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The Ad*Access Project - The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II
Advice and Consent: The Panama Canal Treaties
Air War College
Air Force Historical Research Agency
Air University Research Web
Air University's Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
Alien Registration Act (1940) also known as the Smith Act
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
American Diplomacy : Bilateral Treaties 1778 - 1999
American Diplomacy : Multilateral Treaties 1864 - 1999
American Historical Images
American History : A Documentary Record 1492 – Present – The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
American and British History Resources on the Internet
American Historical Association
American History 15th Century Documents
American History 16th Century Documents
American History 17th Century Documents
American History 18th Century Documents
American History 19th Century Documents
American History 20th Century Documents
American History 21st Century Documents
American History to 1865
American Journeys Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
American Memory Library of Congress Map Collections Online
American Originals: The Original Exhibit/The National Archives
American Originals II National Archives and Record Administration
American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
American State Papers/ Library of Congress The American State Papers, comprising a total of thirty-eight physical volumes, contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical gap from 1789 to the printing of the first volume of the U.S. Serial Set in 1817.
American Variety Stage Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
America 's Historical Documents/The National Archives
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Archive of Early American Images
Archives.gov Subject Index /National Archives and Record Administration
Archives Resource Center
The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture
The Avalon Project at Yale
This is a great site that provides connections to a wealth of documents in law, history, and diplomacy pre-18th century to the 21st century. For example: "1492-Privleges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus" and "The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England ; May 19, 1643". A very user-friendly site with loads of primary source documents.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: 18th Century Documents
Best of History Web Sites
Biography.Com
Boundaries of the United States and the Several States
The British Library
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies 1789-Present
Center for History and New Media: History Matters
Center of Military History
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
The CIA Electronic Reading Room
Combat Studies Institute
Combined Arms Research Library
Constitution of the United States
The Constitutional Convention
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Cornell Library Digital Collections (MOA)
Democracy in America Alexis DeTocqueville
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American Memory Project at the Library of Congress The American Memory Project offers extensive online primary source materials on United States history and culture.
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Archives Web: National Archives on the Web
Berryman Political Cartoon Collection Contains 100 cartoons from the early part of the 20th century
Center of Military History
Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection A collection of photographs covering the years 1938-1969
Combined Arms Research Library
Connecticut History Online
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Credentials of the State of Connecticut; May 2, 1787
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
Defense Technical Information Center
Designs for Democracy 200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives
Digital Classroom of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Digital History
The Digital Librarian: History
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.) and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night.
Directory of Labor Archives in the United States and Canada
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: History & Social Studies
History and Politics Out loud History and Politics Out Loud is a diverse collection of audio -- speeches and private communications -- relating to U.S. history and politics.
Infantry: U.S. Army Infantry Homepage - Donovan Research Library Digitized Monograph Collections
Dudley Knox Library of the Naval Post-Graduate School
Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1875)
Eighteenth Century E-Texts
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project
Famous Trials
The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States.
FBI-Freedom of Information Act
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
Find Law: Supreme Court Opinions Provides full texts of Supreme Court decisions since 1893
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
Food History News
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
Foreign Relations of the United States
The Founding Documents
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
France in America
From Heaven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
From Revolution to Reconstruction… and What Happened Afterwards
Gabriel Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
Gallup Poll Releases
George Grantham Bain Collection – Photographs range from 1860's to the late 1930's with most in the 1900's to mid 1920's.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Government of New Haven Colony; October 27 - November 6, 1643
Growth of a Nation A ten minute animated presentation showing the expansion of the country westward.
Historic American Sheet Music
Historic Audio Archives
Historical Election Results
Historical Maps of the United States - Perry- Castañeda Library
Map Collection
Historical Maps Online
Historical Picture Collections
Historical Text Archive
History Central
History Channel Speeches
The History Cooperative
H- Ncc National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History
History Journals Guide - WWW Virtual Library
History Matters: The U.S. [History] Survey Course
History of Eating Utensils
History of the American West 1860-1920
The History Net
The History Place
History's Best on (PBS)
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
A Hypertext on American History: From the Colonial Period until Modern Times
"I Do Solemnly Swear..."Presidential Inaugurations
Images of American Political History
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series census microdata for social and economic research Currently provides 22 census data samples and 65 million records from 13 federal censuses covering the period 1850–1990
The Internet Library of Early Journals, A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals Provides full text for large runs of 18th and 19th century British journals including the Annual Register, The Builder, Gentleman's Magazine and others.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Internet Public Library: United States Resources
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Company
Key Ingredients: America by Food
Labor Libraries
League of Nations Photo Collections
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Library and Archives Canada
The Library of Congress American Memory Project, Photos and Prints
Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents Diaries, Narratives, and Letters of the Mountain Men
Links for the History Profession
MAGIC Historical Map Collection The MAGIC Historical Map Collection is an online collection of digital images of maps for the state of Connecticut, New England, the Northeast Atlantic region, and the United States. The majority of digital images in the collection represent the cartographic history of the State of Connecticut.
Map Collections
Map History / History of Cartography: The Gateway to the Subject
Making of America (MOA) From the University of Michigan , "a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction." The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with nineteenth-century imprints.
Map Collections: 1500–2003
Map History/History of Cartography: The Gateway to the Subject
McCord Museum of Canadian History
Military Battles and Campaigns
Military History Center
National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ) A federal government agency, NARA is America 's national record keeper. It is the major repository of the government's historical records.
The National Archives of Great Britain
National Atlas of the United States of America, 1970 to present
National Council for History Education
National Center for History in the Schools
The National Portrait Gallery
National Security Archive
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) A catalog of archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archive, and historical societies located throughout North America .
Naval Historical Center
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
1948: Year of Turmoil & Triumph/ National Archives and Records Administration Links to research, activities, and photographs related to 1948. From the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken by the Late Hon Robert Yates, Chief Justice of the State of New York, and One of the Delegates from That State to the Said Convention
Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage
The OnLine Books Page This is a fascinating website with 16,000 listings that "facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the internet" including thousands of 19th century titles, and serial archives (magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals). It also provides links to other digitized archival book collections.
"The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive
Papers Related to the Foreign Relations of The United States - The Avalon Project Yale University
The Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Declassified military materials from the Communist Bloc (1955 - 1989; transcriptions and translations)
Penn's Digital Library Project
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists 19th & 20th Century
Probate Inventory Database Gunston Hall Plantation provides transcriptions of over 300 Virginia and Maryland probate inventories between 1740-1810 .
Presidential Speeches
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
Online Bookshelves: Research Materials
Organization of American Historians
Our Documents
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries, Oral Arguments & MultiMedia
An Outline of American History
Perry- Castañeda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps of the United States
Presidential Libraries
Presidents of the United States
Project Gutenberg This site offers e-texts (full text) for viewing, free of charge. Most of the texts are taken from books, published pre-1923. The titles available are mostly classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries from such authors as Shakespeare, Poe, Dante etc. Although most Project Gutenberg e-texts are public domain some have copyright restrictions (you may not be allowed to reproduce or distribute them).
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library – Duke
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Connecticut; January 8, 1788
Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources
Repository Listing of Primary Sources in the U.S.
SCETI: Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
Secret Service History – Timeline
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Business, Economic, and Labor History
Stars and Stripes: U.S. Military Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Supreme Court History
Supreme Court History the First One Hundred Years
Turn of the Century Posters
21st Century Documents
United States in Stereo: In the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views
The U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School
U.S. Army Military History Institute
U.S. Department of Labor Wirtz Labor Library
U.S. Military Academy
WhiteHouseTapes.org
Words and Deeds in American History
WWW-VL: History: Maps
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