American History Links


Primary documents search engine
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Mock Trial Help
http://www2.mnbar.org/mocktrial/new_resource.htm

Photographs that changed the world
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm_index.html

This website gives a great description of how to use chicago 
style citations 
when writing for me. Use  the example as a guide.

 http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch10_o.html 

Chicago-style citations explained
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

Guidelines to Persuasive Essays
http://www.studygs.net/wrtstr4.htm

An excellent collection of student written essays/papers that 
show how to 
properly footnote as well as create a bibliography.
http://www.tcr.org/tcr/essays.htm#pastessays

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - from the Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Lists the best on line sources for American History. This is an 
internet 
bibliography of different sites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Colonial.shtml

Excellent source for studying slavery
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Give Me Liberty - Honors text book, overview including on-line 
interview 
questions with Dr. Foner.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/history/foner/video.htm

Full on line edition of Howard Zinn's People's History of the 
United States
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/zinnapeopleshistory.html

This link provides hundreds of good history web sites, some very 
specific.
http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Native American cooking! Recipes and more!
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/recipes.html

More Native American Recipes
http://www.cookingpost.com/recipe.cfm

Here is a terrific archive of New Deal articles, photos, etc.
http://newdeal.feri.org/default.cfm

American History Maps
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_divine_appap_7/0,9455,1518971-content,00.html

Outline and study guide for Brinkley text book
http://apamst.tripod.com/americanhistoryasurvey.html

The 1860 census
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/april/census-1860.htm

Great Civil War site for links to other web pages. Demographics 
on slavery, 
etc.
http://www.civil-war.net/searchlinks.asp?searchlinks=Abolition%20&%20Slavery

The Boar War!
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/boar.html

Digital History Page
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/handouts.cfm

Flapper Jane article
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/flapperjane.html

Salem Witch Trials site
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

Herbert Hoover Library with links to official papers & documents
http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/hmother.html

Parade article on the St. Louis
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2003/edition_12-07-2003/featured_0

Nazi Atrocities
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,542245,00.html

Documents on Levittown - an excellent on line source on the 
growth of 
suburbs 
in the late 1940s and 1950s.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

Bomb Shelters: American Cultural History from the 1950s from a 
great web 
site. This site has a lot on US culture from that time period.
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html

Link to the site that gives commentary on the many vanishing road 
trip "side 
shows"
http://www.roadsideamerica.com

The automat - a feature of 20th century dinning out! Top of the 
list: Horn 
and Hardart. Smithsonian also has a good article on this.
http://www.theautomat.net/

Smithsonian article on Horn and Hardart - classic automat 
restaurant!
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/object_aug01.html

Civil Defense in the 1950s; bomb shelters; excellent university 
web site.
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/civildef/index.html

Article on the 1964 World's Fair
http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2007-04-24/hirshon-worldsfairremnants

New Faces in 1946: A lively account of the "Hamburger 
Election."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/newfaces.html

Study Guide for the book on Nat Turner: The Fires of Jubilee
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/39.3/briley.html

Kansas-Nebraska Act: Smithsonian article
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/law.html

Evidence of human communities in the Americas as early as 50,000 
ago
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm

America's First Immigrants - Evan Hadingham's Smithsonian article 
on the
Clovis people.
http://www.rense.com/general59/frist.htm

Web Page for The American Vision - CP Text
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/ushistory/tav2003/index.php4

Good source for well written articles from a variety of good 
history 
magazines
http://www.TheHistoryNet.com

Public Papers of the US Presidents - speeches, ex. orders, etc.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html

Colonial Williamsburg Journal
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/

Iraq War statistics
http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm

Forty Critical Moments in American Business History
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20070206-sidebar_print.shtml

Voice of Democracy
http://www.vfw.org/Community/Programs/


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