This collection uses primary sources to explain the early exploration of the Americas.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the secession of southern states from the United States prior to the Civil War.

This American Memory site documents the discovery and exploration of the Americas with both manuscripts and published maps, many of which date from the European Age of Discovery. The site includes 22 map titles and descriptions, as well...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into the history of the Americas from the beginning of time to 1620. Learn about the American Indians, imperial rivalries, and exploration with resources from this page.

A collection uses primary sources to explore the construction of the Panama Canal.

This primary source set uses documents, illustrations, and maps to explore events and ideas that drove the formation of the Confederate States of America and the United States' descent into civil war. Includes a teacher's guide.

This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...

A collection uses primary sources to explore the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Three maps reflecting French exploration along rivers in North America and three French explorers' accounts of the astonishing hardships they endured and the possibilities for trade with natives they opened.

This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.

This collection uses primary sources to explore F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby.

This collection uses primary sources to explore settlement houses during the Progressive Era.

This collection uses primary sources to explore The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of women blues performers.

Primary source material on European presence in North America between 1492 and 1690 covers the topics of contact, exploration, settlement, permanence, and power. Includes notes and discussion questions.

Primary resources for U.S. history and literature offer two excerpts from the explorations of the Pacific coast by Sir Francis Drake and Vitus Bering as well as maps drawn to reflect those journeys. Includes questions for discussion.

An on-line exhibit displaying copies of Columbus' journals, other writings about his voyages and findings, as well as information and artifacts of the Taino, the Native Americans Columbus encountered on San Salvador.

A collection of primary sources to explore the motivations and realities behind life in the American colonies.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the 1925 Scopes Trial.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of television on news media.

This exhibition explores the Gold Rush, a group of related gold rushes to Western territories in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its impact on American history and culture.

This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the invention of the telephone.