The American Historical Association publishes the American Historical Review, the major historical journal in the United States. It includes scholarly articles and critical reviews of current publications in all fields of history.
This web site, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus additional resources.
Compiled from Archive, library and Internet source documentation, this timeline on Slavery and in part the History of Racism, has been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of enslaved Americans of African descent.
An electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history.
In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents.
The Journal of American History remains the leading scholarly publication and journal of record in the field of American history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our country's heritage.
From the American Folklife Center, this project strives to record the war stories of veterans from World War II, Korea, and others. Hear recordings of these stories!
The African American History project is brought to you through the partnership of BELLSOUTH, South Carolina Educational Television and WIS-TV. The project, now in its thirteenth year, provides educators a method of identifying role models for all youth.
The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Ancient Japan is designed as a learning module in the form of a research textbook. The module provides more information and in more detail than the average freshman level world cultures/history/civilizations textbook.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC) is an on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds. It features its own essays and primary texts.
Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, Accessible Archives DATABASES contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books.
The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
For the FOIPA Section web page, we have selected several FBI cases that may be of interest to the public. These documents also appear in paper form in our traditional reading room in Washington, D.C.
Here you can read the speeches and backgrounds of many of the most influential and poignant speakers of the recorded age. To help put each speaker in historical context, they have also provided a brief timeline of historical events.
Hear the words that changed the world. From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball, our vast collection is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century.
From the American Folklife Center, this project strives to record the war stories of veterans from World War II, Korea, and others. Hear recordings of these stories!
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records.
NCEEER was created in 1978 to develop and sustain long-term, high quality programs of post-doctoral research about the social, political, economic and historical development of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.
This site was created by a communication professor at Calvin College. It is intended to be a guide to the propaganda that was used during the Nazi Regime. See the FAQ for more information about the professor and the reason behind his site.
Europa is the portal site of the European Union. It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration.
The Baronial Order of Magna Charta [BOMC] was founded in 1898 under the name of The Baronial Order of Runnemede during the flowering of scholarly and popular interest in the history and development of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
Do you have a Revolutionary Patriot in your family tree? Membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) honors and preserves the legacy of your Patriot ancestor.
The Society for the History of Discoveries was formed to stimulate interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of geographical exploration.
This web site contains a short explanation of the background history that is needed to understand the major economic and political problems in the world today.
This web site contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.
On these pages you will find links to a handful of the countless resources on the World Wide Web. The primary purpose is to help students doing history research find electronic resources as quickly and easily as possible.
Provides useful history links for Asia/Pacific, Central/South America, China/Japan, Africa, Middle East, India, and General/Cross Cultural. Part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers.
The History Guide has been created for the high school and undergraduate student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major in history in college.
On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented, when available, without making prejudgments about what is African.
The web site is neither meant to condemn nor condone the bombing, but is meant as a way for people to express their views on how to achieve peace, on what peace is, and other thoughts about peace.
This site is designed to provide information on the recent history of Cambodia, particularly the Khmer Rouge period. This includes not only materials pertaining to Cambodia, but information relating to Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad, as well.
In order to understand any contemporary society, a knowledge of its history is essential. The following pages present the most general facts of Japanese history.
The Middle East Department of the University of Chicago Library maintains an archive of early photographs of the Middle East, which have been scanned and made available on the World Wide Web.
This electronic publication, when complete, will provide a chronology of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels in eighteen Spanish-speaking Latin American countries.