General Archival/Writing Information:
CITATION MAKER!!
Citation of Electronic Documents
Citing Sources (Duke Univ. Library)
Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism (Duke Univ. Library)
Copyright, Fair Use & Licensing in a Digital World (National Initiative on a Networked Cultural Heritage)
Copyright Website
Digitizing History- A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents (S. Townsend, C. Chappell, O. Struijvé)
Doing Historical Research
Doing Oral History
Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
Researching History
Society of American Archivists
Step-By-Step Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act (ACLU)
Tools for Archivists
User's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (National Security Archive)
Writing the History Paper
General Web Links for Primary Sources Research:
American Studies @ The University of Virginia
American Studies Internet Resources
Ancestry.com
Annals of Congress (LOC)
Archival Data Online Repository (DPSL)
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Core Documents of United States History
Documents For The Study Of American History (Univ. of KS)
Documents Page - Columbia University
Douglass - Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
Eastern United States and Canada- States and Provinces A-M -- Historical Archives & Depositories
Eastern United States and Canada- States and Provinces N-Z -- Historical Archives & Depositories
Electronic Databases for History
Electronic Finding Aids for Library of Congress Collections
Federal Government Resources on the Internet
Find Law Court Opinions
The Founders' Constitution
Genealogy.com
Gilder Lehrman History Online
Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources (LOC)
Government Documents in the News (Univ. of Michigan)
Harper's Weekly Magazine Home Page
The Historical Census Browser (1790 - 1960) - Geostat Center
The Historical New York Times Project
Historical Text Archive
History Channel
History Matters
The History Place
Hypertext- American History
Individual State (Home & Archival) Pages
K-12 TLC Guide to American Historical Documents
Library of Congress (LOC) - American Memory Project
The Making of America Project (Cornell Digital Library)
The Making of America (University of Michigan)
Museums in the U. S. (Virtual Library)
National Political Index
National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian
The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
Newspaper Archives
NY Times Archives
Online Newspapers
The Picture Collection (Time, Inc.)
Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)
Social Science Data Archives - North America
Special Collections in the Library of Congress
STAT-USA
Statistical Summary - America's Major Wars
Thomas (LOC) - legislative archives
Tulane University's Archives - Special Collections
UCI Libraries - Research Resources by Subject or Collection
The United States History Index
United States Vital Records Information (includes state-by-state index)
US Archives On the Web
USA Fact Book Online
Western United States and Canada - Historical Archives & Depositories
Who's Who in the American Government
Cartoon Sites:
Cartoon history of 19th century
Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
Daryle Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Page
Historical Cartoons
PoliticalCartoons.com
Court Cases & the Supreme Court:
FindLaw.com Supreme Court Cases Search Engine -- To log in type my email address pedagog@optononline.net as the username and hghs as the password.
Law Dictionary
Legal Information Institute - Famous Supreme Court Cases
List of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Oyez, Oyez
Summary of Important Cases
Supreme Court Cases by Year (FindLaw)
Supreme Court Cases Search Engine
Supreme Court Historical Society
Supreme Court of the United State (official web site)
Supreme Court Justices Database (Northwestern Univ. School of Law)
Image Archives:
The Art Archive
AV Photo Finder (AltaVista)
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
ImageFinder (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
Modern American Art
The Nation Digital Archive (Since 1865)
NMAA Posters American Style Menu
The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
Prints and Photographs Reading Room Home Page (LOC)
National Archives:
U. S. National Archives & Records Administration [NARA] - home page
NARA Exhibit Hall
The American Presidency - The Smithsonian
The American Presidency Project
Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections (Dave Leip)
The Avalon Project - The Papers of the Presidents
Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799
The Lincoln Institute
Medical History of American Presidents
The Papers of James Madison (Univ. of Virginia)
POTUS Site
President Elect - The Unofficial Homepage of the Electoral College
The Presidential Elections, 1860-1912 (HarpWeek)
Presidential Libraries: The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Herbert Hoover Library Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Harry S. Truman Library Dwight D. Eisenhower Library John F. Kennedy Library Lyndon B. Johnson Library Richard M. Nixon Presidential Materials Gerald R. Ford Library Jimmy Carter Library Ronald Reagan Library George H. W. Bush Library Clinton Presidential Materials Project
The Presidential Papers of Abraham Lincoln Online
Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
USA Index - Presidents
US Presidents - The History Beat - SearchBeat.com
WhiteHouseTapes.org -- The secret White House recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
Sound Archives:
American Oral Histories
I Hear America Singing [Quicktime, RealPlayer] - PBS
Library of American Broadcasting (Univ. of Maryland Libraries)
Music for the Nation- American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory Project, LOC)
Native Ground Music: Historic American Music and Folklore
Popular American Songs [words & lyrics listed by time period]
Popular Songs in American History
Radio Day - A Sound Bite History
Talking History
U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi, Univ. of Albany, SUNY)
Voices from the Dust Bowl- The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Specific Historical Periods/Topics -- Archives/Depositories:
911- Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
African-American History and Culture
Africans in America - Historical Documents
America in the 1850's- An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)
American Jewish Archives
American Political Prints, 1766-1876- Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress (HarpWeek)
American Religion Data Archive
American Slave Narratives- An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
American Social History Project: 1877-1946
Archiving Early America
American Women's History - A Research Guide
Civil War Databases
Conscientious Objection in America- Primary Sources for Research (A.M. Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
The Crisis of the Union- An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War (University of Pennsylvania)
Discoverers Web Primary sources
Documenting the American South
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Special Collections Library, Duke Univ.)
Documents Related to the Cold War
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, Pre-1898 (Mount Holyoke College)
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (Mount Holyoke College)
Dred Scott Digital Project
DPLS Archive Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries (Univ. of WI, Madison)
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)
Ellis Island Records Page
The Encyclopedia of New York State
Folklife Sourcebook - A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, a Publication of the American Folklife Center, LOC
Foreign Relations of the United States (Washington State Archives - very detailed documents collection)
Free Speech Movement- Student Protest--U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65(Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley)
Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
Historic Government Publications from World War II- A Digital Library [.pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)
History of American Education Web Project
Hudson Valley Network - Lower Hudson Valley - History
Index to San Francisco History by Subject - Museum of the City of San Francisco Archives
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
Jensen's Guide to Civil War online sources
"Letters from the Front"
Levittown- Documents of an Ideal American Suburb (P. B. Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Native American Documents Project
Nineteenth Century Documents Project (Univ. of SC)
Resources for Early American History
Secession Era Editorials Project (Furman University)
Secrets of History- The CIA in Iran [.pdf]
The Sixties Project - documents
Studs Terkel- Conversations with America
The Tax History Project
Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture [QuickTime, RealPlayer]
US Diplomatic History Resources Index
U. S. Supreme Court Web Database
Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Westchester County Archives (NY)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Women Come to the Front -- Female War Correspondents in WW II
World War I Document Archive, Pre - 1914
World War II Resources - Primary Source Materials on the Web (Purdue Univ.)
WW II Resources and Documents on the Web
WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)