U.S. History Links

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• General

  • Allmusic.com

  • The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden

  • American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States

  • The Authentic History Center

  • Historical Atlas of the 20th Century

  • Best of History Web Sites

  • CIA - The World Factbook

  • Digital History

  • Exploring Constitutional Law

  • Famous Trials

  • Official US Executive Branch Web Sites

  • Google Maps Mania

  • Herblock's History (Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium): Library of Congress Exhibition

  • History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web

  • Historyteacher.net

  • The Library of Congress

  • Modern History - A Soviet Viewpoint

  • The National Security Archive

  • The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

  • Spartacus

  • Welcome to the White House

  • Women and Social Movements in the U.S.

• Museums

  • Los Angeles-Orange County

    • Anaheim Historical Society

    • Autry Museum of the American West

    • Bowers Museum

    • Museum of Contemporary Art

    • Fountain Valley City Guide

    • Garden Grove Historical Society

    • Getty Center

    • J. Paul Getty Museum

    • LA County Museum of Art

    • Museum of Natural History

    • Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace

    • Orange County Historical Society

    • Orange County Museum of Art

    • Petersen Automotive Museum

    • Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society

    • Museum of Tolerance

  • Other

    • Welcome to The British Museum

    • Country Music Hall of Fame

    • Experience Music Project

    • Guggenheim Museum - New York

    • The State Hermitage Museum

    • Louvre Museum Official Website

    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    • National Gallery of Art

    • Museo Prado

    • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    • Smithsonian

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Colonial

  • Virtual Jamestown

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

  • The Cartographic Creation of New England

  • Religion and the founding of the American Republic

  • The Salem Witchcraft Trials

  • The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive

  • Whitefield's Sermons

  • Early American Art

  • LIBERTY! - The American Revolution | PBS

  • Colonial Hall Biographies of Americas' Founding Fathers

• Early Republic

  • Charters of Freedom

  • The American Constitution - A Documentary Record

  • Democracy in America

  • Early America

  • George Washington

  • Mount Vernon

  • Alexander Hamilton

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • Monticello

  • Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition

  • Discovering Lewis & Clark

  • Burr 

  • James Madison Center

  • John Marshall

  • Eli Whitney Museum

• Antebellum

  • Andrew Jackson Speaks: Indian Removal Policy :: Tracking Westward Expansion & the Trail of Tears

  • Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son

  • Nationalism and Sectionalism in U.S. 1815-1850

  • The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)

  • The U.S. - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Site Index

  • Transcendentalists

  • Walt Whitman Archive

  • The Hudson River School

• Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Documenting the American South

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin and America Culture

  • Aboard the Underground Railroad

  • Frederick Douglass

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • Abraham Lincoln Online

  • Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

  • The American Civil War Homepage

  • U.S. Civil War Center

  • CivilWar@Smithsonian

  • The Valley of the Shadow

  • Civil War and Reconstruction

  • America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War

  • The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • The Freedmen's Bureau Online

  • Hayes vs. Tilden: The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877

• Gilded Age

  • PBS - New Perspectives on THE WEST

  • Centennial Exhibition

  • City Sites electronic book

  • Illinois During the Gilded Age

  • Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

  • The Centennial Exhibition

  • The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

  • The Dramas of Haymarket

  • Edward Bellamy

  • Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

  • America in the 1890s

  • Immigration... The Changing Face of America

  • Ellis Island Immigration Museum

  • Sweatshop Exhibition

  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

  • Election of 1896

  • Mark Twain in His Times Homepage

  • Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

• Progressive Age

  • Tenement Museum

  • The Industrial Revolution and Progressive Era

  • Triangle Factory Fire

  • Living the Legacy 1848-1998, The Women's Right Movement

  • The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

  • The Ashcan School

  • 1913 Armory Show

  • The Age of Imperialism

  • Crucible of Empire

  • World War I - Trenches on the Web

  • The World War I Document Archive

  • Newspaper Pictorials, WWI

  • World War 1 Songs Early Recordings from 1918 Victrola

  • The American Experience, Influenza 1918

  • Red Scare (1918-1921): Home Page

• The New Era and Great Depression

  • Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

  • Scopes Trial

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Hemingway Resource Center

  • Jazz

  • Harlem: 1900-1940

  • Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories

  • Art Deco Collection

  • Decopix: The Art Deco Collection

  • America in the 1930s

  • Woody Guthrie

  • Grand Ole Opry

  • FDR Cartoon Collection Database

  • New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration

  • By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

  • Federal Theatre Project Collection

  • Social Security Posters

  • The Best of Ansel Adams

  • 1939-1940 New York Worlds Fair

• WWII and the Cold War

  • HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web

  • Open Directory World War II

  • The Second World War

  • World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art

  • World War II: the Homefront

  • Children of the Camps Project: Japanese Internment

  • Zoot Suit Riots

  • Enola Gay

  • The Cold War Museum

  • The Alger Hiss Story

  • McCarthyism

  • For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of The Marshall Plan

  • New York Times Special Report: The C.I.A. in Iran

  • The Korean War

  • The Great Debate & Beyond : The History of Televised Presidential Debates

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Home Page

  • The American Experience/Vietnam

  • The Vietnam War

  • Battlefield:Vietnam

• Post WWII America

  • Baseball and Jackie Robinson

  • Levittown

  • Harry Truman Presidential Museum and Library

  • Rosser Reeves Collection

  • Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956

  • The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s

  • The History of Rock 'n' Roll

  • The Civil Rights Era

  • The Murder of Emitt Till

  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

  • Malcolm X

  • Andy Warhol Museum

  • LBJ Presidential Library and Museum

  • Rachel Carson

  • The Whole World Was Watching (1968)

  • Revisiting Watergate

  • Watergate Info-Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon

  • CNN.com - In-Depth Special - The Reagan Years

  • Frontline: the Gulf War | PBS

  • Frontline: the Clinton Years | PBS