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.

http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
This virtual library links to primary historical documents portraying the spectrum of American history.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
A Library of Congress project that documents the American experience through a variety of media formats.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
Covers Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from pre 18th century to the current century.

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

http://www.densho.org/
A site dedicated to preserving the testimonials of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated throughout the American west and southwest throughout WWII.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
A website dedicated to using current technology as tool to enhance the teaching and researching of history.

http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/
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.

https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/FRUS/
Documents pertaining to the United States relations with foreign countries.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA04/mccain/play/intro.htm
Part of the Federal Theater Project in the 1930s that dramatized and exposed social issues.

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/
This site is one of the world's outstanding centers for the documentary study of the southern United States.

http://wardepartmentpapers.org/
Recovered documents from the war department, long thought destroyed, reconstituted into a searchable collection to provide insight into the early workings of the federal government.

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.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
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). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. In 2000-2001, with major support from the Citigroup Foundation, the Library digitized the narratives from the microfilm edition and scanned from the originals 500 photographs, including more than 200 that had never been microfilmed or made publicly available. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs divisions of the Library of Congress.

Covers documents related to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Contains documents from the Truman Administration up through the Carter Administration. Limited numbers of documents are available for the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations.