Websites

• George Mason University - History Matters WWW.History
  A very comprehensive annotated listing of the best American History websites. The websites are divided by time period and also thematically, and includes a brief summary the type of sources available on the suggested site. Many listings include "Web Reviews" published in the Journal of American History.



• The History News Network - Website of the Month
  A listing of the history related websites chosen by the History News Network for their Website of the Month section. The sites are not listed in any particular chronological or thematic order.



• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  Library of Congress, American Memory.



• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
  (Stanford U.) includes speeches, sermons, papers, biographical information and articles.



• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library)
  Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.



• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004
  Created and maintained by the American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, N.Y.



• Remembering Jim Crow - American RadioWorks.
  The site provides audio files and transcripts of the original radio documentary, more than 70 additional stories, a sampling of state segregation laws arranged by topic, links to eight related sites, and a 41-title bibliography.



• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Government - William C. Fray and Lisa A. Spar.
  The site is ideal for researching American diplomacy, constitutional, political, and legal history.The documents are divided into four century categories: pre-18th, 18th, 19th, and 20th. Includes treaties, presidential papers and addresses, and colonial charters, as well as state and federal constitutional and legal documents.



• Archival Research Catalog (ARC) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).



• New Deal Network - Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
  A database of more than 20,000 items relating to the New Deal. A "Document Library" contains more than 900 newspaper and journal articles, speeches, letters, reports, advertisements, and other textual materials, treating a broad array of subjects relevant to the period's social, cultural, political, and economic history, while placing special emphasis on New Deal relief agencies and issues relating to labor, education, agriculture, the Supreme Court, and African Americans.



• Mississippi Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography is a bibliography of oral history interviews on Civil Rights, offering transcripts and indexes of the archive.



• National Civil Rights Museum provides interactive tours.



• Project Thomas provides full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.



• The Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive serves as a research facility for scholars of U. S. public policy, specializing in American politics and history with special attention paid to the American Presidency.



• The Vietnam Project
  Created and maintained by the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Books Online

American Historical Documents: 1000-1904. 1909–17.
47 works trace the United States from the settling of the continent to early twentieth-century international relations.

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. 1989.
Illustrated and annotated edition of all Inaugural addresses from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams.
An honest and probing reflection of one man's life in relation to the world around him.

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1903. The Souls of Black Folk.
W.E.B. Du Bois sets out to show to the reader "the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century."

Grant, Ulysses S. 1885-86. Personal Memoirs.
Among the greatest of military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family fortunes.

Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas.
The seven masterpieces of debate on the evil of slavery.

Riis, Jacob A. 1890. How the Other Half Lives.
Through sensationalist prose and photography, Riis reveals the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.

Riis, Jacob A. 1902. The Battle with the Slum.
Sequel to How the Other Half Lives.

Riis, Jacob A. 1904. Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen.
Biography by Roosevelt's lifelong friend and co-worker.

Theodore Roosevelt

1899. The Rough Riders. Roosevelt's memoir of his adventures, triumphs and defeats in the Spanish-American War.

1885. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.

Roosevelt's ode to the beauty, vigor and challenges of the Dakota Badlands and the frontier life.

1919. Letters to His Children.

This endearing collection contains more than twenty years of Roosevelt’s loving correspondence with his children.

1896. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Roosevelt records the joyous experiences on his ranch in the Dakota Territories, with over ninety unique illustrations by Frederic Remington.

1913. An Autobiography.

The life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken Presidents in American history.

1913. History as Literature. Covers such topics as modern art, the pursuit of scholarship, science and history, and the poetry of Dante.

1916. A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open. Essays encouraging the average person to cross the line of comfortable and traditional travel to discover the vitality of outdoor life.

1900. The Strenuous Life. Commentaries and public addresses on what is necessary for a vital and healthy political, social and individual life.

1906. New York. "A sketch of the city’s social, political, and commercial progress from the first Dutch settlement to recent times."

1914. Through the Brazilian Wilderness. Biographical account of hunting, camping and "zoogeographical reconnoissance" with his son Kermit.

1919. Theodore Roosevelt. An "intimate biography" by Charles Roscoe Thayer.

Washington, Booker T. 1901. Up from Slavery. This autobiographical work reveals a forceful and potent voice in the fight for African-American equality from a century ago.