General Links for Early United States History

The Best US History on the Web

The Library of Congress The National Archives

Today in History

Maps

Portraits & Painting

American Indians

Documents

Scholarly Stuff

 

Very useful is Richard Jensen's Scholars Guide to the Web which contains large sections on history.

The University of North Carolina, Presidents, site also has many useful links.

The striking, "THE ILLUSTRATING TRAVELER: ADVENTURE AND ILLUSTRATION IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 1760-1895," an exhibit from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University offers a wealth of artistic views of America.

American Elections from 1796 to 1996 are the subject of "America Votes" a Duke University exhibit.

Biographical sketches of members of Congress from 1774 to the present are offered in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present created by the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Legal Information Institute's Gallery of Former Justices includes biographies of former U.S. Justices of the Supreme Court.

The New York Public Library is the subject of the Library of Congress, Today in History, feature, for May 23.

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March 30, 2005

 

 

Background: an altered image of the Declaration of Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration of Independence by the US National Archives.

 

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