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General U.S. History Resources
African-American Odyssey (links to related virtual exhibits) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture (virtual exhibit, covering colonization, abolition, migration, and WPA) (LOC, Washington, DC)
American Memory (gateway to "primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States"; "offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections") (Library of Congress)
American Studies Web ("largest bibliography of web-based resources in the field of American Studies") (Georgetown U.)
The American West Page ("a presentation of the history and development of the American West, from the frontier- and pioneer days with the wild west, to today's modern west")(Bengt Lindeblad)
The American West (links arranged by topic, within the WWW Virtual Libray site) (Lynn H. Nelson and Nancy Sween, U. of Kansas)
American Women's History: A Research Guide: African-American Women (Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State U.)
Americas History Archives (Gateway to World History)
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture (Smithsonian)
Loni Ding Ancestors in the Americas (virtual exhibit tied to series, focused on Asian immigration to America) (Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA)
An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History (allen lutins, Binghamton U.)
Archives
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (archived Congressional debates and documents) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (links to key documents in American history) (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC)
United States Documents (texts and facsimiles) (Emory U. School of Law)
DOUGLASS: Archives of American Public Address (full-text archive of historical American oratory and related documents; organized by speaker, title, and movement or controversy; searchable) (School of Speech, Northwestern U.)
HarpWeek: Explore History (electronic access to the full text and images of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912)
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library)
I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints (New York Public Library)
Letters of Delegates to Congress (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera (difital archive) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Private Passions, Public Legacy: Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the U. of Virginia (virtual exhibit) (Alderman Library, U. of Virginia)
NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration 
NARA: Exhibit Hall (US National Archives and Records Administration)
Presidents of the United States (images and biographies) (White House, Washington, DC)
From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents (texts of numerous documents archived, arranged by time period) (U. of Groningen, Netherlands)
Scanned Originals of Early American Documents (including pages from the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence) (Emory School of Law)
Scripps Library Digital Archive on the American Presidency (collection of presidential speeches, recordings, oral histories and other presidential resources) (Miller Center of Public Affairs, U. Virginia)
Words and Deeds in American History (selections from the 1st 100 years of the Manuscript Division of the LOC) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
California Mission Studies Assoc. ("for the study and preservation of the California Missions and their Native American, Hispanic, and Early American past")
CD-ROMS for U. S. History (plain text) (Steve Schoenher, U. California, San Diego)
Chronology of Asian American History (Emma Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Digital History (includes virtual exhibits, research and reference guides, primary sources, criticism, an interactive timeline, etc.) (U. Houston)
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America (extensive archive with "primary source materials documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners;" includes texts and images of "diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature"; in both HTML and TEI/SGML formats) (Natalia Smith and Chuck Thomas, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations (virtual exhibit) (Library of COngress, Washington, DC)
From Revolution to Reconstruction ("hypertext project on American History from the colonial period until modern times"; includes hypertext links to timelines, primary documents, essays, biographies, other relevant sites, etc.) (U. Groningen, Netherlands)
Geography
Maps of the Americas (Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection, U. Texas, Austin)
Nile of the New World - Lower Mississippi Delta Region (National Park Service)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (Nebraska Historical Society, and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, U. Georgia ("historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century"; special emphasis on Georgia; large jpg giles)
U. S. History Maps (Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection, UT Austin) 
The Historical Text Archive: USA Page (Don Mabry, Mississippi St. U)
History of the World: United States (information and statistics arranged by subject) History of the World.com)
Immigrant History Research Center (U. Minnesota)
Internet Resources for U.S. History (annotated links) (David L. Langenberg, U. of Delaware)
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
American Treasures of the Library of Congress (online exhibit, with objects in various media) (LOC, Washington, DC)
US Constitution (Legal Information Institute, Cornell U.)
Longman American History Online ("this bank of resources, which will enrich and expand upon what's available in your printed textbook, includes interactive practice tests, downloadable maps, primary sources, web activities and reference links") (Longman Publishers)
The Meeting of Frontiers ("a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.") (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Naval Historical Center (articles arranged by subject) (NHC, Dept. of the Navy, Washington, DC)
This Week in Black History (Charles Isbell, MIT)
US Armed Forces General Resources
Office of Medical History (images, organizational histories, bibliographies, and more) (Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, DC)
The National Museum of the United States Army (Fort Belvoir, VA)
Naval Historical Center (articles arranged by subject) (NHC, Dept. of the Navy, Washington, DC)
United States Army Military History Institute (links to other sites, organization information) (US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PN)
US Army Center of Military History: A View of Our Past (virtual exhibits, articles, and other resources) (John S. Brown, Center of Military History, US Army)
United States: History (within the WWW Virtual Library site; topically arranged links) (George Laughead, Jr., and Lynn H. Nelson)
US Army Center for Military History (images, museum information, and more) (US Army)
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser "The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and county from 1790 to 1970") (Paul Bergen, Harvard U. / Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
US-Indian Treaties and Related Documents
Andrew Jackson Indian Removal: Extract from Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress (in the Archives of the West) (Public Broadcasting Service)
The Kappler Project: Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (links to primary sources, in multi-volume edition begun by Charles J. Kappler, extending to 1971) (Oklahoma State U.)
Native Americans Constitution and Law Digitization Project (numerous legal documents archived within) (U. of Oklahoma Law Library and The National Indian Law Library)
Statutes of the United States Concerning Native Americans (primary sources, arranged by period) (Avalon Project, Yale U.)
Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans (primary documents) (Avalon Project, Yale U.)
U.S. Indian Policy, 1830-1890 (links to info and resources relating to Native Americans "designed as a resource for all those teaching and studying in France. The title of this page is the topic for the civilization subject of the agrégation [exam] for 1997") (J
Vice Presidents (web magazine, with links to historical articles and more) (Dan Coen, vicepresidents.com)
American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States  (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Women in American History (multimedia site with study resources created by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)
World History Archives: U.S. Working Class and Labor History (Haines Brown, Central Connecticut S.)
World History Archives: U.S. History Archives (history with a labor and working-class emphasis; includes links to African American history and the Americas in general) (Haines Brown, Central Connecticut S.)
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Colonial
Archiving Early America (includes digitable library of images, primary documents, maps, plus links) (earlyamerica.com)
Classics of American Colonial History (texts of scholarly articles form the 1890's to the 1920's) (Dinsmore Documentation)
Declaration of Independence (Emory School of Law)
Early Maps of the New World (Hargrett Library, U. Georgia)
English Caricature Prints: 1720-1820 (virtual exhibit, with text by Edward Hammond) (Haley and Steele, Boston, MA)
Benjamin Franklin A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency (1729) (U. of Groningen, Netherlands)
Benjamin Franklin Journal of a Voyage from England to Philadelphia, 1726 (U. of Groningen, Netherlands)
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (ed. Charles W. Eliot; with introduction, timeline, and links) (EServer, U. Washington)
Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History (J.A. Leo Lemay, U. Delaware)
1755: The French and Indian War Page (tables, links, and more) (Larry Roux, Syracuse U.)
Francis Parkman Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV (1877) (analysis of military conflicts in North America in the 1690s) (Project Gutenberg, U. Pennsylvania)
Hypertext on American History: (Primary Documents, Colonial Period) (U. of Groningen, Netherlands):
Homepage of Hypertext on American History  (U. of Groningen, Netherlands)
The First Virginia Charter, 1606 (Philip Schwarz)
The Second Virginia Charter, 1609 (Philip Schwarz)
The Third Virginia Charter, 1612 (Philip Schwarz)
Mayflower Compact, 1620 
Petition of Right, 1628 
Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629 
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) 
The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649 
Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676 
Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676 
Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697 
Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704 
The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715 
Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737 
The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765 
William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766 
Captain Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770 
Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775 
Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775 
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (links to APVA homepage and to the Jamestown Discovery exhibit)
Thomas Jefferson (virtual exhibit)(Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations (virtual exhibit focused on relations leading up to the Revolutionary War, along with consequences) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency (full texts of American colonial-era pamphlets and related scholarly materials dealing with currency issues)(U. of Virginia)
Special Collections in the Library of Congress: the Eighteenth Century (links to exhibits) (LOC, Washington, DC)
Madison's Treasures (virtual exhibit) (Library of COngress, Washington, DC)
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson Foundation)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Thomas Paine (links to texts by Thomas Paine) (Secular Web)
Rare Maps from Colonial America (U. Georgia)
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (virtual exhibit, covering trans-Atlantic religious issues, leading to much immigration to America) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
From Revolution to Reconstruction . . . and What Happened Afterwards (resource on American history from colonial to modern times) (U. Groningen, the Netherlands)
Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (Benjamin Ray, U. of Virginia)
Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality, Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 (wlink to full text; links to other articles; ithin the Documenting the American South site) (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Virginia Colonial Records (searchable database of colonial records) (Library of Virginia)
Virtual Jamestown ("digital research, teaching, and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and 'the Virginia experiment'") (Crandall A. Shifflett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.)
George Washington's Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts (links to primary and secondary sources, covering the European witch hunts, as well as instances in colonial America) (Frank Luttmer, Hanover C.)
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Revolutionary America (to 1791)
The American Revolutionary War
The American Revolution: National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins (articles and links; designed to complement PBS's Liberty! series) (Mark L. Cornbluh, Michigan State U.)
americanrevolution.org (links, cultural and historical information, and images (History Channel)
The Battle of Brooklyn (essay) (Brooklyn Online)
The Battle of Breed's Hil/Bunker Hill (synopsis, with statistics and tactical info) (AROTC, Worcester Polytechnic I.)
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (includes historical articles and images) (CTSSAR, East Haddam, CT)
Robert K. Wright, Jr. The Continental Army (monograph on army organization) (US Army Center for Military History)
Historical Statements Concerning the Battles of Kings Mountain and the Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (e-text of 1928 publication) (US Army Center for Military History
Drums Along the Mohawk: The American Revolution on the New York Frontier (chronicles, letters, timeline, and more) (Gregory F. Ketcham)
Expédition Particulière (history of French involvement, including links) (Xenophon Group)
The Papers of Nathanael Greene (historical information, primary sources, links) (Dennis M. Conrad, U. of South Carolina)
Intelligence in the War of Independence (articles, primary documents) (Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC)
Military Science: Army ROTC, Bay State Batallion (links to detailed analysis of 4 Revolution battles) (AROTC, Worcester Polytechnic I.)
National Park Service: The American Revolution (links to exhibits) (NPS, US Dept. of the Interior)
The Oneidas and the Birth of the American Nation (history of Oneida military involvement) (Oneida Indian Nation, NY)
The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777 (developing site, with articles and images)(Independence Hall Association, Philadelphia, PA)
Histories of the Battle of Saratoga (links to historiographical accounts) (Richard Jensen, U. of Illinois-Chicago)
W. Gilmore Simms The Life of Francis Marion (e-text biography of "the Swamp Fox" general) (Project Gutenberg, Champaign, IL)
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (homepage, links to historical articles and bibliography) (SAR, Louisville, KY)
Spy Letters of the American Revolution (texts, historical articles, chronology) (Clements Library, U. of Michigan)
Valley Forge National Historical Park (includes links to historical information) (National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior)
Yorktown Campaign (August-October 1781) (summary, bibliography, maps, images) (Xenophon Group)
Thomas Paine (links to texts by Thomas Paine) (Secular Web)
the Declaration of Independence (articles, images, and links) (Independence Hall Association, Philadelphia, PA)
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters From An American Farmer (Eric J. Gislason & Jill Spearman, U. Virginia)
English Caricature Prints: 1720-1820 (virtual exhibit, with text by Edward Hammond) (Haley and Steele, Boston, MA)
First Federal Congress Project (documentary history of 1789-91 congress) (George Washington U.)
Founding Fathers Info (articles, images, flag history, and more) (Chris Witten)
Hypertext on American History (Primary Documents) (U.of Groningen, Netherlands):
John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775 
Second Continental Congrees, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775 
Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776 
Jefferson's Draft of the Declaration of Independence 
Jefferson's Notes on Slavery 
Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776 
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 
Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson, 1779 
Articles of Confederation, 1781 
James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785 
Annapolis Convention, 1786 
The Complete Federalist Papers 
Letter Presenting the Constitution 
The Northwest Ordinance 
USA Constitution 
Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution 
Madison Speech Proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789 
Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793 
Greenville Treaty with a Number of Indian Tribes, 1795 
Washington's Farewell Address, 1796 
Thomas Jefferson (virtual exhibit)(Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Bruce Johansen Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois and the Rationale for the American Revolution (full e-text of 1982 book)
John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations (virtual exhibit focused on relations leading up to the Revolutionary War, along with consequences) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Madison's Treasures (virtual exhibit) (Library of COngress, Washington, DC)
Original Proposal Draft of The Bill of Rights of the U. S. (Karpeles Manuscript Library)
Rare Maps from Revolutionary America (U. Georgia)
the Betsy Ross Homepage (links to images and articles) (Independence Hall Association, Philadelphia, PA)
Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
George Washington's Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
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Antebellum
the Alien and Sedition Acts (links to texts, in the Avalon Project) (Yale Law School
The Augusta Archive (Antebellum Augusta County, Virginia) 
The Barbary Wars (historical essay, with images) (The Mariners' Museum, VA)
James Lewis The Black Hawk War of 1832 (articles, images, primary sources, and more) (Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project, Northern Illinois U.)
Five Views: A History of Mexican Americans in California (National Park Service)
Indian Wars (chronology of "named campaigns," followed by descriptions) (Center for Military History, US Army)
Andrew Jackson's Actions and Deeds Against Southeastern Indians (chronology, editotials) (U. California, Riverside)
Andrew Jackson (biography and bibliography) (State Library of North Carolina)
Andrew Jackson Indian Removal: Extract from Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress (in the Archives of the West) (Public Broadcasting Service)
Lewis & Clark Page (support site for the film by Ken Burns; includes info, interactive resources, classroom resources, etc.)
Lewis and Clark
The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: Native American Objects and the American Quest for Commerce and Science (virtual exhibit, with images, articles, and more) (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard U.)
Lewis & Clark Page (support site for the film by Ken Burns; includes info, interactive resources, classroom resources, etc.)
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West (virtual exhibit) (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC)
Lewis and Clark as Naturalists (virtual exhibit) (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC)
Bonnie Butterfield Sacagawea (biographical article, with numerous works of art and photographs, plus a bibliography)
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 (virtual exhibit of maps from the American Colonization Society) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Louisiana Purchase: 1803 and Associated Documents (etexts of primary sources) (Avalon Project, Yale Law S.)
Maps of the Period of American Union and Expansion (Hargrett Library, U. Georgia)
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on Western Expansion, 1829-1890 (virtual exhibit) (Mystic Seaport.org, and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Monroe Doctrine, 1823 (American Revolution HTML Project)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan (1853)
John W. Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa (Massachusetts I. of Technology) Black Ships and Samurai (site devoted to Admiral Perry's visit to Japan)
Japanese Reply (1854) to President Fillmore’s Letter and Response of Commodore Perry (e-text, in English) (Joseph V. O'Brien, John Jay C. of Criminal Justice, New York)
Commodore Matthew Perry's Visit to the Bonin Islands, June 1853 (Perry's notes and journals, as edited by Francis L. Hawks in 1856)
Letter from U.S. Pres. Millard Fillmore (1853 letter to Commodore Perry) (Center for East Asia Studies, U. California, Los Angeles)
Naval Historical Center (Washington Naval Yard, DC) Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (e-curriculum, including a biography, discussion questions, and activities)
Perry's Japan Expedition (virtual exhibit, with a number of paintings of sites Perry visited and of contemporary Japanese society) (Nimitz Library, US Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, MD)
Commodore Matthew Perry When We Landed in Japan, 1854 (e-text of Perry's notes edited by Francis L. Hawks, within Fordham U.'s Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North FLorida)
The Opening of Japan to the West (virtual exhibit) (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale U.)
Territorial Florida, Statehood, and the Seminole Indian Wars (1821-1858) (timeline, images) (Gail CLement, Florida International U.)
Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The US-Mexican War
K. Jack Bauer Mexican War (overview) (U. of Texas at Austin Library and the Texas State Historical Ass.
The Mexican War and California (articles) (California Military Museum)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (historical background, with complete text of treaty) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Juan Villegas (U. of San Diego) The Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo (overview and images, with relevant links)
Paul R. Machula The Mexican War (history about Arizona and the Mexican War)
Mexican War (maps and military information) (US Military Academy, West Point, NY)
David Saville MUzzey (Columbia U.) The Mexican War (excerpts from 1911 text, plus images) (Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco)
John D. Sloat The Mexican War and California: The Sloat Proclamation (1846)(The California Military Museum)
The US-Mexican War (1846-1848) (timeline, essays, and links) (PBS.org)
The U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-48 (overview and images) (Brazuria County Historical Museum, Angleton, TX)
The U.S. Mexican War (historical articles and images) (Descendants of Mexican War Veterans)
The U.S. Mexican War: 1846-1848 (essays, images, and a timeline) (PBS Online)
War of 1812
J. B. Calvert (U. Denver, Colorado) The War of 1812 And All That: An introduction to the War of 1812: an episode in the history of bungling, with its effects on the Indians (detailed overview, with emphasis on military politics, especially as regards various Native American threats)
Joshua Kuss (San Diego U.) The War of 1812 (articles, by topic, plus bibliography)
The James Madison Center: the War of 1812 (primary documents, articles, pedagogical resources, and more) (James Madison U.)
Native American Material: War of 1812 (links to primary documents in facsimile, with descriptions) (Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan U.)
Wesley Allen Riddle (U. Maryland University C.-Camp Doha) The War of 1812 (overview)
the War of 1812 (maps, articles) (US Military Academy, West Point, NY)
The War of 1812 Website (articles, images, documents, and links) (Military Heritage.com)
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Slavery & Abolition
The Abolitionist (collection of articles related to the abolitionist movement) (African Genesis)
Abolition: African-American Mosaic Exhibition
Homepage of Abolition: African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery (Library of Congress)
Influence of Prominent Abolitionists (Library of Congress)
The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Robert Delaney, Long Island U.)
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Africans in America Part 4 Resource Bank Contents (includes info on antebellum slavery, abolitionism, fugitive slaves and Northern racism, westward expansion, and the Civil War, and each topic addresses people, historical documents, and modern voices) (PBS Online)
American Memory
Homepage of American Memory (gateway to "primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States"; "offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections") (Library of Congress)
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship (includes exhibit sections "Slavery: The Peculiar Institution," "Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period," "Abolition," among others) (Library of Congress)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 ("contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves") (Library of Congress)
Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (Library of Congress)
Lincoln Papers: Emancipation Proclamation (provides introduction, timeline, and images, including Lincoln's first draft of the document) (Library of Congress)
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress)
Amistad
The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (1841) ("full-text of the U.S. Supreme Court decision and links to relevant sites") (FindLaw)
Amistad Home Page (information about the Amistad incident and legal issues related to Spielberg's film) (Michael Peil, Legal Information Institute)
Amistad Research Center (Tulane U.)
Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport (info on the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842, including timelines, an online library of over 500 primary documents including court documents, journal entries, and newspaper stories, and teaching resources)
Famous American Trials: Amistad Trials, 1839-1840 (Doug Linder, U. Missouri, Kansas City)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (extensive collection of images) (Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr., U. Virginia)
Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency (US Civil War Center)
Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People (Tony Pace, Canada's Digital Collections)
A Chronology of American Slavery (Eddie Becker, Holt House)
Kenneth M. Clark, "James Madison and Slavery" (James Madison Museum)
Featured Document: The Emancipation Proclamation (includes background, transcript, and images of the original document) (US National Archives & Records Administration)
Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)
Freedmen and Southern Society Project (books and documents concerning the history of emancipation during the American Civil War) (Steven F. Miller, U. Maryland)
H-Slavery Discussion Network (H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine)
Terry Matthews (Wake Forest U.) The Religion of the Slaves (lecture transcript)
Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 (virtual exhibit of maps from the American Colonization Society) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
LII: US Constitution: Amendment XIII (Legal Information Institute, Cornell U.)
LII: US Constitution: Amendment XIV (Legal Information Institute, Cornell U.)
The Middle Passage: Voyage into Bondage (K-12 teaching resource) (U.S. News Classroom)
The Museum of African Slavery ("virtual museum dedicated to the history of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic")
Charles P. M. Outwin, "Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625-1791" (Early America Review)
Slave Narratives
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (includes annotated index of narratives, related readings, other resources, and sound files) (American Studies Hypertexts, U. Virginia)
"Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives (includes electronic texts, introductions to the slave narrative, a bibliography listed both alphabetically and chronologically, and a guide to religious content in slave narratives) (Academic Affairs Library, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Electronic Text Center: African American (U. Virginia Library)
Lesson Plan: Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History through Analyzing Primary Sources (EDSITEment)
The Slave Narrative (introductory page including definitions, examples, purposes, influences, popularity, parallels, patterns, and motifs) (Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga U.)
Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library (Paolo Mangiafico, Duke U.)
Slavery in America (includes history, geography, American literature, narratives/biographies, teacher resources, image gallery, and encyclopedia) (New York Life)
Sandra Thomas, "Frederick Douglass" (online biography) (U. Rochester)
The Time of the Lincolns (PBS Online)
The Underground Railroad
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (educational resources)
UGR: Home - The Retracing of the Underground Railroad (multimedia presentation of journeys along the route, made by Southern California educators) (Footsteps to Freedom)
The Underground Railroad (National Geographic Online)
The Underground Railroad (History Channel exhibit)
Underground Railroad: Lower Mississippi Delta Region (Nile of the New World, National Park Service)
Understanding Slavery (K-12 teaching resource; includes info on Olaudah Equiano and a virtual slave auction) (Discovery School)
United States National Slavery Museum (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
Virginia Runaways Homepage (transcriptions and images of runaway slave and servant advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers) (Tom Costa, U. Virginia C. at Wise)
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U.S. Civil War
The American Civil War Homepage (numerous links, many annotated, covering all aspects of the Civil War) (George H. Hoemann and Mary E. Myers, U. of Tennessee)
Constitution of the Confederacy (Karpeles Manuscript Library)
Constitution of the Confederate States (transcription of text) (Ohio U. Law Center)
Crisis at Fort Sumter (articles arranged by subject) (Richard B. Latner et al., Tulane U.)
Gettysburg Address (electronic exhibit, including photos, draft information, and more) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Ulysses S. Grant Network (educational resources) (marie Kelsey, C. of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN)
George B. Kirchner Kirchner's Map of the Confederacy, 1863 (detailed analysis of aspects of the map)
Abraham Lincoln Online (includes texts of speeches, historical articles, and news)
Roger Norton Abraham Lincoln's Assassination (images, essays, and background information)
The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (virtual exhibit, including papers and related sheet music) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Maps of the American Civil War (Hargrett Library, U. Georgia)
Monitor: History and Legacy (articles arranged by subject) (Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA)
Selected Civil War Photographs (part of the American Memory set of sites) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page (Library of Congress) 
Suite101.com: American Civil War (Mike Swogger)
U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State U)
The U.S. Civil War Center (includes exhibits, historical information, links, program details, and more) (Louisiana State U.)
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War (focus on Augusta County, VA and Franklin County, PN) (Edward L. Ayers, UVA)
Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
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Later 19th Century
Homepage for the American Family Immigration History Center (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
American Memory: The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 ("illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials") (Library of Congress)
William Wei (U. Colorado, Boulder), "The Chinese-American Experience: 1857-92" (HarpWeek)
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920 (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Digital History - America's Reconstruction ("presents an up-to-date portrait of a period whose unrealized goals of economic and racial justice still confront our society") (U. Houston)
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America (extensive archive with "primary source materials documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners;" includes texts and images of "diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature"; in both HTML and TEI/SGML formats) (Natalia Smith and Chuck Thomas, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Equal Rights Party History Project ("focuses upon the 545 women and men who founded the Equal Rights Party in May of 1872") (Timothy Messer-Kruse, U. Toledo)
HarpWeek: Explore History (electronic access to the full text and images of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912)
Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) (Yale U.)
US-Indian Wars
James Lewis The Black Hawk War of 1832 (articles, images, primary sources, and more) (Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project, Northern Illinois U.)
Fallen Timbers Archaeological Project (articles, images, and sources related to the 1795 battle) (Heidelberg C., Tiffin, OH)
Indian Wars (chronology of "named campaigns," followed by descriptions) (Center for Military History, US Army)
Andrew Jackson's Actions and Deeds Against Southeastern Indians (chronology, editotials) (U. California, Riverside)
Andrew Jackson Indian Removal: Extract from Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress (in the Archives of the West) (Public Broadcasting Service)
Chief Joseph: Nez Perce 1840-1904, Nez Percéé Indian chief (biographical overview, quotations, plus a photograph) (Daniel N. Paul)
The Navajo and Apache Wars (within the History of the West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library" exhibition; overview and photos) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
National Indian Wars Association (society homepage, with links, articles, and other info related to the Indian Wars period, 1866-1890) (NIWA, Thousand Oaks, CA)
The Red River War (overview of conflict between the "between the United States Army and warriors of the Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, and southern Arapaho Indian tribes," 1874-5) (James Haley, U. Texas)
Paul T. Scheips Darkness and Light: The Interwar Years, 1865-1898 (overview of US military activity) (Center of Military History, Washington, DC)
Territorial Florida, Statehood, and the Seminole Indian Wars (1821-1858) (timeline, images) (Gail CLement, Florida International U.)
The Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapho Wars (within the History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library exhibit; overview and photos) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Isaac V.D. Heard History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863 (follow link to full e-text of 1864 book) (U. Michigan)
U.S. Indian Policy, 1830-1890 (links to info and resources relating to Native Americans "designed as a resource for all those teaching and studying in France. The title of this page is the topic for the civilization subject of the agrégation [exam] for 1997") (J
"Winning the West: The Army in the Indian Wars, 1865-1890" (excerpt from American Militrary History (Center of Military History, US Army, Washington, DC)
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on Western Expansion, 1829-1890 (virtual exhibit) (Mystic Seaport.org, and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exhibition, 1901 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Era of William McKinley (articles and images) (K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State U.)
The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books (part of The Making of America in Books and Periodicals; virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and U. of Michigan)
Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (Nebraska Historical Society, and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Sarah Watts (Wake Forest U.) How Teddy Roosevelt Became a Cowboy (excerpt from Rough Rider in the White House; includes images)
Separate Lives, Broken Dreams: Saga of Chinese Immigration (discussion of U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act, links to related resources) (National Asian American Telecommunication Association)
The Spanish-American War
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 [Show]
The Spanish-American War Centennial Website (numerous articles and background info) (Jess Giessel and Patrick McSherry)
Crucible of Empire: the Spanish-American War (educational resources, in a site devoted to the televised documentary) (PBS)
A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict  (exhibit materials, arranged by subject) (New York Public Library)
Traders: Voices from the Trading Post (virtual exhibit on traders int he Four Corners region, focusing on Hopi and Navajo reservations; includes oral histories, description of the NITA, and more) (Northern Arizona U.)
U.S. Indian Policy, 1830-1890 (links to info and resources relating to Native Americans "designed as a resource for all those teaching and studying in France. The title of this page is the topic for the civilization subject of the agrégation [exam] for 1997") (J
A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict (New York Public Library)
Worcester Women's History Project (site devoted to the first U.S. Women's Rights Convention held in Worcester in 1850; includes pages on rediscovered mid-nineteenth-century authors, information about a planned reenactment of the 1850, and an
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20th Century (To 1950)
America in the 1930's (multimedia presentations, including timeline) (U. of Virginia)
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Homepage (Jim Zwick, Syracuse U.)
African Americans in the Anti-Imperialist Movement 
Anti-Imperialist Writings by Edgar Lee Masters 
Mr. Dooley on Imperialism: Satire by Finley Peter Dunne ("Cartoon Finley Peter Dunne [1867-1936] began to write "Mr. Dooley" columns in Chicago newspapers long before the Spanish-American War began, but his national reputation was a product of that war")
Daniel B. Schirmer, "U.S. Racism and Intervention in the Third World, Past and Present" (1994) (Friends of the Filipino People Bulletin / Jim Zwick)
Sentenaryo/Centennial ("A Collaborative Exploration of the Cultural and Political Impacts of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War")
Stereoscopic Visions of War and Empire (juxtaposes stereoscopic images distributed at the turn of the century with excerpts from letters sent home by U.S. soldiers fighting in the Philippines and printed in local newspapers)
Voice of the Filipinos (editorials from El Renacimiento)
Jim Zwick (Syracuse U.), "Imperialists and Anti-Imperialists: The Roots of American Non-Intervention Movements" (1990) (Friends of the Filipino People Bulletin)
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920 (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
FDR Cartoon Collection Database (30,000 "political cartoons featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt and the activities of his administration dating from 1932 to 1943") (Paul Bachorz, Niskayuna High School)
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40 (archives of recorded histories; part of the American memory set of sites) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Harlem Renaissance (Jill Diesman, Northern Kentucky U.)
The History of Jim Crow (includes historical information, multimedia presentations, and teacher's resources) (New York Life)
Japanese-American History
Japanese American History Archives (museum information, plus selections from photo archives) (JAHA, San Francisco)
Japanese American National Museum (info, exhibits, and more) (JANM, Los Angeles)
Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansal Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (part of American Memory) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Manzanar National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Nikkei Heritage (exhibits, society info, links, and more) (National Japanese American History Society, San Francisco)
Korean American Digital Archive (photographs, documents, and more, focused on the period from 1903-68) (Ken Klein, U. Southern California)
For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan (online exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
New Deal Network ("educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s," includes classroom resources, documents, images, forums, etc.) (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
Convention Between the US And Panama  (e-text of the Panama Canal agreement of 1903, within the Internet Modern History Sourcebook hosted by Fordham U.) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
The Red Scare (1918-1921) (an image database covering the period) (Leo Robert Klein, William and Anita Newman Library, City U. of New York)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS Online)
Susan B. Anthony (Jody Litt, U. Rochester)
Traders: Voices from the Trading Post (virtual exhibit on traders int he Four Corners region, focusing on Hopi and Navajo reservations; includes oral histories, description of the NITA, and more) (Northern Arizona U.)
US_-Asian Affaris, 1900-44
American-Japanese Pre- War Relations
Pecrival Lowell and Lafcadio hearn: Conduits of Japanese Culture  (virtual exhibit about 1880's American visitors, whose writings helped stimulate American interest in Japan) (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale U.)
President Grant's Diplomatic Mission to Asia (virtual exhibit on Grant's 1877 Asia trip, with images from his visits to Japan and to China) (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale U.)
The Imperial Mission, 1917: A Record of the Reception Throughout the United States of the Special Mission Headed by Viscount Ishii (includes note son The Root-Takahira Understanding of 1908 and The Lansing-Ishii Agreement of 1917) (Brigham Young U.)
The Boxer Rebellion
Fei Ch'i-hao The Boxer Rebellion, 1900 (English translation of Chinese historical text, within Paul Halsall's Modern History Sourcebook)
Boxer Uprising: China, 1900-1901 (historical overview, photos, and short bibliography) (Australian War Memorial, Canberra)
The Boxer Rebllion (historical overview and images) (J. Buschini, Small Planet Communications.com)
The Centennial of the Boxer Rebellion (article and images) (Yale U. Library)
John W. Guy "Role of the United States Marines During the Relief of Peking, The Boxer Rebellion - 1900" (article and images) (U. San Diego)
George Odgers War Against the Boxers (historical overview and photos, with emphasis on Australian participation)
Boxer Rebellion (Third China War) 1900 (articles, maps, bibliography, and links) (T.F. Mills, Regiments.org)
 The Boxer Rebellion, 1900: A Selection of Prints, Books and Photographs (Frances Wood, British Library, London)
World War II and the US
Children of the Camps: The Japanese American WWII Internment Camp Experience ("documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined as innocent children to internment camps") (Satsuki Ina)
The Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (declassified document) (Navy Historical Center, Washington, DC)
Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Internment (Asian American Studies Center, U. California, Los Angeles)
Doouglas MacArthur War Report: US Occupation of Japan (speech made on August 30, 1945; within larger speech archive) (History Channel.com)
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II (exhibition on eight women wartime correspondents) (Library of Congress)
Mattie E. Treadwell The Women's Army Corps (monograph telling the history of women in the US armed forces in WWII) (Center of Military History, US Army, Washington, DC)
Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War Two (virtual exhibit of 1996 exhibition at the Dome Room of the Rotunda) (U. Virginia)
WW II Resources (links to primary documents) (Larry Jewell)
WWII and the Atomic Bomb (see under Asia below) 
The Dream of Flight: A Library of Congress Presentation Celebrating the Centennial of Flight (virtual exhibit, covering the history of flight across cultures, as well as the Wright brothers) (LOC, Washington DC)
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20th Century (After 1950)
Audio of Joe McCarthy (WebCorp)
"A Biased Timeline of the Counter-Culture" ('60s culture) (Judith Goldsmith)
Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop (virtual exhibit, with lithographic images and cultural and historical background) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
'With an Even Hand': Brown V. Board at 50 (virtual exhibit) (Library of COngress, Washington, DC)
Chicago '68: An Introduction (primarily a chronology of the events in the parks and streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention; also includes bibliography, other site links) (Dean Blobaum)
The Cold War HIstory 1945-1991 (links arranged by topic, within the WWW Virtual Libray site) (Tim Givan)
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement ("on-line archival collection documents various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the US, and focuses specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s") (Special Collections Library, Duke U.)
The Historical Text Archive: Vietnam War Page (links) (Don Mabry, Mississippi St. U)
History 3822: United States in the 20th Century, 1945 to the Present (Erika Lee, U. Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979 (links to tutorial articles within the HSC Online site) (Charles Sturt U., Australia)
Troy Johnson, "The Alcatraz Indian Occupation" (National Park Service)
Kent State University: The May 4 Collection (archives and information related to the 1970 protest debacle) (Kent State U. Library)
The Korean War
The Korean War (within the Korean History: A Bibliography site)(Kenneth R. Robinson, U. Hawaii)
Commemorating the Korean War (virtual exhbit, with multimedia archives) (US Department of Defense)
Conflict and Consequence: The Korean War and its Unsettled Legacy  (virtual exhibit, with articles and other archived material) (Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Independence, MO)
50th Anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression & Aid Korea  (articles, timelines, and images, through a Chinese perspective on the "Korean War") (the China Internet Information Center)
Russell A. Guegler Combat Actions in Korea (articles arranged by topic; in the US Army Historical Series)
Korean War Maps (US Army Center of Military History)
Cold War International History Project Virtual Archive: New Evidence on the Korean War (links to articles) (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC)
NASA History Office (links, resources, data, and more) (Steven Dick, NASA)
National Security Archive: Electronic Briefing Books (provides "online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more" (George Washington U.)
Okinawa: The American Years, 1945-1972 (biographical articles, photos, bibliographies, and more) (Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Texas A and M U.)
Richard Nixon Audio Archive (WebCorp) (requires audio capability)
San Francisco Diggers (1966-68) ('60s culture; happenings)
The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. (extensive resources on MLK, Jr., and the civil rights movement)
Senator Joe McCarthy: A Multimedia Celebration (Realaudio files) (Webcorp)
The Sixties Project (history and culture of the '60s) (Kali Tal)
U.S. Nuclear Accidents ("a compilation of some of the known events involving nuclear devices and facilities" (allen lutins)
The Vietnam War
Vietnam War Bibliography (Richard Jensen, U. Illinois)
Vietnam War Bibliography (Edwin E. Moïse, Clemson U.)
Online Bookshelves: Vietnam War (CMH publications) (US Army Center of Military History)
The Historical Text Archive: Vietnam War Page (links) (Don Mabry, Mississippi St. U)
Vietnam War: Maps (US Military Academy, West Point, NY)
The My Lai Courts-Martial 1970 (multimedia resources, within larger law case site) (Douglas Linder, U. Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)
Recalling the Vietnam War (articles and interviews with numerous scholars) (Institute of International Studies, U. California, Berkeley)
The Fall of Saigon (archived articles, introductory essay by Malcolm W. Browne, and more) (the New York Times)
The Vietnam Conflict (articles, images, and other resources, arranged by topic) (John K. Swensson, De Anza C.)
Voices of the Civil Rights Era (audio files) (Webcorp)
AIM and Wounded Knee Documents (links to primary documents covering the American Indian Movement and the 1973 siege at Wounded Knee) (Mike Wicks and the Michigan State U. Library)
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US Book History
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Davies Project: American Libraries before 1876 (searchable database,offers statistics, tables, and more) (Princeton U.)
US Print History
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (virtual exhibit, with sections arranged by topic, including essays and links) (U. Pennsylvania)
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop (virtual exhibit, with lithographic images and cultural and historical background) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
American Printing History Association (organization homepage, including links to related sites)
RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals  (includes resource page with scans of periodicals ffrom the 19th-21 centuries, society info, and more) (Ellen Gruber Garvey)
Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War Two (virtual exhibit of 1996 exhibition at the Dome Room of the Rotunda) (U. Virginia)
Charles Seavey (U. Missouri) Public Libraries: Images from the 1876 Report (explanatory text, wtih images culled from the US Bureau of Education Report


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