U.S. History: Websites

A digital collection of resources documenting local history compiled from Cleveland State University Library's Special Collections.

Explore thousands of articles on topics in Cleveland's history.

http://www.ohiohistory.org/
Connects people with Ohio's past and the state's place in American History.

Includes The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Archaeological Atlas of Ohio, and the Ohio Digital Bookshelf.

A Library of Congress project that documents the American experience through a variety of media formats.

A Library of Congress project that has digitized thousands of historic newspapers from between 1836 to 1922 to all US states and major cities.

A site dedicated to preserving the testimonials of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated throughout the American west and southwest throughout WWII.

A website dedicated to using current technology as tool to enhance the teaching and researching of history.

A site created by faculty and graduate students at the Univesity of Nebraska that devotes its efforts to the exploration of the emerging field of digital history and provides reviews a new digital sites as well as recent scholarship on the subject.

http://deila.dickinson.edu/slaveryandabolition/title/0145.html
A digital collection of books and pamphlets that capture the essence of the slavery debate throughout the nineteenth century.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
A web-based collection of selected historical materials that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).