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General Information

American History
http://americanhistory.miningco.com/

Penny Magazine Online
 http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/
The Penny Magazine, published every Saturday, was aimed at the working class. It was part of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's program for liberal reform.

Chautauqua Institution
 http://www.chautauqua-inst.org/

BFGoodrich History
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/bfgoodrich/

The Historical Speech Archive
http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/index.htm

History of the National Refining Company
http://www.enarco.com

Majic Bus: An American Odyssey a Tour Through American History http://www.uno.edu/~eice/majic.html
"The Majic Bus educational odyssey was started in 1992 by history professor Douglas Brinkley when, frustrated by his students lack of knowledge about their American heritage, he took his class from Hofstra University on a six-week voyage across America to study history, literature and culture."

The Grazian Archive
http://www.grazian-archive.com/
In Search of the Americans, "the accumulating avant-garde American history (1400-2000) by Professor Alfred de Grazia ... [including] the largest ... personal correspondence of home front-war front in WWII, and other literary and scientific materials of De Grazia on world governance and natural history of catastrophes."

The Time Page: Cycles in U.S. History
http://www.timepage.org/

United States Postal Service, History 1775-1993
 http://www.usps.com/history/his9.htm

http://www.u-s-history.com/
The purpose of this site is to provide a comprehensive history of the United States, providing more detail than would be available from most textbooks, with intensive crosslinking of pages

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Archives and Databases

University of North Texas Archives
 http://www.library.unt.edu/archives/

University of North Texas Rare Book and Texana Collection
 http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/

About the Special Collections of the Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/aboutspec.html

American Special Collections: Format Photographs
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/fphot.html
A listing of the Library of Congress online photographic special collections

American Special Collections
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/spclhome.html

American Special Collections: Detroit Publishing Co. Photos, 1880-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/detroit/dethome.html
A Library of Congress Special Collection

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
 http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

Census Bureau Home Page
http://www.census.gov/

Big Sur Tapes
http://www.bigsurtapes.com
 "was founded in 1989 to preserve and publish the audio archive of over 8,000 hours recorded by Paul Herbert, primarily at Esalen Institute, from the early 1960's to the present.... We are now the caretakers for many archives big and small, including those of the San Francisco Jung Institute and Aldous Huxley." --Janica Fox Anderson Curator and Publisher

U.S. Census Population Division http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/population/www/

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/index.html

Social Sciences Data Collection
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/

Geospacial and Statistical Data Center
 http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/
Hosted by the University of Virginia Library

Tulane University Special Collections
http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/index.htm

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
 http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

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Societies

American Jewish Historical Society
http://www.ajhs.org/

American Truck Historical Society
http://www.aths.org/
 "American Truck Historical Society preserves antique trucks and trucking history. We publish bimonthly magazine about antique trucks, trucking history, and truck collectors. Discussion page available."

Beckenham Historical Association
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/plaza/aj93

Beverly Historical Society
http://members.tripod.com/~BeverlyHS/

California Historical Society
http://www.calhist.org/

Canton Historical Society
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1496/

Chicago Historical Society
http://www.chicagohs.org/

Cranston Historical Society
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4678/sprague.html

The Folk Art Society of America
http://www.folkart.org/

Illinois State Historical Society
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sorensen/hist.html

Jewish Historical Society of Maryland
http://www.jhsm.org/

LaborWeb: The AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/

Lancaster County Historical Society
http://lanclio.org/

Lenni Lenape Historical Society and Museum of Indian Culture
http://www.lenape.org/
the Lenni Lenape Historical Society and Museum of Indian Culture

State Historical Society of North Dakota http://www.state.nd.us/hist/

Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society
 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ganwhags/

Oregon Historical Society
http://www.ohs.org

Organization of American Historians
http://www.indiana.edu/~oah

Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society
 http://members.aol.com/palisades1/index.html

Western Reserve Historical Society
http://www.wrhs.org

World Ship Society
 http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/wss.htm

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Presidential Sites

Presidents of the United States http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are included

Manus Hand's Presidential Graves
http://www.sni.net/~mhand/Presidents/

Grolier On-line Encyclopedia for Presidential Information
http://www.grolier.com/presidents/ea/ea_toc.html
links to information about United States Presidents

United States Presidents Information Page
http://we.got.net/docent/soquel/prez.htm

The American Presidency
 http://www.grolier.com/presidents/preshome.html

Presidential Elections Statistics http://www.multied.com/elections/
information on each of the US Presidential elections, with electoral votes and popular votes.

United States Presidents
 http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/

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