Tom Glynn British and American History Selector glynn@rci.rutgers.edu with assistance from Julie Strange October 4, 2005

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: History- North America:
Internet Resources

• General American History Portals
• Historical Organizations
• Sites by Subject
  • African-American History (local, but separate page)
  • Civil War: Abolition to Reconstruction (local, but separate page)
  • Colonial Period and Revolutionary War
  • Immigration
  • Labor
  • Law and Politics
  • Military (see also Colonial Period and Revolutionary War; and Civil War)
  • Religion
  • Science, Technology and Medicine
  • Women's History (from RU Libraries Guide for Women's and Gender Studies)

General American History Portals

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
• American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
• Documenting the American South
• From Revolution to Reconstruction … and What Happened Afterwards
• Making of America (from Cornell University)
• Making of America (from the University of Michigan)
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• Voice of the Shuttle- American History

Historical Organizations

• American Council of Learned Societies
• American Historical Association
• Association for History and Computing
• History Departments in the United States (Association for History and Computing)
• History News Service
• H-Net- Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• New Jersey Historical Commission
• Organization of American Historians
• State Historical Societies and State Archives (Joe Ryan, Syracuse University)

Sites by Subject

Colonial Period and Revolutionary War

• African Burial Ground in New York City (New York Public Library)
• American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution (Peter Force, 1790-1868)
• American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts, 1750-1789 (American Memory)
• Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People (Canada’s Digital Collections)
• Colonial Charters, Grants, and Related Documents (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress (American Memory)
• Jonathon Edwards
• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Immigration History

• Ethnic America
• H-Ethnic (H-Net list on immigration and ethnic history)
• Immigration History Research Center
• Immigration, American Expansion (American Memory Project)
• Peopling North America: Population Movements & Migration
• The Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Foundation
• U.S Citizen and Immigration Services: History and Education

Labor History

• African-American Labor History Links (AFSCME portal)
• Evidence from the Haymarket Affair (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• History at the Department of Labor (U.S. DoL)
• H-Labor (H-Net list)
• Labor & Working-Class History Association
• Museums and Labor History Societies (from LAWCHA)
• Women's Labor History (AFSCME portal)
• Working Women, 1800-1930 (Harvard University Library)

Law and Politics

• The American Constitution: A Documentary Collection (Avalon, Yale Law School)
• American Political Science Association
• A Century of Lawmaking [1774-1875] (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Colonial Charters, Grants, and Related Documents (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
• FBI Electronic Reading Room
• H-Law (H-Net list)
• H-Pol (H-Net list)
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases
• Presidential Papers (Avalon, Yale Law School)
• Presidents (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Slaves and the Courts (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Supreme Court Historical Society
• Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans  (Avalon Project, Yale Law)
• Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)

Military

• Air Force Historical Research Agency
• American War Library (Unit rosters, casualty registers, Medal of Honor citations, etc.)
• Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center
• H-War (H-net list)
• Military Battles and Campaigns (maps- American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
• Rutgers Oral History Archives (WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War)
• Society for Military History
• Veterans History Project (Library of Congress; Twentieth-century wars)
• US Army Center of Military History
• US Army Military History Institute

Religion

• American Baptist Historical Society
• American Catholic Historical Society
• American Jewish Historical Society
• The Church in the Southern Black Community (Documenting the American South)
• Friends Historical Society [Quakers]
• Historical Society of the United Methodist Church
• Presbyterian Historical Society
• Religion (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

Science, Technology and Medicine

• American Association for the History of Medicine
• ECO: Exploring & Collecting History Online- Science, Technology, and Industry
• The Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
• History of Science Society
• H-Sci-Med-Tech (H-Net list)
• IEEE History Center [Electrical Engineering and Computing] (Rutgers University)
• NASA History Division
• Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
• Technology, Industry (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)