19th Century U.S. History Sites Online

1776 to 1860 (including selected colonial sites)

• Archiving Early America Original newspapers, maps and writings from 18th and early 19th Century America. Includes material on the Colonial Period, the War of Independence, and the presidencies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
• Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783 (description of CD-ROM)
• LVA Colonial Records Project
• History Buff's Reference Library -- 16th to 18th Century History (on newspaper coverage of early American history)
• The American Revolution (a large hypertextual archive of information on the Revolutionary War)
• The Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale: American historical documents)
• Society of Early Americanists (Irvine)
• The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency (Virginia)
• DPLS Archive: Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries (Wisconsin)
• Pennsylvania State History
• Philadelphia:
  • Philadelphia's Historic District
  • Valley Forge Historical Society
  • Betsy Ross Homepage
• Maryland Loyalists and the American Revolution
• The Early America Review
• The French and Indian War (Digital History LTD)
• The French and Indian War (Syracuse)
• Mississippi State's history archives on the colonial period and the Early Republic
• Georgia's Rare Map Collection includes sections for Colonial and Revolutionary America
• Selected Slave Narratives, seventeenth- through nineteenth-century
• Northwest Territory Alliance (Reenactments of the American Revolution)
• Revolution, Independence, and the Constitution, a World Wide Web history study of the Revolutionary War--from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• From Revolution to Reconstruction --the main body of this hypertext comes from An outline of American History (published by the United States Information Agency), but all links to original sources or articles about details have been prepared for this project in HTML by a number of contributors.
• Benjamin Franklin:
  • The World of Benjamin Franklin
  • Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History (J. A. Leo Lemay, Delaware; requires frames)
• George Washington Papers (guide to collection at U. Virginia)
• George Washington Papers: Series 1, Exercise Books, Diaries, and Surveys, 1741-1799 (actual digitized papers, from American Memory Project of Library of Congress)
• Papers of James Madison (Virginia)
• The Best of Ethan Allen (AOL)
• Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son
• Thomas Jefferson:
  • Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government (Virginia)
• Thomas Paine:
  • The Frethought collection of the works of Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Paine National Historical Association
  • Thomas Paine Page (J. Ward Regan and Philip A. Aromando)
• Lewis & Clark pages
• Aaron Burr
• Andrew Jackson
  
• The American Whig Party "
• Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son
• Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" E-text of this highly influential book on the U.S. in the early national period.
• Hector St. John de Crevecouer's, "Letters from an American Farmer" (1782) E-text of this book seen as a defining work on the question what is an American.
• The Multicultural West
• A Sketch of a three years travell in South America, California and Mexico (1848-1851)--the experiences of Eugene Ring (1827-1912) during the California gold rush.
• A commemoration of the Great Irish Potato Famine
• Mary Baker Eddy Site for this important 19th century religious and spiritual leader.
• Stories of the Irish Famine Articles related to the Irish Famine (1845-1850) selected from The Illustrated London News. The articles include links to the accompanying engravings.

Civil War

• The American Civil War Homepage--the American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865).
• The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia--This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It also combines a narrative and an electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based.
• Civil War @ Charleston--A web site devoted to the history and heritage of the Civil War in and around the City of Charleston, South Carolina.
• Abraham Lincoln
• U.S. Grant Network
• Democratic Party Platform, 1860
• Selected Slave Narratives, seventeenth- through nineteenth-century
• Salmon P. Chase
• Letters Home from a Soldier in the U. S. Civil War--These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three year period that he served as Company A's clerk.
• R.W. Burt: Civil War Letters From The 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry--Richard W. Burt was a poet of no mean talent and wrote many war songs. With previous newspaper experience, Burt also served as the regimental correspondent for the Newark True American throughout the war.
• Battle of Chickamauga-- An Alabama infantry regiment's perspective on the battle between Union and Confederate armies in the fall of 1863 (September 19-20). As in most Confederate regiments, the members of the 19th were not plantation owners, rather they were farmers, shopkeepers and common everyday folk.

1865-1900, and Various Cross-era Sites

• Rutherford B. Hayes
• James A. Garfield
• Grover Cleveland
• Benjamin Harrison
• William McKinley: The Presidency
• "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Site from the Library of Congress "American Memory Project" consisting of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts.
• A Shared Past: Texas and the United States since Reconstruction, by William C. Hardt. Presents source material and places Texas in a context that is broader than the boundaries of the state
• Ellis Island Historical Site Images and texts about the main East coast immigration entry point from 1892 till 1954.
• How the Other Half Lives--The hypertext edition of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York  reproduces the full text and all the illustrations from the original print edition of this book, first published in 1890 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
• On the Lower East Side--a collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides concerning life in Lower Manhattan at the turn of the century. From Saint Mary's College of Minnesota.
• Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935--scholarship and primary texts concerning the roots of American non-intervention movements.
• Welcome to Sentenaryo/ Centennial--Philippine Revolution and Philippine American War Links.
• 1893 Chicago World's Fair
• The Victorian Society in America
• A Righteous Cause - information on William Jennings Bryan and a documentary currently in production.
• American Protest Over the Sinking of the Lusitania - by William Jennings Bryan.
• Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, 1896 - given at the Democratic National Convention of 1896.
• Golier Online: William Jennings Bryan - chronicling the life of the three-time Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state.
• Imperialism, by William Jennings Bryan - speech delivered by Mr. Bryan in response to the Committee appointed to notify him of his nomination to the presidency, at Indianapolis, August 8, 1900.
• William Jennings Bryan - biographical information.
• William Jennings Bryan & Scopes Trial Info - covering the full range of Bryan's life from his political career to his part in the famous trial over the teaching of evolution.
• William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) - brief background on the political leader.
• William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925 - concerning the famous lawyer and politician's career, from UMKC School of Law.
• William Jennings Bryan: The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism - speech given by Bryan at the Democratic National Convention held in Kansas City, MO, in 1900
• Emma Goldman Papers Excellent site from University of California, Berkeley on one of the turn of the century's most influential radical activists.
• David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (1959/1995)
Online text of Levin's classic study of major 19th century U.S. historians.

Women's Rights Movement & Women in 19th Century History

• 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement
  extensive chronology, resources, inspiration! From 1848 - 1998.
• Declaration of Sentiments
  In 1848, the world's first Women's Rights Convention met in Seneca Falls, New York. Read the document they issued, and the names of the people who daringly signed it.
• National American Woman Suffrage Association
  1848-1921. Related holdings of the Library of Congress.
• Susan B. Anthony University Center
  provides information related to upstate New York, birth of the American women's rights movement. Resources, sites, events, and historic background information.
• Timeline of Women's Suffrage
  a detailed timeline of the women's suffrage movement. American Women's 72-year fight to win the vote
• Berkeley Bancroft "Suffragists Oral History Project" Access interviews and other materials.
• "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
  38 pictures from the Library of Congress, including portraits, parades, picketers, cartoons, and an anti-suffrage display.
• Women's Heritage
  Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention, 1848, in Seneca Falls, NY. The convention's history, Native American influences on the movement, heritage trail of related sites, teacher resources, timeline, and more.
• Women's Rights National Historic Park
  photos, graphic images and primary documents relating to the first Women's Rights Convention (1848); historic sites related to the movement and biographies of its leaders.
• Worcester Women's History Project
  the first national convention called to discuss women's rights was held in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850. Read proceedings of the convention, newspaper accounts, and participants' critique of the meeting.  Also participants' ensuing discussion of women's rights plus various and changing biographies of activists.  
• American Suffragist
  extensive timeline of suffrage movement events, Sojourner Truth's famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech, and the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
• Lesbian History Project
  links to archives and oral history collections featuring lesbian history
• Godey's Lady's Book Online
  several complete issues of one of the 19th century's most popular women's magazines. fashion illustrations galore, plus poetry, engravings, articles.
  URL: http://www.history.rochster.edu/godeys
• Women in America, 1820-1842
  the accounts of 18 foreign travelers describe the conditions of women's lives in the United States, accessed chronologically or topically for comparisons

African-American Women

• African-American Women
  scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of the writings of several African-American women detail the slave experience in at the personal level.
  URL: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
• African American Women: Our Story
  provides biographies, articles and links regarding historically and culturally important African-American women.
  
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
  information about Bethune and the extensive archives collection.
• Sojourner Truth
  abolitionist, women's rights activist. Biography, life chronology, bibliography, photographs.
• Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
  biography and photos of the self-made millionaire, philanthropist, and social activist.

• Native American History links Excellent site maintained by Karen Strom.
• Native American History Archives
• Fourth World Documentation Project
• First Nations Histories
• History of Tecumseh & Tippacanoe
• Ojibwe Language and Culture Page
• Oklahoma Native Americans
• Native Americans of North Georgia
• Geronimo: His Own Story
• The Cherokee National Historical Society
• Guide to the Great Sioux Nation
• Lakota page
• California Indian Library Collections
• Northwest Coast History
• 1868 Black Hills Treaty with the Sioux
• Oneida Indian Nation
• Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
• Native American E-Texts
• Native American Documents Project: Allotment Data & Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation Documents
• Children of the Sun A History of the Spokane Indians by David C. Wynecoop
• Spokane Tribal History
• Timeline for the Spokane Tribe From the Wellpinit School District
• An Uncelebrated Anniversary, the Marias Massacre in Montana