A history of the Washington, DC building that houses the National Archives and Records Administration and information for educators and students to build their own archives. Includes a 1,000-word history of the Archives with more than 20 photographs and links to relevant documents.

The site also offers a description of the architecture and guidelines on "establishing and maintaining a school archives," including notes about technology, student involvement, and items to collect, as well as six titles for further reading.

Includes links to additional Archives sites on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, and to other primary documents arranged according to a variety of teaching activities.

Provides a practical guide to collecting archival documentation as well as a reasoned rationale: "Developing a school archives provides a valuable service-learning opportunity for students and creates a lasting research tool and legacy from which future students and the archival community can benefit."

[SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED] This website provides full-text access to important peer-reviewed academic history journals in addition to scholarly publications in related fields, such as literature, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, and education. It offers current issues and coverage from the recent past—going back as far as 1993—in PDF and HTML format from more than 300 journals, including 51 categorized under "History." The website offers keyword and Boolean searching.

This well-designed site features the current version of the journal Southern Cultures, including images and audio not available in the print version. A table of contents is provided for all back issues and searchable full text is available for book reviews but not articles.

There are two exhibits: "Sounds of the South" offers a tour of southern music "from bluegrass to zydeco" with background information and audio clips; "Envelopes of the Great Rebellion" features over 100 images from Civil War stationary.

The site also offers an excellent gateway to over 100 links to resources for studying Southern History, from research centers and libraries to African Americana and general culture.

Features illustrated biographical sketches, each approximately 400 words in length, of 12 notable 19th-century African Americans—Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, Harriet Tubman, Henry McNeal Turner, John Mercer Langston, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Mary Church Terrell, Mary Ann Shadd, Nat Turner, Richard Allen, and Sojourner Truth.

Includes three interactive quizzes, based on information contained in the biographies, divided into three levels of difficulty.

Also provides guidelines for classroom use, including directions for setting up an "online grade book." The site's creators plan to add sketches and quizzes on notable 20th-century African Americans.

This user-friendly site is a useful tool for introducing African American history to young students.

On order of an Act of Congress signed into law in 1992, the National Archives has gathered federally-created material relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy—including declassified material from every relevant presidential commission, congressional investigation, and executive-branch agency—and placed it in a single collection, supplemented with materials donated by local governments, presidential libraries, institutions, and private individuals.

While original records are not available online, this site presents a searchable database and extensive finding aids and includes full texts of the reports issued by the Warren Commission, published in 1964, and the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations.

This is a well-designed site that will be of most value to scholars of the assassination who plan to conduct research at the Archives.

This website presents thirteen "Digital Projects" curated by librarians at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.

The projects, most with a regional focus on Western Illinois, include: the Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive, Civil War Diaries (two diaries kept by Union Army soldiers who served near Vicksburg, MS), Early Pioneer Biographies (transcripts of 15 interviews with early settlers of the region), Farm Life (roughly 75 images of farm implements, animals, personalities, and vehicles, including the John Deere homestead), Native Americans (50 images of and interviews with local Black Hawk Indians), Quad City Views (more than 100 photographs of parks, churches, and streets in Davenport and Bettendorf, IA, and Moline and Rock Island, IL from the early 20th century), Transportation (roughly 75 images of regional animals, cars, trucks, trains, busses, trolleys, and boats in the early to mid-20th century), Town and County in Miniature: Color Plate Books at Augustana, and Cardinal Pole's Mission to England.

The Digital Image Archive is the website's largest collection, containing more than 7,000 photographs, drawings, and paintings drawn from several local academic and public libraries. These images range in date from just after the Civil War through the 1950s, and include portraits of prominent local leaders and families, sports teams and social clubs, as well as images of architecture and natural landscapes.

Town and County in Miniature is an online exhibition providing an overview of the color plate book, an illustrative form especially popular in 19th-century Britain, and its dominant genres of topography and travel, caricature, and sport.

Cardinal Pole's Mission is an online exhibition centered on a manuscript containing the correspondence of Reginald Pole (1500–1558) during two diplomatic missions from the Pope, with content created by Augustana College history students.

An introduction to Seneca Village, a multi-ethnic community of African Americans and Irish and German immigrants destroyed by New York city officials in 1857 to clear land for Central Park.

Through a selection of materials, currently limited to maps, images, and secondary essays, the site furnishes background on both Seneca Village and Central Park more generally. Also suggests "classroom activities" and provides a list of 63 related titles.

Based on The Park and the People—an award-winning history of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar—the site promises to expand significantly (but, as of October 2000 had not changed significantly from when it was launched a few years earlier). "Primary documents will include the New York State Manuscript Census for 1855; birth and death records; church registers and records; newspaper articles; political cartoons, drawings, illustrations, photographs, and maps. Many of these will be interactive, so that students can query the data directly. "

Designed to accompany a nine-month C-SPAN "road trip" in 1997–98 that retraced Alexis de Tocqueville's travels in 19th-century America, this site contains information about Tocqueville, his travels, and his writings; the full text of Democracy in America; a map of Tocqueville's trip; and selections—organized by state—from the journal he kept while in America.

Also provides a short list of references to Tocqueville by modern-day Americans ranging from President Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich; 26 present-day photographs of Tocqueville's hometown; a 13-title bibliography; access to "A Conversation on Democracy," a two-hour video special; a preview of the book and video Traveling Tocqueville's America; links to seven sites on France; and approximately 30 lesson plans.

A useful introduction to the man and his influence.

Created in 1996 to facilitate a "dialogue across differences," this site provided a space where stories, opinions, photographs, and memories pertaining to the Vietnam War era were collected, organized according to broad topics, and displayed. In addition, visitors to the site between 1996 and 1998 participated in 227 discussion groups ranging in subject matter from protests against the war (which provoked 420 responses) to effects of the war on children today (which only drew two communications).

Material ceased to be added to the site in 1998, search capabilities no longer work, and full texts of contributed stories are no longer accessible. Still, excerpts of 45 stories—on topics such as the "Wall," movies, reconciliation, scars, heroes, and history—remain accessible, as well as complete texts from the discussion groups.

The site also includes a useful 2,400-word guide by Bret Eynon to conducting oral histories on the impact of the Vietnam War era, which makes the salient point "that the goal is to gather stories not just about experiences of that time, but how those experiences have influenced people's lives since then."

A valuable site for those studying the war and its legacy.

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the First National Women's Rights Convention, held in 1850 in Worcester, MA, this site provides an archive of documents relating to the convention, including eight speeches, 15 newspaper accounts, 14 letters, and selected items from the proceedings.

Also offers three speeches from the 1851 convention, as well as a host of other resources concerning the 19th-century woman's movement more generally. Diary entries, government reports, tracts for and against suffrage, poems from Godey's Lady's Book, and the full text of several books are included, such as The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility (1856).

On an ongoing basis, the site presents essays about and selections by formerly well-known advocates for women's rights who since have been forgotten; currently the works of Jane Grey Swisshelm and Caroline Wells Healy Dall are featured.

Also includes links to 24 related websites.

Comprehensive with regard to the 1850 convention, and useful for more general resources devoted to the mid-19th-century women's rights movement.