History Subject Guide: Websites

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students.

The Center for History & New Media creates websites and open-source digital tools to preserve and present the past, transform scholarship across the humanities, advance history education and historical understanding, and encourage popular participation in the practice of history.

This website is a good source of information regarding American History and it includes some multimedia resources (e.g. musical and audio files) which are copyright free.

18th Century History is an excellent starting place to find information about the period from approximately 1660 through 1840.

The history of Britain from 1801 to present.

The Holocaust Resource Center provides you with easy access to in-depth information about the Holocaust.

This site provides an index of American Civil War websites.

The American Jewish Historical Society is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the United States. AJHS provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence in the United States from 1654 to the present.

A collection of websites that examine and expose the history of oppression of women.

This website brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

This website includes an extensive collection of U.S. history, educational programs, and a network of historians.

History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.

A comprehensive collection of Dr. King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.

The Northwestern University Digital Library Collection features Edward S. Curtis's work "The North American Indian" in its entirety.

The Valley of the Shadow Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction.

The National Archives and Records Administration is making digital copies of the Nixon White House tapes available through this website.

Connecticut - Features primary source images, documents, and objects that make up the historical record of the State of Connecticut.

Florida - The goal of this website is to illuminate significant events and individuals in the state's history, and help educate users about Florida history and culture.

Illinois - Produced by the Chicago Historical Society, this encyclopedia features full text resources about Chicago and the state of Illinois.

Kentucky - The Kentucky Digital Library includes collections that relate to Kentucky history and culture and have a broad appeal on geographic, content, and study levels.

A series of podcasts on New York City history.

This site includes a list of New York State history repositories.

The Brooklyn Public Library provides access to three online newspapers archives: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1963), Brooklyn Life (1890-1924), and Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society (1924-1931).

New York - This site provides access to digital collections dedicated to documenting the history of the Hudson Valley.

New York - This is a research portal for New York State history.

Tennessee - a comprehensive reference work on the history and culture of the state of Tennessee.

Texas - A digital encyclopedia on the history of Texas.

Wisconsin - A collection of digital exhibits, essays, and museum objects.

Wisconsin - A reference source for the people, places, and things of Wisconsin.

Wisconsin

A wide range of digital collections featuring U.S. history.