U. S. Diplomatic History Links

General

• Copley Library Databases
• Sending Text-Only E-Mail
• H-Diplo OnLine and Diplomatic History Links
• Country Studies from Library of Congress Federal Research Division
• North American History from Dennis Boals
• Gibraltar web cameras at http://www.frontier.gibnet.gi
• NAIL collections at the National Archives
• 18th Century Resources from Jack Lynch
• North American History from Dennis Boals
• Documents pre-1898 from Mt. Holyoke
• Documents from Avalon project at Yale
• Presidential polls
• List of Lists
• Hoaxes
• San Diego Disasters
• Iraq War

Documents

• U. S. History Documents from Yahoo
• Avalon Project from Yale has 19th Century and 20th Century documents
• New Deal Network
• History and Politics Out Loud
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 from SUNY Binghamton
• International Relations from Mt. Holyoke
• Virtual Classroom from David Philips at Bennington College

Journals

• 19th century journals from Yahoo
• Common-place quarterly online journal
• Journal for MultiMedia History
• Picturing Justice the on-line journal of law and popular culture

Maps

• Perry-Castenada Collection at U of Texas
• Maps in the News from Borchert Library at U of Minnesota
• Maps from CIA World Factbook
• SSEC realtime satellite maps every 30 minutes
• The Mining Company Geography site
• National Geographic world maps
• Historical Maps index from Yahoo

News

• 1stHeadlines is a searchable guide to thousands of headline news stories each day from over 300 hundred newspapers, broadcast, and online sources.
• Top Stories Photos from Yahoo
• MagPortal is a search engine for online magazine articles
• Today in History from Library of Congress American Memory
• Taiwan-China and Tibet and Cannes and Earth Day and Concorde and Poland and Vietnam War and Philippines and Holocaust from Full Coverage Yahoo News
• examples of press images of Sept. 11 terrorism attack

Presidential Libraries

• Hoover Library
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
• Truman Library
• Eisenhower Library
• Kennedy Library
• Johnson Library
• Nixon Library
• Ford Library
• Carter Library
• Reagan Library
• Bush Library

Search

• Google is one the largest and most up-to-date search engine; Yahoo is useful for categories; Metacrawler combines searches of several engines; uses a different search method from other engines.
• Directory of Digitized Collections allows a search of database collections by keyword, country, collection name, URL

Topics

• American Presidential Elections 1789-1856 from Britannica.com
• Ash Lawn home of James Monroe
• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions from Ohio University Professor Emeritus of History James Chastain
• Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America from the National Portrait Gallery
• George Washington Papers and Thomas Jefferson Papers from American Memory
• Hawaii Annexation: A Collection of Documents from the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Special Collections department
• Immigration
• John Mitchell's Map, An Irony of Empire from the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine
• Oregon Trail from the producers of the PBS documentary
• Pena exhibit from UT
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution from the University of Michigan Clements Library
• Star-Spangled Banner from the Smithsonian
• Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
• Thomas Jefferson from Library of Congress
• Upper St. John River Valley
• Versailles Chateau since 1623, official web site includes photo essays and panoramas.

Video and Audio

• Internet Archive includes Prelinger films
• Movieflix
• Multimedia Library includes QTVR panoramas and MIDI music
• Songs in American History
• video clips on reserve