U.S. History - By Period & Topic
General
Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Web Pages - Comprehensive website on the Mayflower, the Pilgrim Fathers and Plymouth Colony, including texts of the Fathers, wills and other documents, and lots of historical information.
West Web - WestWeb is a topically-organized website about the study of the American West created and maintained by Catherine Lavender of the Department of History, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.
Gold Rush - Compilation of stories related to the discovery of gold in northern California in 1848, including how gold was discovered, details about life in the mining camps, and the experience of Latinos, black miners, Chinese workers and women.
Klondike Gold Rush Historical Database - A database containing photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, contemporary Seattle business names and locations, vessel sailing dates and passenger lists related to the 1897-1898 Klondike Gold Rush, which Seattle served as a major gateway for supplies and prospectors.
Spain, the United States and the American Frontier - "Examines the history of Spanish expansion into North America from Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas across the continent through Louisiana and Texas to the Southwest, California, and as far as Alaska". Includes digital collections of texts, manuscripts, letters, maps, prints and photographs.
Mexican War & the Texan Revolution - from the Animated Atlas - Resources dealing with American expansion Westwards and the war with Mexico. The website (the Animated Atlas by Peter Mays) also offers other resources on American history, along with a free 10-minute video "Growth of a Nation".
Crisis of the Union - Collection of documents and pamphlets about America, 1830-1880, described as "an electronic archive of documents about the causes, conduct and consequences of the US Civil War".
The Dred Scott Decision - Selection of resources on this decision and its consequences from Library of Congress.
Surviving the Dust Bowl - Film and resources from PBS: Thousands of settlers came to the Southern Plains, bringing farming techniques that worked well in the North and East. The farmers subsequently plowed millions of acres of grassland, only to have the rains stop in the summer of 1931. The catastrophic eight-year drought that followed led observers to rename the region "The Dust Bowl."
1930s Project - from AS@UVA - Despite its cultural richness, the 1930s remain nearly invisible in contemporary discussions of America's artistic, cultural, political, economic, and social development. This site is an attempt to shed light on that decade and emphasize its importance in American thought and culture.
Bay of Pigs:
- Bay of Pigs Reports - from the CIA
- Bay of Pigs : Forty years after - from the National Security Archive
- Castro Speech Database - from the Latin American Network Information Centre
American Indians
Wounded Knee: The Museum - South Dakota museum devoted to exploring the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.
Immigration
CastleGarden.org - Offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. From 1855 to 1890, the Castle was America's first official immigration center. There is also a Timeline from 1800 onwards.
The Jewish Americans - Documentary for PBS by David Grubin exploring 350 years of Jewish American history.
Slavery & Civil Rights
BlackPast.org - Reference materials on six centuries of African American history, including an online encyclopedia, full-text primary documents and major speeches.
"Jim Crow" - Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States. This site, from the PBS, looks at the century of racial segregation.
Ku Klux Klan: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombings, 1963 - Images, newspaper clippings and documents relating to the Baptitst Church bombing of September 1963 by the Ku Klux Klan.
Martin Luther King - from the Seattle Times - Resources on Martin Luther King including an MLK timeline, a Civil Rights timeline, a photo gallery and sound files.
National Civil Rights Museum - The National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM) was opened in 1991 at the site of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide, through its collections, exhibitions, research and educational programs.
Rosa Parks Library and Museum - Information about the black woman, Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man inspired the 1955 Civil Rights Movement event known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.National Public Radio programme about Rosa Parks (d.2005): Civil Rights Icon dies
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