A Century of
Lawmaking
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
An unparalleled
collection of documents on the history of the United States law and government,
from the Continental Congress through the 42nd Congress (1873). This history is
recorded in twelve searchable journals and publications, including The
Congressional Globe, Journal of the House of Representatives of the United
States, Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, and Journals of
the Continental Congress. The site is maintained by the Library of Congress and
offers help documents on using and searching the collections.
Abortion in
America
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/roe.wade/
CNN's retrospective
on the Roe v. Wade landmark Supreme Court decision, which legalized abortion in
the United States. The feature examines the terms of the abortion debate, the
people involved in the trial, and how abortion and abortion rights opponents and
advocates have changed over the past twenty-five years.
Burr-Hamilton
Duel
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/index.html
Companion Web site
for the PBS program The Duel, on the historic duel between Aaron Burr and
Alexander Hamilton, which resulted in Hamilton's death. The page provides
background information on dueling and on the duel participants. Biographies of
other key political figures and explanations of the events prior to and
following the duel offer historical context for the fight. The maps and timeline
are also helpful.
Cartoons on
Women's Suffrage
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/suf_intro.html
A collection of
cartoons on the fight for U.S. women to get the right to vote, most of which
were drawn by men and were printed in mainstream American magazines and
newspapers. The cartoons are valuable documents for historians in assessing
popular views of gender roles and perspectives on the suffrage movement and its
impact on the nation.
Castro Speech
Databases
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html
The Castro Speech
Databases is a website hosted by the University of Texas containing the complete
texts in English and Spanish of Fidel Castro’s speeches. Speeches can be
searched by word or by date.
Chief George
Manuel Memorial Library - Fourth World Documentation Project
http://www.cwis.org/fwdp.html
Documents
pertaining to Native Americans, including treaties, council meeting proceedings,
coalition papers, and memoranda from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, can be
found at this site. The Center for World Indigenous Studies is a non-profit
organization whose Fourth World Documentation Project archives important
documents by or about fourth-world nations, which are defined as "nations
forcefully incorporated into states which maintain a different political
culture, but are internationally unrecognized." All of the information on
this site is copyrighted by the Center for World Indigenous Studies, and is free
for electronic transfer if it is unaltered and appropriately cited.
Cloning
http://www.pathfinder.com/TIME/cloning/home.html
Excellent site from
TIME magazine on cloning, politics, and the future of cloning technology. The
site looks at the first major cloning of an adult mammal, which resulted in a
lamb named Dolly, created at the Roslin Institute. This experiment spanned a
worldwide debate over the ethics of cloning and the possibility of human
cloning. The site explores these issues and includes excellent photographs and
graphics.
Culture Wars 101
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/josman/culture/
A collection of
information and commentary on the "culture wars" in the United States.
Created by Johannes D. Claerbout, the site contains essays and news articles
from a variety of different perspectives on the abortion debate, homosexuality,
the educational system, pornography, and other heated issues. There are also
links to other Web sites and a humor section.
Documents from
the Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
A collection of
documents giving special emphasis to the women's movement of the late 1960s and
early 1970s. Culled from the Duke University Special Collections Library, the
site includes books, pamphlets, and other written materials. The documents can
be searched by keyword or located under various subject categories. Subject
categories include theoretical writings, women of color, and women's work and
roles.
Documents
Related to the Iran-Contra Affair
http://webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/irancontra.html
A collection of
state documents on the Iran-Contra affair. Obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act and collated by Pink Noise Studio, the documents include the
Summary of the Report of the Independent Counsel, the official indictment of
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and materials on Oliver North and the
connection between the Contras and drug trafficking.
Euthanasia
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/court.html
University of
Buffalo page on bioethics and the debate over euthanasia. The site offers links
to articles and information on euthanasia, looking especially at important
euthanasia and right-to-die court cases from recent years.
Free Speech
Movement Archives
http://www.straw.com/fsm-a/index.html
A collection of
speeches, leaflets, interviews, memoirs, and audio clips documenting the Free
Speech Movement (FSM). Established by FSM veterans, the archives also include a
photo gallery and an examination of FSM historiography.
Free Speech
Movement Archives
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM
Free Speech
Movement Archives from the University of California, Berkeley Library. Video,
audio and text documents from the Free Speech Movement are available online. The
materials include letters, personal papers, oral histories, meeting minutes,
photographs, news articles, government and legal documents and political
pamphlets. The FSM chronology is extremely thorough and is an excellent starting
point for exploring the collections.
Gallup Polls
http://www.gallup.com/
Homepage of the
Gallup Organization, a national and international polling organization. Gallup
polls gather information about political, social, business, and religious
attitudes in the United States and abroad. This information is helpful in
determining general trends and shifts in behaviors and attitudes over periods of
weeks, months, or years. This site features news articles on the latest Gallup
polls and research data.
Henry Clay
http://www.henryclay.org/index.htm
A short biography
of Henry Clay. Maintained by Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, the site also
houses a set of links to other primary- and secondary-source material on Clay
and a digital image of Clay's will.
Impeachment and
Censure Materials Online
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/impeach.htm#public
Guide to
Impeachment and Censure Materials Online from JURIST, the Law Professors
Network. The site includes good materials on impeachment, the legal background
for impeachment, the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, and day-by-day press
coverage of the Clinton impeachment trial. The Clinton impeachment was a pivotal
event in twentieth-century politics and placed the moral character of the
president in the national spotlight. This event caused the nation to question
the appropriate standards of behavior for the president and to address the right
to privacy of the nation's highest elected official.
Index of Native
American Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/Naresources/
This site is a vast
index of Native American resources organized by category. Within the History
category, links are organized under subcategories, such as Oral History and
Timelines. This is a key place to search for information.
National
Congress of American Indians
http://www.ncai.org
Founded in 1944,
the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) describes itself as the
"oldest and largest tribal government organization in the United
States." Their site provides a tribal directory, and documents pertaining
to anti-defamation and mascot issues, governance, community development, natural
resources, and human resources.
National
Security Administration Archives
http://www.nsa.gov/releases/index.html
An index of
declassified materials available to the public. The site also includes online
versions of declassified documents relating to JFK, UFOs, Truman, the Cuban
Missile Crisis, and the U.S.S. Liberty.
Senator Joe
McCarthy
http://webcorp.com/mccarthy/
A collection of
audio clips from Senator Joe McCarthy's red scare period. The site was created
by webcorp, a corporate Internet services company, to demonstrate some of their
technology. The site includes clips from many of McCarthy's speeches and from
the televised trials.
The Evolution of
the Conservation Movement
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
A searchable
database of sources related to the conservation movement from 1850 to 1920. Part
of the Library of Congress American Memory collection, the site contains a
timeline of major events and developments, as well as a searchable archive of
books, pamphlets, state papers, illustrations, and photographs.
The Falmouth
Institute
http://www.falmouthinst.com
The Falmouth
Institute's homepage features a link to the periodical American Indian Report.
This monthly publication deals with current issues relevant to the Native
American community.
The Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/
A site dedicated to
the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson. Created by HARPWEEK, an online archive
of nineteenth-century Harper's Weekly articles and illustrations, the site
presents more than 200 excerpts from Harper's coverage of the conflict and a
series of political cartoons. Background summaries are provided, as well as
biographies and portraits of 28 major figures from the trial.
The
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm
The full text of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Presented by Yale Law School's Avalon project, the site
contains other important antebellum political documents, including the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850.
The Rosenbergs:
A Case of Love, Espionage, Deceit and Betrayal
http://crimelibrary.com/rosen/rosenmain.htm
A detailed account
of the Rosenberg case.
The Sixties
Project
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
A site that
examines and documents the social change of the 1960s. Created by scholars in
cooperation with the University of Virginia, the site contains a primary
document collection, an exhibit of memorabilia and images, and personal
narratives provided by visitors to the site. Special emphasis is given to civil
rights, Vietnam, and the student movement.
The Strenuous
Life
http://www.ushistory.net/toc/strenuous.html
An electronic
version of Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech of 1899, "The Strenuous
Life," as it was then reproduced in The New York Times.
Theodore
Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt/index.htm
A pictorial and
narrative examination of Theodore Roosevelt. Created by the Smithsonian
Institution, these pages mix images from the National Portrait Gallery with
biographical text in a chronological format. The site also features segments on
the Roosevelt family and friends such as naturalist John Muir.
Votes for Women:
NAWSA, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
An archive of
books, pamphlets, and papers from the National American Women Suffrage
Association from 1848 to 1921. This exhibit from the American Memory Collection
at the Library of Congress contains 167 documents from the NAWSA collection. It
can be searched by subject or author and also contains a detailed timeline.
Votes for Women:
Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
A collection of 38
pictures and portraits from the women's suffrage movement. An American Memory
exhibit from the Library of Congress, the collection can be accessed through a
keyword search or the name and subject index. The collection includes
photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, an anti-suffrage
display, cartoons commenting on the movement, and portraits of women active in
the movement.
Watergate
http://watergate.info/
A textual, visual,
and auditory survey of Watergate. Created by Australian political science
professor Malcolm Farnsworth, the site’s materials include a Nixon biography
with speech excerpts, a Watergate chronology, and an assessment of the Watergate
legacy. Relevant links provide access to primary documents.
Watergate Trial
Tapes and Transcripts
http://www.archives.gov/nixon/tapes/about_transcripts.html
The National
Archives and Records Administration’s transcripts of the Nixon Watergate
tapes. These audio recordings of conversations in the Nixon White House were
prepared by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force for the court cases of U.S.
v Mitchell, et al and U.S. v Connally in 1974. The twelve and one-half hours of
tape can be researched through the NARA transcripts of these conversations,
available online on this Web site.