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(A P after an entry denotes that the site contains primary source material, but do not assume everything on those sites is a primary source. Entries with a G are gateway sites; they consist of links to other sites.)

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General Sites

American History from 1865 (G, P)
American Memory Collection (P)
American Rhetoric (P)
Annals of American History (P) 
From 1493 to the present.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School (P) 
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from the 18th to 21st century.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (P) 
Search and view newspapers from 1880-1910. Locate information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. A work in progress.
CQ Historic Documents (P) 
Began in 1972. Includes some international documents.
Digitized Primary American History Sources (G, P) 
A collection of links to other sites.
Divining America, religion in American History 
From early America to the present day.
Documenting the American South (P)
ehistory (P)  
Contains primary sources, maps, multimedia, etc. From the Department of History at Ohio State University.
Famous Trials (P)
First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (P)
Foreign Relations of the United States (University of Wisconsin) (P)
Foreign Relations of the United States (U. S. State Department) (P) 
Online volumes include Presidential administrations from Truman to Nixon. Other volumes are available in print format.
From Revolution to Reconstruction (P) 
Documents related to U.S History from 1492 to 2001.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (P) 
You can search for documents in the collection or follow links to other document repositories.
Great Debate and Beyond (P) 
History of televised presidential debates. Includes video clips, etc.
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program (P) 
Many primary sources on women's and immigration history. Some sources may be considered secondary.
Historical Census Browser 
Includes data from 1790-1960.
History Central (P) 
From 1492 to today.
History Cooperative  
Includes several well repsected history journals.
Library of Congress Learning Page (P) 
Links to primary sources documents are located in the lesson plans.
Life Photo Archive 
Photographs from the Life archive from the Civil War to the 1970s.
Making of America: Books (P)
Making of America: Journals (P)
NARA: Exhibit Hall (P)
National Humanities Center, Toolbox Library (P) 
Covers US history from 1492 to 1968.
The Oneida Community Collection (P)
Our Documents (P) 
100 milestone documents of American history.
Picturing U.S. History (G) 
Visual documents.
Presidents of the United States: Resource Guides (P)
Primary Documents in American History (P) 
Currently covers the years 1763 to 1877.
Rutgers Oral History Project (P)
Slaves and the Courts (P)
Voyages (P, G)
Documents the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century.
Wisconsin Historical Collections (P) 
1,000 articles, memoirs, interviews, and essays on Wisconsin history and archaeology first published 1855-1915. Covers pioneer experience, the Black Hawk War, etc.

General Sites - Twentieth Century

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (P)
American Radio Works (P)
History and Politics Out Loud (P)
The Living Room Candidate 1952- (P)
The National Security Archive at George Washington University (P)
The Newsfilm Library (P)
Social Security Online: History Page (P)
Supreme Court Collection (P)

Discovery and Exploration

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement (P)
Cabeza de Vaca: La Relacion (P)
The Columbus Navigation Homepage
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (P)
Conquistadors
Early Americas Digital Archive (P)
1492 Exhibit
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (P)
The New World (P)
Spain, The United States, & the American Frontier (P)

Colonial Times

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation History (P)
Explore the World of Early America (P)
The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Case: A Journey to 17th Century Northampton (P)
Jamestown Rediscovery
John Peter Zenger Trial (P)
The Mayflower History (P)
New Netherland Project (P)
Plimoth Plantation
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project (P)
Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
Salem Witchcraft Trials (P)
Salem Witch Trials (P)

Revolutionary War /Early Constitutional Period

The Aaron Burr Trial (P)
American Revolution
Archiving Early America (P)
Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History (P)
Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (P)
Boston Massacre Trials (P)
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (P)
The Constitution Community: United States v. Thomas Cooper (P)
The Constitution of the United States of America (P)
The Decisive Day is Come: The Battle of Bunker Hill (P)
The Diaries of George Washington (P)
The Federalist Papers (P)
The Founders Constitution (P)
Franklin and His Friends
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress (P)
Massachusetts Historical Society (P)
Midwife's Tale (P)
A New Nation Votes (P)
The Papers of John Jay (P)
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 (P)
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Spy Letters of the American Revolution (P)
State Conventions on Ratification of Constitution (P)
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive (P)
Thomas Jefferson Papers (P)
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Virginia Runaways Homepage (P)
The World of Benjamin Franklin
The Writings of George Washington (P)

Lewis and Clark

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: Lewis and Clark Documents (P)
Discovering Lewis and Clark (P)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (P)
Historical Maps Online (P)
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expediation (P)
Lewis and Clark (P)
Lewis & Clark @ nationalgeographic.com
Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, 1804 - 2004 (G,P)
Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West
Lewis and Clark, the Maps of Exploration
Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition

Westward Expansion

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820 (P)
Democracy in America (De Tocqueville) (P)
End of the Oregon Trail
Meeting of Frontiers (P)
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade (P)
New Perspectives on The West (P)
NYPL West Website
The Oregon Trail (P)
Railroad Maps Collection (1828-1900) (P)
Westward by Sea (P)

Mexican-American War

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (P)
The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)

Civil War

The Abraham Lincoln Association (P)
Abraham Lincoln: A Research Guide (P)
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (P)
American Civil War Collection at the Electronic Text Center (P)
The American Civil War Homepage (G,P)
American Slave Narratives (P) 
Collected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression.
Amistad Case (P)
Antietam on the Web (P)
Beyond Face Value, Depictions of Slavery in Condeferate Currency (P)
Civil War Letters of Forrest Little (P)
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Civil War Women (P)
Death or Liberty Exhibition at The Library of Virginia (P)
Digital Library on American Slavery (P)
Dred Scott (P)
Eye of the Storm (P)
Freedmen and Southern Society Project (P)
HarpWeek.com (P)
The Historical New York Times Project (P)
The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln (P)
The History Place - U.S. Civil War 1861-1865
I Will be Heard: Abolitionism in America (P)
Illinois in the Civil War (P)
Lincoln Net (P)
Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (P)
The Papers of Jefferson Davis (P)
The Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony (P)
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection 
Cornell University collection of anti-slavery and Civil War materials.
Scartoons, Racial Satire and the Civil War
Secession Era Editorials Project (P)
Selected Civil War Photographs (P)
Territorial Kansas Online, 1854-1861 (P)
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (P)
Under the Rebel Flag: Life in Texas During the Civil War (P)
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (P)

Reconstruction

California as I Saw It: 1stPerson Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 (P)
The Dramas of Haymarket (P)
Drawing the Western Frontier (P)
Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden, The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-77 (P)
Finding Precedent: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (P)
Johnson Impeachment Trial (P)
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial (P)
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (P)

Turn of the Century

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 (P)
Bill Haywood Trial (P)
Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 (P) (Photographs of Lewis W. Hine)
Encyclopedia Titanica
Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire (P)
How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis) (P)
On the Lower East Side (P)
Pullman State Historic Site
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 (P)
The Rockefellers (P)
The Samuel Gompers Papers (P)
The Spanish American War in Motion Pictures (P)
Temperance and Prohibition (P)
Theodore Roosevelt, His Life and Times on Film (P)
Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Co. (P)
The Trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp et al. (P)
The Triangle Factory Fire, March 25, 1911 (P)

World War I

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election (P)
Art of the First World War (P)
First World War: A Multimedia History of World War I (P)
League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents (P)
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldier's Newspaper of World War I (P)
The Versailles Treaty (P)
First World War Poetry Digital Archives (P)
The World War I Document Archive (P)
World War I Remembered: The Great War: 80 Years On (P)

The Twenties

Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (P)
Black Renaissance in Washington, D. C.
The Black Sox Trial 1921 (P)
Prosperity & Thrift: The Coolidge Era & the Consumer Economy, 1921-29 (P)
Red Scare (1918-1921) (P)
Seattle General Strike Project (P)
The Sweet Trials 1925 & 1926 (P)
Tennessee v. John Scopes, the Monkey Trial (P)
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (P)

The Thirties

America from the Great Depression to World War II (P)
America in the 1930's (P)
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project (P)
Bruno Hauptmann (Lindbergh Kidnapping) Trial (P)
Fireside Chats of Franklin Roosevelt (P)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives (P)
Nanking Atrocities (P)
New Deal Network (P)
Scottsboro Trials (P)

World War II

Conscience and the Constitution
Decoding Nazi Secrets
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project (P)
Final Months of the War with Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library (P)
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (P)
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U. S. Constitution
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Rise of Adolph Hitler
Rutgers Oral History Project (P)
World War II: A Digital Library (P)
World War II in the Pacific
World War II Resources (P, G)

Civil Rights

African American Odyssey (P)
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (P)
Brown v. Board of Education: Digital Archive (P)
The Citenzens' Council (P) 
Newspaper published between 1955 and 1961 that expresses antiiintegration sentiments.
Civil Rights Digital Library (P)
Civil Rights Documentation Project (P)
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (P)
Civil Rights Oral History Interviews (P)
Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement (P)
I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (P)
Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary (P)
King Center
Malcolm X, a Research Site (P)
Malcolm X Project at Columbia University (P)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (P)
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964 Digital Collection (P)
United States Department of Justice Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King (P)
We Shall Overcome

Cold War

The Alger Hiss Story (P)
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources (P)
Cold War International History Project (P)
J. William Fulbright: Papers, 1942-1990(P)
McCarthy Hearings (P)
Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP) (P)
Race for the Super Bomb
RED FILES
United States, U S Cold War History (G)

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962: Presenting the Photographic Evidence Abroad (P)
Cuban Missile Crisis,1962: The Fortieth Anniversary (P)

Fifties and Sixties

The Alger Hiss Story (P)
Bay of Pigs 40 Years After (P)
Bay of Pigs (P)
Bracero History Archive (P)
The British Invasion
Castro Speech Databases (P)
CIA-EDRC - Popular Documents Collection Bay of Pigs Reports (P)
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (P)
Free Speech Movement Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65 (P)
Government Views of The Rosenberg Spy Case (P)
Psychedelic '60s
Senator Joe McCarthy Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954 
Audio files of McCarthy's remarks during the Red Scare.
Sixties Project Home Page
The Rosenberg Trial (P)

Korean War

The Korean War (P)
Korea + 50 (P)
No Gun Ri (P)

Vietnam War

Battlefield Vietnam
CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers, Three Episodes 1962-1968
Pete Peterson, Assignment Hanoi, US Ambassador to Vietnam & former POW
The American Experience, Vietnam Online
The Vietnam Center and Archive (P)
The Vietnam War Declassifciation Project, April 2000 (P)
Vietnam, Yesterday and Today

Watergate

Nixon Tapes and Transcripts (P)
The Nixon Tapes Secret Recordings from the Nixon White House (P)
Nixon White House Phone Calls (P)
The Pentagon Papers Case (P)
Washington Post, Revisiting Watergate
Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon (P)
The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers (P)

Presidents

American Presidency Project (P)
American President (P)
The Assassination Archives and Research Center (Kennedy) (P)
Chile Documentation Project (Nixon) (P)
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (P)
Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum (P)
Founders Early Access (P)
Frontline Truth, War and Consequences (GW Bush) (P)
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum (P)
JFK LINK (P)
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (P)
Kennedy and Castro: The Secret History (P)
The Kennedy Assassination
Living Room Candidate: History of Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952- (P)
McKinley Assassination Ink, A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination (P)
Miller Center of Public Affairs (P) 
Presidential recordings, speeches, documents, and oral histories. Includes transcripts, audio, and sometimes video.
Morning Edition - Reagan Tapes (P)
Nixon's China Game
Photographing History (Nixon) (P)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=PPP Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States 1991-] (P)
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (P)
The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation
William J.Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (P)

Illinois and Chicago History

A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair (P)
Chicago, City of the Century (American Experience) (P)
Chicago Gangs (P)
Dramas of Haymarket (P)
Early Illinois Women and Other Unsung Heroes: The First 100 Years, 1818-1918
Encyclopedia of Chicago
Federal Township Plats of Illinois, 1804-1891 (P)
Federal Writer's Project: Life Histories from Illinois (P)
First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (P)
Great Chicago Fire (P)
Hidden Truth: The Chicago City Cemetary & Lincoln Park
Historical Maps Online (P)
Illinois Harvest (P) 
"...provides access to publicly available online materials about or related to Illinois."
Illinois Historical Digitization Projects (P)
Illinois State Guide (P) 
A collection of resources at the Library of Congress that includes Illinois history. Primary and secondary sources are available on all aspects of Illinois history.
Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722–1863) (P)
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 (P)

Ken Orenic, Reference Librarian
630-942-2338
orenick@cod.edu

September 2012

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