History+Resources

Digital Museums, Libraries, Government Archives, and Media Archives on the Web.

With No Limitations On Their Usage
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Thomas Congressional Record @http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php

100 milestone documents []

Harry Truman Presidential Library and Museum

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History Matters -Online History Textbook with lots of resources

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Digital History form University of Houston

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PBS Online

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Cnn.com Archives

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California Digital Library

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The New York Public Library

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Digital Library for Earth System Education

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American Memory (Library of Congress)

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The Thomas Jefferson Papers

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Digital South Asia Library

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International Journal of Early Journals

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The Library of Virginia

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Cornell Digital Library

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Making of America

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Columbia University’s Digital Library

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Boston College Art Collection

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Denver Public Library – Photos of the West

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Smithsonian Institution

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National Archives and Records Administration

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Presidential Libraries Online

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Library of Congress

[|http://www.loc.gov]

British Library

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Archive.org

[|http://www.archive.org]

Picts 4 learning

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Omaha Public library

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Durham Western heritage Museum

[|http://www.dwhm.org]

Creative Commons

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Creative Commons Search

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Yahoo Creative Commons Search

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[|The Holocaust History Project] [|PBS's //American Experience//: "America and the Holocaust"] [|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

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 * Marshall University Plane Crash

Mount St. Helens, Washington, May 18, 1980 Eruption []

The Sultan of Swat - George Herman "Babe" Ruth 1895-1948 []

N.Y. Yankees - History []

National Baseball Hall of Fame - Babe Ruth []

The Great Fire of London 1666 as reported by the London Gazette [] []

Tuskegee Airmen []

Freedom Now! Archival project of Tougaloo College and Brown University. []

When Youth Protest (Mississippi Historical Society) []

Mississippi Freedom Summer (King Institute ~ Stanford Univ) []

Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website []

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (USGS) []

The Great Fire of London [] [] []

Amelia Earhart [] [] []

Tuskegee Airmen [] []

Martin Luther King, Jr. [] []

Spanish Flu Epidemic [] []

Useful history websites: [|AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History] [|American Memory - Collections of the Library of Congress] [|American Women's History: A Research Guide] [|Best Information on the Net - History] : Sites selected for scholarly research by O'Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University; primarily free sites, some subscription sites are listed to which CBC students will not have access. [|Best of History Web Sites] : indexes "over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness." [|Biography of America] : companion website to the Annenberg/WGBH video series, with key events, maps, and a 'webography' for each segment. Videos may be viewed online with free registration. [|Digital History] : Primarily U.S. history [|Cold War International History Project] [|History Guide] : A "subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites in history;" use the Advanced Search feature to limit by language (this is an international project). [|History Matters] : the U.S. Survey Course on the Web. [|History/North America/Internet Resources] - Subject guide from Rutger's University Libraries. [|Internet Public Library - History Section] [|Making of America] : "a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." [|OAIster] : Open Archives Initiative; searches over 7 million records of "academically-oriented digital resources." [|Perseus Digital Library] : Primary and secondary sources for the study of various time periods and places, including the classical world and the English Renaissance. [|Repositories of Primary Sources] : Lists"over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources;" most have at least some online content. [|U.S. National Archives] : Includes thousands of [|online historical documents]. [|World Wide Web Virtual Library - History]