American History
A Chronology of US Historical Documents
This site, by the University of Oklahoma
College of Law, lists documents by year from Pre-Colonial to the 21st Century.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
A to Z Encyclopedia
This site is a searchable encyclopedia
with information in History, Geography, and Science.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/
American Civil War
A site with Civil War facts including timelines, maps,
battles, women in the war, statistics, and many documents. It has been
recommended by the history channel.
http://americancivilwar.com
American History 102
This site, done by the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, has lots of information on American History from the Civil
War to the present. It includes a who's who of American history as well as
a section of online books.
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/
Archiving American History
This site contains primary source
material from the 18th Century including pictures and documents from original
newspapers, maps and writings.
http://earlyamerica.com/
Biographies
This is a site for researching famous
people in American history.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/
Ellis Island
Audio, video, and text are found on
almost every page of this multimedia site on Ellis Island. Listen to
personal narratives from immigrants or watch video clips about immigrants in the
1950s. A timeline page will take you to the events leading up to the great
wave of immigration.
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/main.html
Ellis Island
This site has 22 million names from the
manifests of ships that arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.
There are also two online exhibits. The first, Immigrant Experience,
chronicles the moving exploration of six Americans from varied backgrounds into
their own immigrant histories. The second is a timeline.
http://www.ellisisland.org
History Picks
This site offers thousands of historical public
domain and copyright free images from the 1700, 1800, and 1900s. there is
also a brief summary of the image and how it relates to history.
http://www.historypicks.com/shop2/default.asp
Making of America
This site represents a massive
undertaking by the University of Michigan and Cornell University to put primary
source documents, from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, on the
Web. Currently, there are over 3,000,000 pages at Web Site from 50,000
journal articles and 8,500 books in the subject areas of education, psychology,
American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu
Picture History
A site with pictures from history of
people, places, architecture, transportation, arts and entertainment, war,
nature, and much more.
http://www.picturehistory.com/
Rutgers University Library History Site
There is a lot of information here
including links to portals and other history web sites, primary source
information, documents, and more.
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
Smithsonian Institution
This site is as massive and magnificent
as the museum itself. There is a virtual tour, a place to browse by
department, date, text, or artist, and many links to other museums. It
also has a large online collection of images.
http://www.si.edu/
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Contains letters, stories, and secret methods and
techniques of spies of the Revolutionary War. It also has biographies of
some major figures of the war.
http://www.si.umich.edu/SPIES
U.S. Historical Documents
This site provides a chronology of
United States historical documents with over 100 fascinating primary source
materials. It is hosted by the College of Law at the University of
Oklahoma. Beginning with the pre-Colonial era, it ends with the second
inaugural address by President Bush.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist
U.S. Mexican War
Includes dialogues about the war as well as
information about manifest destiny, biographies, timelines, and the aftermath of
the war.
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar