History
Resources in American History ranging from general sites to specific event information.
- General Resources
- Histories of Government Agencies
- Selected Specific Events
- Photographs & Audio Recordings
- This Day in History
- Digital Documents
- Access to PBS series about American history. Many programs are available online.
- As the professional organization for historians, the AHA advocates for the profession and provides information, awards and grants, and resources for educators.
- This site provides historical documents from 18th century America.
- This site was designed to be a self-contained college-level history course. Resources include access to videos covering 26 topics, and content mirroring that of most U.S. history text books.
- Links to general history resources as well as specific events.
- The National Park Service offers links to Features of People, Places & Stories and Features of Preservation, Guidance & Grants.
- This site from the National Endowment for the Humanities provides lesson plans about American history.
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries' links to resources with text archives and image sites.
- Provides resources for educators.
- Access to information about the museum's extensive holdings as well as online exhibits.
- Offers information about the "history, legacy and traditions of the United States Navy."
- Features information about the Army throughout American history.
Histories of Government Agencies
- 威尼斯人娱乐场 History
- This page provides a brief history of NARA along with links to a timeline, a list of Archivists of the United States, a history of the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Building in Washington, DC., and Online Resources on the History of the 威尼斯人娱乐场.
- A look at the functions of the Department of Labor since its founding in 1913.
- Links to such topics as Famous Cases & Criminals, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives History, and Hall of Honor.
- Digitized version of the book by John Y. Cole.
- This office was organized shortly after NASA's creation to preserve the history of this agency's accomplishments.
- Tracks the history of the United States Postal Service from 1775 with links to Stamps and Postcards, Postal People, Photo Galleries, and more.
- Founded in 1974, the Society is "dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States."
- Provides many resources, including an agency history, programs, and an explanation of the "72-Year Rule."
- This site features Historical Documents, Department History, Key Milestones, and Guide to Countries.
- Access to such resources as Origins & Development, Exhibits, and Senate Stories.
- The Declaration of Independence
- Includes "The Declaration of Independence: A History," "The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence," the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and links to other web sites.
- A site of the Department of Alfa-Informatica at the University of Groningen dedicated to the pre-World War I history of America.
- This site from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is an online resource about the "flag that inspired the National Anthem."
- This site focuses on the experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing, and settling their frontiers, and the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The project resulted from a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Russian State Library, and the National Library of Russia.
- This site features a compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The documents include diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives.
- Exploring the Life and History of the "Buffalo Soldiers"
- Published in The Record in March 1998, this article details a history of the United States Colored Troops.
- This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War.
- An online exhibition produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) to recall one of the most famous events in American history.
- The National Park Service's web site provides lesson plans for teaching about "the most devastating flood in the nation's history."
- Part of the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division, this site contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, sketches, and photographs.
- The Titanic in Documents and Photographs
- An article in the NARA publication The Record in March 1998 highlights the records of the Titanic in the 威尼斯人娱乐场.
- Rescuing Records in the "Cradle of American Labor"
- Information about the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, which collects documents related to the history of labor and working people in New York.
- Transcripts and audio of interviews with "people that participated, in small and large ways."
- A PBS web site dedicated to the most controversial decade of the twentieth century.
- This site was developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College.
- The Lunar and Planetary Institute provides information about the first manned landing on the moon.
Photographs & Audio Recordings
- A few Library of Congress special exhibits include:
- : Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
- : Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- : Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- : 1850-1920
- : Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939
- : Recordings from World War I and the Election of 1920
- An exhibit by the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art in partnership with the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Incorporated. Includes photographs of the Civil War, western landscapes, and Pictorialist images.
- The Free Library of Philadelphia has digitized over 1,200 rare photographs and other materials relating to our nation's 100th birthday party in Philadelphia.
- "The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century."
- Audio of famous speeches made during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Housed at Michigan State University, this collection houses taped recordings from over 50,000 persons from all walks of life recorded over 100 years.
- This digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers is part of the Digital Schomburg Collection at the New York Public Library.
- Yale Law School's Avalon Project includes digital documents from ancient times through the 21st century.
- The Library of Congress "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."
- This site is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- The Thurgood Marshall Law Library provides access to the historical record of civil rights in the United States.
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Harvard Law School Library provides a digital document collection of the Nuremberg Trials.
- Digital versions of 100 milestone documents of American history.
- Transcriptions of major documents relating to American history, from the Magna Carta to President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address.
- Based at the University of Virginia, VCDH projects include many online digital history initiatives.