Harriet Tubman (far left) with some of the slaves she freed

ONLINE DISCUSSIONS

• BlackBoard

• Humanities-Net (NEH/Michigan State)

EVALUATING WEB SITES

• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA)

• Evaluating information found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins)
  

SEARCH ENGINES

• Power Searching For Anyone

• Internet Search Engines: How Some of Them Work
   

WEB BASICS

• Prof. Catherine Lavender's Web Tutorial (College of Staten Island)
   

HISTORIAN'S TOOLS FOR AMERICAN HISTORY

• History Matters (ASHP/CUNY/GMU)
• You Be the Historian (Smithsonian)
  

 GATEWAYS TO HISTORY LINKS

• American Studies Web (Georgetown)
• Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara)
• American and British Resources on the Web (Rutgers)
• Index of Resources for History (Kansas)

HISTORICAL ARCHIVES/ GALLERIES/STATISTICS/ DATA

• American Memory Project (Library of Congress
• Making of America (Michigan)
• National Archives and Records Administration
• New York Public Digital Library (NYPL)
• Historical, Economic, Demographic Data of U.S.
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Speeches (Northwestern)
• Historical Atlas Resources -- North America (Oregon)
• Inaugural Addresses of Presidents of the U.S. (Columbia)
• National Museum of Art: Online Exhibitions (Smithsonian)
• National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
• At Home in the Heartland
  

PRE-EUROPEAN AMERICAS/ EUROPEAN DISCOVERY/ COLONIAL HISTORY

• Sipapu-Cheto Ketl Great Kiva Model
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery
• Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
• Jamestown Rediscovery
• A Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation
• Avalon Project: Pre-18th Century Documents (Yale)
• Gottlieb Mittelberger: On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants (1754)

NATION BUILDING: AMERICAN REVOLUTION/CONSTITUTION ERA

• Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale)
• A Midwife's Tale (PBS)
• Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents (Library of Congress)
• U.S. Founding Documents (Emory University)
• Constitution Page (National Archives)
• "A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the Constitution" (National Archives)
• Federalist Papers (Thomas)

1800 - 1850

• Lewis and Clark (PBS)
• Marbury vs Madison, 1803
• McCulloch vs Maryland, 1819
• Cherokee Nation vs State of Georgia, 1831
• Whole Cloth: American Textile Industry (Smithsonian)
• African-American Mosaic: Abolition (Library of Congress)
• Side by Side: Declaration of Sentiments/ Declaration of Independence
• Created Equal: History of the Suffrage Rights Movement
• First Women's Rights National Convention, 1850 (Assumption College)
• Political Culture & Imagery of American Woman Suffrage; 1848-1998
• Gender in 19th-century U.S. Public Culture (Assumption College)
• Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1830-1930 (SUNY/Binghampton)
• Daguerretypes Views and Portraits 1839-64 (Library of Congress)
• Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 (University of Virginia)

SLAVERY/ AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY/ THE SOUTH

• Exploring Amistad
• Africans in America (PBS)
• Freedmen and Southern Society
• American Slave Narratives:   An Online Anthology
• Philadelphia Online: A Celebration of Black History
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives
• Jesuit Plantation Project (Georgetown)
• Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina)
• African American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets 1818-1907 (Library of Congress)
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL-Schomburg)
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (NYPL-Schomburg)
• African American Women: 19th Century Manuscripts (Duke)
• Levi Jordan Foundation

CIVIL WAR/ RECONSTRUCTION

• Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia)
• Causes of the Civil War
• Secession Era Editorial Project
• Crisis at Fort Sumter (Tulane)
• Civil War Photographs (University of Virginia)
• Selected Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress)
• Images of the Civil War (National Archives)
• Freedmen and Southern Society
• Civil War Women (Duke)
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (Library of Congress)
• Civil War Resources on the Internet (Rutgers)
• The American Civil War Home Page (University of Tennessee)
• Finding Precedent: Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• "Reconstruction" by Frederick Douglass in Atlantic Monthly (Dec. 1866)

NATIVE AMERICANS/ MULTICULTURAL FRONTIERS

• Sipapu: Chetro Ketl Great Kiva
• The Native American's War for Independence
• NativeWeb
• Cherokee "Trail of Tears": 1838-1839
• New Perspectives on the West
• WestWeb (CUNY/CSI)
• The Multicultural American West (Washington State University)

NYC HISTORY

• Moving Uptown: 19th Century Views of Manhattan (NY Public Library)
• Five Points Archaeological Site
• Duncan Phyfe and the Changing Workshop