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Tutoring, Message Boards, Bulletin Boards
General Reference Resources
Specialized Reference Resources
Wars
African-American History
Biography Websites
Hypertexts of Historical Documents
Links

Tutoring, Message Boards, Bulletin Boards

Academic Assistance Access - a homework helper where you (and others) email questions and everyone receives back by email the answers to all questions asked.  You have to join the email list, which is free and fast, and designate the area in which you are joining, which includes high school subjects, including American history, and college subjects
http://www.tutoraid.org/faq/

General Reference Resources

American Studies Web
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/

American Memory - Library of Congress site of primary and source materials on American culture and history 
http://rs6.loc.gov:80/amhome.html

American Studies @ The University of Virginia - sampler of student projects, directory with links for other resources online, hypertext projects in American studies with wide range of sources, links to and archives of selected journals, cultural maps in progress toward American historical atlas, the Capitol Project focusing on the US Capitol, archives of electronic courses in American studies.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy -   e-texts of critical documents and acts organized by era (pre-18th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century) and by authors and subjects
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm

Center for the Study of Southern Culture
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/index.html

From Revolution to Reconstruction - outline of American history with hypertext articles and massive links, organized by period
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html

The HistoryNet - large U.S. history and world history resource
http://www.thehistorynet.com/

New York Times Learning Network - terrific site with lesson (and paper) ideas for middle and high school students dealing with key issues in American history, including links with each problem to relevant online resources
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/americanhistory.html

U.S. Cultures Home Page - excellent and comprehensive outline of American history to 1910, by high school teacher Mark Yonko at high school level
http://westy.jtwn.k12.pa.us/users/mcy/

U.S. Cultures 2 Page - from the same high school but a different teacher, a thorough glossary of terms used in U. S. history after 1865. Click on faculty, then History to reach page where you can select US Cultures 2  
http://westyjr.jtwn.k12.pa.us/whhs/index.html

Specialized Reference Resources, roughly chronologically 

Archiving Early America - many resources on America's colonial period, focusing on electronic reproductions of source materials such as George Washington's journals
http://earlyamerica.com/

Early America Review
http://earlyamerica.com/review/

History Buff's Reference Library - Listing of 16th to 18th Century History Articles - primarily e-texts of newspaper articles from the period
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refseventeen.html

The Puritan Legacy: The Importance and Origins of the Puritan Movement - essay with some links
http://members.tripod.com/JoeDoug/puritan1.htm

Digital History Ltd. - the French and Indian War
http://www.digitalhistory.org/table.htm

Colonial Williamsburg Home Page
http://www.history.org/

The Making of America - a useful site out of the University of Michigan covering the social history of American, has a search engine
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

Timeline of the 18th Century
http://www.digitalhistory.org/timeline.htm

The American Revolution and the Struggle for Independence  - A Hypertext on American History
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/

Federal Literature, Republic of Reason - collection of essays, e-texts, and links that present the political and cultural background for the period - click on Federal from main page
http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/amlit/newamlit2.htm

Lewis and Clark - PBS site, based on model from Ken Burns documentary, attractive, accessible site
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

19th Century United States Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies Online - good page, primarily strong in links with some maps and e-texts as well
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/19th/19th.html

American Whig Party - its backgrounds and its demise, briefly
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/uswhig/whigsxx.htm

The American Civil War, 1861-1865
http://users.iamdigex.net/bdboyle/cw.html

Civil War Archive at the Library of Congress - timeline and photographs
http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html

American Civil War Page - comprehensive list of resources on the internet  
http://www.janke.washcoll.edu/civilwar/civilwar.htm

United States Civil War Center - over 1000 links
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

California as I Saw It: First Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 - Library of Congress compilation, and as all the LOC studies, attractive, accessible, and useful
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

WestWeb - study of the American West
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/

Living the Legacy: The Woman's Rights Movement, 1848-1998 - chronology and resources
http://www.legacy98.org/

Anti-Imperialism in the US 1898-1935
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ail98-35.html

Imperialism in the Making of America
http://www.boondocksnet.com/moa/index.html

Ellis Island  
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/7443/eisland.html

World's Fairs and Expositions: Defining America and the World, 1876-1916
http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/index.html

World War I Chronology - with video clip  
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Chronology.html

Imperial Japanese Navy Page - excellent page on the war in the Pacific
http://www.skypoint.com/members/jbp/kaigun.htm

Korean War Project
http://www.onramp.net/~hbarker/

Wars

Digital History Ltd. - the French and Indian War
http://www.digitalhistory.org/table.htm

The French and Indian War
http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/

The American Revolution and the Struggle for Independence from Hypertext on American History  
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/

The American Civil War, 1861-1865
http://users.iamdigex.net/bdboyle/cw.html

Civil War Archive at the Library of Congress - timeline and photographs
http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html

American Civil War Page - comprehensive list of resources on the internet 
http://www.janke.washcoll.edu/civilwar/civilwar.htm

United States Civil War Center - over 1000 links
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

World War I Chronology - with video clip
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Chronology.html

Imperial Japanese Navy Page - excellent page on the war in the Pacific
http://www.skypoint.com/members/jbp/kaigun.htm

Korean War Project
http://www.onramp.net/~hbarker/

The Sixties Project - concentration on the effects of the Vietnam War
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/

African-American History

African American Archaeology Newsletter
http://www.newsouthassoc.com/AfAmNewsletter.html

African American Home Page: African American Art
http://www.lainet.com/~joejones/

African American Web Connection
http://www.aawc.com/aawc.html

African-American Women, An On-line Archival Collection - scanned narratives of women slaves
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

A Deeper Shade of History - Black History
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~isbell/HFh/black/bhist.html

Center for the Study of Southern Culture
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/index.html

Documenting the American South - collection of texts and information dealing primarily with slave issues and literature
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

Biography web sites

American Presidents, Life Portraits - terrific collection of material from C-Span
http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Thomas Jefferson – site for PBS series on Thomas Jefferson with information and links for students
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/

Hypertexts of Historical Documents

Archiving Early America - many resources on America's colonial period, focusing on electronic reproductions of source materials such as George Washington's journals
http://earlyamerica.com/

Inaugural Address of the Presidents George Washington to George Bush, 1989
http://www.bartleby.com/124/index.html

Links

American Studies @ The University of Virginia - sampler of student projects, directory with links for other resources online, hypertext projects in American studies with wide range of sources, links to and archives of selected journals, cultural maps in progress toward American historical atlas, the Capitol Project focusing on the US Capitol, archives of electronic courses in American studies
http://xroads.virginia.edu/

B.J.’s Native American Links - links to resources on native American arts, biography, education, health, legends, museums, nations and tribes, organizations, and resource guides.
http://arginine.umdnj.edu/~swartz/nativam.html

From Revolution to Reconstruction - outline of American history with hypertext articles and massive links, organized by period
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/

This page was last updated on Friday, April 21, 2006.