LibGuides: American History, Research Project: Websites

Topic Specific Sites

American Presidency Project
Comprehensive site on the US Presidency.
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Includes elections, documents (approx. 88,000), party platforms, audio/video archive.
American Social History Project
Source for primary documents (text, photographs).
Black Past
Reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history.
Cold War Museum
Creating the United States
Library of Congress exhibit with interactive online presentations
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Immigration to the United States 1789-1930
Documents voluntary immigration to the US.
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Includes 1,800 books/pamphlets, 9,000 photographs, and over 10,000 pages of manuscripts.
Mayflower History
Pop History Dig
American pop culture from 1900-present
Slavery & Abolition in the US: Select Publications of the 1800s
Wars of Vietnam: 1945-1975
General History Resources
History resources organized by region and time period