Progressive Era 1890 - 1913 |
20th Century Wars |
The Cold War
20th Century through the 40's |
Culture of the 50's and 60's |
American Foreign Policy
Gateway to American History Sites
American
and British History Resources on the Net
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
Links organized into Reference Resources (documents, maps, treaties),
History Gateways and Text sites, Titles by Historic Period, Archival and
Manuscripts Guides, and other Net Resources.
American History
http://americanhistory.miningco.com/homework/americanhistory/mbody.htm
Links to sites covering every aspect of the Social Sciences
American History Index
http://dent.edmonds.wednet.edu/IMD/historyamerican.html
Extensive lists of American History sites including featured links.
Any Day in History
http://www.scopesys.com/cgi/today2.cgi
Extensive information on births, deaths, and events on any given day in
history
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian features
answers to
frequently asked
questions
about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources on
subjects from
Art
to
Zoology.
General American History
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/GenAm.html
This site is made up of links including AP information.
General and National History Day Research
http://www.nara.gov/education/historyday/history.html
This site provides guidance and activities on navigating the National
Archives. There are research tips, activities for students new to research
and guidance on citing primary sources.
Geostat Center: Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
Examine state and county topics for individual census years going back to
1790
The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com
Changing
features and This Day in History, along with search capability. The great
speech section features a speech of historical significance and allows
visitors’ access to the Speech Archive.
The History Net
http://www.thehistorynet.com
This is an extensive
history archive, which includes World History, American history, great
battles, World War II, Eyewitness Accounts and more.
The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com
Set up like a museum, the History Place features exhibits for
a limited period of time and then replaces them with something new. There is
a photo of the week and a speech of the week.
The
HistoryWiz
http://www.historywiz.com/main.htm
This multimedia world history site is a good starting point for research. It
is organized by time period, by region, and by type of resource.
Internet History Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
The Internet History
Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical
texts presented cleanly for educational use.
National History Day
http://www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay
The following list of links is designed to help students, teachers, parents,
administrators, and visitors in a variety of ways. Links are provided to
National History Day programs and to organizations and institutions that may
be of interest to History Day participants both nationally and by state.
National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
The National Museum of American History (NMAH) is devoted to collecting,
preserving, and interpreting artifacts as a special class of historical
evidence--and as principal expressions of human creativity. Check the
Collections, Scholarship and Research sections for the departments and
divisions.
Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org
Sections include centers for students, parents, biography center, and
history of the women's movement.
Naval Historical Center
http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html
Click on Wars and
Conflicts of the United states Navy for overviews of Naval History. Scroll
down to Naval History by period and click on the time period needed.
Spartacus Educational
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
This is a wonderful historical encyclopedia created in Great Britain, made
freely available. You can scroll down the left side for topics or scroll to
the end of the page. Every time you click to a topic scroll down to the
information.
States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com/
All kinds of information about the 50 states.
Today in History Archive
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
American Memory is a gateway to primary source materials relating to
history. At this URL find out what happened today in history.
University of California Riverside Web Links to
History Resources
http://www.ucr.edu/info/academic.html
An intensive list of
sites that include an award-winning page of histories of countries, times,
places, areas of history, web tools, and link collections.
University of
Tennessee
http://www.utc.edu/~suntrust/links_history_index.html
This site has a list of links to many historical jump off
sites.
US
Geographical Survey
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/explorer/topic_map_links.asp
This is a list of
various maps from the USGS. One topic is Historic Mapping which lists many
map collections.
US History
http://www.wtps.org/links/hist_us.htm#pre-civil%20war
Another extensive list
to US History
Wars and Conflicts
http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/index.html
This site from the Naval Historical Center covers naval history from
1776 to post 1991 conflicts.
WWW-VL the History
Index
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Finding Aids include a bibliography, indexes, archives,
libraries, booksellers and museums. Materials include general reference,
historical journals, data, history and images. Lists are by country and
region, eras and epochs, ancient times, and other historical topics. There
are over 4000 connections arranged by subject and name.
Last
updated: 05.01.2007
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