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     MAJOR HISTORY DIRECTORIES  

The History Net

Don't miss this huge history site. It includes hundreds of articles and images derived from past and current history magazines. Interviews, journals, features, profiles, homes, and much much more.

Yahoo History Directory

Selected history sites by subject .

History Buff's Reference Library

Interesting history project - newspaper format.

Library Congress American Memory

Library of Congress photo and essay archives.

Historical Maps of the United States

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 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

Historical Documents

A chronology of U.S. document from Pre-Colonial to the present.  Flags included.

American Memory Project

This project by the Library of Congress includes letters, photographs, essays, and more on a variety of American history topics. Recommended!

Declaration of Independence

100 Documents that Shaped History

This US News and World Report site is searchable by chronology or theme.

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  JOURNALS

Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History

The History Net Collection of Magazines

 

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      CHRONOLOGICAL LISTINGS OF HISTORY INTERNET SITES

   Civil War - 1860-1865

Gettysburg

Nov 19, 1863. Full text of Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln).  

54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I

The 54th Mass African-American Infantry unit. First black trained unit in the Civil War.

Library of Congress Civil War Archives

The Library of Congress has a large collection of photographs as well as Civil War displays.

Legality of the 14th Amendment (Congressional Record)

From the Congressional Record - a presentation to congress concerning the 14th Amendment.

American Civil War World Homepage

         Civil war information, documents and archive. Great location to begin.

United States Civil War Research Center

A large database of Civil War information and sites.

Confederate Pension Index - Texas

This information is from the Texas State Library. Other states have their info online, also.

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  RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards

Several short entries from this period.

Abraham Lincoln Institute

Interesting page with timeline and other information about Lincoln.

 

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  WESTWARD EXPANSION

How the West Was Won and Won....

An essay in the High Country News by Jim Woolf

Westward Expansion

Links to essays and websites on the topic

 History of the West

A home-grown page, but interesting and informative

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  INDUSTRIAL AGE 1880-1910

Courthouse Square 1880 - City of Brownwood, Texas

Photo.

Expansion and Reform

Chapter 6 discusses "The Era of Expansion and Reform," Industry, Cities and their Problems, Machines, Populists, Reform, and Roosevelt Saving Resources.

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935

Includes papers and bibliography

The Titanic  

A special exhibit from Encyclopedia Britannica (Titanic).

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WORLD WAR I

World War I - Trenches on the Web

Great WWI site - timeline, search engine, essays, etc.

The Great War

PBS site - great - essays, interviews, etc.

WWI Chronology

Timeline and description of certain WWI events

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  THE TWENTIES

Calvin Coolidge

Sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, the foundation works with historians, researchers and educators to provide the best and latest material on Coolidge, his political ideas, and his life and times. .

The Price of Civilization: A History of American Taxation

The Great Depression - very good collection of original documents.

Renaissance History

The Harlem Renaissance.

The Jazz Age

An historical view through the music and events of the 20s and 30s, Coolidge and Lindbergh, The market crash of 1929.

America in the 1920's

An overview of the decade.http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kpl5/Link5_overview.html

Temperance and Prohibition

History of the movement; visit old time saloons.

The Harlem Renaissance

African-American literature, art, music, dance and soical commentary flourished in Harlem, a section of New York City in the 1920s.

Swing Dance Styles

Styles and history.

The Progressive Era

Links to general progressive era resources, reform, foreign policy, woman’s suffrage movement, politics, and labor.

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THE THIRTIES

Social Security Plan

Includes history through today's reform.

Voices from the Thirties:

Oral histories.

Radio

Radio information including Hopalong Cassidy, The Shadow, from 1932, and Sherlock Holmes.

WPA Life Histories--Home Page

From Library of Congress.

The Great Depression

Stories of Michigan during the Great Depression from the Michigan Historical Museum Photo Gallery.

The Crash and the Great Depression

From PBS.

Great Depression Recipes  

           Includes recipes for :  meat, seafood, salads, breads, casseroles, pastas, preserves,  

           jams,pastries,cookies,candies, and other desserts.

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     THE FORTIES

The Civilian Conservation Corps

History and today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

From Encyclopedia Americana.

The Forties

War and Peace in the forties - a cultural essay.

Character Above All: Harry S. Truman Essay

Very good. Includes photos.

Marshall Plan

An essay on the Marshall Plan

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WORLD WAR II

Battle of Bastogne Journal

D-Day

Learning resource from Encyclopedia Britannica on D-Day and the Normandy Invasion. Includes detailed articles, personal histories

Women's Army Corps WWII

Includes photos.

American Aircraft Carrier Directory

Includes specific aircraft carriers, length, speed, class, armament, etc. Covers March and April, 1943.

Combat Chronology U.S. Army Air Forces

Covers Jan., Feb., Mar., April, and Dec. of 1943.

Women Come to the Front

The story and pictures of 8 women journalists, broadcasters, and photographers during WWII. Exhibit from Library of Congress.

4 Freedoms Speech - Roosevelt

Speech given by F.D. Roosevelt on the sixth of January in 1941.

FDR

Biographical information from the White House site.

Postwar Estrangement

Post WWII, includes a telegram to Truman.

Japanese Surrender and other Documents

Terms of surrender, offer of surrender, Potsdam Declaration, and Instrument of Surrender

Sunsite's collection of Military WWII documents 

          WWII documents - gopher menu. Download or print.

The Warsaw Uprising

Although still under construction, the Warsaw Uprising (8/1/44-10/2/44) page includes background information before the uprising, the aftermat, and maps & photos.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Raid: Overview and images.

Holocaust Encyclopedia

Information from The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum.

  THE FIFTIES

Elvis' Record History - The Fifties

Just for fun - Elvis albums.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Includes photos, bio info, links.

Korean War (1950-1953)

"The American 1950s"

The #1 page for the 1950's.

Joe McCarthy

A brief excerpt from Richard Rovere's Senator Joe McCarthy

Rosa Parks

Essay with small photo.

 KOREA

Korean War Project Home Page

Dedicated to those who died in the Korean War.

  THE SIXTIES

Jim Crow Oral History Project

Interviews - memories of segregation.

Martin Luther King

Includes "I have a dream" speech. 

The Malcolm X Interview

         1965 Malcolm X was shot. This is an interview with Alex Haley.

Brown v. Board of Education

Landmark U. S. Supreme Court Decision.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

The Library - archives.

Hippies - Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury in 1967. Includes text, images, and photographs.

Bobkirk's Deadhead Family Page

Peace and love - and about being real hippies.

The Digger Archives

The Diggers were a Haight-Ashbury hippie group. Made history during '66-68. Hippie movement.

Best of Kennedy Assasination Web Sites

Links to collected JFK sites.

Cuba

The Cuban Missile Crisis: The British Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Includes an introduction, chapters 1-3, a conclusion, and a select bibliography of sources.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute

Building upon the achievements of Stanford University’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, the King Research and Education Institute provides an institutional home for a broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel Peace laureate’s life and the movements he inspired.

  VIETNAM

Hanoi Hannah Text

Text from Hanoi Hannah, radio celebrity, giving mixed messages and misinformation to American soldiers.

POW / MIA

Archives including documents MIA/POW papers. - a gopher menu.

Citations

A list of United States servicemen who received the nations highest military award during the Vietnam War.

E. Kenneth Hoffman - Vietnam Portfolio

Portfolio of 80 photographs taken in Vietnam (1969-70). Includes captions.

Vietnam War: Starting Points for Research  

Links are categorized by: personal memoirs, images, electronic journals, documents, bibliographies, documents, discussions and specialized search engines and major sites

Vietnam Era Documents.

Vietnam War: 1965 - 1975. Senate Select POW-MIA Affairs Report, State Department White Paper on Vietnam, Tonkin Gulf Message and Resolution, Two letters from Ngo Dinn Diem, and Vietnam Vets Against the War Statement.

  THE SEVENTIES

 

The Seventies

Great overview of the decade.

Watergate

Good site - journal. From Australia.....

Nixon

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collection of Nixon materials

Richard M. Nixon

Official White House biography.

  SPACE HISTORY

Apollo-11

Apollo II includes the crew, milestones, and the launch.

Historical Archive

Historical Archive - Space History. Includes unmanned missions, unmanned missions, Gemini, Project Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.

Project Skylab

Project Skylab includes goals,station, summary, manned and unmanned missions.

THE EIGHTIES

The 80s Server

The beginning of a multimedia server for the '80s. "...head back to the time when Reagan was King." This search engine only looks for sites that contain information about the 1980s.

GULF WAR

NETSTORM - Appendix

Desert Storm chronology of events.

NETSTORM - Glossary

A glossary of Desert Storm.

NETSTORM - Chapter1

Command Administration.

NETSTORM - Chapter 3

Missile & Rocket Systems Deployed to Southeast Asia Operation Desert Storm Strategy

NETSTORM - Chapter 4

Systems deployed to Southwest Asia.

HISTORY SITES and MISCELLANEOUS

History of the United States

The Lower Manhattan Project in 1890, and Mark Twain on acquisition of Phillipines, and the 20th Century with War Powers Resolution of 1973, World War II, Vietnam War and the Gulf War, African American information, bibliographies, and constitutions. Much more. Mississippi State archives.

The Avalon Project

Wonderful collection of original documents, archived by Yale University.

Presidential Sites

Information about the U. S. Presidents, also links to their libraries and home pages.

Selections from The African-American Mosaic

Entries include the beginning of colonization, abolition, migration westward and the WPA. From Library of Congress.

GETTING HELP FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT

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Sites gathered by Sally Die and Peggy Whitley.  Comments peggy.whitley@lonestar.edu
Updated 08/08 SM

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