History Resources

Comprehensive Sites:

• World History Compass
• WWW Virtual Library: History
• History Timelines

Text/Archives:

• Annals of American History: over 2,000 primary documents from U.S. history from 1493 to current day.
• Historical Text Archive
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
• Our Documents : Milestone documents from the U.S. National Archives
• Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Source Definitions (from the University of Maryland)
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861 - 1969-76 -- U.S. State Department Office of the Historian
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861 - 1958/60 -- an electronic facsimile (University of Wisconsin)
• The Civil Rights Digital Archive
• American Social History Online --Find and use 19th and 20th century primary resources from unique historical digital collections.
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History -- Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations

Special Collections:

• American Memory from the Library of Congress -- Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774 - present
• The History Channel - Great Speeches -- hear some of the great speeches of history. (Requires the Real Player® plugin)
• American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank -- an index to a growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two
• American Women's History: A Research Guide

Historical Data:

• Historical U.S. Census Data Browser -- covers 1790 to 1960
• Historical Statistics of the United States -- statistics about almost any aspect of U.S. economics, population or infrastructure since the government began recording statistics.