United States History: Internet Resources
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Selected Internet Sites

American History Gateways/Directories

• WWW Virtual Library:  History:  United States
• U.S. History Gateway
• American Studies Web (Georgetown U.)
• A Biography of America (WGBH Educational Foundation)
• BlackPast (African American History)

History Sites Designed for High School Students

• Digital History (U. of Houston)
  This site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges.
• History Matters
  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.
• Best of History: U.S. History
  Contains links to over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Includs links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.

Research Paper Ideas

• PBS: United States

Historical Statistics

• United States Historical Census Browser (includes U.S. data from 1790-1960)
• Historical Statistics of the United States: colonial times to 1970, Part I
• Historical Statistics of the United States: colonial times to 1970, Part II
• Statistical Abstracts: 1878 - present
• SOCDS: State of the Cities Data Systems (data back to 1970)

Historical Maps

• Historical Maps of the United States
• Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection (UNC)
• Map Collections (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (U. of Texas)(see Historical Maps)
• Norman B. Leventhal Map Center (Boston Public Library)
• Cultural Maps in American Studies (U. of Virginia)

Subject Specific Historical Sites

• Outline of U.S. History
• The American Presidency: a Glorious Burden
• American President
• The American Presidency Project
• American Women's History: a Research Guide
• A Biography of America
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History -- See For Teachers & Students
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (research facility for U.S. public policy--focuses on American politics and history and the U.S. Presidency)
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture (U. Mississippi)
• Naval Historical Center
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis, 1890 (full text of the book provided by Yale U.)
• American Cultural History: the 20th Century (Kingswood College Library)
• American Cultural History: the 19th Century (Kingswood College Library)
• America in the 1930's (U. of Virginia)

Primary Sources on the Internet

• Primary Sources on the Web
• Primary Sources
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections)(Library of Congress)
• Ready, 'Net, Go!: Archival Internet Resources

American Documents

• Teaching with Documents (primary documents from our National Archives)
• 100 Milestone Documents (National Archives)
• Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
• U.S. National Archives:  Online Exhibits
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (GPO Access)
• Our Documents :  100 Milestone Documents of American History 
• American History , A Documentary Record:  1492-Present
• CRS Annotated Constitution (Cornell U.)(includes links to Supreme Court opinions, U.S. Code, and Code of Federal Regulations)
• Constitution of the United States (from GPO Access)(includes congressional and state acts held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and Supreme Court decisions overruled by subsequent decisions)
• Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
• American Women's History: Digital Collections of Primary Sources
• Documents: From Revolution to Reconstruction . . .
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Yale)
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (speeches)(Northwestern U.)
• Archival Research Catalog (National Archives) (limit to digitized image to identify primary documents)
• The World War I Document Archive
• WhiteHouseTapes (1940-1970)(audio)
• Douglass Archives of American Public Address (speeches)
• History and Politics Out Loud (Michigan State U.)(speeches)
• Speech & Transcript Center: Historic Speeches (George Washington U.)
• Colonial Charters, Grants, & Documents (Yale U.)
• We DO American Studies (literary and scholarly hypertexts)(U. of Virginia)

Presidents

• Presidential Libraries (National Archives)
• Presidents (National Archives)
• Presidential Documents Guide (National Archives)
• Presidential Collections (beginning with Hoover)(National Archives)
• American Presidency Project (includes over 69,000 documents)
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: 1993 - present
• Presidential Vetoes: 1789 - present
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (beginning with Hoover)(U. Michigan)
• Presidential Speech Archive
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (portal to digitized collections beginning with Hoover--includes educational units)
• A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
• Abraham Lincoln (full text documents and books)

General Digital Collections

• American Memory: Historical Collections of the Library of Congress
• Making of America (digital library of primary sources in 19th century American social history)
• Cornell University Library Digital Collections
• Manuscripts and Archives Digital Image Database (MADID)(Yale U.)
• OAIster (U. of Michigan)(includes texts, images, audio, video)
• NYPL Digital (New York Public Library)
• Center for History and New Media
• Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
• Digital Library Federation Digital Collections Registry (a database of digital collections)
• Internet Archive (includes web pages, text, audio, moving images, and software)
• Villanova University Digital Library Browser
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Collection (limit the search to "transcript" for full text documents)
• American Rhetoric (includes public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events)
• Digital and Multimedia Center (Michigan State)
• Center for Oral and Public History (includes collections for California, ethnic groups, and education, mining, labor, World War II, women, and Family Oral History Projects)
• American Experience (browse topics in American History from PBS)
• Library of Congress Experience

Regional Digital Collections

• Documenting the American South
• Southern Media Archive (U. Mississippi)
• Virginia Center for Digital History
• Online Archive of California
• CDP: Collaborative Digitization Program (photographs, maps, documents, sound recordings, and objects from museums, libraries, and archives in the west
• North Carolina Civil War Image Portfolio
• Digital Library of Georgia
• Digital Library of Appalacia
• Illinois Harvest
• Calisphere: a World of Primary Sources and More (on California)(U. of California)

Subject Specific Digital Collections

• In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
• Africans in America
• Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
• Black History (from our National Archives)
• Blues Archive (U. Mississippi)
• Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
• Experiencing War: Stories from the Veteran's History Project
• Emergence of Advertising in America (Duke U.)
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration & Settlement (Wisconsin Historical Society)
• Transportation History Collection: Railroads (U. Michigan)
• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
• Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive (Massachusetts Historical Society)
• John Adams Library
• Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive (Massachusetts Historical Society)
• Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (N. Illinois U.)
• Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard)
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (Duke U.)
• Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections (Duke U.)
• American Civil War Home Page
• The American West: Harper's Weekly, 1857-1916
• 1906 San Francisco Earthquate and Fire
• Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home
• Primary Documents on American Radicalism Topics (Michigan State U.)
• Immigration (Library of Congress)(choose an ethnic group from the icons on the left)
• Immigration to the United States: 1789-1930 (digital collection)(Harvard U.)
• Historic Government Publications from World War II (digital collection)(S. Methodist U.)
• A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825 ("data is very diverse and involves all offices from the Federal to the local levels")
• Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Images of American Political History
• Civil Rights Digital Library (U. of Georgia)

Massachusetts Historical Resources & Digital Collections

• Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online
• Digital Treasures (digital library collection of the agricultural and industrial cultural history of Central and Western Massachusetts)
• Local and Regional History Resources (from the Forbes Library in Northampton)
• Smith College Archives
• Sophia Smith Collection: Women's History Manuscripts at Smith College
• Jones Library Special Collections (Amherst)
• Raid on Deerfield
• Historic Deerfield :  A Museum of New England History and Art
• Historic Deerfield Media Center (online catalog, collections database, probate database)
• Bringing History Closer to Home (local history research on Beverly, MA and New England by Beverly High School students)

Newspapers

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
  Search and read newspaper pages from selected states from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present--over the next 20 years, this will become a digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922
• Civil War Newspapers
• American Newspapers: 1775-1860 (see Chapter 21)
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902)

Electronic books

• ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (American Council of Learned Societies)(U. of Michigan)(a collection of high quality books in the humanities)

Full text journals

• United States History
• Other Regions
• HarpWeek (free features from a subscription database that indexes Harper's Weekly--the library owns the publication on microfilm from 1857-1874)