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Geography and Cartography Links

Interactive Maps

World Atlas

Blank Outline Maps

Perry Castaneda Map Collection at the University of Texas (tons of great maps

Campaign Atlases at the U.S. Military Academy, useful for studying cartography and military history

Osher Map Library, Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine

American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850, New York Public Library

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Links for U.S. Government Webpages

Library of Congress

Library of Congress: American Memories

Congress.org (Your link to Congress)

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

National Parks Museum Management Program

Naval Historical Center, U.S. Department of the Navy

U.S. Census Bureau and United States Historical Census Data Browser at the University of Virginia Library

American Currency Exhibit

The White House

Links for American History

American Memory: Historical collections from the American Memory Project, Library of Congress

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera at the Library of Congress

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Government

Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars, Gilder Lehrman Institute and Legacy Project

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture at the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell Univ.

Digital History offers multidedia resources for American History

Digital Scriptorium, Duke University

EyeWitness to History

Famous Trials, legal history website at the University of Missouri

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1861-1960 from University of Wisconsin, Madison, Libraries

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1972, from the U.S. State Department

Historical Voices, a digital archive of spoken-word materials

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Oklahoma University Library Digital Publications

Jews in America: Our Story, Center for Jewish History

Outline of U.S. History, Digital Textbook

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia, Northwestern University

New York Times: "On This Day"

American President: an Online Reference Resource

The Presidents: biographies of American presidents, primary sources, speeches, etc.

Public Papers of the Presidency: American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara

SCETI: Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania Special Collections Library contains items from the 17th to 20th centuries

Images of American Political History

Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University

The Tax History Project, website for "open debate on federal, state, and international tax policy"

History and Politics Outloud

Rutger's Oral History Archives (World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War)

USC Archival Research Center, University of Southern California, Information Services

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

State Information and History

Online Archive of California

Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History

Kentuckiana Digital Library, Kentucky Virtual Library with materials from 15 Kentucky colleges, universities, libraries and historical societies

Florida State Archives Photographic Collection

Digital Library of Georgia offers material from the state of Georgia

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Links for American Labor

Historic Newspapers Online

Historic Newspapers and Indexes on the Internet

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (New York Newspaper, 1841-1902)

Northern New York Historic Newspaper Collection

Suffock Historic Newspapers

Historic Missouri Newspaper Collection

AFL-CIO's Labor History on the Web

Industrial Workers of the World's Website (IWW--the Wobblies)

Mining Disasters at the U.S. Department of Labor

The Samuel Gompers Papers

Women's Labor History Links

Colorado's Historic Newspapers Collection

Colorado Cold Field War Project (Ludlow Massacre)

Eyewitness to History--Recounting the Ludlow Massacre

Anthracite Coal Strike--Today in History, October 3, 1902

Bread and Roses Strike--Mass Moments from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

Goldfield, Nevada "Fire in the Hole" and also see Nevada State History

Triangle Factory Fire at Cornell University

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial

Paterson Silk Strike--PBS American Experience

"Little Steel" strike at the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

Centralia Massacre--University of Washington Digital Library

Centralia Massacre at HistoryLink.org (Good site for Washington state history)

 

 
 

Other Useful Links

Librarians' Internet Index for "websites you can trust"

Smithsonian Institution

Center for Civic Education

EText Center: Collection of electronic texts in English