<p>Websites</p><p>Most Valuable American History Sites </p><p>American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov</p><p>American President: An Online Reference Resource http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/index.php/acade mic/americanpresident/ </p><p>Authentic History http://www.authentichistory.com</p><p>Avalon Project (archive of documents) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm</p><p>Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu</p><p>From Revolution to Reconstruction http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/usa.htm</p><p>Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org</p><p>History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu</p><p>History Now Journal http://www.historynow.org/past.html </p><p>Internet History Sourcebooks (primary sources) http://150.108.2.20/halsall/index.html</p><p>New York History Net http://www.nyhistory.com/</p><p>National Archives: Our Documents http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php </p><p>National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org/ </p><p>Stanford University's Exploring the West http://exploringthewest.stanford.edu/ </p><p>The Valley of the Shadow http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/ </p><p>Historic Newspapers Brooklyn Eagle http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/</p><p>Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive http://www.abrahamlincolnarchive.com/AdvancedSearch.aspx </p><p>Historical Statistics Historical Census Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/</p><p>Historical Statistics of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html</p><p>Maps David Rumsey Cartography Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/</p><p>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</p><p>Colonial Currency (all states) http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/ </p><p>Music Campaign Songs, 1840-1860 http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/sound.html</p><p>Authentic History Center http://www.authentichistory.com/</p><p>Poetry and Music of the War Between the States http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/ </p><p>American Memory, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov</p><p>• 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</p><p>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</p><p>Presidential Papers American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/</p><p>Public Papers of the President http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html</p><p>Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Presidents </p><p>Primary Source Documents Avalon Project http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/</p><p>Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/</p><p>Making of America (Cornell) http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html%20</p><p>Making of America (University of Michigan) http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/browse.author/</p><p>Online Books Page http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?E</p><p>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</p><p>The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum http://www.jfklibrary.org/ </p><p>Historical Eras </p><p>Colonial America Plymouth Colony http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/home2.html</p><p>Salem Witch Trials http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html</p><p>Virginia Runaways http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/runaways/</p><p>Virtual Jamestown in the Classroom http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/tscreators.html</p><p>American Revolution</p><p>The American Revolution and Maryland’s Press http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/5912/html/0000.html </p><p>National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu </p><p>Spy Letters of the American Revolution http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-gallery.html </p><p>Signers of the Declaration http://www.colonialhall.com/biodoi.asp </p><p>Timeline of the Revolution http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_timeline.html </p><p>U.S. Constitution The American Constitution http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm</p><p>The Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle http://www.apsanet.org/content_8300.cfm</p><p>The Constitution and The Amendments http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html </p><p>Federalist Papers http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm</p><p>The Founders' Constitution http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/toc.html</p><p>Early National Period Governmental Documents The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwac.html</p><p>American State Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html</p><p>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</p><p>Register of Debates in Congress, 1824-1837 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwrd.html</p><p>Amistad Case, 1839 http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/amistad.html</p><p>Congressional Globe all speeches in Congress, 1833-1873 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcglink.html</p><p>Antebellum Era Conner Prairie http://www.connerprairie.org/</p><p>Five Points http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm</p><p>P.T. Burnum’s American Museum http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/</p><p>Views of the Famine http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/</p><p>Sectional Crisis Bleeding Kansas http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php </p><p>Editorials relating to the Sectional Crisis http://history.furman.edu/%7Ebenson/docs/index.htm</p><p>Kansas-Nebraska Act http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm </p><p>Dred Scott Decision http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/online/scott/index.html </p><p>John Brown's Holy War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/ </p><p>Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/ </p><p>Valley of the Shadow http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/</p><p>Civil War</p><p>The Civil War Center http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/</p><p>Chronology of Emancipation http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/chronol.htm </p><p>Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html</p><p>Crisis at Fort Sumter http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/</p><p>New York City Draft Riots http://www.vny.cuny.edu/riots.html</p><p>New York Times 1860-66 http://www.nyt.ulib.org/read.cgi?type=contents</p><p>Military History of the Civil War http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Erjensen/cw-1.htm</p><p>Valley of the Shadow http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/index.html Lincoln Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alser1_dates.html</p><p>LincolnNet http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/</p><p>The Walt Whitman Archive http://www.whitmanarchive.org/</p><p>Selected Civil War Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html</p><p>Emancipation Harper's Weekly reports on Black America http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/</p><p>Chronology of Emancipation http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/chronol.htm </p><p>Reconstruction</p><p>African American Migrations After the Civil War http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html </p><p>Civil War and Reconstruction http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html </p><p>Congressional debates http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcglink.html</p><p>Freedman's Bureau Online http://www.freedmensbureau.com/ </p><p>1866 Report by Congress's Joint Committee on Reconstruction http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/D/1851-1875/reconstruction/repojc.htm</p><p>The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/</p><p>For more resources by era, visit the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s “teacher modules”: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html </p>