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Here
you will find links to a variety of materials to supplement what
is on the individual course pages, organized as follows:
Some
pages linked below are more interesting than
others. Some have a point of view or an “attitude” that
I do not necessarily endorse, but all ought to offer some insight into
American history, or link you to other places that do so.
If you discover interesting sites which
others might enjoy, please send me the URLs. I
will check them out and then place links on this or the appropriate
course
pages. I welcome especially suggestions from students of all ages.
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A
few interesting General American History sites to start with
are listed here. Note: Some of these sites are repeated elsewhere on this site.
- The Museum of New York City Links to Many Interesting Historic Iimages and Documents
- Symbols and Monuments of the USA. Thanks to Stephanie Lowe and her daughter Dakota for recommending this site, which contains other learnng activities for younger students.
- The Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City is geared
toward high school history learning, but it has many useful resources
for college students and others.
- The site above is linked to the Digital
History site jointly sponsored by the University of Houston
and other institutions. Several sections deal with the founding
period.
- New York State Historical Association. Search the Library's online catalog to discover our holdings in art and architectural history, museum studies, and New York State history.
- A Guide to New York State Historical Resources. For inquisitive residents of any state.
- George Mason University's History
Matters has information, documents and additional
links about history.
- Masters in History: Top Online Masters in History and Humanities Degrees
- An interesting link for American
History teachers in Great Britain.
- The National
Constitution Center opened its doors on July 4, 2003. It is
surely worth a visit, virtual or actual.
- The Heritage
Foundation is a conservative group in Washington with many
useful reference materials.
- The American
Labor Museum will take you to many site about the history of
American labor.
- The History Net is
another source of all kinds of information on history.
- For a history of the U.S. Space Program, along
with some beautiful graphics, visit the NASA home
page. Click on “Gallery” for some great photographs.
(Note: This is one of the most popular sites on the web and is often
busy.)
- The Ellis Island Museum This
is a wonderful site that allows you to hear authentic voices from
the past in short audio clips. You can also use the site to
begin research for information about your ancestors.
- The National Park
Service Home Page will guide you to many interesting historic
locations. The NPS is one of our national treasures whose dedicated
and knowledgeable rangers and other employees make a huge contribution
to our national heritage.
- Rutgers University Research Guides. Click on History for specific topic.
- A site known as Project
Vote Smart serves as an educational tool to help voters make
informed choices through the study of history and other means.
- The Library of
Congress is a rich and constantly growing resource containing
collections of images, documents and other historic memorabilia.
- The Historical
Text Archive formerly at Mississippi State University, has
a new location with collections while you are there.
- The National Archives
and Records Administration home page contains information about
government records of all kinds, including presidential libraries,
biographies of the “founding fathers,” and so on. They
also offer information on doing genealogical research, for those
of you who may want to find out more about your ancestors.
- The Organization
of American Historians hosts a web site at the University of
Indiana. Its best features is a long list of links to other
history sites.
- “ArchivesUSA” has
access to holdings and contact information of more than 4,400 repositories
and indexes to nearly 100,000 special collections. It requires a
subscription, however.
- The Independence Hall
Association has much information about the American Revolutionary
era.
- The American
Studies Electronic Crossroads is located at Georgetown University.
- An interesting place to find materials is the Internet
Public Library. See especially the POTUS (Presidents
of the United States) section.
- The United States Civil War
Center
links to all Internet sites dealing with the war between the states.
- Inaugural address of the
Presidents can be found at the Bartleby Project at Columbia
University.
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Television
now has more history material on it than any one person can keep track
of. Here are a few links to get you started:
- The History
Channel carries its schedule on its home page. It presents
many fine history related programs, including commercial films,
series such as “Civil War Journal” and other shows
of historic interest, around the clock. This site also has Audio
Clips of Famous Speeches from Gandhi to President Reagan and
many figures in between.
- The Arts
and Entertainment Network carries many history related programs
such as “Biography” and other interesting documentaries.
- The Discovery
Channel also has much of historic interest. It in turn is linked
to other channels which may have more about history.
- C-SPAN,
in addition to carrying The Senate and House of Representatives live
whenever they are in session, also covers the current American political
scene (“Road to the White House,” etc.) and has many
additional offerings of historic interest, including “Booknotes” which
appears every Sunday night at 8:00. (“Booknotes” also
happens to be my personal favorite program. Almost every book that
Brian Lamb discusses with the author deals with a historic subject,
event or figure.)
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Early
American: To 1865 (See also General and Document Sections.)
- Archiving
Early America has original newspapers, maps & writings
from 18th century
- Visit
George Washington's Mount Vernon and
learn more about our first president.
- Thomas
Jefferson's Monticello can
teach us much about the great Virginian, how he lived and what he
thought about many things from education to democracy to religion,
and more. Look for Jefferson quotations on various topics.
- Visit
James Madison's Home in Orange, Virginia: Montpelier
- The Founding
Fathers Home Page is an excellent resource for information
on early America.
- The Saugus
Iron Works was the first major ironworks in North America.
- Here
is a page devoted to the Legacy
of James Madison at the University named for him.
- In the
Netherlands The
University of Groningen is developing a collection of documents
in American history which you might like to sample.
- To visit
the birthplace of American freedom go to Independence
Hall in Philadelphia.
- For
information on The United
States Supreme Court and past historic decisions try this site
at the Cornell University Law School.
- The Constitution
Society has a great deal of information about our founding
document and many related issues in addition to being a very attractive
and interesting page. (They also clearly have some opinions about
our government, which you are free to endorse or ignore!) The site
also has complete texts of the Constitution and Amendments for
download.
- Visit The
Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, site of the famous struggle the
led to the birth of the Republic of Texas. And while you're there,
go to the San Antonio home page and take a stroll along River Walk.
- An interesting
site recommended by student Donna Mason is Boston's
Freedom Trail, which includes a narrated tour of historic locations
around Boston.
- Visit
the Colonial Willamsburg web
site for a view of Virginia's colonial capital, and while you are
there, try the Historical
Almanack, which provides information on colonial America.
- This
site at Louisiana State University has manuscripts dealing with the American
Civil War.
- C-SPAN
has produced an excellent series on American
Presidents, with historical vignettes, documents, links to presidential
museums and libraries and video and audio clips about each president
from Washington through Clinton.
- A Treasury of Primary Documents has a collection of primary sources
from the early American period and before—many through links to
other sites. The site has a point of view which you will quickly
determine, and some links may be broken, but it is still useful.
Just scroll down to find what you want.
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Modern
American: From 1865. (See also General and Documents sections)
- This “Trenches
on the Web” site has interesting information on World
War I.
- The Eugene
Debs web site has information on the history of American Labor.
- After
you have seen the film “Island of Hope, Island of Dreams” in
class, you might like to visit the Ellis
Island Museum in New York. When you get there click around until
you find the oral history project. The audio links are fascinating--first
hand accounts from people who came through Ellis Island as immigrants.
(They take a long time to download, however, so late at night or
early morning is the best time to visit.)
- The Henry
Ford Greenfield Village site has much interesting history information.
- The Sloss
Furnaces site in Birmingham, Alabama, tells the story of the
South's leading industrial city.
- Visit
The Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
- Take
a trip to Theodore
Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill, his beloved Long Island home.
- The Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars has facts and links
about President Wilson.
- Look
here for information on the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Tennessee
Tech lists many sites that have documents on historical topics
and other issues relating to the Internet.
- The BBC has
a site on world War II from the British perspective.
- Here
is a “Hypertext
History” od the second World War.
- See
what is going on at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History.
- Here
is a link to the Vietnam
War Internet Project.
- For
information on the Vietnam War, check out a site maintained by Sandra
Wittman at Oakton Community College in Illinois. The page has
links to other interesting Vietnam sites. It also has a good bibliography
of books on Vietnam. the following. (Note: A great deal of material
on Vietnam can be found on the Web. Some is good, much is very personal,
some is not very useful. Let me know what you find.)
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Document
Collections
The links below will take you to collections
of documents in U.S. history from the colonial era to modern
times. Some of the documents your will find are excerpts, some
include extra material about the sources themselves. When
you use these sources in your essays, please indicate the place
where you found them, with the name of the location and URL (web
address.)
- The
Avalon Project at Yale University has a large number of Constitutional
history and many other documents, a superb collection. The site
is equipped with search engines to investigate document contents. For
example, a student can search the entire Federalist Papers section
topic by topic.
- Inaugural
address of the Presidents can be found at the Bartleby Project
at Columbia University.
- For
documents relating legal issues, including historic decisions of
the United States Supreme Court, go to the Cornell
University Law Center and locate near the top of the opening
menu “Supreme Court—historic decisions.” From
there follow directions to any of 350 cases, arranged by name of
case, justice, etc. Links also exist from there to many other constitutional
and legal information sites.
- Another
good site for legal issues is the Oklahoma
University Law School. Look under “U.S. Historical
Documents.”
- For
documents relating to the U.S.
Constitution, the Constitution Society site has various documents. It
also has a distinct point of view which you may find interesting.
- Historynet has
many links to history documents and other sites of all kinds.
- In
the Netherlands, The
University of Groningen is developing a collection of documents
in American history which you might like to sample. They
even have an American history text on line.
- Documents
relating to American political history may be found at Project
Vote Smart.
- The NVCC
Library Web Site has various links to history sites.
- View
additional documents the Carrie Project at The
University of Kansas. This collection is updated frequently.
- An
interesting place to find materials is the Internet
Public Library. See especially the POTUS (President of the
United States) section.
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