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Best of History
Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtml
Links to recommended websites covering a variety of history topics including Prehistory, Ancient/Biblical, Medieval, U.S. History, Early Modern Europe, and the 20th Century
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American
History at About.com
http://americanhistory.about.com
About.com’s American history resources page.
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History Wired
http://historywired.si.edu/index.html
History Wired is “an experimental program through which you can take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History. Here you'll have an opportunity to look at hundreds of museum artifacts, most of which are not currently on exhibit.”
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AMDOCS:
Documents for the study of American History
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
Good resource for locating original documents from American History. Arranged by time period these links cover everything from excerpts from Christopher Columbus’ journal to President Bush’s speech to congress on September 20, 2001.
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United States
Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census
“The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.”
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American
History Homework Center
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html
Recommended web resources on the topic of American History from the Multnomah County Library. These links are arranged by time period and topic, including Salem Witch Trials, Women of the West and Ghost Towns.
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The Presidents
of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents
Made available on the White House Web site these links contain short biographical sketches of United States Presidents.
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Classics of
American Colonial History
http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-1.htm
Collection of periodical articles published before 1923, and therefore in the public domain. The articles cover a wide variety of topics dealing with the U.S. colonial period.
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The Public
Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636 – 1776
http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu
Online access to the public records of the Colony of Connecticut from 1636 – 1776.
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Colonial
Charters, Grants & Related Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm
Provided by the Avalon Project of
the Yale Law School, this site provides access to historical documents covering
Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and
Government from the U.S. colonial period
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The Plymouth
Colony Archive Project
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz
University of Virginia website containing archives and analysis of the Plymouth Colony from 1620 – 1691.
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The Federalist
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/federalist
Online access to the complete collection of Federalist essays by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison published in 1788.
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Democracy in
America: Alexis de Tocqueville
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC
Online full-text of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
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War Letters
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/warletters
Public Broadcasting site tied to the television program War Letters. Contains featured letters written by soldiers from “every American war from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War.”
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Civil War
Cartoons
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/SCARTOONS/cartoons.html
Political cartoons from the Civil War era.
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Slaves and the
Courts 1740 – 1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml
“Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.”
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Documenting the
American South
“Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.”
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Women in
American History
http://www.britannica.com/women
Women in American History from 1620 – present from Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Women in
America 1820 – 1842
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/FEM/home.htm
Text of travelogues written by European visitors to America from 1820 – 1840 focusing on the lives and experiences of American women.
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Early Modern
Women Database
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3
Provided by the University of Maryland, “this database provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800.”
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New
Perspectives on the American West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest
Web resources provided by Public Broadcasting relating to the eight-part documentary series New Perspectives on the American West.
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The Journals of
Lewis and Clark
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/journals.html
Online full-text access to the travel journals of Lewis and Clark provided by the University of Virginia.
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Salem Witch
Trials
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft
“The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.”
Dixie Yeager 9/02