UNITED STATES HISTORY RESOURCES

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• 19th Century American Cultural History
• A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution
• The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Academic Info: History Gateway: Digital Library
• African American Labor History Links
• African-American Women:  Online Archival Collection
This contains records on three African-American women. The first is the  life story of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1923) taken from 85 handwritten pages. The second is The Vilet Lester letter, written in 1857 while she was a slave. The third is slave letters of Hanna Valentine and Lethe Jackson, written in 1837-38.
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
• American Family Immigration History Center: Ellis Island Records
• The American Heritage Project
• American Historical Association
• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Journeys
Eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement: a digital library and learning center
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
• American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database: •The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913) •The Public Papers of the Presidents: Hoover to Bush (1929-1993) •The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2008)
• American President: An Online Reference Resource
• American Studies Crossroads Project
• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• The Atlantic Magazine Back Issues
• The Avalon Project at Yale
This site has major documents in law, history, and diplomacy.  It has a documentary record of the Constitution, bilateral treaties from 1778 to 1999, multilateral treaties from 1864-1999, ancient, medieval, and renaissance documents, annual messages of the presidents, the Barbary Treaties, 1816 to 1836, the federalist papers, British-American diplomacy from 1782, Cold War Treaties, colonial charters, Confederate States of America papers, inaugural addresses of the presidents,  and much more.
• Brooklyn's Eighteenth Century Lott House

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• C-Span: Lincoln: 200 Years
• Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research
• Center for History and New Media
• Center for the Study of the American South
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture
• Chicago Historical Society's History Files
• Chile: 16,000 Secret U.S. Documents Declassified
• A Chronology of US Historical Documents
• The Cleveland Memory Project
This is a showcase for the Cleveland State University Library that has over 11,000 images so far. This is "A vast photo archive, a virtual reading room, a photographic reproduction service, and a showcase for our collections. Here serious researchers and casual browsers will find thousands of historical photographs, as well as a growing collection of ebooks documenting the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio, its industries and its people. All this in a searchable database, updated daily and delivered via an award-winning interface. Explore Cleveland history through images and words."
• Common-Place: Roundtable on the Uses and Abuses of the Constitution
• CongressLink
CongressLink is divided into three sections: (1)A comprehensive, daily-updated guide to Congress. Find your U.S. Representative and Senators, learn tips about contacting them, track legislation, stay current with committee and floor schedules, follow campaigns, and more. (2)Historical information about Congress, explanations of basic congressional processes, and selections written by scholars and subject matter experts. (3) Classroom Resources Lesson plans, online historical materials, information to assist teachers in using CongressLink in their classrooms, and annotated links to the best Web sites about Congress. CongressLink has been endorsed by more than two dozen regional and national educational organizations.
• The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
"The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor."
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• Digital History: Do History: Children in History
• The Digital Librarian
Contains a host of links to history sites on the Internet, arranged alphabetically by title of the site.
• Directory of Historical Resources
• Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album




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• Early Voices
"The inaugral gallery for Historical Voices, Earliest Voices is a multimedia site presenting some of the most significant voices captured during the first fifty years of sound recording, 1877-1927. The late nineteenth to early twentieth century was a period of tremendous technological progress, and politicians and orators quickly took advantage of these innovations. In 1888, Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the phonograph, delivered a heady proclamation. He declared that sound-recording would ensure that the words of statesmen could be "multiplied a thousand-fold" and "be transmitted to prosperity, centuries afterwards, as freshly and forcibly as if those later generations heard his living accents." Nearly a century after the recordings of prominent speeches from this period were made, this gallery perhaps sees the culmination of Edison's vision."
• Electronic Card Indexes: The Library of Virginia
• Ellis Island: The American Family Immigration History Center
• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
"The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture."
• The Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection
• Federal Township Plats of Illinois, 1804-1891
• From Domesticity to Modernity: What was Home Economics?
• George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film: Photography Collections Online
• Google News Archive
"News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get a historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically created timeline. Search results include both content that is accessible to all users and content that requires a fee. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the events."




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• Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
• Heritage Scrapbooks
• H-Net
"H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public."
• Hanover Historical Texts Project
"In 1995, the History Department and Hanover students initiated the Hanover Historical Texts Project. The Project's principal aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. The texts scanned for the project are all in public domain. The electronic forms of the texts created by the HHTP are under copyright. Permission to copy and use the texts is granted for educational purposes. We ask that you acknowledge the Hanover Historical Texts Project."
• Historical Text Archive
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
• History Cooperative

Search the Contents of the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History, plus the full-text of these following journals:Common-Place, Environmental History, History of Education Quarterly, The History Teacher, Indiana Magazine of History, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Journal of World History, Labor History, Lab our, Law and History Review, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly, and William and Mary Quarterly. Also on this site are Booker T. Washington's Papers Online, and Historian's Web Links, and Historical Map Collections.

• Historical Cooperative e-Library
This is a part of the Historical Cooperative Above, and it contains links to many electronic historical journals, History department webpages, online historical teaching and research resources, and links to online archives around the world.
• Historical Maps Online
• History Cooperative e-library: Historical Map Collections
"The intent of the Historical Maps Online project is to publish electronically the images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory. Designed to appeal both to map aficionados and to educational institutions, the project aims to provide a broad spectrum of content, from expert scholarship of mapmakers and mapmaking to general knowledge about cartography and history. This project is a collaborative effort between the University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Press. Also included is a selection of maps from the Newberry Library."
• The History Channel
• HistoryMatters
This is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of  the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.   Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
• History News Network
• History News Service
• History of Jim Crow
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to American History
• The Hockliffe Project
This "project is centered around the Hockliffe collection of early British children's books held by De Montfort University."
• Hulton/Getty Archive
"With over 40 million images, this archive is an unparalleled resource of unique illustrative material, covering every facet of people's experiences and environment, recording history to the present day."
• HyperHistory Online
• Hypertext on American History
This resource was created in the Netherlands, and contains links to primary source material on United States history. There are also essays on different aspects of American history. There are biographies on famous Americans and the Presidents.
• Immigration History Research Center




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• Jewish Women's Archive: Women of Valor
• The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
• Life Convention Gallery
Pictures taken at the Republican and Democratic national conventions from 1948 to 1996.
• Links for Students of History and the Social Sciences




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• The Making of America
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history  from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology,  American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal  articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts."
• Marchand Collection -- A History Teacher's Bag of Tricks
• Measuring America: The Decennial Census from 1790 to 2000
• Miller Center of Public Affairs
"The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, following Jefferson's vision of the University's public service mission, is a leading public policy institution that serves as a national meeting place where engaged citizens, scholars, students, media representatives and government officials gather in a spirit of nonpartisan consensus to research, reflect and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency."
• A Miscellany: History, Philosophy and Public Policy
This is a site that contains a "documentary history of social insurance programs in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras that were precedents for similar programs in the New Deal."
• A More Perfect Union: Japanese American and the U.S. Constitution
• National Archives Films on Google Video
"This selection of nineteen "Headquarters Films (HQ)" preserved in the National Archives, represents a series of over 250 titles collected by the NASA Office of Public Affairs between 1962 and 1981. They were produced using footage from the various NASA research facilities and space flight centers around the country. They utilized the latest techniques in animation, graphic design, and space/satellite imagery. Primarily designed to disseminate information to the American public and the world at large about NASA activities of their day, the films have become an invaluable visual record of the history of the U.S. Space program, providing coverage of such significant events as Dr. Robert Goddard's early rocket designs; astronaut John H. Glenn's first manned orbital space flight in the Friendship 7 spacecraft; the Apollo 11 lunar mission; the exploration of deep space and other planets; and the role of female astronauts in the 1970s and early 1980s. Several of the titles chosen have been cited at domestic and international film festivals or have received awards for excellence in photography and documentary filmmaking." "
• National Council on Public History
• National Museum of American History
• The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000
• Newsfilm Online
"Newsfilm Online will be released as a resource for the UK Higher and Further Education community on the 1st August 2008. This online resource will give users access to over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories spanning the 20th century, including some primary research materials such as scripts and running orders. To access Newsfilm Online an institution will be required to sign a sub-licence free of charge (no subscription fee will be levied for 5 years). This sub-licence will be made available by JISC Collections in July 2008. Version 1.0 of the service will be launched in August 2008 with additional functionality being added from September 2008. Please visit www.nfo.ac.uk for access."
• The NYPL Picture Collection Online
• Newspaper Archives Sites on the Internet
• NYPL Digital Gallery




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• The On-Line Books Page
"The On-Line Books Page was founded in 1993 by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University . He is now a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He remains the editor of the pages, and gladly accepts suggestions for new listings." It contains about 13,000 e-books that are non copyrighted or the author  has given permission for a copyrighted book to be put online. It also contains online serials, such as newspapers, journals, and magazines. Many of these serials are old, such as Harpers Monthly (1850-1899), and the North American Review (1815-1900). There is also an archives page which contains links to other online documents and e-books in such areas as:  children's literature, black writers, computers, dissertations, economics, history, literary, military,  music and dance, poetry,  politics, government and law, religion, science, social science and math, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and women.
• Picture History: The Primary Source for History Online
• Presidential Elections 1789-2004 and Public Opinion
• Presidential Recordings Program: Miller Center of Public Affairs: University of Virginia
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
• Publisher's Bindings Online: The Art of Books, 1815 to 1930



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• Rare Book, Manuscript Collection, Duke University
• Remembering Jim Crow
• Society for Military History: Links
• Time Magazine Archive, 1923 to present
• Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance




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• U.S. Intellectual History
• United States Military Academy Digital Library
• ushistory.org
• Utah Digital Newspapers
• WarLetters.com Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
• Women Working, 1800-1930
• Women Working, 1800-1930
• Within these Walls
• University of Virginia Library Geostat Center: Historical Census Browser
• New Jersey Women's History

Biographical Information

• Annenberg--A Biography of America
• Hall of Black Achievement Gallery
• National First Ladies Library

State and Regional Archives and Collections of Documents

• Encyclopedia of Alabama
• Alaksa's Digital Archives
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas History And Culture
• My California.Gov
• California Online Encyclopedia
• The Online Archives of California
• Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (Colorado Digitization Program)
• Colorado State Archives
• Colorado State Archives: Digital Records
• The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776
• The Connecticut Historical Society
• Connecticut History Online
This is a virtual archive of Connecticut historical pictures. "Drawing on the rich graphic collections of the sponsoring institutions, Connecticut History Online will provide a comprehensive visual chronicle of the events, people, and places documenting Connecticut, and American, social, business, political, educational, cultural, and civic life..... As a long-term undertaking, the creation of Connecticut History Online promises an unprecedented level of cooperation among the state's educational institutions, museums, and libraries. "
• Council of State Archivists
• Florida Memory: The State Archives of Florida
• Digital Library of Georgia
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Illinois Harvest
• The Louisiana Digital Library
• Louisania State Archives
• Collaborative Digitization Programs in the United States
• Maine State Archives
• Archives of Maryland Online
The Maryland State Archives publication series, Archives of Maryland Online, will be providing access to over one million historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government. There is access to biographical information on officials in Maryland's government, executive records, judicial records, land records, military records,  Maryland's constitutions and constitutional conventions' proceedings, session laws, proceedings of the General Assembly, and governors' papers.
• Nebraska State Historical Society Library and Archives
• Encyclopedia Nevadaca
• New Hampshire Department of State, Archives and Records Management
• New York State Archives
• North Carolina State Archives
• Archives and Library, State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook
• Ohio Exploration Society
• Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
• Oregon State Archives
• Pennsylvania State Archives
• Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State, Archives Division
• South Carolina Department of Archives and History
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
• Texas State Historical Association: Handbook of Texas Online
• Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Utah State History
• Archives.Utah.gov
• Vermont State Archives
• The Library of Virginia
• Washington State Digital Archives
• Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection
• West Virginia Archives and History
• Archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society
• Wisconsin History Explorer
• Wyoming State Archives
• Wyoming Memory: A Digital Archive of Wyoming History
• Documenting The American South
"Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern  history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the  20th century..... The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS, and the texts come primarily from its Southern holdings. An editorial board guides its development....  As of February 1, 2001, DAS includes 810 books and manuscripts. Most are  accompanied by a full bibliographic record.  ''
• Collaborative Digitization Program

Histories of Cities or Institutions

• San Francisco Fire Department Museum
• Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf
• Angels Walk: Bunker Hill Historic Core District, Los Angeles, CA  
• Mount Rushmore: American Experience
• San Diego Historical Society
• Encyclopedia of Chicago

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