National Atlas of the United States - National atlas.gov provides comprehensive, map-like views of the geo-spatial and geo-statistical data collected for the United States.
GENERAL U.S. HISTORY RESOURCES
American Memory from the Library of Congress - Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
C-SPAN Video Library - All C-SPAN programs recorded since 1987.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting: discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America (over 40,000 hours).
The History Faculty - Free video podcasts by professional historians on key historical periods and questions.
Macrohistory and World Report - Trends across the ages, empirical history with maps, book summaries, country profiles, and a timeline from 60,000 BCE to selected news items one or two days old.
Hear 21 hours of lectures & talks by Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States - Through Spotify - you will need to create an account or access yours
1,200 free online courses from top universities - Scroll down to the History Courses section
A new interactive visualization [...] shows how race and ethnicity categories have changed over time since the first census in 1790.
Social Studies Resources Network http://www.ssrn.com/en/
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
Chronology of US Historical Documents
Historical Statistics of the United States
U.S. Historical Census Data, 1790-1970
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Democracy
Foreign Relations of the United States
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
National Park Service Electronic Library
National Center for Education Statistics
Nonprofit Explorer - In April 2013, the IRS released structured data culled from the tax returns of almost 616,000 tax-exempt organizations. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download their tax filings going back as far as 2001.
Famous Trials by the UMKC School of Law
PRIMARY SOURCES
From the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, “Speaking and Protesting in America” presents a diverse range of public radio and television content including radio programs, local news, raw footage, and interviews that reveal the profound impact of the First Amendment on American life. Focusing on our right to speak, assemble, and petition, this exhibit explores the role of dissent in American life in its protected and unprotected expressions ranging from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience.
Speaking Out: LGBT Veterans - Part of Experiencing War, Stories from the Veterans History Project.
Chronicling America - Includes full image reproductions of the Evening World (1887-1931), the Sun (1833-1920), and the Tribune (1841-1924).
Making of America (Cornell University) - Collection of 267 books and 22 journals published primarily in the United States between 1840 and 1900. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Making of America (University of Michigan) - Collection of approximately 10,000 books and 13 journals published primarily in the United States between 1850 and 1877. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
American Memory - Collection of primary sources relating to the history and culture of the United States from the Library of Congress.
Digital National Security Archive - Declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Documents include presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material. Coverage: 1942 to present.
American Rhetoric - Collection of full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events. The site also includes sections devoted to rhetorical devices, Christian rhetoric, 9/11 rhetoric, movie speeches, and political speeches.
California Digital Newspaper Collection - from 1846 to the present. A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present.
Digital Public Library of America: Primary Source Sets
VeteransHistory Project - The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
"For the first time in one resource, IndependentVoices comprises selections from alternative press collections of respected academic institutions across the country. Independent Voices chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of an independent alternative press."
Gifts of Speech - Collection of speech texts by influential women from around the world.
In the First Person - Index of nearly 4,000 collections of English language letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives.
North American Slave Narratives
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/historicalnewspapersonline - Historical Newspapers Online collects links to historic U.S. newspapers fully accessible in digital archives, collections and libraries on the Web. Familiar resources include Chronicling America (Library of Congress) and Google News. This site is organized by state and contains some lesser-known newspaper titles. Coverage includes the late nineteenth and twentieth century.
http://mediahistoryproject.org/ - The history of American cinema, broadcasting and recorded sound can be found in trade magazines and other journals.
The Great Depression Interviews
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law - ask your teacher or Mrs. Prettol for the login information. It brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject. In total, the collection contains more than 1,000 titles and nearly 850,000 pages.
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I
“The Nation’s Forum recordings were made between 1918 and 1920 in an effort to preserve the voices of prominent Americans; in most cases, they are the only surviving recordings of a speaker.”
“The papers of Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), educator, U.S. representative from New York, vice president, and thirteenth president of the United States, contain approximately thirty-five items spanning the years 1839-1925, with the bulk dating from 1839 to 1870. The collection includes correspondence relating primarily to political issues such as slavery, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and congressional politics.”
“The papers of Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), army officer, representative and senator from New Hampshire, and fourteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 2,350 items dating from 1820 to 1869. They include correspondence, a photostatic copy of a diary kept by Pierce while serving in the Mexican War, drafts of Pierce’s messages to Congress, and an engraved portrait. Pierce’s correspondence relates chiefly to his service in the Mexican War, public affairs, and national politics.”
Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence
“The papers of Union soldier Samuel J. Gibson (1833-1878) consist of a diary kept by Gibson in 1864 while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and a letter to his wife while held as a prisoner at Camp Sumter in Georgia, the Confederate prisoner of war camp commonly known as Andersonville Prison.”
9/11 RESOURCES
1920'S RESOURCES
Alcohol, Temperance, & Prohibition
The Great Depression Interviews
EARLY AMERICAN RESOURCES
Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark
COLD WAR RESOURCES
Cold War International History Project
POST-REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA RESOURCES
From Revolution to Reconstruction
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
VIETNAM WAR RESOURCES
FOUNDERS AND PRESIDENTIAL RESOURCES
Franklin - Access to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library’s Digital Collections
I Do Solemnly Swear...: Presidential Inaugurations - 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. Includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.
Ben’sGuide to the U.S. Government - The educational website is named after one of our Nation’s most influential Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. The site is full of educational content on the workings of the U.S. Government and U.S. history.
CIVIL WAR RESOURCES
Civil War collection (Robin Stanford collection) at the Library of Congress
History Matters - Selective gateway to U.S. history web resources. Also includes first-person, primary documents and teaching resources. Searchable by keyword or topic.
Civil Rights Documentation Project
Documenting the American South
tor.devlin.ca Produced by today's foremost Civil War historians, this site contains a definitive list of over 325 topics that every student of the Civil War should study.
SLAVERY ERA RESOURCES
North American Slave Narratives
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
National Museum of African American History and Culture
http://lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/fpoc/ - Free People of Color in Louisiana is an NEH funded project that brings together disparate archival collections of personal and family papers, documenting the lives of people of African descent who were either born free or who escaped from slavery and lived freely in the United States, prior to 1865. The site is designed to facilitate easy access to the original catalog records and finding aids for the collections from their source libraries and archives, while presenting the digitized documents together on one searchable platform. The project represents an ambitious collaboration among its contributing institutions and will be of remarkable value to legal, cultural, social, and political historians and scholars of the U.S. and of the Atlantic World more broadly.
Documenting the American South
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law - ask your teacher or Mrs. Prettol for the login information. It brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject. In total, the collection contains more than 1,000 titles and nearly 850,000 pages.
WORLD WAR II RESOURCES
Historic Government Publications From World War II
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA RESOURCES
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES
Native American Constitutions and laws: http://thorpe.ou.edu/
Indian Country Today: Native American facts, Indian news and American Indian service, plus Native history, culture entertainment, sports, recipes, travel and more.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Umbra Search African American History is a free and openly available online search tool that facilitates broad access to over 400,000 digitized archival materials documenting African American history from more than 1,000 libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions across the United States. (launched by The University of Minnesota Libraries, in partnership with the Penumbra Theatre Company)
Unknown No Longer - This database is the latest step by the Virginia Historical Society to
increase access to its varied collections relating to Virginians of African descent. Since its founding in 1831, the VHS has collected unpublished manuscripts, a collection that now numbers more than 8 million processed items.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law - ask your teacher or Mrs. Prettol for the login information. It brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject. In total, the collection contains more than 1,000 titles and nearly 850,000 pages.
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
JAPANESE-AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study
JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
http://densho.org/densho.asp - Densho is a Japanese term meaning "to pass on to the next generation," or to leave a legacy. The legacy offered here is a history of incarceration during World War II. What began with capturing oral histories from Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII has become a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate, and inspire action for equity. The Archive contains more that 800 hours of interviews and visual histories as well as over 10,000 images documenting Japanese American history. The site also contains a timeline, links to other useful websites and recommended printed material. The Learning Center provides multidisciplinary lessons featuring firsthand accounts for upper elementary to undergraduate students.
http://internmentexperience.org/ : The California State Library has released an interactive tool that leads individuals through various scenarios faced by Japanese-American citizens and resident aliens of Japanese descent during World War II and the internment camps. This tool may be utilized by social-science and history instructors to encourage discussion and critical thinking about the subject. All scenarios have a basis in real events and are cited with links.
CHINESE-AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES
Inside The 150+ Year History Of Chinese People In America
There are now more than 4 million Chinese people living in the United States. Surprisingly, most of these immigrants came in the last few decades, starting in the '60s. Immigration laws, wars and social unrest were big factors in determining who got to leave China and when they ended up in the United States. In this video, we divide the history of Chinese immigration to the U.S. into four major periods, identifying the push and pull of forces in each country.
CALIFORNIA HISTORY RESOURCES
Calisphere - Your gateway to California’s remarkable digital collections.
OTHER U.S. STATES/AREAS RESOURCES
NorthernNew York Historical Newspapers - Complete contents and original layout of nineteen newspapers published from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
New York State Newspaper Project - Detailed inventory of newspaper collections held by libraries, museums, and other repositories in New York State.