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Clarkstown High School South Library    Last updated January 02, 2008                                

 

 

 

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 Journeys: Eyewitness accounts of early American Exploration and Settlement

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Chronology of U.S. historical documents- The University of Oklahoma College of Law

Commission on Presidential Debates

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EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe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
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

Holocaust History Project 

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

National Archive

New Deal Network                                                                                  

Nineteenth Century Documents  - United States

NYPL- Picture Collection Online: A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. It consists of images of New York City, Costume, Design, American History and other subjects.       
Our Documents
OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Media

Presidential Libraries of the National Archives  

Propaganda Poster Collection World War II - Northwestern University Library

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.

Voices from the Archive (BBC) - Original audio of interviews through 20th century in all fields
Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975                                                           
White House Historical Association

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

 

Primary Sources