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This is a compiled list of websites to be used for both American and World History.  *Note: ProQuest Historical New York Times and Facts on File: Modern World History Online can be used to find primary sources.   
 

AMDOCS- Documents for the study of American History

American Memory Collection- Library of Congress

American Presidents - The History Channel

American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank 

Avon Project- Yale law School -American History: A Documentary Record  1492 - Present

Brooklyn Daily Eagle- newspaper online mid 1800’s to early 1900’s

Chronology of U.S. historical documents- The University of Oklahoma College of Law

Documenting the American South- North American Slave Narratives

Documenting the Old South- First Person Narratives of the Old South

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe

EyeWitness to History: Ancient to Modern study of World and U.S. history

Holocaust History Project 

In Motion: African-American Migration Experience
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - US & World History Sources
Legal Information Institute @ Cornell Law School- Court opinions (State, Federal and US Supreme)  Constitutions and Codes, etc.

National Archive

Nineteenth Century Documents  - United States

Our Documents
OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Media

Presidential Libraries of the National Archives

Talking  History

Valley of the Shadow- examines two communities in the American Civil War

Virginia Center for Digital History - Virtual Jamestown, Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970, Geography of Slavery in Virginia, Colley Madison Project, Race and Place:  An African American Community in the Jim Crow South, etc.

White House Historical Association

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000