History Links

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I. American History

History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

The American Presidency Project
A database containing presidential election results dating back to 1828, and a rich archive of historical debates, speeches, signing statements, audio and video files, etc.

American Rhetoric
A database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.

African-American World
A guide to the African-American history and culture, presented by PBS.

Gallica: France in America
This bilingual digital library explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century. Provided by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Historic American Sheet Music
The collection provides access to the digital images of 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

Documenting the American South
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

Emergence of Advertising in America
A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.

Ad*Access
An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

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Historical Documents

Bibliography of Historical Documents

II. World History

The European Library
A portal providing digitized historical documents from the collections of some European national libraries.

Famous Trials
The site contains accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to over 44 famous trials, from Socrates to nowadays.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
This massive collection presents more than 550,000 images relevant to both U.S. and world history, from the earliest days of print culture to the present.

Portals to the World
Authoritative information about nations

MCL's Holocaust Bibliography

III. New Jersey History

New Jersey Digital Highway
Digital collections of documents pertaining to the history of New Jersey.