United States History

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General U.S. Sites:

• American Studies at the University of Virginia
  (cultural maps, online museum, hypertexts)
• Avalon Project
  (full, sourced documents in American History 1492 - Present, from Yale Law School)
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
  (National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the Library of Congress, provides access to United States newspapers, full access from 1880-1922)
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
  (from the U.S. Government Printing Office)
  
• Historical Census Browser
  (1790-1960, powerful search engine)
• History Matters
  (U.S. survey course on the web, from The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University)
• National Archives
  (includes the National Archives Experience, and its Unlock the Digital Vaults, with some 1,200 multimedia documents detailed and on view) test
• National Women's History Project
  (especially the "The Leaning Place" with biographies, exhibits, museums, and links on women's history)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
  (mini-monographs interpreting documents, and other sources, about a fourth of the projects remain freely available; others available through Alexander Street Press)

last updated September 23, 2009