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American History Online

• Early America
• The Colonial Period
• The Road to Independence
• The Formation of a National Government
• Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
• Sectional Conflict
• Growth and Transformation
• Discontent and Reform
• War, Prosperity and Depression
• The New Deal and World War
• Postwar America
• Decades of Change
• Toward the 21st Century

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Discovery, Colonies, and the American Revolution

• Age of Exploration: Biographies of Explorers and Associated People
• Age of Exploration
• European Explorations of America Timeline
• Explorers Timeline
• NARA Exhibit Hall: The Charters of Freedom
• Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples
• Revolutionary War

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The Civil War

• America’s Civil War Documents
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• America’s Civil War
• American Civil War Homepage
• American Civil War Union Women:
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• Civil War and Reconstruction – 1861-1877
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• Civil War, 1861
• Civil War, 1862
• Civil War, 1863
• Civil War, 1864-1865
• Confederate States of America Documents
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• Encyclopedia of U.S.A. – American Civil War
• Hearts at Home – Southern Women in the Civil War
• History Place: A Nation Divided: The U.S. Civil War 1861-1865
• Lands of Promise
• National Expansion and Reform – 1815-1880
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
• U.S. Civil War Center

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1900s/1910s

• American Cultural History 1900-1909
• American Cultural History 1910-1919
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy 1898-1914
• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
• Emergence of Modern America: 1890-1930

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1920s/1930s

• Age of Lost innocence: Photographs of Childhood Realities and Adult Fears During the Depression
• America From the Great Depression to World War II
• America in the 1930s
• American Cultural History of the 1920s
• American Cultural History of the 1930s
• American Culture in the 1930s
• America's Life Histories-Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1940
• Art for Trade’s Sake: The Fusion of American Commerce and Culture – 1927-1934
• Art of the Great Depression
• Artists by Movement: Art Deco 1920's to 1930's
• Between the Wars; 1920’s” Gangsters, Prohibition, Jazz Age; 1930’s: Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal
• Bonus Expeditionary Force
• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
• Chronological Listing of Events
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Crime and Criminals
• Documenting the 1930s
• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
• Getting Through the Great Depression
• New Deal
• New Deal for the Arts
• New Deal Network
• Roaring 20s
• Roaring 20s and the Great Depression
• Great Depression Web Sites
• In Search of the American Hobo
• Life During the Great Depression
• New York World’s Fair of 1939
• Photographing the Representative American: Margaret Bourke-White in the Depression
• Progressive Era
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
• Riding the Rails
• Suffragettes - Women's Rights
• Surviving the Dust Bowl
• Surviving the Dustbowl
• 10 Steps to War 1931-1941
• WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1930-1939

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1940s

• American Cultural History of the 1940s
• America's Life Histories-Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1940
• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
• FDR’s The Four Freedoms Address To Congress Jan 6, 1941
• Post War America
• Post War United States 1945-1970
• The Sleepy Lagoon Murder (1942)
• The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943
• United States and Equal Rights: 1947-1965

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1950s

• 1950s
• 1950s Cars, Consumerism and the Cold War
• 1950s at Home
• 1950s Cars to Color
• 1950s Fashion Glamour
• 1950s Guessing Game
• 1950s Music
• 1950s Web Quest
• American Cultural History of the 1950s
• Animated Lucy Opening
• Artists by Movement: Pop Art 1950’s to 1960's
• Biography for Lucille Ball
• Classic TV – 1950s
• Entertainment Scene presents: 20 Most Popular TV Shows Each Year In The 1950's
• Events, Trends, and People of the 1950s
• Evolution of the Shopping Center
• Excerpt from a 1950s Home Economics Textbook
• Fifties Index
• Flamboyant and Feminine - Women's Fashions of the 1950s
• From Domesticity to Modernity
• Haight Asbury Archive
• History of the Shopping Mall
• Hollywood Blacklist
• Hula Hoops
• I Love Lucy – TV Show
• Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
• Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
• Phone Booth Packing
• Post War America
• Post War United States 1945-1970
• Queen for a Day – 1950S TV Show
• Rebels: Poets and Painters of the 1950s
• TV commercials from the 50s and 60s
• TV in the 50s
• United States and Equal Rights: 1947-1965
• Web Links: the 1950s

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1960s

• 1960s Ads
• 1960s Web Links
• 1960s: A Decade of Turmoil
• 1960sPolitical Assassinations
• 1962 Department of Defense booklet Family Shelter Designs
• 1968: The Year of the Barricades
• 60s Bands
• American Cultural History 1960-1969
• Apollo 11
• Barbie: The Image of Us All
• Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1963-64
• Black Panther Political Art
• Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980
• Country Joe and the Fish
• Entertainment Scene presents: 20 Most Popular TV Shows Each Year In The 1960's
• Free Speech Movement Digital Archive 
• Hippie Museum
• Hippies
• Language of the Hip
• Leadership in Social Movements
• Mind Blowing – a Psychedelic Journey
• Monkees Home Page
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Paileontology: A history of the lunchbox
• Post War America
• Post War United States 1945-1970
• Psychedelic ‘60s
• Psychedelic 60s: The Vietnam War
• Sixties Gallery
• Sixties Net
• Sixties Project
• Smothers Brothers Home Page
• Sounds of the Psychedelic Sixties
• Student Movements in the Sixties
• Student Protest Movement of the 1960s
• Student Rebellion in the Sixties
• Summer of Love
• The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968
• Time for a Revolution - Women's Fashions of the 1960s
• Time to Cry – 1960s Gallery
• TV commercials from the 50s and 60s
• United States and Equal Rights: 1947-1965
• Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
• We Shall Overcome-Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
• Wild Bohemian Page
• Woodstock Links

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1970s

• American Cultural History of the 1970s
• Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980
• Commercials of the 1970s
• Contemporary United States 1968 to the Present
• Food of the 70s
• In the 70s
• Kent State
• Music of the 70s
• Post War America
• Post War United States 1945-1970
• Stuck in the 70s
• Toys of the 1970s

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1980s

• 80s Time capsule
• American Cultural History of the 1980s
• Art and Photography: The 1980s
• Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980
• Contemporary United States 1968 to the Present

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1990/2000s

• American Cultural History of the 1990s
• Art and Photography: The 1990s – Present
• Contemporary United States 1968 to the Present

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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

General Sites

• Causes of the Industrial Revolution
• Eighteenth Century Inventions 1700 – 1799
• Gilded Age: From Frontier to Factory Timeline
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrial Revolution: The European Enlightenment
• Industrial Revolution: The History of Technology
• Industrialization: The First Phase: 1700-1850
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution
• Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900
• The Industrial Revolution: Where it all Began
• The Market Revolution, 1815-1860

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Agricultural Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

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Business and Labor

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

• African American Heritage
• African American People: Achievers, Business Leaders, Celebrities, Heroes, Law and Politicians, Leaders, Notable Women, Scientists and Engineers
• African Americans – Current News and Topics
• African Americans – Education & Organizations
• African Americans – Health, Fashion, and Beauty
• African Americans – Literature Links
• African Americans – Religion
• African Americans – Sports
• African Americans.com: Culture, History, Legacy and Heritage
• African Americans: Arts and Entertainment
• Biographies of Notable and Famous African Americans
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Civil Rights Act of 1960
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Leaders
• Civil Rights Links
• Documents Relating to African Americans in the Armed Services
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Famous Black Contributors
• Historical Documents Links
• Historical Documents
• Kwanzaa Resources
• Maps and Flags of African Nations
• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches
• Some African American Firsts and Inventions
• The Underground Railroad

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LAW

General Sites

• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
• Art Law
• Crime and Criminals
• Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy: (from pre 18th Century to the Present)
• Famous American Trials: The Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
• First Amendment to the Constitution of The United States
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents (From before 1400 to the present)
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays
• Internet Law Library
• Internet Law Library: U.S. and Territorial Law
• Laws of Other Nations
• Politics and Policy News State by State
• The Avalon Project: Economic and legal Treatises
• The Significance of the Bill of Rights: How Ten Amendments Solidified Our Nation
• Treaties and International Law
• U.S. Law Library: U.S. and Territorial Law

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Famous Trials

• Trial of Socrates (399 BC)
• Trial of Jesus (30 AD)
• Trial of Sir Thomas More (1535)
• Trial of Galileo (1633)
• Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
• John Peter Zenger Trial (1735)
• Boston Massacre Trial (1770)
• The Bounty Mutineers Court-Martial (1792)
• The Aaron Burr Trial (1807)
• Amistad Trials (1839 – 1840)
• The Trial of John Brown (1859)
• The Dakota Conflict Trials (1862)
• Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators (1865)
• The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868)
• The Trial of Susan B. Anthony (1873)
• Mountain Meadows Massacre Trials (John D. Lee Trials) (1875-76)
• The O. K. Corral Trial ["Trial of Wyatt Earp"] (1881)
• The Trial of Charles Guiteau (1881-82)
• Louis Riel Trial (1885)
• The Haymarket Riot Trial [State of Illinois v. Albert Spies, et al.] (1886)
• The Trial of Lizzie Borden (1893)
• The Trial of Oscar Wilde (1895)
• Bill Haywood Trial (1907)
• The Trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp et al. (1907)
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial (1911)
• The Black Sox Trial (1921)
• The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (1921)
• Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (1924)
• The Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
• The Sweet Trials (1925 & 1926)
• The Massie ("Honor Killing") Trials (1931-32)
• "The Scottsboro Boys" Trials (1931 – 1937)
• Richard Hauptmann (Lindbergh Kidnapping) Trial (1935)
• Nuremberg Trials (1945 – 1949)
• The Alger Hiss Trials (1949-50)
• The Rosenberg Trial (1951)
• Dr. Sam Sheppard Trials (1954 and 1966)
• The Lenny Bruce Trial (1964)
• U. S. vs. Cecil Price et al. ["Mississippi Burning" Trial] (1967)
• "The Chicago Seven" Trial (1969 – 1970)
• The My Lai Courts-Martial (1970)
• The Trial of Charles Manson (1970-71)
• The Trial of Patty Hearst (1976)
• The Leonard Peltier Trial (1977)
• The John Hinckley Trial (1982)
• The Lindy & Michael Chamberlain ("Dingo") Trial (1982)
• The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials (1987-90)
• Los Angeles Police Officers' (Rodney King Beating) Trials (1992 & 1993)
• The O. J. Simpson Trial (1995)
• Oklahoma City Bombing Trial [Timothy McVeigh Trial] (1997)
• The Impeachment Trial of President William Clinton (1999)
• Trial of Zacarias Moussaoui (2006)

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Outlaws and Thieves

• Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang
• Baby Face Nelson: Childlike Mug, Psychopathic Soul
• Bonnie and Clyde: Depression-Era Duet
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Lore of the West
• Charles Arthur Floyd
• George "Machine Gun" Kelly
• Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen
• Henry Mccarty: The Wild West's "Billy the Kid"
• Jesse James: Riding Hell-Bent for Leather into Legend
• Ned Kelly
• The Harpes: America’s First Serial Killers
• The John Dillinger Story: Little Bohemia
• Wyatt Earp: Knight With a Six-Shooter

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Organized Crime/Gangsters

• Al Capone
• Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso
• Arnold Rothstein
• Bugsy Siegel
• Crime Library
• Dion O’Banion: Shamrocks, Gun Smoke and Beer Kegs
• Dutch Schultz: Beer Baron of the Bronx
• Eliot Ness
• Eliot Ness: The Man behind the Myth
• Fact and Fiction in the Godfather
• FBI Famous Cases: "Baby Face" Nelson
• FBI Famous Cases: Alphonse Capone, aka. Al, Scarface
• FBI Famous Cases: Bonnie and Clyde
• FBI Famous Cases: George "Machine Gun" Kelley
• FBI Famous Cases: John Dillinger
• FBI Famous Cases: Kansas City Massacre - Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
• FBI Famous Cases: Roger "The Terrible" Touhy's Gang
• FBI Famous Cases: The Brady Gang
• FBI Famous Cases: The Fur Dressers Case
• Frank “Frankie Loc” LoCasico
• Gangland News
• George “Bugs” Moran
• Gregory Scarpa
• Carmine (Junior) Persico
• John “Junior” Gotti
• John Gotti (The Dapper Don)
• John Gotti
• Joseph Michael Valachi
• Leonard DiMaria
• Leroy “Nicky” Barnes
• Lucky Luciano
• Married to the Mob: Mafia Wives and Mistresses
• Meyer Lansky
• Nicolas “Little Nick” Corozzo
• Real Life Sopranos
• Roy DeMeo
• Salvatore “Bull” Gravano
• Sam Giancana
• Sammy “The Bull” Gravano
• Shondor Birns and Danny Greene
• The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
• The Fixer: The Rise and Fall of Australian Drug Lord Robert Trimbole
• The John Gotti Story
• The Kray Twins
• The Life and Career of J. Edgar Hoover
• Vincent “Chin” Gigante

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Mass and Spree Murderers

• Alton Coleman & Debra Brown: Odyssey of Mayhem
• Andrew Cunanan
• Birmingham Church Bombing
• British Maniac Patrick Mackay and the System’s Failure
• Buddhist Temple Massacre
• David Koresh and the Waco Incident
• False Prophet: The Aum Cult of Terror
• Francis "Two Gun" Crowley
• Gary Gilmore
• Gendercide: The Montreal Massacre
• Heaven’s Gate
• John List
• Jonestown Massacre
• Josef Mengele
• Lynching in America: Carnival of Death
• Mark Essex
• Martin Bryant
• Never To Be Released: Crimes of Kevin Crump & Allan Baker
• Rampage In Camden
• Sizzler’s Massacre
• The Littleton School (Columbine High School) Massacre
• The Littleton School Massacre
• The Mcglincy Family Massacre
• The Mountain Meadows Massacre
• The Neptune Murders
• The Order Of The Solar Temple
• The Trial of Dr. Wouter Basson: use of chemical and biological weapons on African rebels
• The True Story of George Emil Banks
• The True Story Of Jeffrey Don Lundgren
• Thomas Hamilton: The Dunblane Massacre
• Timothy Mcveigh & Terry Nichols: Oklahoma Bombing
• Villisca: Mass Murder In Iowa
• Vlad the Impaler
• The Wichita Horror
• Charles Whitman: The Texas Tower Sniper
• The Zebra Killers

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Serial Killers

• Albert Fish
• Andrei Chikatilo – The Rostav Killer
• Angel Maturino Resendez: The Railroad Killer
• BTK Strangler Dennis Rader
• Celluloid Serial Killers
• Charles Cullen: Healthcare Serial Killer
• Charles Manson
• David Berkowitz “Son of Sam”
• David Parker Ray: The Toy Box Killer
• Denis Nilsen
• Dorthea Puente
• Eddie Gein
• Edmund Kemper: The Coed Butcher
• Fred & Rose West
• Green River Killer
• H.H. Holmes
• Jack the Ripper
• Jack the Stripper
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• Jerry Brudos – The Fetish Killer
• John Normal Collins
• John Wayne Gacy
• Joseph Edward Duncan III
• Juan Corona
• Pedro Lopez: The "Monster of The Andes"
• Richard Speck
• Robert Pickton
• Serial Killer Art
• Serial Killer Culture
• Serial Killer Movies
• Serial Killers Who Surrender
• Ted Bundy
• The Boston Strangler
• The Harpes: America’s First Serial Killers
• The Kingsbury Run Murders or Cleveland Torso Murders
• The Lost Son of Sam Letters
• The Night Stalker: Serial Killer Richard Ramirez
• The Story of Anatoly Onoprienko
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Trailside Killer Of San Francisco
• The Zodiac Killer
• Timothy Mcveigh & Terry Nichols: Oklahoma Bombing
• Uday Hussein
• Wayne Williams – Wayne Williams
• What Makes Serial Killers Tick?

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Terrorists

• Ambush: The Brinks Robbery Of 1981
• Amerithrax: The Beginning of the Outbreak
• Birmingham Church Bombing
• Carlos the Jackal: Trail Of Terror
• El-Sayid Nosair – The Killing Of Rabbi Kahane: Jihad In America
• Eric Rudolph: Serial Bomber
• George Metesky: New York's Mad Bomber
• Hambali: Mastermind of Terror
• Jonathan Idema: Our Man in Kabul
• Jose Padilla
• Mohammed Boureyi: The Murder of Theo Van Gogh
• Murphy's Law: The Story of the Shankill Butch
• Nick Berg
• Osama Bin Laden: High Priest of Terror
• Palestinian Suicide Bombers
• Patty Hearst
• Ted Kaczynski: The Unabomber
• The Bombing of Khobar Towers
• The Dr. Robert J. Goldstein Story
• The Mysterious Dr. Larry Ford
• The Quebec October Crisis
• The Tylenol Terrorist: Death in a Bottle
• The World Trade Center Attack
• The Zebra Killers
• Timothy Mcveigh & Terry Nichols: Oklahoma Bombing

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• Charles J. Guiteau
• James Earl Ray: The Man Who Killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• John Wilkes Booth: A Brutus of His Age
• Larry Flint
• Malcolm X: A Legend Emerges
• Mark David Chapman: The Man Who Killed John Lennon
• The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
• The Assassination of President William Mckinley
• The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
• The Death of Napoleon
• The Huey Long Story - A Bloody Sunday in Baton Rouge
• The John Hinckley Case
• The Strange Life And Death Of President Harding
• Theo Van Gogh - Free-Speech Martyr

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GOVERNMENT

• American Presidents
• Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government
• Copyright Office
• Department of Education
• Electoral College of the United States of America
• Electronic Embassy
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Fedstats
• 50 States and Capitals
• First Gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• Government
• Government and Politics
• House of Representatives
• Internal Revenue Service
• Library of Congress
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Science Foundation
• Office of Postsecondary Education Programs
• The Presidents
• Senate
• State and Local Government on the Net
• State of New Jersey
• Stately Knowledge, Facts about the United States
• Stately Knowledge: New Jersey
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• United Nations
• The White House

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