Student Research Aids

 

Starting Points

Librarians' Index to the Internet

Digital Librarian: History

Digital History

Making History on the Web: History Resources on the Web

O'Keefe Library-Best Information on the Net

WWW Virtual Library

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Hitchhiker's Guide to American History

 

Internet Search Strategies

Web Search Strategies

Information Literacy Tutorial

Searching the Internet Effectively

Teaching and the Internet: Web Risks

 

Search Engines

WWW-VL: History: W3 Search Engines

ODP - Open Directory Project

Ix Quick: Internet Search Engine

Who2 – Find Famous People Fast

Infomine: Scholarly Resource Internet Information

Search Tools

 

Research Tools: History and the Social Sciences

Scholars’ Guide to the World Wide Web

Best History Sites Portal

U.S. History Web Links

Social Studies Links - MHRIC

Subject Research Guides: History - American and British (Rutgers University Libraries)

WWW.History

History on the Net

PBS | History

H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online

Department of History ETSU Links

The History Guide: Resources for Historians

American Studies Resources

Public History Resource Center

The America Project

History Links from Tennessee Tech

A Biography of America

The History Cooperative

The TimePage - Cycles in U.S. History

Making of America Collection

For Teachers (Library of Congress)

Online Book Catalog - Overview - Project Gutenberg

National Geographic Site Index: History

America's Library

World History Connected | The e-Journal of Learning and Teaching

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Outline of American History

Hall of North and South Americans

The Online Books Page

Cornell Library Historical Monographs

Project Muse: Scholarly Journals On-Line

Directory of Open Access Journals

Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'

National Archives: Access to Archival Databases

Federal Research Division (Customized Research and Analytical Services, Library of Congress)

THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet

Spartacus Educational - Home Page

Reference Resources via the World Wide Web

History News Network

U.S. Newspapers

Library of Congress: Country Studies

2001 Statistical Abstract of the United States

Measuring America: The Decennial Census, 1790-2000

FirstGov: Gateway to Government Resources

Character Above All: An Exploration of Presidential Leadership

 

Women’s History Resources

Multimedia Sites in Women’s History

Women in World History

American Women Through Time

WWW-VL: United States History Index: US Women's History

American Women’s History: A Research Guide

U.S. History - Women

Women of Our Time

American Women Home Page

History’s Women: The Unsung Heroines

Women in World History Curriculum

Women’s Studies Database

America’s First Ladies

National Women’s Hall of Fame

Famous American Women

National Women’s History Project

Women’s Studies Historical Timelines

American Women’s History: A Research Guide

Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1775-2000

American Women’s History

JWA - Exhibits - Women of Valor

Celebration of Women Writers

Women In World History

Welcome to Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

 

History “From the Bottom Up”

WWW-VL: United States History Index: US: African-American History

WWW-VL: History: United States History Index: US Slavery

WWW-VL: History: United States History Index: Ethnic Studies

American Social History Project

Hall of Black Achievement Gallery

Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

American Slave Narratives

A History of African Migrations

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

The American Indian Studies Research Institute

National Anthropological Archives Home Page

Native American Home Pages

Native American Resources

African American History: A Guide to Available Resources

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard)

The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992

 

Documents, Photographs, and Archival Collections

Internet Archive: The Way Back Machine

The Library of Congress - Chronicling America

American South: Locating Digital Resources

Picture History

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Bain Collection - About

Electronic texts for the Study of American Culture

American Notes: Travel in America, 1750-1920

Century of Lawmaking: Timeline of Congressional Documents

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents

Classics of American Colonial History: Subject Directory

Government Documents: University of Michigan

Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Re-Published

Our Documents: An Innovative Collection of Primary Sources

Words and Deeds in American History

Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia

Repositories of Primary Sources

U.S. Historical Documents

Duke University’s Award Winning Scriptorium

First Person Narratives: The American South, 1860-1920

U.S. History Hypertext Collection

Historical Text Archive

Digital History

Hanover Historical Texts Project

Eyewitness History: History through the Eyes of those Who Lived It

U. S. Constitution

National Constitution Center

The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection

Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online

 

Speeches and Multimedia

Reel American History

American Rhetoric: Speech Database

Online Speech Bank

American RadioWorks

Presidential Speeches

History & Politics Out Loud: Audio Resources on the Internet

History Channel: Speeches

MSU Vincent Voice Library

Say It Plain - American RadioWorks

 

Legal and Constitutional Issues

Exploring Constitutional Conflicts

GUIDE: The Guide to Law Online

H-Law’s Legal and Constitutional websites

Professor Brudvig’s Constitutional Law Site

 

Maps and Atlases

OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource

Historical Maps--MapMachine--atlas, street maps (National Geographic)

Map Central

Historical Maps of the United States

Rare Map Collection

Animated Atlas

Indian Territory Interactive Map - OKGenWeb

Test Your Geography Knowledge

 

Museums, Institutes, and Historic Sites

Virtualology A Virtual Education Project

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

National Museum of American History

Smithsonian Institution

National Park Service’s Links to the Past

The Bancroft Library

Virtual Library Museums Page

Memorial Hall Museum Online: American History & Art from New England

The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive

 

Aesthetics and the Social Sciences

Perspectives in American Literature: A Research & Reference Guide

Art Images for College Teaching

I Hear America Singing (Music, Theater and Dance Collections from the Library of Congress)

World War I Sheet Music

Lukas’ Links to Online Videos and Documentaries

SAAM: Teachers and Students

Photographic Libraries

American Popular Music before 1900

Native American Art, History and Cultural Tour

Picture History - Home

The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge

American Art at the Smithsonian

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

National Gallery of Art Teaching Resource

Early American Paintings

Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery

American Writers: Classroom Resources

History in Song

Ease History - Historical Events, Campaign Ads, Core Values

Colonial Music Institute

Art on the Internet

Stories from American on Music Video

Reel American History: American Cinema and History

History House: An Irreverent History Magazine

Save Our Sounds: America’s Recorded Heritage

World War 1 Songs and American Patriotic Music

 

Online Exhibits

The Library of Congress: Online Exhibits

American Memory Online Collections

Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Past at the Library of Congress

The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

 

Libraries

Virtual Library      

Library Spot.com

Internet Public Library

The Digital Librarian: History

U.S. Public Libraries On-Line

New York Public Library: The Research Libraries

 

Revised January 2007