General Archival/Writing Information:
Citation of Electronic Documents
Citing Sources (Duke Univ. Library)
Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism (Duke Univ. Library)
Copyright, Fair Use & Licensing in a Digital World (National Initiative on a Networked Cultural Heritage)
Copyright Website
Doing Historical Research
Doing Oral History
Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
Internet Citation Maker
Researching History
Society of American Archivists
Step-By-Step Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act (ACLU)
Tools for Archivists
User's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (National Security Archive)
Writing the History Paper
General Web Links for Primary Sources Research:
American Studies @ The University of Virginia
Ancestry.com
Annals of Congress (LOC)
Archival Data Online Repository (DPSL)
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
The Bancroft Library Collections (UC Berkeley)
CIA Special Collections Archive
Documents For The Study Of American History (Univ. of KS) - AMDOCS
Documents Page - Columbia University
Douglass - Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
Eastern United States and Canada- States and Provinces A-M -- Historical Archives & Depositories
Eastern United States and Canada- States and Provinces N-Z -- Historical Archives & Depositories
Electronic Databases for History
Electronic Finding Aids for Library of Congress Collections
Federal Government Resources on the Internet
Find Law Court Opinions
The Founders' Constitution
Genealogy.com
Gilder Lehrman History Online (document collections)
Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources (LOC)
Government Documents in the News (Univ. of Michigan)
Harper's Weekly Magazine Home Page
The Historical Census Browser (1790 - 1960) - Geostat Center
Historical Text Archive
History Channel
History Matters
The History Place
Hypertext- American History
Individual State (Home & Archival) Pages
Library of Congress (LOC) - American Memory Project
The Making of America Project (Cornell Digital Library)
The Making of America (University of Michigan)
Museums in the U. S. (Virtual Library)
National Political Index
National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian
The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
Newspaper Archives
NY Times Archives
Online Newspapers
The Picture Collection (Time, Inc.)
Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)
Social Science Data Archives - North America
Special Collections in the Library of Congress
STAT-USA
Statistical Summary - America's Major Wars
Thomas (LOC) - legislative archives
Tulane University's Archives - Special Collections
The United States History Index (WWW-VL)
United States Vital Records Information (includes state-by-state index)
USA Fact Book Online
Western United States and Canada - Historical Archives & Depositories
Who's Who in the American Government
Cartoon Sites:
America in Caricature, 1765-1865
Bill Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum (Ohio State University)
British Cartoon Archive
Cartoons for the Classroom (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists)
Daryle Cagle's Political Cartoons Page Professional Cartoonist Index
Five Decades of Herblock's Political Cartoons (Washington Post)
HarpWeek - Cartoons from Harper's Weekly
Historical Cartoons (Classroom Clipart)
Historical Political Cartoons
Court Cases & the Supreme Court:
FindLaw.com Supreme Court Cases Search Engine -- To log in type my email address pedagog@optonline.net as the username and hghs as the password.
Law Dictionary
Legal Information Institute - Famous Supreme Court Cases
List of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Oyez, Oyez
RECAP U. S. Federal Court Documents (Internet Archives)
Supreme Court Cases by Year (FindLaw)
Supreme Court Historical Society
Supreme Court of the United State (official web site)
Supreme Court Justices Database (Northwestern Univ. School of Law)
Images/Other Visuals Archives:
Archives of American Art (The Smithsonian)
The Art Archive
AV Photo Finder (AltaVista)
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
ImageFinder (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
NMAA Posters American Style Menu
The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
Prints and Photographs Reading Room Home Page (LOC)
National Archives:
U. S. National Archives & Records Administration [NARA] - home page
NARA Exhibit Hall
Abraham Lincoln Online
The American Presidency - The Smithsonian
The American Presidency Project
American Presidents: A Reference Resource (Miller Institute, University of Virgainia)
Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections (Dave Leip)
The Avalon Project - The Papers of the Presidents
The Correspondence of James K. Polk (University of Tennessee)
Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799
The John and John Quincy Adams Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society)
The Lincoln Institute
Medical History of American Presidents
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
The Papers of Andrew Jackson (University of Tennessee)
The Papers of Andrew Johnson (University of Tennessee)
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (Johns Hopkins Univerity)
The Papers of George Washington (University of Virginia)
The Papers of James Madison (Univ. of Virginia)
The Papers of James Monroe
The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Rice University)
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Princeton University)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Mississippi State University)
POTUS Site
President Elect - The Unofficial Homepage of the Electoral College
Presidential Documents Archive (The American Presidency Project)
The Presidential Elections, 1860-1912 (HarpWeek)
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 George W. Bush Presidential Library
The Presidential Papers of Abraham Lincoln at the Library of Congress
The Public Papers of the Presidents (NARA)
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (Government Printing Office)
Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
USA Index - Presidents
US Presidents - The History Beat - SearchBeat.com
WhiteHouseTapes.org -- The secret White House recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
Sound / Speech Archives:
American Oral Histories
I Hear America Singing [Quicktime, RealPlayer] - PBS
Library of American Broadcasting (Univ. of Maryland Libraries)
Music for the Nation- American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory Project, LOC)
Native Ground Music: Historic American Music and Folklore
Popular American Songs [words & lyrics listed by time period]
Popular Songs in American History
Radio Day - A Sound Bite History
Talking History
U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi, Univ. of Albany, SUNY)
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:
911- Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
African-American History and Culture
Africans in America - Historical Documents
America in the 1850's- An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)
The American Catholic History Classroom
American Colonists' Library
American Diplomacy - Archives Page
American Jewish Archives
American Political Prints, 1766-1876- Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress (HarpWeek)
American Religion Data Archive
American Slave Narratives- An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
American Social History Project: 1877-1946
American State Documents: 1789-1838
Archiving Early America
American Women's History - A Research Guide
Archives of the West (PBS series)
Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United State, 1789-1930 (Harvard University)
atomicarchive.com
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - archives page
Civil Rights Digital Library (University of Georgia, Atlanta)
Civil War Databases
The Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776 - master documents list (MA Historical Society)
Conscientious Objection in America- Primary Sources for Research (A.M. Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
The Crisis of the Union- An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War (University of Pennsylvania)
Discoverers Web Primary sources
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention (LOC)
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Special Collections Library, Duke Univ.)
Documents of World War II
Documents Related to the Cold War
Documents Related to American Foreign Policy (Princeton)
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, Pre-1898 (Mount Holyoke College)
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (Mount Holyoke College)
Dred Scott Digital Project
DPLS Archive Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries (Univ. of WI, Madison)
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)
Electronic Resources for US Foreign Relations (US State Department)
Ellis Island Records Page
The Encyclopedia of New York State
Folklife Sourcebook - A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, a Publication of the American Folklife Center, LOC
Foreign Relations of the United States (Washington State Archives - very detailed documents collection)
Free Speech Movement- Student Protest--U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65(Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley)
Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
Historic Government Publications from World War II- A Digital Library [.pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
History of American Education Web Project
A History of the Revolutionary Working Class Archive - Marxist documents
Hudson Valley Network - Lower Hudson Valley - History
Index to San Francisco History by Subject - Museum of the City of San Francisco Archives
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
Jensen's Guide to Civil War online sources
Labor Archives from the United States and Canada
"Letters from the Front"
Levittown- Documents of an Ideal American Suburb (P. B. Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle
National Security Archives (George Washington University)
National Women's History Project
Native American Documents Project
Native American Nations Research Page
New Deal Network
New York City Department of Records
New York State Archives
Nineteenth Century Documents Project (Univ. of SC)
North American Slave Narratives
The Patriot Resource Documents of the American Revolution
Private Art: Collection of WW II Letters To and From the Home Front
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University)
Secession Era Editorials Project (Furman University)
Secrets of History- The CIA in Iran [.pdf]
The Sixties Project - documents
Slavery and the Making of America (PBS)
Studs Terkel- Conversations with America
The Tax History Project
Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture [QuickTime, RealPlayer]
US Diplomatic History Resources Index
US Immigration Legislation Online
US Military War Records (Fold3)
Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Voices from 19th Century America
Westchester County Archives (NY)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Women Come to the Front -- Female War Correspondents in WW II
Women Working: 1800-1930 (Harvard University)
World War I Document Archive
WW II Resources and Documents on the Web
WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)
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