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History


African American History http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html

This website contains African-American historical sources listed by the University of Washington libraries.

 

American Women's History: A Research Guide http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Guide to primary sources as well as print and Internet sources.

 

AmericanPresident.org

 

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

This is a comprehensive non-partisan resource that provides detailed information on the history and function of the American presidency, from the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs

 

Best of History Web Sites http://www.besthistorysites.net/

“Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories”.

 

California Historical Society http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org /

Information on exhibitions, collections, publications, programs, and membership for the California Historical Society.

 

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

This website “serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence”. Focus on the lives of ordinary Americans.

 

History News Network http://hnn.us/

History News Network, well-researched articles that put current news in historical context.

 

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/

Collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrates most heavily on the 19th century.

 

Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The Library of Congress American Memory, a “digital record of American history” documenting the American experience.

 

Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

The Online Archive of California. Good for primary source historical research.

 

This Day In History http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

Commercial website where you can search for what historical events occurred on your birthday or other days.

 

Three Thousand Years of History http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Three thousand years of history on a web page endorsed by The History Channel.

 

Timeline of Historical Events http://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML

A detailed daily timeline of historical events from 1900 – 2000.

 

WWW Virtual Library: U.S. History http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/

Website and index to historical sources, part of the WWW Virtual Library.


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Links compiled by Library staff and Library interns Mellanie Reeve, Dennis Piotrowski, Lauren McKinsey, Marc Horton, Zoë Yun, Sherry Youssef

 

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