An informal listing of web sites on the topic of:

UNITED STATES HISTORY:  GENERAL

(Last updated Fall 2002)

 

memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Site includes over 70 on-line collections from the Library of Congress.

www.nyhistory.com/ A site on the history of New York State maintained by State University of New York at Albany.  Includes links to sites dealing with New York history as well as information on conferences, books, libraries, museums, government and genealogy.

www.ucpress.edu/scan/ Site provides many University of California Press scholarly journals and books in online and full-text format.

scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/#collections Digitized collections of the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library of Duke University includes ancient Egyptian papyri, US and Canadian newspaper advertisements from 1911 to 1955, historic American sheet music, and scanned pages and text of writings by African American women and Civil War women.

xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia.  Site contains full text of a number of American literary classics, including Jane Addams' _My Twenty Years at Hull House_, Harriet Jacobs' _Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl_, and Alexis de Toqueville's _Democracy in America_, as well as works by Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, and Mark Twain.

xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/wce/title.html The World's Columbian Exposition:  Idea, Experience, Aftermath.  Site offers a history of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 held in Chicago, IL, as well as a virtual tour of the Exposition and a bibliography.

http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/index.html An online exhibition produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Academic Technologies of Northwestern University to mark the 125th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.  Contains images, eyewitness accounts, contemporary journalism, popular illustrations, and imaginative forms such as fiction and poetry and painting.

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shear/relevant-links.htm Site provides links to on-line periodicals and books relevant to the study of the U.S. in the Early Republic period.  Includes an index by author.

http://newdeal.feri.org/sg "Social Welfare and Visual Politics:  The Story of Survey Graphic" provides an online essay and document collection relating to the progressive social science periodical Survey Graphic from 1921 to 1952.  Includes on-line articles from Survey Graphic as well as articles from a related publication, The Survey.

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ United States Historical Census Data Browser.  Provides searchable data from the U.S. Census from 1790 to 1960.

http://www.census.gov/ U.S. Census Bureau.  Provides a wealth of information on the 2000 Census.

http://historywired.si.edu/index.html# "History Wired:  A Few of Our Favorite Things."  A virtual tour of historic objects in the collection of the National Museum of American History.  The site is a bit complicated to negotiate, but the objects are fascinating.

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ National Geographic Society site on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  Includes searchable archive of survivors' stories.

http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm Site provides a database of over 20,000 photographs, political cartoons, speeches, letters, and other historic documents related to the New Deal.  Site is maintained by the New Deal Network and sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Roosevelt Presidential Library, Marist College, and IBM.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/ Site provides primary source materials on all aspects of World War II, including official military communiques, chronologies, treaties, speeches, British and French diplomatic documents, monographs on  Japanese military and political strategy, and original documents and testimony related to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

http://fas.org/irp/ Site provides links to official U.S. government documents relating to intelligence policy, structure, function, organization and operations.  Includes government reports on terrorism, information on Presidential directives and executive orders, and a guide to web sources.  Sponsored by the Intelligence Resource Program of the Federal of American Scientists.

http://www.nsa.gov/ Web site of the National Security Agency.  Provides information on the use of cryptology in American history, including the American Indian "code talkers" whose communications in both World Wars were never broken.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/index.html "The Spanish-American War."  Site provides chronologies, maps, photos, and explanatory essays on the period before this war, the actual war itself, and the participants, with special presentations on Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Spain.  Site maintained by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.