Primary Resources for U.S. History

• Documenting the American South
• New Deal Network
• American Studies Crossroad, a huge hubsite on American history and culture
• American Memory, primary sources including images at the Library of Congress
• Making of America, primary sources on antebellum America through Reconstruction
• Secession Era Editorials Project at Furman University, including a Lincoln/Net, exploring Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years
• The Valley of the Shadow, two communities in the American Civil War
• U.S. Civil War Center
• Causes of the Civil War, by James Epperson (Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville) on Civil War Webring
• 18th and 19th Century Documents, American Studies Research Projects, Washington State University
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address, Northwestern Univ.
• Historical Documents of the United States of North America, U. of Kansas
• Historical Text Archive, Mississippi State
• Black History in Harper's Weekly, 1857-1874, uncensored material on the treatment of blacks and slavery from the early issues of Harper's Weekly, the largest national newspaper circulation. Includes a Reconstruction simulation created by my friend Eric Rothschild.
• Freedman and Southern Society Project
• 19th century advertising history
• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Sampler of Civil War Literature
• Immigrant and Ethnic America
• The World of Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
• The American West
• The Idea of the South: Electronic Resources, list by Alan B. Howard at U.Va.
• Century of Law-Making for a New Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• American Authors on the Web
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Steven Mintz, University of Houston
• Virtual Library: History, hubsite at U. of Kansas
• Voice of the Shuttle, hubsite for Humanities Research, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
• The History WebRing
• DoHistory, a site which guides its users through the research process in specific case studies, developed by Harvard University
• Flags Of The Confederacy, a site devoted to Confederate vexillology where you can read about the numerous flags of the government and armed forces of the Confederate States of America and view many images of those flags

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  Ky. History Sites

• Ky. Assoc. of Teachers of History Student Writing Awards
• Ky. GenWeb Project: Ky. Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project, est. 1996
• Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer
• Historical homes and parks in Kentucky
• Kentucky Biography Project
• Other Ky. Military History websites
• Kentucky Historical Society
• Madison County Historical Society
• Travel and Tourism in Nineteenth Century Kentucky
• Famous Kentuckians
• Enda Lechauhanne: The Legend of the Forks of the Elk Horn, by Nettie Henry Glenn
• Official Kentucky Vacation Guide
• Randolph's Scrapbook from Research on the Wickliffe-Preston families

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  Primary Resources for Kentucky History

• Kentucky Resolutions, 1798 and 1799
• 1833 Ky. Law for Non-Importation of Slaves, repealed in 1849
• Letter from William Preston to his son Robert Wickliffe Preston, November 28, 1861, on why he left Kentucky and joined the Confederate Army
• Electioneering for Lincoln in Ky and outrages by Burbridge, a narrative by General William Preston, C.S.A.
• Excerpts from Col. Thomas F. Berry's memoir, Four Years with Morgan and Forrest, pub. 1914 (inc. stories about Quantrell and James)
• A True Story of Real Life: The Southern Husband Outwitted by His Union Wife, by Kate Plake (1838-?), the autobiography of a Kentucky wife and mother who was abused by her husband and turned spy for the Union; a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
• The Ideal Woman in Victorian Kentucky, Joel T. Hart's Il Penseroso and Woman Triumphant
• Letters from Liberia to Kentucky: 2 women and 4 children, former slaves of M.O.T.R. Wickliffe, are sent in 1833 from Lexington KY to Africa
• Letters from former slaves to William Preston of Lexington regarding issues of property ownership and basic subsistence
• Poems by two famous Lexington women -- from two different worlds
  • "A White Rose", a poem by author Rosa Vertner Jeffrey, published 1868
  • "Kisses", by prostitute Belle Brezing, written probably 1874
• "Love, Honor, and Obey," an 1874 Lexington, KY newspaper article arguing against women's rights
• "Has Woman Any Longer A Sphere?", Julia R. Ewan's valedictorian address upon her graduation from Miss Gordon's Training School, June 2, 1910, Maysville, Ky.
• Historical Maps of Kentucky and Kentucky Counties
• Songs
  • My Old Kentucky Home, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the original lyrics were different from the ones sung today
  • Kentucky! O Kentucky!, Civil War Song lampooning Kentuckians' love for John Hunt Morgan

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