American History
Amdocs: Documents for the Study of American History
Links to primary source documents in American history from 1400 to the present.
The American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Includes documents, photographs, and sound recordings arranged by topics including agriculture, art, business, education, geography, land, political science, recreation and sports, and social studies.
American Treasures
An exhibition of "the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past, drawn from every corner of the world's largest library, the Library of Congress."
Archiving Early America: Historic Documents from 18th Century America
Newspapers, maps, and documents as they were originally printed.
A Biography of America
The companion website to a video series, A Biography of America presents American history as a living story. Each segment features a list of key events, a map related to the period, the transcript of the video program, and a set of annotated web links.
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
"The David Rumsey Collection was started nearly 20 years ago, and focuses primarily on maps of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, books, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps, including pocket, wall, children’s and manuscript."
Freedom: A History of US
A PBS overview of the history of the United States, with teacher guides for each 'Webisode".
The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History
"The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, contains more than 60,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times." Also includes a "For Teachers and Students" page, and "History Now" a quarterly journal of American history.
Historical Documents.com
Links to important historical documents that helped form our system of government from 1000 A. D. until today, listed in chronological order.
The History Place
Information on American history from colonial times to the present, World War II and the Holocaust, and selected topics in world history.
History Resource Center: US
Over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 magazines covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. See Mrs. Moll's Media Center Moodle site for the Gale password if you're working at home.
The Library of Congress PhotoStream
Over 3,000 photos from the Library of Congress have been posted to Flickr, to make them available for public use.
National Archives
Important documents of United States history, plus photographic exhibits.
They Made America
Examines America’s evolution from colonies to an industrial powerhouse to a global power. Includes Who Made America?, fact sheets on the inventors and innovators responsible for these advances.
Black History
Black History Month
Sponsored by the Gale Group, this site includes a timeline, biographies, and links to related sites.
Slavery and the Making of America
Includes lesson plans, primary sources, historical readings, interviews and more, based on the PBS series.
The Universal Black Pages: History
Annotated links to Black History sites.
Civil War
The American Civil War
Stories of battles, life stories of important figures, re-enactments, and more.
Civil War Women
Diaries, documents, photos and letters of women's experiences during the Civil War.
The Civil War Home Page
Links to sites on noteable people, battles, and documents. Also includes letters, diaries, reenactment pictures and original photos.
Industrial Revolution
Eduscapes: The Industrial Revolution
Links to numerous sites on the Industrial Revolution
Freedom: A History of US: the Industrial Revolution
This PBS site outlines the history and impact of the Industrial Revolution.
Women's History
National Women's History Project
Links to a multitude of sites on women's history, including women's rights, the witchcraft trials, women at work, in aviation, math, science, arts sports, and war.
Women's History
Sponsored by the Gale Group, this site includes a timeline, biographies, "Women's rights on trial", and links to related sites.
World History
Eyewitness to History
History told through accounts of those who lived it accompanied by images and audio. Sections include the 17th through 20th centuries, ancient world, Middle Ages and Renaissance, Civil War, the Old West, World War I and World War II.
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
Maps and essays on world governments, living conditions, war, religion, and links to other sites.
The History Net - Where History Lives on the Web
Articles on various aspects of history, biographies, and picture gallery.
History Resource Center: World
Magazines, reference works, primary source documents and multimedia files, including articles from 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and 110 journals. See Mrs. Moll's Media Center Moodle site for the Gale password if you're working at home.
PBS History
Transcripts from PBS programs on the "Ancient World", "Biographies", "The United States", "War & Espionage" and "the World".
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