Collections and Internet Resources in:

United States History

Guides and Indexes to Internet Resources
Subject-Specific Sites
Primary Documents and Sources
Electronic Journals, Texts, and Indexes licensed for UCLA
Libraries and Archival Repositories
Institutions and Organizations
Listservs and Discussion Groups
Classes and Workshops

UCLA Department of History

Guides and Indexes to Internet Resources

The following web sites are useful gateways to research and teaching sources and general resources in United States History on the Internet. The quality of the organization varies, but together these sites offer comprehensive coverage of the content on the Internet relating to United States History. Select the Yahoo site if you want to do a keyword search on a specific topic.

American and British History Resources on the Internet
American Studies Web
WWW Services for Historians
Historical Text Archive: History of the United States
Web Sites for the History Profession
United States History
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History
Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History
H-NET Reviews

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Subject-Specific Sites

The topical sites below have been selected because of the high quality of their content, organization, and relevance to research and teaching in specific areas. They are roughly in chronological order.

The Papers of George Washington
Exploring the West from Monticello
The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895
Native American Documents Project
California Indian Library Collections
African American Biographical Database (Restricted to users with UCLA domain names.)
American Slave Narratives
Documenting the American South
The Valley of the Shadow
The American Civil War Homepage
U.S. Civil War Center -- Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet
Civil War Women - Primary Sources on the Internet
HarpWeek - The Civil War Era, Reconstruction I & II, and Gilded Age I (Restricted to users with UCLA domain names.): (Indexed database of Harper's Weekly from its beginning in 1857 to 1883)
The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory
The National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
History of the Suffrage Movement
Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
WestWeb: Western History Resource
American West : Multicultural Perspectives
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
The World War I Document Archive
World War I - Trenches on the Web
Resource listing for WWII
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
Atomic Archive
The Sixties

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Primary Documents and Sources

American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
Electronic Documents in History
American Memory from the Library of Congress
African American Biographical Database (Restricted to users with UCLA domain names.)
Historical Demographic, Economic and Social Data of the US, 1790-1860
HarpWeek - The Civil War Era, Reconstruction I & II, and Gilded Age I (Restricted to users with UCLA domain names.): (Indexed database of Harper's Weekly from its beginning in 1857 to 1883)
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
Historical Documents from the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
California Heritage Digital Image Access Project
North America Map Archive: (University of Oregon site containing interactive maps showing change over time. Requires Shockwave Plug-In. Refer to the "Requirements" section.)
OSSHE Historic Atlas Resource Library
Rare Map Collection
Making of America (Housed at two sites): University of Michigan collection; Cornell University collection

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Electronic Journals, Texts, and Indexes licensed for UCLA

HarpWeek - The Civil War Era, Reconstruction I & II, and Gilded Age I

(Indexed database of Harper's Weekly from its beginning in 1857 to 1883)

Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1923

(coverage currently available: 1863-1879)

JSTOR

(Full text content of core journals in the social sciences, humanities and mathematics. Journals complete from their beginning to approximately five years ago.)

JSTOR Titles in American History:

Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980

(coverage currently available: 1906-1920, 1970-1980)

Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1905

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text)

(Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs. )

Project Muse

(Current issues of scholarly journals from Johns Hopkins University Press)

Project Muse Titles in American History:

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Libraries and Archival Repositories

Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
Library Catalogues and Databases
Library of Congress Archival Finding Aids
Online Archive of California
Repositories of Primary Sources

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Institutions and Organizations

History Departments Around the World
Organization of American Historians
The American Historical Association
Association for History and Computing
W.E.B Du Bois Institute
National Archives and Records Administration

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Listservs and Discussion Groups

Internet Mailing Lists in History
H-Net's List of Lists
Internet Mailing Lists in History

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Classes and Workshops

History 97D
History 101

History 201I
History 230A
History 246
History 297A
Workshop on the Professional Historian

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Page created by Cindy Shelton, Young Research Library
Comments about this page to: Ellen Broidy, US History Bibliographer (ejbroidy@library.ucla.edu)
Last updated: March 3, 2004