Web Sites for History Research

American Civil War Homepage: Seeks to provide a comprehensive directory of hypertext links about the Civil War period (1861-1865). Intended for general audiences, this Internet directory covers the war from the major military, political, and social perspectives.
American Presidency Project: The American Presidency Project's archives contain 76,360 documents related to the study of the Presidency. Some of the documents included are Public Papers of the Presidents, Convention Speeches, Inaugural Addresses, and many more. There is data on elections from 1828 through 2004. Also included are links to all of the Presidential Libraries.
History Matters: Designed for teachers and students at the high school and college levels, site is a gateway site to web-based materials about U.S. History. A search engine, as well as broad topical links, provide access to primary documents, images, audio files, and secondary articles that connect the user to people and places throughout U.S. History
Amerifan Family Immigration History Center: From the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, site contains archival information on over 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews [who] entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Free registration is required.
Women and Gender Studies: From the library of LSU, provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. Also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
Best of History Websites: Site's mission is to be a portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts and consists of annotated lists of recommended history sites that are divided by topic. Broad periods such as Prehistory, Medieval, and 20th Century history are listed and further subdivided into manageable topics and periods.
History Census Browser: From the University of Virginia Library, using data from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the Instructional Computing Group at Harvard University has developed a rich source of electronically browsable historical census data. Allows users to browse selected census data from 1790 to 1970 by state and county.
Biography of America: Telecourse, video series, and Web site produced by WGBH Boston, funded by Annenberg/CPB, and designed to be a self-contained college-level history course for on-campus students and distant learners.Both undergraduate students and their instructors will find useful information, thought-provoking exercises, and multiple links to further sources.
AMDOCS: Formerly titled Historic Documents of the United States of North America, this site contains a bibliography of primary documents available on the Internet that are essential for the study of US history. This is one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of individual electronic documents
Open Collections Project: Women Working, 1800-1930: This full-text site from Harvard University contains 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and 1,200 photographs. The Collection can be browsed by genre or by subject. There is a boolean search available as well as a full-text search. There are five suggested teaching modules provided that use the primary source material provided by this site.
Documenting the American South: Library of Southern Literature: This site from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is digitized texts that document the history of the American South. It has an alphabetical arrangement and a full collection search powered by Google.
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s: This site from the University of Pennsylvania provides photographs, quotes, book excerpts, transcripts, and video from the 1950s. Included are literary, social, and polictical links, full-text, and multimedia items.
The Vietnam Center and Archive: The mission of the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University is to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia. Its functions are threefold: collection and preservation of pertinent source material; education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of scholarly research through exchanges, publishing of noteworthy research, symposia, and financial support.
CWIHP Virtual Archive: The Cold War International History Project "disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular, new findings from previously inaccessible sources from the Communist side."
e-collections at the Center for Research Libraries: The Council for the American Overseas Research Center and the Digital Library for International Research have partnered to provide full-text and bibliographic access to research materials with a worldwide background. Collections are from China, Pland, Brazil, and France - primarily historical in nature.
Rutgers University Libraries: Research & Reference Gateway:History-American & British: Metasite created by Tom Glynn at Rutgers University Libraries. Links to history resources in categories: Reference, Archival and MSS, Sites Organized by Subject and by Historical periodi, History Portals, Full-Text Documents by Period, Associations. Links are annotated.
Princeton University Library - History Resources: Gateway site maintained by Nancy Pressman Levy at Princeton University Libraries. Provides access to Internet resources in all areas of historical research.
Humbul Humanities Hub - History: A gateway site providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the UK learning and research communities. Developed at Oxford University and nationally funded, this portal is part of the Reseource Discovery Network. The RDN develops rich entry points to a full range of Internet, bibliographic, documentary and data resources.
The American Civil War: Metasite maintained at Dakota Statue University with extensive links to information on the U.S. Civil War.