Links to History Web Sites

General Sites

• Historical United States Census Data Browser-- Searchable database of aggregate census data.
• History Matters-- A gateway to historical resources on the web with an emphasis on materials that support teaching.

Archival Sites

• American Memory Collection -- Digitized materials from the holdings of the The Library of Congress.
• Documenting the American South-- A massive collection of materials on southern history, with an emphasis on social history.  Includes a large collection on the southern homefront during the Civil War.
• Making of America Collection (Cornell University)-- Includes a full-text collection of nineteenth-century American magazines.
• Making of America Collection (University of Michigan)-- Another full-text collection of nineteenth-century American magazines.

Asian Studies/History

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library -- Access to a vast number of resources.  Created "by the experts, for the experts."

Civil War Sites

• The Civil War Home Page-- More links to Civil War resources on the web.
• Causes of the Civil War-- Links to primary source documents relating to the causes of the Civil War (especially the secession crisis).
• Civil War Poetry and Music
• Secession Era Newspaper Editorials-- An On-line primary source archive.
• Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874 -- Excerpted articles from one of the leading nineteenth-century American newspapers.

Labor History

• The AFL-CIO Home Page
• LaborNet-- "Through computer communications, news, information and resources, LaborNet supports the guarantees of human rights and economic justice for workers."
• United States Department of Labor
• Wisconsin Labor History Society-- Includes an extensive bibliography of published materials on Wisconsin labor history.

The Sixties

• Free Speech Movement Digital Archive-- Massive digital archive of documents relating to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
• Documents From the Women's Liberation Movement-- Materials from Duke University's archival collection.

Social Studies/History Education

• National Archives Digital Classroom-- Teaching resources from the National Archives.
• National Council for Social Studies

Wisconsin History (and Minnesota Too!)

• State Historical Society of Wisconsin -- Includes links to Wisconsin History resources on the web.
• Minnesota Historical Society-- Includes job listings!
• The Jesuit Relations-- The entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (except Volume 51) available electronically
• Wisconsin Marine Historical Society
• Milwaukee Urban Archives-- The premier research center for the study of the history of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
• Wisconsin Labor History Society-- Includes an extensive bibliography of published materials on Wisconsin labor history.

Women and Gender

• National Women's History Project-- A wide variety of materials, including links to resources in women's history.

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