Useful Websites for Completing Document Portfolio
GETTING STARTED
- Do NOT leave your document portfolios to the last minute.
- Below is a list of sites that may be relevant to your document portfolios. If they don't work, please don't email me. Just find another site.
- If you're interested in a specific topic that you don't see listed below, I suggest you try doing a search using Google. Alternatively, try searching for your topic by using the George Mason University database (the second website listed below).
- In order to find secondary literature, look first at the syllabus. All the recommended reading listed on the syllabus has been placed on Special Reserve.
- If you absolutely can't find anything on the syllabus related to your chosen topic, you should do a Google search and try to construct a list of three books. For example, if you're intending to examine Scottish immigrants in Pennsylvania, put that phrase into Google followed by the word "bibliography" and see if anything comes up. (I just put that phrase into Google and it did indeed come up with a bibliography!) You will then have to check if the books that look interesting and relevant are held at Fisher Library. Then come and see me with your list and I'll make sure the books look appropriate.
- Once you've chosen a topic and selected the secondary literature, start looking for your primary sources on the web. This will be easier if you start with an idea about what you're looking for.
GENERAL SITES:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem
American Memory site from Library of Congress. Gateway to millions of primary sources, maps, images, and artifacts relating to the history and cultural dev. of the U.S.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historyweb/historyweb.php
George Mason University, Center for History & New Media: A huge database containing information on history-related websites. Searchable by type of resource, subject etc.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th
18th century resources - including large collection of digitized primary sources and links to other sites.
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/index.html
Web page from University of Kansas has links to over 1,200 sites of interest to US history students.
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
Part of the electronic library at the U. Kansas, provides hundreds of documents related to American history.
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushist.html
University of Oklahoma Law Ctr. Major documents related to US history from colonial period onward.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op+viewlink&cid=6
Historical Text Archive - links to Naive American History, US historical documents, colonial period, Revolution, early republic, etc.
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa
Making of America - a digital library of primary documents in US social history from antebellum period through Reconstruction. Contains approx 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles from 19 th century.
http://www.universitylake.org/primarysources.html
Gateway to early American primary sources.
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/index.html
Primary source material relating to early America
WITCHCRAFT
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jup/witches
information on witchcraft trials from around the world; historical diaries, letters etc. and links to other sites.
The entire transcripts of the Salem Witchcraft trials are also online. Just do a Google Search with the keyword "Salem Witchcraft Trials"
AFRICAN-AMERICAN/ABOLITIONISM
http://academicinfo.net/africanam.html
Resource links to sites on black history
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html
resource links to classic documents in black history
http://www.prairiebluff.com
African-American Census Schedules Online
http://www.amistadamerica.org/
Exhibition of primary sources related to the Amistad uprising. One document portfolio idea might be to compare this incident to later treatments of African Americans in the North.
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/amistad/home.html
documents related to the Amistad slave mutiny.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
Images of African-Americans from the 19th Century from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture site: contains texts, images, documents, includes responses to the book from pro-slavery Southerners, African-Americans etc.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
African-American Perspectives - Pamphlets written from 1818 onward from the collections of the Library of Congress
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
Africans in America - collections of documents etc.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/speccol.html
19th c. primary materials on black history
http://www.NYHistory.com/gerritsmith/index.htm
Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum; abolitionist leader
http://www.loc/gov/exhibits/african/abol.html
History of Antislavery movement, inc. abolitionist publications, minutes of antislavery meetings, handbills, advertisements, songs and appeals to women. http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html
North American Slave Narratives. Part of Documenting the American South website
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/calha59.htm
John C. Calhoun 1837 speech, "Slavery a Positive Good"
FIRST CONTACT AND NATIVE AMERICANS
http://www.nativeweb.org
Collection of links to sites and articles.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/natamer.htm
Collection of primary docs. relating to legal relations between US govt. and Native groups.
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
1492: An Ongoing voyage
http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/woodcuts/
Historical images of native peoples made from copper plate engravings by Flemish engraver Theodore de Bry.
POLITICS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA AND EARLY REPUBLIC
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html
Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; inc. his views on slavery
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm
Dozens of transcriptions of Revolutionary era docs. inc. colonial charters, state constitutions, Indian treaties and Virginia Declaration of Rights. There is also a keyword-searchable version of The Federalist Papers .
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents site; Library of Congress-sponsored; features photographs and transcriptions of drafts and final version.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789. Library of Congress sponsored site inc. treaties, resolutions, committee reports and extracts from Congress's journals.
http://earlyamerica.com/review
Online historical journal, published since 1996 includes reviews and articles.
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/index.html
Includes famous 18th century writings by Mercy Otis Warren, Ben Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson etc.
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/charters.html
National Archives and Records Administration: Charters of Freedom. Transcriptions of originals, together with essays, early manuscript and printed versions, etc.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/?tqskip=1
site exploring milieu out of which the Constitution emerged.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/annapoli.htm
Annapolis Convention assembled to discuss economic issues faced by states under the Articles of Confederation. Contains links to Madison Debates, Federalist Papers and US Constitution.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm
Articles of Confederation.
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/
All articles and amendments to the US Constitution, annotated with explanations and references. Hyperlinks let you access full-text version of relevant Supreme Court decisions, each placed in its historical context along with pertinent theories of law and govt.
http://www.grolier.com/presidents/preshome.html
History of presidents, the presidency, politics and related subjects. Includes historical election results, presidential links.
http://www.npg.si.edu
National Archives and Records Administration. Access to historical records of govt. agencies as well as online exhibit hall.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents
Site containing all the debates between anti-federalists and federalists (this is the site where the readings from week 6 came from: there are many more documents here, in addition to lengthy commentary by the site's developers, which you can use as a secondary source.)
THE WEST
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
PBS online companion to Ken Burns' documentary series on the Lewis and Clark expedition; inc. equipment lists, maps and excerpts from the journals kept.
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
Mountain men of the Rocky Mountains through 1850. Includes digitized personal and public records.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/sager1.htm
"Across the Plains in 1844" - circa 1860 account written by Catherine Sager Pringle.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/
WestWeb: Western History Resources
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/calheritage/
California Heritage Collection from the Bancroft Library, collection of over 30,000 images of California's history and culture.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/
Multicultural American West, bibliography of sites relevant to American west.
SOUTH
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/fpn/fpn.html
First-Person Narratives of the American South, inc. diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South.
THE CIVIL WAR
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
19th century documents, related to sectional divisions
http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/
Valley of the Shadow Project; massive archive of primary sources relating to two towns - one in Pennsylvania and the other in Virginia in the years leading up to the war.
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
The American Civil War
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
The American Civil War Home Page
Best site to find links to soldiers' diaries and letters and links to other site relating to the Civil War.
WOMEN
http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/
Godey's Lady's Book. Selections from this popular nineteenth-century women's magazine.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
African-American Women - part of the Special Collections Library at Duke University, includes manuscripts and texts by African-American women.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War inc. images of manuscripts, letters, journals, and other documents.
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
Civil War Women site - part of the Special Collections Library at Duke University, inc. primary sources on women during the American Civil War.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/bayly/women/docs/home.html
Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present. Online exhibit from the Bayly Art Museum shows how women have been depicted in history, through prints and writing.
http://www.JWA.org/main.htm
Jewish Women's Archive
includes a virtual archive database, inc. 500 archival images and the records of over 200 women.
http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/main.html
Lesbian History Project. Annotated links to print and Web resources for studying lesbian history.
http://www.nmwh.org
National Women's History Museum Inc. online exhibits dealing with politics, imagery of suffrage, political reform, etc.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921. From the Library of Congress, letters and other writings and images
MAPS, IMAGES AND MUSIC
http://mahogany.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/united_states.html
Historical maps from U. Texas' Perry-Castañeda Library. Best collection of historical maps on the internet.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Map Collections: 1500-1999. Part of the Library of Congress's American Memory project
Don't forget the Library of Congress website (the first website listed), which contains images, maps, and artifacts.
http://www.daguerre.org/home.html
The Daguerreian Society features a selection of digitized daguerreotype images of California gold rush, street scenes etc.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/stokes/stokes.htm
I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints. Mostly images of town views, historical scenes, and some maps.
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, contains thousands of pieces of music focusing on American popular music from 1780 to 1960, including illustrated covers.
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