United States Government and History

Online Resources

Encyclopedias - Groliers online - Groliers Multimedia and Encyclpedia Americana

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Databases online - King County Library - need KCLS card # -- 0011525243 (6769)

• American History Reference Collection (Gale)
  • Spanish American War - Ency. of War and American Society
  • William McKinley
• American History in Video
  • Revolutionary Era 1765-1789 -- set of videos
    • Washington's Generals
  • Mexican American War: Texas Rangers
  • Civil War - set of videos
  • Spanish American War videos
  • America in 20th century: World War I
  • Franklin Roosevelt - WWII
  • Iran Crisis video - Death of the Shah and the Hostage Crisis - 20th century with Mike Wallace

Online videos

• George Washington - C-Span (152 min)
• James Madison - C-Span (69 min)
• James K. Polk - C-Span: Mr. Seigenthaler talking on book about (57 min)

Others available

• Gale - US History in Context AND World History in Context
  • seat_rpa
• YouTube Time Machine - collection of videos by year, or narrow the clips within each year to different categories like current events, movies, or video games 1860-2012

 

General

• 100 Documents - most significant documents in US history
• America in the 1930s - UVa - well-done, content-rich, overview of this time in US history
• American Cultural History: 20th century a fact-filled look at the culture of the 20th century with pictures, links, commentary - Kingwood College - by decades
  • American Cultural History 19th century
• The American Experience (PBS)
• American Studies Web historical and archival resources - with search option(Georgetown)
• America's Library discover the stories of America's past from the Library of Congress
• Animated Atlas - US History - Growth of a Nation - animated explanation of US growth
• Archiving Early America documents, newspapers, maps, magazines and writings of the time period
  • Short movie clips of key figures: Revere, Washington, Franklin, etc.
  • caution - watch out for lots of pop-ups
• Biography of America companion website with links to the video series and telecourse by WGBH
• Digital US History -interactive US history textbook (collaborative effort at U. Houston)
• Documenting America Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection photograph collection 1935-1945
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - lessons, tips, and ideas for use of this collection of more than 60,000 primary source documents detailing the political and social history of the US from 1493 to modern times
• History Explorer National Museum of American History -- interactive timeline connected to it's collections and programs
• Historical Text Archive
• HistoryNet - American History articles on
• Hypertext on American History from Colonial Period to Modern Times:USIA publications Outlines
• Making of America digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
• Military.com resources and links
• Presidential Timeline of the 20th century
• Primary sources of Early American History "massive collection of the literature (from 500 BC onward)and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America."
• ThisNation American government & politics
• Uncle Sam for kids American history and government
• Women in American History Britannica - biographies, interactive timelines, Internet resources

Specific

• American West
• Ben's guide to US Government for Kids basic introduction to the Federal Government by grade level
• Civil War homepage links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War ------see also Civil War (St. Joe's page)
• Columbus Navigation homepage --- see also October links (St. Joe's page)
  • First voyage of Columbus 1492
• Lewis and Clark maps of David Rumsey Collection -- see also Lewis and Clark (St. Joe's page)
• A More Perfect Union NMAH Japanese American internment after Pearl Harbor, relation to US constitution --see also information on the relocation (St. Joe's page)
• Picturing the century One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
• Pacific Northwest History (St.Joe's page)
• Sunday School Books-19th century (LofC American Memory Collection)
• WestWeb