American History
About the USA- Facts and Figures
An internet source for Afro-American History.
This site has over 7 million historical documents, photos, maps, films and audio recordings.
This site offers information about America including amazing Americans, basic information about the states, information about Colonial America, the Revolutionary Period, The New Nation, Westward Expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
This site offers information on 100 years of flight beginning with the Wright Brothers in 1903.
In these lively and unedited video interviews, distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work.
A site offering On This Day In History....
A site looking at America in the 1770's, 1850's and the 1920's.
Famous trials from around the world and throughout history.
Fifty Years of Coca Cola Advertisements
A site of Supreme Court decisions.
The history of broadcasting from 1920-1960.
A site about a complete history of America's Wars.
History looking at the 400 National Parks in the United States.
The History of Fashion, Food and Fun
A resource for US History students and teachers.
A site of historic articles.
A history site. The past into the future.
A tour of the Smithsonians Museum of American History's storage areas. The time frame is 1400-2000.
A site to find out the comparitive value covering purchasing power, exchange rates and other variables between the past and today.
A site on American Concert Song.
Images of American Political History
A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.
Library of Congress Exhibitions
This site offers online exhibitions from the Library of Congress. These exhibits change over time.
This site combines the vast historical treasures from the Library of Congress's collection with music, dance and dialogue.
A site of U.S. Supreme court cases and oral arugments.
Patterns of Our Lives: American History
Places Where Women Made History
Popular Songs and American History
Tunes, lyrics, information of historical background and time related links.
Posters from American History.
Prints and Photographs Division Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids
This site offers 1000's of digitized prints held by the Library of Congress. All content areas are here. An excellent resource.
This site provides access through group or item records from the Library of Congress. There are about 1 million digital images.
Thomas: Legislative Information
This site, named after Thomas Jefferson, offers legislative information from the Library of Congress.
Time magazines from 1923-present.
A website of information about the Titanic.
This site offers a look at American history on the day chosen. It offers information for several different years for any given date.
The focus of this site is to collect first hand accounts of US Veterans and civillians who supported them during American wars. They can be recorded on video or audio.
Virtual Tour of the Library of Congress's Jefferson Building
This site offers a virtual tour of some of the architecture and artwork found in the Library of Congress building in Washington D.C.
A site about the American West.
Who's who in American History from the Civil War to the present.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1830-1930
American Experience: Technology
Includes a technology timeline and forgotten inventors.
This site offers over 5 million pages of documents from Edison's work.
Timelines, film and recordings about Edison's work.
Elms and Magnolia's: The 18th Century (Eli Whitney)
History of the first locomotives.
A site of famous inventions.
History of the Growth of the Steam Engine
Industrial Revolution: Major Inventions
Inventors and Inventions Theme Page
KIDS INFO: Industrial Revolution (links will vary in quality)
U.S Supreme Court case summaries, and oral arguements.
Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
Smithsonian: Inventors and Inventions
Interactive version is available on this site.
Cartoon of the Week Time Magazine
How America was named
Coronado Exploration 1540-1542
Silent Killers of the New World
17th Century Colonial New England
18th Century America- Religion
Many categories and subject areas are offered.
18th Century Occupations and Trades
The African and the Pequot in Colonial America
This site contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration from the sagas of the Vikings in Canada in 1000 AD to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies in 1800.
America's First Great Portrait Artist- John Singleton Copley
American Portraits of the 1700 and 1800's
The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, owns the area caleed "Olde Towne, the site of Jamestown's first fort.
The Carey Document: A Salem Death Warrant
Chart: How Democrat was Colonial America?
Christmas in Colonial Virginia
Classics of American Colonial History
Colonial America: Commercial Banking
Colonial America: Indentured Servitude
Colonial America: State Histories
Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
Colonial and Continental Currency
Colonial Currency -Full Listing by State
Colonial Currency- Table of Contents
Colonial Economy 17th and 18th Centuries
Colonial Encounters in the Chesapeake
Colonial Guide- The Colonial Resource
Colonial Hall: Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Biographies of the founding fathers.
Colonial House- Interactive History- Dress Up
Colonial Period of American Education
Common Place- Interactive Journal of Early American Life
Creating a Colony in the New Land
Difference Between Pilgrims and Puritans
Early Colonial Era Timeline-to 1700
Emergence of Colonial Government
Finding a Ship's Name with Passenger Lists
First English Settlement (Roanoke)
First Thanksgiving Proclamation
Images of charter documents such as the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution,and The Bill of Rights as well as information on the founding fathers.
Free Blacks Before the Revolutionary War
Gallery of Early American Portraits
George Washington's Rules of Civility
Guide to Immigration Records and Ships Passenger Lists
Some special features are close-up photos and descriptions of unearthed artifacts from James Fort, and interactive archeological research excercises.
This site offers a self guided tour of "New towne" where the settlers expanded with photographs.
Indentured Servants and Slave Prices
Indentured Servants and Transported Convicts
Indentured Servants Labor Contracts
Indentured Servants Misfortune
Indentrued Servitude to Racial Slavery
A well discovered 15 ft. below the surface of Jamestown has provided a hoard of artifacts about the settlement.
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
Includes information about the living history museum and resources such as historical background essays.
Created by students, this site offers a multitude of resources for Jamestown.
Lists of Settlers by Occupation
Milestone Historic Events in Early America
Naming Children in Early New England
An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Peoples, providing historical and contemporary backgrounds.
Newspaper Production 1692-1792
Notable Women of Early America
Physick's Guide to Common Diseases and Cures
Pilgrim and Puritan: Background
Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Plymouth: It's History and People
Pocahontas, Indians, Chesapeake Artwork
Pocohantas, John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia
Provencial America and the Struggle for a Continent
Puritian Origins of the American Wilderness Movement
Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg
Religion and the American Revolution
Roanoke: Search for the Lost Colony
Schooling and Culture Flourish
Slavery and the Law in Virginia
Slavery Growth in North America
Value of Money in Colonial America
Virgina Dare- First European Child born in America
This site is a digital research, teaching and learning project and aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the 400 year anniversary. It features full-text, first hand accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries, a digital recreation of James Fort and animated maps that show John Smith's voyage.
What is it? - Everyday items from 1777-1820
This site offers information on ongoing research on the grounds of Werowocomoco, the capital of the Powhatan chiefdom, which provides information about Virginia Indians. There are period maps and drawings, and photographs of the field sites.
William Penn: Visionary Proprietor
1692 Salem Witch Trials: Documents and Participants
List of All Persons Accused of Witchcraft 1692
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
Comparing the Articles to the Constitution
Consititution: An Enduring Document
Constitution of the United States: Transcription
Data on the Framers of the Constitution
Explaining the Constitution: The Federalist Papers
Making of the Constitution Timeline
Ratification and the Bill of Rights
Background of the French and Indian War
Brief History of the French and Indian War
French and Indian War Chronology
French and Indian War's Impact on America
French and Indian War- Mohican History Links
French and Indian War- Uniforms Chart for British Regiments
Scalping During the French and Indian War
Treaty of the French and Indian War
1776-1783 Diplomacy of the American Revolution
African-American Role in American Revolution
American Revolution and its Era (maps and charts)
Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789.
American Revolution Background
American Revolution First Phase
American Revolution- From Causes to the Constitution
American Revolution: Opening Events and Causes
American Revolution Persuaders
American Revolution Spy Letters
American Revolution Spy Letters Techniques
American Revolution Spy Letters Timeline
American Revolutionary War Little Known Facts
American Revolutionary Weapons
Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
Declaration of Independence Home Page
Declaration of Independence Hypertext
Declaration of Independence Timeline
Designer of American Flag- Francis Hopkins
Diplomacy in the American Revolution
Enlightenment in America- Philosophical Basis for American Revolution
Evolution of United States Flag
Fate of the Signatories of Declaration of Independence
Hamilton and the US Constitution
Hispanics in American Revolution
Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Liberty! The American Revolution
Monticello: Home of Thomas Jefferson
Nathan Hale- America's First Spy
Rare Map Collection: Revolutionary America
Information about the Revolutionary War and many links.
Revolutionary War Journey Toward Freedom
Revolutionary War Tactics and Weapons
Revolutionary War-Women Soldiers
Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Stories of spies, secret method and techniques and a gallery of letters.
Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution
Women Soldiers in the American Revolution
American Presidency: A Glorius Burden
American Presidents: Life Portraits and the Library of Congress Connection
Character Above All: Presidential Links
This site has over 200 excerpts from 1865-1869.
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
This site offers videos of presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2004.
Mr. President- Profiles of our Nation's Leaders
National First Ladies' Library
National Portrait Gallery: Hall of Presidents
Order of Presidential Succession
POTUS- Presidents of the United States
This site offers background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files and other presidential sites are also included.
Presidencial and Vice Presidential Salaries
Presidential debates since 1988.
Presidential Documents and Speeches
Presidential Leadership: An Exploration
Presidential Libraries IDEA Network
A site of the presidential libraries.
Presidential Rhetoric- Current and Historical Speeches
Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States Chart
Presidents of the United States
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Salaries and Retirement Benefits of Presidents and other Federal Employees
A chronology of US historical documents.
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society of the Western World
A library of over 40,000 hours of spoken word recordings dating back to 1888. Includes the voices of over 100,000 people from all walks of life.
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
19th Century in Print: The Making of American Periodicals
Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message
Chinese Immigration to the U.S. 1876-1900
Duel Between Hamilton and Burr
Fur Trade Effects on American Indian
Ghost Towns and History of the Old West
Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred 1849
Guide to Period Firearms and Their Use
Hard Drive to the Kondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush
History of the Fur Trade Timeline
Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Documents
Manifest Destiny- Coining the Phrase
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
Speaking the Language of the Fur Trade
Sutter's Mill and the California Gold Rush
Treaties Between United States and Native Americans
Western Outlaw and Lawman Gravesites
Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
First Train Robbery
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
National Oregon/California Trail Center
Open Range and New land Openings
Pioneers and Westward Expansion
Prairie Homestead and the Badlands Trading Post
Stage Coaches, Wagons and Carriages
Journey of the Corps of Discovery
A PBS provided website.
Lewis and Clark at National Geographic
Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Legacy Grows
Lewis and Clark Expedition Map
Road to Washington, British Army Style
The War of 1812 in Croom.
Star Spangled Banner and the War of 1812
Facts about the Star Spangled Banner and the U.S. flag.
This site has numerous articles, book reviews and extensive links and the largest collection of 1812 images on the internet.
A site of major battles.
Descendents of Mexican War Veterans
Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
U.S.-Mexican War: An Introduction
Battles of the Indian War Period
Buffalo Tales: The Near Extinction of the American Bison
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Chiefs and Other Important Native Americans
Jeffery Amherst and Smallpox Blankets
Medal of Honor Recipients- Indian Wars Period
Native Americans and the Buffalo
Native American Documents Project
1711-1713
Amerindian languages in the Colonial World
Smallpox and the American Indian
Travel and Emergence of Infectious Diseases
Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive
A website of information about Abraham Lincoln.
Cartoons and Caricatures of the Civil War
Civil War Battles by State Maps
Civil War Map of Allegiance of the States
Civil War Sites in the Eastern Theatre
Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
Henry Clay and the Supreme Court
A digital library of primary sources in American Social History from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction.
Peculiar Institution of American Slavery
Railways of Southern States Map
Slavery and the US Presidents: Graph
Causes and Specific Incidents Leading to the War
Comparisons of North and South
1800 Side by Side: Yankees and Southerners
Advantages/Disadvantages of the Civil War
Agriculture Rules of the South
Chronology of Emancipation Timeline
Comparing the North and South During the Jackson Era
Comparison Between New England and the South
Key Events and Battles of the Civil War Chart
Lands of Promise- North and South
North and South Industrial Capacity Comparison-GRAPHS
Protective Tariffs "Benefits for the North"
States' Rights "Powers Reserved to the States"
Events Leading to the Civil War
Admitting Missouri as a Slave State with Map
Causes of the Civil War (Southern View)
Causes of the Civil War: A Balanced Answer
Causes of the Civil War : The Fire Eaters
Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
Daniel Webster Seventh of March Speech
John C. Calhoun in the US Capitol
John C. Calhoun's Speech Against the Compromise of 1850
John Qunicy Adams Gag Rule Controversy
Kansas: Prelude to the War for the Union
Land Grant Bills "Blocked by Southern Politicians"
Lincoln's House Divided Speech 1856
List of Reasons Leading to the Civil War
Ordinance of Nullification 1832
Outline: Secession and Civil War
Prosser Rebellion August 30, 1800
Two Communities in the American Civil War
United States Histoical Minutes- Henry Clay Dies 1852
Whigs, Democrats and No Nothings
Civil War Primary Documents
Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Civil War Fife and Drum Page- Original Photos
Civil War Historical Image Collection
Dear Brother, Civil War Letter
History of Civil War Photography
Lincoln's House Divided Speech
Official Record of the Union and Confederate Navies
Official Records of the War of Rebellion
Records of the 105th US Colored Troops
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project
Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery
Stephen Douglas's Compromise of 1850 Speech
Texas Ordinance of Secession 1861
Child labor in New York Tenements
History of American Sweat Shops
Industrial Revolution Highlights
Labor Movement in the Public Eye
Pullman Strike: Causes and Events
Samuel Gompers: First President of the AFL
Primary Documents
Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
Arbitration Convention Between USA and Austria-Hungary 1909
November 2, 1917
Covenent of the League of Nations
Dear Home- Letters from World War I
History Channel
Diplomacy of Isolationism 1921-1936
Diplomacy of the First World War
Entente Cordiale Between England and France 1904
Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention 1892
Great War in Numbers- Stats on WWI
BBC History
Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey 1914
June 28, 1919
An American Experience
July 29, 1914
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
World War I Daily Telegraph Affair
October 1908
World War I Eyewitness to History
First person accounts
BBC History
General Websites
Aftermath-When the Boys Came Home
Aircraft and the First World War
Awards and Decorations of World War I
British and German Air Doctrine Between the Wars
Britain and Germany: The Arms Race
British Naval Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-1918
Doughboy Center-General Headquarters
Dual Alliance Between Germany and Austria-Hungary 1879
Front Line Trench Virtual Tour
BBC History
German Policy in Occupied Belgium 1914-1918
German Secret Rearmament 1934-5
Life in the Trenches- Virtual Tour
BBC- History
Organization of the German Army
President Wilson's Fourteen Points
Rank Insignia of the German Army
Stars and Stripes- The American Soldiers Newspaper of WWI
Summary of Alliances and Agreements 1879-1907
US Military History- Between Two Wars
US Participation in World War I
World War I- Internet History of the Great War
World War I Inventors and Scientists
World War I Medal of Honor Recipients
World War I Naval Historical Center
World War I Trench Virtual Tour
BBC- History
Reasons for the War
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Assassination in Sarajevo June 28, 1914
Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia and the Serbian Reply
The West Coast counterpart to Ellis Island for immigrants crossing the Pacific.
Center for Immigration Studies
Emigration: Ships Lists and Resources
Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America
Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign Born Population of the US 1850-1990
Immigrants: North Dakota 1880-1920
Immigration and Ethnic America
Chronicles life in countries throughout the world and presents a composite portrait of American society.
Immigration History Resource Center
Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Population Movements and Migration
Swedish Immigration to America
Tension Over Immigration- 1920's Restriction on Foreign Immigration
Timeline: Immigrant Experience
1900's Decade Information- People , Trends and Events
American Experience- America 1900
1960's The Almost Great Society
Social Change in the US
Twentieth Century-American Cultural History
Maps of 19th and 20th Centuries
Transportation and Communication Maps
Images of the 19th and 20th Centuries
American Photography- A Century of Images
Digital History- American Historical Images
American Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century
1900-1929
Roosevelt, Wilson and the Morality of Power
1890-1930
US Politics and Unrest in 1919
General Links to Topics about the Mexican Revolution
History of the Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution Principle Figures
Pancho Villa's Raid on Columbus, N.M.
American Experioenc- Influenza 1918
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
Opposition to Female Suffrage in the US
Pictures of Women's Suffrage Movement
Timeline: 100 Years Toward Suffrage
Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era 1900-1920
21st Ammendment-Repeal of the 18th Ammendment
Eightennth Ammendment- Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors
Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity
The Jazz Age: The American 1920's
Liquor Control.Temperance and the Call for Prohibition
Prohibition as a Hallmark of the Period
Prohibition in the Progressive Era
Roaring 20's and the Great Depression
The Stock Market Crash as a Hallmark of the Period
1930's and The Great Depression
1930's Great Depression Gallery
A Gullible nation?- The War of the Worlds Revisited
Agriculture During the Great Depression
American Cultural History in the 1930's
American Popular Music of the 1930's
America's Great Depression Too
Americans React to the Great Depression
Babe Ruth- Constructing a Legend
Causes of the Wall Street Crash
Charlie Chaplin and the Machine Age
Chronology of the Farm Security Administration
Coping with the Great Depression
Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
Eleanor Roosevelt: American Visionary
FDR Fireside Chat on the New Deal
The "Forgotten Women" of the Great Depression
Fortune Magazine in the 1930's
The Crash and the Great Depression
Great Depression and World War II
Herbert Hoover-The Great Depression
Jazz: Marking Time in the American Culture
Labor Unions During the Great Depression and The New Deal
Marx Brothers and Identity Construction
New Deal Brings Social Reforms
New Deal: Measures for Relief, Recovery and Reform
New Deal Network Photo Gallery
New Yorker Magazine in the 1930's
Photographing People of the Depression
Pretty Boy Floyd and the Kansas City Massacre
Race Relations During the Great Depression
Radio Advertising in the 1930's
Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee
Salvation for the Tenant Farmer
Surviving the Dust Bowl Timeline
This Land is Your Land: Rural Music and the Great Depression
Will the Codes Abolish Child Labor?
Primary Documents
Avalon Project: WWII Documents
Assumption of Power by Doenitz May 1,1945
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Documents
Casablanca Conference Feb.12, 1943
Casablanca Conference Communique
Declarations of a State of War of Japan, Germany and Italy
Diplomatic and Political Documents of WWII
Einstein's Letter to Roosevelt August 2, 1939
"Four Freedoms" Roosevelt's Address to Congress Jan. 6, 1941
German Surrender Documents Ending WWII
Government Publications from WWII
Hitler's Statements on Foreign Plolicy 1933-39 Extracts
International Military Tribunal
Master Lend-Lease Agreement 1942
Munich Pact September 29, 1938
Nazi- Soviet Relations 1939-1941
Neville Chamberlain: Peace of Our Time
Quebec Conference Aug. 17-24, 1943
Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum: WWII Photos
Time Magazine: WWII Archive Collection
General WWII Websites
American Involvement of WWII Timeline
Casablanca Conference Comminique
A collection of links to many online websites related to the Holocaust.
Czech Crisis: British View 1938
Death of Hitler- Final Will and Testament
Diplomacy of Isolationism 1921-1936
Establishing a Dicatorship: Stabalization of Nazi Power
Functioning of the Nazi Regime
Genocide of the Roma (Gypsies) in the Holocaust
German-Austrian Anschluss: British Reaction 1938
German Proganda for Rearmament 1935
German Secret Rearmament 1934-35
Hitler: Perverse Political Genius
Hitler's Statement on Foreign Policy 1933-36
Japan and Emperor Hirohito to 1936
Japanese History: Militarism and WWII 1912-1945
The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz
Map- Hitler's Bunker Under the Chancellory
Maps of WWII Blitzkrieg Campaigns 1939-1941
Maps WWII Normandy Invasion 1944
Maps WWII Pacific Theatre 1941-1942
Maps WWII Eastern Front 1941-1945
Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty 1939
Nazi Facism and the Modern Totalitarian State
Nazi Party Admission Requirements
Operational Directives from Hitler's Headquarters
Passivity and Agression in Europe to 1936
"Peace for Out Time Speech" by Neville Chamberlain
Excellent site with video
Rhineland Crisis: British Reaction 1936
Rhineland Crisis: French Reaction 1936
Roosevelt and Approaching War 1937-38
Third Reich Flags used 1933-1945
Stories of Holocaust rescuers.
Trial of Adolf Eichman- Timeline
United States Foreign Policy Under FDR
United States Holocaust Museum
A site dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust.
War and Crisis in Asia and Europe 1937-40
Spotlights eight women who succeeded in "coming to the front" during the war. Drawn from private papers and photgraphs primarily from the Library of Congress collection.
The World at War- Global Timeline
1918-1948
World War II Casualties: Navy and Marines
A collection of links to websites that offer information about World War II.
World War II Multimedia Database
Timeline of Events 1941-1945
Information about the German blimps used during World War II.
Leaders of World War II
American Experience- The Presidents Roosevelt and Truman
Winston Churchill and Perhaps Great Britain's Finest Hour
African American Odyssey: Civil Rights Era
Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
Martin Luther King Jr. Newspaper Archive
A site of information about Martin Luther King Jr.
Psychedelic 60's: The Civil Rights Movement
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
SNCC 1960-66 Six Years of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
United States and Equal Rights
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Sixties Project and Vietnam Generation
Vietnam: Stories Since the War
International Law Aspects of the Iraq War and Occupation
A compilation of videos from internet archive users about the Iraq War
Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq
War on Terrorism:Post Saddam Iraq