General Archival/Writing Information:
 

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CITATION MAKER!!

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Citation of Electronic Documents

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Citing Sources (Duke Univ. Library)

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Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism (Duke Univ. Library)

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Copyright, Fair Use & Licensing in a Digital World (National Initiative on a Networked Cultural Heritage)

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Copyright Website

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Digitizing History- A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents (S. Townsend, C. Chappell, O. Struijvé)

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Doing Historical Research

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Doing Oral History

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Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure

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Researching History

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Society of American Archivists

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Step-By-Step Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act (ACLU)

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Tools for Archivists

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User's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (National Security Archive)

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Writing the History Paper

 

General Web Links for Primary Sources Research:
 

bullet American FactFinder
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American Studies @ The University of Virginia

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American Studies Internet Resources

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Ancestry.com

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Annals of Congress (LOC)

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Archival Data Online Repository (DPSL)

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The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

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Core Documents of United States History

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Documents For The Study Of American History (Univ. of KS)

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Documents Page - Columbia University

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Douglass - Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)

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Eastern United States and Canada- States and Provinces A-M -- Historical Archives & Depositories

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Eastern United States and Canada- States and Provinces N-Z -- Historical Archives & Depositories

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Electronic Databases for History

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Electronic Finding Aids for Library of Congress Collections

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Federal Government Resources on the Internet

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Find Law Court Opinions

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The Founders' Constitution

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Genealogy.com

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Gilder Lehrman History Online

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Global Gateway:  World Culture and Resources (LOC)

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Government Documents in the News (Univ. of Michigan)

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Harper's Weekly Magazine Home Page

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The Historical Census Browser (1790 - 1960) - Geostat Center

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The Historical New York Times Project

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Historical Text Archive

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History Channel

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History Matters

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The History Place

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Hypertext- American History

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Individual State (Home & Archival) Pages

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K-12 TLC Guide to American Historical Documents

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Library of Congress (LOC) - American Memory Project

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The Making of America Project (Cornell Digital Library)

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The Making of America (University of Michigan)

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Museums in the U. S. (Virtual Library)

bullet National Atlas of the United States
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National Political Index

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National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian

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The National Security Archive (George Washington University)

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Newspaper Archives

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NY Times Archives

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Online Newspapers

bullet Online Historical Newspaper Archives
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The Picture Collection (Time, Inc.)

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Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)

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Social Science Data Archives - North America

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Special Collections in the Library of Congress

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STAT-USA

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Statistical Summary - America's Major Wars

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Thomas (LOC) - legislative archives

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Tulane University's Archives - Special Collections

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UCI Libraries - Research Resources by Subject or Collection

bullet U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
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The United States History Index

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United States Vital Records Information (includes state-by-state index)

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US Archives On the Web

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USA Fact Book Online

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Western United States and Canada - Historical Archives & Depositories

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Who's Who in the American Government



Cartoon Sites:
 

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Cartoon history of 19th century

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Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)

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Daryle Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Page

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Historical Cartoons

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PoliticalCartoons.com

 

Court Cases & the Supreme Court:
 

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FindLaw.com Supreme Court Cases Search Engine
       -- To log in type my email address pedagog@optononline.net as the
            username and hghs as the password.

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Law Dictionary

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Legal Information Institute - Famous Supreme Court Cases

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List of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court

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Oyez, Oyez

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Summary of Important Cases

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Supreme Court Cases by Year (FindLaw)

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Supreme Court Cases Search Engine

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Supreme Court Historical Society

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Supreme Court of the United State (official web site)

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Supreme Court Justices Database (Northwestern Univ. School of Law)


Image Archives:

bullet 100 Most Important of Life Magazine Photos
bullet American History Slide Selection According to Topics
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The Art Archive

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AV Photo Finder (AltaVista)

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Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

bullet The Collections at the Archives of American Art
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ImageFinder (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)

bullet The Living Room Candidate -- Presidential Campaign Commercials
bullet Masters of Photography
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Modern American Art

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The Nation Digital Archive (Since 1865)

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NMAA Posters American Style Menu

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The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)

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Prints and Photographs Reading Room Home Page (LOC)

 

National Archives:
 

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U. S. National Archives & Records Administration [NARA] - home page

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NARA Exhibit Hall

 

Presidential Archives/Sites:
 
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The American Presidency - The Smithsonian

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The American Presidency Project

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Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections (Dave Leip)

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The Avalon Project - The Papers of the Presidents

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Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election

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George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799

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The Lincoln Institute

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Medical History of American Presidents

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The Papers of James Madison (Univ. of Virginia)

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POTUS Site

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President Elect - The Unofficial Homepage of the Electoral College

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The Presidential Elections, 1860-1912 (HarpWeek)

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Presidential Libraries:
         
The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
          Herbert Hoover Library
          Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
          Harry S. Truman Library
          Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
          John F. Kennedy Library
          Lyndon B. Johnson Library
          Richard M. Nixon Presidential Materials
          Gerald R. Ford Library
          Jimmy Carter Library
          Ronald Reagan Library
          George H. W. Bush Library
          Clinton Presidential Materials Project

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The Presidential Papers of Abraham Lincoln Online

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Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia

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USA Index - Presidents

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US Presidents - The History Beat - SearchBeat.com

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WhiteHouseTapes.org -- The secret White House recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
 


 

Sound Archives:
 

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American Oral Histories

bullet EaseHistory.org - photos and campaign ads [streaming video] from the 20c!
bullet Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
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I Hear America Singing [Quicktime, RealPlayer] - PBS

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Library of American Broadcasting (Univ. of Maryland Libraries)

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Music for the Nation- American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory Project, LOC)

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Native Ground Music:  Historic American Music and Folklore

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Popular American Songs [words & lyrics listed by time period]

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Popular Songs in American History

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Radio Day - A Sound Bite History

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Talking History

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U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi, Univ. of Albany, SUNY)

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Voices from the Dust Bowl- The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (American Memory, Library of Congress)

 

Specific Historical Periods/Topics -- Archives/Depositories:
 

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911- Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)

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African-American History and Culture

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Africans in America - Historical Documents

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America in the 1850's- An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)

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American Jewish Archives

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American Political Prints, 1766-1876- Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress (HarpWeek)

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American Religion Data Archive

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American Slave Narratives- An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)

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American Social History Project: 1877-1946

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Archiving Early America

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American Women's History - A Research Guide

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Civil War Databases

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Conscientious Objection in America- Primary Sources for Research (A.M. Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection)

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The Crisis of the Union- An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War (University of Pennsylvania)

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Discoverers Web Primary sources

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Documenting the American South

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Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Special Collections Library, Duke Univ.)

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Documents Related to the Cold War

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Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, Pre-1898 (Mount Holyoke College)

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Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (Mount Holyoke College)

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Dred Scott Digital Project

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DPLS Archive Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries (Univ. of WI, Madison)

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Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)

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Ellis Island Records Page

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The Encyclopedia of New York State

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Folklife Sourcebook - A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, a Publication of the American Folklife Center, LOC

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Foreign Relations of the United States (Washington State Archives - very detailed documents collection)

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Free Speech Movement- Student Protest--U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65(Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley)

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Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)

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Historic Government Publications from World War II- A Digital Library [.pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)

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History of American Education Web Project

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Hudson Valley Network - Lower Hudson Valley - History

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Index to San Francisco History by Subject - Museum of the City of San Francisco Archives

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Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project

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Jensen's Guide to Civil War online sources

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"Letters from the Front"

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Levittown- Documents of an Ideal American Suburb (P. B. Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago)

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Native American Documents Project

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Nineteenth Century Documents Project (Univ. of SC)

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Resources for Early American History

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Secession Era Editorials Project (Furman University)

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Secrets of History- The CIA in Iran [.pdf]

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The Sixties Project - documents

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Studs Terkel- Conversations with America

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The Tax History Project

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Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)

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Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture [QuickTime, RealPlayer]

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US Diplomatic History Resources Index

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U. S. Supreme Court Web Database

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Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)

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Westchester County Archives (NY)

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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930

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Women Come to the Front -- Female War Correspondents in WW II

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World War I Document Archive, Pre - 1914

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World War II Resources - Primary Source Materials on the Web (Purdue Univ.)

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WW II Resources and Documents on the Web

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WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)


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