American Studies 1 Honors

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American Studies 1 Honors
updated 1/11/2006

Links & Webquests

American Literature

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/rhetoric/1850textarchive.html; Written or Published Texts 1850 - 1859 including Selected British Authors
An Archive of Speeches from the 1850's: /oratoryarchive.html
Search Engines: /users/lknoles/pagesearch.html

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/index.html

List of Artists and Photographers Image List

http://www.phil.unt.edu/show/list.htm

John James Audubon
Albert Bierstadt
George Caleb Bingham
Karl Bodmer
George Catlin
Frederic Edwin Church
Thomas Cole
Samuel Coleman Jr
John S. Copley
Asher Durnand
Alvan Fisher
Harry Fenn
Sanford R. Gifford
Eugene C. Hargrove
Winslow Homer
George Inness
Thomas Moran
Charles Wilson Peale
Benjamin West
Others

The Lyceum Reading Room

http://www.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/

William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Athur's Court
Hamlin Garland, Main- Travelled Roads
Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

On Line 19^th Century Texts at Other Web Sites:

"Acres of Diamonds"

African - American Mosaic Exhibition
African American perspectives
Cartoons for United States History
Crevecoeur's "Letters From An American Farmer"
Documenting the American South
The Douglass Archives of Public Address
Gilded Age Documents
Online Nineteenth Century Books and Periodicals
Labor - Management Conflict in American History
Lives of Prominent Americans
The Making of the American Archive, the University of Michigan
The Nineteenth Century Scientific American
Pioneering Women in American History
Seccession Era Editorials Project
U S Historic Documents 19^th Century
Women in America

On-Line Excerpts from 19^th Century Texts on the Lyceum Web

America's Superiority at the Centennial Exposition

The Autobiography of Charles Harding, a Methodist
Minister ( 1807 - 1869 )
"Boston and Boston People in 1850" by Harriet Hosmer
"Editor's Easy Chair", Harper's New Monthly Magazine
April, 1853
"Lectures on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of the
Community" by William Ellery Channing
The Native American Mutual Protection Association :
An 1836 Questionaire
"Our First Men:" A Calendar of Wealth and Gentility
Poems Celebrating " The Mechanic"
"Rioting," The New England Galaxy, Boston, Saturday
March 21, 1835
Slavery: A Sample of Anti- Slavery arguments

Archives of American Studies Resources

The American Crossroads Project at Georgetown

The American Memory Page from the Library of Congress
Divining America: Religion and National Culture
Early America Links
The Voice of the Shuttle

Specific Online Books Revevant to History 102

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/guide/guide.html

Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species ( 1859 )
DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk ( 1910 )
Lewis, Sinclair Main Street ( 1920 )
Marx, Karl The Communist Manifesto ( 1848 )
Norris, Frank The Octopus ( 1903 )
Riis, Jacob How The Other Half Lives ( 1890 )
Smith , Adam The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 )
Turner, Frederick Jackson "The Significance of the Frontier in AmericanHistory ( 1898 )
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery ( 1901 )

Online Books and Journals

The Online Books Page

ALEX Online Books

Bibliomania

Online Books by Author

Hanover College History Department

Sixties Project: Primary Document Entry Page

Columbia ILT Web Digitexts

Nineteenth Century Studies

Poet at Work - Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned - Walt Whitman Collection

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html

University of Maryland Electronic Reading Room

http://inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/

Art & Architecture

Ask Art.Com: http://www.askaer.com

Art and Architecture Links: http://www.monticello.org/library/links/architect.html

A Digital Archive of American Architecture: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html; Houses; Churches; Public Buildings; Styles; Architects; World's Fairs

The Great Buildings Collection: http://www.greatbuildings.com/

The National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/amer.htm
American Painting: American Portraits of the Late 1700's and Early 1800's; American Impressionists of the Late 1800's and Early 1900's; John Singleton Copley; Copley's Watson and the Shark; Exploring Themes in American Art; Gilbert Stuart; Gilbert Stuart Paints the First Five Presidents; Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner: Americans Abroad in the Late 1800's

The National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/col/index.htm
Collections: Hall of the Presidents Virtual Tour; "The Age of Revolution"; "Native Americans"; "The Seneca Falls Convention"; "The Amistad Case"

Resource Library Magazine: http://www.tfaoi.com/permc.htm; Cameos of Permanent Collections of Historic, Representional American Art

African - American History

African - American History: http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/afroam.html; Black Nationalism; Civil Rights Movement; Harlem Renaissance; History of Slavery and Slave Narratives

Death or Liberty Exhibition - The Library of Virginia: http://www.lva.lib.va.us/sb/exhibits/Death_Liberty; Resistance to the State; Gabriel's Conspiracy; Nat Turner's Rebellion; John Brown's Raid; Remembering Revolt

The Booker T. Washington Papers: http://www.historycoop.org/btw/index.html

Africans in America: http://pbs.org/wgbh/aia/rb_index.html; Resource Bank Index; People and Events; Historical Documents; Modern Voices

Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html

Documents

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/.htm

Documents on Slavery

Pre 18^th Century Documents

18^th Century Documents

19^th Century Documents

20^th Century Documents

Major Document Collections

The American Constitution : A Documentary Record

American Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties and Agreements

American History: A Documentary Record 1492 - 1988

Annual Messages of the Presidents

Relations Between The United States and Native Americans

Documenting the American South

http://docsouth.unc.edu/dasmain.html

First Person Narratives of the American South

Library of Southern Literature

North American Slave Narratives

The Southern Homefront 1861 - 1865

The Church in the Southern Black Community

The Model Editions Partnership

http://adh.sc.edc/

Documentary History of the First Federal Congress

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the

Bill of Rights

The Frederick Douglass Papers

Abraham Lincoln Legal Papers

Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Regents Case Summary

http://northport.k12.ny.us/~PATCH/regreview.html

Marbury v Madison ( 1803 )

McCulloch v Maryland ( 1819 )

Gibbons v Ogden ( 1824 )

Gideon v Wainwright ( 1963 )

Miranda v Arizona ( 1966 )

Roe v Wade ( 1963 )

Ex Parte Milligan ( 1866 )

Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson ( 1868 )

Plessy v Ferguson ( 1896 )

Brown v Board of Education Topeka, Kansas ( 1954 )

University of California Regents v Bakke ( 1978 )

Munn v Illinois ( !877 )

In Re Debs ( 1895 )

U. S. v E C Knight ( 1895 )

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co. v Minnesota ( 1890 )

Lochner v New York ( 1905 )

Muller v Oregon ( 1908 )

Scopes Monkey Trial ( 1925 )

Schechter Poultry Co. v U. S. ( 1935 )

Debs v U. S. ( 1919 )

Schenck v U. S. ( 1919 )

Korematsu v U. S. ( 1944 )

Rosenberg Trial ( 1951 )

Dennis v U. S. ( 1951 )

Watkins v U. S. ( 1957 )

Yates v U. S. ( 1957 )

P.A.R.C. v Commonwealth of Pa ( 1971 )

Others

"Rebels With a Vision"

http://www.rebelswithavision.com/

Royalty

Declaration of Independence

President

Secretary

Signers - by State

Continential Army Commander-in-Chief

Printed July 4, 1776

Printed January 1777

Engrossed August 2, 1776

Painted August 2, 1776

/John Trumbull.com

Wet Ink Transfer 1820

Revoutionary War Generals

Tory

U. S. Constitution

First Ladies

Patriots

The World Wide School Library - North American History

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-hst-northamerican.html

Abraham Lincoln's First InauguralAddress

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

The Adventures of Daniel Boone

Astoria by Washington Irving

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The Crossing by Winston Churchill

Declaration of Independence

The Federalist Papers

Franklin D Roosevelt's 1^st Inaugural

Gettysburg Address

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry

Henry Clay's Remarks inHouse and Senate

I Have A Dream by Martin L. King

Indian Boyhood by Charles Eastman

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A. Eastman

John C. Calhoun's Remarks in the Senate

John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Lewis and Clark First Across the Continent

The Mayflower Compact

The Moravians in Georgia 1735 - 1740

NAFTA

Oration at Plymouth by John Quincy Adams

The Oregon Trial by Francis Parkman Jr.

Remember the Alamo

The San Francisco Calamity

The Soul of the Indian

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Star Spangled Banner

Step by Step; or Tidy's Way to Freedom

Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate

Thomas Jefferson

Trinity Atomic Bomb

Trinity Site: 1945 - 1995

Trinity : Project Trinity

The United States Bill of Rights

The United States Constitution

The United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches

Webster's Seventh of March Speech, and the Secession Movement

Worldwide Effect of Nuclear War - SomePerspectives

The University of Louisville Government Publications

http://library.louisville.edu/ekstrom/govpubs/subjects/hist/amhist.html

National Archives and Records Administration - Selected Prologue Articles

http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/artlist.html

Roosevelt and His Library

LBJ Fights the White Backlash : TheRacial Politics of the 1964 Presidential Campaign

Return to Sender : U. S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II

The Hours before Dallas : A Recollection by President Kennedy's Fort Worth Advance Man

Grant, Babcock, and the Whiskey Ring

Abrupt Transition

New Life for the Charters of Freedom : The Story So Far

Living With The Hydra : The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records

Nazi Gold : The Merkers Mine Treasure

Standing In for the President

"I Am Entitled To The Medal of Honor and I Want It" : Theodore Roosevelt and His Quest For Glory

Documenting the United States Naval Activities during the Spanish - American War

American Film Propaganda in Revolutionary Russia

Riding the Rails up Ppaer Montain : Researching the Role of Railroads in the National Archives

Preserving the Legacy of United States Colored Troops

Freedmen's Bureau Records : An Overview

From Slave Women to Free Women : the National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era

The Panama Canal : The African American Experience

Documenting the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Decade of the Sixties

An Archival Odyssey : the Search for Jackie Robinson

Irving Berlin : This is the Army

Civil War Records : An Introduction and Invitation

The Little Regiment : Civil War Units and Commands

Honorable Reports : Battles, Campaigns, and Shirmishes - Civil War Records and Research

War in Age of Wonder : Civil War Arms and Equipment

Women Soldiers in the Civil War

The Emancipation Proclamation : AnAct of Justice

The Sytlisitic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence

Thus Spoke Chief Seattle : The Story of an undocumented Speech

The Army Medal of Honor : The First Fifty Years

The Shady Side of the Family Tree : Civil War Union Court Martial Case Files

Which Henry Cook? A Methodology For Searching Confederate Ancestors

Civil War Records War Draft Exemptions and Enrollments

Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years

Electronic Records of Korean and Vietnam Conflict Casualties

History

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/guide/guide.html

Images of American Political History 1900 - 1950

http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse1950.htm

American Rhetorical Movements Since 1900: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/341/COM341.html

Who's Who in American History: http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/bios.html; Names; Eras; Occupations; Photos

American Memory - Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/; Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian; /award98/ienhtml/curthome.html; The New Deal Stage - Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939; /fedtp/fthome.html; America from the Great Depression to World War II - Photographs from the FSA-OWI 1935 - 1945; /fsowhome.html; Inventing Entertainment - the Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of Edison Companies; /edhtml.edhome.html; Voices From theDust Bowl - The Charles L Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 1940 - 1941; /afctshtml/tshome.html; Southern Mosaic - The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip; /lohtml/lohome.html; The Great Plains 1880 - 1920 - Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F. A. Pazandak Photograph Collections; /ndfahtml/ngphome.html; Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation and the Civil War; /scsmhtml/scsmhome.html; Map Collections 1500 - 1999; /gmdhtml/gmdhome.html; Theodore Roosevelt - His Life and Times; /trfhtml/trfhome.html; By the People, For the People : Posters From the WPA 1936 - 1943; /wpaposters/wpahome.html; Creative Americans : Portraits by Carl Van Vechten 1932 - 1964; /vvhtml/vvhome.html; Poet at Work - Recovered Noteboks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection; /wwhome.html; Abraham Lincoln Papers; /alhtml/malhome.html; Civil War Maps; /gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html

Mr. President - Profiles of Our Nation's Leaders: http://web7.si.edu/president/gallery/links.cfm; The American Presidency; Hall of Presidents Virtual Tour; Portraits of the Presidents; Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years 1970 - 1974; "Doubtless as Good" Thomas Jefferson's Dream for American Wines Fulfilled; First Ladies; Washington at War; Ceremonial Court; A More Perfect Union; Space Race; Enola Gay

By Popular Demand : Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html

K - 12 TLC Guide to The American Presidency: http://tlc.ai.org/presindx.htm; The Presidents; The Electoral College; Impeachment; Inaugurations; Writings, Speeches,Debates & Quotations; Related Literature; Lesson Plans

American Strategy: http://www.americanstrategy.org/sitemap2.html; Foundations of Democracy

Eyewitness to History: http://www.ibiscom.com/18frm.htm

Jefferson Library: http://www.monticello.org/library/links/general.html; General U. S. History Links; /colonial.html; Colonial Period History Links; /revolution.html; Revoltionary Period ( 1775 - 1783 ) History Links; /earlyrep.html; Early Republic Period ( 1783 - 1800 ) History Links; /earlynat.html; Early National Period ( 1800 - 1820 ) History Links; /jackanteb.html; Jacksonian/ Antebellum Period ( 1820 - 1860 ) History Links

Presidents

American Political Prints 1766 - 1876: http://elections.harpweek.com/

Political Cartoons of the Presidential Elections 1860 - 1884: http://www.americanpresident.org/historical_documents.htm; General U. S. History; U. S. Presidents; Speeches and Oratory; Women; Other

Mr. President - Profiles of Our Nation's Leaders: http://web7.si.edu/president/gallery/links.cfm; The American Presidency; Hall of the Presidents Virtual Tour; Portraits of the Presidents; Photographing History : Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970 - 1974; "Doubtless as Good" Thomas Jefferson's Dream for American Wines Fulfilled; First Ladies; Washington At War; Ceremonial Court; A More Perfect Union; Space Race; Enola Gay

The American Presidency : Selected Resources: http://www.interlink-cafe.com/uspresidents/

The Presidential Rating Game: http://www.udayton.edu/~polsci/rating.htm

Presidential History Lesson Plans: http://216.132.160.230/lesson_plans.htm; The Ten Minute Press Conference; Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address; Critical Analysis Through Primary Sources: A Key Skill; First Ladies Speeches: A Women's Perspective on the Issues of the Day; "I Pledge Allegiance..." The History of the American Flag; Meeting of the Minds: Family Ties; Pamphlets of Presidential Homes; Presidential Geography: A Journey Across America; President's Children; The Presidents Speak Out ofn the Presidency; President Truman: Presidential Decision-Making on the Atomic Bomb; A Test of Liberty: Communism in Eisenhower's America; Theodore Roosevelt: Trust Buster? A Cartoon Analysis; Voting Patterns in Presidential Elections; Who Would You Carve into Mt. Rushmore?; Why Not Print More Greenbacks?; You Decide: The Iranian Hostage Crisis

The American Presidency - SiteMap: http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/6b.html

Reference

Reference Sources: http://www.montecello.org/library/links/webref.html; General Reference Web Sites; Almanacs and Encyclopedias; Biography; Dictionaries and Thesauri; Directories; Maps; Publishing; Quotes; Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Teach With Movies: http://teachwithmovies.org/guides/

Topics

The Salem Witch Trials: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft.html; The Crucible - Historical background of Witches in Salem 1692; http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@KwsrQ0yOmblws/P/article.html?article@history; Why I wrote "The Crucible" - an answer to politics by Arthur Miller; http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis?50s/miller-crucible.html; The Tryal of G.B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692 by Cotton Mather; http://www.ogram.org/17thc/mather_gb.shtml; Hysteria and Ideology in The Crucible ( 1953 ); http://www.english.upenn.edu/50's/crucible.html; Salem Witch Museum; http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com; The Crucible - Historical background of Witches in Salem, 1692; http://socialstudies.com/crucible/history.html; The Salem Witch Trials ,1692; http://www.ibiscom.com/salem.htm

Woman's History: http://www.huntington.org/vfw/links.html; General Site For Research; Seneca Falls Convention, " Declaration of Sentiments," July 1848; Women's Reform Movement 1848 - 1920; Constitutional Amendments, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth; Forces For and Against the Vote for Women; Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment; Speeches; Library of Congress; Organizations Involved; National Women's Suffrage Association; Significant People; Susan B. Anthony; Mary McLeod Bethune; Woman's Suffrage