Spartacus Online Encyclopaedia of US History - free historical encyclopaedia
National Museum of American History - features online exhibits from the Smithsonian Intuition's American History Museum.
American Studies Web - the largest bibliography of web-based resources in the field of American Studies. Contains information on a wide variety of topics including immigration, current events, folklore, politics, and war
Digital History - developed through a partnership between top universities, historical societies, and the National Parks Service, this site offers an online encyclopedia, virtual exhibitions, and primary source documents
National Heritage Academies' History Interactive - organized in a timeline, this site offers live streaming video, pictures, and documents
HistoryWired - is an experimental program through which you can take a
virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National
Museum of American History. Here you'll have an opportunity to look at hundreds
of museum artifacts, most of which are not currently on exhibit.
Smithsonian Education - made just for students, this website has online interactive games, trivia quizzes, and activities
Imperial War Museum - online exhibits and information from one of England's best museums
Eyewitness to History - features first hand accounts of people who were present at historic events from ancient times to present
America's Story - produced by the Library of Congress, this site offers timelines and articles about key events in American History
American Cultural History - prepared by the reference department at Kingwood College, this site gives information on art, music, film, and fashion for each decade of the Twentieth Century
1492: An Ongoing Voyage - an online exhibit from the Library of Congress that examines the cultural impact of Columbus' discovery
Discoverers' Web - links to pages on discoverers and explorers
BBC's History of Exploration - powered by the British Broadcasting Corporation, this site features interactive maps, online tours, and thematic essays on exploration from ancient times to present day
Medieval Sourcebook- Extracts from Columbus' Journals - part of a project from Fordham University, this site contains documents from Columbus' journal from his 1492 voyage.
Sir Francis Drake - essays and biographical information on the famous English explorer
First Nations - links to various sites that give detailed information on Native American tribes
Lewis & Clark - produced by PBS, this site serves as a companion piece to the Ken Burns Film
Rivers, Edens, and Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of America - an online exhibit from the Library of Congress
Mayflower Web - information on passengers of the Mayflower, digitized primary source documents, and a detailed history of the ship and its voyage
Jamestown Rediscovery Web - official site of the Jamestown of the restored Jamestown settlement featuring online exhibits, essays, and passenger lists
Virtual Tour of Plymouth Plantation - an online exhibit of the restored Pilgrim settlement
13 Originals - Contains links to colonial maps and charters, plus essays regarding each of the original 13 colonies
Archive of Early America - features digitized documents, letters, and newspapers from colonial times, plus short movies
Colonial Williamsburg - the official site of the restored 18th century colonial Virginia capitol
You Be the Historian - an interactive tour of everyday life in colonial America, created by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
The History Place: American Revolution - timelines, biographies, and a synopsis of key events
The American Revolution and Its Era - created by the Library of Congress, this site offers maps and charts of the war
Multi-educator's American Revolution - and interactive timeline of key events of the war
PBS Liberty! - companion piece to the PBS series, this site features timelines, resources, daily life, military point-of-views and a revolutionary war game
Little Known Facts About the American Revolution - compiled by the state of Delaware
National Parks Service: American Revolution - tour Revolutionary War sites online
Spy Letters - An online exhibit from the University of Michigan featuring digitized letters from Revolutionary spies
The American Civil War Homepage - compiled by a professor at the University of Tennessee, this site gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War
The Valley of the Shadow: The Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia - interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War
The Museum of the Confederacy - features online exhibits focusing on Southern involvement in the war
The Civil War - produced by PBS, this site serves as a companion piece to the Ken Burns Film
Index of Civil War Information - created by the United States Civil War Center, this is an extensive indexing of websites pertaining to the war
Camp Life - created by the National Parks Service, this online exhibit shows what army life was like for both Confederate and Federal troops
Battle Summaries - produced by the National Parks Service, this site provides very brief overviews of battles
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States - this site features full text poetry from both Union and Confederate soldiers, plus MIDI files and lyrics of wartime songs
Virginia Center for Civil War Studies - from Virginia Polytechnic and State University, this site has a wealth of information on the Civil War
Civil War@Smithsonian - produced by the National Portrait Gallery, this site dedicated to examining the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institution's extensive collections
Progressive Era and World War I
Triangle Factory Fire - online exhibit from Cornell University
Evolution of the Conservation Movement - the Library of Congress presents this online exhibit that traces the origins of conservation in the U.S.
Women's Suffrage - collection of primary documents on the Suffrage Movement from SUNY Binghamton
BBC School World War I - read and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes. Also features games and activities.
No Man's Land: The Wartime Paintings of Mary Ritter Hamilton - features wartime artwork from an acclaimed artist who created over 300 paintings of battlefields
The Doughboy Center - from the Great War Society, this site offers information on army life during the war
Trenches on the Web - a comprehensive reference library containing information on the World War I era
Doughboy Hit Parade - this site features popular music from the Great War
Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression
Puritans to Prohibition - this site gives interesting facts about the history of alcohol consumption in the U.S.
Flapper Culture and Style - this site gives the history of Flappers and includes many photographs and cartoons
Sacco and Vanzetti - created by Court TV, this site give a detailed account of the famous trial and includes primary documents, a trial transcript and multimedia tools
Jazz - created by PBS, this is the companion site to the Ken Burn's film - read biographies on famous singer/songwriters or listen to sound files
New Deal Network - an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The New Deal Network is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.
America in the 1930s - organized like a newspaper, this site offers information regarding world events, culture, and daily life during the 1930s.
The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl - from the PBS series, this site offers first hand accounts from people who lived through the Depression in the Southern Plains.
Great Depression Photographs - online index from the Library of Congress of thousands of black and white or color photographs taken during the 1930s.
Museum of World War II - online exhibits featuring artifacts, primary documents, and photographs
A People At War - online exhibit from the National Archives
BBC's History of
World War II - a wealth of information on the war from
the British Broadcasting Corporation, this site
offers timelines, biographies, and a multimedia gallery
Museum of the Holocaust
- online exhibits, photo galleries, and eyewitness
accounts
Cybrary of the Holocaust - research materials, primary documents, and photographs
Topaz Museum - online exhibits that tell the story of the Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII
American Big Band Database
- information on famous bands and bandleaders of the the
Swing Era
Songs of World War II
- listen to WAV files of famous songs from the 1940s
Baseball Enlists - online exhibit from the National Baseball Hall of Fame
1950s: McCarthyism, Cold War, and Rock 'N Roll
Cold War Museum - online exhibits that examine the 30+ year standoff between the U.S. and the USSR
Fifties Web - fashion and fads from the fabulous fifties
HUAC and Hollywood - examines the Second Red Scare and its effects on the Entertainment Industry
McCarthyism - online encyclopaedia article that describes the persecution of suspected communists lead by Senator Joseph McCarthy
Rave On - explore the roots of Rock and Roll music through this online exhibit from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Battlefield Vietnam - created by PBS, this site gives a brief history of the war
National Civil Rights Museum - online exhibits, information, and activities
MLK Page - created by the Political Science department of Western Michigan University, this site offers an annotated timeline of the Civil Rights Movement
American Cultural History 1960-1969 - created by the Kingwood College Library, this site give information on the music, fashion, and entertainment of the Sixties
Apollo 11 - a NASA website that describes the first mission to land on the Moon - this site has pictures, sound clips and film from the mission.
I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era - an online exhibit from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1970s: Watergate, Disco, and Pet Rocks
Revisiting Watergate - from the paper that cracked the scandal, The Washington Post has designed a multimedia look at Watergate
Disco Step By Step - an online chronology of the rise and fall of Disco
American Cultural History: 1970-1979 - created by the Kingwood College Library, this site give information on the music, fashion, and entertainment of the Seventies
1980s and 1990s: Reaganomics, PCs, and Grunge
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library - documents and images from Reagan's years in office
History of AIDS and HIV - from AVERT, an international organization dedicated to eradicating AIDS, this site give a synopsis of the disease and the research being done to find a cure
The Space Shuttle Challenger - from NASA, this site gives the history of the Challenger explosion and the ensuing investigations
Classic 80s Arcade Games - play Frogger or Pac Man for free at this site
Computer History Museum - online exhibits that follow the rise of computers
History of Grunge - online encyclopaedia article that explores the most popular musical trend of the 90s
The Gulf War - from PBS, this site offers a history of the first Gulf War