Indexes scholarly literature about American and Canadian history, prehistory to the present day...

Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century and including full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade...

Contains more than 5,000 entries on all aspects of American history...

"Encompasses nearly two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal and World War II...

"Presents in-depth profiles of each American president and his administration...

"Presents 500 entries describing Americans who defined the decade, including politicians, athletes, entertainers, and artists, among many others...

"Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference...

Contains "hundreds of alphabetically organized entries on African history, nations, and peoples plus African-influenced aspects of life in the Americas...

Contains about 250 entries covering important historical figures; key battles, legislation, and rulings; honors awarded; regiments, formations, and squadrons; and significant places...

A repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people...

Contains 500 entries on the production and use of the principal alcoholic beverages, cultural representations, temperance movements, research, treatment, and forms of regulation and prohibition in the United States and around the world...

Compiled by the Works Progress Administration, 1938...

Full text, searchable scanned images of early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922...

Contains "approximately 220 articles, organized thematically for easy browsability, provide a wealth of reference and historical information on the battlefield and homefront experience and the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the North and South during the War...

Lengthy list of links to websites on the American War Between the States...

Full text of more than 100,000 pages of diaries, memoirs, and letters written by more than 2,000 participants in the American Civil War...

Decade-by-decade coverage of American social history during the 20th century...

Includes entries on economic terms and American economists as well as significant acts of Congress and legal decisions that have influenced the economy in the United States...

A constantly growing online collection of Americana and American history, including digitized movies, sound clips, photographs, and other graphics from the Library of Congress...

Biographical essays on anyone deceased individuals "whose significant actions occurred during his or her residence within what is now the United States or whose life or career directly influenced the course of American history...

Searchable full-text database with digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900...

Extensive site on the office of the President of the United States throughout the whole history of this country...

Database containing the complete text of narratives of African-American slaves...

A sampling of interviews done between 1936 and 1938, of former slaves from across the American South under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)...

This series, covering 1974 through 1981, consists of annual cumulations of a bibliography of materials about the United States...

Diaries of eight middle- and upper-class women, from 1789 to 1915...

"Covers major American conflicts from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the home front...

"A database of pictures of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca...

Contains more than 400 entries covering the interrelationship of Great Britain and the Americas from the time of the Vikings to the present...

Provides primary source material on the civil rights movement in the United States, including unedited film archives of two television stations in Georgia...