| This list includes only general U.S. History online publications or collections covering more than one era. For resources on specific eras or topics see:
Start with:
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.
The premier national collection of historic photos, prints,
documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound records.
A true national treasure and a must visit for all educational
levels.
OurDocuments.gov
100 Milestone Documents from American History
Sections include: Milestone Documents ; Teacher's Toolbox ; News & Events ; Competitions ; Related Resources.
Hypertexts
Ongoing Hypertext Projects
American Studies & University of Virginia
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
"This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."
- A Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Making of America Journals - (dead link)
"...is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily 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 book collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books with 19th century imprints."
RSAP
Research Society for American Periodicals
Resources for Research
Includes links to major online newspaper and magazine collections (including Making of America (MOA) collections) from the 18th-21st century. Also listed are related organizations and periodical publishing associations.
A Chronology of US Historical Documents
- University of Oklahoma College of Law
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49th Parallel (electronic journal)
An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies
"...quarterly electronic journal which aims to promote interdisciplinary study of the North American continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
- Published by the University of Birmingham (UK) - Dept. of American and Canadian Studies
1800's Ephemera
"The papers came from a box from the late 1800's which I am currently in the process of postiing to my page. As of now there are 400 images out of 2000 papers."
By Mark Forder
African Americans - See our separate African American History section.
American Centuries...view from New England
"...features a digital collection of approximately 1,800 objects and transcribed document pages from Memorial Hall Museum and Library...One section of the American Centuries site is an interactive exhibit that focusses [sic] on three past 'turns of the centuries'ó1700, 1800 and 1900...This site includes an array of classroom lessons on the elementary, middle, and secondary levels written and tested by classroom teachers under the direction of curriculum specialists."
Sections include: Digital Collection ; Turns Exhibit ; Activities ; In The Classroom ; Chronology ; My Collection ; People & Places.
Memorial Hall Museum, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
American Journeys
Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center
"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later."
American Notes: Travel in America, 1750-1920
"...comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920."
American Memory, Library of Congress
American Political Prints, 1766-1876
Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
From HarpWeek
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
"...is a rich repository of Americana containing, among other materials, posters, playbills, songsheets, notices, invitations, proclamations, petitions, timetables, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, ballots, tickets, menus, and business cards. There are more than 28,000 items in the collection overall. The material dates from the seventeenth century to the present day and covers innumerable topics."
American Memory, Library of Congress
An American Ballroom Companion
Dance Instruction Manuals, Ca. 1490-1920
"Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories."
American Memory, Library of Congress
American Family Immigration History Center
Explore Your Family History at Ellis Island
Includes: The Ellis Island Archives ; The Passenger Record Archive ; The Community Archive ; Family History Scrapbooks.
American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
A Prototype "Virtual Archive" of Encoded Finding Aids
"will investigate one of the most serious problems facing knowledge seekers everywhere, the geographic distribution of both collections of primary source material and the written guides describing and providing access to them. We propose to solve this problem by creating a prototype 'virtual archive', integrating into a single source, hundreds of archival finding aids describing and providing access to a large body of primary source materials from collections documenting American culture and history held by four major academic research libraries [Duke University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Virginia]. The project will demonstrate the feasibility of providing both scholars and average American citizens with user-friendly, universal Internet access to the research collections of the world."
American Memory Timeline Home Page
"This resource was developed to help teachers and students use the vast online collections of the Library of Congress. The links to the right will lead you to sets of selected primary sources on a variety of topics in United States History. The sets are arranged by chronological period."
Learning Page, American Memory, Library of Congress
American Originals
"Some of NARA's most interesting and famous documents are presented here, including the Louisiana Purchase, a police report on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and President Nixon's letter of resignation."
- National Archives Online Exhibit Hall
American Women
A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
"The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001)."
Sections include: General Collections ; Serial & Government Publications ; Law Library ; Rare Books & Special Collections ; Manuscripts ; Prints & Photographs ; Geography and Maps ; Music ; Recorded Sound ; Moving Images ; American Folklife Center ; Area Studies ; Collections ; Topical Essays.
- American Memory, Library of Congress
The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands (English or Nederlands)
"...explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World-War-II period. The project is the product of ongoing cooperation between the Library of Congress and the National Library of the Netherlands, which has enlisted the cooperation of other leading Dutch libraries, museums, and archives."
- Library of Congress Global Gateway
Attending to Early Modern Women
"This gateway provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 but also includes some medieval and nineteenth-century resources...Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings."
Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
"...will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
A Biography of America
"...is a telecourse and video series that presents American history as a living narrative. This series web site lets you delve further into the topics of the 26 video programs...For each program you'll find an interactive feature related to the subject or the time period of the program. In addition, you'll find a listing of key events of the period, a map relevant to the period, the transcript of the video program, and a "Webography" - a set of annotated web links. You will most likely want to watch the video program before using its related web segments, but you can use either independently."
Produced by WGBH Interactive for Annenberg/CPB.
C-Span American Writers: Journey Through History (2001)
View each episode online.
"...an American history series that looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have chronicled, reflected upon, or influenced the course of our nation."
Sections include: Founding to Revolution ; The Young Nation ; Slavery & the Civil War ; Rebuilding American & the Gilded Age ; Progressive Era & Reaction.
C-Span American Writers II: The 20th Century (2002)
View each episode online.
"C-Span brings together writers, scholars, historians and actors to examine the lives and work of selected Twentieth Century American Writers who have influenced our nation's history."
Sections include: Progressive Era & Reaction ; Depression & War ; Early Cold War ; Social Transformation to Vietnam
Censored: Wielding the Red Pen
"This exhibition hopes not so much to judge censors and censorship but instead to provoke questions."
Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Includes a nice selection of online articles and historic reports.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
"In its final form A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation will consist of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress. This first release of the collection offers the records of the first two federal congresses, 1789-1793."
The Library of Congress
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Government Printing Office
Documenting the American South
The Southern Experience in 19th Century America
"provides digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research."
Includes Slave Narrative, First-Person Narratives, and Southern Literature
- University of North Carolina
AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History
A collection of documents from the 15th century to the 1990s
Brown University Library Digital Collections
- African American Sheet Music 1820-1920
"This collection consists of over 1400 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1820 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."
Cases & Materials on American Federalism - (dead link)
"...used in American Government Courses at Purdue University Calumet. The site contains historical documents [American, British, and English], a timeline, a glossary, edited court cases, review questions, other materials, and links to other free resources."
Online textbook by Douglas G. Amber, Dept. of History & Political Science, Purdue University
A Century of Law making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
"Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government...In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75."
- American Memory, Library of Congress
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."
Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
Cornell University Library - Windows on the Past
"...is a grouping of selected historical materials which have been digitally scanned and are available for on-line browsing and searching."
Sections include: Historic Monographs Collection ; Historic Math Book Collection ; New York State Historical Literature ; International Women's Periodicals [restricted to Cornell University community] ; Ezra Cornell Papers ; Witchcraft Collection ; NEH Agriculture Collection ; Other Digital Collections.
Cultural Landscapes
"Cultural Landscapes geography is documented in this category by large-scale maps such as individual land surveys, county land ownership maps and atlases, large-scale topographic maps, and thematic maps showing economic activity. These maps show the cultural modification of a physical landscape as settlers established their farmsteads and villages, constructed the connecting transportation systems, and named their surroundings. Some maps show areas occupied by Native Americans, especially after their resettlement by the United States government."
American Memory, Library of Congress
Documenting the American South
A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920.
"...an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research...Currently, DAS includes five digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, and materials related to the church in the black community."
- First-Person Narratives of the American South
"...documents the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It focuses on the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans."
Douglas - Archives of American Public Address
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
"Collections range from plantation diaries to women's suffrage documents, from a Phyllis Wheatley letter to Anne Tyler manuscripts, from the records of local Women's Christian Temperance Union to the papers of contemporary feminist activists."
-Duke University Special Collections Library
The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
"...examines five centuries of black heritage through five distinct time periods, from the slave revolts of early America through the successes of the Civil Rights Movement...features 600 informative articles and is beautifully illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings, as well as hundreds of photographs and other images. "
[Federalist Papers] FoundingFathers.info
Sections include: The American Flag ; Virtual Postcards ; Don't Tread on Me! ; The Federalist Papers Online ; History of the USA ; Founding Fathers Quotes ; History Clippings.
The Founders' Constitution
"In this unique anthology, Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner draw on the writings of a wide array of people engaged in the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day."
Web edition, University of Chicago Press and Liberty Fund
From Revolution to Reconstruction
A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial Period Until Modern Times
- Dept. of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Frontiers in History...
Resources NARA for National History Day Projects, 2001
"Facilities of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) across the country contain a wealth of primary source materials related to the 2001 National History Day (NHD) theme. This page provides links to descriptions of resources available from 4 of our Regional Records Services facilities and 4 of our Presidential libraries. These ideas are provided to encourage research in and use of archival documents in NHD projects."
GPO Access
Superintendent of Documents Home Page
"GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version..."
Includes the online version of the Commerce Business Daily
Harvard Business School Baker Library - (dead link)
- Baker Library Historical Collections - (dead link)
- Women, Enterprise & Society - (dead link)
"A guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library."
Harvard University - Open Collections Program
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
"...is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression."
- Women Working, 1800-1930
"...focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images..."
Herblock's History
Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
"From the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium beginning in the year 2000, editorial cartoonist Herb Block has chronicled the nation's political history, caricaturing twelve American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979) and a fourth with Washington Post colleagues for public service during the Watergate investigation (1973)."
- Library of Congress
Historic Audio Archives
Includes selected Nixon, Civil Rights Era speeches, and more
Historical Graphics Gallery
"Exhibits of political cartoons, photographs, advertising, and other 19th and 20th century pictures and illustrations, from Napoleon through the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt."
Edited by Jim Zwick
Historical Maps of the United Sates
The Perry-CastaÒeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Historical New York Times Project
"The Historical New York Times Project is the first of a series of projects undertaken by the Universal Library at Carnegie Mellon University, to provide everyone with a glimpse into the actual events as they were seen by the people of the day. You will see the rich tapestry of lives, so like ours today, in which now famous events were actually understood, and misunderstood...What we present is not for the historian, who has access to the microfilms and who has the time to study them, but for the general public, worldwide."
History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL)
"...is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics."
By Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University
History House
"The fromUSAlive.com Internet TV Network today premiered History House, a show designed to give a current perspective on historical events. The show is on-demand, which means that all episodes are accessible to the audience at any time...Discussion on the History House centers on topics such as social movements, war, industrial periods, architecture, philosophy, art, historical fiction, and the history of women. Past guests have included Harry Readshaw, from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Professor Perry Blatz, chairman of the History Department at Duquesne University, and Kathy Ayers, an author of historical novels for children, and University of Akron Law Professor Jane Moriarty, an expert on the Salem Witch Trials.
History Matters
The U.S. Survey on the Web
"Designed for high school and college teachers on U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history...We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence."
History Now (ejournal)
Each themed issue contains lesson plans and much more.
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
"...is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files from each of the 62 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to William Jefferson Clinton's in 1997, and will include items from the 63rd inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music."
- American Memory, Library of Congress
[Immigration] Harvard University - Open Collections Program
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
"...is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression."
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
- Bartleby.com
Internet Archive
"...was founded to build an ëInternet library,í with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
Journal for Multimedia History (JMMH)
"...is the first peer-reviewed electronic journal that presents, evaluates, and disseminates multimedia historical scholarship....Based in the Department of History of The University at Albany, SUNY, the JMMH seeks a diverse readership, including academicians, teachers, archivists, museum curators, documentary film makers, and a curious general public. The journal is dedicated to presenting and reviewing historical scholarship focusing on all periods and all nations"
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
"The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online makes available the text of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton. Moulton's editionóthe most accurate and inclusive edition ever publishedóis one of the major scholarly achievements of the late twentieth century."
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
World's largest private holding of some of the most important original documents - Seven free museums and seven free exhibits throughout the United States
Korean American Digital Archive
"...aimed at bringing disparate collections of materials--manuscripts, documents, photographs, oral histories--together in one searchable database. The initial collection of more than 11,000 pages of documents and over 1300 photographs will continue to grow as additional materials are identified for inclusion."
- University of Southern California Libraries
Library of Congress (LC)
U.S. National Library
- The LOC.GOV Wise Guide
"This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government."
- Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
"The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images providing access to about 60% of the still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division, as well as some images found in other units of the Library."
Library of Congress - Global Gateway
- United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (English or Portuguese)
"...explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian and American culture and history. The project is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil."
Library of Congress - Map Collections
"The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection."
Major categories are: Cities and Towns ; Cultural Landscapes ; Conservation and Environment ; Military Battles and Campaigns ; Discovery and Exploration ; Transportation and Communication ; General Maps.
- American Memory, Library of Congress
- Zoom Into Maps (K12)
"This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking, and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided."
Sections include: Hometown, USA: Local Geography ; Exploration and Discovery ; Migration and Settlement ; Travel and Transportation ; Environmental History ; Military Maps ; Pictorial Maps ; Unusual Maps.
The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program (DLP)
"...the Program has digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids."
The Library of Virginia
Making of America Journals - (dead link)
"...is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily 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 book collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books with 19th century imprints."
Marchand Collection
Major sections include: US Primary Source Lessons (University, High School, Middle School) ; US History Image Database.
By Rolland Marchand for the History Project.
Massachusetts Historical Society
- Adams Papers - (dead link)
"The papers comprise over a quarter million manuscript pages of the letters and diaries of generations of Adams husbands, wives, and children including John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1874) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889)...The papers cover every major political development from the 1750s to the 1880s."
Meeting of Frontiers
"...a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest...It is intended for use in U.S. and Russian schools and libraries and by the general public in both countries. Scholars, particularly those who do not have ready access to major research libraries, also will benefit from the mass of primary material included in Meeting of Frontiers, much of which has never been published or is extremely rare."
Library of Congress
National Archives and Records Administration Home Page
- National Archival Information Locator
Contains over 307,000 descriptions and 24,000 digital copies
- Designs for Democracy
200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives
"...is an exhibition of nearly 125 design drawings selected from the vast holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration and its Presidential Libraries. The designs, all permanently valuable Federal records, were selected to illustrate 200 years of Government drawings. They are also works of art. Displayed here are elegant watercolor paintings, exquisite ink and wash drawings, bold charcoal and pencil sketches, and finely executed engineering details."
- The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1743
- Frontiers in History...
Resources NARA for National History Day Projects, 2001
"Facilities of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) across the country contain a wealth of primary source materials related to the 2001 National History Day (NHD) theme. This page provides links to descriptions of resources available from 4 of our Regional Records Services facilities and 4 of our Presidential libraries. These ideas are provided to encourage research in and use of archival documents in NHD projects."
- Picturing the Century
One Hundred Years of Photography from the [U.S.] National Archives
"...commemorates the end of the 20th century with a selection of photographs from the vast and varied holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA photographs vividly capture the sweeping changes of the last one hundred years. They depict both the mundane and high political drama, society's failings as well as its triumphs, war's ugliness as well as its bravery. This exhibition is arranged in chronological 'galleries' as well as seven 'portfolios' of talented photographers well represented in NARA's holdings."
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
"This online service makes available material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, in hardcover printed volumes entitled The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. This hardcopy series includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, as well as President William J. Clinton."
- Treasures of Congress
"This exhibition draws upon the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration's Center for Legislative Archives and presents a sampling of the landmark documents created by, or delivered to, Congress."
National Library of Canada
- A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
"The books on this site are accounts of North American voyages and explorations from the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by Christopher Columbus in 1492 to the famous trip through the Northwest Passage by Roald Amundsen in 1905."
National Museum of American History - see Smithsonian below
New York Public Library
- The Picture Collection
"The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."
New York Public Library Digital Collection
Includes the Digital Schomerg collections of Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, and African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. The site also contains a very diverse collection of Online Exhibits detailing the social history of New York and the United States.
New York Times at 150
1851-2001 - From the Newspaper Age to the Information Age
"...with articles and reminiscences by Michael Chabon, David Halberstam, Ann Quindlen, Frank Rich and others.
Free registration required
The Open Video Project (OV)
"The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities."
Genres include: Documentary ; Educational ; Ephemeral ; Historical ; Lecture ; Other.
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
"The resources collected here trace the history of political cartooning from the beginning of the nineteenth century and document its transformation during the watershed period at the end of the century when political cartoons emerged as one of the most popular and influential features of the daily press. It also documents some of their uses, from Nast's campaign of the 1870s through portrayals of political leaders, issues, and world events during the first decades of the twentieth century."
By Jim Zwick
Private Passions, Public Legacy:
Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia
"...447 rare books, manuscripts, and maps from the estate of Paul Mellon. Celebrated as a philanthropist, art collector, and breeder of thoroughbred horses, Mellon was also a passionate book collector and amassed one of the greatest libraries of original documents of American history..."
Online exhibit from the Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Perspectives
"...portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections. Among the topics it highlights are the land and its resources, relations with Spain, the competition among political parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the Spanish-American War. The materials in the collection were published between 1831 and 1929 and consist of 39 political pamphlets, 18 monographs, and 1 journal."
American Memory, Library of Congress
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library
"...a collection of about 800 historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century...All of our maps are available in this Library in digital format, but only a subset of them are on this site."
University of Georgia
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
"Included in the collection are progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by commercial firms."
American Memory, Library of Congress
Selected Historic Decisions of the US Supreme Court
"From the LII's CD-ROM Collection of 624 Historic Decisions (2000 ed.)" and "Additional Focused Collections"
From Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection.
Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
"This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica."
Data and Program Library Service (DPLS), University of Wisconsin
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1740
"...contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance."
- American Memory, Library of Congress
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- The Artful Presidency
"...an online exhibit, is presented by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art to celebrate the connections between American artists and the American presidency from George Washington to the Carter administration."
Smithsonian Institution
Supreme Court of the United States
Official government site.
Tangled Roots
A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage.
"Tangled Roots is a research project about the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans... seeks to investigate the history of American slaves and immigrants from Ireland and to consider the links between them. A collection of primary documents from the 17th century to the present provides portraits of people and events from the history of African and Irish Americans."
Yale University - Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Tax History Museum
By The Tax History Project at Tax Analysts
"The Tax History Museum provides a synthetic overview of the history of American taxation. Incorporating both narrative text and multimedia source materials, the museum offers a concise summary of American revenue policy and politics."
Research and text by Paul Milazzo
Teaching the Journal of American History
"Teaching the JAH uses online tools to bridge the gap between the latest scholarly research in U.S. history and the practice of classroom teaching. JAH authors demonstrate how featured articles might be taught in a U.S. history survey course."
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
This useful Library of Congress page includes current Floor activities, Bill summaries from the current Congress as well from previous Congresses, roll call votes, Public Laws and major legislation, text and index to the Congressional Record, Committee information, and historic documents and links to other Congressional Internet services and directories
U.S. Historical Documents Archive
"Here you will find several famous historical documents from the United States history, and famous speeches and presidential inaugural addresses. Searching through all documents is also available.
Maintained by Matthew Weiler
History and Politics Out Loud
"...is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students."
U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive
"...drawn from audio archives throughout the world as well as from University at Albany collections. They are organized by topic and archival repository."
Dept. of History, University of Albany, State University of New York
University of Georgia Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
"...maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century."
Site contents include: New World ; Colonial America ; Revolutionary America ; Revolutionary Georgia ; Union & Expansion ; American Civil War ; Frontier to New South ; Savannah & the Coast ; Transportation.
University of Michigan Documents Center
"...is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news."
One of the most extensive collection of resources available online
University of Texas at Austin - Perry-CastaÒeda Library Map Collection
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
"This exhibition traces how women and men have, over the space of several thousand years of Western culture, imagined, depicted, described, and created new versions of ideal societies. It seeks to show as well that the history of these places is inseparable from the histories of the people, cultures, and periods that gave birth to them. For each individual dream is really the refracted image of a specific moment in time, an imaginary construct in which specific problems of the concrete world are resolved and happiness ó that most elusive of goals ó is attained...Utopia is the result of a collaborative effort between two of the worldís great libraries, the BibliothËque nationale de France and The New York Public Library.
VOAHA: The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
California State University, Long Beach
"This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library - enabling you, the user, to hear the voice, pitch, and rhythm of the narrations as well as the emotions these convey. You will hear the actual spoken words of oral history narrators, rather than seeing a written version of them in the form of a transcript...Presently, more than three hundred hours of Los Angeles basin oral histories in women's, labor history and Long Beach area history are available online, including forty hours of interviews with California women who were rank and file activists in the national suffrage movement."
Women - See our separate History of American Women page.
Words & Deeds in American History
"...approximately ninety representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Included are the papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military officers and diplomats, reformers and political activists, artists and writers, scientists and inventors, and other prominent American..."
Library of Congress' American Memory Project
Discussion Lists
H-Afro-Am Discussion Network
"...The main mission of H-Afro-Am is to provide an exchange of information for professionals, faculty and advanced students, in the field of African American Studies (also called Afrocentricity, Africology, Africana Studies, Afro-American Studies, Black Studies, and Pan-African Studies)."
H-Civwar Discussion Network
"H-CivWar is the H-Net discussion list dealing with the culture and history of the Civil War."
H-USA Discussion Network
"...encourages international study of the USA and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids."
The site also includes a listing of Internet resources.
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