National History Day
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Below is a list of links designed to help students with their NHD project. Note that NHD does not maintain or necessarily endorse any of these sites, and is not responsible for their content.
American Jewish Historical Society
Center for History & New Media
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
National Archives and Records Administration
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Women's History Project
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Organization of American Historians
Society for American Baseball Research
Society for History in the Federal GovernmentSociety for Industrial Archeology
Society for the History of Technology
Society of American Archivists
Southern Historical Association
White House Historical Association
American Numismatic Association - Money Museum
British National Museum of Science & Industry
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Library of Congress Exhibitions
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of Naval Aviation
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Women's History Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Patent and Trademark Museum
Virtual Museum (UK National Archives)
American Library Association (ALA)
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
Bainbridge Island Historical Society
History, Genealogy, and Archives: Databases and E-Resources
The International Federation of Film Archives
Internet Public Library: History
Librarians' Internet Index: History
NARA Archival Research Catalog
NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions
National Anthropological Archives
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
United States Historical Societies Directory
World Wide Web Virtual Library
American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Cornell Making of America Digital Library
Documents for the Study of American History
Duke University-Special Collections
Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: The United States
Primary Sources Research Colloquium
Turning Points In American History: The American Founding and Reconstruction
American Civil WarFrom Revolution to ReconstructionSecession Era Editorials Project
Africans in AmericaDocumenting the American South
Dred Scott Digital ArchiveFreedmen and Southern Society Project
Freedom's JournalRace and Place: African American Community Histories
Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony
American Native Press ArchivesKappler's Indian Affairs, Laws, and TreatiesNational Archives Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
National Archives Records of the Indian Claims Commission
Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project
Air Force Historical Research AgencyU.S. Army Center of Military History
U.S. Army Military History Institute
Colonial Williamsburg History Explorer
Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Central Intelligence Agency - Electronic Document Release Center
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Reading Room
Foreign Relations of the United States
Oyez: Supreme Court Multimedia Database
Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy
United States Historical Census Data Browser
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives
THOMAS -- Legislative Information from the U.S. Congress on the Internet
White House Historical Association
American Family Immigration History Center
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
Immigrating to The United States in the Modern Era
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Women's Studies: Women in the Jewish Community
Worcester Women's History Project
Western US History
America, Russia, and the Meeting of Frontiers
Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
WestWeb: Western History Resource
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945
American Environmental Photographs
Beinecke -- Exhibitions -- The Illustrating Traveler
British Columbia Historical Photographs Online
Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian
Egypt and the Sudan: 1905-1907 Breasted Expedition: A Photographic Study
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
The Gallery of the Open Frontier
Great Images in NASA Library (GRIN)
Historic American Buildings Survey/Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
History of Costume by Braun & Scheider
Internet Archive Movie Collection
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (1860-1899)
Library of Congress Manuscripts
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Virginia Online Photograph Collections
Maryland Historical Society Digitized Photograph Collections
Maryland Historical Society Photographs on Tumblr
Mexico from Empire to Revolution
National Library of Australia Documentary Image Collection
New Deal Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
Northeast Historic Film: Film and Videotape of Northern New England
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Panoramic Photographs Collection
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
SouthEast Asian Images & Texts Project
Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives
United States Holocaust Museum Research Collections Photographs
Western History Photograph Collection
World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection, 1894-1896
World War II Poster Collection
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
Digital Maps from the University of Berkeley
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
Map History / History of Cartography
Military Maps from the US Military Academy
OSSHE Historic & Cultural Atlas Information Page
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
Civil War Sheet Music from the Stern Collection
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Shanties and Sailor Songs / Shantys und Seemannslieder
Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Genres