• Africans in America - a production of WGBH Interactive for PBS Online.

 

• America's Story - brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., this site is designed especially with young people in mind.

 

• American and British History Resources - a research guide from Rutgers University Libraries.

 

• American Memory Project - primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States from the Library of Congress.

 

• American Women’s History: a Research Guide - provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use. From a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library.

 

• Douglass - Archives of American Public Address - an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University.

 

• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - a portal for American history on the Web.

 

• The United States History Index - from The Kansas Heritage Group located at the University of Kansas.

 

 

Historic Sites and Museums

 

• National Civil Rights Museum - located in the former Lorraine Motel, the museum chronicles the history of civil rights movements: 1600’s - present.

 

• Lewis And Clark Trail Heritage Foundation - National Lewis and Clark Bicenntenial Commemoration - a rich source of information on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

 

• Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site - from the U.S. National Park Service.

 

• Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson - Provided by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

 

• National Museum of American Jewish History - chronicles the American Jewish experience.

 

• National Park Service - explore people, places, objects and events from our nation's past.

 

• National Register of Historic Places - from the U.S. National Park Service.

 

• Oklahoma City National Memorial - A memorial to the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

 

• Plimouth Plantation - learn how the Pilgrims lived in 1627 and visit Mayflower II.

 

• Smithsonian Institution - connect to the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Musem of American History, and more!

 

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history.

 

 

Immigration

 

• Immigration History Research Center - at the University of Minnesota.

 

• U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services - find current information on immigration and naturalization.

 

 

Military History

 

• Air Force Historical Research Agency - link to U.S. Air Force historical reports, documents and photo albums.

 

• Center of Military History - designed to inform, educate and professionally develop soldiers and leaders in the U.S. Army.

 

• Frontline: The Gulf War - an in depth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf Crisis from the Public Broadcasting Service.

 

• Naval Historical Center - the official history program of the Department of the Navy, this site provides access to a museum, art gallery, research library and archives.

 

• Naval Traditions, Customs & Etiquette - nautical trivia from the Los Angeles Naval & Marine Corps Reserve Center.

 

• Spanish-American War - resources and documents from the Library of Congress.

 

Civil War

 

• Civil War - part of the Internet Public Library History Page.

 

• United States Civil War Center - a department of the Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections Division.

 

• Civil War Maps - from the Library of Congress.

 

• Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction - supplied by the Rutgers University Libraries.

 

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - a computerized database containing facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War.

 

• Civil War Women - On-line archival collection at Duke University.

 

• Civil War Years - Historic New York Times - part of the Historical New York Times Project - read scanned copies of original articles.

 

• Selected Civil War Photographs - part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.

 

 

Military Branches

 

• U.S. Air Force
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Coast Guard
• U. S. Marine Corps
• U. S. Navy

 

Vietnam

 

• Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975 - This site was developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College.

 

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial - the official site for the memorial in Washington, D.C., from the National Park Service.

 

 

Presidents

 

• American Presidents Life Portraits - A site to complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary television series, American Presidents: Life Portraits. Provides links to Presidential libraries and historic sites.

 

• Presidential Libraries

 

• I Do Solemnly Swear...: Presidential Inaugurations - a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files from each of the 54 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. From the Library of Congress.

 

• Internet Public Library POTUS - Presidents of the United States - anything that you might want to know about the individual Presidents.

 

• Jefferson Digital Archive - from the University of Virginia Library.

 

• The Papers of George Washington - from the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.

 

• Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery - images of and information about the Presidential portraits at the Smithsonian Institution.