General Sites

Encyclopaedia of USA History: 1840-1980
Topics include slavery, art and literature, magazines and newspapers, theater and movies, wars, and women's suffrage. Biographical information covers scientists, writers, business leaders, scientists, and politicians.

Images of American Political History

Reproductions of art from colonial times to scanned photographs from the present day

Digital History

Contains an online American History textbook, primary documents, multimedia resources & more

Colonial History

Classics of American Colonial History

A full-text collection of scholarly books and articles published before 1923 relating to U.S. colonial history.

The Revolution

The 19th Century

The Gentleman's Page: A Practical Guide to the 19th Century Man

A resource for those who wish to look and act like; or perhaps better understand, the 19th Century American man. It is intended to help costumers, theatrical performers, museum docents, reenactors and anyone with an interest in the life of 19th Century America.

A Hudson River Portfolio

A collection of "nineteenth-century materials for the art and culture of the Hudson River and its region," browsable by Collections (prints, architecture, literature, history, guidebooks, maps and panaramas, photographs) and Topics . Includes historical overview.

Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea
This Connecticut museum (founded in 1929) allows visitors to "climb aboard historic tall ships, stroll through a re-created 19th-century coastal village or watch a working preservation shipyard in action." Its website features background about the ships and buildings and images of selected items from the museum's vast collection of art and objects, photos, and ship plans. The library section includes oral histories, dozens on online manuscripts (such as ship registers and guides), and more.

The 20th Century

Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
This site provides images of "broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications" that have been collected at Brown for over three centuries for researchers ... interested in American history, including the history of alcoholism, and in how the media was used for spreading ideas and information, and in how the arts presented various movements."

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

Contains historical and biographical information on American conscientious objectors to World War II. Also has information on the general history of American pacifism and postwar contributions of the WW2 pacifists to civil rights, health care, and the arts. Online companion to a PBS television documentary.

Government Views of D-Day 1944
This bibliography features annotated links to Web pages about the D-Day invasion of World War II on June 6, 1944. Subjects include air operations, art and D-Day, the German view, naval operations, photographs, personal histories, and even the message drafted by General Eisenhower in case the D-Day invasion failed.

Modern History

September 11 Newspaper Archive

Search Newspaper Articles about September 11 in more than 50,000 Historical Newspaper Pages

African American History

Black History Month Resources

Links to info on history & timelines, current issues & special features, such as info on the Negro Baseball League

The African American World

PBS site including info on history, arts & culture, biographical profiles & more

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

Museum celebrates how "we all, as one world, have changed and influenced the history and cultures of the African Diaspora." The site features online exhibits such as "thousands of images contributed from visitors all over the world" relating to the African Diaspora and "narratives about people of African descent."

Women's History

Women's History Month Resources

Links to info on history & timelines, current issues & special features, such as info on first ladies, famous quotes by women & more

Places Where Women Made History
"Focuses on 74 historic places in New York and Massachusetts associated with the varied aspects of women's history."

Illinois History