US History

General Reference:

• Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology: shows the innovative transportation system used in the 1830's-1850's to tow railroad cars up & down the steep slopes of the Allegheny Mountains.
• The Amazing Picture Machine: is a database of photos & graphical representations on the web.
• America Historical Documents: The National Archives preserves and provides access to the records of the Federal Government.
• Archival Research Catalog:  Approximately 124,000 digital images of governmental textual records, photos and maps. Materials date from the Colonial period to the recent past.
• Biographies of American Presidents:    
• Biographies of American First Ladies:
• Digital History:  These multimedia resources and links are designed to facilitate the study of US history.
• Fasttrack to America's Past:  Support Site for Teachrs and Students using our interactive learning Guide.
• History Channel.com:
• The Internet Public Library:  Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index databases. 
• The Learning Page:  The American Memory website to teach about US History and culture. Includes photos,objects, life histories and more.
• National Archives:
• National Park Services: Find a Park, Discover History, Wxplore Nature. for kids or teachers.
• U.S. History Internet Resources: History Dept.  at the University of Minnesota. 
• U.S. History Resources:  American history resources for teachers, students,a nd historians.
• You Be the Historian:  See if you can figure out what life was like 200 years ago.

Three Worlds Meet  and Colonization, Beginning to 1763

• Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the America: A Visual Record: Images that depict the enslavement of Africans, the Atlantic slave trade, and slave life n the New World.
• Geography of Slavery in America: This website provides transcriptions and images of more than 2,400newspaper advertisements between 1736 and 1777 regarding runaway slaves.
• New Perspectives on the West: This website is organized into several section: a guided tour of the West; and interactive timeline to 1917; a hypertext map that includes migration and commerce routes, games and puzzles; and most importantly, archival materials collected during the making of the series,The West.
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project:  a wealth of documents and analytical essays emphasize the social history of Plymouth Colony from 1620 to 1691.
• Virtual Jamestown: Explores the history of Jamestown.
• Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project. This website focuses on the Salem witch trials of 1692.

Revolution and the New Nation, 1754-1820's

• Center on Religion and Democracy: Designed to promote the study of religion and public life, this site offers classical, historical,religious, and legal works as well as The Hedgehog Revies.
• Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention: Drafts and final versions of Foundational U.S. government docutments can be found on this website.
• Drafting the Documents of Independence: 8 documents and prints relating to the creation of the Declaration of Independence are presented, including a June 1826 letter from Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman that is "considered on of the sublime exaltations of individual and nationa liberty".
• Doing History: Martha Ballard's Diary Online:  This site explores the eighteenth century diary of midwife Martha Ballard and the construction of two late twentieth century historical studies based  on the diary.
• First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820: This website provides pages of materials related to European migration into the Ohio River Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
• George Washington Papers, 1741-1799:  This collection of documents written by or to George Washington is the largest set of original Washington documents in the world.
• Oneida Indian Nation: Culture and History: The Oneida Indian Nation was called the "first ally and steadfast friend" of the fledgling American Republic.  This website presents documents and studies focusing on the Revolutionary War period and the Oneida Nation's recent efforts topursue land claims.
• Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of America: Rivers, Edens, Empires: These documents and artifacts interpret nineteenth century westward exploration through three motivating forces present in President Thomas Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark.

 

Expansion and Reform, 1801-1861

• Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: A wealth of historical materials, in a variety of formats, addresses, transcriptions of documents, speeches, treaties, and other official papers.
• Abraham Lincoln Papers: Documents relating to President Abraham Lincoln's life and career.
• African Americans in Lancaster County: Documents addressing antebellum life in Lancaster County, PA. Photographs, letters, wills, tax records, maps, census records, court records, newspaper articles, inventories, and local government records.
• The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom : The Underground Railroad, from 1800 up until the end of 1865, assisted more than 40,000 slaves to freedom.
• North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920: This collection offers documents on the lives of American slaves.
• Oregon Trail: This website details the history of the Oregon Trail and experiences of settlers who used it to migrate west.
• Women in America: 1820 to 1842: This website discuss the status of women in America between 1820 and 1842.

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877

• Born in Slavery: Slave narratives from the Federal writers' project: Firsthand accounts of slavery and photographs of former slaves.
• Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum: A large collection of materials emphasizes the first transcontinental railroad.
• Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society:  Items pertaining to the Civil War are available on this website.
• Lost Museum: Explore interactive 3-D re-creations of sixteen original Barnum exhibits or an archive of images, documents, accounts and essays.
• Selected Civil War Photographs: Depicting Civil War military personnel, preparations for battle, and the aftermath of battles in the main eastern theater and in the West.
• Timeline Results of Civil War and Reconstruction:
• Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877): The Civil War was perhaps the most momentous event in war itself was the tangled problem of how to reconstruct the defeated South.

Development Of The Industrial United States, 1870-1900

• The Development of the Industrail United States:
• American Indians Of the Pacific Northwest: This archive includes photographs and text page illustrations.
• Biographies of the Industrial Revolution:
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920: This site documents published works, manuscripts, images, and motion picture footage about the formation of the movements to conserve andprotect America's natual heritage.
• Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory: this exhibit commemorates the Great Chicago Fire (1871).
• History of the American West, 1860-1920: This site features photographs taken between 1860 and 1920.
• Images of African Americans from the Nineteenth Century: Images depict the social, political, and cultural worlds of their nineteenth century African American subjects.
• Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains: Items representing current and former American Indian Tribes of the Northern great Plains from 1870-1954.
• Industrial Revolution: Many links to topics of the Industrial Revolution.
• Inventions and Inventors - 1851-1900:
• New York Public Library Picture Collection Online: Eclectic collection offers images from books and periodicals, and more.
• Prohibition In The United States: With additional links and information.
• Temperance and Prohibition: Campaigns to reduce the drinking of alcohol in the United States are documented on this website.

Emergence Of Modern America, 1890-1930

• America at Work: America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election.
• Antil-Imperialism in the United States, 1989-1935: Comprehensive website offers important texts on American imperialism and its opponents. Essays, speeches, pamphlets, political platforms, editorial cartoons, petitions, and pieces of literature.
• Child Labor in America, 1908-1912:  Photographs of Lewis W. Hine. Website furnishes photographs taken between 1908-1912.
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910's and 1920's:  Essays, photos, cartoons, posters, flyers and maps.
• Dismuke's Virtural Talking Machine: Music selections recorded between 1900 and the 1930's.
• "The North American Indian": Edward S. Curtis's: Photos taken of North American Tribes.
• Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920:  Advertising items and publications.
• Emma Goldman Papers:  A major figure in the history of radicalism and feminism in the United States.
• First World War: The War to End All Wars:  This website provides an overview of WW I.
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1900-1918: This provides the official record of major declassified U.S. foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity.
• Great American Speeches:  Eighty years of political Oratory: This collection presents speeches delivered between 1900 and the present.
• Medicine and Madison Ave: This exhibit is designed to help better understand the evolution and complexity of health-related marketing in the 20th century.
• Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures:
• Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of WW I, 1918-1919.
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921. Book, pamphlets, handbooks, reports, speeches, and other artifacts.
• WW I Document Archive: Documents and images relating to WW I.

Great Depression And World War II, 1929-1945

• After the Day of Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews following the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Interviews after December 7, 1941.
• Albert and Vera Weisbord Archives: Transcribed public papers of The Weisbord's, American communists active from the 1920's to the 1970's.
• America from the Great Depression to WW II:  Photograps from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from 1936 to 1940: Offers firsthand accounts on subjects such as slavery, nineteenth century American folk cultures, and the social history of the Great Depression.
• Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar: During WW II, the US government forced more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes and relocat to internment camps.
• A Biography of America-World War II:
• Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945:
• Holocaust Encyclopedia:
• New Deal Network: Database offersitems relevant to the New Deal, newspaper and journal articles, speeches, letters, reports, advertisements and other textual materials.
• Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II: Collection or oral history interviews.
• Voices from the Dust Bowl: 1940-1941: This website presents "a multi-format ethnographic field collection" that examines Depression-era migrant work camps.
• World War II in Europe:

Postwar United States, 1945-1970's

• American Radicalism Collection: Pamphlets, documents, and newsletters produced by or relevant to radical movements.
• Central High Crisis:  Little Rock, 1957: a collection of articles and photographs from two Arkansas newspapers explores the 1957 crisis in Little Rock.
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive: Oral history interviews and collections of documents address the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
• Communism in Washington State-History and memory project: The activities and influence of the Communist Party. Video.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project: text and audio of speeches, sermons and other writings.1929-1958.
• Truman Presidential Museum and Library: Contains text,audio, speeches, and letters.
• US Senate Historical Office: A collection of oral histories, essays, and data addresses the history of the US Senate.
• Vietnam Center:This website offers audio oral histories, transcripts, documents, interviews and much more.

Contemporary United States, 1968 to th Present

• Amistad Digital Resource: 9/11 and the Iraq War:
• Frontline - Iraq, Afghanistan And The War On Terror:
• Gulf War: Materials on Operation Desert Storm.
• Hurricane Katrina:
• Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium:
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research:
• Multilaterals Project:   Treaties, agreements and conventions are available on this website.
• Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia: Text and Audio, files, transcriptions or oral arguments, and written opinions. 
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: 1992-2001:  Documents, addresses, statements, letters, interviews with the press, and speeches.
• September 11 Digital Archive: electronic media to collect, preserve and present the history and memory of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
• Teach Women's History Project:  These teaching and reference materials address the women's rights movement of the past fifty years and oppoing forces.