Annals of American History full text of speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia from the history of America. Access available by chonological period, author, topic, or keyword. Subscription database. Requires Urban password.
- American Memory Collection of historical documents and primary resources from the Library of Congress
- AMDOCS: primary source documents for the study of American History.
- Presidents of the United States --Biographical information, Cabinet members, political events, inaugural and other speeches, important papers, and more. From The Internet Public Library
- Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies from the Library of Congress American Memory site.
- U.S. Historical Documents Documents are organized in chronological groups from before 1400 to 2000.
- United States Government Links
- History Out Loud Speeches and transcripts. Search by speaker, subject, date or keyword.
- U.S. Government Information on the Internet Links collected by the New York Public Library.
- U.S. Government Information on the Internet Links collected by the National Library of Australia.
- FirstGov Official U.S. site for searching government information online. Includes all branches of government and departments.
- National Security Archive Declassified U.S. Government documents are available from George Washington University. Some of these primary sources include "The Real Thirteen Days" (Cuban Missile Crisis), "Fujimori's Rasputin" (background documents that explain Peru's sudden shift in leadership), and the "U.S. and Chinese Nuclear Programs (1960-1964)." Many documents have blacked out areas that contain information that still might threaten national security.
- Art History Emergence
of Advertising in America 1850-1920
Browse the exhibits from this Duke University website, or search for a specific term such as auto or soap. Find out more about the products used in America's past.
- Blank outline map of the United States.
- Blank maps of the fifty states of the United States
- Maps of the United States from About.com
Chronological History Resources
Exploration and Discovery
- 1492 : an Ongoing Voyage an Exhibit of the Library of Congress.
- Civil War from The History Place
- Civil War Women. Digitized collection from Duke University. Includes the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Sarah E. Thompson, and the Alice Williamson diary
- From Revolution to Reconstruction A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial period until Modern Times. Includes outlines of historical time periods with links. Other sections include documents, essays, biographies, outlines of geography, economy, literature, and government.
- Civil War Reader
Twentieth Century History Links also 20th Century World History Links
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute from Stanford. Includes documents, speeches, chronologies, and more.
Great Depression
- Dorothea Lange photographs
- The Magpie Sings the Great Depression Presents almost 200 poems, articles, and short stories and many graphics and photographs from The Magpie, literary magazine of Dewitt Clinton High School, encompassing the years 1929 to 1942. Provides a glimpse of student life in New York City during the years of the Great Depression.
- History Matters: US History course on the web. Includes an activity based on Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Requires shockwave.
Korean War
- Korean War documents, conferences, exhibits, photographs, and other information from the Truman and Eisenhower Libraries.
- Korean War Commemorative site from the United States Department of Defense.
- Korean War FAQs mostly from a Chinese perspective
- The Korean War Project
Vietnam War
- United States in Vietnam resources from The History Place. Includes timeline, maps, slide show and more.
Watergate
- History and Politics Out Loud. Go to search and type in subject Watergate.
- Native Web Resources for indigenous cultures around the world.
- Museum of the City of San Francisco Searchable site organized by subject and by chronology. Includes history of San Francisco: Earthquake of 1906 and 1989, Gold Rush, World War II, Longshormen's Strike ("Bloody Thursday") of 1934, biographies, and more. Includes articles from the SF newspapers of the time
- Women's History
- Early Radio History Articles and extracts about early radio and related technologies, concentrating on the United States in the period from 1897 to 1927. Another site with history and examples from the Golden Age of Radio.
- Racial Stereo types from the Jim Crow Museum The images are offensive. The physical museum with over two thousand Jim Crow artifacts is housed at Ferris State University in Michigan. "The museum's holdings are of two types. First, there is the Jim Crow memorabilia -- signs, tickets, brochures, photographs, and books -- that promoted segregation. Second, are caricatured everyday items, for example, Mammy candles, Nellie fishing lures, Picaninny ashtrays, Sambo masks, Coon toys, and Golliwog marbles. The museum demonstrates how racist ideas and anti-Black images dominated American culture. It also shows how these images and ideas have resurfaced in recent years."
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Created by Carolyn Karis 2 February 2000
Last update 27 January 2007.