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- Chronology of United States Historical Documents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
CIVIL WAR
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
IRAQ
WOMEN
Suggestions, corrections and comments are welcome
For more information please contact
Nora Robins
Liaison Librarian for History
Voicemail: (403) 220-7391
page maintained by Brenda MacDonald
Administrative Assistant, Client Services