INTERNET PRIMARY SOURCES FOR

UNITED STATES HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT

 

NOTE: Click on the topic below for resources and use the "back" arrow to return.

GOVERNMENT SOURCES  
Libraries  
New York State Library                       http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
Library of Congress                    http://www.loc.gov/
American Memory                http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
American Memory                http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Today in History                   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
Prints and Photographs       http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
A Century of Lawmaking    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Related Resources                 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwrel.html
Historic Maps                        http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
New York Public Library                                  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=history
National Archives                             http://www.archives.gov/
100 Milestone Documents   http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
Presidential Libraries

http://www.archives.gov/presidential_libraries/addresses/addresses.html
FDR Library             http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
HST Library              http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
DDE Library             http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/
JFK Library              http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Ford Library             http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
GHW Bush Library  http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
U.S. CensusBureau                         http://www.census.gov/

Statistical Abstract              

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html
Reference Shelf                      http://www.fedstats.gov/fast.html

Decennial Census of

  Population and Housing   

 http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm
U.S. Government  
U.S. Budget                           http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html
Social Security Online           http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html
U.S. Senate Speeches http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Classic_Speeches.htm
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services  
Immigration Law, 1790-1996 http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/legishist/
U.S. Department of State                 http://www.state.gov/

 

FRUS (Foreign Relations of the United States)

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/c1716.htm
FRUS: University of Wisconsin http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS
Office of the Historian          http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/
GENERAL AND TOPICAL SOURCES  
U.S. History Sites (General)  

Organization of American Historians

Links for the History Profession    

http://www.oah.org/announce/links.html
Authentic History Center           http://www.authentichistory.com/

 

      AMDOCS            

http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/

 

U.S. Documents Chronology    

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/#1875

 

Women and Social Movements in the U.S.1775-2000

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/projectmap.htm
Harvard Open Collections, Women 1800-1930            http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Presidential Resources  
Presidential Speeches           http://www.theamericanpresidency.us/archive.htm
American Presidency Project           http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
George Washington Papers             http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
The Massachusetts Historical Society: The Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive                       http://www.masshist.org/adams/
Papers of Thomas Jefferson            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
Abraham Lincoln Papers     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
Harper’s Weekly: Presidential Elections    http://elections.harpweek.com/
Foreign Policy Sources  
World War I             http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm
Cold War International History Project (see virtual archive) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home
Cold War                  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm bbbv
Cuban Missile Crisis                        http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his325/cmclinks.htm
Vietnam War                         http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm
Misc. Topics  
Founders’ Constitution        http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/toc.html
American Revolution            http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/vconger/amrev_web_sites.htm
Freedmen’s Bureau              http://www.freedmensbureau.com/
African-American Experience in Ohio http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/nwspaper/index.cfm
Samuel Gompers Papers      http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.html
Scopes Trial                           http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Hoover Depression Papers   http://www.geocities.com/mb_williams/hooverpapers/
New Deal Network                http://newdeal.feri.org/
Legal Resources  
Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute  http://www.law.cornell.edu/
U.S. Supreme Court             http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
Dred Scott Case              http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/
Required Supreme Court Cases (case briefs and full text)          http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/
Data Sets  
Historical Census Browser   http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
American Literature  
Making of America Books (19th C; over 8,500 volumes)   http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Making of America (Journals)        http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html
University of Virginia E-Texts http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
Maps and Images  
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
History Project Images         http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Collection2=US
Historical Picture Collections           http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/documents/clipsources.html
Time Archive                         http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archives/advanced
WWII Posters                       http://afsf.lackland.af.mil/Images/WWII/
Edward S. Curtis’s “The North American Indian” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
Native Americans                  http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/
Documents  
Model Editions Partnership             http://mep.cla.sc.edu/
Political and Editorial Cartoons  
Chico High School Library (extensive chronological and topical links)                 http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/edpolcart.html
Cagle Cartoon Index (Recent) http://cagle.slate.msn.com/main.asp
Boondocks Net.com (historic cartoons)                            http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/political_cartoons.html
Note: please use cartoons which contain as much as possible of the following: cartoonist name, original publication, and date first published. Please do not use cartoons which have NONE of these categories of information.)

 

 

 

 

         

           

               

     

     

     

     

 

 

     

     

     

     

 

                                                                                 

 

     

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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