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Documents
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "An Expression of the American Mind": Understanding the Declaration of Independence 
 This 2-part lesson plan (grades 9-12) covers the structure of the Declaration of Independence ("introduction, main political/philosophical ideas, grievances, assertion of sovereignty") and the ideological and political origins of the ideas in the Declaration. Includes background for teachers, suggested activities, and links to additional material. From EDSITEment, a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and other organizations. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=723 Topics: United States History Last updated Jun 18, 2008 AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
A directory of primary documents available on the Web. Browse by time period, beginning with 1492 and continuing into current times. Includes inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties, letters, speeches, and more. Maintained by the University of Kansas. A Virtual Library site. http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/ Topics: History, United States History Last updated Dec 21, 2006 American Originals
"A selection of some of the most significant and compelling documents from the National Archives holdings." Presents the full text of the Louisiana Purchase agreements, a police report on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 1868 treaty with the Sioux Indians, reportage of the collision of the Titanic with an iceberg, President Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan, President Nixon's letter of resignation, and several other documents. From the National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/original.html Topics: History, International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, United States History Last updated Sep 3, 2007 American Originals: Part II
A few historical documents including George Washington's expense book, a Civil War telegram from Abraham Lincoln to General Grant, and John F. Kennedy's speech notes from Berlin. From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/origina2.html Topics: History, Presidents by Name, United States History Last updated Sep 1, 2007 American Social History Online
This website features material from 175 American social history research collections, including more than "514,708 digitized ... images (photographs and cultural materials), books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, sheet music, videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories." Searchable, or browse by subject, place, or time. Includes an option to view search results on a U.S. map. From Aquifer American Social History Online, a project of the Digital Library Federation. http://www.dlfaquifer.org/ Topics: United States History Last updated Dec 1, 2008 American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Online companion of the of the "permanent [Library of Congress] exhibition of the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past." Includes facsimilies of original documents, photographs and artworks, maps, and more. Browsable "in the manner of Thomas Jefferson's own library.... Memory (History); Reason (Philosophy, including Law, Science and Geography); and Imagination (Fine Arts, including Architecture, Music, Literature and Sports)." From the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/ Topics: History, United States History Last updated Sep 2, 2004 The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents 1941-1949
A collection of documents relating to American World War II and related peacetime foreign relations. Includes documents such as those arising from the Yalta (Crimea) and the Berlin (Potsdam) Conferences, United Nations materials, the Inter-American system, the North Atlantic Treaty, and other areas of interest to the U.S. (atomic energy, Palestine, arms reduction). From the Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman at Yale Law School. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/decade/decade.htm Topics: History, International Governments, International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, United States History, World War II Last updated Jul 27, 2005 The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The Federalist Papers
Complete collection of the 85 articles urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution. They were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, and were first published from October 1787 to August 1788. From the Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman at Yale Law School. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm Topics: Federal (U.S.) Government, Government, United States History Last updated Oct 23, 2006 The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The War of 1812
A collection of documents relating to the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. Includes documents such as the U.S. act declaring war and the 1814 Treaty of Ghent. From the Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman at Yale Law School. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britain/br1814m.htm Topics: History, International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 9, 2006 A Chronology of US Historical Documents
Key historical documents of the United States, from the pre-Colonial era to the present, presented in timeline fashion. http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ Topics: History, United States History Last updated Jul 11, 2004 Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
An electronic collection of current and historical United States government documents which define the American democracy. These legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic documents are selected and authenticated by the Government Printing Office's GPO Access service. Includes the Bill of Rights, Constitution, Federalist Papers, and statistical reference sources. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html Topics: Federal (U.S.) Government, History, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History Last updated Jul 15, 2004 Creating the United States
"This exhibition offers a remarkable opportunity to learn in a fresh new way how the [U.S.] founding documents ... were forged out of insight, invention, and creativity, as well as collaboration and much compromise." Includes interactive features that "reveal the source documents and the careful crafting of language" in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Also provides related links. From the Library of Congress (LOC). http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/creatingtheus/ Topics: United States History Last updated Jun 3, 2008 Digital Classroom
The "National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students." Features sample lesson plans for K-12 teachers (topics include Constitution Day, the Amistad case, black soldiers during the Civil War, and Jackie Robinson as a civil rights advocate). From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/education/ Topics: History, K-12 Education, Lesson Plans, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2005 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
This institute "promotes the study and love of American history." Its website features a searchable database of over 60,000 documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, online exhibitions, details about treasures of the collection, resources for teachers and students (such as quizzes and podcasts), and information for historians (such as about fellowships and recently published scholarship). http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ Topics: United States History Last updated Jun 4, 2008 Help the National Archives Recover Lost and Stolen Documents
Website for a program "to ensure that United States government documents (federal, congressional, and presidential records) that have been lost or stolen are returned safely and securely to the National Archives." Features a list of missing documents, tips for identifying historical U.S. government documents so you can avoid acquiring them, and how to report stolen items for recovery. From the National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/research/recover/ Topics: United States History Last updated Jun 19, 2008 The Modern English Collection
A collection of thousands of full-text works of English and American "fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present." Searchable, and browsable by author, and subject (African Americans, Native Americans, women, Civil War, Thomas Jefferson, young readers). From the University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/ Topics: Correspondence, History, Poetry, United States History Last updated May 20, 2007 National Security Archive
Includes declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Includes documents from the Nixon-Presley Meeting, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA involvement in Latin America, U.S. nuclear history documents, White House e-mail, North Korea nuclear weapons, and much more. From George Washington University, Washington, D.C. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ Topics: Politics by Place, United States History Last updated Apr 26, 2003 Our Documents
Readings, sponsored competitions, and educational materials focused around "100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965." As of this writing, approximately half of these documents were available on this site, with more presented every week. Sponsored by National History Day, NARA, and the USA Freedom Corps. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/ Topics: History, United States History Last updated Nov 26, 2002 Saving the National Treasures
Companion to a 2005 PBS Nova program that "not only gives viewers a fascinating glimpse of cutting-edge preservation technology, it also explores the background and meaning of these documents [Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights], particularly the Declaration of Independence, whose significance changed over time from a simple catalog of grievances against the English king to a stirring proclamation of the rights of all people." Includes program transcript and features on damage and conservation. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/ Topics: Archives, United States History Last updated Jun 19, 2008 Teaching With Documents: Founding Documents of the Peace Corps
Background about the founding of the Peace Corps, which is "one of President John F. Kennedy's most enduring legacies. Yet it got its start in a fortuitous and unexpected moment," an extemporaneous speech at the University of Michigan in 1960. The site includes documents and photos, teaching activities, and a document analysis worksheet. From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/peace-corps/ Topics: United States History Last updated Feb 21, 2007 Uniform Code of Military Justice Legislative History
This site offers a "legislative history of one of the principal documents of military law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). ... In addition to the full text of the 1950 edition of the UCMJ, this website — produced by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division (FRD) — will provide many related and supporting historical materials that not only document the development of the UCMJ, but that can also be used to argue legislative intent." http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/UCMJ_LHP.html Topics: Law by Subject, Military, Social Issues, United States History Last updated Jun 21, 2004 The Winthrop Society: Texts
Collection of "texts of original documents by and about the first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth." Features the Constitution of the Massachusetts Bay Plantation (April 1629), the Cambridge Agreement (August 1629), memoirs and correspondence, essays, lists and rosters, and more. The documents "have been minimally edited for spelling and punctuation for ease of comprehension by the modern reader." From a nonprofit organization "dedicated to historical and genealogical research and the dissemination of educational material." http://www.winthropsociety.com/texts Topics: United States History Last updated Nov 1, 2008 |
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