American+History

__**African American History**__

[|The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to the present — when America is led by a black president, yet remains a nation deeply divided by race.

[|African American History: Major Speeches] Some of the most significant orations by African Americans with links to the actual speeches.

[|The AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOSAIC]A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture.

[|BlackPast.org], an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 1,500 entries, the complete transcript of over 125 speeches given between 1789 and 2008, over 100 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and four gateway pages with links to 50 digital archive collections. Additionally 75 major African American museums and research centers and over 400 other website resources on black history are also linked to the website.

__**Biographies**__

[|The Academy of Achievement]has established the International Achievement Summit, as well as programs such as Achievement TV and its Museum of Achievement in Washington, D.C. The biographies, interviews, symposiums, podcasts, and photographs presented on the Academy's web site have been compiled from the Academy of Achievement's exclusive collection of interviews. The Academy has developed a comprehensive video archive of historical figures, weaving their stories into a unique narrative history of our world.

[|Distinguished Women of Past and Present] has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are living today.

[|MAKERS.com]is a dynamic digital platform produced by filmmakers Dyllan McGee, Betsy West, and Peter Kunhardt, developed by AOL, showcasing hundreds of compelling stories from women of today and tomorrow. This historic video initiative features exclusive access to trailblazing women – both known and unknown.

[|Meet Amazing Americans]From the Library of Congress, discover the inventors, politicians, performers, activists and other everyday people who made this country what it is today.

[|The National Women’s History Museum]educates, inspires, empowers, and shapes the future by integrating women's distinctive history into the culture and history of the United States.

[|The National Women's History Project] founded in 1980, is an educational nonprofit organization. Our mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs.

[|Jackie Robinson]: Remembering Number 42 with Primary Sources from Teaching with the Library of Congress.

__**Civil Rights**__

[|Free at Last?] – Race Relations in the USA, 1918 - 1968 covers one of the most troubled periods of American history; examine the images, hear the voices and look into the faces that changed a nation produced by the BBC. Begin at the timeline to explore sources from the time and find out about some of the key events in this period.

[|The King Center Archives] nearly a million documents associated with the life of Martin Luther King Jr. These pages will present a more dynamic view than is often seen of Dr. King's life and times. The documents reveal the scholar, the father, and the pastor.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Curriculum**__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|America's Story from America's Library] wants you to have fun with history while learning at the same time, brought to you by the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world. We want to put the story back in history and show you some things that you've never heard or seen before.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Best of History Web Sites]aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories including links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">activities, games, quizzes, and more.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Black History Teaching Resources]from the Smithsonian includes classroom activities, a virtual tour, portraits and special collections.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|DocsTeach] Find and create interactive learning activities with primary source documents from the National Archives that promote historical thinking skills.

<span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Games on History]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History] is a nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features the more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|McREL] has lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed for specific benchmarks. Subject areas include the Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health and PE, History, Language Arts, Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Menlo Schools]Select from the list of academic subjects on the right-hand side of the screen for more links.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|An Online Resource Guide for Social Studies Teachers, Students and Parents]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Shmoop]will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Sweetsearch Social Studies] has tips of using the web and technology for research, and a collection of social studies resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|U.S. History Explained](AP United States History) United States History lectures brought to you by Mr. Hughes. These lectures are designed for broad based conceptual review for studying for eager middle school students, worried high school students and lost college Freshmen.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Useful Charts] for lesson plans, study help, or quick reference.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Early American History**__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The American Founders Online: An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications] The digital resources described in this guide provide online access, in varying degrees, to the personal papers and/or publications of the major founders of the American Republic-that is, those men who served in roles of national political leadership between 1765 and 1815-and members of their families.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution] features more than 150 recently gifted important books, pamphlets and prints representing the major themes of Lapidus' collecting: the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database] comprises nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Witness to the Early American Experience]contains over three hundred documents relating to the early history of New York State, with a particular focus on the American Revolutionary War.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|A Guide to the War of 1812: Library of Congress Web Guide]The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with the War of 1812, including manuscripts, broadsides, pictures, and government documents. This guide compiles links to digital materials related to the War of 1812 that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on the War of 1812 and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger reader.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Civil War Years**__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|American Civil War]from the Smithsonian

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Civil War stereographs]from the Robin G. Stanford Collection. The first 77 images are now online, including 12 stereographs of President Lincoln’s funeral procession through several cities and 65 images by Southern photographers showing South Carolina in 1860-61.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Henry O. Nightingale Diaries] Henry O. Nightingale was an abolitionist and Union soldier. His diary contains a firsthand account of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre and chronicles the following day's chaos and sadness that enveloped Washington, D.C. This diary has been digitized and published by UC Merced's Kolligian Library.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The [|Selected Civil War Photographs Collection] from the Library of Congress contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|The Texas Slavery Project] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Takes a deep look at the expansion of slavery in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the years between 1837 and 1845. The project offers a number of digital tools that allow users to explore the changing face of slavery in early Texas includes maps.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**20th Century**__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|American Experience: Victory in the Pacific]Chronicles the dreadful and unprecedented loss of life and the decisions made by leaders on both sides that finally ended the war.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Bracero History Archive]collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|McCarthyism and the Cold War]: This is one activity in a larger project called Write Now. All the activities are web experiences that encourage teen literacy by engaging young people in the processes of writing. Through these processes, students become thinkers and writers, gathering experience in working within different formats and different disciplines. The site encourages students to think critically about complex issues and then turn those thoughts into clear and concise writing.

[|The National Atomic Testing Museum]is a repository for the collection and preservation of a wide variety of materials and artifacts relating to atomic testing, the Nevada Test Site, the Cold War, and nuclear and radiological science and technology. The current collection includes thousands of rare photographs, videos, artifacts, scientific and nuclear reports and data and one-of-a kind scientist collections.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Panama and the Canal]is a joint project from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and the Panama Canal Museum. It builds from the Panama Canal Museum's rich collection of Panama and Canal Zone materials and the extensive holdings on Panama and the whole of Latin America, from the university’s Latin American Collection, Government Documents Collection, and the Map & Imagery Library.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|U.S. Army Center of Military History]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|Veterans History Project] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This exhibition consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress. With an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991), the Veterans History Project, by act of Congress, collects and preserves the experiences of America's war veterans and those who supported them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Industry**__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">[|Computer History Museum] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: auto;">Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing is a rich, multimedia exhibition that traces the history of modern computing, everything from the abacus to the smart phone. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Museum of Obsolete Objects]is an online exhibit dedicated to inventions that have long since hit their sell-by dates. Each object gets its own short video (narrated by a computerized voice that is itself outdated). Working backward, you’ll see clips about the computer mouse (not yet extinct, though the museum tells us it will be in just a few years), the fax machine, the floppy disk, the abacus, the eggbeater, and other everyday objects.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Presidents**__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|60 second Presidents]-- PBS Learning Media's new series of short videos about all of the Presidents of the United States. In the series there is one short (60-90 seconds) video about each president for a total of 44 videos.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|JFK Assassination 50 year Anniversary]: A year-long series by the Dallas Morning News looking at the people, the city, and the impact of this tragic event in history.

Infotopia has a research page on the [|John F. Kennedy Assassination]with links to local and national radio, print, and television news reports as well as links to the original Dallas police investigation files. There is also a direct link to the Zapruder film as well as the lesser known Orville Nix film of the assassination.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum] is dedicated to the study and understanding of President Kennedy's life and career and the times in which he lived; and to promote a greater appreciation of America's political and cultural heritage, the process of governing and the importance of public service.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|JFK Library--The President's Desk]The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum unveiled The President 's Desk, an interactive online module that allows website visitors to sit virtually at Kennedy's Oval Office desk and explore several multimedia presentations of historic aspects of his life and administration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln]The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars. Through the efforts of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the edition is now available in electronic form.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Looking for Lincoln] addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln – race, equality, religion, politics, and depression – by carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him and those who study him today.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Living Room Candidate]The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 presidential commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Presidential Libraries] present vast archives of documents, museums full of important Presidential artifacts, interesting educational and public programs, and informative web sites.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|The Presidential Timeline project]supports educators in developing students historical thinking skills and promoting civic engagement. The project consists of the Presidential Timeline website, Summer Teacher Institutes and webinars. The National Archives provides historical content and primary sources, and the University of Texas at Austin provides technical skills to create and maintain the website.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|U.S. Presidential Audio Recordings]The Voices of American Presidents have been captured by audio pioneers since the early days of sound recording. The invention of Edison's phonograph ushered in a new era of "recorded" history, beginning with President Benjamin Harrison in the late nineteenth century to the present day administration. The MSU Vincent Voice Library is working to preserve over 100 years of historical spoken word recordings like those of the U.S. Presidents, and is pleased to share these sound samples from its collection.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Primary Sources**__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|American Originals] Presents some of the most treasured original documents in the holdings of the National Archives.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|American Rhetoric]This is a database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events. Plus, it provides 200+ short audio and video clips illustrating stylistic figures of speech ranging from "alliteration to synecdoche".

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|American Cartoon Prints]is an online collection through the Library of Congress of more than 500 political cartoons and caricatures from U.S. History.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Charters of Freedom]The National Archives provides a look at the documents that shaped the United States.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Digital Public Library of America] offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Users can browse and search the DPLA’s collections by timeline, map, format, and topic; save items to customized lists; and share their lists with others. Users can also explore digital exhibitions curated by the DPLA’s content partners and staff.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|FBI Records: The Vault]—an new electronic reading room—where you can read the most popular FBI documents from the comfort of your own computer. The files are organized alphabetically by name or topic and by category or subject—including civil rights, counterterrorism, popular culture, unusual phenomenon, and violent crime.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Fold3]by Ancestry .com Browse US Military Records by War. Discover your family's military past.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Great Depression Interviews]includes Washington University’s digitized and archived 148 first person accounts of the Great Depression. The accounts cover events from 1929 to the beginning of U.S. involvement in WWII.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Historical Newspapers]A list of historical U.S. newspapers that are available online.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Infotopia Primary Sources] resource page

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|LIFE photo archive hosted by Google]Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|LOC Immigration]This feature presentation by the Library of Congress, introduces teachers and students to the topic of Immigration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Library of Congress primary sources] includes sets of primary sources on a specific topic, sources by state, sources by themes and specific topics, as well as web guides.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Archives]The National Archives Digital Vaults provide access to thousands of records preservered by the nation's record keeper.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Archives Transcription Pilot Project] features over 300 documents (about 1,000 pages) ranging from the late 18th century through the 20th century. We’ve included letters to a civil war spy, various acts and laws, presidential records, suffrage petitions, indictments, and fugitive slave case files.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Jukebox]The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

<span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Primary Sources in the Classroom]: Teachers' Resources: National Archives and Records Administration guide for teachers on using primary sources in teaching history and social studies.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Rag Linen], named for the heavy-duty paper on which 18th century news was printed, is an educational archive of rare and historic newspapers that serve as the first drafts of history and the critical primary source material for historians, authors and educators.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Retronaut] is a collaborative storehouse for images, audio, and video from the past. Categorized by time periods/eras.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">__**Regional History**__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">[|The Center for the Study of the American South]<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Extends the historic role of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the world’s premier institution for research, teaching, and public dialogue on the history, culture, and contemporary experience of the southern United States. There are links for the Southern Oral History Program, and Southern cultures. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Hopi Pletroglyph Sites] Tutuveni is an important site along the Hopi pilgrimage route to Ongtuvqa, also known as the Grand Canyon. The site lies west of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, and within the neighboring Navajo Nation. Meaning Newspaper Rock in Hopi, Tutuveni contains 5,000 petroglyphs of Hopi clan symbols and is the largest known collection of clan symbols in the American Southwest. Among Tutuveni's 150 sandstone boulders are the records of more than 1,000 years of Hopi history and culture.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|LOC Great American Potluck]The recipes on this Library of Congress web site are posted for the sole purpose of illustrating the American immigration experience.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The National Trust for Historic Preservation] a privately funded nonprofit organization, provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Regional History Project] has been documenting the history of the Central Coast of California and the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963, through oral history.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: auto;">__[|Southern Cultures]__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Civil War and its aftermath have always been important subjects for Southern Cultures, and we're marking the War's Sesquicentennial with special content in our archive of online material on the War, which the Library of Congress has selected for inclusion in its own archives of websites that explore the War and its Sesquicentennial. Over the last four years, 100,000 people have read Southern Cultures in print, online, and through eBooks, and you can read all our new featured content and previously published material on the Civil War by visiting our online archive: