American History and Culture 

• 100 years in Footage in 100 seconds.mov
  A compilation from the Getty collection highlighting the 20th century.
• America.gov
  "This site delivers information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture. It is produced by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs."
• American in the 20th Century
  Online video and support material for understanding 20th century America.
• American Cultural History - 19th Century
  American Cultural History - 20th Century
  "The purpose of these pages is to present a series of web guides on the decades of the (nineteenth and) twentieth century." Areas covered include art, fashion, education, music, theatre, and other aspects of popular culture.
• American Experience
  "AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Online has produced over 130 feature sites. These sites enable viewers to watch films online and encourage in-depth exploration of each film beyond the television screen."
• The American Founders Online
  "An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications" from the Library of Congress.
• American Icons
  Free mp3 files of the radio show about American cultural icons.
• American Journeys
  "American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later."
• 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 Radio Works
  Special reports on American historical and social topics with online slideshows and Realaudio files.
• American Revolution Center
  Features a timeline from 1750 to 1950, highlighting important events pertaining to American independence.
• The American West
  "Explore the history of the American West in Web sites and television episodes from American Experience."
• America's Stone Age Explorers
  Companion website to NOVA program about the earliest Americans.
• Archiving Early America
  Site offers "a wealth of resources — a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings come to life just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than 250 years ago."
• Biography of America
  "A telecourse and video series that presents American history as a living narrative. ... For each program you'll find an interactive feature .... In addition, you'll find a listing of key events of the period, a map relevant to the period, the transcript of the video program, and a 'Webliography' - a set of annotated web links."
• Creating the United States
  "This exhibition offers a remarkable opportunity to learn in a fresh new way how the founding documents that emerged from this period were forged out of insight, invention, and creativity, as well as collaboration and much compromise."
• Digital History
  "Digital History is committed to providing high-quality historical resources for teachers and students for free and without advertising." Includes documents, sheet music, interactive guides, American history exhibition, an online American history textbook, and more.
• Documenting the American South
  "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."
• The Early Republic: Primary Documents On Events From 1799 To 1820
  "This wide-ranging collection of annotated primary documents provides readers with a balanced historical account of the issues and opinions incident to the early American Republic." From Greenwood eBooks. (SCCHS students, see librarian for password.)
• Freedom: A History of the U.S.
  "Come along on an exciting journey through Joy Hakim's story of freedom in America." (Companion to the PBS series.)
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times
  The main body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes from a number of USIA-publications: An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature. The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other Outlines.
• History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
  "Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history."
• Images of American Political History
  "A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History."
• InfoUSA
  From the U.S. State Department, "information about official U.S. policies, American society, culture, and political processes".
• Library of Congress
  An excellent source for American history and government information as well as other material.
• The Making of America (Cornell) or
  The Making of America (UMich)
  A collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan, offering access to books and articles from the 1800's and 1900's.
• Multicultural West
  "A resource site for the interactive exchange of ideas, information, and educational tools related to the US West in multicultural and intercultural perspective."
• National Museum of American History
  Virtual Exhibitions online cover topics from the founding of the United States onward, with a timeline, a music room, and information about the museum and its collections.
• Special Exhibits on the American Founding
  Coverage of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist/AntiFederalist debate, the ratification of the Constitution, and the election of 1800.
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
  From the Library of Congress, a look at the role of religion in 17th and 18th century America.
• Talking History
  Based at SUNY Albany, this project's "mission is to provide ... as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere."
• Teaching American History
  "Learn more about American history by going back to the original source documents, from the founding through the 20th century and beyond."
• U.S. History.org
  From the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. Features virtual tours of historical sites in Phili, facts, timelines, documents, and links.
• U.S. History Tours
  "US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources."

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