History links - American history

• The American Civil War Homepage gathers together hypertext links to the most useful electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). It began as a class project for Information Science 560 at the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences. The page has received numerous awards, honors, and favorable comment since its first appearance. It is included in the American Library Association's "Top 700-Plus Web Sites for Children", and has been selected as one of the top 100 educational sites for 1999 by the Education Source.
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than seven million digital items from over 100 historical collections, and includes a search engine which allows users to locate information by collection or via an analytical search.
• American Slave Narratives contains a collection of interviews conducted from 1936 to 1938 with former slaves from across the American south. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves.
• American Women's History: A Research Guide - This site provides citations to print and Internet reference sources as well as to selected large primary source collections, many of them digital. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
• The Bill of Rights: Almost an Afterthought? - Includes primary sources, images, documents, contextualizing the Bill of Rights documents, essays, and events.
• Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web - Both teacher- and student-friendly, this collaborative site offers many avenues to explore African-American history. With links that are well organized and access to many diverse resources, this site is ideal for papers and projects.
• Child labor in America, 1908-1912 - Here, the horrendous world of child labor during the early 1900s is captured through the haunting photographs of Lewis W. Hine. “About these photos” contains an account of Hine and his role in helping bring about reform, plus links to his other photographic essays on Ellis Island immigrants and the building of the Empire State Building. It mentions the 250 million children working today in developing countries and links to the UNICEF web page on international child labor.
• Discovering Lewis and Clark  - Produced by Joseph Mussulman, an author specializing in the Lewis and Clark expedition, this site contains text, images, maps, and primary source documents. Materials are meticulously organized by topic.
• Double Victory: Minorities and Women During WW II - Includes video clips, essays, instruction, documents, and images.
• Douglass - Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. Named after the famed 19^th -century orator & author Frederick Douglass, the site includes famous speeches and writings from such notable American figures as Jane Adams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Theodore Roosevelt. Visitors can view speeches by speaker, title, or chronology. Be sure to check the "special-delivery" section, which highlights a current or former controversy in America.
• Gettysburg National Military Park: Camp Life, Civil War Collections  -
  Developed and maintained by the National Park Service, this exhibit illuminates the daily lives of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Information is organized into four sections: Living in Camp, Existing Day to Day, Battling Boredom, and All Image Gallery. Text is accompanied by captioned photographs.
• Harry Truman Library & Museum provides documents, lesson plans, and facts about Truman and the American presidency.
• Internment history - This voluminous research serves as an adjunct to PBS’s Children of the Camps. 'Historical documents' includes Executive Order 9066, which allowed the displacement of Japanese-Americans; 'The camps' describes the overcrowded conditions of the internment life, and ‘Health impact” documents the long-term effects of imprisonment. The timeline highlights important dates from 1941 to 1990.
• The New Deal Network - In October 1996, the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) launched the New Deal Network (NDN), a research and teaching resource on the Worldwide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal; NDN is now based at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University. At its core is a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents) from the New Deal period. Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database, many of them previously accessible only to scholars. Unlike many databases on the Web, which represent the holdings of a particular institution, NDN draws from a wide variety of sources around the country to create a theme-based archive.
• Presidential Libraries of the National Archives & Records Administration is a site which provides links to presidential libraries starting with the Herbert Hoover Library. Documents from each president since Hoover, including letters, journals, diaries, official papers and documents, presidential biographies and photographs, are available in digital format on each of their library web sites.
• Presidents and First Ladies - Contains biographies, portraits, and photographs of presidents and their first ladies, as well as information about all the presidential libraries.
• The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Read the documents, see the photographs, hear the voices, read a detailed chronology and the analysis of contemporary historians of the events relating to the Cuban missile crisis, all from The National Security Archive web site.
• Slavery in America - Originally created to accompany the 2004 public television series, this site provides exceptional content and easily stands on its own. Materials are categorized by History, geography, American literature, narrative and biography, and teacher resources. Each of the topics has essays, maps, interactive exhibits, and additional links. Twenty primary sources are included in Narratives. All sections include excellent lesson plans. A new addition to the site is the Melrose Interactive Slavery Environment which takes students into the pre-Civil War suburban estate of Melrose in Natchez, Mississippi, from the perspective of the men, women, and children who were enslaved there.
• Sputnik Escalates the Cold War - Includes video clips, instruction, essays, images, documents, and further readings.
• Thomas Library of Congress - This site from the Library of Congress reports on all activity in the U.S. Congress, from bills and treaties to the Congressional Record and committee reports. Access catalogues from all presidential nominations since 1987. Use the excellent teacher resources and lesson plans.
• Veterans History Project -This is a project of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Volunteers collect primary source accounts of the experiences of U.S. Veterans in World Wars I and II, Koreas, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Older students may even consider visiting a veterans hospital and conducting interviews to post online. The Web site has complete details on how to participate.
• WestWeb is a topically-organized web site about the study of the American west created and maintained by a born-and-bred westerner, Catherine Lavender, of the history department, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
• World War I Document Archive - This archive of primary documents from World War I, assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List, is international in focus.
• World War II Primary Source Documents - To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945), this vast archive of primary source documents from WW II was established. Read the words of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and President Charles de Gaulle as they announced the historic event, or view the official German surrender documents. There are hundreds of fascinating documents covering all aspects of the war, plus several excellent interactive timelines that are useful for research.
• World War II Propaganda Posters - Includes 31 patriotic/propaganda posters, many commissioned by US government agencies, with posters by N.C. Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton, and others.