American Studies 300

Websites of Interest

(Note: please let me know of other sites you recommend that I include here!)

History Matters (serves as a gateway to hundreds of valuable sites related to American history)

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

Best History Sites on the Web (I recommend checking out sites on Western Expansion, the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, & 1920s)

http://www.besthistorysites.net/

The Great Migration (In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience)

http://www.inmotionaame.org/index.cfm?bhcp=1

Automobile and American Life

www.autolife.umd.umich.edu

Popular Literature (dime novels) of 19^th century

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html

Tenement Museum

http://www.tenement.org/

Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 19^th c.

http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/dear_friends/

Harvard Archives on Women Working

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/

Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movements

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

Historical Maps

http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/index.html

Red Hot Jazz Archives

http://redhotjazz.com/

Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign Born in the United States

http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/twps0029.html

Emma Goldman

http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/goldman/

Catholic Church and American Culture at the turn of the century

http://libraries.cua.edu/Archives/NewCent/begin.htm

City Sites: New York and Chicago: 1870s-1930s

http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/

Coney Island

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/

Ellis Island

http://www.ellisisland.com/

Alaska’s Gold Rush

http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/

Advertising in America, 1850-1920

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/index.html

Peopling North America: Population Movements and Migration

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/Fhome.html