Useful Websites for Teaching and Research in U.S. History

websites for historical texts and documents

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/slavery.htm

[the avalon project at the yale law school; website on documents on slavery; containing both federal and state statutes regarding slavery; primary sources]

[the avalon project at the yale law school is a site which contains digital documents pertaining to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. the site on slavery contains federal and state statutes, treaties and agreements, and other related documents (such as the emancipation proclamation and the 13th amendment to the constitution).]

http://www.thisnation.com/library/index.html

[source for documents and texts on u.s. government and political history]

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

[cornell university law school site for documents, us code]

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topic.htm

[cornell university law school site for supreme court cases]

websites on slavery

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

slavery narratives, on-line anthology;

from 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the american south were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the works progress

administration. these former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the civil war, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on

plantations, in cities, and on small farms. their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of america's four million slaves. what makes the

wpa narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of american slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered. each narrative

taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in north america,

allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and

religious belief.

this web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. the entire

collection of narratives can be found in george p. rawick, ed., the american slave: a composite autobiography (westport, conn.: greenwood press,

1972-79).

holocaust education foundation

http://www.holocaust-trc.org

[students should avail themselves of the opportunity to interview holocaust survivors and/or access the many oral histories that have been taped. the association )f holocaust organizations,, which can be reached through the united states holocaust memorial museum web site, provides a thorough listing of groupie on the local, state, and national levels that can assist students ill their search for such sources. students should also inquire of their local university libraries, which often house collections of these oral testimonies.]

digital library web sites

stanford university http://diglib.stanford.edu/

university of california at berkeley http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/

university of michigan http://http2.sils.umich.edu/umdl/homepage.html

university of illinois http://www.grainger.uiuc.edu/dli/

university of california at santa barbara http://alexandria.sde.ucsb.edu/

carnegie mellon university http://fuzine.mt.es.cmu.edu/im/

library of congress digital library http://www.loc.gov/ [treasure for historical research; the american memory site is excellent for primary sources]

berkeley digital library sunsite http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

digital libraries research http://www.nlc-bne.ca/egi-bin/iflalwgate/diglib/

humanities texts http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu

elib homepage http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/

the electric library http://www.elibrary.com/

general web sites of humanities and social sciences

the humbul gateway: international resources for the humanities http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/international.html

humanities hub: selected resources for the social sciences and humanities http://www.gu.edu.au/cgi-bin/g-code?/gwis/hub/qa/hub.home.html

universal codex for the social sciences http://www.carlton.ca/-cmkie/research.html

social sciences www virtual library http://coombs.anu.edu.auavwwvl-socsci.html

infomine for the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. http://iib-www.ucr.edu/liberal/

the viww virtual library http://www.w3.org/hypertext/datasources/bysubject/overview.html

voice of the shuttle guide to the humanities and social sciences http://humanities.ucsb.edu/

h-net: humanities and social sciences home page (directories and other online resources) http://h-net.msu.edu/

research resources for graduate students http://www.tgsa.com/aitpages/rbutters.html

directories of internet resources in history

index of online resources for historians http://history.ec.ukans-edu/history/index.html

world wide web services for historians http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/hist.html

history database: site includes a vast array of history links http://www.history.la.ca.us/history/

the history scholars' guide to the world wide web http://www2.uchicago.edu/ssd-history/links.html

horus web links to history resources http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html

voice of the shuttle web page for history research http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/history.html

american and british history resources on the internet http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html

history buff's reference library http://www.historybuff.com/library/

electronic texts

carrie: a full text electronic library http://kuhttp.ce.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie-main.html

the english server: electronic texts and primary documents in the humanities. gopher://english.hss.emu.edu

the online library of electronic texts http.//etext.lib.,virginia.edu/english.html

text and documents: electronic historical texts and primary documents http://history.hanover.eduhexts.htm

historical text archive at mississippi state http/www.msstate.edu/archives/history

electronic text (etext) projects http://www.westciv.com.au/-etext-projects.html

the world war i document archive http://www.lib.byu.edu/-rdh/wwi

world war 11 resources http://omni.ce.purdue.edu/-pha/master.html

native american documents project http://www.esusm.edu/projects/nadp/nadp.htm

u.s. history

american memory: historical collections of the national digital library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html or http://lcweb2.loc.gov/

[in incredible set of online collections, including: african-american pamphlets, 1818-1907; photographs of american architecture and interior design, 1935-1955; matthew brady civil war photographs; the evolution of the conservation movement (photographs, documents, and printed texts), 1850-1920; documents from the continental congress and constitutional convention, 1774-1789; color photographs from the farm security administration, 1938-1944; american life histories: manuscripts from the federal writers project, 1936-1940; early american motion pictures, 1897-1916; america's leaders speak: recordings from world war i and the 1920 election; vaudeville and popular entertainment, (photographs, playscripts, program books and motion pictures) 1870-1920; selections from the national american woman suffrage association (documents, pamphlets, and books). ]

index/of native american resources on the internet http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/mise/naresources.html

index of civil war information available on the internet http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm

civil war resources on the internet: abolitionism to reconstruction (1830's -1890's)

http://scils.rutgers.edu/%7ewgv/civwar-2.html

history of north american geography and exploration (great historical maps)

http://www.lib.virginia/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html

united states army - center of military history

http://imabbs.army.mil/cmh-pg/

american social history project

http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/ashpintro3.html

historical sociology and social change

http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/history.html

transitional ideological modes: feudalism, capitalism, socialism

http://eng.hss.cum.edu/history/feudalism-to-socialism.txt

www virtual library: labour & business history - index site

http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/

h-labor - labor history online resources

http://www.h-net.msu/~labor/

h-diplo: diplomatic history resources index

http://www.scf-.usc.edu/~sarantak/stuff.html

anti-imperialism in the united states 1898-1935

http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fyzwick/

women's history - a guide to mtsu library& internet resources

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

women's history review; offers full text of selected articles

http://www.triangle.co.uk/whr-o.htm