Historical Materials

The Avalon Project Nuremberg War Crimes Trialshttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Yale Law School sponsors this online archive of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Full-text of the government proceedings and supporting materials. Red and Blue Series available here.

Nuremberg Military Tribunal Green Series
http://www.mazal.org/NMT-HOME.htm
Partial full text available here, more to be added.

Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Brings together - online - the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
These documents are collected from various federal web sites including the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Many pages include not only the full text of these important documents, but facsimile copies so users can see what the original material looks like.

Documenting the American South  http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes full-text digital versions of literary works, Confederate documents, school books, letters, diaries and more.

History Matters http://history-matters.com/
This website is to serve as a repository and focal point for education and research on the subject of the JFK assassination and related topics in Cold War history. History Matters "sister" website, created on behalf of the AARC, will expand to include far more detailed materials of interest mainly to scholars.

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

Library of Congress American Memory Web Site  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Digitizes the distinctive, historical Americana materials from the Library's collections to make them available online to users worldwide. These materials include photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.

African American History
Architecture, Landscape
Cities, Towns
Environment, Conservation
Government, Law
Maps
Native American History
Presidents
Technology, Industry
War, Military
Women's History

Lincoln Net http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois

State of the Union Addresses  http://asksam.com/ebooks/StateOfTheUnion/
This site provides a complete database of all State of the Union Addresses from 1790-2006 plus seperate databases containing the 2005 and 2006 divided by subject.

The Presidential Timeline http://presidentialtimeline.org/
The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you'll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents? lives.

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/
Constitutes perhaps the most complete site available for persons who desire a gateway into e-text and e-book materials relating to the third U.S. president.

Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/index.html
The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.

Using Primary Sources on the Web http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/historysection/histsect/histcomm/instructionres/usingprimarysources.cfm
Provides students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online. The site includes links to major collections of primary sources (both text and images), metasites with additional sources and information on citing these sources.

Virtual Vietnam Project  http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/
The Virtual Archive currently includes finding aids for all Vietnam Archive collections and over 1.5 million pages of materials online, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and moving image recordings, artifacts, and oral histories. New items are being added daily.

War of the Rebellion http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html
Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. Also in paper in Documents reference.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion  http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html

World War II Military Situation Maps http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/
Contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they push towards Germany. Some of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified "G-3 Report" giving detailed information on troop positions for the period 3 Mar. 1945-26 J

100 Milestone Documents http://ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.

Lee Resolution (1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Virginia Plan (1787)
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51 (1787-1788)
President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
Bill of Rights (1791)
Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Compromise of 1850 (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Morrill Act (1862)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Pendleton Act (1883)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Dawes Act (1887)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
De Lôme Letter (1898)
Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
Platt Amendment (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Social Security Act (1935)
President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal (1936)
President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
Surrender of Germany (1945)
United Nations Charter (1945)
Surrender of Japan (1945)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
Voting Rights Act (1965)

Primary Documents in American History http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html
The Library of Congress is home to many of the most important documents in American history. This Web site provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement and enhance the study of these crucial documents. The initial release of this web site contains documents from the years 1763 to 1877. Updates will be made on a regular basis, including the addition of

Documents from the 20th Century.
The American Revolution and The New Nation, 1763-1815
National Expansion and Reform
Civil War and Reconstruction

Historical Documents on THOMAS

Historical Documents via the University of Utah Library http://www.lib.utah.edu/govdoc/library/historicaldocuments.htm

Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 http://govdocs.evergreen.edu/tools/1909checklist/

Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-1029

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html