INTERNET SITES FOR THE STUDY OF UNITED STATES HISTORY

GENERAL

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
  http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
  This site contains a bibliography of primary documents available on the Internet that are essential for the study of US history.
  
  
• American and British history resources
  http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
  Excellent site from Rutgers University includes Civil War resources on the Internet.
  
  
• American Memory: historical collections for the National Digital Library
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
  From the Library of Congress special collections and consist of primary source and archival materials relating to US history and culture
  
  
• American slave narratives
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
  During the late 1930s writers of the Works Progress Administration, a federal government jobs program, interviewed thousands of former slaves throughout the American south.  This Web site offers transcripts of selected interviews.
  
  
• American Studies Web
  http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
  Excellent source of information maintained at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
  
  
• American Women's History: a research guide
  http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
  In addition to the general reference and biographical resources section, each subject area has its own list of specialized resources, including bibliographies, biographical sources, encyclopedias/historical overviews, journals, networking tools, and primary sources, both printed and electronic
  
  
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
  Projects reproduces document relevant to law, diplomacy, politics, economics and history.
  American documents include: Federalist Papers, Jefferson Papers, Confederate States of America and many more.
  
  
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-present
  http://bioguide.congress.gov/
  
  
• Center of Military History
  http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/
  This site is devoted to the history of the American Army and its operations rather than military history in general.
  
  
• Chronology of United States Historical Documents
  http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
  Documents from pre-Colonial era to the present; maintained by College of Law, University of Oklahoma
  
  
• Collections and Internet Resources in United States History
  http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/ushist/index.htm
  
  
• Documenting the American South
  http://docsouth.unc.edu
  
  
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html
  
  
• The Frederick Douglass papers at the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml
  The site is organized so that viewers can proceed thematically, chronologically, or alphabetically, as they wish.
  
  
• Historical Text Archive
  http://historicaltextarchive.com/
  
  
• Historical United States Census Data Browser
  http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/census
  A rich source of electronically browsable historical census data from 1790 to 1970.
  
  
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
  http://www.bartleby.com/124/
  
  
• Making of America
  http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/index.html
  A digital library of primary sources in US social history (1850-77).
  
  
• NARA: The National Archives to Records Administration
  http://www.archives.gov/research_room/
  Includes primary documents.  Information on Presidential libraries
  
  
• Perseus Project: an evolving digital library
  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
  
  
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
  http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
  Links are provided to all 42 presidents, who are listed in chronological order with their terms of office, background information, election results, cabinet members (some hyperlinked), and notable events.
  
  
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
  
   
• U.S Historic Documents
  http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
  
   
• U.S. History Research Guide
  http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/humanities/history/histusrg.html
  
   
• Wars and Conflicts of the United States Navy
  http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/
  Informative site maintained by Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.  Contains primary documents.
  
   
• Western History Photography Collection
  http://photoswest.org/
  A searchable collection of photographs of the American West, primarily Colorado, that provides access to images and catalog records of a portion of the 600,000 item collection.

COLONIAL PERIOD

• Colonial America
  http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/guide/student_teacher/reference/ref_amhist/colonial.html
  
  
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial North America
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook07.html
  Excellent source of primary documents.
  

CIVIL WAR

• American Civil War Homepage
  http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
  
  
• Nineteenth Century Documents project
  http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
  A selection of primary texts from 19th Century American History. Text-based, efficient, accurate and well organized collection of transcribed primary texts focusing on the courses, events, and debates preceding to the U.S. Civil War.
  
  
• Selected Civil War Photographs
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
  Collection of over 1,000 Civil War photographs that can be searched by keyword, browsed by subject, or viewed by year
  
  
• U.S. Civil War Center, Louisiana State University
  http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
  Index of Civil War information on the Internet
  
  
• The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
  http://valley.vedh.virginia.edu/
  Excellent source for primary documents.

INDIVIDUALS

• Lincoln/net
  http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
  Hosted by Northern Illinois University
  Valuable resource of primary source material on Abraham Lincoln and on life in antebellum Illinois.
  
  
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
  The site has begun the process of placing it's contents of the published volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. online.
  Includes a searchable bibliography.

VIETNAM WAR

• The Vietnam Project
  http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamproject/links.htm
  
  
• The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
  http://www.vassar.edu/~vietnam/
  
   
• Vietnam War Bibliography: Edwin E. Moϊse bibliography of the Vietnam War
  http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/bibliography.html
  An excellent Web site for any individual looking for materials on any aspect of the Vietnamese conflict.
  

IRAQ

• U.S. Navy Dept. Library.  Conflict with Iraq: A Research Guide
  http://www.history.navy.mil/library/guides/iraq_conflict.html
  
  

WOMEN

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
  http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
  Excellent source for primary materials.
  
  
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
  Contains an excellent selection of primary sources for research in women's rights
  
  
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
  http://womhist.binghamton.edu
  Excellent resource
  Exceptional collection of documents

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