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History on the Web

An informal listing of web sites on the topic of:
UNITED STATES HISTORY:
PRESIDENTS AND POLITICS
(Last updated Fall  2002)

 
http://www.rbhayes.org/mssfind/msstop.htm
Manuscripts Division of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library.  Contains on-line manuscripts of over 3000 linear feet of documentary material in six major collecting areas: Rutherford B. Hayes and the Hayes family; the Gilded Age; the Charles E. Frohman Collection (Great Lakes and Erie Islands); Local History of Northwest Ohio; Special Collections; and Local Government. 
www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/hayes/index.cfm
Site contains an on-line version of The Diary and Letters of  Rutherford B. Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States, edited by Charles Richard Williams (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, 1922). These 3000 pages of text can be searched by volume and keyword or each of the 5 volumes can be browsed page by page. 
teachpol.tcnj.edu/
Teaching Politics:  Techniques and Technologies.  Site includes a collection of over 500 public domain images of American political history. 
http://www.chicagohs.org/wetwithblood/index.htm
"Wet With Blood."  Site merges forensic science and historical analysis to investigate whether hundreds of artifacts attributed to Abraham Lincoln's assassination are real.  Site produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
Site contains the complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, consisting of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes.  Images can be downloaded and some have modern text transcriptions.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/grant.html
On-line version of the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces during the Civil War and President of the U.S. from 1869-1877.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/trfhome.html
Site features an entertaining and informative collection of 104 films recording events in the life of Theodore Roosevelt from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in 1919.  A part of the American Memory collection in the Library of Congress.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html
"The American Presidency:  A Glorious Burden" provides biographical and other information about all of the Presidents of the United States, as well as activities and teaching materials. Site is maintained by Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/index.html
Site provides background information and actual text of articles of impeachment for Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton.  Site maintained by The History Place.



 

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