History - World Wide Web Resources - United States
General U.S. History
- 100 Milestone Documents National Archives and Records Administration
- The National Archives and USA Freedom Corps provide access to 100 milestone documents in United States history, from 1776-1965. The list includes public laws, Supreme Court decisions, inaugural speeches, treaties, amendments and other famous documents.
- American Memory Project Library of Congress
- The Library of Congress provides access to digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps and other resources that document the American experience. It also includes materials for teachers who want to use the collection in the classroom. American Memory is searchable by topic/subject, time period, geographic location, and by format.
- Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents University of Oklahoma
- Authored by the University of Oklahoma College of Law, this website offers a chronology of important U.S. documents arranged by century, from 1215-2007.
- Documenting the American South (DocSouth) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Authored by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, this digital library provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern United States history, literature, and culture. The digital library is searchable by subject, author, title, and geographic location.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 Harvard University
- 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.
- Making of America Project Cornell University
- With material provided by Cornell University, this digital library consists of 267 books and over 100,000 journal articles in American social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction. Strong subject areas include education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, science and technology.
- Women Working, 1800 - 1930 Harvard University
- 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.
- American Civil War Homepage George H. Hoemann
- Maintained by Dr. George Hoemann at the University of Tennessee, this website includes a wealth of information on the American Civil War. Areas include general resources, biographical information from people from the north and south, state and local studies, military information, histories and bibliographies, battles and campaigns, wartime images, and rosters and regimental histories.
U.S. Foreign Relations
- Avalon Project, Yale Law School, Foreign Relations of the United States Yale Law School
- Full text of documents in U.S. Law, history, and diplomacy.
- Cold War International History Project Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War.
U.S. Presidency
- American Presidency Project University of California - Santa Barbara
- Searchable database containing :
The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913)
The Public Papers of the Presidents:
Hoover to Bush (1929-1993)
The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:
Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2007)
- Presidential Libraries United States National Archives and Records Administration
- The Presidential Library system is composed of twelve Presidential Libraries. These facilities are overseen by the Office of Presidential Libraries, in the National Archives and Records Administration.
Vietnam War 1961-1975
- Vietnam Center and Archive Texas Tech University
- Contains over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials related to the Vietnam War.
