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General History

US History

World History

Government

Crime and the Law

General History and Social Science

• Freedom: A History of US
• The History Channel
• American Memory: Historical Collections of the Library of Congress
• Eye Witness to History
• Cagle's Cartoonist Index (Political Cartoons)
• Map Machine
• HistoryNet
• Modern History Sourcebook
• National Archives
• General History Encyclopedia (Spartacus)
• History Guy

US History

• American Memory - Library of Congress
• Primary Sources in U.S. History from American Memory
• Time Magazine Archives
• Yale Avalon Project
• Oral Histories: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War
• History Buff (primary newspaper sources)
• Calisphere Primary Sources
• Teaching American History

Presidents

• The White House: The Presidents of the United States
• Potus: Presidents of the United States
• The American Presidency
• American President
• Inauguration Day

Voyages of Christopher Columbus

• First Voyage Journal Excerpts
• Journal Entry 1
• Journal Entry 2
• Privileges Granted to Columbus by the King and Queen of Spain
• Letter From Dr. Chanca, Second Voyage

Early American History

• The Salem Witchcraft Papers
• The Mary Parsons Witchcraft Trial
• Witchcraft Links
• The Salem Witchcraft Trials

Trail of Tears

• In Defense of the Cherokees--William Penn Essays
• Andrew Jackson and US Policy
• Lewis Cass Justifies Removal
• Cherokee Phoenix
• Our Hearts Are Sickened
• Cherokee Letter

Mexican-American War

• Documents of the U.S.-Mexican War
• Representative Abraham Lincoln' Speech

Dred Scott Case

• Dred Scott's Fight for Freedom
• Dred Scott Case Primary Sources
• Freeing Dred Scott
• New York Times 1857
• American Memory Primary Sources

Civil War and Reconstruction

• Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Letter from General Sherman to the Mayor of Atlanta
• General Sherman: 40 Acres and a Mule
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
• Eye Witness to History
• Lincoln Assassination
• Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
• Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia, 1871
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - The Ku Klux Klan

Inventions

• The American Industrial Revolution
• Smithsonian Study of Inventions
• Eastman-Kodak:The Camera
• The Wizard of Photography
• Inventions of Thomas Edison
• History of the Edison Phonograph
• History of the Telegraph
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Automotive History
• History of the Automobile with good website links
• Ladies Mile (department stores)
• Life of Thomas Edison
• Edison's Miracle of Light
• Invention of the Airplane
• First to Fly--Wilbur and Orville Wright
• Technology in America: (Telephone, Subway, Television)
• Antique Telephone Website
• Roller Coasters
• Tesla, Master of Lightning
• Engines of Our Ingenuity
• Industrial Supremecy
• Building the Pacific Railroad
• History of the Electric Chair
• History of Skyscrapers

American Decades

• American Cultural History: Decades of the 20th Century
• People's Century 1900-1999
• Postage Stamps Using Images from the Decades
• 20th Century Year by Year

Women's Suffrage (Seneca Falls Convention)

• Seneca Falls Convention
• Declaration of Sentiments
• Trial of Susan B. Anthony
• Address to Congress by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The Blue Book
• Opposition to Votes for Women
• Life Magazine, 1906
• Womens Suffrage Collection
• Worcester Women's History Project

Scopes Trial

• Famous Trials
• Educational Freedom and the Scopes Trial
• Scopes Trial Documents

Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

• Famous Trials
• Execution

Prohibition

• History of Prohibition with Primary Documents
• Primary Documents
• Evangelist's Sermon
• Brewing and Prohibition in Wisconsin
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• History with Primary Document Links

Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers

• United Farm Workers
• UFW History
• The Fight in the Fields - United Farm Workers Union
• United Farm Workers Union: 1965 Grape Boycott Case Study

Zoot Suit Riots

• Zoot Suit Riots
• The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare
• Newspaper Articles - Zoot Suit Riots
• Sleepy Lagoon Murder Mystery
• Sleepy Lagoon Case
• Pachucos in the Making
• Time Magazine Zoot Suit Riots

Cold War and McCarthyism

• McCarthyism: Includes many good links
• Testimony of Ayn Rand
• Edward R. Murrow: A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy
• President Truman and Senator McCarthy

Rosenberg Trial

• Government Views of the Rosenberg Spy Case
• Famous Trials

John F. Kennedy

• National Archives Assassination Records
• JFK Lancer
• A Conspiracy? -- Excellent List of Resource Sites

Greensboro Sit-ins

• Greensboro Four
• Greensboro Sit-ins

Little Rock Nine

• Little Rock Central High
• President Eisenhower Documents
• Melba Beals Interview
• Daisy Bates Letter

Kent State Shootings

• Kent State Archives
• Kent State Oral Histories
• Order to Fire?

Los Angeles Riots, 1992

• LAPD Interviews
• Police Transmissions
• Famous Trials
• Eyewitness Accounts
• Painful Memories (Koreatown)
• Koreans Who Left LA
• LA Fire Dept. Archives

Columbine High School

• Columbine Sources by Dave Cullen
• Columbine Tapes
• Columbine High School Principal
• Victims and Families
• A Columbine Student Survivor
• Inside the Columbine Investigation
• Could Columbine Have Been Prevented?
• Rocky Mountain News Reports
• Dylan Klebold's Mother Speaks

Oklahoma City Bombing

• Famous Trials
• News Stories
• Reactions to the Bombing

September 11

• America Responds
• September 11 Digital Archives

World History

• History of Costume
• Women in World History
• Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

Countries of the World

• State Department Background Notes
• BBC Country Profiles
• State Department Country Studies and Profiles
• CIA World Factbook
• World Bank Country Data
• Crisis Watch

Ancient World

• Ancient Gods and Goddesses
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

Ancient Greece

• Theoi Project - Guide to Greek Mythology
• Bulfinch's Mythology
• Odyssey Online

Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Egyptian Culture
• British Museum - Ancient Egypt
• Life in Ancient Egypt
• Egypt's Golden Empire
• Mysteries of Egypt

Middle Ages

• Life in the Middle Ages
• Medieval History Sourebook
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

Reformation and Renaissance

• AP European History
• Costumer's Manifesto
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Eurodocs
• Martin Luther
• BBC Reformation Homepage
• Life in the Renaissance
• Queen Elizabeth I

World War II

• Second World War Encyclopedia
• Primary Sources, Histories, and Accounts
• People's Century Eyewitness Interviews
• Historic Government Publications
• Pearl Harbor Interview
• Pearl Harbor Remembered
• Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings
• Pearl Harbor--Eyewitness to History
• D-Day: American Experience
• D-Day Account of LTC John Burkhalter
• D-Day: Omaha Beach
• D-Day: Britannica Guide to Normandy 1944
• D-Day: Resources
• Atomic Bomb: Decision
• Hiroshima Witnesses
• Truman Primary Sources
• Atom Bomb Loosed on Nagasaki
• Interview with the Enola Gay pilot
• Bataan Rescue
• Women in World War II
• Women and the Home Front
• World War II Poster Collection
• Nazi Propaganda
• Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Japanese Internment Camps
• Relocation of Japanese Americans
• Internment Camps in America
• Telling Their Stories: Japanese American Internees
• Sites of Shame
• Digital Archives

Holocaust

• Holocaust - Remember.org
• US Holocaust Museum
• Yad Vashem: Holocaust Remembrance Authority
• Nuremberg Trials
• Elie Wiesel - Holocaust Survivor and Author
• Holocaust Eyewitness Accounts
• Telling Their Stories: Holocaust Survivors, Concentration Camp Liberators, Japanese American Internees
• Concentration Camps
• Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals

Government

• Oyez - U.S. Supreme Court Cases
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases
• US Government Official Web Portal
• Open Secrets (follow the money in election fundraising)

Crime and the Law

• Famous Trials
• Crime Library
• Law Guru
• Findlaw
• Legal Information Institute
• Exploring Constitutional Law

Introduction to Law (Mr.Picon)

• California Law
• California Criminal Laws
• Witness Statements and Interviews
• Street Law
• Mitigating Circumstances
• Courtroom Visuals
• Courtroom Visual Aids
• Arraignment
• LA Riots Verdict
• Mock Trial
• Mock Trial
• Mock Trial
• Court Procedure

Trials and Justice

• Galileo
  Galileo Project
  
  Famous Trials - Galileo
• Martin Luther
  Reformation History
  
  Project Wittenberg
• Alfred Dreyfus
  The Dreyfus Affair
  
  The Dreyfus Controversy
  
  I Accuse - Emile Zola
  
• Joan of Arc
  trial Transcript
  
  Primary Sources - Joan of Arc
  
• Thomas More
  Famous Trials - Thomas More
  
  William Roper’s account
  
  Modern History Sourebook - Thomas More
  
• Charles I
  Eyewitness to History - Charles I
  
  Primary Sources - Charles I
  
• Mary, Queen of Scots
  Primary Sources - Mary, Queen of Scots
  
  Letters and Journals - Mary, Queen of Scots
• Soviet Purge Trials
  General Information - Purge Trials
  
  Primary Sources - Purge Trials
  
• Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
  Eyewitness to History - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
  
  The Trial and Execution of Louis XVI
  
• Nuremberg Trials
  Famous Trials - Nuremberg
  
  Eyewitness to History - Nuremberg
  
  Avalon Project - Goering
  
  Avalon project - Trial of German Major War Criminals

 

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