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American and British History Resources on the Internet - By the Rutgers University a well organized clearinghouse of informationn about American and British History:documents, e-journals, discussion lists. 

American Civil War Homepage- Comprehensive guide to the best Civil War related websites  including diaries, speeches and letters.

American Hypertexts - A great collection of texts and documents related to American  history, among which The Federalist Papersand Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

American Memory - By the National Digital Library Project of the National Congress Library a comprehensive, multimediatic collection of historical resources: primary and secondary sources, photographs , sound files and movies pertaining United States  history. The whole collection is searchable in a variety of ways.
American Memory Collections  -(Library of Congress: Historical Collections for theNational Digital Library) - One of the most important among existing projects. It contains photographic sources, printed and manuscript sources, videos and acoustic documents regarding political and constitutional history, and more generally social history, cultural history, architecture, visual arts, literature, natural environment,afro-american history. A powerful search engine helps navigation inside the single collection or through the whole site. A «Learning Page» is another helpful tool, thanks to its very good name and topics index. The selected documents are in full text and downloading is very normally fast. Texts are preceded by an introduction. There is finally a (rather) general bibliography on America in the age of the Revoltion.

American Revolution (The) -This site, created by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences,  offers excellent resources on various aspects of the American revolution: bibliography- discussions - essays - projects - general resources: among which selected annotated links prepared by H-Net. 

American Social History Project (YaleUniversity) - Divulgative site. The ASHP project is working to create scholarly material about American History in multimedia format. 

The American Revolution and the struggle for Independence (Groeningen) - A Hypertext on American  History from the colonial period until Modern Times, using enriched outlines on American, Political , Economic, Literary History. The text is provided by links to original documents, essays, other related sites and references. 

American Studies Crossroads Project - Sponsored by the American Studies Association, this  site presents a rich array of primary and secondary material designed particularly to foster electronic learning: searchable gateway to hundreds of links dealing generally with American history and life;  reviews websites; the texts of recent articles publishedin American Quarterly; abstracts of American Studies dissertations from 1986 to 1995; links to image and document archives. 

American Studies Yellow Pages - This well organized site provides general information and an extensive guide to American Studies webresources listed by discipline.The site is fully searchable.

American Studies Web - This site provides links to various resources on the web related to American Cultural History, including economy, politics, gender, environment, literature and legal studies. See in particular the Historical and Archival Resources section.

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 - Maintaned by Jim Zwick, Syracuse University,  an excellent database of primary documents relating to anti-imperialism in US: from historical essays to editorial cartoons, from related literature to political pamphlets.
Archiving Early America -It contains a digital collection of documents, the Keigwin and Mathews Collection, which assembles newspapers, geographical maps and many historical documents on colonial America and the origins of the Unites States; it gives access also to the electronic journal The Early America Review. 

Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Libraries) - This database presents more than 300 primary documents about the American South in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. 

Institute of Early American History and Culture, Omohundro - Homepage of the Institute devoted to the study, research, and publications bearing on the  history and culture of early America to approximately 1815.

Information on H-OIEAHC - Member of the H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, initiative, H-OIEAHC is sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.See the American Revolution section: bibliography, discussions, essays, program notes, general resources.

Making of America Project - University of Michigan - The MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period  through reconstruction. The collection stress the subject areas of  education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Mayflower Home Page: Mayflower Compact - Transcription of the original page of William Bradford's History Of Plymouth Plantation. The text is enriched by a small introduction and biographical info on the Mayflower Compact subscribers.

United States Historical Documents (University of Oklahoma, Law Center) - A great collection of  US historical documents from the Pre-Colonial period through the contemporary age, ordered by timeline. You can find the biographies of the first ladies & presidents of the United States as well as the Declaration of Independence, the inaugural adrresses of the presidents, or the Emancipation Proclamation. 

The Valley of the Shadow Project (University of Virginia Research Project) - Project of historical study on two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of  thousands of sources for the mentioned period,  including  newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs,  maps, church records, population census,  agricultural census, and military records.

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