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Underground Railroad ~ U.S. History ~ U.S. Politics

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Underground Railroad 38 links

The Underground Railroad Project - Vermont was very active in the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. Today's scholars are discovering new materials on the Underground Railroad and the Vermont Historical Society is bringing their work to teachers

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Center in Ohio celebrates the legacy of the Underground railroad. Learn about its educational programs, find research aids and read histories
National Geographic - Underground Railroad - Take a journey as a slave escaping to freedom in the underground railroad. Includes a timeline of events and a collection of resources
Menare Foundation  - Foundation's mission is to document, restore and preserve Underground Railroad safe houses. Find histories and research materials
 Underground Railroad - National Parks Service - Access educational programs offered by the NPS on the efforts to deliver slaves from bondage in the US. Link to historic places and texts
 History And Geography Of The Underground Railroad - Abolitionist resource includes a detailed overview of the workings of the Underground Railroad system
 Detroit Free Press - The Underground Railroad - Newspaper's Black History Month special features includes a section that describes how the Railroad operated
Spartacus - Underground Railroad - Educational resource features an overview of the system created to help African-Americans' escape slavery. Find links to biographies
 Underground Railroad Workshop - Workshop is devoted to the history of the Underground Railroad in New York State. Find biographies, documents and local research contacts
 Levi Coffin House - Indiana's Underground Railroad - Dubbed the "Grand Central Station" of the underground railroad, the Coffin house sheltered 2,000 slaves during the years prior to the Civil War
 Buxton National Historic Site - Buxton Settlement was, for many African-Americans, the last stop on the Underground Railroad. Learn about Buxton's history and people
 Tubman, Harriet - by Russell Smith - Learn about the escaped slave who led others to freedom via the underground railroad. Provides biographical information
Women of North Buxton - Read about the courageous women who escaped slavery in the US and settled at Buxton, Ontario, one of the Underground Railroad's busiest terminals
 Iowa Underground Railroad Operators - Search a list of names by county of underground railroad operators during the Civil War. Includes links to other states
Underground Railroad Operators - County-by-county listing of Ohio residents who facilitated slaves' escape to freedom. With designations for African American operators
Maine Underground Railroad Operators - County-organized list contains the names of Maine residents that were Underground Railroad operators in antebellum America
Oberlin: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Resource devoted to Oberlin College's history presents a general history of the fugitive slave network and offers links to information resources.
LookSmart Fast Facts - Underground Railroad - Review an encyclopedia entry which discusses the accomplishments of the secret system. Also find links to related biographies and topics
Albany and Capital District Underground Railroad - Read about the Underground Railroad's history in the Albany area of New York State. Find biographies of its leaders and related links
AITLC Guide to the Underground Railroad  - Educational guide presents a large collection of research links on the Underground RR generally and Indiana's connection specifically
American Visions - There's a Movement Afoot - Historian Beverly Gray traces the path of the Underground Railroad through Ohio. This piece, provided by FindArticles, describes her research
Sandusky Erie County Visitors  - Offers an area guide to Buckeye North, which includes Lake Erie. Contains details on the underground railroad and seasonal activities
Fort Erie - Ontario  - Read about the location of Crystal Beach Amusement Park and the historic events surrounding the Underground Railroad there
Tubman, Harriet  - Read a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, a former slave who initiated the underground railroad to help other slaves to freedom
Walking Tours of Georgetown  - Take a walking tour through the history of the US capital. Tour includes N Street, famous mansions, and Underground Railroad sites
Castellani Art Museum  - Museum at Niagara University displays the Underground Railroad project and past and present exhibitions. Discusses education and folk art
Milton House Museum  - Former home and stop on the Underground Railroad is now a national historic landmark. Read an historic summary, and get visitor details
Brown, John - Underground Railroad Site  - Offers a brief profile of the abolitionist and offers a reprint of his speech at his treason trial. Also find a photograph and a reference list
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue  - Resource presents a brief overview of the Oberlin stop on the Underground Railroad and relates it to Virginia Hamilton's "House of Dies Drear."
Underground Railroad Reference List  - University of Maryland offers a large annotated bibliography devoted to researching the Underground Railroad. Find books and newspaper sources.
IndigoBlu - Underground Railroad - Black Internet resource features a section devoted to the Underground Railroad. Find annotated links to resources
Christine's Black History Pages - Underground Railroad - Black history Internet guide provides a section devoted to the Underground Railroad. Explore the reviewed links to resources
American Visions - State-to-State Survey - Ann E. Eskridge describes efforts in different states to recognize sites along the Underground Railroad in this Feb. 1999 article
Tubman, Harriet - Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad - Features a short biography of the Maryland-born abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad. Furnishes access to related study resources
Rochester New York's Underground Railroad History - Chronicles the history of Rochester's role, support, and participation in the underground railroad
IllinoisHistory.com - Reverse Underground Railroad - Includes articles that describe how kidnappers in southeastern Illinois captured free blacks and runaway slaves to sell them into slavery
 African American Journey - Underground Railroad - World Book educational resource features a profile of the Underground Railroad. Also find biographies of conductors and links to related topics
Whitman, Walt - Underground Railroad - Provides this profile of the poet and the text of one of his poems
U.S. History 281 links

 

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U.S. History - The Congress  
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions  
U.S. Military History  

 

[United States] Historical Documents (THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet)
A Biography of America - a video series that presents American history as a living narrative
A Chronology of US Historical Documents (Univ. of Oklahoma Law Center)
U.S. History Page academicinfo.net
American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers University)
American Family Immigration History Center - Explore Your Family History at Ellis Island
American Indian History and Related Issues  - This web site is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American
American Journey Online (Primary Source Media) [subscription required]
American Memory - Learning Page - The Learning Page is a web site designed to help teachers, students, and life-long learners use the American Memory digital collections from the Library of Congress
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
American Studies - The University of Virginia
American Studies Electronic Crossroads - A comprehensive, integrated, information platform on the World Wide Web
America's Story from America's Library (Library of Congress)
An Abridged History of the United States - A hypertext book
AP U.S. History - From College board.org
Association of Historians of American Art
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
European Immigration: 1829-1920 - Includes statistics, biographies, laws, history and more on European immigrant to the United States. The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
Eyes of Glory - 200 Years of an Ethnic American Family
Famous American Trials (Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)
Frontiers in History - Resources National Archives and Records Administration for National History Day Projects, 2001
H-GIG/Hours History Links (Univ. of Calif., Riverside)
Hispanic & Latino History - Sections include: Historical Topics ; Chronological History (1492-1945) ; Reference Material ; Documents
Historical Text Archive (D. Mabry)
History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
History Matters - The U.S. Survey on the Web
History of Education (Univ. of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale Group)
HN Source--Central Information Server for Historians
H-Net WWW Web History Pages Directory
Hypertexts @ the University of Virginia
Links to U.S. History Related Sites
Making History on the Web: Creating On-Line Materials for Teaching (Univ. of Virginia)
Making of America (U. of Michigan)
Making of America Project (Cornell Digital Library)
Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age
Multicultural Resources - A quick-reference library for African, Native and Hawaiian America
National Museum of American History - Smithsonian Institute
National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
New York Public - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
Peopling North America: - Population Movements & Migration
Pluralism and Unity (Michigan State University and H-Net
Presidential Elections: 1860-1996 - US Presidential Election Maps
Presidents of the United States - The purpose of this site is to provide researchers, students, teachers, politicians, journalists, and citizens a complete resource guide to the US Presidents
Presidents of the United States - you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd facts on each of the presidents
Speech Archives (The History Channel)
The American Presidency - Selected Resources: An Informal Reference Guide
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
The Capitol Project - an infinitely extensible exploration of the National Capitol as an American icon
The Historical New York Times Project
The Hitchhiker's Guide to American History (Univ. of Wisconsin)
The Making of America (University of Michigan)
TimePage History Links - A very well organized collection of general American history links, mostly arranged by historic 'cycles'
U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index - This web page is an index of resources available to historians of U.S. foreign policy on the World Wide Web
U.S. Historical Documents Archive
U.S. History Out Loud (Oyez, Oyez, Oyez at Northwestern Univ.)
United States History - A very extensive listing of resources, Tennessee Technological University History Department
USA 1840-1960: Journalists - Biographies of over 50 journalists. Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
Virginia Center for Digital History (University of Virginia)
Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)

United States History - Major Documents

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy  - provides American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society
Constitution Day, September 17, 1787  - The National Archives and Records Administration celebrates this important day in our nation's history by presenting the following activities, lesson plans, and information
The Annotated Constitution (GPO/Congressional Record Service) - Prepared by the Congressional Research Service - Library of Congress
Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
American History: The Alien and Sedition Acts
Making of America Project (Cornell Digital Library)
Making of America (U. of Michigan)
Making of America (U. of Michigan)
Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
Writing Black (literature and history written by and about African Americans)
(Keele University, United Kingdom)
Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)

U.S. Presidents

"I Do Solemnly Swear...":Presidential Inaugurations (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Academic American Encyclopedia articles on The American Presidency (Grolier Online)
American Presidents: Life Portraits (C-Span)
APSA Net: The American Political Science Association On-line
Archive of Presidential Speeches (The American Presidency)
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Conferences on the American Presidency (Hofstra University)
C-Span Survey of Presidential Leadership (American Presidents: Life Portraits)
Dead Presidents (includes pictures of presidential burial sites)
Eyewitness Records (Pacific Multimedia Corp.)
First Ladies (Presidential Libraries IDEA Network)
First Gov: Your First Click to the U.S. Government
Government Guide: Government Services Made Easy
Guide to Political Research (Center for the Study of the Presidency)
Hall of Presidents (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby Library)
National First Ladies Library (Canton, Ohio)
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
POTUS: Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library)
President site (Sun site)
Presidential Elections and the Electoral College (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Presidential Elections from 1860-1884 (Harp Week)
Presidential Elections: 1860-1996
(Geographic Information Center, University of Virginia Library)
Presidential Preview (American Memory, Lib. of Congress)
Scandals Throughout Presidential History (Washington Post)
State of the Union Archive (Since 1934) (Northwestern University)
The American Presidency (Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Interactive)
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden (National Museum of American History)
The American Presidency: Selected Resources (R. Matlick)
The American President (PBS)
The First Ladies of the United States (Official White House site)
The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000 (American Museum of the Moving Image)
The Presidents (The American Experience, PBS)
The Presidents of the United States
The White House (National Park Service)
The White House Historical Association
U.S. Capitol Historical Society (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. Presidents (Inaugural, State of the Union, and Farewell Addresses since 1789)
Vice Presidents. COM
White House History and Tours
(Information about White House, Presidents, and First Ladies)
White House Offices and Agencies (Official site)

U.S. History - The Congress

In Congress Assembled: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
Congressional Guide (New York Times)
Dirksen Congressional Center
Congress Link (Dirksen Congressional Center)
U.S. Senate (official site)
Explore the Senate's Past (Senate Historical Office)
U.S. Senate Historical Office
The United States Senate: An Institutional Bibliography (U.S. Senate Historical Office)
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
U.S. Capitol Historical Society
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (Library of Congress)
Historical Information (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)
Biographical Directory of United States Congress, 1774-Present (official site)
Congressional Archives (Carl Albert Center, U. of Oklahoma)
National Electoral Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior (U. of Michigan)
U.S. Election Campaign Information
Voter Information Services
Election Data Services, Inc.
LIFE at the Conventions, 1948-1996 (LIFE Magazine)
Women in Politics (Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

United States Supreme Court Decisions

Constitution Day, September 17, 1787 (National Archives and Records Administration)
The Annotated Constitution (GPO/Congressional Record Service)
The National Constitution Center (U.S. Constitution information)
Supreme Court of the United States (official site)
The Supreme Court Historical Society
Supreme Court Guide (New York Times)
Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
Historic File of Supreme Court Decisions [1937-1975] (Fed World/FLITE)
U.S. Supreme Court Opinions [since 1937] (Find Law)
Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court [May 1990-present]
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
United States Supreme Court (Project Vote Smart)
U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments (U.S. Law Week)
Oyez Oyez Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW Resource (Northwestern Univ.)
Oyez Oyez Oyez: A U.S. Supreme Court Database (Northwestern University)
Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research (Georgia State Univ. College of Law)
USSC+ (Info Synthesis, Inc.)
U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments (U.S. Law Week)
The Federal Judiciary Homepage (Official site)
History of the Federal Judiciary (Federal Judicial Center)
Hiros Gamos: Law and Government
Famous Trials (D. Linder, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)

U.S. Military History

Military. COM
U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List
Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
War Letters (American Experience, PBS)
U.S. Naval Historical Center (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island)
U.S. Naval Institute (Annapolis, Maryland)
U.S. Army Center of Military History (Washington, D.C.)
United States Military Academy (West Point, New York)
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
U.S. Army War College and Military History Institute (Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania)
Military History
Staff Rides and Events (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York)

U.S. National Defense and Security Sites

National Security Study Group (The Hart-Rudman Commission)
U.S. Department of State (Official site)
Top of the News (Official site for U.S. State Department current policy)
Recruitment for U.S. State Department
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (includes text of many treaties)
Defense LINK (U.S. Department of Defense Official site)
The Pentagon Book Store
Center for Defense Information
National Security Council (Official site)
The Intelligence Community (Official site)
The Central Intelligence Agency (Official site)
National Reconnaissance Office (Official Site)
Patterns of Global Terrorism (Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
Strategic Intelligence Links (Loyola College)
United States Navy History: A Bibliography (Naval Historical Center)
U.S. Coast Guard (Official site)
U.S. Coast Guard Historical Bibliography (U.S. Coard Guard Official site)
DoD Celebrates African American History Month (U.S. Department of Defense)

U.S. Social History

50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
(Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
A History of American Agriculture, 1776-1990
(Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
African-American History and Studies
African-Americans the the U.S. Navy (Navy Historical Center)
American Folk
American Italian Historical Association
American Jewish Historical Society (Waltham, MA)
American Religious Experience Project (West Virginia University)
American Social History Project (City University of New York)
American Women's History: A Research Guide (Midddle Tennessee State University)
Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (K.L. Callahan)
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Asian American Resources (M.I.T.)
Asian American Studies Center (UCLA)
Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
Center for Hawaiian Studies (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)
Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) (SUNY, Albany)
Center for the American Woman and Politics (Rutgers University)
Center for Working-Class Studies (Youngstown State University)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Connect for Kids: Guidance for Grown-Ups
Course Syllabi Resource Bank (Institute on Race and Ethnicity, Univ. of Wisconsin--Milwaukee)
Disability History Project
Diversity (D. Boals)
El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY)
Ellis Island Museum (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
Explore Your Family History at Ellis Island (records of immigrants arriving in 1892-1924 period)
Eyeneer Music Archives
FEEFHS: Web Site for Central and East European Genealogy
FestivalFinder (Music Festivals of North America)
From Melting Pot to Mosaic: The Changing Role of Immigration in American Life (Salzburg Seminar, American Studies Center, Austria)
Gender History and Studies
Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
History and Media Institute (University of Albany, SUNY)
History Page (Social Security Administration)
History, Geneaology and Education (U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service)
Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide to Published Sources (Library of Congress)
Immigration (Ethic-America-On-Line)
Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
Industrial Relations Libraries, Urban and Labor Archive Links (Walter P. Reuther Library)
Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850 (U. of Virginia)
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (Hebrew Union College)
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
Journal of Southern Religion
L. Gordon, "Share-Holders in Relief: The Political Culture of the Public Sector"
(Russell Sage Foundation)
Labor History Bibliography (T.G. Borden, OAH Magazine of History)
LatinoWeb
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Making Faces, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist homepage
McGuinn's Folk Den (R. McGuinn)
Money Income in the United States: 1998 (U.S. Census Bureau)
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
National Council of La Raza: Making a Difference for Hispanic Americans
National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
Native American History and Studies
Native Ground Music
Occupational Employment Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
PBS History (Public Broadcasting Service)
Pluralism and Unity (Michigan State University and H-Net
Port of Entry: Immigration Teaching Material (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Poverty in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
Progress of Nations 1997 (UNICEF)
Radical History and Politics
Reference Sources in U.S. Labor Studies (Bobst Library, New York Univeristy)
Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)
Social Change site (E. Shackman)
Social Welfare History Archives (University of Minnesota)
Southern Labor Archives (Georiga State University)
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Tour (American Memory, Library of Congress)
State of the World's Children 1997 (UNICEF)
Tamiment Institute Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives (Bobst Library, New York University)
Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Sla