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American History
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
An introduction to resources at the Library of Congress. Materials are broken down into four areas, including colonization (of Liberia), abolition, migration after the Civil War, and material from the Work Progress Administration and the Federal Writers Project.
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
A companion site toThe African-American Mosaic
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-195
"Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations). Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events."
American Family Immigration History Center [Ellis Island]
"Located in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and on the World Wide Web, the American Family Immigration History Center (AFIHC) allows visitors to explore the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives ... More than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Information about each person was written down in ships' passenger lists, known as "manifests." Manifests were used to examine immigrants upon arrival in the United States. Now you can search these millions of records for information on individual Ellis Island passengers."
The American Folklife Center: The Library of Congress
"The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress was created by the U.S. Congress in 1976 through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Library's Archive of Folk Culture, which was founded in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. The Center carries out its congressional mandate through its collections, programs, and services, which have touched all fifty states."
American Journeys
"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society."
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."
American Memory: Map Collections, 1544-1996
Maps from the Library of Congress's Geography and Map Division. Categories include cities & towns, conservation and environment, discovery and exploration, immigration and settlement, military battles & campaigns, and transportation & communication.
American Secular Holidays Calendar
Calculates American holidays from 1776, and into the future.
American Slave Narratives
"From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms." This site includes excerpts from the WPA project.
Antietam on the Web
"The Battle of Antietam put an end to General Lee's 1862 incursion into the North, gave President Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the crucial Emancipation Proclamation, and probably doomed the Confederacy's hopes for European recognition and support. September 17, 1862. The single bloodiest day in American history."
"This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure -- 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson. Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954."
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774 - Present
Online version of the print directory created by the U.S. Congress. Current up to the 105th Congress (1997-1998).
Black Member of the United States Congress, 1870 - 2004
Includes brief biographical information, length of service, & committee assignments.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1873
Site created by the Library of Congress. Records currently updated to 1837. "In its final form A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation will consist of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress. The collection currently offers the records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention and ratification debates, and the first twenty-four federal congresses, 1774-1837. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789), the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-1788); the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1821) and the Senate (1789-1821), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1821); the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1821), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), The Congressional Globe (1833-1837) and the Journal of William Maclay (1789-1791), Senator from Pennsylvania in the first Congress; and Statutes at Large (1789-1821). Selected volumes of the U.S. Serial Set are also available for the time period covered."
Civil Rights in Mississippi
"The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. In executing this effort, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries seek to: 1) enhance access to primary source material, 2) preserve original materials by creating digital surrogates, 3) create learning opportunities for remote users, and 4) create an infrastructure for a continuing digitization program."
Commission on Presidential Debates
Site maintained by the non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates. Includes the full-text of presidential and vice-presidential debates from 1960-1996.
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Full-text (some with analysis & history) of the most important documents of the United States. Page provided by the GPO Library Programs Service.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
"The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor."
Documenting the American South
Site authored by the Librarians at the University of North Carolina. Includes digitized full-text of rare books [80 titles, or 18,000 pages of primary source materials]. '"Documenting the American South' (DAS) is a full-text database of primary resources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently, DAS includes three digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, and Southern literature. A fourth, based on Confederate imprints, is in development. The Main Library System at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors this database, and the texts come primarily from its Southern collections. An Editorial Board guides its development."
*The CSS Library owns Encyclopedia of Southern Culture [Ref. F209 .53 1989].
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
"The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group. The items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from original documents held in Duke's Special Collections Library." Site sponsored by Duke University Special Collections Library.
Douglas [Project]: Archives of American Public Address
Full-text of over 100 American speeches from 1645 to the present. Examples include the inaugural address of Jefferson Davis and Elaine Brown's "Black Panther National Anthem." Site provided by Northwestern University.
Ellis Island
See: American Family Immigration History Center
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895. The printed Speech, Article, and Book Series contains the writings of Douglass and such contemporaries in the abolitionist and early women's rights movements as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley, and others. The Subject File Series reveals Douglass's interest in diverse subjects such as politics, emancipation, racial prejudice, women's suffrage, and prison reform. Scrapbooks document Douglass's role as minister to Haiti and the controversy surrounding his interracial second marriage. The online release of the Frederick Douglass Papers is made possible through the generous support of the Citigroup Foundation."
Gateways to African American History
"Welcome to the Office of International Information's [U.S. Department of State} Gateway to African American History, which has been established to assist its international audience in acquiring information on the rich and varied contributions of African-Americans to the culture and history of the United States and the world. Updated throughout the year, the Gateway includes documents, articles, Internet sites and other resources which honor and acknowledge the accomplishments of African-Americans."
Historical American Sheet Music, 1850 -1920
"The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music. This selection presents a significant perspective on American history and culture through a variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil War songs and music. Also included are piano music of marches, variations, opera excerpts, and dance music, including waltzes, quadrilles, polkas, etc. Cover illustrations represent an important, and in some cases almost unique, source of information for popular contemporary ideas on politics, patriotism, race, religion, love, and sentiment."
See also: Popular American Music
Historical Graphics Gallery
Commercial site edited by Jim Zwick. Features scanned images of materials related to the expansion of U.S. power abroad during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Historical New York Times Project, Chapter 2.: The Civil War Years 1860-1866
Scanned copies of selected articles from the New York Times.
History of the American West, 1860 - 1920
"Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy."
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH)
"HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as additional journals. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available."
Jamestown. See: Virtual Jamestown
Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
"This listing is a selected listing of resources on the Internet of interest to African Americans. It's not intended to be comprehensive. The inclusion or omission of information does not necessarily indicate endorsement or non-endorsement of the sites listed. "
Malcom X Project at Columbia University
Columbia University supplies information on the latest research on the impact of Malcolm X.
Making of America
The "Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." Site provided by the University of Michigan and Cornell University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
New Deal Network
Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the New Deal Network offers a link to photo images of the Great Depression from the archives of the Farm Security Administration.
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
"When completed this collection will include accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity. Because of our location in South Carolina and the salient role of its natives in the era's history there will also be a number of materials relevant to South Carolina or South Carolinians. Almost all of the documents have been transcribed from originals by myself or by Furman students. The originals are in the public domain. These electronic versions may be copied freely as long as proper attribution is given."
Popular American Music
"The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. The collection also includes 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder. Particular strengths within UCLA Music Library's twentieth-century holdings include music for the theater, motion pictures, radio and television, as well as general popular music, country, rhythm and blues, and rock songs. The Digital Archive of Popular American Music is an initiative designed to provide access to digital versions of the sheet music, and performances of the songs now in the public domain."
See also: Historical American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
POTUS: Presidents of the United States
Brief biographical information about the presidents. Also includes election results, cabinet members, and full-text of inaugural addresses. See also: Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Around the World
POW/MIA Databases & Documents
Database maintained by the Library of Congress that offers 143,000 records & reports available upon request.
President
Links to the presidential libraries, dating back to Hoover.
The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II Archive
"On July 1, 1994, the Department of History at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey established the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II with an initial gift of $100,000 from the Rutgers College Class of 1942. This archive records the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the homefront and overseas."
The Sonya Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web
Guide to over 600 websites on African-American history provided by the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill.
Southern Mosaic
"The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of folk music from more than 300 performers. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. Photographic prints from the Lomaxes' other Southern states expeditions, as well as their other recording trips made under the auspices of the Library of Congress, illustrate the collection, since no photographs from the 1939 Southern States Recording Trip have been identified. For more information about related documentary projects undertaken by the Archive of American Folk Song in 1939, see the 1939 Annual Report of the Library of Congress. This presentation is made possible by the generous support of The Texaco Foundation. "
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Works by and about Jefferson. Site sponsored by the University of Virginia Library.
Ulysses S. Grant Network Homepage
"The U.S. Grant Network, founded in February of 1995, is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study of Ulysses S. Grant by providing a means gof communication among Grant researchers and scholars." Site maintained by Marie Kelsey, Assistant Professor at the College of St. Scholastica.
Vietnam War Bibliography
No frills, just content, bibliography of the Vietnam war maintained by Edwin Moise, PhD History, at Clemson.
Virtual Jamestown
TheVirtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
Whitehousetapes.org
"Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves ...The site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs."
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
"The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Included in the collection are correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives. The Wright Brothers' letters to aviation pioneer and mentor Octave Chanute, from the Octave Chanute Papers, were also selected for this online collection. The Wright Papers span the years 1881 to 1952 but largely cover 1900 to 1940. This online presentation includes the famous glass-plate negative of the "First Flight" at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, as well as diaries and letters in which Wilbur and Orville Wright recount their work that led to that day."
Women Working, 1870-1930
"Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 3,460 books and pamphlets, 1,125 photographs, and 7,489 pages from manuscript collections."
www.ourdocuments.gov
"To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union." - The Our Documents Initiative is a cooperative effort among National History Day, The National Archive and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps."
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