History
- 19th Century
American Cultural History
- African American
History
- African American Spiritual
Journeys This Web site, a companion to "This Far by Faith," (a
PBS series) provides a host of information about these many experiences,
beginning with African slaves brought to America and continuing to the
present day
- American
and British History Resources on the Internet
- American Memory
The Library of Congress History Collections for the f Library
- Archiving Early America Facsimilies
of newspapers, maps and writings from 18th Century America
- Benjamin Franklin:
Glimpses of the Man
- Center for History and News
Media a project dedicated to combining "the most exciting and
innovative digital media with the latest and best historical
scholarship."
- Civil
Rights Oral History Interviews You will need Real Player to listen to
the oral histories
- Civil
War Battlefield Medicine Information about battlefield medicine in
"a time before the doctors even knew about bacteriology and were
ignorant of what caused disease
- Civil War Homepage
- Creole
Echoes Homepage This online exhibit with detailed annotations explores
"the richness and diversity of Nineteenth Century New Orleans
intellectual and cultural life."
- Crisis of the
Union An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and
Consequences of the US Civil War
- Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum
Association A non-profit educational and research association for the
study of, dissemination of information about, and the camaraderie of people
who have an interest in the history of the Custer Battlefield, the Battle of
Little Big Horn, and the general study of the Plains Indian Wars
- Days of
Infamy "man in the street" audio recordings made in the days
immediately following the attack
on Pearl Harbor and after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
- Documenting the American South
Beginnings to 1920
- dMarie Time Capsule
find out what happened on a particular day in history
- Egyptian History
Explores ancient Egyptian history through articles, images, and interactive
media
- Encyclopedia of World History
- Eurodocs links to
primary historical documents from Western Europe
- Food Timeline Ever
wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How
Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the
Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Food is the fun part
of social studies! The tricky part is finding recipes you can make in a
modern kitchen, with ingredients bought at your local supermarket and bring
into school to share with your class. This page is for you!
- Footnotes to History
Provides short, concise descriptions of "the nations you didn't learn
about in high school geography. "Includes A to Z and subject indexes, a
list of sources by place, a bibliography, and links to other online sources
- Historical Text
Archive information about countries, national histories, maps and some
electronic primary documents such a travel accounts and narratives.
Information is organized by region, topic or type of resource
- History of Jim Crow "An
educator's site that presents teachers with new historical resources and
teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American
history."
- History
of the American West 1860-1920 Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the
holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public
Library
- History Project Homepage
an excellent collection of primary source teaching materials for use in both
secondary school and university classrooms
- HistoryWorld contains
over 400 separate historical articles and descriptions of approximately
4,000 world events, with an emphasis on English history. Material is
searchable or browsable by time period, topic, and location
- Holocaust: The Untold Story
Online companion to the film of same title; also includes the script of the
documentary
- Hyperhistory
Online covering 3,000 years of world history
- Jefferson Digital Archive
offers extensive information on former US President Thomas Jefferson. The
site includes an in-depth biography, electronic texts written by or sent to
Jefferson, quotations from his writings, and comprehensive annotated
bibliographies of writings about Jefferson, dating from 1826 to 1997
- Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest
Immigrant Jewish women, traditionally the family historians, chronicle their
poignant memories of family stories through manuscripts, letters, and
pictorial and oral history
- July 1942
Offered by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, this Web
site is an attractive presentation of the early 1940's via magazine covers
and commentary about them
- KingTutOne.com Information on
ancient Egypt, including pharaohs, clip art, pyramids, queens, King Tut,
mummies, art, religion, gods, hieroglyphs, societies, and the Sphinx
- Legacy of Genghis Khan
online exhibit from the Los Angeles County Museum
- Lincoln Log: A Daily
Chronology of the Life of Abraham Lincoln
- MayflowerHistory.com the
Internet's most complete, thoroughly researched and accurate web site
dealing with the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony
- Memorial On-line Historical and
Genealogical Library - Nebraska Nebraska history books and pictures
- NARA AAD (Access to Archival
Databases) System Online access to a selection of nearly 50 million
historic electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies on a
wide range of topics
- Nebraska Historical Society
- Nebraska Museums
Directory from the Nebraska Museums Association
- Nebraska
Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Catalog
- NebraskaStudies.Org
units on Nebraska history including resources for teachers and students.
- Nostalgia Central
features topical and fun material on various fads, fashions, movies, and
musical movements that were representative of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
- Open
Hearts/Closed Doors After World War II, a group of young Jewish
orphans immigrated to Canada from the devastation of Europe as part of the
War Orphans Project. Using their own words and artifacts, this virtual
exhibit tells the story of the orphans' courage and resilience and of the
tireless efforts of the people who helped them
- Picturing Modern America 1880-1920
site contains a number of interactive exercises that will help deepen
students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America from
1880 to1920 and to build their skills in analyzing primary sources
- The Pill exploration of
the history and the physiological and social effects of the pill for women
approved by the FDA as an oral contraceptive in 1960
- Pirate Soul an
overview of piracy, covering history from the 14th century B.C. to the 19th
century, notable
pirates
- Pledge of Allegiance - a
Short History
- Pocket Calculator Show to
collect and celebrate personal memories of all integrated circuit-based
consumer products from the electronics revolution of the 1970s and 1980s
- Pop
Culture a compilation of links to information about popular
culture, cultural history, and fads in the United States during the 20th
century. Browsable by decade or by topic, such as
movies, popular music, and television
- Reference
Resources: Famous Historical Wars American Wars: Facts and information
about the wars America became a part of: the Civil War, the Gulf War, the
Korean War, the Vietnam War, and both World Wars
- Repositories
of Primary Sources a worldwide directory of archives and manuscript
repositories with links to more than 1,700 websites. This site is organized
by region and country
- Rulers a list of the heads of state of
government, past and present
- Seneca Village
"Manhattan's first significant community of African American property
owners."
- Separate is Not Equal
Brown vs. Board of Education. online companion to a Smithsonian National
Museum of American History exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary
(May 17, 2004) of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision
- September 11th, digital archive
- Sinking City of Venice
companion site to a PBS NOVA television program "covers the battle to
keep the world's most unusual city from drowning beneath the rising tides of
the Adriatic Sea."
- TimeRef searchable site features
timelines of events in Great Britain from 800 to 1499
- Today In History birthdays,
deaths, historical events
- Trail of Tears an excellent
resource for students studying the forced removal of the Cherokees after
ceding all territory east of the Mississippi to the United States
- Tribute to Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- The United States Capitol the history
behind the building and grounds
- USDA Historical Photos
This collection of about 400 photographs provides a portrait of rural and
small town American life mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It is
arranged by subject
- The Valley of
the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern,
through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a
hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during,
and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County,
Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries,
photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census,
and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict
and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women,
African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families.
- Voices from the
Days of Slavery part of the American Memory Project at the Library
of Congress, this engaging website offers first-hand audio recollections of
the experience of slavery in the American South from 23 African-Americans
- Voices from the
Underground Radical Protest and Underground Press in the
"Sixties": An Exhibition
- War
Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona 1942-1946 a splendid photo
documentary, the exhibit captures arresting black and white images of men,
women, and children forced to make their homes in Arizona's two internment
camps. The photo essay is also accompanied by brief explanations of the
rationale behind the relocation effort, as well as reproductions of
governmental decrees that set the effort to relocate in motion
- Woodward
and Bernstein Papers
- World
History HyperHistory Online 2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world
history
- Yahoo!
20th Century History web sites arranged by date