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American History General Resources

• American Memory Collection Finder (Library of Congress)
  
  
• American Women Gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States
  
  
• American Women's History: a Research Guide (Middle Tennessee State University)
  
  
• Documenting the American South  (University of North Carolina)
  
  
• Gateway to African American History
  
  
• History Matters  (U.S. History on the Web)
  
  
• Making of America Digital Collection
  
  
• National Women's History Project
  
  
• Rise & Fall of Jim Crow (PBS) "explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. It was a brutal and oppressive era in American history, but during this time, large numbers of African Americans bravely fought against the status quo, acquiring many opportunities for African Americans."
  
  
• Rutgers University American & British History Portal
  
  
• Slave Movement During the 18th & 19th Centuries (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on  slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  
  
• United States History Index [Virtual Library]
  
  
• U.S. History.org
  
  

Colonial America

• Digital History: the American 18th Century
  
  
• Discoverer's Web
  
  
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial America
  
  
• Maps of Colonial America
  
  
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress)
  
  
• Rutgers Guide to Colonial American Resources
  
  
• Salem Witch Trials  (University of Virginia)
  
  
• Salem Witchcraft Trials  (University of Missouri Law School)
  
  
  

American Revolution & the New Nation

• Amazing World of Early America
  
  
• Brandywine Battlefield
  
  
• Liberty! The American Revolution
  
  
  
• Valley Forge
  
  
• Virtual Library Guide to the American Revolution [Library of Congress]
  
  
• Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution
  
  
• War of 1812 Website
  
  

19th Century America

• Century of Lawmaking for the New Nation
  
  
• deTocqueville's Democracy in America
  
  
• Documenting the American South
  
  

American Civil War

• American Civil War Homepage
  
  
• American Civil War Resources [UNT]
  
  
• Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
  
  
• Historic New York Times: the Civil War Years
  
  
• Rutgers University Civil War Links
  
  

Westward Expansion

• History of the American West
  
  
• Kansas Collection (University of Kansas)
  
  
• Multicultural American West
  
  
• Northern Great Plains
  
  
• WestWeb (City University of New York)
  
  

20th Century America

• American Cultural History: the 20th Century
  
  
• America from the Great Depression to WWII
  
  
• Civil Rights Movement
  
  
• New Deal Network
  
  

Vietnam War

• History of Vietnam & the Vietnam War
  
  
• Vietnam Resources Center
  
  
• Vietnam: Stories Since the War
  
  
• Vietnam War Internet Project
  
  
• Vietnam: Yesterday & Today