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American History Websites:
General Sites
- Air Force
Historical Research Agency
This Website from the US Air Force provides a brief description
of the overall holdings of the agency, which are comprised of
over "70,000,000 pages devoted to the history of the service, and
represent the world's largest and most valuable organized
collection of documents on US military aviation." The site also
supplies detailed descriptions of the personal papers of Air
Force members held by the agency and gives bibliographic
information on 200 historical studies conducted by the agency on
topics of Air Force history. Also included here are a substantive
account of Air Force involvement in the Korean War; an online
text on Air Force heraldry; detailed descriptions of the Air
Force's force structure from 1939 to the present, giving an
accounting of the types and quantities of different crafts held
by the Force; and more information about Air Force organization
and unit history.
- AMDOCS: Documents
for the study of American History
Site sponsored by the University of Kansas.
- American
Indian History and Related Issues
This excellent site offers a number of documentary resources on
American Indian History as well as annotated links to other sites
with a similar focus. The highlights of the site are the
collections of maps, drawings, other artwork and photographs
documenting Native American experience. Particularly impressive
is the Native American Experience section, which contains
hundreds of "photographs, drawings, maps and short descriptions
chronicling the experiences of the Native American population
dating from the first migrations from Siberia (pre-1600) through
recent experiences." Also of great historical interest is the
Theodore De Bry Copper Plate Engravings collection, which
features elaborate engravings with accompanying written
descriptions (viewable in thumbnail or full-screen sizes) of
Indian life as perceived by sixteenth-century European
settlers.
- American Memory
Project
American Memory consists of collections of primary source and
archival material relating to American culture and history. These
historical collections are the Library of Congress's key
contribution to the national digital library.
- American Studies
Recommendations
Created and maintained by Richard P. Horwitz of the University of
Iowa, this metapage offers a well-organized collection of select
(unannotated) links for American Studies. The site has a nice
clean design, with the links grouped by category (Material
Culture, Religion, History, Jobs, etc.) and accessed via tabs at
the top of the page. Horwitz has also posted the full text of a
number of his articles on American Studies. The selectiveness of
the site and its easy-to-use design make this an excellent
starting point for anyone searching for online resources for
American Studies and related topics.
- A
Biography of America-- Annenberg/CPB
Produced by WGBH Interactive for Annenberg/CPB, this site
functions as a companion to the 26-show telecourse and video
program of the same name (though one need not have seen the
videos to appreciate the site). From the front page, users can
access sections of the site to accompany each of the 26 programs,
from New World Encounters through The Redemptive Imagination.
Each section offers a Flash component (these include timelines,
maps, images with pop-up interpretation, and a nifty feature
called "you decide," which offers the counterargument for
opinions that users register about an issue, such as "Did the
feminist movement improve American women's lives?"). In addition,
each section includes a timeline of central events, a map, a
transcript of the video, and an annotated list of links. American
History and American Studies instructors will want to add this
one to their list of links for students.
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Center for History and New
Media
The Center for History and New Media, a collaboration between
George Mason University, the American Social History Project, and
the Center for Media and Learning at the City College of New
York, is an attempt to respond to the way new media are changing
the teaching and studying of history.
- Charters of Freedom
From the National Archives, an exhibition of Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Although
there is no substitute for an actual visit, this exhibit will
allow you to study the documents in detail. In addition, this
exhibit will permit you to examine the Letter of Transmittal and
pages two and three of the Constitution, which are only rarely
displayed.
- Conversations
with History
"Lively and unedited interviews . . . produced at the Institute
of International Studies at the University of California at
Berkeley." You will need the RealPlayer plug-in to view and hear
these interviews.
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Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans
This database from the Illinois State Archives "indexes the first
eight volumes of the nine volume publication, Report of the
Adjutant General of the State of Illinois." The publication
is drawn from the original rosters maintained during the Civil
War by the Adjutant General. In addition to the names of
approximately 250,000 men organized into 175 regiments, this
searchable database also provides histories of the Illinois units
and regiments. The database was created and donated to the
Illinois State Archives by amateur genealogist Fred Delap of
Kansas, Illinois.
- DoHistory
"DoHistory invites you to explore the process of piecing together
the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental,
interactive case study based on the research that went into the
book and film 'A Midwife's Tale,' which were both based upon the
remarkable 200-year old diary of midwife/healer Martha
Ballard."
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History -- American and British (Rutgers University)
- History and Politics Out
Loud
This is a searchable archive of politically significant audio
materials for teachers, students, and scholars. HPOL is a
component of "Historical Voices" funded by the National
Foundation for the Humanities in partnership with Michigan State
University.
- History of
American Agriculture: 1776-1990
Chart following eleven major themes of agricultural history in
the U.S., decade by decade. Click on the theme/decade to see what
major events and developments happened. Provided by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
- History
of American Education Web Project
This site offers an online history of American education from the
Puritans to the present. Separate sections focus on European
Influences on American Educational History, the Colonial Period
of American Education, the Early National Period of American
Education (ca.1776-1840), the Common School Period of American
Education (ca. 1840-1880), the Progressive Period of American
Education, and the Modern Period of American Education (ca.
1920-present).
- History Buff Home
Page
This site, devoted to the history of newspapers in the United
States and to US history in general, offers several notable
American history resources. Essays by members of the Newspaper
Collectors Society of America, with which this site is
affiliated, cover a range of topics relating to the history of
newspaper journalism. The essay archive is searchable.
- Hypertext on
American History
The main body of this hypertext comes from a number of
USIA-publications AnOutline of American History, An
Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American
Government, and An Outline of American Literature.
The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have
been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents,
original essays, other Internet sites, and to other
Outlines.
A number of contributors have prepared additional texts and
links for the project.
- Images
of American Political History
A collection of over 500 public domain image of American
Political History.
-
Make the Dirt Fly!
Smithsonian Institution Libraries exhibition on the building of
the Panama Canal.
- Native Americans and the
Environment This website promotes the research and study of
environmental issues facing Native American communities,
particularly the politics of land and treaty rights. The site
also explores the "values and historical experiences that Native
Americans bring to bear on environmental issues." Native
Americans and the Environment provides a bibliographic database,
which covers topics such as environmental justice, natural
resource utilization, land and treaty rights, and demography and
migration. The database currently contains over 1,500 citations,
and will be expanded to approximately 3,000 by the end of
1999.
- North
American Historical Resources
- The Internet Public Library is a public service organization
and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan
School of Information. This site provides links to important
documents in American History
- Outline
of U.S. History
Presented by the United States Information Agency (USIA)
- Religion
and the Founding of the American Republic
This companion site to a new US Library of Congress exhibit draws
upon the holdings of the Library and other archives to illustrate
the importance of religion in the founding and making of America
during the 17th through 19th centuries.
- Talking
History
Listen to interviews and programs on a wide variety of historical
topics. Requires RealPlayer plug-in.
- The Tax History
Project
Established in 1995 by Tax Analysts, the Tax History Project
helps scholars, policymakers, students, and citizens easily
access primary historical documents relating to American tax
history. This rich resource archives US Treasury, White House,
and Congressional documents from the early national, Depression,
and World War II eras. Cartoon and poster image galleries
supplement the text archives. Other features include statistical
data on American taxation, Presidential Tax Returns, books
reviews, and links to tax policy discussion groups.
- US EPA History
Office
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was
established to implement Federal laws protecting the nation and
its people from pollution. In 1992, the Agency established a
history program to preserve and organize documents related to its
institutional memory. To further this mission, the Agency
recently created this site, which offers useful information to
potential researchers of the 200 cubic feet of EPA historical
documents. The heart of the site is the Collection section, which
offers abstracts and finding aids for the 90+ collections held at
the History Office.
- U.S. National Park
Service
The United States Department of the Interior has recently opened
its National Park Service (NPS) Web site, offering listings of
all U.S. national parks, monuments, historical sites, memorials,
and other designations by name, state, or region -- although
state and regional access is limited to clickable maps only at
this time . Each NPS site provides varying quantities of
information. "Preserving America's Heritage" contains exhaustive
information about natural resources and history in the parks, as
well as educational resources related to the NPS. "Caring for the
American Legacy" has useful information about the NPS, including
the nomenclature of the National Park System Units located under
"What is the National Park System?". There is also a "Hot Topics"
section of NPS issues.
- United
States Historical Census Data Browser
online Database of data that describes the people and the
economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to
1970.
- US
State Department - Office of the Historian
Publishes the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy
and provides historical research and advice for the Department of
State.
- Words and
Deeds in American History
Selected Documents Celebrating the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division's First 100 years.
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