Historian organizations
www.historians.org
www.oah.org

www.h-net.org

General History Resources

http://www.academicinfo.net/usindnew.html

http://www.history.la.ca.us/hddirect.htm http://history.wadsworth.com/us

http://www.thehistorynet.com/
http://historicaltextarchive.com/

The Great American History Fact-Finder

Picture History: Website answers question of “what the cotton gin is” via pictures
 

Talking History Radio Show

http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/

http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/arch2000july-december.html

Getting the message out

http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/

Civil War Era Music

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
cwmhtml/cwmconcert.html

Discrimination in the Gold Rush

http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever16-di.html 

African American migration experience

http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/slavery

African diaspora archeology network

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/

Africans in America

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html  

African American Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm?

Richard Allen: Founder of AME Church

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/spring97/allen.html

Toussaint L'Ouverture - Haiti

http://docsouth.unc.edu/beardj/beard.html

Slaves and the Courts

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html 

Frederick Douglas Papers

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/

Free at Last: Documentary History of Emancipation

http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/falpg.htm

Abolitionism, 1830-1850

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/abhp.html

Freedom's Journal - first African-American owned and operated newspaper in the United States

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/
libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/

Slave Narratives

http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/

1492: An Ongoing Voyage

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/

African American Odyssey

     http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/

England and the United States

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/

Declaring Independence

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html

Docs: Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention

     http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html

Thomas Jefferson

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/

Lewis & Clark Expedition

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/

California, first person

     http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

Gettysburg Address

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/

Walt Whitman

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman-home.html 19th Century Special Collections
     http://www.loc.gov/spcoll/clist19.html

Century of Lawmaking

     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Alexander Hamilton

NY Historical Society Hamilton Exhibit

http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/

Hamilton biography page

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/hamilton/

Daniel Webster
Famous Speeches http://www.dartmouth.edu/
~dwebster/speeches/index.html

James K. Polk
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jp11/speeches/polk.htm

Abraham Lincoln
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
Lincoln's explanation for the Emancipation Proclamation
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/ln001.html

Women and Social Movements in the US

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/about.htm

National Women's History Project

http://www.nwhp.org/

Women's Suffrage

http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/exhibit_frames.html
 

Women's struggle for suffrage

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/woman/main.html

Women in the civil war

http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

http://www.ushistory.org/march/

http://americanrevolution.com

www.earlyamerica.com

Trials - including John Brown

West Web

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/

Descendants of Mexican War Veterans - excellent resource about the Mexican-American War 1846-48

http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm

Gold Rush in California

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html

http://www.law.umkc.edu/
faculty/projects/ftrials/trialsindex.htm

"Price of Freedom" America at War

http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/

Columbian Exchange

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/columbian.htm

Christopher Columbus

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html

Indenture Contract of Richard Lowther, 1627 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/jamestown-browsemod?id=J1046

Colonial Primary Sources

http://home.wi.rr.com/rickgardiner/primarysources.htm

Plymouth Colony

http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/home2.html

http://www.17thc.us/

13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies

http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

Immigration

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm

Resources about Congress

http://www.congresslink.org/

http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/

Constitutions of the 13 first states

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm
 

History of Railroads in US written in 1871
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/

Article on debate over Internal Improvements

http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Internal.pdf

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

     http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html

National Humanities Center on Religion    
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/divam.htm

Civil War Resources

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Native American religion

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm

Smithsonian resources

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/start.htm

Exhibit about the Winter Counts

http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/

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