Recommended Web Sites

History

African American History http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html

This website contains African-American historical sources listed by the University of Washington libraries.

American Women's History: A Research Guide http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Guide to primary sources as well as print and Internet sources.

AmericanPresident.org

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

This is a comprehensive non-partisan resource that provides detailed information on the history and function of the American presidency, from the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs

Best of History Web Sites http://www.besthistorysites.net/

“Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories”.

California Historical Society http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org /

Information on exhibitions, collections, publications, programs, and membership for the California Historical Society.

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

This website “serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence”. Focus on the lives of ordinary Americans.

History News Network http://hnn.us/

History News Network, well-researched articles that put current news in historical context.

Immigration Explorer from The New York Times

How various foreign born groups settled across the United States from 1880 to 2000.  This is an interactive map.

 Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/

Collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrates most heavily on the 19th century.

Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The Library of Congress American Memory, a “digital record of American history” documenting the American experience.

Library of Congress Historic American Newspapers 1860-1922

Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

The Online Archive of California. Good for primary source historical research.

Primary Sources on the Web http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/primary.html

This site provides links too United States history and World history.