United States History Research Guide
Internet Links
The following Internet sites have been carefully selected by the History Liaison as appropriate for academic researchers in United States history.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (University of Kansas)
Links to documents, arranged chronologically from the fifteenth century to the present.
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Online resources from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions that include "written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."
American Studies Web (Georgetown University)
A "bibliography of Web-based resources in the field of American Studies."
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)
Links to "primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (U.S. Government Printing Office)
Core government documents, including the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and Congressional and Presidential papers and documents.
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina Library)
Texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the twentieth century. Seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Early Americas Digital Archive (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)
Texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Historical Maps of the United States (University of Texas Libraries)
Digital images of maps of early inhabitants, exploration and settlement, territorial growth, and military history.
History - American and British (Rutgers University Libraries)
Links to scholarly resources, including reference materials, archives and manuscripts, Web sites by subject and time period, historical documents, and listservs.
History: United States (World Wide Web Virtual Library)
Links to research tools, and to Web sites organized by historical topics and chronological time periods.
Making of America (University of Michigan)
Approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles that are "primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
Making of America (Cornell University)
267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles that are "primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
Online Exhibits (National Archives and Records Administration)
Digital exhibitions drawn from the collections of the National Archives and Presidential Libraries.
Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)
"Listing of over 5,000 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."
U.S. History Gateway - American History (Academic Info)
Links to general resources, gateways by period or diversity (ethnic and religious groups), and topical resources. |
