Basic Sites
; categories include: pre-history, ancient/biblical, medieval, early modern European, US history, twentieth century, WWII, art history, maps; also links to key history networks
Nineteenth Century in Print
; over 5,500 books in many languages
Native Americans
(Illinois); archeological and cultural information about Cahokia
; Anasazi, Mogollon, Membres, Hohokam, and other ancient peoples of the American Southwest
; anthropology sites links
; materials on Native American culture
; information on Native Americans; nineteenth century; other interesting subjects, such as paper-making, etc.
Columbian Exchange
contains historians' essays on religious history and environmental history; the Columbian Exchanges is discussed in an essay from Alfred Crosby
; Cortez and the Pizarro brothers; Aztec civilizations, etc.
Colonial America
University of Virginia site; Virtual Jamestown; continuous; maps; historical records; early settlers' names and occupations; a lot of links to laws of early Virginia; slavery; Bacon's Rebellion; etc.
; religion and founding of America
PBS video (four parts) about history of American slavery
; also containing information important historical figures in the Middle Colonies; other subjects include religion, Native Americans; links to other colonies
A PBS production ("American Experience" series) based on Martha Ballard's diary and the book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
; primary sources; maps; excellent site for the subject
The American Revolution
, primary sources for British-American relations for four centuries
; this site also offers a detailed chronology of US history
; essays; PBS production Liberty; and links to Founding Fathers, etc.
The Constitution and Constitutional Issues
; links for important legal resources
; collections emphasizes on legal, political, diplomatic history; also contains resources on African Americans, slavery, German-Americans, Cold War, etc.
On Shays's Rebellion
, containing a lot of archival information and useful sources on the American Revolution, Confederation, and Constitution
Biography of Alexander Hamilton
Early Republic Period
; archive materials and other sites related to canal history
Text of Alexis de Tocquevilles' Democracy in America
; Native American and African American religion
, with essays and other resources
Slavery, Slave Culture, and Slave Resistance
; particularly, look at the from slavery to freedom, slaves and courts, and pamphlets collections; slave narratives; oral history
PBS documentary of "Africans in America" (Part II) covering the period of the Revolution; information of religion, freedom, and bondage in the Colonial era; the Constitution
Part III of "Africans in America" covering 1791-1831; topics include: black church, resistance, colonization, growth of slavery
Part IV of "Africans in America" covering 1831-1865; antebellum slavery, abolitionism, western expansion, Civil War
; the main page offers other useful subjects, such as civil rights movement, Brown case, and jazz, etc.
Slavery narratives, online anthology
Early American Industrialization, Reforms
On religious culture of the Shakers; links to useful resources on religious history
American South
; containing resources on slavery, slave narratives, Civil War, religious history, North Carolina history, southern literature, etc.
Abolitionist Movement
The Civil War Era
A portrayal of two communities, one northern and the other southern, from the years immediately before until immediately after the Civil War.
; note plantation map from South Carolina; some photos of slavery times
PBS documentary on John Brown
PBS documentary on the Lincolns
; primary sources, too.
Civil War Primary Documents
Reconstruction Era Primary Documents
Lincoln's veto of the Wade-Davis Bill
; with sample documents and important laws (text) for the period of slavery and Civil War, Reconstruction
History of the West
contains both photographs and primary documents on westward expansion during the nineteenth century
Booker T. Washington
Industrialization
WWI
American World War I posters
WWII
A description of the My Lai incident