American Experience
On air and online, the American Experience series and companion web site bring to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present.
American History Company
The American History Company is full of information including historic texts, America's Freedom Documents, and encyclopedic links, organized by time period and topic.
American History 102
American History 102 covers American History from the Civil War to the present. It offers links to many other sites.
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 AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
American Memory Collection
The American Memory Collection provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of
American Women Through Time
American Women Through Time offers two approaches for the study of specific time periods in American women's history. Each section includes a timeline that links specific events with relevant online sources, such as diaries and letters, photograph collect
America's HomePage
America's HomePage is an educational resource of American history. Its goal is to consolidate information relating to American history in a form easily usable in the classroom, allowing students and educators to access the information they need without ha
Authentic History Center
The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced the
Awesome Stories
Awesome Stories allows you to enjoy great stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them.
A Chronology U.S. Historical Documents
From the University of Oklahoma College of Law, A Chronology U.S. Historical Documents site offers a chronology of United States historical documents.
Civil Rights Oral Interviews.
In February of 2001, the Spokesman-Review produced a month long series of articles on black history titled "Through Spokane's Eyes Moments in Black History," focusing in particular on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As part of that series, Rebecca
Cuban Missile Crisis
This site contains press releases, selected documents, photographs, audio clips and other material about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Digital History
The Department of History at Virginia Tech encourages faculty and students to explore, develop, and create Digital History projects which are presented here.
Digital History
Digital History uses new technologies to enhance the teaching and research of history.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collection
EASE History
EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.
Encyclopedia of Chicago
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a dynamic and unprecedented metropolitan history. Thousands of historical resources-including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers-related to Chicago's colorful and complex history are at your fingertips. The En
Eyewitness: Originals from the National Archives
Provided by the National Archives, Eyewitness: Originals from the National Archives offers pictures taken over the years of our history with an explanation of those pictures.
Fold3
Fold3 is the place for the web's premier collection of original US military
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts throughout the nation.
The Gold Rush
They came from Europe, Asia, and South America in search of instant riches. The Gold Rush was one of the greatest adventures the world has ever seen.
Herbert Hoover Museum
The Herbert Hoover Museum Exhibits cover many aspects of American History.
Heritage Gateways
Heritage Gateways is a gateway site that features historical diaries, excerpts from published books such as I Walked to Zion, articles, commentaries, maps and video clips all reflecting the life and times of those early pioneers. The site is also a rich s
Historical Scene Investigation
Historical Scene Investigation is a great website to help Social Studies students and teachers work with primary sources. Each module contains four sections; Becoming a Detective, Investigating the Evidence, Searching for Clues and Cracking the Case
History and Politics Out Loud
History and Politics Out Loud is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students.
History Cooperative
The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship.
The History Channel
At The History Channel you can explore history shows, watch videos and full episodes, play games and access articles on historical topics.
History Matters
History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
HistoryNet
The HistoryNet.com website contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines. We have something from almost every period of history
History of the American Wes
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 ill
Immigrant Ships
Immigrant Ships includes sites to research emigration, immigration and naturalization, 100+ passenger list sites, ethnic research, libraries and archives, passenger ship types, descriptions and images, and additional worldwide maritime information.
Internet Archive of Texts and Documents
The Internet Archive of Texts and Documents maintains a number of primary sources for American and World History online for use by students and faculty.
Library of Congress--Virtual Tour
Library of Congress--Virtual Tour provides not only photos of the Library's historic rooms, but historical background on them, paired with related links for further investigation and audio podcasts about items or features in each room.
LIFE
LIFE .com represents the most amazing collection of professional photographs. With over 10 million photos from the legendary archives of LIFE magazine it is an amazing resource.
Life in Ohio
Life in Ohio during the 19th century is a presentation on parlor music in 19th-century Cincinnati, Ohio. It focuses on themes that reflect the social, economic, and religious values of the time through recorded and printed music . Since the songs we
The Mariners’ Museum
For over seventy-five years, The Mariners’ Museum has told and displayed the history of the ocean and its relationship with humankind.
Monticello
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation near Charlottesville, Va., was the center of his world. To understand Jefferson, one must understand Monticello; it can be seen as his autobiographical statement. Monticello encompassed a house, an ornamental land
Museum Box
The Museum Box site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victoria
National Archives Digital Vaults
At the National Archives Digital Vaults you can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips.
National Museum of American History
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History dedicates its collections and scholarship to inspiring a broader understanding of our nation and its many peoples. They create opportunities for learning, stimulate imaginations, and present chal
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County hosts this site. It has links to hundreds of exhibits from around the world, cyberspace and even Mars.
National Security Archive
The National Security Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, f
National Women's History Project,
The National Women's History Project, founded in 1980, is an educational nonprofit organization. Our mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs.
New Deal Network,
In keeping with its search for fresh approaches to educating students and the public about the Roosevelt era and its legacy, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) created the New Deal Network, a research and teaching resource on the Worl
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central is an evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory, and history.
Online Exhibits
Online Exhibits from the National Archives contain photos, documents and more from the holdings of the National Archives .
Our Documents
The Our Documents site contains a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
Oregon-California Trails Association
Encompassing the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, the Applegate Trail and the Mormon Trail, the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) seeks to preserve the stories and the legacy of the 19th century American migration.
Picture History
Picture History is the primary source for History online. It licence's digital images illustrating two hundred years of American History.
Presidents
The Presidents site sponsors this information service for the historic sites, parks, non-profit organizations preserving the history associated with America's presidents.
Primary Documents
Primary Documents of American History is from the Library of Congress. This site covers the primary documents of American History such as the Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence and more.
San Francisco
The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, functions as a general multi-media website utilizing text, graphics, and sounds. We are primarily a research and educational site for scholars, young and old. Our site features the interesting, the amusin
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Smithsonian's History Explorer is your gateway to innovative, standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history, designed and developed by the National Museum of American History.
Spy Museum
The International Spy Museum is the only public museum in the United States solely dedicated to espionage and the only one in the world to provide a global perspective on an all-but-invisible profession that has shaped history and continues to have a sign
Time Life Photo Gallery
The Time Life Photo Gallery provides hundreds of photos and photo essays and links to other photography sites.
Vincent Voice Library
The Vincent Voice Library provides historical sound samples from the past 100 years, including the presidents from Cleveland to Obama.
Votes for Women
Votes for Women, from The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from
Wild West
Be transported into the wild and wooly past of the American Wild West, its history and legends of cowboys, western cowgirls and pioneer women of the west, guns (like the legendary 1873 Colt Peacemaker) and other interesting western facts like the Pony Exp
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is sponsored by The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust