American History Resources on the Web

Academic Departments

• Eastern University Department of History
  

Comprehensive History Sites

• American Memory - Library of Congress
• Center for History and New Media
• Facts.com - EC Only
• Freedom House Collection
• History Journals Guide
• History Central Catalogue
• History Channel: This Day in History
• History Trail
• Institute for Historical Research Gateway
• The Journey Through Hallowed Ground
• The Lincoln Log
• National Museum of American History: Stories of Freedom and Justice
• Our Mother Tongues
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
• Voice of the Shuttle History Page
• Wisconsin County Histories
• World Civilization Virtual Library

Selected Large Text & Image Archives

• Abraham Lincoln Association Publications
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• Ad*Access
• AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
• Aerial Photography: Flordia
• American Experience: Civilian Conservation Corps
• American Experience: Victory in the Pacific
• American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
• American Radicalism
• American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
• Avalon Project
• The Ballot for the Lady: Washington Women's Struggle for the Vote
• The Becker college: Drawing of the American Civil War Era
• Beloit College Digital Collections
• Branch Rickey Collection
• British Historic Documents - Britannia.com
• Brooker Collection at Boston College
• Burgert Brothers Collection of Tampa Photographs
• Charleston Earthquake 1886
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• CIA Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
• The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Codification of Presidential Proclamations Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders
• The Colonial Echo
• Colorado State University: Great Western Sugar Digital Collection
• Congressional Bills
• Congressional Directory
• Congressional Record
• Daily Egyptian Diversity news Index
• Digital Collections: Amherst College
• Digital history - Multimedia
• Digital Sanborn Maps of Milwaukee 1894 and 1910
• Digital University Photgraphs: University of Dayton
• Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
• Documenting the American South
• Documenting the Tragedy
• El Paso City Directories
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection
• Federal Register
• Eugene B. Sledge Collection
• The Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
• Gillray Collection
• Hawaii War Records Depository Home
• Hawaii War Records Depository Photos
• Hiistorical Postcards
• Historical Text Archive
• Historic Documents (GPO Access)
  • Articles of Confederation
  • The Bill of Rights
  • The Constitution of the United States of America
  • The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and Interpretation
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • The Gettysburg Address
• Historic Houston Photographs
• Historic Stockton Photographs
• History: Las Vegas
• Images from the McCormick-International Harvester Collection
• James H. Doolittle Collection
• John Muir Photographs
• Joplin Historical Postcards
• Kansas Collection Photgraphs
• Kansas Memory
• Kansas Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1883-1922
• Lafayette College Archives Photograph Collection
• Lewis & Clark College Digital Collections
• Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits
• The Louisville Herald-Post Collection
• Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
• LSU Photograph Collection
• Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection
• Making of America
• Maple Recipe Collection
• The March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project
• Minnesota Reflections
• NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
• National Museum of American History: The First Ladies
• National Security Archive - Georgetown University
• National Trust Library historic Postcard Collections
• Nevada Division of State Parks
• New England Chowder Compendium
• New hampshire History: Digital Collections
• The New York Real Estate Brochure Collection
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Online Library
• North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project
• Oklahoma Historical Society
• Oklahoma Today
• Old Boston Photogarph Collection
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Digital Collection
• Open Collections:
  Women Working: 1800-1930 and Emigration/Immigration: 1789-1930 (Harvard Univ.)
• OurDocuments.gov
• PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf
• Papers Past
• Photographs of Vergennes (VT)
• Princeton University Historical Postcard Collection
• Public Laws
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
  • Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
• Publicizing the Marshall Plan: Records of the U.S. Special Representative in Europe, 1948-1950
• Ration Coups on the Home Front, 1942-1945
• Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
• Rising Flood Water: 1964 Corvallis
• The Rochambeau Map Collection
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: New Hampshire
• September 11 Digital Archive
• South Georgia Histoic Newspapers Archive
• State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
• Supreme Court Decisions, 1937 - 1975
• Supreme Court Decisions, 1992/93 - present
• Temple University: City Parks Association Photographs
• The torture Archive
• Throwaway History: the Broadside in American Culture
• Tokens & Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents
• Transcontinental Railroad Pictures and Exhibits
• The Tulsa Race Riot
• United States Code
• University of Idaho Historical Photogarph Collection
• University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections: University of Miami Archives
• University of South Carolina Student Exams
• University of Tennessee Libraries - Great Smoky Mountains Regional Collection
• University of Utah Photographic Exhibits
• U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscirpts, and Imprints
• USC Digital Collections: WPA Maps
• The Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Condolence Archives of the University Libraries
• Visual Archives of American History
• Waddesdon Manor: The Rothschild Trade Card Collection
• Walter Gordon Collection of Photogarphs
• Willard Stewart WPA and HABS Photographs of Delaware

Directories for History and Historians

• Archives and Special Collections
• Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
• History Departments around the World
• The Center for the American History
• Scholarly Societies Project

Additional American History Site

• Americans Archive in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive
• American Presidents
• African Americans & the End of Slavery
• Afro-American Sources in Virginia
• The Alabama Historical Quarterly
• Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
• American Antiquarian Society
• American Cultural History -19th Century
• American Cultural History-20th Century
• American Experience: We Shall Remain
• The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
• Atomic Archive
• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
• Belgian-American Research Collection
• Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
• Betsy Ross Homepage
• Big Streets in a Little City: Downtown Street Scenes in Kiel, 1960-1980
• Billy The Kid Page
• Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:1774-present
• Black Film Center/Archive Home Page
• The Bob Simms Collection: An Activist's Life and Legacy
• Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data
• British Columbia's History of Education Web site
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
• Brooklyn in the Civil War
• The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
• Carleton Digital Media Archive
• Central Florida Memory
• Chinese in California, 1850-1925
• Chronicles of Oklahoma
• The Center of the American West
• Civil Rights Oral History Interviews: Spokane, Washington
• Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served
• Civil War Traveler
• Cold War Digital Library
• Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
• Connecticut History Online
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
• The Crisis of the Union
• Delaware: Digital Archives
• Democracy in America
• Denver Public Library: Western History/Genealogy Department
• The Digital Atlas of Idaho
• Digital horizons: A Plains Media Resource
• Discovering African-American History in Rural Ohio
• Documenting the American South: The first century of the first state university
• Documenting the American South: Oral Histories
• Documenting the South
  • Library of Southern Literature
  • The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
  • The Church in the Southern Black Community
  • The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940
  • North Carolinians and the Great War
    
    • E. Kenneth Hoffman - Vietnam Portfolio
    • EASE History
    • Encyclopedia of Chicago History
    • Encyclopedia of Oklahoma history & Culture
    • The Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography
    • Essays in History -- University of Virginia
    • Federal Courthouses and Post Offices: Symbols of Pride and Permanence in American Communities
    • Federal Township Plats of Illinois, 1804-1891
    • Flags of Freedom Foundation, Inc.
    • Forgotten Detroit
    • Freedom: A History of US
    • The French and Indian War
    • From the Home Front and the Front Lines
    • From Revolution to Reconstruction
    • George Handy Bates Samoan Papers
    • George Washington Carver
    • The Georgia State Fair, Macon, 1886-1960
    • The Great American Migration Slowdown: Regional and Metropolitan Dimensions
    • Hard Times in Middletown: how the Middle Class became the Brittle Class
    • Harpers Ferry NHP Maryland Heights
    • History and Theory Home Page
    • The History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project
    • H-Net, Humanities OnLine HOME PAGE
    • Heritage Preservation
    • Historical Encyclopedia of St. Paul, MN
    • History Explorer
    • History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course in the Web
    • The History Makers Digital Archive
    • History of The National Refining Company
    • The History Place
    • Immigration History Research Center
    • Independent Lens: Butte, America
      • Independent Lens: Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings
    • Index of Native American History Resources in the Internet
    • Institute of Historical Research
    • IUPUI Image Collection
    • The Japanese American Experience in WW II Arkansas
    • Johnstown Area Heritae Association
    • Kansapedia
    • Kentucky Military Treasures
    • Labor Archives of Washington State
    • The Labor Trail
    • Lee Family Digital Archive
    • The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
    • The Maine Memory Network
    • Manhattan Project, The
    • The Margo Duggan Collection
    • Maryland Map Collection
    • McIntosh Cookery Collection
    • Michigan County Histories and Atlases
    • Middle Tennessee Oral History Project
    • Military Order of the Loyal Legion -- Descendants of Union Civil War Officers
    • Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885-1992
    • Minnesota's Greatest Generation
    • Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks
    • Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
    • Mississippi History Now
    • Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Math and Science in the Age of Sputnik
    • NASA: Lessons of a Widowmaker (and Other Aircraft)
    • National Civil War Association
    • National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCC) WWW site
    • National Constitution Center
    • National Security Archive: Eleven Possibilities for Pentagon Papers' 11 Words
    • Native Voices: Native People's Concepts of Health and Illness
    • Naval History
    • Nevada Site Office
    • New Deal Network
    • The New Jersey Historical Society
    • Oberlin's Namesake
    • The Ohio Channel: Remarkable Ohio: Making Ohio's History
    • Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation druing WWII
    • Oral History of the US House of Representatives
    • Oral Histories: Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust from the Wisconsin Historical Society
    • Organization of American Historians
    • Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP)
    • PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf
    • The Perilous Fight: America's World War II (In Color)
    • The Phyllis Diller Gag File
    • Pittsburgh and Beyond: The experience of the Jewish comminity
    • Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures: A Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
    • Plat Books of Missouri
    • The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American History
    • Preservation Nation
    • President
    • The Price of Freedom: American at War
    • Project Rebirth
    • Provincetown History Preservation Project
    • Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
    • Regency Fashions
    • Riverhead Township Historical Sites & Preserves
    • Rochester Black Freedom Struggle Online Project
    • Sacramento History Online
    • Sanborn Maps for Missouri
    • San Fernando Valley History
    • Seeking Michigan
    • September 21,1939: A Day in Radio
    • Sheepherders of Northern Nevada
    • Social Security Online History Page
    • Sons of the American Revolution
    • Sophia Smith Collection: Voices of Feminism
    • St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
    • Streaming West: Railway activity westwards through Kansas
    • Streetplay
    • Supreme Court Historical Society
    • Tax History Project
    • Torn in Two: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
    • Turning Points of Wisconsin: Original Manuscript Letters of John Muir
    • Union Pacific Railroad: Hisotry and Photos
    • The United States and pakistan's Quest for the Bomb
    • United States Civil War Center
    • US Army Engieer Institute for Water Resources
    • US Commission in Civil Rights
    • United States Early Radio History
    • University of Wisconsin digital Collections
    • Virginia Convention of 1861
    • The Virtual Motor City: Images from the Detroit News
    • The Vietnam Project
    • Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
    • The Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally: 1764-1765
    • The World War I Document Archive
    • They Made America
    • 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
    • A Walk Through Newark
    • Washington Secretary of State-Washington History
    • We Choose The Moon
    • Whatever Happened to Polio?
    • Who Speaks for the Negro?
    • The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation
    • Windham Textile & History Museum & Visitors Center
    • WGBH American Experience: The Hurricane of '38
    • Wisconsin's Maritime Trails
    • The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
    • World War II (Stone & Stone)