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- The Age of Imperialism
- American and British History Resources on the Internet
- American History
From About.com.
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
Contains more than 17,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history.
- The Avalon Project : Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
General Charters, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Masachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia.
- Early American History
An archive of rare documents about America's earliest inhabitants, and the 'discovery' and 'settlement' of America through the end of the 19th century.
- eBay Listings : County History
Online auction service for buying & selling.
- ePodunk
Profiles (including county affiliation) of more than 25,000 towns, villages and cities across the country. The site includes historic sites, historic districts, museums, parks, school districts and vintage post cards.
- Dust-Bowl-Roots-L Home Page
Website for the Dust-Bowl-Roots-L mailing list, which covers the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and 40s.
- GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Documents 1789-1980
Find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including all of the American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 133,000 reports, lists and documents. New content added monthly.
- History Buff's Home Page
Created by the Newspaper Collectors Society of America.
- The History Channel
- HistorySeek! History Search Engine and Historical Information
HistorySeek! is a directory search engine specifically made for historians, genealogists, scholars and history enthusiasts.
- HyperHistory Online
- Index of Resources for Historians
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational purposes.
- Internet Resources for Historians
- Making of America
Scanned images in this collection which contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- The National Park Service - Links to the Past
- National Register of Historic Places
From the National Parks Service.
- National Register of Historic Places
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- New Deal Network
Educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps of the United States
From The University of Texas at Austin.
- Picture History
Images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history.
- Spain In America
Historical texts and illustrations from the First Spanish period in North America.
- Surviving the Dust Bowl
Companion web site to the PBS television program.
- The Time Page - An Examination of Cycles in U.S. History
- ushistory.org
A set of web sites created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia.
- U.S. History Research Guide
- US State History Timelines
Provides a chronological timeline of important events and dates in the history of each of the fifty U.S. State.
- The Value of Historical Reading
Article by Henry B. Hoff, C.G., F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S. Originally published in The NYG&B Newsletter, Fall 1994.
- WebChron: The Web Chronology Project - The United States of America
- Web Resources in Early American History
- Where was the Actual Boston Tea Party Site?
- Yahoo!...History
- Yahoo!...History: US History
-
 CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List
For anyone who is interested in early California miners and settlers, especially in northern California, 1848-1880. Archives: browse or search.
- Early California Population Project
Provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers, records that are of unique and vital importance to the study of California, the American Southwest, and colonial America. From the Huntington Library.
- Search the Database
Online searchable database of baptism, marriage, and burial records of each of the California missions from 1769-1850. An extraordinary wealth of unique information on the Indians, soldiers, & settlers of Alta California.
- User Guide
- The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
- Fort Robinson Museum ~ Crawford, Nebraska
- The Frontier in American Culture
From the The University of Washington Libraries.
- Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America
A book by Edwin Tunis.
- The Hudson's Bay Company Archives
From the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Canada.
- Milestone Historic Documents - The Northwest Ordinance
An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio. As it appears in the Supplement to the First Volume of the Columbian Magazine, Philadelphia, 1787. Explains the Northwest Ordinance and its significance, full text online and scanned copy of original document.
- Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
Sources of the History of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West.
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- The Old Army in Texas: A Research Guide to the U.S. Army in Nineteenth-Century Texas
A book by Thomas T. Smith.
- Orphan Trains
See this section on the "Orphans" category on Cyndi's List.
- Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier
A book by Linda Peavy.
- Pony Express Home Station
- Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters
Digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains.
- Sod Walls
A book by Roger Welcsh.
- Valdez Gold Rush Centennial
- Websteader: Pioneer Dugouts, 1830-1999
Pictures and descriptions of how dugouts are constructed.
- Websteader: Pioneer Sod Houses, c. 1880-1999
Pictures and descriptions of how sod houses are constructed.
- Historic Congressional Cemetery ~ Washington, D.C.
- Historic Valley Forge
- History of the Erie Canal
- Liberty Hall Historic Site
- Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
- Mount Vernon
The home of our first president, George Washington.
- National Historic Landmarks Program
- The National Park Service
- National Register of Historic Places
- Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial
The last home and burial place of Patrick HENRY. Tells all about his life, the home, buildings [7] and the Patrick HENRY Foundation.
- STATE-HISTORICAL-MARKERS Mailing List
Devoted to the transcription of State Historical Highway markers and their relevance to the genealogical research community. Archives: browse or search.
- Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island
- U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
An independent agency of the Government of the United States of America established by U.S. Public Law 99-83. The law directs the Commission to-- (1) identify and report on cemeteries, monuments, and historic buildings in Eastern and Central Europe that are associated with the heritage of U.S. citizens, particularly endangered properties, and (2) obtain, in cooperation with the Department of State, assurances from the governments of the region that the properties will be protected and preserved.
- Virtual Jamestown ~ Virginia
Transcribed records from the first permanent English settlement in the New World. From the Virginia Center for Digital History.
- White House Historical Association
- American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
From the Library of Congress.
- Archiving Early America - Historic Documents from 18th Century America
- Bancroft Library ~ Berkeley, California
University of California at Berkeley.
- Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad
Photographs, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history of the first transcontinental railroad.
- Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History ~ Cambridge, Massachusetts
- David Library of the American Revolution ~ Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
- The Historical Text Archive (HTA)
The HTA publishes articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.
- Huntington Library ~ San Marino, California
- The Indian and Colonial Research Center, Inc. ~ Connecticut
Non-profit resource center dedicated to the study of Native American and Colonial American history and genealogy.
- Lest We Forget
Documents with focus on the history and culture of African-Americans.
- Library Guide to U.S. History Resources
University of Tennessee Libraries.
- Life History Manuscripts From the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project 1936
- McNeil Center for Early American Studies ~ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The National Portrait Gallery
From the Smithsonian, includes an online exhibition of the Portraits of the Presidents.
- Presidential Libraries
From the National Archives and Records Administration.
- The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center ~ Fremont, Ohio
- Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum ~ Waco, Texas
- Virginia Colonial Records Project
Online searchable index to nearly 15,000 reports that survey and describe documents relating to colonial Virginia history that are housed in repositories in Great Britain and other European countries. The survey report images are available online, and there are references to microfilm reels for the original documents.
- Yahoo!...Presidential Libraries
Mailing lists are interactive e-mail forums that are free for you to subscribe to and participate in. Click on the links below and be sure to follow the instructions provided exactly as shown in order to subscribe to the mailing list of your choice. Be sure to keep a copy of the welcome message that you receive. This message will contain details about the mailing list, the person who runs the list and instructions you will need in order to participate in the list, unsubscribe from the list, etc.
Adoptions, biographies, ethnic groups, famous people, immigrants, some family groups, etc.
- 17th c. Colonial New England, with Special Emphasis on the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692
- African-American Pioneers
- Ancestry of Lizzie BORDEN
- The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands / De Atlantische wereld: Amerika en Nederland
Explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World-War-II period.
- The BOONE Family
- Circuit Rider / Pioneer Professionals Database
A database of traveling pioneer ancestors, including: circuit riders (any clergy), physicians and midwives; teachers; public servants and industrialists.
- Cyndi's List - U.S. History - Lewis & Clark
See this category for more links.
- Daniel Boone, The Extraordinary Life of A Common Man
- The DONNER Party
- The DONNER Party
- The DONNER Party by Daniel Lewis
- GERMAN-AMERICAN Mailing List
For anyone interested in genealogy related to German immigrants and their families AFTER their arrival in America. Archives: browse or search.
- Maryland Catholics on the Frontier
Maryland Catholics who migrated westward.
- METISGEN Mailing List
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the Metis and their descendants. The Metis are North America's Fur Trading Children - the new nation of individuals born within North America from the first unions of natives and whites. Archives: browse or search.
- New Light on the Donner Party
Roster pages contain biographical and genealogical information about members of the Donner Party, including: DONNER, REED, MURPHY, GRAVES, BREEN, EDDY, MCCUTCHEN, WOLFINGER, FOSTER, KESEBERG.
- Notable Women Ancestors
- Palatine Emigrants by Kraig Ruckel
- Palatines to America ~ Columbus, Ohio
Dedicated to the study of ancestors from all German-speaking lands, not just the Palatinate.
- Pocahontas Descendants
Descendants of Powhatan (Father of Pocahontas).
- Quilt History Books from Halstead & Meadows Publishing
The quilt history books are intimate portraits of nineteenth-century women and their related families. Family names include SPAULDING, REED, WRIGHT, LEE, EVANS, BLOWERS, TOLFORD, BILLS, CROSBY, WISWELL, CORD, HARRIS, MITCHELL, ROSEBERRY, STALLCUP, SWAN, HUGHES, BIGGS, NICHOLS, GOLDEN, HOWARD, MATHER, PRICE, ROHMAN, and AUGSPURGER, to name only a few.
- Researching the Genealogy of Almanzo and Laura INGALLS WILDER
- RiverRats Mailing List
For discussions of the Mississippi River "people" living on, working on, and involved in life on the "river." Any family living in any county bordering the Mississippi River, or living "on" the river, is welcome. Archives: browse or search.
- ROOTS-L Resources: Historical Groups
Links to several articles and sites regarding various groups, such as the Lewis & Clark expedition and many more.
- Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials
- SALEM-WITCH Mailing List
A genealogy and history mailing list for descendants of the people involved in the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 -- the accusers and the accused, the afflicted and the executed, as well as the magistrates, clergy, jurors, and anyone affected by the proceedings. Archives: browse or search.
- Salem Witch Trials Chronology
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
Includes transcribed and scanned court records, maps, and more.
- Trade Goods - Midwestern Genealogy / History Prior to 1840
Biographies and histories of traders, merchants, chiefs, officers, voyagers related to the mid-North American fur trade era prior to the 1840s.
- Yahoo!...History: Exploration: Cook, James (1728-1779)
Dozens of links about this famous explorer.
- Abraham Lincoln and His Ancestors
A book by Ida M. Tarbell, Kenneth J. Winkle.
- A. Lincoln Presidential Library
- American Presidential Families
A book by Hugh Brogan, Charles Mosley, David Prebenna.
- American Presidents: Life Portraits
C-Span site for their series on all of the American Presidents.
-
 Ancestry of Abraham LINCOLN
- Ancestry of Dolley MADISON
- Ancestry of George WASHINGTON
- Ancestry of John Quincy ADAMS
- Ancestry of Thomas JEFFERSON
- Ancestors of American Presidents: First Definitive
A book by Gary B Roberts.
- Best Bets for Presidential Research
- Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators
Historical essays about Pennsylvania legislators during the colonial, Revolutionary War, and early national periods.
- Charles Curtis - Vice-President of the United States (1929-1933)
History of his career and a genealogy listing of his family.
- Colonial Hall: Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
- Congressional Biographical Directory
Biographical directory of the United States Congress 1774 to present.
- Dead Presidents
- EISENHAUER/EISENHOWER Family History
- FIRST-LADIES Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the wives of the Presidents of the United States including discussions of family stories and records. Archives: browse or search.
- Genealogy Chart of George Washington - 1753
Scanned image of a hand-written chart from George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress.
- Genealogy of the DAVIS Family
Jefferson Davis, President of C.S.A.
- Gen. James Robertson of TN: History & Genealogy
Gen. James Randolph Robertson is a significant historical personality. Andrew Jackson called him the "Father of Tennessee" for leading the perilous settlement, far beyond the then frontier, into the middle TN area.
- George Washington's reply to Issac Heard regarding Washington's Genealogy - 1792
Scanned images from the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress. Follow the Transcription link to read a transcription. Washington regrets "This is a subject to which I confess I have paid very little attention." and "We have no Office of Record in this Country in which exact genealogical documents are preserved;".
- Governor John WEBSTER of Hartford, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts
- History Buff's Presidential Library
- Jefferson Fathered Slave's Last Child
Article from the magazine "Nature," complete with family tree chart.
- JEFFERSON-HEMINGS Mailing List
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Archives: browse or search.
- The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal
A book by Virginius Dabney.
- The Legacy of West FORD - American Son
The African American son of George Washington.
- Letter from Isaac Heard, College of Arms, London to George Washington - 1791 and second page
Contains genealogical information on Washington's family. Scanned images from the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress.
- Master Index to Presidents' Genealogical Data
- National First Ladies Library
- The National Society of the WASHINGTON Family Descendants
Members are descendants of any of the ancestors of George Washington who lived in Colonial America between 1607 and 1732.
- OK-POLITICAL-HISTORY Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Oklahoma politicians including those in pre-statehood Territorial governments, post-statehood State government, and local governments during both of these periods. Archives: browse or search.
- The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
- The Papers of George Washington
- The Political Graveyard
"The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried".
- Presidential Ancestral Charts
For Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Pierce, Lincoln, Harrison, Bush.
- Presidential Candidates' Ancestry Homepage
Ancestry of Bill BRADLEY, Pat BUCHANAN, George W. BUSH, Elizabeth DOLE, Steve FORBES, John MCCAIN and Dan QUAYLE.
- The Presidential Families : From George Washington to Ronald Reagan
A book by E.H. Gwynne-Thomas.
- Presidential Hopefuls Share Blue Bloodlines
Article in the South Coast Today by Edith M. Lederer, principally on the subject of the illustrious medieval ancestors of Bill Clinton, as expounded by the American genealogist at Burke's Peerage, Harold Brooks-Baker.
- Presidential Libraries Locations and Hours
From the National Archives and Records Administration.
- Presidential Useless Facts
- A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson
A book by Byron W. Woodson, Sr.
- The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace
- Ronald Reagan & the Isle of Destiny
A book by Matthew J. Culligan. For sale from Genealogical.com
- Sally Hemings
A book by Barbara Chase-Riboud.
- Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture
A book by Jan Lewis.
- Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson
A book by Samuel H. Sloan.
- The Taft Summer White House
The Beverly, Massachusetts home of President Taft's summer capital and two "Summer White Houses" from 1909-12. Includes photos, newpaper clips, polictical cartoons, history and genealogical links to other TAFT related sites.
- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
A book by Annette Gordon-Reed .
- Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
Links to most sites concerning Thomas Jefferson research. Links to the Scholars Commission Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter. Links to web pages that give full details of the controversal Jefferson-Hemings DNA Study. Book review of the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society book, The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty. Links to web pages regarding the Monticello Association and their overwhelming vote to disallow Hemings family members into their organization. Just about anything Jefferson begins here. Read of the misrepresentations by some evaluators, both in foundations, the media, academia, individuals and families. Links found here will even take you to early Jefferson/Jeaffreson research in England and describes the treck of the name through the West Indies into Virginia (presidential branch)and Maryland.
- TX-EARLY-LEADERS Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in early political officers, both appointed and elected, in Texas. Archives: browse or search.
- Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
The Internet's largest website on General U.S. Grant.
- USA-PRESIDENTS Mailing List
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the genealogy of U.S. Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and their wives. Archives: browse or search.
- U.S. Presidents Genealogies
- Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
A book by Brian Lamb.
- The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799
Online transcription of 39 volumes edited by John C. Fitzpatrick (1931-44).
- Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.
- Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - U.S. History
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
- eBay Listings : County History
Online auction service for buying & selling.
- History Magazine
From the publishers of Family Chronicle Magazine.
See also: Cyndi's List - Military Resources Worldwide
See also: Cyndi's List - Military - World War II
See also: Cyndi's List - U.S. - Civil War ~ War for Southern Independence
See also: Cyndi's List - U.S. - Military
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