National+History+Day+Resources



RESEARCH LINKS: US History Links: [|American Heritage Magazine], searchable online archives [|AmDOCS], primary sources sorted by time [|Biography of America], Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania [|Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records]- Images of over two million Federal land patents issued between 1820 and 1908 for Eastern Public Land States. [|Digital History], a collection of online resources from the University of Houston [|ExplorePAHistory] [|Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History] [|History Matters], from George Mason University - great documents and web links by time period [|History Now], an online American History Journal [|Historical Census Browser]- searchable data 1790-1960 Historical Text Archive [|Internet Archive Landmark Cases] , documents relating to key Supreme Court cases [|//The Nation//] [| Digital Archive (Since 1865)] [|National Museum of African American History and Culture] [|Organization of American Historians Magazine of History], searchable by topic [|Pennsylvania History Magazine] - archives back to the 1930s [|Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography], 20th century archives availabl [|Pennsylvania Veterans Museum], in Media, PA [|Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century], from the University of Texas at Austin [|Teaching American History Podcasts], leading historians discuss current scholarship [|Time Magazine] Picture Collection [|Lecture]- The Electoral College in US Presidential Election [|New York Public Library Digital Gallery] (free and open access)

[|100 Milestone Documents], key documents from US history [|Africans in America - Historical Documents] [|American Rhetoric], major speeches (some in audio and video format) [|Archiving Early America], colonial America resources [|Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture], an ecclectic collection going back to pre-civil war era [|Avalon Project], law, history, and diplomacy documents from 1600s-present [|Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers], includes papers from 1897-1910 from the Library of Congress collection [|The Dirksen's Center's Editorial Cartoon Collection]- 20th century cartoon collection [|Duke University Digitized Collections], good collections, one very good one of women in the Civil War [|Footnote]- open source where people post documents online. [|Google News Archive Search], try this for 20th century topics [|Harvard University Library Open Collections Program], digital collections about women in the 19th century, immigration, and the history of diseases [|Historical Text Archives]- interesting collection [|Google News Archive] Search [|Historical Maps Online], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [|Chronology]of US Historical Documents [|Images of American political history]- great images for documentaries and exhibits [|Library of Congress: American Memory]- a must for everyone [|The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004] lots of videos, campaign commercials, and images [|Making of America] from Cornell University, lots of 19th century newspapers and magazines [|Making of America] from Michigan University [|The National Archives]- a must for everyone [|National Gallery of Art]Art resources [|Penn State Digital Collections], Penn State's archive - interesting links for Pennsylvania History [|Pennsylvania State Archives], a must for PA topics [|World War II oral histories]- from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh [|Presidential Inaguration] - diaries, letters, speeches, tickets, and photographs [|Public Papers of the Presidency]- documents from Hoover to G. W. Bush
 * Primary Sources Sites:**

[|National History Day] [|Pennsylvania History Day]
 * History Day :**

__**Resources by Topic**__ [|American Indian Heritage Teaching Resources] [|National Museum of the American Indian]- Education Resources
 * Pre-Columbian America:**

[|Archiving Early America]** [|Africans In America] [|American Journeys]- archives of accounts of explorers to America [|Colonial Williamsburg] [|Jamestown] [|Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive] [|Salem Witchcraft Hysteria- Interactive] [|Common-Place], [|Digital Quaker Collection], Earlham School of Religion [|Atlantic Slave Trade] Database
 * Colonial America:

[|Declaration of Independence]**Exhibit from the Library of Congress [|Secrets of A Revolution- Articles in //US News and World Report//] [|The American Revolution] [|The American Revolution Center] [|The Federalist Papers]
 * The American Revolution:

[|The American Presidency - The Smithsonian] [|The American Presidency Project] University of California at Santa Barbara [|Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections] [|The Avalon Project - The Papers of the Presidents]
 * American Presidency:**

[|American Slave Narratives] [|Slavery in Pennsylvania]  [|George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799] [|Lewis and Clark] Exploration maps from the University of Virginia [|Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia] [|The Papers of James Madison (Univ. of Virginia)][|America in the 1850's- An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)] [|American Slave Narratives] - WPA project archives [|Dred Scott Digital Project] [|The Crisis of the Union], University of Pennsylvania [|Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection] , Cornell University [|Slavery & Abolition in the U.S.: Select Publications of the 1800s], from Dickinson College
 * A New Nation:**

 [|The Lincoln Institute] [|**A House Divided**] [|Documenting the American South] [|Harper's Weekly: Explore History] [|The American Civil War Homepage] [|The Centennial Exhibition- Philadelphia 1876] [|The History of Jim Crow] [|The Valley of the Shadow] [|The Trial of John Brown] documents [|Letter from an Iowa soldier] [|Making of America Project]from Cornell University [|Lecture]- A series of lectures about Abraham Lincoln from the Lincoln library [|Civil War Resources]from Rutgers
 * The Civil War and Reconstruction:**

[|Harper's Weekly]**- archives of America's most popular magazine [|Child Labor in America 1908-1912] [|Papers of Thomas Edison], Rutgers University [|Ellis Island] [|Virtual Tour of a Tenement] [|Herbert Hoover Library] [|World War I Document Archive], Pre - 1914 [|"Stars and Stripes:"] the American Soldiers' Newspaper, 1918 - 1919, Library of Congress [|Immigration to the United States, 1790 - 1930], Harvard University
 * Growth and Transformation / Imperial America:

[|Talking History]** Radio Archive Voices from the Dustbowl **R**- Library of Congress [|FDR Cartoon Archive] [|Harlem: 1900-1940] [|New Deal Network] [|Virginia Schools in the Great Depression] [|Advertising Archives 1900-1950], Duke University Special Collections [|Voices from the Dustbowl], Library of Congress [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Library] [|Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)]
 * 1920s, Great Depression and New Deal:

[|Remembering Pearl Harbor](National Geographic) [|U.S.S. Arizona Memorial] (National Parks Service) [|Densho], Archive of Japanese Internment Accounts [|Japanese Internment Letters], Smithsonian Institution [|Churchill Speech Interactive] [|The Decision to Drop the Bomb] [|Harry S. Truman Library] [|Dwight D. Eisenhower Library] [|John F. Kennedy Library] [|Lyndon B. Johnson Library][|Female War Correspondents in World War II], Library of Congress [|Veterans History Project], Library of Congress
 * WWII and the Early Cold War:**

[|Rutgers University Oral History Archives]**(WW2 --> Vietnam) Civil Rights Document Project [|Martin Luther King Center], Atlanta, GA [|Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb] [|Little Rock Central High Memory Project] [|NYT: A Different War] (Vietnam) [|Revisiting Watergate] [|Richard M. Nixon Presidential Materials] [|Gerald R. Ford Library] [|Jimmy Carter Library] [|Ronald Reagan Library] [|National Security Archive]from George Washington University [|The Sixties Project], University of Virginia [|White House Recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower] [|George H. W. Bush Library] [|Clinton Presidential Materials Project]
 * Decades of Change:
 * Post Cold War:**