HST 496WI/724: Seminar in US History and African American History (Dr. Demas): Web Resources

"A list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965."

A chronological collection of primary documents pertaining directly to American history and foreign policy. Please note that this site is not regularly updated and some of the links do not function.

"The 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents in this collection trace the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country to the Civil War and early twentieth-century international relations."

"The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history."

The archival search engine of the National Archives that provides online full-text access to important documents dealing with American history and foreign policy.

The Avalon Project, via the Yale Law Library, includes digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

"This digital collection, supported by the College of Education at the University of Houston, includes primary and secondary sources on a wide variety of topics concerning American history and culture. The collection is especially strong in its coverage of racial and ethnic minorities and other underrepresented groups within the United States. Sources include textbooks, newspapers, legal records, multimedia files, and teaching tools."

"Digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs."

Over 45, 000 digital exhibits, primary source sets, d images, texts, videos, and sounds from the US.

This site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. Emphasis is on materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans, many of which deal with the Colonial Period.

The Library of Congress Digital Collections provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity."

Searchable, digitized 20th century Paramount and Pathe newsreels.

Digital exhibit of the history of Title IX at CMU.

"The Internet Archive is a non-profit informational entity that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format."

A World-wide resource that covers over two centuries, with links to digitized copies of the original texts for the older publications (where available, Google links to the newspapers' own online archives).

Created by Tom Daccord for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. A good and fairly comprehensive listing of major history websites. This section of the website deals with various aspects of American History.