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U.S. History
African American History
African American World (PBS)
Time Line of African American History, 1852-1880 (LOC)
The African-American Mosaic (LOC)
African- American Odyssey (LOC)
African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition (LOC)
African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923 (LOC)
African American History Month (LOC)
Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs (LOC)
The Journal of African American History
Enchanted Learning: Great African American Biographies
Black History (History Channel)
National Museum of African American History and Culture
"I Have a Dream" Speech
Little Rock Nine Homepage
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (NPS)
Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and the March on Washington, 1963
Black History (National Archives)
The DuSable Museum of African American History (Illinois)
Springfield & Central Illinois African-American History Museum (Illinois)
African American History & Heritage in Illinois
The Men and Women Who Began the Fight for Rights Primary Source Set (QUTPS)
Harlem Renaissance Primary Source Set (QUTPS)
NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom (LOC)
Asian American History
Asian/Pacific American Primary Source Set (QUTPS)
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (LOC)
Asian Pacific Americans (LOC)
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (LOC)
Ancestors in the Americas (PBS)
Japanese American National Museum
Museum of Chinese in America
Asian Society Museum
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Chinese-American Museum of Chicago
Pacific Asia Museum
Civil Rights Movement
Library of Congress, The Civil Rights Era (2 parts)
American Civil Rights Movement
JFK Presidential Library and Museum, Civil Rights Movement
National Humanities Center, The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s
Civil Rights Movement
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Primary Source Set, Black History Month: The Men and Women Who Began the Fight for Rights
Primary Source Set, Martin Luther King, Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement
The African American Civil Rights Movement
Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement
The Mix: Songs Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement
National Civil Rights Museum
The March on Washington (National Archives)
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (NPS)
Civil Rights: The Little Rock School Integration Crisis
Voices of Civil Rights (LOC)
Cold War
Library of Congress – Search Cold War
Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis (LOC)
Cold War: Postwar Estrangement (LOC)
Cold War: Soviet Perspectives (LOC)
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (LOC)
The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 (U.S. Department of State)
National Cold War Exhibition
Cold War Gallery (Navy Museum)
Cold War Gallery (Air Force Museum)
Cold War (National Archives UK)
The Cold War Museum
BBC History, Cold War
JFK Presidential Library and Museum, Cold War
JFK Presidential Library and Museum, Cuban Missile Crisis
Harry Truman Library & Museum, Cold War
Cold War: Relive the Cold War and See Its Impact on Today's World (CNN WORLD)
Colonial Times
Exploring the Early Americas (LOC)
1492: An Ongoing Voyage (LOC)
The Colonial Period, George Washington Papers (LOC)
Colonial and Early America (LOC)
The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
Who Celebrated the "First Thanksgiving?" (LOC)
Thanksgiving Primary Source Set (LOC)
Mapping a New Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784 (LOC)
Jamestown Was Established (LOC)
Jamestown Primary Source Set (LOC)
Jamestown: On-line Adventure
Daily Life in the Colonies (PBS)
Salem Witch Trials
Exploring Maryland's Roots
The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History (Smithsonian Magazine)
Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words (LOC)
Colonial: National Park Service
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS)
The Dust Bowl (LOC)
The Dust Bowl of Oklahoma (LOC)
Drought in the Dust Bowl Years (National Drought Mitigation Center)
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture: Dust Bowl
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives (LOC)
Dust Bowl Migrations Primary Source Set (LOC)
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (LOC)
Ellis Island
Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920 (LOC)
Topics in Chronicling America – Ellis Island (LOC)
Library of Congress – Search Ellis Island (Many photographs)
Walking Onto Ellis Island, New York (LOC)
The First Immigrant Landed on Ellis Island January 1, 1892 (LOC)
Ellis Island Online Records & History
Ellis Island (NPS)
Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
Save Ellis Island
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50 States
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Geography & Map Reading Room (LOC)
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (PBS)
Bound for Glory: America in Color (LOC)
The Great Depression (LOC)
Hoovervilles- Photograph Collage (LOC)
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives (LOC)
Life During the Great Depression (NPS)
The Great Depression Interviews (WUSL)
The Crash of 1929 (PBS)
Crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929 (LOC)
Looking Back at the Crash of '29 (New York Times)
The Crash of 1929: Highs And Lows (NPR)
Hispanic American History
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National Museum of the American Latino
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Hispanic Americans (LOC)
Latino Americans Documentary (PBS)
Latino Americans Timeline (PBS)
Holocaust
Timeline
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Survivors
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Gordon Walberg- Local WWII Liberator
80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion
A People's History of the Holocaust & Genocide
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
America & the Holocaust (PBS)
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Iditarod
The Official Site of the Iditarod
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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (Anchorage Daily News)
Alaska
Anchorage Daily News
Go Mush!- Race Coverage
Junior Iditarod
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
A Local Legacy (LOC)
Iditarod Trail Shelter Cabins, Seward to Nome, Seward, Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK (LOC)
Mush! Mush! First Woman Wins Iditarod (LOC)
Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater
Women's Work
Freedom: A History of Us- Industrial Revolution (PBS)
Coal Powered a Revolution (LOC)
Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900 (LOC)
Child Labor (LOC)
Newspaper comments on new child labor law in Penn. Location: Pennsylvania. (LOC)
Canneries. Child labor at factories, primarily in the Northeast and Southeast United States (LOC)
National Child Labor Committee Collection (LOC)
Child Labor Primary Source Set (QUTPS)
The Industrial Revolution (History Channel)
Kennedy's Assassination
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records (National Archives)
Walter Cronkite on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (NPR)
Remembering President John F. Kennedy, 50 Years After Assassination (PBS Newshour)
John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
November 22, 1963: Death of the President (JFK Presidential Library & Museum)
President John F. Kennedy Was Shot in Dallas, Texas (LOC)
Library of Congress; Search John F Kennedy
Korean War
Naval History & Heritage, The Korean War
American Experience: The Korean War (PBS)
Harry Truman Library & Museum, Korean War
U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian: Korean War
U.S. Army: The Korean War
Korean War National Museum, Library & Cultural Center
National Museum of the US Air Force
Library of Congress; Search Korean War (Photographs and Veteran Interviews)
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (LOC)
Veterans History Project (LOC)
Korean War Records (National Archives)
Local City & State History
Historical Photo Gallery of Mississippi Valley Area
Blacks in Galesburg (Knox College)
City of Galesburg
African American History & Heritage in Illinois
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
The Illinois
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Dickson Mounds Museum
Native American History
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education
Native American Home Pages
Native American Facts
Inuits, Kwakiut, Navajo and Cheyenne
National Museum of the American Indian
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
The Illinois
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Dickson Mounds Museum
Curtis (Edward S.) Collection (LOC)
Portraits of Individuals and Groups of Native Americans (LOC)
Prints & Photographs, Search Native American (LOC)
Native American Heritage Month (LOC)
Annual Native American Arts Festival A Local Legacy (LOC)
Native American (LOC)
Indians/Native Americans (National Archives)
Native American Cultures (History Channel)
New Deal, The
The New Deal (PBS)
Interactive Periodic Table of the New Deal (FDR Presidential Library & Museum)
The New Deal and World War II (U.S. Embassy)
A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
CCC: A New Deal to Rebuild a Nation (NPS)
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 (LOC)
New Deal Network
Prohibition Era (1820-1933)
Prohibition: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
Timeline
Temperance & Prohibition (OSU)
Prohibition: A Case Study of the Progressive Reform (LOC)
Prohibition and the Rise of the American Gangster (National Archives)
Carrie Nation (PBS)
Eliot Ness (FBI)
Eliot Ness (ATF)
Eliot Ness and Al Capone (Washington Post)
Al Capone (PBS)
Al Capone (FBI)
Al Capone (Chicago Historical Society)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (The Chicago Tribune)
St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Encyclopedia of Chicago)
St. Valentine's Massacre (PBS, History Detectives)
St. Valentine's Massacre (The New York Times)
Hymie Weiss and George "Bugs" Moran (PBS)
George "Bugs" Moran (PBS)
George "Bugs" Moran: Arrested (History Channel)
Lester M. Gills/"Baby Face" Nelson (FBI)
Elizabeth Smith Friedman: Coast Guard Cryptanalyst
William F. Friedman (NSA/CSS)
The Legendary William F. Friedman (NSA)
Peoria and the Shelton Gang
The Deadly Adventures of a Southern Illinois Gangster (Illinois Times)
Mabel Walker Wilebrandt (PBS)
Prohibition Agents (ATF)
Reconstruction
Reconstruction and Rights (LOC)
The Travails of Reconstruction (LOC)
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (LOC)
Civil War Photograph Collection (LOC)
Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints (LOC)
Civil War Sheet Music Collection (LOC)
Reconstruction, Jump Back in Time (LOC)
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath (LOC)
Reconstruction (History Channel)
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS)
Jim Crow Stories: Reconstruction (PBS)
Reconstruction (NPS)
Roaring 20's
Lois Long (Writer, The New Yorker)
Margot Loines Wilkie
Jazz Primary Source Set (QUTPS)
Jazz Age (PBS)
Roaring Twenties (PBS)
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
The Roaring Twenties (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum)
Harlem Renaissance Primary Source Set (QUTPS)
Harlem Renaissance (PBS)
Harlem Renaissance Primary Sources (LOC)
African American Art:
Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
September 11, 2001
9/11 Investigation (FBI)
Witness and Response: September 11 Acqusitions at the Library of Congress
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
September 11, 2001, Documentary Project (LOC)
Remembering September 11th- Timely and Timeless (LOC)
Vietnam War
PBS American Experience, Vietnam Online
PBS Battlefield: Vietnam
NPS Vietnam Wall
NPR ‘Anything That Moves’: Civilians and the Vietnam War
National Archives, Military Records
The National Vietnam War Museum
The Virtual Wall (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
Library of Congress Manuscript
Library of Congress; Search Vietnam War (Photographs and Veteran Interviews)
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (LOC)
Veterans History Project (LOC)
Vietnam War Records (National Archives)
World War I
World War I Records (National Archives)
The Great War (PBS)
A 100-Year Legacy Of World War I (The New York Times)
A Guide to World War I Materials (LOC)
Experiencing War: World War I: The Great War, Veterans History Project (LOC)
Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures (LOC)
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I (LOC)
Posters: World War I Posters (LOC)
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (LOC)
Veterans History Project (LOC)
World War 1, 1920s Prosperity and the Great Depression (U.S. Embassy)
World War II
Science & Technology of World War II
The Digital Collections of The National WWII Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
National WWII Memorial
World War II Memorial (National Park Service)
Primary Source Set, World War II
Primary Source Set, World War II: D-Day
Primary Source Set, World War II: Pearl Harbor
World War II Records (National Archives)
World War II Photos (National Archives)
World War II Manuscript (LOC)
World War II Military Situation maps (LOC)
World War I and World War II Posters (LOC)
The New Deal and World War II (U.S. Embassy)
A People at War (National Archives)
Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II (National Archives)
Women Come to the Front (LOC)
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (LOC)
D-Day: 70th Anniversary (Veterans History Project, LOC)
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives (LOC)