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North american history

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African American History Archive: Pointers to African American history material, as well as an extensive repository of primary documents. Also contains bibliographies of African American arts, education, history, and science resources.
Author: Mississippi State University
Subjects: african americans, north american history
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: index
Black History Month: Provides a civil rights timeline, black history quizzes, information about Negro league baseball and hockey players, blacks in the military, and various data including US states with an African American population of over one million, and annual earnings by educational attainment, race, and sex.
Author: Family Education Network
Subjects: african americans, north american history
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: documents, reference data
Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789: Timeline of key events in the history of enslaved Americans of African descent in the years prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, with links to related resources.
Author: Becker, Eddie
Subjects: north american history, racism, slavery
DeweyClass: 326
Resource type: document, index
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Information on the Virginian town in the 18th century. Includes places to stay and sights to see, as well as online resources for teachers and students.
Author: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Subjects: north american history
DeweyClass: 305.8
Resource type: documents
Early America Review: An Internet magazine for those interested in Early-American history. The journal, published quarterly, features stories of the colonial period, the Revolutionary war, and the early years of the Republic.
Author: Archiving Early America
Subjects: north american history
DeweyClass: 973.4
Resource type: magazine
Exploring the West from Monticello: A perspective in maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark. Includes maps and documents from an exhibition at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Includes information on historic expeditions, a bibliography of related reading and related Internet resources.
Author: University of Virginia
Subjects: north american history
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: documents, map collection
French and Indian War 1755: Dedicated to the French soldiers who came to New France between 1755 and 1760 to fight in the French and Indian War. Includes brief listings of the French soldiers and White Coats description.
Author: Roux, Larry
Subjects: american indians, north american history
DeweyClass: 940.2534
Resource type: documents
From Revolution to Reconstruction: Hypertext on American History: Project collecting texts and documents covering periods of US history. The best covered is the colonial and revolutionary period.
Author: Welling, George M.
Subjects: north american history, united states history to 1900
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: documents
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress: Collection of over 40 letterbooks (about 8,000 pages) of correspondence, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports and notes accumulated by George Washington from 1741 to 1799. Includes a copy of a manual for polite behaviour, Rules of Civility and correspondence and diaries covering Washington's life as a Virginia county surveyor and as colonel of the militia during the French and Indian War.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: north american history, united states history to 1900
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: document collection
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection: Collection of over 800 historical maps of Georgia from the 16th to the early 20th Century, organised into the following categories: New World, Colonial America, Revolutionary America, Revolutionary Georgia, Union and Expansion, American Civil War, Frontier to New South, Savannah and the Coast, and Transportation. Also contains many national and international maps from the early new world, colonial, US revolutionary and post-revolutionary eras. Map size and author information is given where possible.
Author: University of Georgia
Subjects: maps of the united states, north american history
DeweyClass: 912.73
Resource type: map collection, map index
History - American and British: Extensive set of links to full text documents and maps about American and British history. Includes reference resources such as treaties, statistics and bibliographies.
Author: Rutgers University Libraries
Subjects: british history - general, north american history, united states history - general
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: index
Intute: social sciences - slavery: Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources about slavery.
Author: Intute
Subjects: african americans, north american history, slavery
DeweyClass: 326
Resource type: index
Liberty: The American Revolution: Includes headlines, timelines, resource material and related topics - a chronicle of information on the American Revolution - and Perspectives on Liberty: daily life in the Colonies and a military point of view.
Author: Public Broadcasting Service
Subjects: north american history, united states history to 1900
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: guide
National Museum of American History: Includes virtual exhibitions and Web versions of the museum's activities.
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: north american history
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: museum
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Research information on the quantitative ecological requirements for sustainable wildlife populations. Includes biological resources arranged by type, taxon and geography, and a searchable database of selected publications. Full text, figures, tables, appendices and citations are provided for each article.
Author: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Subjects: ecology, north american history, wildlife
DeweyClass: 591
Resource type: documents
On The Prairie: Information on the ecology and natural history of prairie organisms, tips on prairie plant and animal identification and ecological function, and learning games. Includes a field guide to the Prairie, complete with scientific names, photographs, life history information, and a glossary.
Author: University of Minnesota
Subjects: ecology, north american history
DeweyClass: 333.74
Resource type: guide, images
South Carolina: African Americans - 1525-2001: Offers numerous original articles, books, eye witness accounts, and images pertaining to slavery in the US state of South Carolina. Provides the history of slavery from 1525 and traces the origins of African American culture and identity in South Carolina. Also provides detailed analyses of the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan and civil rights movements in the region.
Author: SCIway
Subjects: african americans, north american history, slavery, united states civil war
DeweyClass: 975.700496
Resource type: books, documents, index
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: USA Slavery: Resources relating to slavery in the USA featuring an outline of the slave system, accounts of experiences, and key events in the development and abolition of slavery. Also offers biographies of anti-slavery campaigners in the USA and Britain.
Author: Spartacus Educational
Subjects: north american history, slavery
DeweyClass: 326
Resource type: biographies, documents
Treasure Trove of North American Exploration: Online exhibition of materials documenting the discovery of North America, and events which took place during the exploration of the continent. Includes resources arranged chronologically and alphabetically by author, and a list of sources consulted in the compilation of the exhibition. Available in English and French
Author: National Library of Canada
Subjects: north american history
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: bibliography, documents