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CALIFORNIA 

GENERAL GATEWAYS

  • American History - from About.com and features  good resources in Ancient History, Medieval History, Art History, Women's History, American History and more.
  • Best of History Websites - Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. It features ten different historical categories -- Prehistory, Ancient/ Biblical, Medieval, US History, Early Modern European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources, and Maps -- and contains links to over 700 history-related Web sites that have been reviewed on a one to five star scale for "quality, accuracy, and usefulness."
  • History Departments Around the World
  • Internet History Sourcebooks Project -  The Internet History Sourcebook provides primary source documents from ancient, medieval, and modern history.  The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
  • Organization of American Historians
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History
  • Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History

UNITED STATES

GATEWAYS

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, PRIMARY SOURCES, IMAGES AND MAPS

  • Using Primary Sources on the Web - Users of web resources must now consider the authenticity of documents, what person or organization is the internet provider, and whether the electronic version serves their needs. This brief guide is designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online.
  • Abraham Papers at the Library of Congress - The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material.
  • AMDOCS:  Documents for the Study of American History - This is a directory of primary documents that allows you to browse by time period, beginning with 1492 and continuing into current times. Includes inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties, letters, speeches, and more. Maintained at the Anschutz Library, University of Kansas.
  • American Memory - A tremendous collection of historical texts and images from the National Digital Library Project of the Library of Congress.
  • Archiving Early America - Documents and maps from the 18th century
  • Avalon Project : Major Collections - a wonderful site of primary source documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Includes: American diplomacy and history, Barbary treaties, Colonial charters, Mexican American diplomacy, Native American Diplomacy, and the Nuremberg war crimes to name a few.
  • Civil War Photographs Home Page - contains 1,118 photographs and includes scenes of military personnel, preparations of battle and battle after-effects.
  • Core Documents of U.S. Democracy - An electronic collection of current and historical United States government documents which define the American democracy. These legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic documents are selected and authenticated by the Government Printing Office's GPO Access service. Includes the Bill of Rights, Constitution, Federalist Papers, and statistical reference sources.
  • Early Americas Digital Gateway - From the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.  This "is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820." Also includes "'Gateway to Early American Authors on the Web,' which allows you to browse a list of early American authors whose texts are available ... on sites that others have posted on the World Wide Web." A picture of the author is frequently provided.  Searchable and browsable.
  • George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress - The complete George Washington Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 65,000 documents. This collection includes correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799.
  • The Founders' Constitution - From the University of Chicago and the Liberty Fund. This online version of "The Founders' Constitution,"  is an anthology of documents from the 17th century through the 1830s about popular government in the United States. "The materials are arranged according to broad themes. ... Then they are arranged by article, section, and clause of the U.S. Constitution, from the Preamble through Article Seven and continuing through the first twelve Amendments." Searchable and browsable.
  • Historical Maps of the United States - Includes maps of: early inhabitants, exploration & settlement, U.S. territorial growth, the U.S. in 1906, national historical sites, and historical maps of cities.
  • Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States - Contains all the presidential inaugural addresses beginning with George Washington to the present.
  • Making of America - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  • National First Ladies Library - The first virtual library devoted to the lives of America's First Ladies. This web site contains descriptions of over 40,000 books, articles, letters, manuscripts and other literary works by and about America's First Ladies.
  • Presidential Libraries - Links to all of the Presidential Libraries
  • National Archives and Records Administration
  • Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 2600 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar
  • Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Supreme Court Decisions Homepage - Consists of over 7000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports.
  • Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress - The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest
    collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes.
  • U.S. Founding Documents - includes the scanned originals of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and others.

EARLY MODERN (1485-1800)

NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800's)

  • America's West - Development & History
  • The Avalon Project : 19th Century Documents
  • 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 from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
  • Making of America - making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  • New Perspectives on THE WEST - online companion to PBS documentary
  • Oregon Trail
  • Women in America, 1820-1842 - During the first half of the nineteenth century, Tocqueville and Beaumont were joined by scores of other European travelers curious about the new republic. Tocqueville and Beaumont noted numerous differences between France and the United States; one of the most striking was the status of women--their domestic roles, their freedom in youth, their responsibilities in marriage, and their importance to the moral and religious life of the republic. This site includes the writings Tocqueviile as well as a number of the eighteen travelers including--Irish, German, Scotch, English, and French--pieced together form a more complete and varied picture of the life of American women than can be gleaned from the text of Democracy in America alone.

Civil War

  • American Civil War Homepage - Gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). A very extensive site.
  • American Civil War -From EHistory maintained by Ohio State University History Department
  • The Historical New York Times Project: Chapter 2, The Civil War Years 1860-1866 - The Historical New York Times Project recently debuted the first in a series of Web offerings undertaken by the Universal Library at Carnegie Mellon University and sponsored by Seagate Technology. This chapter of the project is divided into Overview (by year), Topics (Battles, Military, Politics, Relations Among the States, and Social Issues), and Articles of Note. Each section contains selected articles drawn from the pages of the New York Times. As the site exists, it offers easy access to contemporary Civil War journalism albeit from a Northern, Union perspective.
  • Poetry and Music of the War Between the States - Through poetry and music this site will help you understand the thoughts and emotions of men on the battlefield and those left at home.
  • Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page - Contains 1,118 photographs and includes scenes of military personnel, preparations of battle and battle after-effects.
  • The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - An excellent implementation of hypertext in history. Includes maps and images, church and military records, letter and diaries, newspapers and public records.
  • Welcome to the U.S. Civil War Center! - Located at Louisiana State University seeks to locate, index, and /or make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War.
  • Who's Who in American History - Covers the American Civil War to the present with short biographies and a picture when available.

TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900's)

  • American Prohibition
  • The Avalon Project : 20th Century Documents
  • Cold War Hot Links: Web Sources Relating to the Cold War - These links are to webpages which other people have created and like most things on the net, they run the entire spectrum of political thought and vary greatly in quality. Nonetheless, they do provide web- surfers with some interesting views and information on the Cold War and the National Security State. Maintained by Professor David Price, St. Martin's College, Washington
  • Dogs of War:  K-9 History - Dogs have been by the military in both war and peace time "from before biblical times to the present." This site includes many rare photographs and covers dogs working as messengers, sentries, lifesavers, draft animals, comforting companions, and more, with a major emphasis on the United States and Britain. There is a page featuring other animals in wartime roles, such as horses, mules, elephants, and pigeons.
  • Free Speech Movement - Student Protest UC Berkelely 1964- 1965 - The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has made available an array of documents and media materials relating to t he Free Speech Movement (FSM) on the UC campus in the mid-60s. The site includes an online finding aid to the protest collections of the library, online video and sound recordings, a chronology, a bibliography, and a plethora of documents relating to the movement.
  • The Sixties Project: The Viet Nam Generation, Inc. Home Page
  • We Shall Overcome; Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement - A national register of historic places travel itinerary
  • Yahoo! - Community:History:Civil Rights Movement:People - Links to people involved in the Civil Rights Movement such as: Julian Bond, Martin Luther King Jr., Marshall Thurgood, and Rosa Parks and others.

WWI

WWII

Vietnam War and the Sixties

Persian Gulf War

UNITED STATES HISTORY - MULTICULTURAL

African American

Additional Sites

 

Asian American

  • Asian American Resources - Links to a wide variety of Web sites to Asian American resources.
  • 442ND Go for Broke - a history of Japanese American army soldiers during WWII.
  • Japanese American Internment - A comprehensive site of photographs, documents and links about the internment. A good place to start.
  • Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives - Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) This project indexes the holdings of a number of California repositories which document the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. There are over "10,000 digital images [which] have been created [and which are] complimented by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of document and oral histories." Although somewhat difficult to use, the results are richly rewarding for students and anyone else interested in these events. From the California Digital Library.
  • San Francisco History Museum by Subject - Links to full-text documents about Japanese American internment during WWII.
  • National Japanese American Historical Society - Provides information about the Society its traveling exhibits, history projects and links to other sources on the Web.

Additional Sites

European American

German

Italian

Jewish American

Mexican American/Latino

  • The Azteca Web Page - Clearinghouse of links to Latin American culture and history.
  • Chicano! Homepage - Centered around the PBS series called Chicano: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Includes teaching/learning resources and related links.
  • CLnet History Resources (UCLA) Links beginning with pre-Colombian and colonial periods to the 20th century, also genealogy, people and timelines. A good place to start.
  • Hispanics in Americas Defense - Highlights the contributions of Hispanics to the history of the United States
  • Latino Cultures & History - Links to various Web sites.

Additional Sites

Native American

  • Avalon Project : Relations Between The United States and Native Americans - documents
  • Avalon Project : Statutes of the United States Concerning Native Americans - documents
  • History of the NW Coast - History of Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest
  • NativeWeb - an Internet Community - Includes historical speeches, documents, brief histories of various Indian Nations.
  • Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project - A cooperative effort from the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes, this site offers access to the full texts of selected legal documents. Among these are Constitutions, Tribal Codes, Charters, Indian Land Titles, and summaries of recent US Supreme Court cases that have involved or affected Native Americans.
  • Native American History Resources on the Internet - this site is constructed primarily to provide information resources to the Native American community and only secondarily to the general community. The information is organized, insofar as possible, to make it useful to the Native American and the education community.
  • The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis -  one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture. Curtis said he wanted to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners." In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes. The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio, are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Featured here are all of the published photogravure images including over 1500 illustrations bound in the text volumes, along with over 700 portfolio plates.  Can be searched by keyword, subject, American Indian Tribe or geographic location or volume.
  • Spanish Conquest of Native America

Additional Sites

United States History - Religion

United States History - Women 

  • Link to Library Guide on Rearching Women's History in the COS Library
  • WWW Virtual Library Women's History - A Major Gateway. The main purposes of this virtual library are to list women's history institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and provide links to Internet resources on women's history. In addition, also included are a list of women's studies journals and a few comprehensive link collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women's studies in general.
  • American Women - A gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the study of Women's history and culture in the United States
  • American Women's History: A Research Guide - American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
  • The American Experience:  Fly Girls  (Women Airforce Service Pilots) - This Web site site is a companion to the television special airing on PBS June 2, 2002.  It contains a reference section that includes interview transcripts, a list of books and articles used as sources for the film, and Fly Girls-related documents and letters The site also contains a WASP timeline from 1937-1979, interactive maps of four trips made by Teresa James between various air bases, a teachers' reference guide, and much more
  • American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too!This site was developed by Captain Barbara S. Wilson, USAF (Ret.). It covers women's involvement in all of the American Wars, women's recruiting posters, military women in film, on television and stamps and military women astronauts. Much of this site writings are her personal opinions.
  • Center for Women Veterans -  Education, advocacy, and health information for women veterans, from a division of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Some documents, including a fact sheet and a FAQ, are only available in Microsoft Word.
  • Civil War Women - Primary Resources on the Internet
  • Civil War Women - On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University
  • Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - Duke Special Collections -The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
  • Early Modern Women Resources - This Web site provides annotated links to high quality academic resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. Specific focus is on periods between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; however, links also include some medieval and nineteenth century resources. Selected by members of the Arts and Humanities Team of the University of Maryland Libraries, materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Viewers may search the database by keyword or browse by title, subject, reference type, time period, language, or geographic area.
  • Internet Women's History Sourcebook - An Internet textbook by Professor Paul Halsall at Fordham University, New York.
  • Margaret Sanger Papers Project - The Margaret Sanger Papers Project is a historical editing project sponsored by the Department of History at New York University. The Project was formed in 1985 to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer.  It is an excellent place to start for research and/or general information on the founder of the birth control movement.
  • Minerva Center - a nonprofit corporation that focuses on the research and study of women in war and women and the military.
  • Multimedia Sites: Women's History
  • The National Women's Hall of Fame - Includes biographies and women's history.
  • National Women's History Project - The National Women’s History Project is a non–profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational material and programs
  • Nineteenth Amendment - Women's Suffrage Rights
  • Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials - a brief introduction from the city of Salem's homepage.
  • ViVa Women's History - This is a bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals.
  • Women and Social Movements - This website is intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
  • Women Come to the Front (Library of Congress) - spotlights eight women journalists, photographers and broadcasters of World War II. They include Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Clare Boothe Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig.
  • Women in America, 1820-1842 - - During the first half of the nineteenth century, Tocqueville and Beaumont were joined by scores of other European travelers curious about the new republic. Tocqueville and Beaumont noted numerous differences between France and the United States; one of the most striking was the status of women--their domestic roles, their freedom in youth, their responsibilities in marriage, and their importance to the moral and religious life of the republic. This site includes the writings Tocqueville as well as a number of the eighteen travelers including--Irish, German, Scotch, English, and French--pieced together form a more complete and varied picture of the life of American women than can be gleaned from the text of Democracy in America alone.
  • Woman Suffrage Movement - from the National Archives and Records Administration that includes primary sources, activities, and links to related web sites for educators and students

World History

  • EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents - The following links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history).
  • World History Archives - World History Archives Documents is for teaching and learning about world history from a working-class and non-eurocentric perspective. The presence of a document here does not imply an endorsement of its content nor any warrant of its authenticity.
  • Hanover College History Department - Texts and Documents - The beginnings of an excellent site. Currently this site covers primarily Europe and the United States and is working on the rest of the world. It includes primary and secondary sources and additional links of interest. It chronologically covers ancient, medieval, early modern and modern history for each region of the world and then by subcategories of literature, philosophy, theology, politics and science.
  • Historical Maps
  • Link to Ancient Roman History - This page contains links to many ancient history resources on the Internet, grouped by geographical location and time period.
  • MENALIB:  Middle East Virtual Library - The Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies.
  • Middle East History and References - This site focuses on creating dialog about the Middle East, its history, and its struggle for peace. It has provided texts of reports, policy statements, and other findings from 1915 to the present day. This includes Who is Osama Bin Ladin?, the Balfour declaration of 1917, the Hamas Charter of 1988, and the Mitchell Report of 2001. Each text is accompanied by an introduction with background information. From MidEast Web.
  • Internet Researcher: A Guide to Medieval and Byzantine Studies Resources-  (from Catholic University of America Libraries) - This page is designed to help you find Internet resources related to Medieval and Byzantine history. Its purpose is to serve as a starting point--a guide to selected resources--rather than a comprehensive list.
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: World History Central Catalogue - a major Gateway

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