U. S. History 
Internet Sites 


Picking Cotton  (Library of Congress Photo)

American South and African-Americans

African-American Historical Photographs, University of Virginia Library

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (A PBS Documentary)

Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces   (Truman's 1948 racial desegregation order)       

Virginia Center for Digital History

Slave Narratives

"Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery" (Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture)

The Church in the Southern Black Community

The American South Internet Resource Center

Virginia Center for Digital History

Exploring Amistad:  Documents from the 1839 Revolt

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Includes texts of the most requested speeches)

"Undercover:  I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days"  (A reporter's firsthand accounts, 1948) 

"Lynching in America"


Bibliographies

Making of America

History Matters (George Mason University Web Project)


Centers 

American Social History Project

Center for History and New Media

Center for Working Class History

Chicago Historical Society Online Exhibits

Illinois Labor History Society

The Smithsonian Institute


Documents

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000

A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents (Selected Documents)   

Core Documents:  U.S. Government Printing Office Website

Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy:  The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School   
      
Franklin D. Roosevelt Documents Archives
      
Documents from U.S. History:  The Interwar Years, 1918-1941

Democracy: Rhetorical Texts (Primary Documents)

Library of Congress Photographs from the 1930s and 1940s

University of Virginia Center for Digital History

National Archives and Records Administration

Theodore Roosevelt on Film:  The Library of Congress

Famous American Trials, 1600s-1990s

Inaugural Speeches of the U. S. Presidents, 1789-2001

Douglass:  Archives of American Public Address

The Oyez Project:  U.S. Supreme Court

Economy

Monetary History

Ad*Access: Advertising History at Duke

New Deal History

The New Deal Network (Documents from U.S. Political, Social and Economic History, 1929-1939)

Cost-of-Living Calculator (American Institute for Economic Research)

Fiscal Cost Inflation/Deflation Calculator (1940-2004) (U.S. Government website)

Consumer Price Index, 1913-2004 (Bureau of Labor Statistics -- U.S. Government)

Inflation/Deflation Calculator, 1800-2000


Labor History

Papers of Samuel Gompers (American Federation of Labor founder, 1850-1924)

The Haymarket Square Riot, 1886

The Great Southwest Strike, 1886

The Battle of the Overpass (Ford v. the UAW), 1937

Child Labor

Labor-Management Conflict In American History

Like a Family:  The Making of a Southern Cotton-Mill World

Miners and Coal Mining in the Gilded Age

Maps

Battle of Gettysburg Map

Historical Maps (University of Michigan)

Historical Maps of the World   (University of Texas' Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection)

Historical Maps of the United States  (University of Texas' Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection)

Interactive Historical Maps of the U.S.


Politics

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, 1789-2001

The Presidents:  A PBS Website on Selected U.S. Presidents

The Presidential Campaign of 1896

The Republican Party in 1896

The Democratic Party in 1896

The People's Party in 1896

The Era of William McKinley, 1896-1901

The 1912 Presidential Election

Fiorello H. LaGuardia Archives

Robert Wagner Archives
 
Project Whistlestop:  Truman Digital Archive

The Hard Hat Riots (1970):  An Online History Project 

Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs and War

Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy:  The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

U.S. Diplomatic History Documents from the U.S. State Department

U.S. Diplomatic History:  Speeches and Documents

Valley of the Shadow:  U.S. Civil War Site

Civil War Generals

Treaty of Paris of 1898 (Ending Spanish-American War)
      
Spanish-American War Overview and Chronology

Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

The Spanish-American War (NY Public Library)

Photos of the Great War: World War I, 1914-1918

The Washington Naval Conference Treaty, 1921

"The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color"

Pearl Harbor Remembered:  Eyewitness Accounts

George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" (Origins of the Cold War)

Cold War Documents


Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920

The Gilded Age Page:  Primary Documents in Literature, Culture and Politics, 1870-1900  

American Social Reformer Henry George

The First Red Scare, 1918-1921

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment:  National Archives

Suffragists Oral History Project:  UC Berkeley Library

Progressive-Era Resources on the Web, 1890s-1910s from the OAH Magazine of History

The Great Chicago Fire (Northwestern University and the Chicago Historical Society)

"The Turn of the Century in U. S. History"
         
Ohio State's Gilded Age and Progressive Era pages            
            

Suggest new sites HERE.
Back   

Kyle Wilkison, Department of History, Collin County Community College, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas 75704