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Ebsco Research Database - http://search.epnet.com/
User ID: s4818327
Password: crica

Wilson Web - http://www.hwwilson.com/wwebforms/Wwebtrials/newtrialform/wweb1_2.cfm

Contents:
Sites with many links

African Americans
The Alamo
Civil War
Cotton Gin
Court Cases
Native Amercans
Pony Express
President of the United States
Reconstruction
The South
Women's History
Westward Movement

 

Links to Many Topics

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - http://www.archives.gov/research_room/getting_started/research_by_topic.html

Public Broadcasting Service - http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html

History Matters - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

Middle Web - http://www.middleweb.com/CurrSocStud.html (scroll down to the "American History" section)

The History Place - http://www.historyplace.com/

Ms. Kampf's history links - http://www.cds.ed.cr/teachers/kampf/researchlinks.html

Course Notes.org - http://www.course-notes.org/us_history/ (general information, a good place to start your research)

The History Net - http://www.thehistorynet.com/

Kid Info - http://www.kidinfo.com/SchoolSubjects.html#AmericanHistory

 

African Americans

Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Slavery - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0131_030203_jubilee2.html

 

The Alamo

The Alamo.org - http://www.thealamo.org/main.html

 

Civil War

Tax History Museum - Civil War finances http://www.tax.org/Museum/1861-1865.htm

The American Civil War homepage - http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

The Valley of the Shadow - http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

 

Important Court Cases

Landmark Cases - http://www.landmarkcases.org/

Federal Judicial Center Information on the Amistad case - http://www.fjc.gov/history/amistad.nsf/autoframe?openform&header=/history/amistad.nsf/page/header&nav=/history/amistad.nsf/page/nav_narrative&content=/history/amistad.nsf/page/narrative

 

Cotton Gin

The Reader's Companion to American History - http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_021000_cotton.htm

Effects of the Cotton Gin - http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/sprg_01/solomon/effects_of_the_gin.htm

King Cotton - http://www.civilwarhome.com/kingcotton.htm

 

Native Americans

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe - http://www.standingrock.org/

 

The Pony Express

San Francisco Museum - brief history of the Pony Express http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html

 

President of the United States

The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/

 

Reconstruction

Digital History - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html

 

The South

Documenting the American South - Search for you topic. http://docsouth.unc.edu/

 

Westward Movement

About.com (from US Department of State) - http://economics.about.com/od/useconomichistory/a/economic_grow.htm

 

 

Women's History

NARA - http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/research_topics/women.html

Links for many history topics

Historic American Newspapers - http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - http://free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=178

The Donner Party

The Donner Party - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/donner/

President of the United States

Campaign Materials 1840-1860 - http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/about.html