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Resources in American History ranging from general sites to specific event information.
General History Resources
- American Experience
- Access to PBS series about American history. Many programs are available online.
- American Historical Association
- As the professional organization for historians, the AHA advocates for the profession and provides information, awards and grants, and resources for educators.
- Archiving Early America
- This site provides historical documents from 18th century America.
- A Biography of America
- This site was designed to be a self-contained college-level history course. Resources include access to videos covering 26 topics, and content mirroring that of most U.S. history text books.
- Center for History and New Media
- Links to general history resources as well as specific events.
- Discover History
- The National Park Service offers links to Features of People, Places & Stories and Features of Preservation, Guidance & Grants.
- History & Social Studies
- This site from the National Endowment for the Humanities provides lesson plans about American history.
- History Collection
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries' links to resources with text archives and image sites.
- National History Day
- Provides resources for educators.
- National Museum of American History
- Access to information about the museum's extensive holdings as well as online exhibits.
- Naval History & Heritage Command
- Offers information about the 'history, legacy and traditions of the United States Navy.'
- U.S. Army Center of Military History
- Features information about the Army throughout American history.
Fire Administration reported there were more than 379,600 residential and 103,600 nonresidential building fires in the United States in 2018. That same year, the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactures reported that heavy duty truck manufacturers (NAICS 336120)—which includes firefighting vehicles—had annual sales of $31. In this course, you will learn about American History from the exploration and colonization of the United States to the American Civil War and Reconstruction. You will study how historical, geographical, political, economic and sociological events shaped the development of the United States.
Histories of Government Agencies
- National Archives History
- This page provides a brief history of NARA along with links to a timeline, a list of Archivists of the United States, a history of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC., and Online Resources on the History of the National Archives.
- A Brief History: The U.S. Department of Labor
- A look at the functions of the Department of Labor since its founding in 1913.
- The FBI: History
- Links to such topics as Famous Cases & Criminals, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives History, and Hall of Honor.
- Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress
- Digitized version of the book by John Y. Cole.
- NASA History Program
- This office was organized shortly after NASA's creation to preserve the history of this agency's accomplishments.
- Postal History
- Tracks the history of the United States Postal Service from 1775 with links to Stamps and Postcards, Postal People, Photo Galleries, and more.
- Supreme Court Historical Society
- Founded in 1974, the Society is 'dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States.'
- U.S. Census Bureau History
- Provides many resources, including an agency history, programs, and an explanation of the '72-Year Rule.'
- U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
- This site features Historical Documents, Department History, Key Milestones, and Guide to Countries.
- United States Senate: Art & History
- Access to such resources as Origins & Development, Exhibits, and Senate Stories.
Selected Specific Topics
- The Declaration of Independence
- Includes 'The Declaration of Independence: A History,' 'The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence,' the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and links to other web sites.
- From Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond
- A site of the Department of Alfa-Informatica at the University of Groningen dedicated to the pre-World War I history of America.
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- This site from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is an online resource about the 'flag that inspired the National Anthem.'
- Meeting of Frontiers
- This site focuses on the experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing, and settling their frontiers, and the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The project resulted from a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Russian State Library, and the National Library of Russia.
- First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- This site features a compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The documents include diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives.
- Exploring the Life and History of the 'Buffalo Soldiers'
- Published in The Record in March 1998, this article details a history of the United States Colored Troops.
- The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
- This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War.
- Great Chicago Fire
- An online exhibition produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) to recall one of the most famous events in American history.
- Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889
- The National Park Service's web site provides lesson plans for teaching about 'the most devastating flood in the nation's history.'
- Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
- Part of the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division, this site contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, sketches, and photographs.
- The Titanic in Documents and Photographs
- An article in the NARA publication The Record in March 1998 highlights the records of the Titanic in the National Archives.
- Rescuing Records in the 'Cradle of American Labor'
- Information about the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, which collects documents related to the history of labor and working people in New York.
- Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Movement
- Transcripts and audio of interviews with 'people that participated, in small and large ways.'
- The Sixties
- A PBS web site dedicated to the most controversial decade of the twentieth century.
- The Wars for Viet Nam
- This site was developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College.
- Apollo 11 Mission
- The Lunar and Planetary Institute provides information about the first manned landing on the moon.
Photographs & Audio Recordings
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- Built in America: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920
- The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939
- American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the Election of 1920
This Day in History
- This Day in History
- On This Day
- Scope Systems Anyday
Digital Documents
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- This digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers is part of the Digital Schomburg Collection at the New York Public Library.
- Avalon Project
- Yale Law School's Avalon Project includes digital documents from ancient times through the 21st century.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
- The Library of Congress 'brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.'
- Documenting the American South
- This site is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- The Thurgood Marshall Law Library provides access to the historical record of civil rights in the United States.
- Making of America
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Nuremberg Trials Project
- Harvard Law School Library provides a digital document collection of the Nuremberg Trials.
- Our Documents
- Digital versions of 100 milestone documents of American history.
- U.S. Historical Documents
- Transcriptions of major documents relating to American history, from the Magna Carta to President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address.
- Virginia Center for Digital History
- Based at the University of Virginia, VCDH projects include many online digital history initiatives.
American Mafia Website Home Page
Informer journal:
Mafia history and Nick Gentile
This Informer special issue focuses on Nicola 'Nick' Gentile, underworld leader in U.S. and Sicily, who published an Italian-language tell-all autobiography in 1963. Informer strives to bring Gentile's entire life story to the English-language reader. Building on extensive original research by a team of Mafia history experts and on U.S. government documents designed to extract meaning from the memoirs, this issue attempts to balance Gentile's obviously self-serving and self-aggrandizing autobiographical work with verifiable history, to correct his misinformation and to fill in the wide gaps left in his personal account.
Special Section:
Rat Trap by Edmond Valin
Articles investigating the identities of underworld informants. Most recent article:
Tura Satana and the Chicago Outfit
'...Satana was open about many aspects of her personal life. She posed nude for screen legend Harold Lloyd, she told journalists she had a romantic relationship with crooner Frank Sinatra, and she claimed she once turned down a marriage proposal from Elvis Presley. But she had another relationship that she kept secret. Satana spied on the Mafia for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...'
Special Feature:
Valachi memoirs: 'The Real Thing: Second Government'
The basis for The Valachi Papers book and movie, Joe Valachi's memoirs have extraordinary value for Mafia researchers. We are now bringing The Real Thing online for the first time.
Featured Website Article:
CIA joins with Mafia in plot to kill Castro
Some Kennedy assassination-related documents released through the National Archives last week (October 26, 2017) and earlier this year (July 24, 2017) discussed CIA cooperation with American organized criminals in an effort to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The documents revealed little about CIA-underworld interaction that was not already known to historians through other sources, but the release provides an occasion to reflect upon that interaction and its aftermath. ...
Featured Website Article:
1930 prizefight, press coverage links 'Lucky' and 'Joe the Boss'
A widely publicized south Florida prizefight led to the names of Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania and Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria appearing together in print in early 1930. Early in the morning of Friday, February 28. Dade County Sheriff Manuel Philip Lehman received a tip that a number of out-of-town men were gambling in a top-floor suite of a Miami Beach hotel. Lehman and ten of his deputies raided the location...
Featured Website Article:
How organized was Calabrian crime?
There are a number of unanswered questions related to the American Mafia's incorporation of Calabrian gangsters - those who trace their origins to the southernmost portion of the Italian mainland. We may ask: How did this combination occur? Precisely when did it occur? Was it the result of a decision of the American Mafia as a whole or did it result from decisions of individual crime families? Were Calabrian gangsters welcomed on an individual basis or was a Calabrian crime network consumed by the Mafia en masse? ...
Buffalo / Western NY:
DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime (in Two Volumes)
Two-volume historical biography of Mafioso Joseph DiCarlo, once known as 'the Al Capone of Buffalo' and as western New York's 'Public Enemy No. 1.' Son of the region's first known Sicilian underworld boss, DiCarlo was rejected as heir to his father's criminal empire. After spending troubled years as a vassal of the influential Stefano Magaddino, DiCarlo and his underlings wandered, seeking their fortunes in Youngstown, Ohio, and Miami Beach, Florida, before returning home to witness the disintegration of the western New York Mafia.
19th Century New Orleans:
Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia
Conveys J.P. Macheca's epic life story, as it details the 1890 assassination of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy and the 1891 Crescent City lynchings. A street warrior for the corrupt New Orleans Democratic machine known as 'The Ring,' Macheca was the patron of the fledgling American Mafia in southern Louisiana. His underworld ties brought him into conflict with Hennessy, involved him in a Mafia civil war and ultimately cost him his life in the largest lynching in American history. Silver Medalist in 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Charles Sberna Case:
Wrongly Executed? Long-Forgotten Context of 1939 Electrocution
Was a fair trial for Charles Sberna even possible? The son of an anarchist terrorist and son-in-law of a Mafia boss of bosses, Sberna was sentenced to die after being convicted of killing a New York City police officer. The story involves celebrity attorneys, underworld chieftains, violent political radicals, media giants and ruthless establishment figures, and it is set in a period in which Americans sought stability and order after years of political upheaval and Prohibition Era lawlessness
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