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Helpful Links in American History
Document Collections
 Avalon
Project at Yale University (a comprehensive list of primary source
documents)
- Primary
Source Collections (extensive list of sources gathered by the American
Memory Project of the Library of Congress)
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- Making
of America is a collection of social history documents from the 1850s
through Reconstruction.
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- From
Revolution to Reconstruction is an ambitious collection of documents
assembled by a team at the University of Groningen.
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Documents for the Study of American History. A large collection of
interesting documents from the University of Kansas.
Links to Sources in Early American History. From the University of
Michigan, a collection of web resources aiding research in a number of
historical areas, this site is particularly helpful for ethnic studies and
gender issues topics. (It's name is misleading, as many of the links point
to recent American history sites).
American
and British Resources on the Internet. Assembled by Stan Nash and
William Vincenti and hosted by Rutgers University's Alexander Library, this
site is loaded with statistical information, bibliographies, maps, treaties,
et al.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook. A very complete (one might say exhaustive)
set of links to all types of historical information, organized by topics,
such as Immigration, Imperialism, Nationalism, etc. Compiled by Paul Halsell
of Fordham University.
World
War I Document Archive--A group of volunteers at the World War I
Military History List created this archive which is thorough and complete.
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- Survey Text Sites
- An
American Nation by John Garrity( a commercial survey text site)
- American
Pageant by Bailey (a commercial survey text site)
- Out
of Many by John Mack Faragher.(a commercial survey text site)
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- Writing & Research Guides
- Reading,
Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students (an
excellent guide to the elements of a successful history paper--by Patrick
Rael of Bowdoin College)
- Guide
to Writing History Papers (a thorough stylistic and procedural guide to
writing effective history papers--by Professor Todd Carney of Southern
Oregon University)
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- Paradigm
Online Writing Assistant (a helpful, if wordy guide to different types
of essays)
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- Purdue University's OWL
Research Papers (an excellent step-by-step writing tutorial that has
practical advice about outlines, organization, punctuation, and using
statistics in writing a research paper)
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- Simpson College in Indianola,
Indiana has developed a fine site, Writing
Research Papers , with a number of very logical suggestions for writing
papers.
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- Drew University's Resources
for Writers features a number of subpages and topics which are helpful,
particularly those that deal with constructing annotated bibliographies and
thesis statements.
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- A Guide
for Writing Research Papers: A site developed jointly by the Humanities
Department and the Library at Capital Community-Technical College in
Hartford, Connecticut which provides the Modern Language Association
documentation for writing papers.
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- Plagiarism (and how to avoid it)
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- A fine article
by Earl Babbie of California State University Bakersfield on the dangers of
plagiarism.
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- The U.S. Naval
Academy has learned the hard way about the temptations of cheating. Their page
on plagiarism is straightforward, informative, and clear.
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- Other Sites of Interest
Famous
American Trials by Doug Linder (a well-constructed, informative site
detailing some of America's most notorious trials)
AP U.S.
History (AP U.S. History sites around the country)
PBS
Online American History (well-constructed, interesting pages developed on
various topics)
U.S.
Supreme Court cases: Findlaw (A keyword and name searchable database for
all Supreme Court cases from 1893-present)
Supreme
Court Decisions (A full-text, searchable index of all Supreme Court
decisions from 1937-1975)
Anti-Imperialism
in the United States, 1898-1900. One of the best historical sites
available on the web, this is a model of combining primary sources into a
cohesive body of information. Created by Jim Zwick who retains the copyright
to all materials but allows links.
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