History > United States > Online resources

Records, archives, images, newspapers

and statistics

Library of Congress Research Tools

https://www.loc.gov/rr/ 

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/papr/mpixhome.html

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/toc.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/index.html

http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-general.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/gmpage.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/bachbase/bbcphoto.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/

Thomas / Legislative information on the internet,

a service of The Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0003262/

The National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/

The National Security Archives

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/

Our Documents

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=false& 

Congressional transcripts on line / Federal News Service

https://www.c-span.org/organization/?26469/Federal-News-Service  

Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/?fa=partof_type:presentation 

WW2

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/ 

WW2 > National Archives > World War II Photos

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos?template=print

The New York Public Library > Digital Collections

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

Duke University Libraries

https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org

Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs

at Ashland University

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/ 

Supreme Court of the United States

https://www.supremecourt.gov/

National Archives and Records Administration        NARA

https://www.archives.gov/about 

American Census Bureau

https://www.census.gov/ 

National Center for Health Statistics

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ 

BBC

Alistair Cooke's Letter from America

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player 

Hanover Historical Texts Project > primary texts

https://history.hanover.edu/project.php 

United States of America government

US government portal / The White House

Senate / House of Representatives

https://www.usa.gov/ 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

https://www.senate.gov/ 

https://www.house.gov/ 

Congressional Budget Office

https://www.cbo.gov/ 

Federal Election Commission

https://www.fec.gov/ 

Calisphere

A world of primary sources and more

https://calisphere.org/

The entire LIFE archive

— about 10 million photos

on Google Image Search

The Zapruder film

of the Kennedy assassination;

The Mansell Collection

from London;

Dahlstrom glass plates

of New York and environs

from the 1880s;

and the entire works

left to the collection

from LIFE photographers

Alfred Eisenstaedt,

Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.

This collection

of newly-digitized images

includes photos and etchings

produced and owned by LIFE

dating all the way back to the 1750s.

Cover of LIFE magazine dated 11-26-1965

w. logo & pic of Vietcong prisoner

captured during Cape Batangan battle,

under guard (w. eyes & mouth taped shut)

awaiting transfer to US POW compound.;

photo by Paul Schutzer.

Date taken: November 26, 1965

Photographer: Paul Schutzer

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7ce577ad571985fb - broken link

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

NASA    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Solar system / Universe    Images