United States

Busse Library provides these webpages for students and faculty seeking information on America. Websites reflect a small portion of available government and social resources. Busse Library titles are provided for research needs.

Government Resources

• The Federal Judiciary
• The First Ladies of the United States
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
• Project Vote Smart
• Supreme Court of the United States
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate
• The White House

Society and Culture Resources

The Colonial Era

• American Colonist's Library : A Treasury of Primary Documents
• Colonial America: Rare Map Collection, Hargrett Library, University of Georgia
• Colonial Hall: Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Jamestowne Society
• The Mayflower by Caleb Johnson
• Plimoth Plantation: Living Breathing History

The 18th Century

• 1755: The French and Indian War 
• American Independence : Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789: American Memory Project
• The Federalist Papers: Avalon Project, Yale Law School -- full text online
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History
• Liberty! The American Revolution : PBS Online
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Library of Congress -- online exhibition

The 19th Century

• The African American Mosaic: The Library of Congress 
• Africans in America : The Missouri Compromise of 1820
• The Age of Imperialism
• American Civil War Homepage -- directory of resources
• The Compromise of 1850: American Treasures: Library of Congress
• Documenting the American South : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Gilded Age : The American Experience
• The Gold Rush: Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
• The Golden Spike National Historic Site: Fort Ogden, Utah
• The History of the First Locomotives in America by William H. Brown, 1871 -- full text
• Lewis and Clark : The Journey of the Corps of Discovery : PBS
• Meeting of Frontiers : America and Russia : Library of Congress
• Oregon Trail Time Frame : 1792-1843
• Pony Express Home Station
• The Telephone : The American Experience : PBS
• The Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838-1839
• U.S. Civil War Center : Louisiana State University
• The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848): PBS
• The Underground Railroad : National Geographic.com
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921: American Memory Project
• The West: PBS -- Ken Burns' miniseries

The 20th Century

• A-Bomb WWW Museum
• America's Great Depression
• America and the Holocaust : The American Experience : PBS
• America from the Great Depression to World War II : Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945: American Memory: Library of Congress
• Battlefield Vietnam: PBS
• Black Thursday, October 24, 1929: The New York Times
• Brown V. Board of Education: The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law 
• The Cold War Museum 
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary: National Security Archive, George Washington University
• The Harlem Renaissance: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL)
• Hoover Dam : Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
• Malcolm X : A Research Site
• May Day : Kent State: May 4, 1970
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Seattle Times -- timeline
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project; Stanford University
• New Deal Network
• On the Homefront: America During World War I and World War II: Library of Congress
• A People at War : World War II: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection : NARA
• Revisiting Watergate: WashingtonPost.com
• The Roaring Twenties
• The Sixties Project
• Temperance and Prohibition Project: Ohio State University
• Tennessee VS. John Scopes : The Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
• Vietnam: The American Experience
• Woodstock Festival

General Resources on Region

• About.com: American History
• American Memory Project: Library of Congress
• CIA World Factbook
• Library of Congress
• National Museum of American History: Smithsonian
• Voice of the Shuttle : U.S. History
• Yahoo: U.S. History : By Time Period

Busse Library Resources

• Adell, Sandra. African American culture / 1996. E185. A2525 1996, Ref.
• Antler, Joyce. The journey home : Jewish women and the American century / c1997. E184.36.W64 A57 1997
• Aquila, Richard. Wanted dead or alive : the American West in popular culture / c1996. F596. W28 1996
• Cayton, Mary Kupiec. Encyclopedia of American social history / 1993. HN57. E58 1993 Ref
• Cravens, Hamilton. Technical knowledge in American culture / c1996. Q127.U6 T37 1996
• Ellis, Richard. American political cultures / 1993. E183. E44 1993
• Farber, David R. The Sixties : from memory to history / c1994. E841. S54 1994
• Jones, Jayne Clark. The American Indian in America / [1973] j301.451 J6
• Kutler, Stanley I. Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth century / 1996. E740.7 .E53 1996 Ref
• Marc, David. Demographic vistas : television in American culture / c1996. PN1992.3.U5 M26 1996
• McAllister, Matthew P. The commercialization of American culture / c1996. HF5813.U6 M327 1996
• Moss, Joyce. Peoples of the world : North Americans : the culture / c1991. E49. M67 1991 Ref
• Okihiro, Gary Y. Margins and mainstreams : Asians in American history and culture / c1994. E184.O6 O38 1994
• Rood, Karen Lane. American culture after World War II / c1994. E169.12 .A418 1994 Ref
• Rowe, John Carlos. The Vietnam War and American culture / c1991. DS558. V56 1991
• Smith, Philip. The new American cultural sociology / 1998. HM22.U6 N48x 1998
• Walch, Timothy. Immigrant America : European ethnicity in the United States / 1994. E184. E95 I46 1994
• Yuhaus, Cassian J. The Catholic church and American culture / c1990. BX1406.2 .C356 1990

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