American History Resources
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html - Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress - "The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65."
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html - American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress - "American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
- http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ - Archival Research Catalog - Look at historical documents, photos, and records (includes some digital copies of primary documents).
- http://go.fold3.com/blackhistory_civilwar/?xid=1577 - Black History in the Civil War - The documents in this collection illustrate the important role African Americans played during the war and stories vital to understanding American history.
- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ - Digital History @ the University of Houston - "The materials on this Web site include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American, Asian American, and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a database of annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians."
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html - Documenting the American South - "Documenting the American South (DocSouth) includes sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture."
- http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.asp - Enlightenment Period from Fordham University - "The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures."
- http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - " The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features the more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Each year the Institute offers support and resources to tens of thousands of teachers, and through them enhances the education of more than a million students."
- http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ - History Matters at GMU - "Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence."
- http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ - Making of America Collection at the University of Michigan - "Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."
- http://www.archives.gov/ - National Archives of the United States - "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever."
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/ - National Museum of American History, Smithsonian - "The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History dedicates its collections and scholarship to inspiring a broader understanding of our nation and its many peoples." Browse collections online and view images of artifacts.
- http://ourdocuments.gov - Our Documents - "We invite all Americans to participate in a series of events and programs to get us thinking, talking and teaching about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy. At the heart of this initiative are 100 milestone documents of American history."
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - "This exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely."
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/resources/index.html - Slavery and the Making of America (PBS) - "Over the past few decades, the study of slavery has become a central theme in scholarship on African-Americans and on the history of the United States... Explore some of these sources and broaden your perspective on this significant period in American history."
- http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ - Teaching American History - "Learn more about American history by going back to the original source documents, from the founding through the 20th century and beyond."
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/ - Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress - "The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes."
- http://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust-encyclopedia - United States Holocaust Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - "Organized by theme, this site uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust."
Iowa History Resources
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-Des-Moines-Museum/90204299039 - Fort Des Moines Museum - "The mission of the Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center is to preserve, promote, and perpetuate the heritage of service, sacrifice, and risk taken by the Black officers of World War I and the women of World War II through exhibits, educational programming, and public use of the facility."
- http://www.iowaheritage.org/ - Iowa Heritage Digital Collection at the State Library of Iowa - "The Iowa Heritage Digital Collections is an online repository of Iowa history and culture, maintained by the State Library of Iowa, which brings together digital resources of Iowa libraries, museums, historical societies and other cultural institutions to enhance access to and preserve long–term accessibility of these valuable materials." There are over 50 collections on this website.
- http://www.uni.edu/iowaonline/ - Iowa History Online - "Service to the schools of Iowa comprises a significant portion of the mission and purpose of Price Laboratory School at the University of Northern Iowa. Consistent with this mission, the purpose of IOWA HISTORY ONLINE is to provide Iowa history teachers across the state with high quality instructional tools and online access to excellent teaching resources."
- http://www.preservationiowa.org/ - Preservation Iowa - "Preservation Iowa builds partnerships that enhance our economic and cultural future through the preservation of Iowa's historic resources."
- http://www.iowahistory.org/ - State Historical Society of Iowa - The mission & vision of the State Historical Society of Iowa is to "help Iowans comprehend who they are and what they can become, the State Historical Society of Iowa serves as a trustee of Iowa’s historical legacy and an advocate for understanding Iowa’s past."
World History Resources
- http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ - Avalon Project at Yale University - "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ - British History Online - "British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles."
- http://chnm.gmu.edu/ - Center for History & New Media - "CHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding."
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ - Perseus Digital Library - "Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. We are applying what we have learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond." Also includes material on Arabic, Germanic, American, Renaissance, and Humanist sources.
- http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/ - Women in World History from George Mason University - "Women in World History ... [creates] an online curriculum resource center to help high-school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from primary sources dealing with women and gender in world history."
- http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/index.html - World History Sources from George Mason University - "World History Sources reflects three approaches central to current world history scholarship: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilizations in isolation; a focus on contacts among different societies and the economic, social, and cultural consequences of those contacts; and an attentiveness to “global” forces that transcend individual societies or even societies in mutual contact—forces such as technology diffusion, migration, disease transmission, extension and realignments of trade routes, or missionary outreach."