HHS 126 - US History since 1865
Resources for learning about American History
Last updated: February 1, 2010
Online textbook at ushistory.org
http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp
American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
George Mason University "History Matters"
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory/
WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/
History Engine
http://historyengine.richmond.edu/
Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp
Investigating U.S. History
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/investigatinghistory/
American Library Association, Using Primary Sources on the Web
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm
Digital History Reader, University of Vermont
http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/modules/us/index.html
Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Random Links (as discussed in class)
America's Reconstruction
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
New York Times obituary for John Hope Franklin
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26franklin.html?pagewanted=all
Charlie Rose interviews John Hope Franklin
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/8894
John Hope Franklin on writing history
http://jhfc.duke.edu/johnhopefranklin/gallery.html
John Hope Franklin on slavery
http://vimeo.com/3970532
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html
We Shall Remain (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
February 23
Spanish American War
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/investigatinghistory/m7.html
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5471
John Hay's First Open Door Note (1899)
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_First_%27Open_Door_Note%27
William McKinley's Last Speech (1901)
http://books.google.com/books?id=6NAtAAAAYAAJ
Frank Vanderlip, The American "Commercial Invasion" of Europe (1902)
http://books.google.com/books?id=BTsaAAAAYAAJ
March 2
World War I Maps (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/maps/
First World War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/about.htm
A New Deal for the Arts
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/index.html
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org
Farm Security Administration at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
University of San Diego History Dept. site on the New Deal
http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/20th/1930s/newdeal.html
USHistory.org (online textbook)
http://www.ushistory.org/us/48.asp
http://www.ushistory.org/us/49.asp
Soviet History at Marxists.org
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/
University of East Anglia, History of the Soviet Union
http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/welcome/
Nazi Propaganda, 1933-1945
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm
Nazi Germany links (Prof. Robert Brown)
http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/hst430_w.htm
Modernism (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
http://www.artsmia.org/MODERNISM/
Christopher Witcombe, "Modernism"
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/roots.html
Harlem History
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/index.html
Harlem Renaissance (John Carroll University)
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm
March 11 and 23
Presidential Speech Archive
http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches
PBS, "The Perilous Fight"
http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/
Ken Burns, "The War"
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/
British Broadcasting Corporation: World War Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
Compendium of WW2 websites
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/war.html
Japanese and American war atrocities
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/2724
Ansel Adams: Photos of Japanese Internment
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/
Did World War II Advance Minorities, Women, and the Poor?
http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/modules/us/mod07_ww2/index.html
World War II Posters
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/wwii-posters/
Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
The Price of Freedom (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
Four Freedoms (From the National Archives)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/four_freedoms.html
Norman Rockwell, Four Freedoms
http://images.google.com/images?q=rockwell+four+freedoms
Rosie the Riveter
http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/home.htm
Rosie the Riveter - photos from the Women's Bureau
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/sets/72157620553442634/
April 1
Cold War International History Project
http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409
Cold War Policies, 1945-1991
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html
BBC: The Cold War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/
George Kennan's Long Telegram
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/churchill.html
Truman Doctrine
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/doctrine.htm
http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3343
Freedom Trains
http://www.freedomtrain.org/
Cold War Propaganda
He May Be a Communist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeZ5SKXvj8
Communism vs Capitalism (1947)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irXVQnvc9FQ
Kids Talk About Nuclear Weapons (Duck & Cover!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxT6daGxo64
Communism (1952)
http://www.archive.org/details/Communis1952
Soviet Animated Propaganda (Part I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5sIGm70SE
American Animated Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkXTd9v56LQ
Vannevar Bush, Science the Endless Frontier
http://www.archive.org/details/scienceendlessfr00unit
Cold War: McCarthyism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2jiiKig0Bw
Edward R. Murrow: A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/murrowmccarthy.html
Cold War documentaries
http://fulldocumentaries.com/?s=cold+war
The Wars for Viet Nam
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
Global Trends 2015
http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/globaltrends2015/index.html