American History: Websites

An independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

"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."

This site contains the most comprehensive online collection of resources pertaining to the study of the President of the United States.

Primary Documents by time-period. Site kept by Yale University.

great website and directory for African American History- search the left side-bar.

The awesomeness of the information here is astounding. Most noteable the DPLA is home to all Government Printing Documents that are digitized (GPO).
Also a wealth of digitized (available online) primary source items from archives, museums and libraries in America.

Primary documents, strong on slave narrative, southern history literature and culture.

Previously in print, this is now provided by Johns Hopkins,
"identifies and interprets themes, patterns, trends, behaviors, traditions, and ideas that characterize the United States as a nation, an experience, a rhetoric, and peoples-past, present, and future."

This cable television station offers programming related to historical events and people. Search for videos and print articles on a wide variety of U.S. and world history topics.

Explore "Many Pasts" - A portal to over 1,000 primary documents in text, image, and audio that emphasize the experiences of “ordinary” Americans throughout U.S. history, and "WWW.History" - A directory to more than 850 additional history websites.

Diverse and historical holding of federal documents, kept by the NA & Records Administration. Has a little of everything- good place to direct you to primary sources.

Home of the Freedman's Bureau Project (http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/#project)