Web Sites of Interest

The New York Public Library - Digital Collections - Text and image collections. Text collections: African American women writers of the 19th Century, surveyors of American West and Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) books. Image Collections: black history, civil war medical care, dress and fashion, Ellis Island, illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, 700 years of scientifica and medical illustration and Yiddish Theatre placards.

West Virginia History: A Bibliography and Guide to Research - Bibliographical resources for West Virginia history, including county histories, folklore, churches, education, the Civil War, and many other areas.

The National Security Archive – "Combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation.As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding."

AmericanPresident.org – "Is the most comprehensive resource on the history of the presidency and the nature of policy making available online. This exciting resource is brought to you by Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the nation’s leading research institute for the study of the American presidency."

BBC/English history – British Broadcasting Corporation; historical periods; noted people in history; monarchs and heads of government; wars; archaeology; science.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States - "This online service makes available material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, in hardcover printed volumes entitled The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States… January 1992 through December 2001."

American Memory Project at the Library of Congress – "American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning."

United States National Archives & Records Administration - Features online exhibits and documents.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - An online map collection with historical maps and maps of U.S. cities.

University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Collection - Rare maps of the New World, Colonial America, Revolutionary America, Revolutionary Georgia, Union and Expansion, Civil War, Frontier to New South, Savannah and the Coast, and Transportation.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History – Links to documents from the 1400’s to present.

Avalon Project at Yale University – "Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873 – "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates; the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate (1789-1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789-91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st Congress; the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents and reports from the monumental U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available as well. This online collection houses the records of the U.S. Congress up to 1875, which includes the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, published by the Government Printing Office."

Thomas – "Legislative Information on the Internet."

Documenting the American South – "A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs."

Foreign Relations of the United States – "A permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001" … covers, full text, from Truman through Johnson.

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents – "The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is published every Monday and is the official publication of presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary."

GPO Access – "The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government." …Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Documents.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Personal stories, artifacts, encyclopedia and information on genocide.  

Digital Book Index - "Provides links to more than 114,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 75,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost."

Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - "ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students."

Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Medieval History

Making of America (MOA) - "A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."

Cold War International History Project - "The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on 'the other side' -- the former Communist World"

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950's - Information on Communism, black lists, Hoover's FBI and the beginning of the beatnick culture.

Center for History and New Media - History Matters project "offers a range of resources, including 1000 primary documents in text, image, and audio, an annotated guide to 850 of the best US History websites; guides using various kinds of online primary sources, such as oral history and maps; and moderated discussions about teaching." Other projects include: September 11 Digital Archive, History News Network, Liberty Equality, Faternity: Exploring the French Revolution, Imaging the French Revolution, Echo, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, Exploring US History, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Oral History Project, World History Matters, Teaching American History, Western Civilization Webography, Lost Museum, Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies, Do History, and Interpreting the Declaration of Independance by Translation.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History - "An international scholarly association established to foster and develop interest in the study of military affairs and warfare in the Middle Ages and the Pre-Modern Period.

Library of Congress HLAS online: Handbook of Latin American Studies - "The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin American consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities." 

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States - "Contains a slightly expandedand fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States."

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition - "Dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction."

Historical Census Browser - "Examine state and county topics for individual census years...examine multipe topics within a census year...produce tables of data by state or county...sort data by selected categories...creat ratios between any two data categories..." From 1790 to 1960.

Veterans History Project - "Collect and preserve stories of wartime service...World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts..."

Voices of Civil Rights - "Personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all."

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe- "Links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimilie, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history)."

The World War I Document Archive - "Archive of primary documents from World War I...international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War."

World War I Remembered - BBC News site documents from WWI such as archive radio interviews, images and newsreel, and letters from soldiers.

Historic Government Documents from World War II - "Contains 343 Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office during the Second World War."

POTUS (Presidents of the United States) - Information on all United States Presidents compiled by the Internet Public Library.