Government Sites

General History Web Sites

American Memory

   Library of Congress Web site

   Search Tips

   Format for Citing: Use the MLA-style format

   Links to other web Sites

National Archives & Records Administration

From the home page, check out the Online Exhibit Hall.

National Archives – Archival Research Catalog  - Use this link to search.

Search the archives for documents and photos.

Click on the yellow search button.

Information on citing

The Smithsonian

Use Link to Teachers or Kids to get information on specific exhibits.

America’s Story

Library of Congress produced this site.

Eyewitness to History

Good introductory web site.  It introduces you to events that happened in different time periods.  Watch for advertising and pop-ups.

Best of History Web Sites

Choose a category from the left hand side of the page.

BBC World History

British Broadcasting Corporation. 

Start with the topics on the left side of the page (Ancient History; Society & Culture; Science & Discovery; church & State; Wars & Conflict)

Multnomah County Library

A listing of history web sites provided by the Multnomah County Library Homework Center

American History Web Sites

American History Web Sites

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Click where it says online resources include

Possible links: Letters from America’s Wars; Features documents for your classroom; Major topics in American History; Primary source documents from the collection.

Also check under Recommended Resources – Historical documents or Electronic Media.

Our Documents

Links to various historical documents

AMDOCS

Documents for the study of American History.  Historical documents and speeches from the 1500’s through the 1990’s.  Grouped by centuries and historical periods.

Digital History

Lots of Good American history information.  Includes information from primary sources such court cases, historic newspapers and documents along with social and ethnic issues.  Table of Contents is down the left side of the page.

American Cultural History: The 20th Century

Arranged by decade.  After a brief introduction, you can choose from categories.  Within the information on these topics are links to sites with more information.  They also have a new 19^th century site. 

19^th Century Cultural History.

Archiving Early America

Primary source material from 18^th century America.

Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents

A list of American historical documents from the University of Oklahoma, College of Law.  Includes most of the presidential inaugural addresses.

The American Colonist’s Library

Historical documents from America’s early history.  Materials are arranged chronologically.

American President

Research presidents, their duties and first ladies.  Also includes images, articles and links to presidential papers.

Use the special print button to access printer-friendly versions.

Slavery in American

Use the tabs on the top of the page (History, Geography,  American Literature, Narratives/ Biographies) or the online encyclopedia (left side)

Documenting the American South  (DAS)

Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Duke University Special Collections Library

Has a wide variety of primary source texts, many related to women.  Scroll down the page for a description of the various digital collections and links to them.

Making of America

American social history from ante-bellum period through reconstruction.

Other

Newspapers

The History Channel Classroom’s Speeches Archive

Speeches by various People in history

History in Song

This web site offers the lyrics and music to several historical significant songs sorted by category (or time period), composers and title.

Chronicling America – Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities – Newspapers from 1836-1922

Brooklyn Daily Eagle – online coverage from 1841 – 1902 (good for immigrant history)

Colorado’s Historic Newspaper collection – 150 newspapers from 1859 – 1923

Utah Digital Newspapers

New York Times – Search box; may need to change dates after 1^st search.