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- 101 Historical Moments You Can Relive on YouTube
"There are historical videos on the presidents, famous speeches, breakthrough moments in space exploration, along with moving moments in culture, all found easily on YouTube."
- 100 Milestone Documents
"The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965."
- 250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
State-by-state list of historical archives in the US.
- American Memory
Over 100 "multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text" from the Library of Congress. Includes a 'Today in History' section.
- American Presidency Project
Over 70,000 documents including speeches, addresses, proclamations, executive orders, chats, and press conferences given by U.S. Presidents.
- American Rhetoric
This award-winning site includes text files, audio, video, and images in sections such as Online Speech Bank, Top 100 Speeches, Movie Speeches, Christian Rhetoric, Rhetoric of 9-11, Speech of the Week, and more.
- Archive.gov (National Archive)
Text, historical information, and facsimile images of U.S. documents, treaties, and speeches. Also includes large collections of images of American people, places, and events. Includes U.S. Historical Documents and Presidential Libraries, while
video files are hosted on Google Videos.
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
"Documents in law, history, and diplomacy" browsable by name or searchable by keyword.
- BBC World Service: Documentaries
Dozens of BBC tv shows archived and available online.
- C-Span Video Library
"The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible... "
- CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library
Links to historical documents online. Includes European history,American history, and UN and international documents, among other collections.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
"This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."
- A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
From the University of Oklahoma, U.S. historical documents arranged in chronological order, from pre-colonial days through the present.
- Collect Britain
"Collect Britain presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond." Includes maps, drawings, sheet music, bird songs, early wax cylinder recordings, and more.
- A Collection of Fourth of July Speeches
From the Special Collections of Ellis Library - University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
"The Cornell University Library Windows on the Past is a grouping of selected historical materials which have been digitally scanned and are available for on-line browsing and searching." Includes a Historic Math Book Collection, New York State Historical Literature, and International Women's Periodicals, among other offerings.
- DOUGLASS
"Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University."
- EuroDocs
"Online Sources for European History. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations."
- Footnote
"People may fade away, but their stories live on.... Footnote puts millions of original documents never seen on the web before at your fingertips—and lets you share your discoveries with the world."
- Historical Text Archive
Large collection of historical documents from American and world history.
- History and Politics OutLoud
"History and Politics Out Loud is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students."
- HistoryLink101
Photos, images, maps, and links for world history classes.
- TheHistoryNet: Where History Lives on the Web
From About.com, extensive links to archival historical information on the web.
- The History Place - Great Speeches Collection
Transcripts of selected great speeches throughout history.
- In the First Person
"Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world."
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
"Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly ... for educational use." This extensive collection of documents and links is a great starting place for historical research of all sorts.
- Lifelines: Social Studies: Primary Documents
Annotated listing of good sites for high school students to find online versions of primary source documents.
- Old Pictures
"An extensive collection of original, historical photographs. This collection includes a vast array of photographs spanning the years 1850 to 1940."
- Our Documents.gov
"A list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965." (Note: Flash animation.)
- Policy Archive
"PolicyArchive is a comprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 16,000 documents. Join today and upload your own research and customize your user experience."
- StoryCorps
"StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record one another's stories in sound. ... we'll also add your interview to the StoryCorps Archive, housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which we hope will become nothing less than an oral history of America. "
- TimeSearch
Search or browse history timelines.
- University of Michigan Documents Center
"The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news."
- U.S. News: Eyewitness to History
"In the pages that follow are ... letters, transcripts, and diaries — from Americans famous and not — that revive crucial moments in history with an intensity and intimacy that no secondary source can match."
- WGBH Open Vault
"Online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning."
- World History Archives
"Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective."
- Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
Includes current cartoons, cartoons by topic, cartoons by cartoonist, lessons, news related to editorial cartoons, Cartoons for the Classroom (with lesson plans) and more.
- British Cartoon Archive
"A guide to the British Cartoon Archive's holdings of cartoon cuttings and original artwork. It contains more than 120,000 catalogued cartoons, mostly from the last hundred years."
- Cartoon America
Exhibition of a hundred cartoons about the United States. From the Library of Congress.
- Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
"Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings."
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index
Wonderful collection of topical and political cartoons, with archives going back several years.
- The Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling
Collection from Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and conservationist from the first half of the 20th century.
- FDR Cartoon Archive
Collection of political cartoons about President Franklin Roosevelt from 1932 to 1944.
- Five Decades of Herblock
A collection of essays and cartoons from Washington Post political cartoonist Herb Block spanning the second half of the 20th century.
- It's No Laughing Matter
"Analyzing political cartoons."
- LOC Theme Collection: Political Cartoons
Annotated list of political cartoon sites online for both students and teachers.
- Policial Cartoons.com
"This is the biggest, searchable database of political cartoons, by the best editorial cartoonists in the world."
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