History
AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History
Maintained by the University of Kansas for the Virtual Library, AMDOCS
is a “directory of primary documents available on the Web. Browse
by time period, beginning with 1492 and continuing into current times.
Includes inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties, letters, speeches,
and more.”
[http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/]
American
Memory from 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.”
These materials, which passed 5 million in number in the year 2000, come
from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html]
American
Rhetoric
“Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video
(streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures,
debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or
two.” Included in the database are speeches from movies, “200+
short audio clips from well-known speeches, movies, sermons, popular songs,
and sensational media events by famous (and infamous) politicians, actors,
preachers, athletes, singers, and other noteworthy personalities, and
complete index to and partial text and audio database of the 100 most
significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according
to 137 leading scholars of American public address.”
[http://www.americanrhetoric.com/]
American
Studies at the University of Virginia
Provides maps, full text documents and exhibits with a special feature
on the 1930s.
[http://xroads.virginia.edu/]
Documenting
the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing
initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files
related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial
period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth
includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts,
letters, oral history interviews, and songs."
[http://docsouth.unc.edu/]
From
Revolution to Reconstruction
Contains essays, full text documents from the Magna Carta to Presidential
Inaugural Addresses, and biographies of important Americans.
[http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/index.htm]
Internet
History Sourcebooks Project
"The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain
and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising
or excessive layout) for educational use." Main sourcebooks include
Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Various special sourcebooks are also provided.
[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/]
Making
of America
“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 8,500 books and 50,000
journal articles with 19th century imprints.”
[http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/]
The
History Place
Covers the American Revolution, Civil War, World War II, Vietnam War and,
20th Century Topics (photos). Some world history topics are also discussed
[http://www.historyplace.com/index.html]
WWW
Virtual Library: History
This site provides links to sites covering national histories and by special
topics such as military history, art history, and economical history.
[http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html]