History: United States: Selected Websites

The National Park Service oversees many of the major battlefields of the Civil War. Their website is a guide to the battlefields, but also includes a wealth of information about collections, preservation, and background history.

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s

A portal to over 1,000 history-related websites, specifically targeting sites with strong educational content or a research orientation. Links are generally organized by period or topic.

Primary sources, timelines, battle outlines, biographies, images, maps and other documents related to American history.

An enormous listing of online history resources organized by country and time period.

This online database provides information on the slave voyages from Africa to America, including facts and figures, images, maps, and essays.

One of the first and largest collections of links to online history resources, indexed by country, era and topic.

A list of 19th century periodicals digitized and made available online. Categorized by time period and subject matter.