Websites
Most Valuable American History Sites
American Memory (Library of Congress)
American President: An Online Reference Resource
Authentic History
Avalon Project (archive of documents)
Digital History
From Revolution to Reconstruction
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
History Matters
History Now Journal
Internet History Sourcebooks (primary sources)
New York History Net
National Archives: Our Documents
National Women's History Project
StanfordUniversity's Exploring the West
The Valley of the Shadow
Historic Newspapers
Brooklyn Eagle
Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive
Historical Statistics
Historical Census Browser
Historical Statistics of the United States
Maps
David Rumsey Cartography Collection
Perry-Castañeda Collection
Money
Current Value of Old Money
Colonial Currency (all states)
Music
Campaign Songs, 1840-1860
Authentic History Center
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
American Memory, Library of Congress
• African-American Music, Southern U.S. ~ Recordings ~ 1938-1943
• Folk Music, Dust Bowl ~ Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin ~ Multiformat ~ 1940-1941
• Folk Music, Southern U.S. ~ John Lomax and Ruby Lomax ~ Multiformat ~ 1939
• Hispanic Music, Rio Grande ~ Juan Bautista Rael ~ Multiformat ~ 1940s
Political Cartoons
Harper's Weekly (Elections, 1860-1884)
Editorial Cartoons
Cartoons for the Classroom
Populist Cartoons
Librarian’s Internet Index: Editorial cartoons
1896 Election
Presidential Papers
American Presidency Project
Public Papers of the President
Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress
Primary Source Documents
Avalon Project
Documenting the American South
Making of America (Cornell)
Making of America (University of Michigan)
Online Books Page
Veterans History Project
Speeches
President of the 20th Century, Vincent Voice Library
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Historical Eras
Colonial America
Plymouth Colony
Salem Witch Trials
Virginia Runaways
Virtual Jamestown in the Classroom
American Revolution
The American Revolution and Maryland’s Press
National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Signers of the Declaration
Timeline of the Revolution
U.S. Constitution
The American Constitution
The Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle
The Constitution and The Amendments
Federalist Papers
The Founders' Constitution
Early National Period
Governmental Documents
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress
American State Papers
Federalism
Debates on the Constitution, 1789-1861
Jacksonian Era
Second Party System 1824-1860
Register of Debates in Congress, 1824-1837
Amistad Case, 1839
Congressional Globe
all speeches in Congress, 1833-1873
Antebellum Era
Conner Prairie
Five Points
P.T. Burnum’s AmericanMuseum
Views of the Famine
Sectional Crisis
Bleeding Kansas
Editorials relating to the Sectional Crisis
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
John Brown's Holy War
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
Valley of the Shadow
Civil War
The CivilWarCenter
Chronology of Emancipation
Civil War Women
Crisis at FortSumter
New York City Draft Riots
New York Times 1860-66
Military History of the Civil War
Valley of the Shadow
Lincoln Papers
LincolnNet
The Walt Whitman Archive
Selected Civil War Photographs
Emancipation
Harper's Weekly reports on Black America
Chronology of Emancipation
Reconstruction
African American Migrations After the Civil War
Civil War and Reconstruction
Congressional debates
Freedman's Bureau Online
1866 Report by Congress's Joint Committee on Reconstruction
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
For more resources by era, visit the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s “teacher modules”: