AMERICAN HISTORY

 

 

On this page, you will find Professor Somers Miller's Recommended American History Links.

FINDING, EVALUATING, AND CITING PRIMARY SOURCES ON THE WEB

• Using Primary Sources on the Web

AMERICAN HISTORY: Early Explorations and Colonial Period

• The 1492 Exhibit at the Library of Congress
• Jamestown Rediscovery
• Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
• Rare Map Collection
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
• Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation
• Witchcraft in Salem Village

AMERICAN HISTORY: Revolutionary Period

• Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
• Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People
• Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• Jefferson's Blood (Frontline)
• Monticello
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
• U.S. Founding Documents: Scanned Originals

AMERICAN HISTORY: Civil War Period

• American Civil War Homepage
• American Slave Narratives
• Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
• Confederate Stars and Bars
• Crisis at Fort Sumter
• Documents of Civil War Women (Duke University)
• "The Freedman's Bureau" by W. E. B. DuBois
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project / Pre-Civil War
• Valley of the Shadow; Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania & Virginia
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture

AMERICAN HISTORY: Westward Expansion

• New Perspectives on the West, with Ken Burns

AMERICAN HISTORY: Late 19th Century to 1945

• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• History Files; from the Chicago Historical Society
• History of Jim Crow
• Jump, Jim Crow, or Did Emanicipation Make Any Difference?
• Making of America Collection
  Digital Library of Books & Periodicals of Social History From the Late 19th Century
• Moise's Bibliography of the Vietnam War
• Pullman Era; from the Chicago Historical Society
• Ragtime & Scott Joplin
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
• Spanish American War in Motion Pictures
• World's Columbian Exhibition: Chicago World's Fair, 1893; from the Chicago Historical Society

AMERICAN HISTORY: Since 1945

• Atomic Duty of Pvt. Bill Bires
  Veteran narrates the 1951 atomic tests in Nevada
• CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Eisenhower Center
• For European Recovery: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
• Frontline: the Gulf War
• Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
• History and Politics OUT LOUD
  Searchable archive of politically significant audio materials
• Human Radiation Experiments
• Larry Burrows: A Life Tribute
  Photographs by the Life Magazine photographer killed on assignment in Vietnam.
• Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
• Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
  Documents from the 1950s, with particular emphasis on McCarthyism
• Martin Luther King speeches (audio)
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project
• NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions
• Remembering Nagasaki
• Ronald Reagan: Speeches, Images, and Statistics
• Soviet Archives Exhibit
• Tobacco Control Archives
• Urban Renewal and the Changing Face of Lancaster, PA
• U.S. Army in the Korean War (June-November 1949)
• USAF Museum Post-WWII History Gallery 1946-1950s
• Vietnam Online
• Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975

AMERICAN HISTORY: Through the Years

• American Memory
  Library of Congress Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• Avalon Project: 20th Century Documents
  Diplomatic documents, with emphases on WW II, the Cold War, and Palestine
• Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
• Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
• Famous American Trials
• Hot for the Road: 100 Years of the Automobile in America
• Journal for MultiMedia History
• PBS History
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
• Time-Life Photo Essays
• Words and Deeds in American History

AMERICAN HISTORY: Minorities

• African American Odyssey: A Quest for full Citizenship
• The Amistad Research Center
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

AMERICAN HISTORY: The South and South Carolina

• Documenting the American South; The Southern Experience in 19th Century America
• South Carolina Historical Society

ADDITIONAL HUMANITIES RESOURCES

• H-NET Web
  Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• H-RADHIST
  History Discussion List from a Radical Perspective
• History Channel
• History Net
• History Resources on the Web
• Voice of the Shuttle: History
• Yahoo's History Resources

Last modified Tuesday January 17, 2006