History
Resources in American History ranging from general sites to specific event information, as well as links to local attractions in College Park, Maryland, where Archives II is located.- Comprehensive Resources
- Biographies
- Selected Specific Events
- Society, Culture, Arts
- Technology
- Local History (College Park, Maryland)
Comprehensive History Resources
- University at Albany Libraries: History
Divided into links for Internet Resources, Indexes & Databases, and E-Journals in the Social Sciences. - University of Pennsylvania Library: History - U.S.
Links to resources by time period, by topic, by type, and large text archives and image sites. - University of Pennsylvania Library: History - Selected Web Resources
World history web resources links, in categories such as Penn resources, comprehensive history sites, selected large text & image archives, databases for history, electronic journals, directories for history and historians, resources by region, time period and type. - Rutgers University Libraries: History - American and British
Listing of several hundred history-related Internet resources organized by type and subject. - WWW-VL Central Catalogue
Maintained by Lynn Nelson at the University of Kansas, this site has an extensive resource listing of countries' histories. - American Studies at the University of Virginia
Links to political information, hypertexts, digital classroom, museum, and other special features. - American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources
Comprehensive annotated links to general historical resources. - Center for History and New Media
Links to general history resources as well as specific events. - Documents for the Study of American History
Bibliography of American historical documents available on the internet. - Social Studies Sources
An Indiana University, Bloomington, site designed primarily for teachers and students in grades K-12. - National Park Service Cultural Resources
Links to the Past offers current features as well as historical and cultural information. - U.S. Army Center of Military History
Features exhibits on the Army throughout American history. - Naval Historical Center
Offers information about the Naval Historical Center as well as the branches of Naval history. - Archiving Early America
This site provides historical documents from 18th century America. - A Biography of America
This site was designed to be a self-contained college-level history course. Resources include access to videos covering 26 topics, and content mirroring that of most U.S. history text books. - Discovery Channel Online
Exciting online exhibits are based on the television series of the Discovery Channel. - PBS Online
Interesting online exhibits based on the PBS stations' programs. - The History Channel
Search the site by keyword, look at "Today in History", join in a discussion of "Today's Question", or simply browse through the links. - Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America
This book by Laura Browder, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by Choice, the journal of academic and research libraries.
- A & E Biography.com
Search over 25,000 personalities and 2,500 videos on this site. Also of interest are the Top Ten Biographies of the Week and the "Born on this day" column. - Biographie.net
A French site but searchable in English, this site offers 10,657 biographies. - Historians & Philosophers
A collated web index that is divided by time period. - Nobel Laureates
Search by date, name, or view a list of the winners of the Nobel Prizes. - Gallery of Achievers
From the Academy of Achievement, this inspirational page gives biographies of ordinary people who have used their lives to serve others.
- The Declaration of Independence: A History
- The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence
Article by Stephen E. Lucas - Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876
The Free Library of Philadelphia has digitized over 1,200 rare photographs and other materials relating to our nation's 100th Birthday Party in Philadelphia. - From Revolution to Reconstruction
A site of the Department of Alfa-Informatica at the University of Groningen dedicated to the pre-World War I history of America. - The Star-Spangled Banner
This recently expanded site from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is intended to serve as the "most comprehensive online resource about the 186-year-old banner, which inspired the words to the National Anthem." - Meeting of Frontiers
This Library of Congress site focuses on the experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing, and settling their frontiers, and the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. - The Titanic in Documents and Photographs
An article in the NARA publication The Record in March 1998 highlights the records of the Titanic in the National Archives. - Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
Part of the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division, this site contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, sketches, and photographs. - Documenting the American South
This site is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. - First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
This site features a compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The documents include diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives. - Buffalo Soldiers.net
The definitive guide to Black Americans in military history. - Exploring the Life & History of the "Buffalo Soldiers"
Published in The Record in March 1998, this article details a history of the United States Colored Troops. - The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. - Henry B. Plant Museum
This site features the museum of Henry Bradley Plant, the transportation magnate instrumental in the development of Florida and the City of Tampa. - Great Chicago Fire
An online exhibition produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Academic Technologies of Northwestern University to mark the 125th anniversary of one of the most famous events in American history. - Johnstown Flood
The National Park Service's website commemorating one of the worst disasters in our nation's history. - Rescuing Records in the "Cradle of American Labor"
Information about the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, which collects documents related to the history of labor and working people in New York. - Voices of the Civil Rights Era
Listen to audio clips of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X; also listen to clips from other periods in history. - The Sixties Project
Read and contribute narratives, learn about, and find links to other sites about the Vietnam War and other Sixties-related issues. - The Wars for Vietnam
This site was developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College.
Photographs & Audio Recordings
- American Memory Collection Home Page
- A few Library of Congress special exhibits include:
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936, 1940
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- Built in America: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
- The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920
- Music for the Nation: post-Civil War period American sheet music
- The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939
- Votes for Women: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
- The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876
The Free Library of Philadelphia has digitized over 1,200 rare photographs and other materials relating to our nation's 100th Birthday Party in Philadelphia. - Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. - American Photographs: The First Century
An exhibit by the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art in partnership with the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Incorporated. Includes photographs of the Civil War, Western landscapes, and Pictorialist images. - The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000
This comprehensive website displays 200 representations of art, including examples of painting, sculpture, architecture, film, and decorative arts. - Women in America, 1820-1842
Writings by and about women in the 19th century, on the status and position of women in society. - African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
This digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers is part of the Digital Schomburg Collection at the New York Public Library. - Vincent Voice Library
Housed at Michigan State University, this collection houses taped recordings from over 50,000 persons from all walks of life recorded over 100 years. - National Gallery of the Spoken Word
A "significant, fully searchable, online database of spoken word collections that span the 20th century." - History and Politics Out Loud
A product of the National Endowment for the Humanities collaboration with Michigan State University, this website features a searchable archive of "politically significant audio materials."
- This Day in History: from The History Channel
- Marie's Time Capsule
- Scope Systems' Anyday
- History Timelines on the Web
- The Development of Computers til 1960's
- From ARPANET to World Wide Web
- History of Electronic Mail
- Search Engines
- Basic Netdata
Electronic Journals
- Clio on the Web: Annotated Bibliography of Select E-Journals
Aimed toward 'net-savvy' historians and graduate students.
- Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections
From the New York Public Library, this site is an overview of planning digital projects for historical collections, aimed primarily at librarians and administrators who would like to promote use of under-accessed collections. - Virginia Center for Digital History
Based at the University of Virginia, VCDH projects include three online digital history initiatives. - Avalon Project
Yale Law School's Avalon Project includes digital documents from before the 18th century through the 20th. - Nineteenth Century Documents Project
This site, from Furman University, provides accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from 19th century American history. - The Online Books Page
This site is based at the University of Pennsylvania and includes more than 11,000 digital books. Features of the site include "A Celebration of Women Writers", "Banned Books On-Line", and the upcoming "Prize Winners On-Line." - U.S. Historic Documents
Major documents relating to American history, from 15th century Christopher Columbus' notes to President Clinton's State of the Union Address in 1999.
- University of Maryland at College Park
The home page for the 9th largest university in the United States. - Prince George's County
College Park is located in Prince George's County. This site offers links to popular attractions in the area, and other county information. - College Park Aviation Museum
Located at the College Park Airport, the College Park Aviation Museum houses a collection of aircraft and artifacts documenting the many historical events for which the airport is also known as the "Field of Firsts" and "Cradle of Aviation." - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Located on approximately 1,270 acres in Greenbelt, Maryland, this NASA campus has facilities to create, build, test, launch and operate various satellite projects in support of Earth science, space science and advanced technology programs. - Greenbelt City Link
Nearby Greenbelt, Maryland, is a National Historic Landmark. This site offers links to services and activities in the city.