GENERAL HISTORY
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
American Memory Project
American Memory 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. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
American and British History Sources on the Internet http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
Avalon Project at Yale – Full-text, primary resource documents in law, history and government.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Digital History - This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges. A resource tool for K – 12 history teachers.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Historical Text Archive - Housed at Mississippi State University, it includes original material, electronic reprints of books, and links to other web sites. Organized by geography/countries and topics. "The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects."
http://historicaltextarchive.com/index.php
History Channel: This Day in History - Provides historical events of a particular day. History Channel also provides a search for significant historical topics.
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
History of the Internet/Internet for Historians – Five chapters on the history of the Internet.
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.htm
The World Wide Virtual Library: History Index
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 3400 archival websites
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
REGIONAL/PENNSYLVANNIA
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest historical societies in the United States and holds many national treasures. The Society's is home to some 600,000 printed items and over 19 million manuscript and graphic items.
http://www.hsp.org/
Miner's Son, Miner's Photographer: The Life and Work of George Harvan http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/harvan/exhibit/exhibit.htm
Pennsylvania History Online - A project by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Free Library of Philadelphia. Penn State University Libraries and State Library of Pennsylvania digitizing thousands of historically and culturally important artifacts, images and documents. http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/cwp/view.asp?a=227&q=75708/
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/overview.asp?secid=1
UNITED STATES
America in the 1930s – links to film, radio programs (with audio), bibliographies and culture of the period.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/printfr.html
Booker T. Washington papers - complete set of the 14-volume 'The Booker T. Washington Papers', with a search feature and related links.
http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/index.html
Emergence of Advertising in America - 1850 – 1920, over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising, with materials from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
First Person Narrative of the American South – A collection of electronic texts: memoirs and journals written not because of their historical or political significance, but because they are to the writer the natural expression of what life has meant to him in the moment of living.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – Collection supported by the New York Historical Society, containing more than 70,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.html
Making of America - An interdisciplinary digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Made up of the images of pages of hundreds of books and thousands of journals published in the 19th century. In addition to history, emphasizes education, psychology, sociology, religion, science and technology.
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University - The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II – Stories of those who served in uniform or in some home front capacity during WWII.
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/home.html
Stars and Stripes – A Library of Congress project that includes the complete seventy-one week run of the newspaper’s World War I edition.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
Supreme Court Historical Society – A history of the United States Supreme Court including biographical information, timelines, and court cases.
http://www.supremecourthistory.org/
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive - from the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library, this site offers electronic texts by or to Jefferson, biography, quotations, bibliographies, and more from or about Thomas Jefferson.
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/
Treaties between the United States and Native Americans - thematic collection of the full text (in the HTML format) of approximately 30 treaties signed between various Native American groups and the United States government between 1778 and 1868. Along with browsing a list of the treaties, users also have the option of using the site's search engine to search all of the Native American treaties available here.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/ntreaty.htm
CIVIL WAR
Abolitionism in America – examples of primary resource materials from the Cornell University Library Antislavery collection.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/index.htm
Antietam on the Web - this site contains an overview of the conflict with, battle maps, articles on various aspects of that fateful day, a full listing of the participants, and 278 official reports filed by military officers from both the federal and Confederate sides.
http://aotw.org/
Valley of the Shadow - The American Civil War
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/valleyredirect.html/contents.html
War of the Rebellion Journal Contents (1880 -1901)
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html
EUROPE/ASIA
Historical Research in Europe – combining web based and print resources in an interactive database.
http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/HistResEur/
Iraq - the cradle of civilization at risk - cultural heritage and historical monuments. The crisis culturally resulting from the ongoing military conflict.
http://www.h-net.org/~museum/iraq.html
Medieval Manuscript Manual
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/index.html
Medieval Studies - at Stanford University
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/medieval.html
GEOGRAPHY/MAPS
Atlapedia Online - contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
http://www.atlapedia.com/
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - electronic maps for all regions of the world with emphasis on the US. Includes historical maps for states and cities, gazetteers and other cartographic reference sources and maps of current hot spots in the world.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
POLITICS
The Political Graveyard - is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 120,948 politicians, living and dead.
http://potifos.com/tpg/
Project Vote Smart - is a "citizen's organization dedicated to serving all Americans with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making. The site contains information about local, state, and national government officials and political candidates, including their voting records and which legislation they have sponsored in the past. A special section is now being devoted to providing the most current and comprehensive information on 2004 presidential candidates.
http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/pubpaps/srchpaps.html
White House Tapes: The President Calling - Three of America's most compelling presidents - Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon - bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. They left behind thousands of secretly recorded conversations. In this documentary project, American RadioWorks eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history.
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/prestapes/
PUBLIC HISTORY
National Archives and Records Administration - makes available to the public the records of the three branches of government in several formats: textual, audiovisual, cartographic, and electronic. Has an electronic version of the latest edition of the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives.
http://www.nara.gov/
Public History Resource Center - supports, promotes, and disseminates the scholarly and professional work of public historians. A forum for research, scholarship, networking, and education in public history.
http://www.publichistory.org/
The Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/
Veteran History Project - focuses on World War I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars. It includes all participants in those wars; men and women, civilian and military documenting the contributions of civilian volunteers, support staff, and war industry workers as well as the experiences of military personnel from all ranks and all branches of service.
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/about.html
SOCIETIES
American Historical Association - The professional organization for historians specializing in any field of history, with membership information, association publications, and selected articles from its newsletter.
http://www.historians.org/
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest historical societies in the United States and holds many national treasures. The Society's is home to some 600,000 printed items and over 19 million manuscript and graphic items.
http://www.hsp.org/
Humanities and Social Sciences Online - H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public.
http://www.h-net.org/
Organization of American Historians - professional organization for historians specializing in American history, contains information about membership, programs and services, association publications and links to other history-related web sites.
http://www.oah.org/
