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PLEASE NOTE: These links are provided for your convenience. Abigail Press does not review, control, or take responsibility for the contents of these sites.ColonizationChapter 1: Discovery of the AmericasOcmulgee National Monument, Georgia - Chronology of Amerindian archeology in the southwest U.S.http://www.nps.gov/ocmu/History.htm Chaco Culture National Historical Park The Columbus Navigation Homepage The European Voyages of Exploration DoHistory, guides its users through the research process in specific
case studies, developed by Harvard University Internet Medieval Sourcebook The History of the Mayans L'Anse aux Meadows Archeological Site Vikings in America Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Hopewell Culture National Historic Park Chapter 2: ColonizationColonial National Historical Park, inc. Cape Henry, Green Spring, Jamestown, Yorktown, Bacon's Rebellion, and morehttp://www.nps.gov/colo Roger Williams National Memorial Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Plymouth: Its History and People Salem Witch Museum Pennsylvania State History: The Quaker Province, 1681-1776 Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism Black History Museum
Chapter 3: Colonial SocietyColonial Life and Lawshttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook07.html Hubsite for Colonial People and Documents, managed by Kendall
Simmons, Government Documents Library, University of Kansas The National Women's History Project's List of History Website
Links Laws Regarding Slavery Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Steven Mintz, University
of Houston University of Virginia Library Avalon Project by Yale University: Documents in Law, History and
Diplomacy
Revolution and RepublicChapter 4: Toward RevolutionHubsite for Pre-Revolutionary Period People and Documents, managed by Kendall Simmons, Government Documents Library, U. of Kansashttp://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html The Writings of Jonathan Edwards Documents Concerning the Stamp Act and other Pre-Revolutionary
Documents Yale University's Avalon Project Dealing With Documents of the
Time Period The University of Virginia
Chapter 5: The New Nation Is CreatedThe Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independencehttp://www.rebelswithavision.com The First Ladies of the United States Spies of the American Revolution The Articles of Confederation The Declaration of Independence The Debate Over the Constitution Yale University Documents on the Revolution Revolutionary Documents from Internet Modern History Sourcebook,
Fordham University The University of Virginia Library H-Net hubsite on The American Revolution Women and Their Role in the American Revolution Chapter 6: The Early Republic War of 1812 Index Military History of the War of 1812 (1812-1814) Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson Website of the PBS Documentary on Thomas Jefferson by Ken Burns Alexander Hamilton Antebellum EraChapter 7: Claiming the Commons - Constructing an American IdentityThe Hermitage, Tennessee home of Andrew Jacksonhttp://thehermitage.com Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, New York National Portrait Gallery of Presidents The Internet Public Library's Presidents of the United States
(POTUS) Bartleby Library's Great Books Online-Jackson's 1st and 2nd inaugural
addresses Tales of the Early Republic The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail The People's Paths From Revolution to Reconstruction, a Hypertext on American History,
inc. "A Brief Biography of Andrew Jackson," by Hal Morris, Panic of 1837, "The Great Financial Panics in History," by Martin
Armstrong, Princeton Econ. Institute "Henry Clay and the American System," The Southern Quarterly
Review vol. 10, iss. 19 (July 1846): pp. 174-227 - from "Making
of America Digital Library" "President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House,"
painting by Robert Cruikshank, Library of Congress's American Memory
website
Chapter 8: Age of Reform"Votes for Women," Library of Congress selections from NAWSA Collection, 1848-1921http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html Worcester Women's History Project: Online celebration of the first
national women's rights convention Women's Rights National Historic Park, Seneca Falls, NY National Women's Hall of Fame, online biographical portraits Walt Whitman's notebooks online at the Library of Congress Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance (1852) online
from Eldritch Press Abolitionist documents in the "African-American Mosaic," Library
of Congress "The Role of Literature and Philosophy in Building up the National
Identity of early 19th century America," by Keijo Vertanen for From
Revolution to Reconstruction, a Hypertext on American History Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Stephen Mintz, University
of Houston Documenting the American South Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in
Antebellum Maritime America Tales of the Early Republic: An Explorable Collection of
Writings Focusing on the 1830s and 1840s Radicalism and Reform History hubsite, Virtual Library,
University of Kansas The Prophet Joseph Smith The "Burnt-Over District" in western New York Chapter 9: American Life 1840-1860In Search of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (inc. C-SPAN's re-creation of Tocqueville's Tour of the U.S.)www.tocqueville.org/ Stratford Hall Plantation Website Old Sturbridge Village (a small New England community of the 1830s) Women in America (U.Va.'s Crossroads hypertext of literary texts
on antebellum women's experiences) Lowell's Earliest Irish Community Making of America: primary sources on antebellum America through
Reconstruction Documenting the American South, UNC's online collection of sources
on Southern history, literature and culture, inc. first-person narratives
and church sermons Tales of the Early Republic From Revolution to Reconstruction, a Hypertext on American History,
inc. "Immigrant and Ethnic America," portrayed in Harper's Weekly (1857-1916) Urban history hubsite, Virtual Library, University of Kansas Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (1820) Making of America, primary sources on antebellum America through
Reconstruction Civil WarChapter 10: The Road to WarMexican War (this site has many other events as well)http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/docs.htm and www.dmwv.org/mexwar/concise.htm; www.dmwv.org/mexwar/sites.htm Documenting the American South Specific Events Leading to the Civil War Another Site with Several Specific Events including Kansas Issues
and Abolition Dred Scott Decision and Other Specific Events, People and Issues
Editorials and the decision Library of Congress includes excellent material on African Americans
before the Civil War National Park Service has an impressive survey of the Underground
Railroad Chapter 11: The Civil WarA premier Civil War site - it links to dozens of other siteshttp://www.civilwarhome.com e.g., www.civilwarhome.com/sanitarycommission.htm; www.civilwarhome.com/medicinehistory.htm; www.civilwarhome.com/confederateoverview.htm The Valley of the Shadow, two communities in the American Civil
War Sampler of Civil War Literature Secession Era Editorials Project at Furman University 18th and 19th Century Documents, American Studies Research Projects,
Washington State University Douglass: Archives of American Public Address, Northwestern Univ. A Tour of the Lincoln White House The History Net has a specific Civil War site plus other interesting
areas Making of America at University of Michigan includes over
1925 sources Civil War Center, Louisiana State University Biographies in U.S. History African Americans and Black Units during the War Flags Of The Confederacy Postbellum EraChapter 12: Reconstruction - The Turning Point That Never TurnedMaking of Americahttp://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa Library of Congress Duke U.'s Collection on African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction Black History in Harper's Weekly, 1857-1874, uncensored
material on the treatment of blacks and slavery from the early issues
of Harper's Weekly, the largest national newspaper circulation.
Includes a Reconstruction simulation by Eric Rothschild Freedman and Southern Society Project Impeachment of Andrew Johnson The World of Thomas Nast, political cartoonist Chapter 13: IndustrializationTsongas Industrial History Center Educational programs about the American Industrial Revolutionhttp://www.uml.edu/tsongas/ The Blackstone Valley: This song, written by Charlie Ball and
performed by Plainfolk, tells the tale of the river that launched
the American Industrial Revolution. Lowell Visitors Bureau: website includes beginnings of the Industrial
Revolution Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline The Edison-Ford Estate, Fort Myers, Florida Baum, Frank L. (includes vital statistics, photograph, bibliography,
and obituary data) City of Passaic, New Jersey - A history of the city from the perspective
of Slavic and Jewish immigrants and their impact upon this city. Ellis Island: Gateway To America A Historical View of U.S. Immigration Policy Race and Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers 19th century advertising history Immigrant and Ethnic America Chapter 14: The Trans-Missouri West - The Last FrontierWestern Bronzes by David Lemonhttp://www.bronzemaster.com CyberSoup's Wild West Cultural History of New Mexico The American West The Idea of the South: Electronic Resources, list by Alan B. Howard
at U.Va. Bryan, William Jennings Jesse James : Bank and Train Robber Biography of Jesse James The Constitution Community Lesson Plan: inc. The Dawes Act, Maps
of Indian Territory, and Will Rogers Angel Island Immigration Station in Calif., Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882 Women of the West Museum American Women's Diaries American West Heritage Center Legends of the American West - Wyatt Earp & the Gunfighters
- written by consumers at Epinions.com. Along the Chisholm Trail Ghost Town Museum - Pikes Peak Region's gold mining era Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars |
