American History: Find Articles & Web Pages

A large, multimedia meta-collection of historical materials including documents, photographs, recorded sound, and moving pictures. Supported by the Library of Congress.

Free online access to historical materials documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The Digital Library of Georgia is host to the collaborative project.

Texts in the history of Africa, arranged by historical period and subject matter.

Texts in the history of science, arranged by historical period and subject matter.

Arranged into "galleries" of memorable photographs from sequential time periods. Click on a thumbnail image to see a larger photo.

This textbook publisher maintains free, full-text hypertext "encyclopedias" : the Medieval World; Encyclopedia of British History, 1700-1900; First World War Encyclopedia; Investigating the Vietnam War; Emancipation Of Women: 1860-1920. Scroll down to see all the offerings.

Gives a summary of a historical event for today's date; a link to other events for the same day is available. A pulldown menu allows you to search for events which happened on any day in the year.

Original diaries, letters, newspapers, and other primary source material for two communities in the Civil War, one Northern, one Southern.

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue has excellent help and advice for formatting papers and writing citations in Chicago Style.