American History Links for Students
GENERAL INTEREST WEBSITES
Contemporary
World Facts
Comprehensive facts about the world's countries.
Best of History
Websites
A gateway site to various online collections, including American history.
The American Memory Website
of the Library of Congress
Documents and photographs from the Library's massive collection
spanning over 250 years.
U.S.
National Archives and Records Administration Exhibit
Hall
Letters, telegrams, photographs illustrating more than a century of social change in the
United States.
Cultural
Expression During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Professor Robert W. Cherny's gateway site for various online collections of
literature, art, music,
architecture, mass entertainment, and expositions.
American
President Online Reference Resource
In-depth material on the American presidents from the University of Virginia
Miller Center
Exploring
Constitutional Law
Links to historical and contemporary debates and decisions concerning the
Constitution.
The
Supreme Court Collection of the Cornell University Legal Information Institute
Historic Supreme Court decisions listed by topic.
DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS
Digital
History Online American History Textbook
An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the
Revolution to the present.
Netting
America: Introduction to the Culture and Literature of the United States
An electronic textbook designed for American Studies students in Hungary.
REGIONAL MATERIALS
The
Online Archive of California
Pictures documenting the history of California from earliest times to the present.
Bancroft
Library Digital Collections
California topics, including California cultures, the 1906 earthquake, Free
Speech Movement.
Calisphere
Primary sources on a wide variety of California topics and suggestions for
research and writing.
Seattle
Civil Rights and Labor History Project
Primary and secondary sources for research on this important city.
New
York City History Web Resources
Texts and visual sources for the history of "the big apple," from the
New York Public Library.
Chicago
History Museum Online Sources
Texts and visual sources for the history of America's "second city."
Los
Angeles Digital Archive
Texts and visual sources for the history of LA, from the University of Southern
California Libraries.
Documenting
the American South
An extensive digital library with texts and visuals, from the University of
North Carolina Library
Virginia
Center for Digital History
A gateway site for several excellent digital collections on Virginia
history.
THE 1950S AND 1960S
Conelrad
Cold War American culture through films, television, records, and literature.
The
Sixties
University of Miami site with a video archive, bibliography, and timelines of
the period.
CIVIL RIGHTS, RELIGION, ETHNIC HISTORY, AMERICAN LITERATURE
The Civil
Rights Digital Library
Audio and visual materials on the 20th century civil rights movement, from the
University of Georgia Libraries.
The Pew Forum on Religion
and Public Life
Resources for the study of religion in contemporary America, from a non-partisan
Washington, D.C. foundation.
African
American History
Resources, including digital collections, from the University of Washington
Libraries.
The Harlem
Renaissance Multimedia Resource
A John Carroll University site with extensive links to materials on literature and the arts in "Harlem USA" during the 1920s,
including Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
The
Mexican American History Guide
Resources, including digital collections, from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
New York City.
Asian American
History Resources
Resources, including digital collections, from the Center for Educational
Technology of Berkeley, California.
American
Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project
Nearly 3,000 personal stories illustrating life in the USA from 1936 to 1940.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature -- A Research and Reference Guide
Bibliographies, some brief biographies, and some links to online collections
covering all periods of American literary history, from a professor emeritus at
California State University, Stanislaus.
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
Look here for biographical information, primary source documents, and even audio and
visual materials relating to presidential history since World War II.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library
http://www.fdrlibrary.html
The Harry S. Truman Library
http://trumanlibrary.org
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/
The John F. Kennedy Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
The Lyndon B. Johnson Library
http://lbjlib.utexas.edu/
The Richard M. Nixon Library
http://www.nixonfoundation.org/
The Gerald Ford Library
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
The Jimmy Carter Library
http://carterlibrary.galileo.peachnet.edu/
The Ronald Reagan Library
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/
The George Bush Library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/bushlib/