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http://docsouth.unc.edu/
A fine digital project of primary sources: Documenting the American South. At the University of North Carolina.
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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
American history Web resources from the City University of New York and George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. Educational tools for researchers and educators, articles, primary documents, and guides, plus annotated lists of links.
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http://politicalgraveyard.com/
"The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography, or, The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians Are Buried."
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http://search.eb.com/women/
Encyclopedia Britannica's Women in American History site, 1600 to the present. Multimedia presentations, galleries, articles, documents, and short biographies of women who challenged or altered the course of human events.
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http://www.americanPresident.org
An in-depth look at all forty-three Presidents, at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Click on a President, any President, read the biography, and see the pictures. See the “Nixon Resignation Exhibit.”
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http://www.biography.com/
A&E's Biography site. An online search engine of more than 25,000 short biographical entries of "greatest lives," past and present. Many entries feature additional Web resources.
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http://www.common-place.org/
Compelling articles radiating "elegant prose and worthy ideas" in an online journal for American history. Common-Place is presented by the American Antiquarian Society and the Florida State University Department of History.
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http://www.findagrave.com/
Find a Grave, a popular Web database with 7.7. million records of famous deceased persons. Multiple ways to search.
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
A boon for history lovers, the Gilder Lehrman
Institute is a first-rate collection of primary
resources in the study of American history.
The searchable online database provides
students, teachers, and historians access to
over 60,000 documents.
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/
Find your favorite architect's work, or search for a particular building. Greats from around the world are profiled here.
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http://www.historycooperative.org
A highly regarded nonprofit research resource offering journals and texts for scholars, researchers, and historians. Booker T. Washington's papers are here, free and fully searchable.
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http://www.historyquest.com/
The home of the U.S. Historical Marker. Search or browse historical markers, by subject, all across the nation.
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http://www.jewsinamerica.org/
Honoring three hundred and fifty years of Jewish-American life. View the multimedia presentation Greetings From Home and the extensive timeline with accompanying links.
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http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/index.htm
Michigan State Libraries presents the Vincent Voice Library,
which houses over 40,000 hours of voice recordings of important
political figures, including Presidents, from Benjamin Harrison to
George H. W. Bush. Listen to the startlingly clear recording of
President Taft urging the abolition of war before our entry into
World War I. Compare the elocution and rhetoric of earlier
presidents on the campaign trail to more modern leaders.
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http://www.loc.gov
The Library of Congress, one of the most important online resources for learning American history. Here you can search or browse the Library's rich catalogs, take virtual tours, wander online galleries and exhibits. Take a look at our First Ladies, read Thomas Jefferson's letters, and spend hours, or days, exploring the nation's great Library's collections of print, image, and sound. Essentials include the American Memory page: http://lcWeb2.loc.gov/amhome.html and our nation's law library: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html. To learn more about the Library of Congress, and to see it online, watch the three-hour video on the Library in the Resources section at a C-SPAN program site on Presidents: http://www.americanPresidents.org/.
http://lcWeb2.loc.gov/amhome.html and our nation’s law library:
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html. To learn more about the Library of Congress, and to see it online, watch the three-hour video on the Library in the Resources section at a C-SPAN program site on Presidents:
http://www.americanPresidents.org/.
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http://www.nara.gov
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), our nation's records keepers--the starting point for many researchers of historical and family history. Exhibits, presidential libraries, records of Congress, government drawings, when Nixon met Elvis, and much, much more.
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http://www.nationaltrust.org
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, committed to saving "the best of the country's past for the future." From archeological sites to historic hotels to Ernest Hemingway's Cuban retreat. Check out the terrific interactive preservation atlas.
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http://www.nps.gov/
The National Park Service, mapping and preserving the monuments of the collective American experience.
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http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
The indispensable Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library system. "In Motion," the online exhibit on the African-American migration experience, is a must.
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http://www.questia.com/
Questia declares itself to be the "World's Largest Online Library." One notable feature is a state-by-state listing of college students' top ten books.
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http://www.si.edu
The is the remarkable online home of the Smithsonian Institution, "committed to enlarging our shared understanding of the mosaic that is our national identity." Visit this portal to explore the Smithsonian's museums, holdings, and resources. See also http://americanhistory.si.edu/--the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/—the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Historical topics for students. Though the Spartacus site is produced in the United Kingdom, it offers a wealth of American historical information and resources.
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http://www.uspto.gov
The United States Patent and Trademark Office. Trace the history of American invention and innovation. See if your idea or patent is already taken. Fully searchable.
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http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
AMDOCS, or hyperlinks to American history
documents, 1000-2006. The University of
Kansas. Documents stretch back to the Viking
period and European contact all the way to
present-day history in the making.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov
Get to know the current President, examine the political events and government policies shaping our nation, and study the histories of presidencies past. See also http://www.whitehousehistory.org/--the White House has its own historical association; its Web site is handsome and well organized, and offers many multimedia presentations. Especially of note is the interactive White House timeline. See the Association's version of The West Wing. Kids can go birdwatching (for eagles) inside the White House as crudely drawn and unconvincingly voiced cartoon versions of several Presidents lead the way. Dolley Madison wears violet eye shadow.
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http://www.whitehousetapes.org/
Secretly-taped presidential recordings, between 1940 and 1973,
are available here for public use, thanks to the Presidential
Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of
Public Affairs. Listen to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and
Nixon mulling over mundane and more serious moments during
their terms. Transcripts aid the experience.
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The wonderful Avalon Project of Yale
University Law School, which provides
transcriptions of major documents in "Law,
History, and Diplomacy" throughout modern
recorded history.
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/
The excellent American Studies site at the University of Virginia. Tour the Capitol; see the great "America in the 1930s" exhibit, and much more.
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