Don't miss this huge History site. It includes hundreds of articles and images derived from past and current history magazines. Interviews, journals, features, profiles, homes, and much much more. Highly recommended!

Yahoo History Directory

Selected History sites, by subject.

History Buff's Reference Library

Interesting history project - newspaper format.

American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources

Huge collection of historical information and archives from Georgetown University.

ZIA History, American History Resources

Index to original sources and links on American History.

USA - Archives

From Mississippi State, original documents on line.

Home Page: American Memory from the Library of Congress

Library of Congress photo and essay archives.

Historical Maps of the United States

RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

The Reconstruction Period

Good basic information, but who wrote it? A high school student?

From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards

Several short entries from this period.

Abraham Lincoln

Miss State Archives, includes papers, speeches, plans for reconstruction.

Abraham Lincoln Online

Interesting page with timeline and other information about Lincoln.

Titanic

The Virginia Newspaper Project examines the news; covering the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic,

April 14, 1912.

INDUSTRIAL AGE 1880-1910

Courthouse Square 1880 - City of Brownwood, Texas

Photo.

Expansion and Reform

Chapter 6 discusses "The Era of Expansion and Reform," Industry, Cities and their Problems, Machines, Populists, Reform, and Roosevelt Saving Resources.

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935

Includes papers and bibliography.

The Titanic Page

Pictures, stories, newspaper clippings.

THE TWENTIES

Calvin Coolidge

Picture and documents, 1923.

The Main Causes of the Great Depression

Essay.

The Price of Civilization: A History of American Taxation

The Great Depression - very good collection of original documents.

African-American Baseline Essay

Essay - The Roaring Twenties.

Renaissance History

The Harlem Renaissance.

ZIA History, American History, 20th Century, 1920s, Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance Resources

Good information about Harlem Renaissance. Links and original writings. Photos.

ZIA History, American History, 20th Century, 1920s, Jazz Age Resources

The Roaring 20s and the jazz age.

American Prohibition

Links and original pages.

The Harlem Renaissance

A student project.

Swing Dance Styles

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/aswin/SwingDancing/swing_dance_style

Forty-two dance styles from different time periods in history are discussed and dance step directions are given. Swing Dance Styles reviewed are Balboa of World War II, Bop, Hustle, Rock and Roll, Whip, Boogie Woogie, and Jitterbug, etc. 

The Progressive Era

Reform - Roosevelt. Links, etc.

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935

Essay against the acquiring of territories by US.

THE THIRTIES

Social Security Plan

Includes history through today's reform.

Voices from the Thirties:

Oral histories.

Radio

http://www.radioclassics.com

Radio information including Hopalong Cassidy, The Shadow, from 1932, and Sherlock Holmes.

WPA Life Histories--Home Page

From Library of Congress.

 THE FORTIES

The Civilian Conservation Corps

History and today.

Americana: Franklin D. Roosevelt

From Encyclopedia America.

The Forties

http://www.ornl.gov/swords/forties.html

War and Peace in the forties - a cultural essay.

Character Above All: Harry S. Truman Essay

Very good. Includes photos.

Marshall Plan

An Essay on the Marshall Plan

Harry S. Truman

The www.whitehouse.gov entry on Truman.

  WORLD WAR II

D-Day

http://192.253.114.31/D-Day/

Material collected by Patch High School in Stuttgart, Germany, on D-Day. Includes World War II, archives sties, famous speeches, maps and battle plans. 

Women's Land Army

WWII, photo-essay, etc. Women during WWII.

American Battleship Directory

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/active_carriers.txt

Includes specific battleships, length, speed, class, armament, etc. Covers March and April, 1943. 

Combat Chronology U.S. Army Air Forces

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/chrono_1938-41.txt

Covers Jan., Feb., Mar., April, and Dec. of 1943. 

George Rarey's World War II Air Force Cartoon Journals

Personal journals and drawings of a World War II Air Forceman, killed after D-Day. Placed on the Web by his son.

Women Come to the Front

The story and pictures of 8 women journalists, broadcasters, and photographers during WWII. Exhibit from Library of Congress.

4 Freedoms Speech - Roosevelt<

Speech given by F.D. Roosevelt on the sixth of January in 1941.

FDR

Links to biographical information, speeches, and more.

World War II Resources

Links to WWII sites. Archives from Mississippi State U.

World War II Classifieds

Just thought this was interesting. Classifieds for people wanting WWII memorabilia.

Postwar Estrangement

Post WWII, includes a telegram to Truman.

Salzburg 1945 - 1955:

Subtitle: everyday life in occupied Austria.

Japanese Surrender and other Documents

Terms of surrender, offer of surrender, Potsdam Declaration, and Instrument of Surrender

Sunsite's collection of Military WWII documents WWII documents - gopher menu. Download or print.

The Warsaw Uprising

Although still under construction, the Warsaw Uprising (8/1/44-10/2/44) page includes background information before the uprising, the aftermat, and maps & photos.

Pearl Harbor

Memory page. Includes letters, photos, essays, information.

Holocaust Subject Guide

Holocaust Subject Library Guide, Kingwood College.

THE FIFTIES

Elvis' Record History - The Fifties

Just for fun - Elvis albums.

The Fifties' Thirties

A generational thing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower Center

Includes photos, bio info, links.

eye-witness

A North Korean remembers. With photos.

Korean War (1950-1953)

"The American 1950s"

The #1 page for the 1050's.

Joe McCarthy

A brief excerpt from Richard Rovere's Senator Joe McCarthy

Senator Joseph McCarthy -- A Multimedia Celebration

Includes audio clips.

Rosa Parks or  Award winning Rosa Parks

Essay with small photo.

KOREA

Korean War Project Home Page

http://www.onramp.net/hbarker/index.html

New page dedicated to those who died in the Korean War.

 Korean War MIA/POW

http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/mia-kr.htm

HelpDesk for MIA/POWs of the Korean War.

THE SIXTIES

Jim Crow Oral History Project

Interviews - memories of segregation.

Flashback: 1955

Flashback to segration on public buses.

Martin Luther King

Includes "I have a dream" speech.

The Malcolm X Interview

1965 Malcolm X was shot. This is an interview with Alex Haley.

Brown v. Board of Education

An interactive experience.  Includes an audio of the U. S. Supreme Court Decision.

Sixties

List with some good sites. Links to music, art, etc. from the 60s.

Sixties Related Web Sites

Great collection of 60s sites.

John F. Kennedy

Whitehouse = official biography.

John F. Kennedy Library Home Page

The Library - archives.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

Speeches, literary influences, family, legacy, sound recording, and photos.

Hippies - Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury in 1967. Text and photographs.

The Sixties Project

Collection of sites.

Bobkirk's Deadhead Family Page

Peace and love - and about being real hippies.

The Digger Archives

The Diggers were a Haight-Ashbury hippie group. Made history during '66-68. Hippie movement.

Best of Kennedy Assasination Web Sites

Links to collected JFK sites.

Cuba

The Cuban Missile Crisis: The British Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Includes an introduction, chapters 1-3, a conclusion, and a select bibliography of sources.

The King Papers Project

Mrs. Coretta Scott King introduces the section by stating that the information has not been published previously. Includes reviews of publications, a list of scholarly articles, and student involvement.

VIETNAM

Hanoi Hannah Text

Text from Hanoi Hannah, radio celebrity, giving mixed messages and misinformation to American soldiers.

POW / MIA

Archives including documents MIA/POW papers. - a gopher menu.

Citations

A list of United States servicemen who received the nations highest military award during the Vietnam War.

E. Kenneth Hoffman - Vietnam Portfolio

Portfolio of 80 photographs taken in Vietnam (1969-70). Includes captions.

IMAGES OF MY WAR

Personal journals of the war.

Vietnam Era Documents

Vietnam War: 1965 - 1975. Senate Select POW-MIA Affairs Report, State Department White Paper on Vietnam, Tonkin Gulf Message and Resolution, Two letters from Ngo Dinn Diem, and Vietnam Fets Against the War Statement.

THE SEVENTIES

Seventies Sites Page

Movies, cars, music, events... mostly photos but worth a look.

The Seventies

Great overview of the decade.

Watergate

Good site - journal. From Australia.....

Nixon

Another good collection on Nixon - speeches, etc.

Richard M. Nixon

Official White House biography.

SPACE HISTORY

Apollo-11

http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo

Apollo II includes the crew, milestones, and the launch. 

Historical Archive

http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/history.htm.

Historical Archive - Space History. Includes unmanned missions, unmammed missions, Gemini, Project Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. 

Project Skylab

http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/skylab/skylab

Project Skylab includes goals,station, summary, manned and unmanned missions.