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United States History

Colonial

• Colonial America: From Exploration through the American Revolution
• Native American Net Server
• Archiving Early America
• From Revolution to Reconstruction (American History) - good U.S History overview
• Papers of George Washington
• 1755: French & Indian War Webpage

19th Century

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
• The American Civil War Homepage - Huge variety of resources sponsored by the University of Tennessee
• Immigration to the United States, Open Collections Program - historical materials from Harvard's libraries
• Selected Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress
• America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War - online exhibit

20th Century**

• Women's Suffrage
• American Life Histories: WPA Federal Writer.s Project 1936-40
• FDR Library and Museum
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources - from the National Security Archive
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• Korean War Project
• Battlefield: Vietnam
• The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
• Watergate Info.
• American Women's History: A Research Guide

General Resources

• Amdocs: Documents for the Study of American History
• The Library of Congress, American Memory Timeline - essays and information about nine different chronological periods in American history
• Digital History Project

** NOTE: WWI and WWII resources under European history resource page