800 years ago the lower Mississippi Delta was home to some of the most highly organized civilizations in the world. There were roads, commerce, and metropolises anchored by awe-inspiring earthen monuments. This National Park Service “virtual tour” allows users to explore the lives of the moundbuilders of the Eastern Woodlands.

This site provides a variety of articles about life in Cahokia, a remarkable urban center that had 20,000-25,000 inhabitants during the

Histories, currently of 49 tribes, which provide extensive information about the culture, social organization, language, and histories of Native Americans.

This interactive instructional module compares and contrasts Native American and European religions in order to study how they interacted in early America.

A companion site to the PBS television documentary “Africans in America,” which explores the history of the Atlantic slave trade and the origins of American slavery during the period 1450-1750. The Narrative describes the history of the period; the Resource Bank provides annotated images, documents, biographies, and commentaries by historians; and a Teacher's Guide helps instructors integrate the materials into their classroom.

This Library of Congress exhibit looks at the religious persecution in Europe that drove so many to the shores of British North America where these new settlers established colonies often centered on passionate religious convictions;

This site, created by the Association for the Preservation of Virginian Antiquities, provides a brief history of Jamestown, a list of early settlers, and a timeline of events leading up to the settlement of Jamestown.

The Digital Library Program has digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids.

Historian Patricia U. Bonomi examines the factors that contributed to religious tolerance in the Middle Colonies.

This site contains a history of the Mayflower, representations of the ship, documents related to the ship’s voyage, and information about the passengers’ wills. It also discusses such topics as the lives of women and girls in Plymouth, the “first” Thanksgiving, crime and punishment of crime in the colony, and the life of Tisquantum (Squanto).

This site tells the story of Plymouth Colony from 1620 to 1692. 17th-century Wampanoag Clothing describes and illustrates the clothing worn by the Native Wampanoag in the 17th century. Pilgrim Clothing illustrates the clothing worn by the Pilgrims. Emigration of the Pilgrims tells the story of the Pilgrims, including life in England, their flight into and life in Holland and their emigration to the "New World." The Rising Generation: Children in Plymouth Colony explores childhood in 17th-century New England.

Historian Christine Leigh Heryman offers a concise history of the Puritians and what they believed.

This essay assesses a variety of perspectives on the single most intensively studied event in colonial North American history.

A multimedia introduction to events in Salem in 1692 created by the National Geographic.

This site include transcripts of trial records and examinations of six accused witches; arrest warrant of two witches (image and text); petitions of two convicted witches awaiting execution; petitions for compensation, and a decision concerning compensation; and two letters of Gov. William Phips on the execution of justice in Salem.

The section Meet the People allows user learn about their struggles and triumphs of early Virginians. In Experience Colonial Life, users explore the trades, politics, and other aspects of 18th-century living. In See the Places, users learn about their history as they tour colonial Virginia. The Colonial Dateline highlights events from 1750-1783. A Historical Glossary identifies important terms, events, and individuals in colonial history. Also available is a biographical study of Captain John Smith that separates the man from myth.

Handouts for teachers, created by the National Park Service, deal with such subjects as John Smith, Pocahontas, comparing Jamestown and Plymouth, the role of women at Jamestown, work, and Bacon’s Rebellion.

The First Great Awakening explores the causes of this powerful surge of religious zeal; Religious Pluralism in the Middle Colonies examines the factors that contributed to religious tolerance in this region; The Church of England examines the history of this religious group in the colonies; Religion, Women, and the Family examines how religion shaped the way people related to their spouses and raised their children; and Religion and the American Revolution analyzes the role of religion in the coming of the Revolution.

This Website allows users to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. Focusing on the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife and healer, as revealed in her diary, the site teaches students to interpret fragments that survive from a period of history The site offers two in-depth, interactive examples of how to do history: Doing History: One Rape. Two Stories. and Martha and a Man-Midwife. It also provides material on: Genealogy, How to Use Primary Sources, Midwifery and Herbal Medicine, Teaching with this Web site, Diaries, Films about the Past.

This Library of Congress exhibit challenges the view that religious zeal was declining during the eighteenth century.

This site contains succinct essays on Education for Boys and Girls, Music and Dance, Indentured Servants and Transported Convicts, Slavery, Medicine and Health, and Leisure Time and Games.

This site, created by the Notre Dame University’s Special Collections, examines the value of money in the American colonies.

A site, created by PBS Online to supplement the television documentary “Africans in America,” which explores the impact of the revolutionary era on the lives of African Americans. It examines the African American role in the war and the meaning of the Constitution for slavery. The Narrative describes the history of the period; the Resource Bank Contents, which provides annotated images, documents, biographies, and commentaries by historians; and a Teacher's Guide, to help instructors integrate the materials into their classroom.

This site offers lyrics and sound clips from songs of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras.

presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities.

This Library of Congress site illustrates the contribution of religious leaders and religious ideas to the coming of the War of independence.

The Clement Library at the University of Michigan presents Letters, Stories, Methods, People, Routes, and a Timeline.

Handouts for teachers, created by the National Park Service, on the siege of Yorktown.

An extensive collection of primary source documents dealing with the Revolutionary Era placed online by the Avalon Project of the Yale Law School.

This Library of Congress site contains 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.

An on-line version of the Federalist Papers, the essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison to rally support for the ratification of the Constitution.

Information on Franklin’s life, his family life, and his place in the history of science, created by the Franklin Institute.

This site contains an online tour of Mount Vernon, a lesson plan about George Washington’s life, and a online exhibit about George Washington and slavery.

A leading authority on George Washington examines his place in the controversy over slavery.

A documentary survey of the life of Benjamin Franklin, maintained by J.A. Leo Lemay, Professor of Colonial American Literature at University of Delaware. The site contains a year-by-year chronology of Franklin’s life, as well as a searchable database of Franklin’s collected writings.

This site examines Hamilton’s background, his experience during the revolutionary war, his political battles, and changes in his image over time.

Seven generations of oral histories of the descendants of Monticello’s slaves.

This set of links provides easy access to Jefferson’s writings on the World Wide Web.

The companion site to the PBS Frontline program covering the controversy regarding Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with Sally Hemings, his slave, contains clips from the television show, as well as scientific and historical evidence surrounding the story.

This site provides information about Jefferson’s home and the people who worked on his plantation.

This Website, a supplement to the Public Broadcasting Service series on Jefferson, contains transcripts of interviews with scholars evaluating Jefferson’s life and ideas as well as lesson plans designed to help students analyze Enlightenment ideas in the classroom.

Links to biographical resources, writings, time lines, and interpretations by historians available on the World Wide Web.

This Library of Congress exhibit includes: Religion and the Congress of the Confederation, which examines the policies of America’s first national government toward religion; Religion and the State Governments, which illuminates the policies of the revolutionary state governments toward religion, ranging from disestablishment in Virginia to multiple establishments in New England states; Religion and the Federal Government, which focuses on the status of religion in the new federal government; and Republican Religion which traces the fortunes of religion

A July 1873 article from The Atlantic by historian James Parton.

This C-Span site contains extensive information about Tocqueville's visit to the United States and his observations about democracy.

Documents, speeches, and images from the Massachusetts Senator’s alma mater, Dartmouth College.

Primary sources on religion, transportation, communication, education, slavery and antislavery, manners, violence, and many other topics.

A detailed timeline connected to primary source documents dealing with the Jacksonian Era.

The Seminole Indians of Florida present their own history, including the story of Seminole resistance to the removal policy.

This site identifies the key people, terms, events, and consequences of the removal of the Cherokees from Western Georgia.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina examines the fusion of African and Christian religious beliefs and practices.

Despite formidable odds, many enslaved African American ran away from slavery. Leon Litwack, the Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California at Berkeley, assesses the frequency of flight from slavery, the forms that this took, and the motives that precipitated flight.

Paul Finkelman, a leading legal authority on slavery, looks at how lawyers and jurists were able to reconcile slavery with the nation’s commitment to liberty and equality.

An impressive “multimedia textbook” created by a high school advanced placement class that covers such topics as resistance, antislavery, interpretations of slavery, supplemented with primary sources.

An 1861 account of Denmark Vesey’s attempted insurrection by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, published in The Atlantic. Also see “Denmark Vesey: Forgotten Hero,” http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/vesey.htm.

This National Park Service site provides a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves.

The slave letters from the Duke University Library’s Special Collections provide a rare firsthand glimpse into the lives of slaves and the relationships they had with their owners.

This site, a supplement to the PBS series, covers the years 1831-1865, and provides primary source documents and commentary from leading historians dealing with such topics as the the material conditions of slave life, the impact of slavery on the family, abolition, the Fugitive Slave Law, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, and wartime emancipation.

This site contains over 500 primary documents including court documents, journal entries, and newspaper stories dealing with the Amistad Affair, which began as a shipboard revolt off the coast of Cuba and resulted in a protracted legal battle over slavery and the slave trade.

An interpretation of the slave narratives by William L. Andrews, a leading authority on the subject.

This site include all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920.

This site uses documents from the Duke University Library’s special collections to document the slave trade, slave labor, the impact of the Revolution on slavery, the nature of life in the slave community, and slavery’s collapse.

An up-to-date review of the literature of American slavery.

First person accounts, essays on the slave system, slave life, key events, and biographies of abolitionists.

This Library of Congress exhibit includes antislavery petitions, songs, children’s magazines, and other original sources documenting the struggle to abolish slavery.

An online exhibit created by the National Park Service featuring documents and artifacts at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C.

This Library of Congress online exhibit includes primary sources that document the history of the movement to transport free blacks to Africa.

This site describes the shifting roles and perceptions of women in the decades before the Civil War.

This site provides information about the first women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, as well as women’s struggle for the vote.

This site examines women’s legal rights in the areas as divorce, abortion, and crime.

Speeches, letters, and other primary source documents relating to the first national women’s rights convention in Worcester, Mass., in 1850.

A high school curriculum, including activities, on the Irish famine.

A historical overview of Irish famine, supplemented with a bibliography.

This site contains primary sources documenting the history of the famine combined with stories, songs, and assessment of conflicting historical interpretations.

This site includes photographs and reporting and commentaries by Irish, English, and American observers.

The famine museum uses a combination of original documents and images from the Strokestown collection to explain the circumstances of the Irish Famine.

This site contains contemporary newspaper illustrations and articles about the Irish famine of 1845-1851 and includes early 100 engravings from the Illustrated London News, the Pictorial Times, and Punch.

Documents and articles on diverse life in Indiana and the United States before the Civil War, including women’s lives, clothing medicine and disease, food, transportation, and religion. Conner Prairie is a living history museum in Fishers, Indiana.

This site provide information about everyday life in New England during the early 19th century. Old Sturbridge Visitor articles is a searchable archive of articles from the Village's quarterly magazine. Mills and Waterpower provides animations and narrations to help explain how waterpower works. Children Everywhere explores the lives of children during the early 19th century. In Ask Jack, Old Sturbridge Village historian Jack Larkin answers questions aboout America's past. Tour of the Village offers an online tour of the Village complete with pictures, sounds, and panoramic views.

A virtual tour of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1830.

A daily log of the Donner Party's journey, including diary entries for each day, and quotes from original sources and histories.

This site contains a primer on the history of the Oregon trail; an Oregon Trail chronology, a Timeline of black history in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest; a discussion of Slavery in the Oregon Country and an explanation of the exclusion laws ; and biographical sketches of black pioneers and settlers in the Northwest

Links to documents, images, chronologies, and articles related to the California Gold Rush created by the Museum of the City of San Francisco.

This site contains a selection of 65,000, historic photographs from the collections of the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department and the Colorado Historical Society, including images Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns. Notable collections depict Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the Clarence Moreledge photographs at Wounded Knee, and the Charles S. Lillybridge collection which depicts daily life in Denver around the turn of the century. Click here to see a list of photographers and subjects.

The companion site to the PBS series contains a time line, journals from the expedition, historians reflections on the expedition, information on the Indian peoples that the expedition encountered, and lesson plans and activities.

An on-line Research Center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, and mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders, it contains diaries, letters, narratives, business records, maps, images, and art works relating to the Mountain Men during the years 1800-1850.

Companion site to the television documentary, The West. This site includes: Events in THE WEST, an interactive timeline tracing events from pre-Columbian times to the early twentieth century; Places inTHE WEST, an interactive map covering the territory and the times; People in THE WEST, an interactive biographical dictionary of historical figures; and Archives of THE WEST, documentary materials including memoirs, journals, letters, photos and transcripts

Books, diaries, autobiographies, and letters documenting the struggle over slavery in territorial Kansas.

The companion site to PBS’s American Experience broadcast contains a timeline, maps, glossary, and historical overviews on a variety of topics related to John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.

The full text of the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and other important antebellum political documents.

The 16th President’s speeches, writings, and images.

This Library of Congress site provides a variety of visual images to document the assassination of the nation’s 16th President.

This site profiles six family members, 16 Cabinet officers and Vice Presidents, 21 Generals, 17 members of Congress, 18 staff members, and over two dozen other visitors.

This site traces the development of racial caricature in American political cartoons during the mid-19th century.

Articles from The Atlantic magazine from the 1860s onward dealing with Lincoln’s public speeches.

A chronology listing important events in the history of emancipation during the Civil War.

An interactive, illustrated time line of the major political, military, and social events that occurred during the Civil War.

Newspaper articles from August 1862 to May 1865 that record the African American experience during the Civil War.

Articles, illustrations, and cartoons from Harper’s Weekly dealing with slavery and emancipation from the late 1850s into Reconstruction.

A succinct summary of the war’s causes; the two sides’ goals, strengths, weaknesses, and strategies; and the major battles.

Classroom activities, focusing on women’s experience during the Civil War, appropriate for students of a variety of ages and ability levels that draw upon resources available on the World Wide Web and upon primary source documents.

Lesson plans and resources that allow teachers and students to study: Economic Differences Between The North and South; Sectionalism and Literature; Socioeconomic to Political Differences; Sectionalism Resulting in a Breakdown of Law and Order; Significance of the Election of 1860; Lincoln's Decision to Go to War; The Trial of Robert E. Lee; and Changing Confederate Attitudes, From the Female Perspective.

This is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War; a list of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies; identifications and descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war;

The Duke University Library has made Civil War era diaries available online, which bring women’s wartime experience to life.

This National Archives site uses original documents to describe the struggles of black soldiers to defeat slavery and to win equal rights within the Union Army.

Letters from soldiers on both sides of the Civil War describe specific battles.

A collection of songs and poems from supporters of the Union and the Confederacy.

This collection of over a thousand photographs from the Library of Congress includes military personnel, preparations for battle, battle after-effects, portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, politicians, cultural figures, and a selection of enlisted men.

A collection of official documents, private correspondence, and pamphlets that focuses on Confederate life behind the battlelines.

This Library of Congress exhibit describes African American migrations out of the South, focusing on the Kansas Exodusters, western homesteading, and migration to Chicago.

A searchable collection of 300 pamphlets by African Americans mainly focusing on the period 1875 to 1900.

This collection of letters from Emma Bryant to her husband John, who worked for the Freedmen’s Bureau during the summer of 1873, shed light on marital relationships during the mid-19th century and on the problems of Reconstruction.

This site features more than 200 excerpts from Harper’s Weekly’s coverage of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, supplemented by political cartoons and biographies and portraits of 28 major figures from the trial. The site also contains explanatory material on: Reconstruction Policy: Radicalism versus Conservatism, Future Control of Congress, The Tenure of Office Act, Personal Considerations Affecting the Vote to Impeach, and the legal, political and Constitutional arguments, used in the impeachment trial.

Articles, illustrations, and cartoons from Harper’s Weekly dealing with slavery and emancipation from the late 1850s into Reconstruction.

A 1925 article on the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad plus links to other primary sources on its construction.

This National Park Service site examines the events that took place Nov. 29, 1864, when approximately 700 volunteer soldiers attacked 500 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians along Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory.

Biographical sketches of Kansas lawmen and gunfighters.

A collection of essays, novels, genres, and non-fiction writings widely read between 1866 and 1901.

Essays, documents, photographs and illustrations about the Great Chicago Fire and the way it transformed the city of Chicago created by the Chicago Historical Society.

An interpretive archive, drawn largely from the collections of the University of Virginia Library, focusing on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. It contains texts, manuscripts, contemporary reviews and articles, images, and interactive exhibits.

Collections of documents and other instructional materials on: The Appeal of Female Moral Reform, 1835-1841; Lucretia Mott's Reform Networks, 1840-1860; Bible Communism and Women of the Oneida Community, 1848-1879; Women and the Freedmen's Aid Movement, 1863-1870; Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1878-1917; African-American Women and the Chicago World's Fair, 1893; Illinois Factory Inspection, 1893-1897; Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woman Suffrage, 1900-1915; Local Branches of the American Association of University Women, 1900-1940; Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910; Women and the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912; Women's Peace Mission to European Capitals, 1915; Impact of Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett on the Birth Control Movement, 1915-1924; Lobbying for Passage of the National Suffrage Amendment, 1917-1920; Middle-Class Women Provide Maternity Health Services for Immigrant Women, 1917-1920; National Woman's Party and the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924; Women Suffragists and Partisan Politics, New York, 1920; Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Right-Wing Attacks, 1923-1931.

The American Federation of Labor’s account of the history of labor.

An extensive site about American imperialism and anti-imperialism at the turn of the century that includes essays, political cartoons, maps, photographs, and primary source documents.

This site contains includes historical texts, essays, photographs, political cartoons, and other illustrations documenting the Philippine Revolution, the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War.

This site portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's collections. It highlights the land and its resources, relations with Spain, the competition among political parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the Spanish-American War. Most materials in this collection are in Spanish.

The site contains Spanish American War Chronology, Action Reports and First Hand Accounts, information about the The US Navy and The Spanish Navy, Weapons Profiles, Personal Profiles, Unit Profiles, Rosters & Photos, information about War in Cuba, War in the Philippines, War in Puerto Rico, The War in Hawaii and Guam, Medicine in the War, The Home Front, Journalism and the War, and Music of the War.

Analyses of Rudyard Kipling’s essay.

This site contains oral histories, photographs, political cartoons, and other primary source materials dealing with1911 factory fire.

An Ellis Island time line, and online exhibits on immigration.

An illustrated history of Coney Island. Created by Jeffrey Stanton, who is currently writing a history of Coney Island, the site contains photographs, illustrations, advertisements, and a narrative describing the several parks that made up this urban amusement center.

Articles from the National Geographic magazine on the sinking of the Titanic and efforts to photograph the wreckage.

The site includes the scripts of Yiddish and English plays, theater playbills and programs, motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and career of Harry Houdini.

This site includes a chronology of events leading up to women’s right to vote.

An archive of books, pamphlets, and papers from the National American Women Suffrage Association from 1848 to 1921. This exhibit from the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress contains 167 documents from the NAWSA collection. It can be searched by subject or author and also contains a detailed timeline.

A collection of 38 pictures and portraits from the women’s suffrage movement. An American Memory exhibit from the Library of Congress, the collection can be accessed through a keyword search or the name and subject index. The collection includes photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display; cartoons commenting on the movement; and portraits of women active in the movement.

This site contains a collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides describing life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

8,000 photographs documented the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s.

104 films spanning from the Spanish-American War in 1898 through Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

This online exhibit includes images from the national Portrait Gallery and biographical commentary.

The photographs include Hine’s original captions.

Newspaper accounts, personal stories, official documents, images, a time line, and a narrative history describe the stories of the more than 5000 children placed in Kansas homes between 1867 and 1930.

A searchable database of sources related to the conservation movement from 1850 to 1920. Part of the Library of Congress American Memory collection, the site contains a timeline of major events and developments, as well as a searchable archive of books, pamphlets, state papers, illustrations, and photographs.

This site contains instructions for historical and genealogical research using INS records. It will also be the future home of information and resources designed for the use of primary and secondary school teachers. Historical Research Tools, including legislative history, nationality interpretations, and information on family history research, Read or print an Overview of INS History, and browse other historical articles. Immigrant Arrival Records (about the records and research tools). See especially the catalog Ports of Entry & their Records. What immigration records were created when, and where, since 1892. Naturalization Records (what they are, about INS copies since 1906 ). Chinese Immigrant Files (Catalogs of holdings in Regional Archives and in Washington, DC). Kids, teachers, and parents will want to visit the Kids' Corner and Teacher Resources. This month in Immigration History takes a closer look at important or interesting events in immigration history.

This companion site to the PBS and BBC series contains interviews, time lines, maps, and images.

This Library of Congress site uses documents and images from its collections to describe the Great Migration from the South to Chicago.

A hypertext analysis of the play Inherit the Wind that provides background information on the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial.

59 one to five minute sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the presidential election of 1920.

This site contains documents, biographies, posters, maps, time lines, statistics, and photographs.

The site contains images, timelines for each year of the decade, brief descriptions of people and trends.

This site documents the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy and the role of government in this transition.

The site contains documents by year, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences, a WWI Biographical Dictionary, a WWI Image Archive, Special Topics and Commentaries, The Maritime War, The Medical Front, and Conventions, Treaties, & Official Papers.

The March 1925 edition of Survey Graphic magazine helped bring the work of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance to national attention.

A project developed at Ohio State University, it explores why the U.S. adopted prohibition; traces the growth of the brewing industry; examines the Woman’s Crusade of 1873 and 1874; analyzes the development of the Anti-Saloon League; and contains cartoons from the Prohibition party, images of old-time saloons, and arguments for and against prohibition.

This site views the 1930s through the lenses of its films, radio programs, literature, journalism, museums, exhibitions, architecture, art, and other forms of cultural expression.

Official documents, including treaties, military directives, policy statements, and records of wartime conferences.

A lesson plan built around documents from the National Archives relating to Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

An activity in which students compare today’s prices of common products with those during the Depression.

A collection of materials from the Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in California. Maintained by the Library of Congress, the site includes migrant workers’ songs, correspondence, photographs, and explanatory text. It is searchable by keyword or medium.

Library of Congress mini-exhibit on a book produced by the Illinois Writers' Project of the WPA, the Cavalcade of the American Negro, a sweeping history of black contributions to all phases of American life from 1865 to 1940.

The lyrics of the ballads of folksinger Woody Guthrie.

An archive of editorial cartoons dealing with Franklin Roosevelt and his administration.

Thirteen addresses by Franklin Roosevelt on Social Security.

This site, which contains an overview of the history of the Social Security system, also includes Francis Townsend’s proposal for old age pensions and writings by Roosevelt’s critics Father Charles Coughlin and Huey Long.

An online exhibition that uses of texts and images from the National Archives to examine New Deal era federal art programs, the art works that were created, and the controversies they provoked.

A searchable collection of more than 55,000 photographs that document the impact of the Depression and World War II on rural life.

A curriculum guide to help students interpret photographs depicting New York City during the 1930s.

An extensive collection of primary sources including diplomatic documents, the Pearl Harbor attack hearings, documents relating to military intelligence, and Roosevelt’s speeches.

This archive includes articles on the Tuskegee Airmen and the African American troops during the war.

An online exhibit featuring 33 posters and one sound file examines the way that the government mobilized the public for war.

Interviews in which men and women describe their wartime experience.

This site examines the experiences of wartime women journalists.

This site contains Biographical Essays, Chronology, Photos, and Annotated Bibliographies.

A Japanese site that contains information on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagisaki, which includes photographs and oral histories.

Documents on the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagisaki.

Footage of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

A historyof the Interstate Highway System during the 1950s that includes subsections on government policy, billboards, motels, diners, Levittown, and gas stations.

This project includes photographs made by residents and visitors since the late '40s, written reminiscences and texts, and essays, but only a portion of the material is currently available on the Internet.

Extensive primary and secondary source readings on such aspect of life and culture in Cold War America as art, foreign policy, gender, jazz, the movies, and rock ‘n’ roll, as well as biographical material on major and minor figures of the era.

A searchable collection of images and documents from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, this site contains personal letters, speeches, photographs, political cartoons, and official documents relating to The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb the recognition of Israel, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the desegregation of the Armed Forces, the 1948 Campaign, the Berlin Airlift, NATO, and the Korean War.

CNN's documentary series Web site contains archival footage; biographies, maps, recently declassified documents, and classroom guides.

Documents and translations from the Soviet Archives reveals the inner workings of the Soviet system and Soviet-U.S. relations during the Cold War.

This online Library of Congress exhibit provides primary sources, a time line and map, and various assessments, pro- and con-, of the Marshall Plan, on its fiftieth anniversary.

The archives publishes declassified foreign policy documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, including material on Cuba, Guatemala, Iran, and the Soviet Union.

Excerpts from 49 declassified Soviet cables dealing with accusations of atomic spying and the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

This online exhibit describes the color line that segregated baseball for many years, the Negro Leagues, and Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson--two men who played key roles in integrating the sport--and Robinson's career as a Dodger and his civil rights activities.

A virtual tour of the churches, schools, and other historic sites that played pivotal roles in the Civil Rights struggle, created by the National Park Service.

This site contains a civil rights time-line, commentary by King’s contemporaries, photographs, and an assessment of King’s legacy.

Transcripts of 15 oral histories relating to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

Fourteen University of Michigan students traveled 2,525 miles, visiting Civil Rights sites in Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma.

An online exhibit focusing on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

A searchable collection of documents dealing with the women’s movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s focusing on such topics as women’s roles, work, organizations, music, and medical and reproductive rights.

This collection contains speeches, leaflets, interviews, memoirs, and audio clips examining the history and legacy of the Free Speech Movement.

Speeches, sound files, official documents, photographs, records from the presidency of John F. Kennedy,supplemented with collections of information about the 1960 presidential debates, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, the space program, and President Kennedy’s assassation.

A collection of Lyndon Johnson’s speeches and secretly recorded conversations.

This site contains documents relating to the radical movementsof the 1960s plus several online exhibits dealing with such topics as public protest and sixties buttons.

Photographs, quotations, and other materials that place the space race in the context of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.

A collection of documents relating to U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the United States from 1941 to the fall of Saigon.

Photographs from Vietnam taken between 1970 and 1975 by Neal Ulevich, an Associated Press photographer.

A history of the Watergate Affair that contains an extensive collection of primary sources, sound files, speeches, and other documentary materials.

This CNN-Time Magazine site contains Time’s coverage of the Watergate affair, a Watergate glossary, political cartoons, and streaming video.

This 1997 Washington Post supplement, marking the 25th anniversary of the Watergate burglary, contains a chronology, description of the key figures involved in the affair, and discussion of the reforms that grew out of the investigation.

A companion site to the PBS documentary, the site contains oral histories, sound files, maps, a chronology, interviews with decision-maker, and a section on weapons and technology.

This site reproduces three Time Magazine “Man of the Year” articles: a 1980 article discussing Ronald Reagan's appeal on the eve of his presidency; a 1983 article on Reagan and the new Soviet leader Yuri Andropov; and a 1987 article examining Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (economic liberalization).

The PBS NewsHour site contains a sources relating to the impeachment and acquittal of President Bill Clinton, supplemented with guide to impeachment and a history of impeachment.

7000 ads from 1911-55 dealing with radio, television, beauty and hygiene, transportation, and World War II.

The complete Encyclopedia Britannica online.

A searchable database of images of portraits, maps, and events.

Images that document America’s built environment from the 17th through the 20th centuries, including 350,000 images and 35,000 written histories of buildings, sites, and designs.

Links to image databases on the World Wide Web.

Historical images from Brooklyn College’s course on the development of modern world civilization since the Scientific Revolution.

Images from New York’s Schomburg Library.

An easily searchable index of images from U.S. political history.

A searchable collection of 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States.

This site explores the controversies that surround the U.S. Constitution during U.S. history: The Power of Judicial Review, Theories of Interpretation, The Incorporation Debate, Evolution/Creationism, Freedom (Not) to Associate, Right to Bear ArmsThe Death Penalty, Liberty of Contract?, The Right to an Abortion, Gay Rights, The Family & the Constitution, and Separate but Equal Education.

A collection of narratives on the South by southerners. Part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s “Documenting the American South” collection, the reminiscences span from the antebellum period to 1920. With the full texts online along with thumbnail images of the book’s illustrations, covers, and spines, the sources consist of autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries by a variety of Southerners from former slaves to Confederate soldiers to women at home.

Maps are available on early Indian peoples, European settlement, territorial growth, and military history.

800 maps spanning 500 years.

An on-line exhibit from the University of Toledo

Nearly 60,000 prints and photographs from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

The ballads of Mexico and of the Mexican borderlands.

Press Coverage of the Louisiana Purchase, The Southampton Slave Revolt, The Fall of the Alamo, The News of the Fall of the Alamo Gets Out, The Wright Brother's Flight

Over 1500 discussions of the technological innovations that reshaped the world and the people who created them.

A survey of the development of nuclear technology through the present.

An electronic archive of American oratory from Northwestern University.

A searchable archive of politically significant audio material.

This site contains court opinions, oral arguments, biographies of justices, a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building, and digital recordings of court proceedings.

The text of landmark Supreme Court decisions from 1947 to the present.

A site provides access to primary and secondary sources, including court cases, statutes, newspapers, diaries, and letters dealing with marriage and the law in the nineteenth century.

An extensive collection of links to online resources.

This site contains texts by women writers along with resolutions approved at early woman's rights conventions.

A virtual tour of 74 historic sites in Massachusetts and New York where women made outstanding contributions to the arts, education, government, and reform, created by the National Park Service.

Oral histories of seven major figures in the suffrage campaigns.

This site contains documents from the National Archives and teaching activities related to women’s struggle for the vote.

Accounts of 18 foreign travelers that describe the conditions of women's lives in the United States.

Biographies and essays dealing with women and work.

A collection of 2,900 documents from the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a WPA program which collected a series of American life histories during the depression. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. The documents, which are searchable by state and subject, include interview drafts and revisions and describe the informant’s family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations.

The history of the U.S. census and of how it is conducted.

Demographic, economic, and social data from the 1790 through the 1960 censuses.

Click on article index.

Crisis at Fort Sumter is an interactive historical simulation and decision making program created by Professor Richard Latner of Tulane University. Using text, images, and sound, it reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861. The program primarily focuses on Lincoln, both as President-elect and as President. Users place themselves in Lincoln's position and choose a course of action at five critical junctures.

This National Archives site uses primary source documents from its collections as the basis of interactive exercises on Jackie Robinson; Constitution Day; Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers; Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art of World War II; Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution; The Zimmerman Telegram.

Lesson plans and instructional modules from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Edsitement Web Site:

These resource guides are based on reporting in The New York Times.

Students can use these interactive research modules to deepen their understanding of key topics in American history as well as refine their research skills.

University of Wisconsin faculty have created Websites designed to teach history through the application of students’ problem solving skills. Virtual Curator: Gives students an idea of how a museum operates. Responses to Industry: First-hand accounts of industrialization from diverse perspectives. World Trading Centers: Mackinac Island and the Gold Coast History by the Numbers: Using quantitative methods to study history.

Select “The Eve of War” after you enter this Website, then click on “Reference Center” and follow the link to “Teaching Concepts for the Valley Project in the Classroom.” The lessons listed draw on the resource of The Valley of the Shadow to give students a firsthand sense of the Civil War era. Exercises include Women in the Civil War; Free Blacks in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania; German Born Residents of Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Irish-Born Residents of Augusta and Franklin Counties; The Story of Daniel Downey; Portraits of Individuals, Families, or Groups in Augusta county, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Creating an Individual Biography; Using a Diary; The Garber Family and Slavery in Virginia.

Lesson plans making use of articles from The New York Times. High Crimes and Misdemeanors Discussing Impeachable Offenses, Facing the Ghosts of Our Past Writing Narrative Reflections on the Civil War and Slavery, Black and White in United States History: A Gray Area Comparing Old and New Accounts of Thomas Jefferson’s Life, Reliving History Through Writing Writing Autobiographical Essays in the History Classroom, "I" Witness to History Writing First-Person Accounts of Historical Events, Attack on Iraq Investigating the Reasons for and Reactions to Operation Desert Fox, Prosecution or Persecution? Assessing the House’s Vote to Impeach President Clinton, Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map! Assessing the Historical Value of Maps, Breathing New Life into Old Traditions Examining Native American Cultures and Their Ceremonies in the Social Studies Classroom, The President's Day Has Arrived Evaluating the Results of the Presidential Impeachment Trials, Joltin’ Joe Has Left and Gone Away Assessing the Attributes and Influence of Joe DiMaggio and Other American Icons, Explosive Knowledge Tracking Six Decades of Nuclear Weapon Development, Use, and Regulations, Revealing Untold Stories Examining Depictions of Slavery as Presented in a Variety of Texts, The Past Is Gone, But Not Forgotten Examining the Value of Historic Sites, "One Giant Leap for Mankind" Revisiting the Apollo 11 Mission, Whose ``Truth'' Is Out There? Examining the Historical Significance of the ``Evolution Versus Creationism'' Debate, Taking Stock in the Past for the Future Examining the Causes and Effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash Through News Coverage in The New York Times, Prisoner in One's Own Home An Examination of the Internment of Japanese- Americans During World War II, Stars and Bars Forever? The Evolving Meanings of Historic Symbols, Monuments and Places in the United States, Leading Ladies Exploring the Roles and Successes of First Ladies of the United States of America, Vietnam Once Again Examining Why the Vietnam War Is Still Difficult to Discuss.

This site is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Among the materials on this site are approximately 24 journals: American Missionary (1878 - 1901) American Whig Review (1845 - 1852) The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901) Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886) Century (1881 - 1899) The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864) Galaxy (May, 1866 - January, 1878) Harpers New Monthly Magazine (December, 1889 - November, 1896) International Monthly Magazine (July, 1850 - April, 1852) Littell's Living Age (1844 - 1900) Manufacturer and Builder (January, 1869 - December, 1894) New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835) New England Magazine (1887 - 1900) New Englander (1843 - 1892) North American Review (1815 - 1900) The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (1861 - 1865) The Old Guard (1863 - 1865) Punchinello (July, 1870 - December, 1870) Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870) Scientific American (September, 1846 - September, 1850) Scribner's Magazine (January, 1887 - June, 1896) Scribner's Monthly (November, 1870 - October, 1881) The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review (October, 1837 - October, 1859) The War of the Rebellion (1880 - 1901)

This is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Among the approximately 50,000 journal articles on the site are these magazines: Appleton's 1869-1881 (2 series) Catholic World 1865-1901 DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index (3 series) Garden and Forest 1888-1897 (from Library of Congress) Ladies Repository 1841-1876 (3 series) The Old Guard 1864 Overland Monthly 1868-1900 (2 series) Princeton Review 1831-1882 (3 series) Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857 (3 series) Vanity Fair 1860-1862

This site contains five issues of one of the mid-19th century’s most popular women’s magazines.

Websites are available for the following programs: John Brown's Holy War : Murderer, martyr, hero -- his violent crusade would spark the Civil War. Jubilee Singers: Former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart. Hoover Dam : One of the greatest engineering works in history. The Iron Road : The story of the transcontinental railroad. New York: A Documentary : The history of a great city, and the forces that have shaped it. Mr. Miami Beach : Carl Fisher, the man who invented Miami Beach. The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie : A look at the poor emigrant boy who built a fortune and then began to systematically give it all away. Troublesome Creek : A personal story of one family's dramatic solution to hold onto their family farm as massive foreclosures sweep the nation. The Wizard of Photography : He transforms photography -- and the way people view the world. The Battle Over Citizen Kane : The fight between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hurst. Houdini : He could escape from everything -- except from his own mortality. Hawaii's Last Queen : The story of Liliu'okalani, the last queen of Hawaii.

Think of this as the Library of Congress, light. Let students of American History explore this colorful site to find out tidbits about history, culture and the people of the United States.

For social studies resources, see: http://www.education-world.com/soc_sci/index.shtml

The South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium site contains a large number of history lessons and exercises created by classroom teachers making use of resources on the World Wide Web.

Educational resources available for free are: 19th Century Advertising History, The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, A Sampler of Civil War Literature, Immigrant and Ethnic America, The American West, Black America: 1857 - 1874, and The World of Thomas Nast.

An extensive collection of rare early American maps from the colonial period.