Topical List of Sites Included in
The American History Search Engine
This is the complete list of websites which are searched by the American History Search Engine.
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Some sites are cross-listed in several areas, but it is wise to also explore similar topics.
Discovery and Exploration
Colonial and Revolutionary America
African American History
Slavery and Abolition
The Civil Rights Movement
Military History
Modern America
Immigration, Immigrant Cultures, and Foreign Connections
Notable People
American Presidents
Law and Government
Medicine and Health
Miscellaneous Special Topics
General US History Resources
Discovery and Exploration
>>> 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Library of Congress)
>>> Christopher Columbus image collection (Library of Congress)
>>> Exploration Through the Ages (Mariners’ Museum)
>>> Exploring the Early Americas (Library of Congress)
Colonial and Revolutionary America
>>> Virtual Jamestown (Virginia Center for Digital History)
African American History
>>> African American Mosaic resource guide (Library of Congress)
>>> African Americans and the Chesapeake Bay (Mariners' Museum)
>>> American Black Journal archive (Michigan State University)
>>> Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History (Columbia University)
>>> BlackPast.org (BlackPast.org; Quintard Taylor, Professor of American History)
>>> Exploring Amistad (Mystic Seaport Museum)
>>> In Motion: African-American Migration Experience (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
>>> Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project (Stanford University)
>>> Race and Place: African-American Community in Jim Crow South (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> The Rosa Parks Bus (The Henry Ford Museum)
>>> Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
>>> National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institute)
Slavery and Abolition
>>> American Abolitionism Project (Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis)
>>> Exploring Amistad (Mystic Seaport Museum)
>>> Geography of Slavery (Virginia runaways) (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> Slavery and Justice Exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library (Brown Library)
>>> Texas Slavery Project (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas (Mariners' Museum)
The Civil Rights Movement
>>> Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History (Columbia University)
>>> Civil Rights Era Television News (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
(University of Arkansas)
>>> Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project (Stanford University)
>>> Wednesdays in Mississippi and Civil Rights (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> Voices of Civil Rights (AARP, LCCR, and Library of Congress)
Military History
Civil War
>>> American Civil War (National Park Service)
>>> Civil War Center (Louisiana State University)
>>> Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System (National Park Service)
>>> The Valley Project: Two Communities in the American Civil War (Virginia Center for Digital History)
World War II
>>> Battle of the Atlantic: Allied Naval Intelligence in WWII (Mariners' Museum)
>>> World War II Documents Digitized (U.S. GPO and Southern Methodist University)
Other
>>> Birth of the Navy (Mariners' Museum)
>>> Spanish-American War online collection (Library of Congress)
>>> Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo online collection (Library of Congress)
>>> U.S. Army Center of Military History (U.S. Army Center for Military History)
>>> U.S.-Mexican War (Descendants of Mexican War Veterans)
>>> U.S.S. Monitor : History and Legacy (Mariners’ Museum)
>>> Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
Modern America
>>> 20th Century America (The Henry Ford Museum)
>>> The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI)
>>> New Deal Network (Frankling and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, FERI)
Immigration, Immigrant Cultures, and Foreign Connections
>>> America and the Netherlands (Library of Congress)
>>> France in America (Library of Congress)
>>> Immigration to the U.S.,1789-1930 (Harvard University Library)
>>> Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier (Library of Congress)
>>> United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (Library of Congress)
Notable People
>>> Christopher Columbus image collection (Library of Congress)
>>> Clara Barton Historic Site Homepage (National Park Service)
>>> Dolly Madison Project (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> Eisenhower National Historic Site Homepage (National Park Service)
>>> Frederick Douglass Papers Project (Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis)
>>> Mark Twain Project Online (University of California)
>>> Margaret Sanger Papers Project (New York University)
>>> Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project (Stanford University)
>>> The Rosa Parks Bus (The Henry Ford Museum)
>>> Papers of George Washington (University of Virginia)
>>> Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
>>> Papers of Jefferson Davis (Rice University)
>>> Susan B. Anthony: Celebrating "A Heroic Life" (University of Rochester)
American Presidents
>>> American Presidency Project (University of California, Santa Barbara)
>>> Eisenhower National Historic Site Homepage (National Park Service)
>>> The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI)
>>> Papers of George Washington (University of Virginia)
>>> Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
Law and Government
>>> Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)
>>> THOMAS legislative information resource (Library of Congress)
>>> U.S. House of Representatives: House History (U.S. House of Representatives)
>>> U.S. House of Representatives: Interactive Timeline (U.S. House of Representatives)
>>> Women in Congress (U.S. House of Representatives)
Medicine and Health
>>> Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics (Harvard University Library)
>>> Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914: A Digital Library (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Miscellaneous Special Topics
>>> American Centuries: View From New England (Memorial Hall Museum Online)
>>> American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
>>> Chesapeake Bay: Our History and Our Future (Mariners' Museum)
>>> Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (Colorado State Library & Colorado Historical Society)
>>> Economic History data sets and databases (EH.net)
>>> Governing America in the Global Era: syllabi/bibliographies on various topics (Miller Center of Public Affairs)
>>> Holocaust Visual History Archive (SHOAH Foundation, University of Southern California)
>>> The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1870-1935 (Virginia Center for Digital History)
>>> Southwest Crossroads (School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience [SAR])
>>> Women and the Sea (Mariners' Museum)
General US History Resources
>>> American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institute)
>>> American Memory (Library of Congress)
>>> Archive of History and Genealogy Programs (Online Programming for All Libraries [OPAL])
>>> Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)
>>> Chronicling America: Historic American Newspaper Project (Library of Congress)
>>> Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents (University of Oklahoma College of Law)
>>> Digital History (University of Houston)
>>> Gilder Lehrman Collection (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
>>> History and Politics Out Loud (Michigan State University, et. al.)
>>> History Now (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
>>> Humanities Magazine Archive (National Endowment for the Humanities)
>>> Library of Congress Main Reading Room (Library of Congress)
>>> Many Pasts: primary documents (George Mason University)
>>> National Archives Research Catalog (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
>>> NPS Historic Photograph Collection (National Park Service)
>>> NPS History & Culture Homepage (National Park Service)
>>> Primary Resources in US History and Literature (National Humanities Center)
