org/archive/

Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html

*Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp

Silent Film Sources http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/

Sixties Project and Viet Nam Generation http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/

SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/

*Time Magazine Past Men of the Year http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/special/moy/moypast.html

Top Forty Hits 1930-99 http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/top40/index.html

Twenties Reconstruction Society http://home.earthlink.net/~timsamuel/

*Twentieth Century History http://history1900s.about.com

USA Today: The New Millennium http://www.usatoday.com/2000/2000.htm

Vietnam: Stories Since the War http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/

What Happened in the Sixties? http://www.bbhq.com/sixties.htm

*Who's Who in American History http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/bios.html

*Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace.html

Swingin' Chicks of the '60s http://www.swinginchicks.com/

*TIME 100: 1900 vs. Now http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/timewarp/timewarp.html

Twentieth Century America http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/20Cen.html

Twentieth Century America http://www.ibiscom.com/20frm.htm

Twentieth Century American History http://www.liberty.edu/resources/library/public/as/history/american/20th.htm

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/jvac/@Generic__BookView

Warren Report http://www.bergen.org/jfk/warren.html

WashingtonPost.com: Watergate http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (National Park Service) http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/

*Yahoo: 20th Century http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/

Year by Year 1900-2001 http://www.infoplease.com/millennium1.html

War of 1812

American military history: War of 1812 http://www.militaryheritage.com/1812.html

*Named Campaigns: War of 1812 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/18cmp.htm

Naval War of 1812 (scroll down!) http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/marit.htm

Road to Washington, British Army Style http://www.tc-solutions.com/croom/1812.html

Star Spangled Banner and the War of 1812 http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/starflag.htm

*War of 1812 (Galafilm Multimedia) http://galafilm.com/1812/e/index.html

War of 1812 Links Page http://www.historyoftheworld.com/soquel/1812.htm

War of 1812 Index http://www.multied.com/1812/

War of 1812 Timeline http://www.semo.net/suburb/dlswoff/1812.html

Industrial Revolution (Zehner)

Remember to check Galenet in the Catalogs and Databases area!

US Patent Office http://www.uspto.gov/

Age of Industry http://history.evansville.net/industry.html

American Experience: Technology http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/technology/index.html

American Inventors and Inventions http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm

American Memory Collection (search under keywords) http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

Edison Papers (Rutgers) http://edison.rutgers.edu/

Edison's Miracle of Light http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/

Eli Whitney http://www.eliwhitney.org/ew.htm

Elms and Magnolias: The 18th Century (Eli Whitney) http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/elms/18th.htm

First Locomotives in America http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/

Greatest Inventions (student created site) http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/home.shtml?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0426

Historical Inventions A to Z http://inventors.miningco.com/science/inventors/library/bl/bl12.htm

History of the Growth of the Steam Engine http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/

History of Invention http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html

Industrial Revolution: Major Inventions http://inventors.about.com/cs/indrevolution/index.htm?terms=industrial+revolution

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html

Inventions http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/inventions/

Invention Dimension http://web.mit.edu/invent/

Sites about Invention http://www.invent.org/iplinks.html#hands

Inventors Online Museum http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/

Inventors (About.com) http://inventors.miningco.com/

Inventors and Inventions Theme Page http://www.cln.org/themes/inventors.html

National Inventors Hall of Fame http://www.invent.org/book/index.htm

Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/header.html

Outline of American History: Growth and Transformation http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap7.htm

Outline of American History: Age of Expansion and Reform http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/chap6.htm

Patent Cafe http://www.patentcafe.com/

KID INFO: Industrial Revolution (links will vary in quality!) http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Industrial_Revolution.html

Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie

Smithsonian: Inventors and Inventions http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

Spirit of Invention: Photograph and Telegraph http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/essays/edward_earle/millenium/04_spirit_invention.html

Steam Engine Library http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/

Tech Museum of Innovation http://www.thetech.org/

Technology Timeline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline

Links for Mrs. Zehner's North American Colonies Project

Regional Links
Maps
Primary Sources
In Catalogs and Databases Check Galenet's Student Resource Center Gold and Biography Resource Center and check for the general encyclopedias and the Patron Catalog, ABC-CLIO's American History, and Proquest's History Study Center
elibrary Colonial Links http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/curriculum/do/browsetopics?sectionid=45437&edition=&filter=cab
Beyond Books.com offers information on the New England, Middle and Southern colonies

General Links

13 Originals (links for each state) http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

Colonial American History http://web.uccs.edu/history/ushistory/colonial.htm

Colonial America K12 Resources http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm

Multnomah Colonial Links http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html#17th

American Colonies (links) http://www.jacksonesd.k12.or.us/k12projects/jimperry/colony.html

American Journeys http://www.americanjourneys.org/

American Revolution and its Era (maps and charts) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html

Founding Fathers (biographical material) http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html

Biographies of Historical Persons Related to American History http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B

Classics of American Colonial History http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-3.htm

Colonial Hall: Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence http://www.colonialhall.com/index.php

Early American Review (scholarly journal) http://earlyamerica.com/

18th Century Resources http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

Native American Technology http://www.nativetech.org/

Outline of American History http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/chap1.htm

Religion and the State Governments http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/

Schooling Education and Literacy in Colonial America http://www.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html

Regional Links

*13 Originals (links for each state) http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

*Colonial America: State Histories http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm#D2

Agriculture Rules the South http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch1_p8.htm

American Centuries: View from New England http://memorialhall.mass.edu/

Archives of Maryland Online http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/index.html

Background to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania http://www.ushistory.org/pennsylvania/index.html

Brief History of Jamestown http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

Colonial Williamsburg http://history.org/

*Colonial Sources by Region http://web.uccs.edu/history/ushistory/colonial.htm#regions

First English Settlement (Roanoke) http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/english1.htm

Georgia Before Oglethorpe http://www.spanishflorida.net/gboindex.htm

Georgia History http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahist.htm

Guide to Historic Virginia http://freenet.vcu.edu/tourism/histrich/histrich.html

Instructions for the Virginia Colony http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/virginia_instructions.html

James Edward Oglethorpe (Georgia) Tercentenary http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/jeo300/contents.htm

Jamestown Rediscovery http://www.apva.org/

Mayflower Web Pages http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

Multnomah Colonial Links http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html#17th

New Netherlands http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/newnetherlands/nlxx.htm

New Netherland Project (documents) http://www.nnp.org/documents/index.html

North Carolina Encyclopedia: History http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/cover.htm

North Georgia History http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/

Orange County Mayflower Compact http://www.ocmayflower.org/compact.htm

Pennsylvania 1630-1684 http://www.ushistory.org/pennsylvania/pennsylvania.html

Plimoth on the Web: History http://www.plimoth.org/learn/history/myth/myth.asp

Plymouth Colony Archive Project http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/

Pocohantas, John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia http://members.tripod.com/~AlanCheshire/index-15.html

Seven Walking Tours of Philadelphia http://www.ushistory.org/districts/index.html

South Carolina History http://www.sciway.net/hist/periods/index.html

U.S. History.org (Philadelphia area) http://www.ushistory.org

Virginia Colonial Records http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas27&local_base=CLAS27

William Penn: Visionary Proprietor http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html

Maps and Images

American Revolution and its Era (maps and charts) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html

AP US History: Docs http://www.historyteacher.net/APUSH-Course/Weblinks/Weblinks4.htm

Facts on File Curricular Resource Center (under Catalogs and Databases)

Historical Maps of the US http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/histus.html

Map Collections: American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Rare Maps of Colonial America http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html

Primary Sources

American Colonist's Library (primary sources) http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

American Colonies in the 17th Century http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#17

Documents in Early American History http://history.smsu.edu/FTMiller/Docs/DocsEarlyAmer.htm

Colonial America: State Histories http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm#D2

Words and Deeds in American History http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html

Presidents

Remember to check for more information, including primary sources, on GaleNet and our Web guide to primary sources under Student Links

*Useful for Mrs. Zehner's Jackson project

American Experience:The Presidents http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/presidents/indexjs.html

American Presidency http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/

American Presidency: A Glorious Burden http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html

American Presidents: Life Portraits http://www.americanpresidents.org/

American Presidents: Life Portraits and the Library of Congress Connection http://www.americanpresidents.org/loc/

Artful Presidency http://www.archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/presidents/presidents.htm

*Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: The Papers of the Presidents of the United States http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/presiden.htm

By Popular Demand (portraits) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html

Celebrating Democracy: The Presidential Inauguration http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html

Character Above All: Presidential Links http://www.pbs.org/newshour/character/links/

Executive Office of the President http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/html/principals.html

Federal Government Resources: The President of the United States (U of Mich) http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/fedprs.html

First Ladies http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/firstladies.html

Federal Government Resources: The President of the United States (U of Mich) http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/fedprs.html

"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html

Impeachment Documents http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/impeach.html

*Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents http://www.bartleby.com/124/index.html

Inaugural Classroom http://www.pbs.org/inaugural97/

Lists of US Presidents http://www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/USPresidents/preslist.htm

Modern Presidents Theme Activity: A Few Choice Words http://www.school.discovery.com/fall97/activities/presidentialspeeches/

NARA: Tokens and Treasures: Presidential Gifts http://www.nara.gov/exhall/treasures/giftmain.html

National First Ladies' Library http://www.firstladies.org/

National Park Service Presidential Sites http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/pres.htm

National Portrait Gallery: Hall of Presidents - http://www.npg.si.edu/col/pres/index.htm

Nixon White House Tapes http://www.c-span.org/executive/presidential/nixon.asp

POTUS (Presidents of the United States) http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS

Speeches of United States Presidents http://www.ocean.ic.net/rafiles/pres/thelist.html

Presidency (Indiana University) http://www.indiana.edu/~libpoli/RR/pres.html

Presidential Letters (US Postal Service) http://www.usps.gov/letters/volume2/pres-main.html

Presidential Libraries IDEA Network http://metalab.unc.edu/lia/president/

Presidents Index http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/

Presidents of the United States http://www.netcolony.com/news/presidents/

Presidents of the United States http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Program in Presidential Rhetoric (Texas A & M) http://www.tamu.edu/scom/pres/archive.html

Public Papers of the Presidents http://www.gpo.gov/nara/pubpaps/hints_pp.html

Celebrating Democracy: The Presidential Inauguration http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html

Presidential Debates http://www.debates.org/

Speeches of United States Presidents http://www.ocean.ic.net/rafiles/pres/thelist

*Texts and Documents of the United States http://history.hanover.edu/usa.htm

Time and the Presidency http://www.pathfinder.com/offers/presidents/

US Presidents Lists http://www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/USPresidents/preslist.htm

Vincent Voice Library http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html

*White House Presidents Page http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/presidents.html

*Andrew Jackson http://www.corbis.com/jefferson/pres/pres_o07.html

*Andrew Jackson: A Man for the People http://www.aetv.com/class/admin/study_guide/archives/aetv_guide.0101.html

*Andrew Jackson: Champion of the Kingly Commerce http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/jackson/jackson.html

*Brief Biography of Jackson (for background) http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/about/bio/jackxx.htm

*Inaugural Classroom (Jackson) http://www.pbs.org/inaugural97/jackson.html

Warren Report http://www.bergen.org/jfk/warren.html

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson http://www.andrewjohnson.com/

French and Indian Wars

French and Indian/Seven Years War

1755: The French and Indian War http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/

Brief History of the French and Indian War http://www.philaprintshop.com/frchintx.html

Earlyamerica.com Search Page http://earlyamerica.com/search.html

French Forts of the French and Indian War http://fiwar.virtualave.net/forts/french.html

British Forts of the French and Indian War http://members.aol.com/fiwar/britishforts.html

French and Indian War http://digitalhistory.org/wolfe.html

French and Indian War Map http://www.bedford.net/Tuor_Beleg/FBM/Map.htm

Map of European Settlements and Indian Tribes in 1750 http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ecp/10/214/images/00200001.gif

Scalping During the French and Indian War http://earlyamerica.com/review/1998/scalping.html

Seven Years War http://www.militaryheritage.com/7ywlink.htm

Treaty of French and Indian War http://www.maine.com/lights/treaty.htm

Immigration

Angel Island http://www.aiisf.org/

Center for Immigration Studies http://www.cis.org/

Ellis Island http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html

Ellis Island Records http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

Gilder Lehrman: Immigration http://www.gliah.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=21

Immigrant and Ethnic America http://immigrants.harpweek.com/

Immigration in American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/introduction.html

Immigration and Naturalization Service http://www.ins.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/teacher/Resources.htms

Lower East Side Tenement Museum http://www.thirteen.org/tenement

Migrations in History http://educate.si.edu/migrations/

New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920 http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html

On the Lower East Side (Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century) http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html

Peopling North America http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/

Canada Cultural Profiles http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/english/index.html

Spartacus Immigration http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm

American Revolution

New: Beyondbooks.com

American Revolution: Education Planet http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/american_revolution.html

*AHA: Famous Battles http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha/battles.html

American Revolution: The Struggle for Independence http://www.americasrevolution.com/

American Revolution http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/

American Revolution (Education Planet) http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/american_revolution.html

American Revolution First Phase http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-03.htm

American Revolution: History Place http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revwar-75.htm

American Revolution Home Page http://www.dell.homestead.com/revwar/files/INDEX.HTM

American Revolution: Mining Company http://history1700s.miningco.com/msub32.htm

American Revolution - Stamp Act http://people.ne.mediaone.net/franklopes/stamp_act.htm

18th Century Military History: Mining Company http://history1700s.miningco.com/msub8.htm

Battle of Brandywine http://www.ushistory.org/brandywine/thestory.htm

Battle of Brandywine: Setback for the Continental Army http://www.thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/1998/1298_text.htm

Battle of Bunker Hill http://www.greeceny.com/arm/welch/bunker.htm

Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775 http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/Documents/War/America/Rev/1775-Bunker-Waller.htm

Battle of Cowpens http://www.grognard.com/tww/al/cow/hist.html

Battle of Kings Mountain http://www.co.cleveland.nc.us/battle_of_kings_mountain.htm

Battle of Kings Mountain Part 1 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/revwar/KM-Cpns/AWC-KM1.htm

Battle of Saratoga http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5257/saratoga.html

The Battle of Saratoga- American Revolution http://www.historyserver.org/cadence/saratoga.html

Battle of Trenton http://www.eclipse.net/~gvalis/ggv/NJrev/battles/Trenton.html

Battle of Trenton: December 26, 1776 http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/gemedia/amrev/revwar/trenton.htm

Battle of Vincennes http://www.greeceny.com/arm/welch/vincenn.htm

*Battles of the Revolutionary War http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha/ARbattles.html

*Battlefield Vacations http://battlefieldvacations.com/revolu/tourrev.HTM

Birth of a Nation http://prince.thinkquest.org/3803/

Boston Tea Party http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html

British Surrender at Saratoga http://www.multieducator.com/revolt/Saratoga.html

Chronicle of American History http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/index.html

Clickable Maps: American Revolution http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha/ahacm.html

Colonial Dateline http://www.history.org/dateline/chronhdr.htm

George Rogers Clark Biography (Kaskaskia) http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/grcbio.html

Liberty! The American Revolution http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

Historic Valley Forge http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/index.html

Military Actions of the American Revolution http://www.sar.org/history/docsbatt.htm

Rare Map Collection: Revolutionary America http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html

Revolutionary War http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4393/rev_war.html

Revolutionary War: A Journey Towards Freedom http://library.advanced.org/10966/

Revolutionary War Links http://www.revwar.com/links/

Revolutionary War Organizer (good to get started on) http://geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/rwarproj/revwar.htm

Revolutionary Webquest http://library.thinkquest.org/11683/High.html

Saratoga National Park http://www.nps.gov/sara/sara.htm

Spy Letters of the American Revolution http://www.si.umich.edu/SPIES/

Summary of the 1765 Stamp Act http://www.history.org/other/teaching/tchcrsta.htm

*TCC Revolutionary War: Major Battles http://www.trnty.edu/depts/education/TEACH/war/DifferentPages/

The Battle of Trentonhttp://www/netaxs.com/~gothic/Trenton.html

Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution http://www.ushistory.org/march/index.html

Women Soldiers in the American Revolution http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html

*WPI Military Science Revolutionary War Battles http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/

Yorktown http://www.williamsburg.com/york/york.html

Lewis and Clark

Lewis & Clark at National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisclark/index.html

Journey of the Corps of Discovery http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

Discovering Lewis & Clark http://www.lewis-clark.org/

Civil War

for Gettysburg

For additional resources about battles

Historical New York Times (Civil War Years) http://www.nyt.ulib.org/

Aboard the Underground Railroad http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/underground

About.com Civil War Menu http://americanhistory.about.com/homework/americanhistory/cs/civilwarmenu/index.htm

African-Americans Fight for the Union http://www.ugrr.org/civil/cw-ess2.html

American Civil War http://www.janke.washcoll.edu/civilwar/civilwar.htm

* American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war

American Civil War Resources http://www.janke.washcoll.edu/civilwar/civilwar.htm

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Antietam and Sharpsburg http://home.earthlink.net/~tshrader/antmain.htm

Apotheosis Of Robert E. Lee http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LEE/Lee.html

Battle of Gettysburg http://www.gettysbg.com/battle.html

Been So Long There: American Slave Narratives http://newdeal.feri.org/asn

Bernard McKnight http://www.sinclair.edu/sec/his102/102doc01.htm

Civl War (Education Planet) http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/civilwar.html

Civil War http://www.ibiscom.com/cwfrm.htm

American Civil War Collections http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/

Civil War for Kids http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm

Civil War Project http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/CivilWar.html

CWI Civil War Cookbook http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm

*Civil War Battles http://www.janke.washcoll.edu/civilwar/battles.htm

*CivilWar.com http://www.civilwar.com

* Civil War Homepage http://www.civil-war.net

Civil War Photographs http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html

Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Civil War Timeline http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tl1861.html

Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

Documenting the American South: The Southern Homefront http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/imls/texts.html

Financing the Civil War http://www.financialhistory.org/civilwar/index.html

First Battle of Bull Run July 1861 http://californiacentralcoast.com/commun/map/civil/bullrun.html

Frederick Douglass http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/DOUGLASS/home.html

Gettysburg Address (Library of Congress) http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/

*Index of Civil War Information on the Web http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm

Making of America Project (American social history in journals and books--antebellum through reconstruction)

http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/moa-main_page.html

Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/gallery.html

Nineteenth Century Documents http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/

Official Site of the Hunley http://www.hunley.org/new/main_nav.htm

Red Badge of Courage (full-text) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/badge-table.html

Selected Civil War Photographs http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html

Storm is Passing Over - African-American Musicians in Maryland http://www.peabody.jhu.edu:80/archives/storm/

The Time of the Lincolns www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/index.html

Underground Railroad http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad

Valley of the Shadow http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/cwhome.html

War for Southern Independence http://www.qns.com/~williams/

Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

Quaker Accounts of the Underground Railroad in the Region of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/URR_page.htm

Aboard the Underground Railroad http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground

Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/exugrr/exuggr1.htm

History of Some Stations on the Underground Railroad http://www.fred.net/nhhs/project/1999/underground/urdelawr.htm

Johnson House http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/framed.cgi

List of Sites for Underground Railroad Travelers http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/underground/states.htm#pa

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center http://www.undergroundrailroad.org

North American Slave Naratives http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html

Remembering Slavery http://rememberingslavery.org

Underground Railroad http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad

Underground Railroad in Clarion, PA http://www.public.usit.net/mcnamara/clarion/davis/undrgrnd.htm

AP US History

Advanced Placement U.S. History http://members.icanect.net/~tincat/index.htm

Cold War

Center for the Study of Intelligence http://www.cia.gov/csi/index.html

CIA Popular Document Collection http://www.foia.ucia.gov/frame2.htm

Cryptologic History and NSA http://www.nsa.gov/docs/history/index.html

CNN Special on The Cold War http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war

Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curcan/main.html

Cold War Science and Technology Studies Program http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/index.htm

Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall http://www.wall-berlin.org

Federation of American Scientists: Nuclear Resources http://www.fas.org/nuke/index.html

Foreign Relations Service http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/index.html

National Security Archive http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv

Race for the Superbomb http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb

Revelations From the Russian Archives http://www.lcweb.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html

Ten Years After: The Fall of Communism in East/Central Europe http://www.rferl.org/nca/special/10years/index.html

US Air Forces in Europe Berlin Airlift http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/berlin.htm

US and USSR/ Russian Strategic Offensive Nuclear Forces, 1945-1996 http://www.nrdc.org/nrdcpro/nudb/dainx.html

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