HIS 109: History of the U.S. since 1865

A great place for finding reliable history websites. Great for finding primary sources and information on all kinds of subjects.

Information on social and political history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Find cartoons, editorials, news articles, advertisements and illustrations. Covers 1857-1916.

A site for teachers and students of U.S. History survey courses. Includes primary source documents, links to high-quality history websites, student exercises to assist in evaluation of historical information and more. Developed by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University and the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York.

Photographs on a wide range of American culture and artwork of American presidents.

Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections. The FAQ section gives good information on how to search the collections as well as how to cite the information found.

Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.