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Colonization

Chapter 1: Discovery of the Americas

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia - Chronology of Amerindian archeology in the southwest U.S.
http://www.nps.gov/ocmu/History.htm

Chaco Culture National Historical Park
http://www.nps.gov/chcu/history.htm

The Columbus Navigation Homepage
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/

The European Voyages of Exploration
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/columbus.html

DoHistory, guides its users through the research process in specific case studies, developed by Harvard University
http://www.DoHistory.org

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

The History of the Mayans
http://www.brownpride.com/history/mayans.html

L'Anse aux Meadows Archeological Site
http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/unesco/MEAD/Mead_e.htm

Vikings in America
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/vinland.html

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
http://medicine.wustl.edu/~mckinney/cahokia/cahokia.html

Hopewell Culture National Historic Park
http://www.nps.gov/hocu/

Chapter 2: Colonization

Colonial National Historical Park, inc. Cape Henry, Green Spring, Jamestown, Yorktown, Bacon's Rebellion, and more
http://www.nps.gov/colo

Roger Williams National Memorial
http://www.nps.gov/rowi/

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/fora/

Plymouth: Its History and People
http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history

Salem Witch Museum
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/learn2.html

Pennsylvania State History: The Quaker Province, 1681-1776
http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Historical_Museum/quaker.htm

Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

Black History Museum
http://www.afroam.org/history/history.html

Chapter 3: Colonial Society

Colonial Life and Laws
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook07.html

Hubsite for Colonial People and Documents, managed by Kendall Simmons, Government Documents Library, University of Kansas
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs

The National Women's History Project's List of History Website Links
http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/links/links.html

Laws Regarding Slavery
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~russell/hal/docs/virginiaslaverystatues.htm

Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Steven Mintz, University of Houston
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm

University of Virginia Library
http://www.lib.virginia.edu

Avalon Project by Yale University: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Revolution and Republic

Chapter 4: Toward Revolution

Hubsite for Pre-Revolutionary Period People and Documents, managed by Kendall Simmons, Government Documents Library, U. of Kansas
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

The Writings of Jonathan Edwards
http://membersaol.com/jonathanedw/sinners.htm

Documents Concerning the Stamp Act and other Pre-Revolutionary Documents
http://www.usconstitution.net

Yale University's Avalon Project Dealing With Documents of the Time Period
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

The University of Virginia
http://www.lib.virginia.edu

Chapter 5: The New Nation Is Created

The Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
http://www.rebelswithavision.com

The First Ladies of the United States
http://www.firstladies.org/Flbib2.htm

Spies of the American Revolution
http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/letter.htm

The Articles of Confederation
http://www.usconstitution.net

The Declaration of Independence
http://www.usconstitution.net

The Debate Over the Constitution
http://www.usconstitution.net

Yale University Documents on the Revolution
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Revolutionary Documents from Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html

The University of Virginia Library
http://www.lib.virginia.edu

H-Net hubsite on The American Revolution
http://www.revolution.h-net.msu.edu

Women and Their Role in the American Revolution
http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/links/links.html

Chapter 6: The Early Republic

War of 1812 Index
http://www.multieducator.com/1812/

Military History of the War of 1812 (1812-1814)
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/1812.html

Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson
http://www.monticello.org/

Website of the PBS Documentary on Thomas Jefferson by Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/

Alexander Hamilton
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/hamilton.htm
and
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/ham/hamilton.html

Antebellum Era

Chapter 7: Claiming the Commons - Constructing an American Identity

The Hermitage, Tennessee home of Andrew Jackson
http://thehermitage.com

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, New York
http://www.nps.gov/mava/

National Portrait Gallery of Presidents
http://www.npg.si.edu/col/pres/index.htm

The Internet Public Library's Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/index.html

Bartleby Library's Great Books Online-Jackson's 1st and 2nd inaugural addresses
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres23.html
and
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres24.html

Tales of the Early Republic
http://www.EarlyRepublic.net

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
http://rosecity.net/tears/

The People's Paths
http://www.thePeoplesPaths.net/mainindex.html

From Revolution to Reconstruction, a Hypertext on American History, inc. "A Brief Biography of Andrew Jackson," by Hal Morris,
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/about/bio/jackxx.htm
and
"Andrew Jackson and the Bank War," by Tony D'Urso,
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/bankwar/bankwarxx.htm

Panic of 1837, "The Great Financial Panics in History," by Martin Armstrong, Princeton Econ. Institute
http://www.pei-intl.com/Research/PANICS/1837/1837.HTM

"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"
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ACP1141-1535SQUA-11

"President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House," painting by Robert Cruikshank, Library of Congress's American Memory website
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05500/3a05553v.jpg

Chapter 8: Age of Reform

"Votes for Women," Library of Congress selections from NAWSA Collection, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html

Worcester Women's History Project: Online celebration of the first national women's rights convention
www.assumption.edu/HTML/Academic/history/WWHP/why1850.html

Women's Rights National Historic Park, Seneca Falls, NY
www.nps.gov/wori/

National Women's Hall of Fame, online biographical portraits
www.greatwomen.org/grtwmn.htm

Walt Whitman's notebooks online at the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance (1852) online from Eldritch Press
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/br.html

Abolitionist documents in the "African-American Mosaic," Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/abol.html

"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
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/identity/philosxx.htm

Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Stephen Mintz, University of Houston
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm

Documenting the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/index.html

Tales of the Early Republic: An Explorable Collection of Writings Focusing on the 1830s and 1840s
http://www.EarlyRepublic.net
including a list of Educational Institutions http://216.202.17.223/schools.htm

Radicalism and Reform History hubsite, Virtual Library, University of Kansas
www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/radicalism.html

The Prophet Joseph Smith
www.mormons.org/daily/history/people/joseph_smith/

The "Burnt-Over District" in western New York
http://www.westernny.com/history4.html

Chapter 9: American Life 1840-1860

In 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
www.stratfordhall.org

Old Sturbridge Village (a small New England community of the 1830s)
www.osv.org/

Women in America (U.Va.'s Crossroads hypertext of literary texts on antebellum women's experiences)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/fem/topic.htm

Lowell's Earliest Irish Community
http://lowellonline.org/hist/new.html

Making of America: primary sources on antebellum America through Reconstruction
www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

Documenting the American South, UNC's online collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture, inc. first-person narratives and church sermons
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

Tales of the Early Republic
http://www.EarlyRepublic.net

From Revolution to Reconstruction, a Hypertext on American History, inc.
"A Brief Biography of James Fenimore Cooper," by Kathryn VanSpanckeren http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/cooper.htm

"Immigrant and Ethnic America," portrayed in Harper's Weekly (1857-1916)
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/

Urban history hubsite, Virtual Library, University of Kansas
www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/urban.html

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (1820)
www.fred.net/kathy/canal.html

Making of America, primary sources on antebellum America through Reconstruction
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

Civil War

Chapter 10: The Road to War

Mexican 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
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

Specific Events Leading to the Civil War
www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown.htm; www.civilwarhome.com/ftsumter.htm

Another Site with Several Specific Events including Kansas Issues and Abolition
www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm; www.historyplace.com/speeches/garrison.htm

Dred Scott Decision and Other Specific Events, People and Issues
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/dred_scott/scottxx.htm

Editorials and the decision
http://www.channelone.com/fasttrack/ushistory/1800-1877/dred_scott.html

Library of Congress includes excellent material on African Americans before the Civil War
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

National Park Service has an impressive survey of the Underground Railroad
http://www.nps.gov/

Chapter 11: The Civil War

A premier Civil War site - it links to dozens of other sites
http://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
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/intro.html

Sampler of Civil War Literature
http://www.civilwarliterature.com

Secession Era Editorials Project at Furman University
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs, including a
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu Causes of the Civil War, by James Epperson (Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville) on Civil War Webring
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html

18th and 19th Century Documents, American Studies Research Projects, Washington State University
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Eamerstu/19th/docs.html

Douglass: Archives of American Public Address, Northwestern Univ.
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/index.html

A Tour of the Lincoln White House
www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org

The History Net has a specific Civil War site plus other interesting areas
http://www.thehistorynet.com/civilwartimes

Making of America at University of Michigan includes over 1925 sources
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa

Civil War Center, Louisiana State University
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu

Biographies in U.S. History
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/index.htm

African Americans and Black Units during the War
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Flags Of The Confederacy
http://www.confederateflags.org

Postbellum Era

Chapter 12: Reconstruction - The Turning Point That Never Turned

Making of America
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

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
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/usa.htm

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
http://www.blackhistory.harpweek.com/

Freedman and Southern Society Project
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://www.andrewjohnson.com

The World of Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
http://www.thomasnast.com

Chapter 13: Industrialization

Tsongas Industrial History Center Educational programs about the American Industrial Revolution
http://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.
http://www.plainfolk.com/BSV.html

Lowell Visitors Bureau: website includes beginnings of the Industrial Revolution
http://www.lowell.org/

Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline
http://www.carnegiemuseum.co.uk/
and a biography
http://www.carnegieclub.co.uk/story.htm

The Edison-Ford Estate, Fort Myers, Florida
http://edison-ford-estate.com/

Baum, Frank L. (includes vital statistics, photograph, bibliography, and obituary data)
http://members.tripod.com/~gwillick/baum.html

City of Passaic, New Jersey - A history of the city from the perspective of Slavic and Jewish immigrants and their impact upon this city.
http://www.tccweb.org/passaic,.htm

Ellis Island: Gateway To America
http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/america/ellis.html

A Historical View of U.S. Immigration Policy
www.missouri.edu/~socbrent/immigr.htm

Race and Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/1791a-kofl.html

Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers
http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/labor.html

19th century advertising history
http://advertising.harpweek.com

Immigrant and Ethnic America
http://immigrants.harpweek.com

Chapter 14: The Trans-Missouri West - The Last Frontier

Western Bronzes by David Lemon
http://www.bronzemaster.com

CyberSoup's Wild West
http://www.thewildwest.org/

Cultural History of New Mexico
http://www.nmhotels.com/Html/history.html

The American West
http://thewest.harpweek.com

The Idea of the South: Electronic Resources, list by Alan B. Howard at U.Va.
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~abh9h/soresrc.html

Bryan, William Jennings
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ail/bryan.html

Jesse James : Bank and Train Robber
http://www.hotyellow98.com/wildwest/jessejames/jesse.htm

Biography of Jesse James
http://www.crimelibrary.com/americana/jesse/index.htm

The Constitution Community Lesson Plan: inc. The Dawes Act, Maps of Indian Territory, and Will Rogers
www.nara.gov/education/cc/dawesact.html

Angel Island Immigration Station in Calif., Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html

Women of the West Museum
http://www.wowmuseum.org/

American Women's Diaries
http://www.newsbank.com/readex/scholarly/wdiar1.html

American West Heritage Center
http://www.americanwestcenter.org/

Legends of the American West - Wyatt Earp & the Gunfighters - written by consumers at Epinions.com.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie_mu-1037468

Along the Chisholm Trail
http://www.texhoma.net/~glencbr/index.html

Ghost Town Museum - Pikes Peak Region's gold mining era
http://www.ghosttownmuseum.com/

Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars
http://www.buffalosoldier.net
and
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html

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