History of the United States: Find Web Resources

Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the US census.

American Memory is a scholarly database of American History from the Library of Congress. This database is a good source for historical photographs. There are notable sections on Native Americans, women's sufferage, the military and war, and African American history. Check it out!

The portal delivers millions of materials found in American archives, libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions

Provides access to typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of Native Americans in Oklahoma.

Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history. The collection contains books and journals from the 19th century Antebellum period through reconstruction. This database is a joint effort from Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Try the "subject browsing" for an effective search.

The US National Archives has placed this collection of photographs from 1860 - 1865 on Flickr.

This on-line databases contains thousands of historical photos, diaries, newspapers, maps and other items from 160 collections of libraries, historical societies, museums and archives across New York State.

Papers of the War Department is a project of the Center for History and New Media, and George Mason University.

Information on nearly 35,000slaving voyages between Africa and the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.