American President: An Online Reference Resource
http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/index.php/ academic/americanpresident/
Maintained by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the American President site offers a comprehensive collection of biographical information on presidents, first ladies, and cabinets of each administration.

California History Net
http://www.californiahistory.net/
An interactive timeline of California History, sponsored by the California Historical Society.

The Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts
http://library.uml.edu/clh/index.Html
A formidable archive of diaries, letters, photographs, and arcana from the mid-nineteenth century heyday of the Lowell textile mills, hosted by the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Chicago History Museum
http://www.chicagohistory.org/
The Chicago History Museum's website features a searchable online collection of photos, newspapers, and a Chicago bibliography.

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
A comprehensive resource of images, teaching guides, timelines, primary source documents, and online exhibits on American history.

EASE History (Michigan State University)
http://www.easehistory.org
Promotes American history education through photographs and videos.

Ellis Island
http://www.ellisisland.org/
Learn about immigration, view photo albums, and research passenger manifests online. Sponsored by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, primary sources, and discussion forums on teaching U.S. history. It is a joint project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/JazzGreats0.html
Photos, audio clips and essays on major figures in Jazz, from Rutgers University.

The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Online exhibitions and archives from the museum and library of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
The Library of Congress' family of Web sites includes "American Memory," with more than 7 million historical items, and "America's Library," an interactive learning site for kids. Visitors to the Library of Congress' Web site can find primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and motion pictures.

Mr. Lincoln's White House
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org
A collaborative production of the Lehrman Institute and the Gilder Lehrman Institute, this site offers an extensively researched portrait of Abraham Lincoln and life at the White House, and in Washington, D.C. generally, during his presidency. Also, visit a companion site at http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org.

National Archives: Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php
Under the aegis of the National Archives and Records Administration, this site features online exhibits and images of 100 milestone documents from American history.

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Founded in 1980, the National Women's History Project celbrates the accomplishments of women in American history, and offers lesson plans, contests, speeches, and other resources.

New York History Net
http://www.nyhistory.com/
Developed by a network of Empire State historians, New York History Net features book reviews, sponsors conferences, and links to local history organizations.

North American Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/
This digital archive of slave narratives is maintained by the University of North Carolina. The collection includes all existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published up to 1920.

Primary Research
http://www.primaryresearch.org/bh/
Specializing in New England history and geared toward high school students, this site offers primary source documents organized into online exhibitions, such as "African Americans in Antebellum Boston."

Stanford University's Exploring the West
http://exploringthewest.stanford.edu/
A project of the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University, Exploring the West is a high school curriculum resource containing over 100 worksheets, lesson plans, and other resources.

The Valley of the Shadow
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
Recipient of the 2000 e-Lincoln Prize, this site allows visitors to explore two communities, one Northern and one Southern, in the years leading up to and through the Civil War. It offers thousands of sources on Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, including newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.

Walt Whitman Archive
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Iowa, the Walt Whitman Archive features a trove of biographical, critical, and multimedia resources on the noted American poet.

Yale University's Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Yale's Avalon Project is a searchable digital repository of documents relating to law, history, economics, politics, and diplomacy from the seventheenth century to the present.