History

• 100 Milestone Documents
  Milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, and educational resources. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
  
  
• American Cultural History - 20th Century
  Decade by decade web guide comprised of mini-essays and links to help users gain a better understanding of United States culture.
  
  
• American Indian Movement (AIM) and Alcatraz
  This PBS site tells the story of AIM's occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. It includes many resources, such as links to the current AIM website.
  
  
• American Memory
  Rich collection of documents, photographs, recordings, and more devoted to American history and culture. The American Memory historical collections are a Library of Congress resource.
  
  
• Amistad America
  Includes a timeline of events, primary documents, and extensive review of the Amistad story.
  
  
• Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
  Provides a good introduction to U.S. women's suffrage movement under "Suffrage History."
  
  
• Battlefield Vietnam
  An overview of the Vietnam War by PBS that provides a brief history of the conflict, a detailed time line, information on Vietcong guerrilla tactics, a detailed look at the siege of Khe Sanh, as well as specifications of the aircraft deployed.
  
  
• Best Information on the Net - History
  Hundreds of History links. Maintained by the O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.
  
  
• Chronology of United States Historical Documents
  Key historical documents of the United States from the pre-Colonial era to the present presented in time line format.
  
  
• eHistory
  Offers articles, time lines, glossaries, and more in a variety of areas including ancient history, the Middle Ages, the US Civil War, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Middle East. This site is sponsored by Ohio State University.
  
  
• The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory
  Images, essays, and interactive panoramas of the city, before and after the fire. The "Web of Memory" pages present eyewitness accounts, media coverage, and the factual evidence behind the charge that Mrs. O'Leary's cow was to blame.
  
  
• HistoryEyewitness History - Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
  First hand accounts and vintage photos from the Wounded Knee incident.
  
  
• The History of Jim Crow
  Essays, personal narratives, lesson plans, photographs, historical images, and maps and geographical perspectives on segregation in the United States from the 1870s through the 1950s.
  
  
• Making of America
  Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  
  
• National Archives Exhibit Hall
  View documents and objects and hear audio from pivotal and notable events in American history. These include the full text of the Louisiana Purchase agreements, a police report on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 1868 treaty with the Sioux Indians recognizing the Black Hills of Dakota as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, reportage of the collision of the Titanic with an iceberg, President Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan, and the Declaration of
  Independence.
  
  
• National Archives and Records Administration
  NARA is intended to be America's national record keeper. Its mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. The Research Room's Archival Research Catalog includes a database of more than 124,000 digitized historical photographs, drawings, maps, charts, and textual documents many viewable online.
  
  
• National Women's History Museum Biographies
  The National Women's History Museum (NWHM), founded in 1996, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of women, and integrating this rich heritage fully into our nation's history.
  
  
• New Deal Network
  Database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period.
  
  
• Oyez - U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
  Abstracts of key constitutional cases, digital audio of oral arguments, supreme court justice biographies, a virtual tour of the Supreme Court Building, links to all the written opinions of the Court, and more.
  
  
• PBS - History
  Directory of companion sites to history programs from public television. History topics are indexed as follows: Ancient World, Biographies, United States, War & Espionage, and World History.
  
  
• Veterans History Project
  This site contains oral history interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, photographs, and other original materials from veterans of World Wars I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present). From the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
  Directory of Vietnam information. It provides annotated links to documents, articles, photographs, diaries and internet websites. Most of the information is about the Vietnam War, but there are also links to information about Vietnam today and Vietnamese in America.
  
  
• Virtual Books on African-American Slavery
  Collection of primary documents on the history of slavery in the United States.
   
• World War I Document Archive
  Collection of material relating to the Great War including official documents and treaties, diaries and memoirs, time lines, and photos.
  
  

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