54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I
Portraying the experience of the African American soldier in the American Civil War in South Carolina.
African Americans in the Sciences
Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
Afro-American Sources in Virginia
A Guide to Manuscripts.
The Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
Archival Data On-Line Respository: Liberia-Roll of Emigrants
Also, Liberian Census Data, 1843.
Black Cultural Studies Site Index
Black Film Center/Archive Home Page
Black Heritage Trail
The Black Heritage Trail is a walking tour that explores the history of Boston's 19th century African American community. The trail consists on 14 sites all located in the Beacon Hill area.
Black History and Literature
Literature and History written by and on African Americans.
Black History Quest
African-American History, Culture, and Black Studies Resources.
Boston African-American National Historical Site
Located in the heart of Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, the site includes 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th century African-American community. National Park Service.
The Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism in the United States. 1619-1789
The Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism in the United States. 1790-1829
The Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism in the United States. 1830-the end
Footnoted entries with many full text Internet links. Includes the history of slavery among the founding fathers and in building the Capitol City. Spans period from 1619 to the present.
Events and People In Black History
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
Edited by Steven Mintz. University of Houston.
Frederick Douglas
A biography of the life of Frederick Douglass by Sandra Thomas.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
All aspects of slavery and its destruction, with a particular focus on the Atlantic Slave System, including the Africans' resistance to enslavement, the black and white abolitionist movements, and of the ways in which slavery finally came to an end.
Louisiana Native Guards
The first black soldiers in theUnion Army during the Civil War.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
A major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated.
National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, Tennessee
Persistence Of The Spirit
An interpretive study of the people and events that contributed to the black experience in Arkansas. Arkansas Humanities Resource Center.
Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica. Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin.
Small Towns, Black Lives
History of African American communities in the southern counties of New Jersey.
Zora Neale Hurston
Stories, photographs, essays and links.
American Museum of the Moving Image
Covers art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media, and to examining their impact on culture and society. It achieves these goals by maintaining the nation's largest permanent collection of moving image artifacts, and by offering the public exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars, and other education programs. Astoria, New York.
Ancestry: Religion, Death and Culture in Central Appalachia
Master of Fine Arts Show, Spring 1994. University of California, San Diego.
The Charles Ives Society
Has a biography of the composer and a catalog of his music. School of Music, Indiana University.
Club Kaycee
Serves up sights and sounds of the Golden Age of Kansas City Jazz from the Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri - Kansas City, in cooperation with kansascity.com and The Kansas City Star.
The New Deal Stage
Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939, collection contains playscripts, production materials, photographs, and administrative records selected from the output of a New Deal WPA arts project. Library of Congress.
UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Containing over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage.
Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
The mission of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives is to preserve and perpetuate the legacy of folk musician and artist Woody Guthrie. As guardians for the largest collection of Woody Guthrie material in the world, the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives achieves this goal by caring for, maintaining, and sharing the Woody Guthrie Archives with the public.
American Historical Review
The American Historical Review appears in February, April, June, October, and December of each year. It is published by the American Historical Association.
American Memory - National Digital Library
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Library of Congress.
American Studies @ The University of Virginia
Compilation of Historical Documents by Don Wise
Various articles written by Donald A. Wise covering U.S., Virginia, Oklahoma and Civil War history.
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
Documents in American History
Historic American Building Survey
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering
Record.
Historical Demographic, Economic, and Social Data for the United States, 1790-1860
People and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.
Hypertext on American History
A project on American History containing outlines of American History & Culture, source materials, essays, biographies, presidential information from the colonial period until modern times
Map Collections: 1500 - 1999
The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
New American Studies Web
A topical database of over 2,000 web-based resources in American Studies. Georgetown University.
The Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history.
Osher Map Library
The collections begin with early Western conceptions of the world as a whole and move to a progressively sharper focus on the New World, northern New England, and Maine. Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine.
The Presidents of the United States
The White House.
Private Passions, Public Legacy: Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia
In May 2000, the University of Virginia Library received 447 rare books, manuscripts, and maps from the estate of Paul Mellon. Celebrated as a philanthropist, art collector, and breeder of thoroughbred horses, Mellon was also a passionate book collector and amassed one of the greatest libraries of original documents of American history.
Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy
Vincent Ferraro, Ruth C. Lawson Professor of International
Politics, Mount Holyoke College.
Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society
Today in History from the Library of Congress
U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index
An index of resources available to historians of U.S. foreign policy on the World Wide Web.
United States History: A Guide to Internet Resources
An excellent resource from the University of Delaware Library.
Vice Presidents of the United States
A Web magazine dedicated to every facet of the Vice Presidency, and, the Vice Presidents of the United States.
The American Family Immigration History Center (AFIHC)
Located in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Allows visitors to explore the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives.
The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
The Institute documents and interprets the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States. Many past museum exhibits are available on line, and the library catalog (one of the largest in the U.S. on this subject) is searchable on line. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Immigration History Research Center
An international resource on American immigration and ethnic history. The IHRC collects, preserves, and makes available archival and published resources documenting immigration and ethnicity on a national scope. These materials are particularly rich for ethnic groups that originated in eastern, central, and southern Europe and the Near East -- those who came to this country during the great wave of migration that gained momentum in the 1880s and peaked in the first decades of the 20th century. The IHRC also sponsors academic and public programs and publishes bibliographic and scholarly works. University of Minnesota.
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
MoCA has an extensive collection of primary resource material on Chinese American history and culture, including oral histories, photographs, documents, personal and organizational records, sound recordings, textiles, artifacts, and a library with over 2,000 volumes covering Asian American topics.
Peopling North America: Population Movements & Migration
An historical overview of migratory movements, this tutorial focuses on diasporas to and within Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa. University of Calgary.
American Indian History and Related Issues
This world wide site is a developing site supervised by Professor Troy Johnson and is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico.
Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
Heard Museum
To educate the public about the heritage and the living cultures and arts of Native peoples, with an emphasis on the peoples of the Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona.
Indians of the Great Basin
Covers indigenous people of the Western United States from archaeology through contemporary issues. By Tad Beckman, Harvey Mudd College.
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
A tribally owned-and-operated complex, brings to life the story of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and serves as a major resource on the history of the Tribe, the histories and cultures of other tribes, and the region's natural history. Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum
Wichita, Kansas
Mystery of the First Americans
Discovery and ensuing controversy over the Kennewick Man, a well-preserved, 9,000-year-old human skeleton found in Washington State in 1996.
On This Date in North American Indian History
Lists over 3000 historical events which happened to or affected the indigenous peoples of North America. Also has Tribal name meanings and alternative names, Indian "moon" names, and links to thousands of other sites.
Oneida Indian Nation - Culture & History
Sacagawea: From captive to Indian interpreter to a true American legend
Tlingit National Anthem: Alaska Natives Online
Tlingit Culture History, Current American Indian issues, Alaskan Summer.
Wounded Knee Site Index
Wyandot Nation of Kansas
American Merchant Marine at War - Revolution to World War II to Today
American Merchant Marine in all Wars with emphasis on World War II, includes U.S. Maritime Service, Army Transport Service, and Military Sea Transportation Service.
The Battleship Kongô
How the design of one Japanese battleship built by the British in 1913, influenced naval history and naval architecture of the U.S., Japan, Great Britain and Germany. Covers naval history and architecture from the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 through World War II.
Battleship Massachusetts at Battleship Cove
Battleship New Jersey
Battleship USS Alabama BB-60
Also at Mobile’s Battleship Memorial Park, the submarine USS Drum and 23 combat aircraft.
C.S.S. Hunley Submarine Recovery Information
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
The Columbus Santa Maria (Columbus, OH)
Commodore John Barry, "Father of the American Navy."
Continental Sloop Providence
This 110' fully rigged sailing vessel is the faithful replica of John Paul Jones' first command.
Historic Ships to Visit
The NPS Maritime Heritage Program vessel pages. Here you can view listings of over 200 historic ships located in the United States and open for public visitation. You can also learn about their database inventory of historic ships, the source of their ship data.
A History of Ships Named Enterprise
HMS Rose (based in U.S., Revolutionary War significance)
Hunley update
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
Mariners' Museum
The Museum's permanent galleries display treasures like the anchor from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, Captain John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay, and the polar bear figurehead from the vessel of Admiral Richard Byrd on his Antarctic expedition in the 1930s. Centuries of maritime history are represented in the Museum's collection, which reflects the human use of the sea for transportation, food, battle, and pleasure. Newport News, Virginia.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary protects the wreck of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, best known for its battle with the Confederate ironclad Virginia in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic, Connecticut
Naval Historical Center
Department of the Navy. Museum, art gallery, research library, archives, as well as research and writing programs.
Naval Undersea Museum
Keyport, Washington
Naval War College Library
Online catalog, publications, bibliographies. Newport, Rhode Island.
New England Lighthouses
A Guide to New England's Beautiful & Historic Beacons.
Peabody Essex Museum - Maritime Art and History Collection
The maritime art and history collection, begun in 1803, is the finest in America. It is internationally renowned for holdings of approximately 30,000 paintings, drawings, and prints. The collection also encompasses 20,000 maritime objects dating from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries, including ship models, marine decorative arts, tools, weapons, navigational instruments, and ship and yacht plans. Salem Massachusetts.
The Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport, Maine
Salem's Maritime Heritage
Maritime History of Salem Massachusetts.
San Diego Maritime Museum
Home of The Star of India, the world's oldest active sailing ship.
San Francisco Maritime National Park Association
The Association supports a wide-ranging program of exhibits, ship preservation, educational programs and publications. They operate the award winning WWII submarine museum and memorial USS Pampanito. The park has one of the largest collections of historic maritime ships in the world.
Schooner Adventure (Gloucester, MA)
The Schooner Adventure is one of the last Gloucester fishing schooners, an icon of our nation's fishing industry and of Gloucester's heritage as America's oldest fishing port.
The Schooner Ernestina
Official Vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Shore Village Museum: Maine's Lighthouse Museum
A unique collection of historic artifacts of the United States Coast Guard, Civil War memorabilia and local historical exhibitions.
The South Street Seaport Museum
New York
Submarine Force Museum
The Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut, home of Historic Ship NAUTILUS (SSN 571), is the United States Navy's official submarine museum.
Texas Seaport Museum
Home of the 1877 tall ship Elissa. Located in the historic port of Galveston, the Texas Seaport Museum also tells the story of a rich legacy of seaborne commerce and immigration.
Tug Hoga
The Navy tug HOGA is the last surviving and operable Navy vessel to have been active in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941.
U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle (WIX-327)
The only active commissioned sailing vessel in the U.S. maritime services.
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
The Historian's office maintains a collection consists of approximately 500,000 unique and accessible images and a much smaller number of documents. The office is also responsible for managing the Coast Guard's artifact collection and the service's museum at the Coast Guard Academy.
U.S.S. Constellation (Civil War)
The last all sail warship built by the U.S. Navy.
United States Naval History: A Bibliography
This edition incorporates more than 450 titles chosen from the large body of naval historical literature published since the bibliography's
sixth edition appeared in 1972. In addition to updating this list of significant works in the field of naval history our compilers added new editions of previously cited books and, in a fewcases, key titles omitted from the earlier version. Naval Historical Center.
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)
USS Monitor: History and Legacy
This site offers an overview of the development and career of the USS Monitor.
USS Washington, BB-56
The War of 1812 - Era Shipwrecks of Lake Champlain
Institute of Nautical Archaeology.
The Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
The Castillo de San Marcos, built 1672-1695, served primarily as an outpost of the Spanish Empire, guarding St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States, and also protecting the sea route for treasure ships returning to Spain.
George Washington's Mount Vernon
National Park Service Links to the Past
Valley Forge National Historical Park
California Mission Studies Association
For the Study and Preservation of the California Missions, Presidios, Pueblos, and Ranchos and Their Native American, Hispanic, and Early American Past.
Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation and Archaeology
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.
The Metropolitan Historical Commission
A municipal historic preservation agency working to document history, save and reuse buildings, and make the public more aware of the necessity and advantages of preservation in Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee.
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
NCPTT promotes and enhances the preservation and conservation of prehistoric and historic resources in the United States for present and future generations through the advancement and dissemination of preservation technology and training.
Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
Preservation League of Staten Island
New York
Texas Historical Commission
The state agency for historic preservation.
American South Internet Resource Center
Documenting the American South
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Alabama History On-Line
General history, government officials and statistics. Alabama Department of Archives & History.
The University of South Alabama Archives
Primary source material relating to the history of Mobile and south Alabama and to the University's history.
Alaska State Archives
Alaska State Library
Online catalog and historical collections. Juneau.
Kennecott Copper of Alaska and Copper River & Northwestern Railway
Historic photo-journal of the development of Kennecott's mill site and mine sites in interior Alaska and its CR&NW Railway, which operated from 1911 until 1938.
Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry
Collection, conservation, preservation, display, and interpretation of artifacts related to Alaska's transportation and industrial history.
ASLAPR - Arizona History and Archives Division
Identifies, collects, preserves and provides access to the historical manuscripts, government records, books and photographs of Arizona and its peoples.
Tempe Historical Museum
Presents the story of Tempe, Arizona.
Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
Limited online content.
History of Southwest Arkansas
Materials for K-12 students and teachers of Arkansas history, photographs, hundreds of pages from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. History Department of Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia.
Old State House Museum of Arkansas History
Multimedia museum of Arkansas history, with a special emphasis on women's history, political history, and historical programming for school children.
Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas
History, culture, and literature of Arkansas and surrounding regions. Books, pamphlets, maps, serials, photographs, and original manuscripts. Also maintains the library's collection of rare books and other special materials.
Alcatraz
Belmont Historical Society
Burlingame Historical Society
California Historical Society
Collects, preserves, interprets, publishes and exhibits materials about California thus providing an invaluable record of the various histories of the people of this state. San Francisco.
California History Online
From the California Historical Society.
California Mission Studies Association
For the Study and Preservation of the California Missions, Presidios, Pueblos, and Ranchos and Their Native American, Hispanic, and Early American Past.
California Missions Interactive: An Internet Field Trip
Maturango Museum
A Museum of the cultural history, natural history and geology of the Northern Mojave Desert emphasizing our Indian Wells Valley. Ridgecrest, California.
Mission San Juan Capistrano
The Birthplace of Orange County, was founded more than two hundred years ago. Today it is a monument to California's multi-cultural history, embracing its Native American, Spanish, Mexican and European heritage.
William S. Hart Ranch and Museum
Former home and ranch of William S. Hart, silent film cowboy star and director. Newhall, California.
Grier Musser Museum
A turn-of-the century historic Queen Anne house. Los Angeles, CA.
Los Angeles Almanac
A reference web site focused on America's most populous county.
Contains lots of historical information regarding Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
San Diego Aerospace Museum
Collection of over 65 U.S. and foreign aircraft and spacecraft.
San Diego History
San Diego Historical Society
Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire
This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Library of Congress.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Colorado Historical Society
Historical museums and highway markers, exhibitions, manuscript and photograph collections, popular and scholarly publications, historical and archaeological preservation services, and educational programs for children and adults.
A Brief History of Essex, Connecticut
A Brief History of Litchfield
Center for Oral History
University of Connecticut
The Colt Firearms Collection
Connecticut State Library.
Connecticut Comptroller Records 1862 April 1-1863 March 31
Although not a collection of soldier letters, per se, this set of records from the office of the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut document a range of activities on the part of the state government on behalf of its soldiers.
Connecticut History Online
A collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and Mystic Seaport Museum.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Library. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hartford, Connecticut.
History of Avon, Connecticut
The Jonathan Trumbull Family
Trumbull Historical Society.
The Noah Webster House
The birthplace and childhood home of Noah Webster, author of the first American dictionary. West Hartford, Connecticut.
Old Saybrook, Connecticut - History and Town Profile
Putnam Connecticut and Surrounding Area, A Brief History
Research Guide to Women's History
Archival Resources at the Connecticut State Library.
The Society of Colonial Wars in Connecticut
An excellent chronology and bibliography of Connecticut's colonial history.
Sources of Information on Connecticut's History
Connecticut State Library
The State Capitol
WPA Life Histories from Connecticut
Andover Historical Society
Avon, Connecticut Historical Society
Barkhamsted Historical Society
Brookfield Historical Society
Chester Historical Society
Clinton Historical Society
The Connecticut Historical Society
Danbury Museum and Historical Society
Of particular interest are the pages on composer Charles Ives.
Derby Historical Society
East Windsor Historical Society
Enfield Historical Society
Fairfield Historical Society
Gaylordsville Historical Society
Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich
Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven
The Killingly Historical Society
Manchester Historical Society
Mansfield Historical Society
The Milford Historical Society
Monroe Historical Society
New Canaan Historical Society
New Fairfield Historical Society
New Milford Historical Society & Museum
Old Saybrook Historical Society
Somers Historical Society
Stamford Historical Society
Stonington Historical Society
The Trumbull, Connecticut Historical Society
Weston Historical Society
Wethersfield Historical Society
Windsor Historical Society
The first English settlement In Connecticut.
Connecticut River Museum Home Page
One of the most popular Museum exhibits is a full scale working reproduction of the first submarine, the American Turtle, invented by David Bushnell in 1776.
Danbury Railway Museum
Located in the historic station and rail yard in downtown Danbury, Connecticut, offers railroad history, rail excursion trips, a collection of original and restored rolling stock.
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
A tribally owned-and-operated complex, brings to life the story of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and serves as a major resource on the history of the Tribe, the histories and cultures of other tribes, and the region's natural history. Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Museum Of Connecticut History
On permanent display are portraits of Connecticut Governors as well as historic documents, including the State's original 1662 Royal Charter, the 1639 Fundamental Orders, and the 1818 and 1964 State Constitutions. The focus of the Museum and its collections is Connecticut's government, military and industrial history.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic, Connecticut
New England Air Museum
Also educational programs and a research library. Bradley International Airport - Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Submarine Force Museum
The Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut, home of Historic Ship NAUTILUS (SSN 571), is the United States Navy's official submarine museum.
Barratt's Chapel Museum, Frederica
Hagley Museum and Library
Located along the Brandywine River on the site of the first du Pont powder works, Hagley provides a unique glimpse into American life at home and at work in the nineteenth century. Include the first du Pont familiy home and garden in America, the Blacksmith Hill workers' community, the powder yards, and a nineteenth-century machine shop. Wilmington, Delaware.
The Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
The Castillo de San Marcos, built 1672-1695, served primarily as an outpost of the Spanish Empire, guarding St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States, and also protecting the sea route for treasure ships returning to Spain.
The Florida Department of State - Division of Historical Resources
Historical Society of Martin County
Etowah Valley Historical Society of Bartow County
Promoting and enhancing the awareness and preservation of the heritage and traditions of Bartow County, Georgia. History, genealogy, and more await you at our website.
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Consists of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Georgiana Collection, the University of Georgia Archives and Records Management.
Southeastern Railway Museum
The Duluth Georgia museum displays over 80 items of rolling stock.
Bishop Museum
The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii's Last Queen
The American Experience, PBS.
Hawai`i Island Resource for Culture, Performing Arts, and Commerce
Community resource of the Big Island of Hawai`i, preserving its culture, art, and way of life. Not all history but there is a History and Culture page as well as a Museums page that provide some interesting links.
A History of Mining in Idaho
Idaho Mining Association.
Idaho Black History Museum
Exhibits, civil rights timeline. Boise.
Idaho State Historical Society
The Oregon Trail in Idaho, timeline, library and archives.
Idaho, A Portrait
A brief history of Idaho from PBS.
Illinois History Resource Page
Illinois State Archives
Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois
Illinois State Historical Society
Chicago Historical Society
The Chicago Historical Society is a privately endowed, independent institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois, as well as selected areas of American history, to the public through exhibitions, programs, research collections, and publications.
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University.
Shore Line Historical Society
Electric railways of the Chicago area.
The World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago's World's Fair of 1893.
Conner Prairie Museum
Conner Prairie, an Earlham Museum, is an AAM accredited open-air living history museum located in Fishers, Indiana. It serves as a local, regional, and national center for research and education about the lives, times, attitudes, and values of early 19th-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory, based upon the Indiana experience.
Conner Prairie Rural History Project
Online database of photographs and full text oral histories dealing with rural life in the midwestern United States.
Indiana Historical Society
The Monroe County Historian
Warren County, Indiana, Historical Records Database
Living History Farms
Urbandale, Iowa
Historical Publications of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
From 1888-1945: Agriculture and rural life in Kansas, 24,000 pages of text and illustrations.
Kansas Aviation Museum
Wichita, Kansas
Kansas Heritage Server Home Page
The Kansas Heritage archives are devoted to digitally preserving Kansas' past, giving future generations the opportunity to learn about and from family and local history. Users can browse through information covering a wide variety of topics related to Kansas history and also receive information on how to contribute to the archive itself.
Kansas Humanities Council
Kansas Pioneers Project
The Kansas Pioneers List (KPL) is a compilation of settlers sent
(e-mailed) directly from networkers doing genealogical and
historical research that they are willing to disclose. The list
currently contains many names and continues to grow as more
computer users and historians become aware of its existence.
Leavenworth County Historical Society
Railroads in Kansas
History of the railroads in the State of Kansas.
Kentucky Coal History
Funding for the Coal Education Web Site is provided by the Kentucky Coal Council & Kentucky Coal Association.
Kentucky Historical Society
Museums at the Kentucky History Center, the Old State Capitol and the Kentucky Military History Museum.
Kentucky History
Resources by the University of Louisville Ekstrom Library.
The University of Kentucky Oral History Program
Contains over five thousand interviews encompassing over eight thousand actual interview hours documenting the history and culture of Kentucky and Kentuckians.
Cane River Colony
Natchitoches Louisiana. Interesting site pertaining to Creoles of Color.
Historic New Orleans Collection
Farnsworth Art Museum
One of the finest regional art museums in the country with a specialized collection focusing on Maine's role in American art. Rockland, Maine.
Osher Map Library
The collections begin with early Western conceptions of the world as a whole and move to a progressively sharper focus on the New World, northern New England, and Maine. Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Dorchester County Historical Society
Jewish Historical Society of Maryland
Maryland Historical Trust
Formed in 1961 to assist the people of Maryland in identifying, studying, evaluating, preserving, protecting, and interpreting the state's significant prehistoric and historic districts, sites, structures, cultural landscapes, heritage areas, cultural objects, and artifacts
Brocton Historical Society Museums
Canton Historical Society
Dedham Historical Society
MassHome Directory of Massachusetts Historical Sites & Societies
Old Sturbridge Village
Its collections, exhibits, and programs present the story of everyday life in a small New England town during the years 1790 to 1840. Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Boston Links: History
Boston National Historical Park
The Freedom Trail
The freedom trail takes you through almost three centuries of Boston's colonial and revolutionary history, as a red line on the sidewalk leads you from site to site.
Michigan Historical Center
Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company: 1880-1920
The photographs were made in a variety of locations. Most depict scenes in the United States (chiefly east of the Mississippi), together with some photographs of other nations in the Americas, Europe, and copies of paintings.
Becker County Historical Society and Museum
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota Transportation Museum, Inc.
Streetcars, trains, steamboat and museums.
Mississippi History Now
A publication of the Mississippi Historical Society.
Missouri Historical Society
Museum and library. St. Louis.
Missouri State Archives
Among its holdings are documents relating to French and Spanish colonial rule, the New Madrid Earthquakes, Supreme Court case files, the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James, and Harry S. Truman.
Montana Historical Society
Home to a first-class museum featuring Western art and a wide array of artifacts representing the native and immigrant history of Montana's people.
Montana History Resources
A list of resources from Montana State University - Billings.
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
Grand Island, Nebraska
Nevada History on the Web
Resources from the State of Nevada, Department of Cultural Affairs.
Nevada Women's History Project
Archives and a biographical database.
Library and Archives of New Hampshire's Political Tradition
The only comprehensive collection of election campaign papers and paraphernalia from half a century of New Hampshire presidential primary history.
Milne Special Collections and Archives
From the University of New Hampshire Library. An excellent source for New Hampshire history.
New Hampshire Historical Society
City of Burlington Historical Society, Burlington, New Jersey
Historical Society of Princeton
Jersey Kid's Page
Created by the fourth grade students in Mrs. Larsen's class at Osage School, Voorhees, New Jersey, USA.
Jewish Historical Society of Metrowest
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum
Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society
Albany Institute of History and Art
Founded in 1791, this is the second oldest museum in the United States. Spanning four centuries from the late seventeenth century to present day, its collections are nationally recognized and reflect the significance of Albany and New York's Upper Hudson Valley region in American history and art history.
Amherst Museum (N.Y. Niagara Frontier)
New Netherland Museum
The museum operates the Half Moon, a reproduction of the ship that Henry Hudson sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609.
The New York State Archives and Records Administration
New York State Library
Albany, New York.
Rediscovering New York History & Culture
A statewide catalog of archival/historical collections and finding aids. Directory of historical records repositories in New York State. New York State Archives.
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, called Eagle's Nest, was the residence and museum built for William K. Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of New York's famed railroad and shipping magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who lived 1794-1877. Centerport, Long Island, New York
Tonawanda-Kenmore Historical Society
Bayside Queens History
Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress.
How the Other Half Lives (Tenements in NYC)
Merchants House Museum
New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the 19th century.
Museum of the City of New York
Educational programs, exhibitions, research, and Internet offerings.
The New York Historical Society
The New York Public Library
New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum is home to 100 years of transit lore and memorabilia. The Museum is housed in an authentic 1930s subway station containing vintage subway and elevated cars, antique turnstiles, a working signal tower, and much more.
Queens Historical Society
Headquartered in an historic site, Kingsland Homestead, maintains and explores the history of its colonial farmhouse through exhibitions, house and walking tours, and educational programs.
North Carolina Division of Archives and History
Archives, publications, preservation, education & outreach.
North Carolina Museum of History
Exhibitions, collections, educational services, artifact database. Raleigh.
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts, photographs, State documents, rare books. University of North Dakota.
The State Historical Society of North Dakota
State-wide history agency with its headquarters in the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck. Museum, library and archives, publications. Also, Lewis and Clark in North Dakota.
Avon, Ohio; Theories of History and Science
Cleveland Digital Library
Text, maps, and images about the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio. Cleveland State University Library.
Daniel Gebhart Tavern Museum
Log structured tavern in Miamisburg, Ohio.
Miamisburg Historical Society
Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor
The Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor is an area that stretches approximately 87 miles from Zoar in Tuscarawas County to Cleveland's lakefront via Massilon, Canton, Barberton and Akron. The path parallels the canal built in the early 1800s to connect Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
Ohio Historical Society
Online Collection Catalog allows you to search the records of more than 230,000 items in the Society's library, newspaper, manuscript, audiovisual, state archives, history, natural history, and archaeology collections.
Oregon Blue Book History Home Page
History of Oregon by Stephen Dow Beckham. Traces Oregon's history to the present. Also, a bibliography and chronology.
Oregon Historical Society
Books, photographs, film, manuscripts, maps, artifacts, oral histories, online exhibits.
A Background to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Chester County Historical Society
The Coal Mines & Coal Companies of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania.
Greene County Historical Society and Museum
Exhibits and displays local artifacts dating from the early native Monongahela culture to the early 20th Century.
Historic Catasauqua Preservation Association
Historic Germantown
George Washington and the capital were here in 1793. During the Revolution, the Battle of Germantown was fought up and down the main street. The first American Bible was published here, and the first kidnapping in the United States also took place in Germantown. The writer Louisa May Alcott was born here and the painter Gilbert Stuart worked in a small barn in Germantown.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Founded 1824, this is the largest independent center for research of Pennsylvania history. It is also the largest genealogy center in the mid-Atlantic region and is the publisher of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Valley Forge Historical Society
Historic Philadelphia
Visit over 65 historic sites in Philadelphia's Historic district.
Philadelphia Architects
Brief biographies on those architects whose work define the cityscape of Philadelphia's Historic District
Philadelphia History, A background to Philadelphia, 1680-1900
Seven Walking Tours of Philadelphia
The Frick Art and Historical Center
Devoted to the interpretation of the life and times of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick. Exhibitions of fine and decorative art are also presented at the Center. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Historic Pittsburgh
A digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet. Digital Research Library, University of Pittsburgh.
The Navy & Rhode Island: A History
From the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
Unfortunately, there is very little content although there is a brief mention of the Black Regiment of Rhode Island that fought under Nathaniel Green in the Revolution.
RI History
Rhode Island Constitution, early history, independence, and Royal Charter. From the Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State.
Santa Elena
History and archaeology of the Spanish fort and town of Santa Elena on Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. This settlement was preceded by Charlesfort, a fort built by the French in 1562. The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
South Carolina Historical Society
South Dakota State Agricultural Heritage Museum
Exhibits include tractors and farm equipment, an original 1882 homestead claim shack, and a recreated 1915 farmhouse.
Abundant historic photographs enhance the understanding of South Dakota's rural qualities.
Smoky Mountain Historical Society
Tennessee History and Genealogy
Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Tennessee History: Library & Internet Resources
A good collection of resources from Middle Tennessee State University.
Brazoria County Historical Museum
Angleton, Texas
Convention of 1836
Handbook of Texas Online
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture. The Texas State Historical Association and the University of Texas at Austin.
History of Pampa, Gray County, Texas
History of the City of Keller,Texas
Index of Events in Early Texas History
McAllen, Texas - History
Nacogdoches, Texas History
Sam Houston (1793-1863)
A Shared Experience
The History, Architecture and Historic Designations of the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor. This HTML version is adapted from Mario L. Sánchez' original print version. The Texas Historical Commission.
Texas and Local History Collection (Houston Public Library)
The Texas and Local History department offers reference service and research materials in every subject
relating to Houston and Texas.
Texas General Land Office - Spanish and Mexican Records
Texas History Forum
Texas House of Representatives - Texas Capitol History
Texas Military Forces Museum
The Texas Panhandle Pages - State and Local History
Texas State Historical Association
Texas Through Time Living History Foundation
Texas' Declaration of Independence
Thomas J. Rusk (1803-1857)
Travis' Appeal for Aid at the Alamo
William B. Travis (1809-1836)
Utah History Encyclopedia
Complete history of Utah in encyclopedia form consisting of 575 articles and over 200 historic photographs. Edited by Allan Kent Powell. Originally published by the University of Utah Press.
Utah State Historical Society
Billings Farm and Museum of Woodstock, Vermont
A living museum of Vermont's rural past, as well as a working dairy farm. Woodstock, Vermont.
City of Montpelier, Vermont: History
The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
The Museum consists of three parts: the Judd-Harris House (built in 1829); the Walter Cerf Gallery; and the Stewart-Swift Research Center. Middlebury.
State of Vermont: A Short History
A short guide to the history of the Green Mountain State from the University of Vermont.
Colonial Williamsburg
Restored 18th-century city. Capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779.
History of Lynchburg, Virginia
Mariners' Museum
The Museum's permanent galleries display treasures like the anchor from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, Captain John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay, and the polar bear figurehead from the vessel of Admiral Richard Byrd on his Antarctic expedition in the 1930s. Centuries of maritime history are represented in the Museum's collection, which reflects the human use of the sea for transportation, food, battle, and pleasure. Newport News, Virginia.
East Benton County Historical Museum
Kennewick, Washington
Pioneer Farm Museum & Ohop Indian Village
Nonprofit, educational, hands-on, homestead life in 1880's Washington and coast Salish life pre contact.
Wisconsin Historical Society
The Society serves as the archives of the State of Wisconsin; it collects books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, relics, newspapers, and audio and graphic materials as they relate to North America; it maintains a museum, library, and research facility in Madison as well as a statewide system of historic sites, school services, area research centers, and affiliated local societies; it administers a road program of historic preservation; and publishes a wide variety of historical materials, both scholarly and popular.
Wyoming State Historical Society
Official Web Site of the Wyoming State Historical Society
Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Court Opinions
Emory Law Library
Supreme Court Collection
Cornell Law School
Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975
The Supreme Court Historical Society
The Society supports important historical research including the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. This project is to reconstruct the historical records of the Court's first decade. The first six volumes have now been published in the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, with a seventh volume expected in the next two years.
U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
Northwestern University
Amelia Earhart
The Emma Goldman Papers
A Musical Romp Through Women's History - Gerri Gribi
Lyrics, discographies, historical notes and links related to women's history and folk music. Includes an annotated list of songs related to domestic violence and assault.
Research Guide to Women's History
Archival Resources at the Connecticut State Library.
Susan B Anthony House
The Susan B. Anthony House was the home of the legendary American civil rights leader during the most politically active period of her life, and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872.
University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office
Women in America 1820-1842
Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
Women of Achievement and Herstory
Women's History Month: A Booklist of Recent Titles
New York Public Library.
World History Compass