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| ONLINE RESOURCES - SUBJECT
GUIDE
HISTORY - Selected Links |
American
History:
General
& Statistics
- American
History Database Index - Full-text articles
in American history from seven standard reference works.
- America
from the Great Depression to World War II -
A historical collection of documentary photography, from The Library
of Congress.
- Digital
History - Online textbook, reference room and
primary sources about American History .
- Historical
Census Browser - A database for examining state and county topics
for individual census years.
- History
- United States - PBS Program and Series Sites.
- History
Matters - A gateway to web resources for learning
and teaching U.S. history.
- The
History Net - Full text articles from 14 magazines
published by the Cowles History Group.
- A
Guide to the American Revolution, 1763-1783 -
A collection of material associated with the American Revolution, including
manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, books, and maps.
- The
Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays,
Reviews, and Comments - A historical bibliography
of intelligent literature, organized in the major substantive categories.
- Making
of America - Digital library of 19th C. American
history from antebellum period to Reconstruction, thousands of 19th
C. books and articles.
- Navy
Department Library - Online publications, documents,
and subject presentations.
- Online
Bookshelves: Research Materials - Official
histories and other materials, provided by US Army Center of Military
History.
- Statistical
Abstracts - Digital statistics Abstracts by U.S. Census Bureau.
- Ultimate
Guide to American History - History lesson
plans.
Civil
War
- Abraham
Lincoln Online.org - Speeches and writings,
frequently asked questions, resource listings, and links to other Lincoln-related
sites.
- American
Civil War Collection - The Electronic Text
Center is home to a variety of primary source material on the American
Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers.
- Civil
War Photographs - A collection of 1,118 Civil
War photographs.
- Civil
War Treasures from the New York Historical Society -
Photos and writings are drawn from twelve archival collections housed
at the New York Historical Society.
- The
Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes,
Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War -
A collection of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings,
maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880.
- Home
of the American Civil War - "Biographies
and photos of a great many of the major players; battle details and
maps; overview of the war" and more.
- Poetry
and Music of the War Between the States - A
collection of full-text Union and Confederate poetry and songs indexed
by title, author, and first line.
- The
War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies - Major primary sources
for Civil War.
- U.S.
Civil War Center - Comprehensive Directory
of over 7000 sites relating to American Civil War, divided into subjects
and categories.
- Valley
of the Shadow - Digital archive, the American
Civil War as it impacted two communities: one Northern and one Southern.
Colonial Period
Cold
War
- CNN:
Cold War -"In-depth information on subjects
such as the Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Korean War, Sputnik, Cuba,
Vietnam, China, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan."
- Cold
War International History Project (CWIHP) - A collection of historical
materials and ongoing discussions by governments and scholars on all
sides of the Cold War, by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars.
- The
Cold War Museum - Virtual exhibits, photo galleries,
newsletters and many other collections of cold war related material,
by a non-profit organization.
- Fast
Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War - This site explores
nuclear powered submarines' roles in American policy and strategy during
the years of the Cold War, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American
History.
- Cold
War Policies 1945-1991 - Narrative outline
of United States and other policies during the Cold War.
Constitution
The Great Depression
Immigration
- The
American Family Immigration History Center -
Searchable information on 22 million immigrants and ship's crews who
arrived at Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1898 and 1924.
- The
Chinese in California, 1850-1925 - A collection
of images and primary source materials illustrating "nineteenth
and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California."
From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
- Echoes
of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 -
An illustrated history of early Indian immigrants to California (primarily
Sikhs from Punjab). From the South/Southeast Asia Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
- Immigration
History Research Center - An international
resource on American immigration and ethnic history, provided by University
of Minnesota.
- Immigration
...Polish/Russian: The Lower East Side - "Feature
presentation for teachers on the history of Russian and Polish immigration
to the US, The Learning Page, The Library of Congress."
- Jewish
Life in the American West: Generation to Generation -
This exhibit "explores the history and adventure of Jews in the
American West from early exploration along the Santa Fe Trail in the
1820s through decades of immigration and settlement in Western cities
and towns."
- LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center - A searchable directory of websites covering Latin American society and culture. Browse by individual country or region. Affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Locke
and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California
- A lesson plan with two Sacramento River towns
for studying the Asian immigrant experience. Materials include maps,
readings, images, activities, and links. From the U.S. National Park
Service Teaching with Historic Places program.
- Who
Do You Think You Are? An Introduction to Immigration History in Indiana
- "Emphasizing the 19th and early 20th centuries,
this site features essays, a timeline (1800-1950), maps, photographs,
digitized documents (passports, green cards, visas), interviews, demographical
information, a glossary, and lesson plans for teachers." From the
Indiana Historical History.
- Peopling
North America: Population Movements & Migration -
A historical overview of migration to and within Canada, the United
States, Mexico and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia and Africa. From
the Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary.
- U.S.
Immigration History Resources - Links for high
school and college students.
- Immigration
...Polish/Russian: The Lower East Side - "Feature
presentation for teachers on the history of Russian and Polish immigration
to the US, The Learning Page, The Library of Congress."
Korean
War
- Korean
War -- Online Bookshelves - Official histories
and other materials, provided by the US Army Center of Military History.
- Korea
+ 50: No Longer Forgotten - "This page
is a joint project between the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Presidential Libraries developed to provide access to Korean War materials
related to the two administrations occupying the White House during
that period."
- Korean
War Commemoration web site - An official, public access website
for the USA's Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War.
"This site features a brief history, a timeline, an image gallery,
and biographies of key military leaders."
- Korea:
The Unfinished War - An American RadioWorks
program, including audio clips and transcripts, oral histories, maps,
related links, and commentary from reporters, historians, and scholars.
- Women
in the Korean War - An overview of the roles
of women in military service during the Korean War, from the U.S. Department
of Defense Korean War commemoration site.
Presidents & Presidency
- America
Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special
Collections Library - This web site "illustrates
the nation's presidential elections in letters, sheet music, leaflets,
buttons, and bumper stickers". browsable by candidate and parties.
- American
Presidents: Life Portraits -This site profiles
the personal and public lives of each of the U. S. presidents.
- Presidents
and Presidential Libraries - Biographical information
for all the U.S. Presidents, with information about presidential libraries
if one had been established.
- The
Presidents of the United States - Brief biographical
information for current and past presidents, the White House web page.
- Public
Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Main Page -
Presidential writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature are
available. It is provided by the Office of the Federal Register, National
Archives and Records Administration, began in 1957.
The
Sixties
Vietnam War
- Battlefield:
Vietnam -An overview of the Vietnam War by
PBS, a timeline, information on Vietcong guerrilla tactics, a detailed
look at the siege of Khe Sanh, as well as specifications of the aircraft
deployed.
- Famous
American Trials: The My Lai Courts-Martial 1970 -
Provides a history of "the massacre by United States soldiers of
as many as 500 unarmed civilians ... [and] the cover-up of that massacre."
- The
Vietnam War - Includes timeline, weapons, pictures
and analysis of the conflict.
- Vietnam
War -- Online Bookshelves
- Vietnam
War Era Ephemera Collection - "This database
contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University
of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They
reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth
movement in Seattle during that period."
- The
Wars for Viet Nam - An overview and numerous
official documents in Vietnam War offered by Vassar College.
The
West
- American
West - An entry of Encyclopedia of USA History:
1840-1980, Aks Jeeves.
- Meeting
of Frontiers - A bilingual 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.
- New
Perspectives on THE WEST - Educational resources
on the west history, such as people, places, events, projects, lesson
plans, quiz.
.
World History:
World
War I
World
War II
- BBC:
World War Two - "An in-depth examination
of the most destructive conflict in history, from the rise of the Nazis
to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the birth of a new world order."
- Marines
in World War II Commemorative Series - Articles
with maps and chats, published for the education and training of Marines,
as a part of the U.S. Department of Defense observance of the 50th anniversary
of victory in that war.
- Nuremberg
War Crime Trials - An explication of the trials
of the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
- Second
World War Encyclopedia - From Ask Jeeves.
- WW2
Timeline - Searchable by date, topic, links,
pictures, maps, documents and bibliography.
- World
War II -- Online Bookshelves - Provided by
the US Army Center of Military History.
- World
War II Links on the Internet - A list of links,
organized under various thematic headings, by a history professor at
the University of San Diego.
- World
War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
Articles, discussions, images, file links and more.
- WWII
Resources - "Primary source materials
on the Web. Original documents regarding all aspects of the war."
World History General
& by Continent
- Africa
South of the Sahara - An African History guide.
- Asia
via the Web: Select Internet Resources - Searchable
and browsable historical and contemporary documents, statistics, annotated
lists of educational films, K-12 curriculum materials and more. From
the Center for East Asian Studies, UCLA.
- Asian
Historical Architecture - Thousands of photographs
of historical Asian architecture, browsable by country and city.
- EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -
Links to Western European historical documents. Selected transcriptions
and translations. Ordered by country and chronologically within each.
- The
European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- A tutorial on Spain and Portugal's explorations
and conquests in Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the
Americas. Produced by The Applied History Research Group at the University
of Calgary.
- History
of Central America - Wikipedia - Divided into:
Before European Contact, Spanish Colonial Era, Independence, 20th century
and History of Central American Nations.
- History
of North America - Wikipedia - Provides anthropological
models of migration to the New World and insight into the earliest history
of natives of North America.
- History
of Oceania - Answers.com - History of Australia,
New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and more.
- History
of South America - Wikipedia
- Internet
Global History Sourcebook - Dedicated to exploration
of interaction between world cultures.
- Lectures
on Ancient and Medieval European History -
A Student's Guide to the Study of History.
- Mapping
History - Includes American and European history.
- WebChron:
Historical and Cross-Cultural Chronologies -
A series of linked chronologies that depict world, regional, and cross-cultural
history, by the History Department at North Park University.
- World
History - PBS Program and Series Sites.
- WWW
VL - History: Central Catalogue -.History by
Topics, History by Continents, History by Eras and Epochs and more.
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