Most Valuable American History Sites

Websites

American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov

American President: An Online Reference Resource http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/index.php/acade mic/americanpresident/

Authentic History http://www.authentichistory.com

Avalon Project (archive of documents) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

From Revolution to Reconstruction http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/usa.htm

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu

History Now Journal http://www.historynow.org/past.html

Internet History Sourcebooks (primary sources) http://150.108.2.20/halsall/index.html

New York History Net http://www.nyhistory.com/

National Archives: Our Documents http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php

National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org/

Stanford University's Exploring the West http://exploringthewest.stanford.edu/

The Valley of the Shadow http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

Historic Newspapers Brooklyn Eagle http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/

Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive http://www.abrahamlincolnarchive.com/AdvancedSearch.aspx

Historical Statistics Historical Census Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

Historical Statistics of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html

Maps David Rumsey Cartography Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Perry-Castañeda Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ Money Current Value of Old Money http://www.ex.ac.uk/ %7ERDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html

Colonial Currency (all states) http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/

Music Campaign Songs, 1840-1860 http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/sound.html

Authentic History Center http://www.authentichistory.com/

Poetry and Music of the War Between the States http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/

American Memory, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov

• African-American Music, Southern U.S. ~ Recordings ~ 1938-1943 • Folk Music, Dust Bowl ~ Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin ~ Multiformat ~ 1940-1941 • Folk Music, Southern U.S. ~ John Lomax and Ruby Lomax ~ Multiformat ~ 1939 • Hispanic Music, Rio Grande ~ Juan Bautista Rael ~ Multiformat ~ 1940s

Political Cartoons Harper's Weekly (Elections, 1860-1884) http://www.harpweek.com/ Editorial Cartoons Cartoons for the Classroom Populist Cartoons Librarian’s Internet Index: Editorial cartoons 1896 Election http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seminar/unit8/home.htm

Presidential Papers American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

Public Papers of the President http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html

Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Presidents

Primary Source Documents Avalon Project http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/

Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Making of America (Cornell) http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html%20

Making of America (University of Michigan) http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/browse.author/

Online Books Page http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?E

Veterans History Project http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Speeches President of the 20th Century, Vincent Voice Library http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/index.htm %20

The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum http://www.jfklibrary.org/

Historical Eras

Colonial America Plymouth Colony http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/home2.html

Salem Witch Trials http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html

Virginia Runaways http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/runaways/

Virtual Jamestown in the Classroom http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/tscreators.html

American Revolution

The American Revolution and Maryland’s Press http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/5912/html/0000.html

National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu

Spy Letters of the American Revolution http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-gallery.html

Signers of the Declaration http://www.colonialhall.com/biodoi.asp

Timeline of the Revolution http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_timeline.html

U.S. Constitution The American Constitution http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm

The Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle http://www.apsanet.org/content_8300.cfm

The Constitution and The Amendments http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html

Federalist Papers http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm

The Founders' Constitution http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/toc.html

Early National Period Governmental Documents The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwac.html

American State Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html

Federalism Debates on the Constitution, 1789-1861 http://www.constitution.org/hames/sdfr.htm Jacksonian Era Second Party System 1824-1860 http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/ps-list.html

Register of Debates in Congress, 1824-1837 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwrd.html

Amistad Case, 1839 http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/amistad.html

Congressional Globe all speeches in Congress, 1833-1873 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcglink.html

Antebellum Era Conner Prairie http://www.connerprairie.org/

Five Points http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm

P.T. Burnum’s American Museum http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/

Views of the Famine http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/

Sectional Crisis Bleeding Kansas http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php

Editorials relating to the Sectional Crisis http://history.furman.edu/%7Ebenson/docs/index.htm

Kansas-Nebraska Act http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm

Dred Scott Decision http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/online/scott/index.html

John Brown's Holy War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/

Valley of the Shadow http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

Civil War

The Civil War Center http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

Chronology of Emancipation http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/chronol.htm

Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Crisis at Fort Sumter http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/

New York City Draft Riots http://www.vny.cuny.edu/riots.html

New York Times 1860-66 http://www.nyt.ulib.org/read.cgi?type=contents

Military History of the Civil War http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Erjensen/cw-1.htm

Valley of the Shadow http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/index.html Lincoln Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alser1_dates.html

LincolnNet http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/

The Walt Whitman Archive http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

Selected Civil War Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

Emancipation Harper's Weekly reports on Black America http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/

Chronology of Emancipation http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/chronol.htm

Reconstruction

African American Migrations After the Civil War http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html

Civil War and Reconstruction http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html

Congressional debates http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcglink.html

Freedman's Bureau Online http://www.freedmensbureau.com/

1866 Report by Congress's Joint Committee on Reconstruction http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/D/1851-1875/reconstruction/repojc.htm

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/

For more resources by era, visit the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s “teacher modules”: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html