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New York State History

• 100 Years of New York City
• Changes in Names of New York State Towns
• The Erie Canal
• The Erie Canal: A Brief History
  Part of the New York State Canal System website.
• The Erie Canal: A Journey Through History
  A multimedia online presentation.
• Erie Canal Online
  Shows life along the Erie Canal, both in the 19th Century and as a recreation center in the late 20th Century.
• Historical County Population Data
  Populations of New York State Counties from 1790 to 1990.
• National Register of Historical Places—New York
• New York History Net
  New York History Net is devoted to New York history and culture. It is produced by the Institute for New York State Studies.
• New York State and the Civil War
• New York State Archives
• New York State County Formation Maps
• New York State Historical Association
  Located in Cooperstown, New York. Premier collections of American Folk Art, Fine Art, and Indian Art.
• New York State Library
• New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
• New York State Newspaper Project
  A part of the New York State Library web site, this section describes the state-wide effort to inventory, catalog, and microfilm newspapers in all communities, as well as provide a research catalog of newspapers held in microfilm both at the New York State Library and at libraries around New York State.
• Origins of New York State's County Names
• Places Where Women Made History
  Historic places in New York and Massachusetts.
• Rediscovering New York
  Directs users to historical records and resources in New York State from libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.
• September 11 Digital Archive
• State Historic Markers
• The Underground Railroad in New York State
• Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote
  Digital collections and information on the suffrage movement.

Onondaga County and Central New York History

• Central New York Freedom Trail
• The Civil War in Central New York
• Erie Canal Museum
  A private, nonprofit corporation located in the 1850 Weighlock Building in Syracuse.
• Franklin Automobile Photograph Collection
  Over 150 scanned photographs from the Onondaga Historical Association Franklin Automobile Collection. The photographs include selected images from the factory and production process, sales and advertising, and Franklin cars "on the road."
• The Freedom Trail in Syracuse and Onondaga County
• Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum
• Harriet Tubman Home
• Historic Central New York
  An online exhibit celebrating Central New York's contributions to the social reform movement of the nineteenth century.
• Historic CNY
  Historic CNY is a quarterly historical magazine written and published by a group of local history buffs.
• The History of Syracuse
  From the City of Syracuse website. The site also lists the Mayors of Syracuse, Syracuse Firsts, and Little Known Facts.
• Local History Photographic Collection
  Approximately 500 scanned images of the Liverpool area in the early 1920s and the Onondaga Nation Territory around 1910.
• Manlius Historical Society
• Marcellus Historical Society
• The Onondaga County Library Postcard Collection
  Over 300 digitized historic postcards of Syracuse and Onondaga County.
• Onondaga Historical Association
• Oswego County Underground Railroad
• The Political Graveyard: Onondaga County, NY
  Politicians who were born in, lived in, or died in Onondaga County.
• Safe Haven
  Read about the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter, America's only shelter for refugees of the Holocaust.
• Safe Haven Museum
• Skaneateles Historical Society
• Spafford Area Historical Society
• Syracuse Then and Now
• Town of Onondaga Historical Society
• Tully Area Historical Society
• Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
  Text and images from an exhibition at the University of Rochester Library.

Native Americans in New York State

• Ganondagan State Historic Site
  Ganondagan is the site of a major seventeenth-century Seneca town and its palisaded granary. Located in Victor, NY, it includes a reproduction longhouse, hiking trails, and a visitor center.
• Haudenosaunee: People Building a Long House
  The official home page of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Grand Council.
• The Iroquois Constitution
• Iroquois Indian Museum
  The Iroquois Indian Museum introduces the public to Iroquois by featuring their art, past and present, as a window into their culture. The museum is located in Howes Cave, NY.
• The Iroquois Nations of the Northeast
• Iroquois.net
  Includes contact information for Iroquois Councils within New York State.
• Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
• The Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne
• Ohwejagehká: Ha`degaénage:
  A nonprofit organization established to help preserve and nurture the Iroquois language and songs.
• Oneida Indian Nation
• Onondaga Nation School
• Peace 4 Turtle Island
  Basic information about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).
• Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
  Located on the Allegany Indian Reservation, within the city of Salamanca, NY.
• The Seneca Nation of Indians
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Northeast Region Native American Relations
  Lists federally recognized Indian tribes in the Northeast Region, their tribal leaders, and contact information.

United States History

• 20th Century Year by Year
• "#000080">African American Studies
• AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
• American and British History (Rutgers University Libraries)
• American History 102: Civil War to the Present
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• American Presidents: Life Portraits
• Bad Fads Museum
• Biography.com
  Includes a searchable online database of 15,000 of "the greatest names, past and present"
• Black History at HarpWeek.com
• CivilWar@Smithsonian homepage
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
• Digital Archive of American Architecture
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present 
• DOUGLASS | Archives of American Public Address
• The Drop Zone Virtual Musum - Dedicated to preserving WWII Airborne History
• From Slavery to Freedom:  The African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909 
• Great American Speeches
• Grolier Online's The American Presidency
  A "history of presidents, the presidency, politics and related subjects"
• Historical Text Archive
• Historical United States Census Data Browser
• History Buff's Home Page
  "This site is devoted to press coverage of events in American history. It includes an extensive, searchable, library with the categories Civil War, Baseball, Engravings, Journalism Hoaxes, Old West including Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Crime figures such as Bonnie & Clyde, Lizzie Borden and over a dozen other categories. The Presidential Library includes the inaugural addresses of all U.S. presidents. There is also a primer and price guide for historic newspapers. Scroll on down and click a menu plaque to begin your tour.
  • History Buff's Reference Library Search Engine 
  • The History Channel
  • History of Women in the Military
  • A Hypertext on American History: from the colonial period until Modern Times
  • The Internet African American History Challenge
  • It Seems Like Yesterday "an online quarterly magazine that 'explores the reverberations of the post World War II population explosion in North America'"
  • Learning Page for the National Digital Library Program
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    The Library of Congress has launched an online Learning Page for students and educators. This page offers organized help for searching the Library's primary resource collections that have been online since 1994. Primary sources are the authentic documents,photographs, and manuscripts that transform history into a well-told story. Through the Learning Page, one will have help accessing 29,000 photographs, 99 motion pictures, 5,900 documents, and 59 sound recordings currently available online from the Library of Congress. 

    The Learning Page is part of the Library's effort to reach the K-12 community.and offers help in searching collections organized by the Events, Topics, People, Time, and Places of American history. The Learning Page also features an e-mail gateway to a reference librarian and comment sections that support the exchange of ideas among educators and students. The page includes a tutorial on historical detection that encourages learners to solve a mystery using information found in the online collections. An Educator's Page offers files of teacher-generated project ideas for using the Library's historical collections in the classroom. Links to other history- and education-related Web sites for students and teachers have been included as well.

  • The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s 
  • Making of America - "Cornell University's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction"
  • Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
  • National Archives Online Exhibit Hall
  • National First Ladies Library
  • National Register of Historic Places
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Office of the Historian: Foreign Relations Series
  • Old West Index Page
  • PBS History
  • Presidential Libraries Locations and Hours
  • The Presidents of the United States (whitehouse.gov)
  • Presidents of the United States - Internet Public Library
  • Public Opinion Poll Item Question Database
  • Selected Internet Resources in United States History - from The New York Public Library
  • The September 11 Digital Archive
  • The Smithsonian Institution
  • The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
  • Spain, The United States and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
  • State Historic Preservation Offices
  • Talking History Home Page - Department of History, University at Albany
  • Timelines - AlternaTime
  • Today In History 
  • U.S. Army Military History Institute
  • U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index
  • U.S. Historical Documents Archive
  • U.S. Presidents List 
  • USA History
  • A Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall
  • World War II Poster Collection
  • World War II Resources - "Primary source materials on the Web.. Original documents regarding all aspects of the war."
  • WWWomen: History
  • Yahoo! Arts: Humanities: History

  World History

  • 20th Century Year by Year
  • The Alexander Palace Time Machine
    History of the Romanav Dynasty Palace and the family of Tsar Nicholas II
  • The Ancient Greek World
  • BBC Renaissance Secrets
  • Biographical Dictionary
  • Biography.com
    Includes a searchable online database of 15,000 of "the greatest names, past and present"
  • The British Monarchy
  • The Camelot Project: Arthurian Texts, Images, Bibliographies, and Basic Information
  • CARRIE: An Electronic LIbrary: Documents
  • Documenting a Democracy - Australia's story
  • The Ecole Initiative
    "Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World-Wide Web"
  • Encyclopaedia of British History
  • EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
  • Exhibits Collection -- The Middle Ages
  • Historic Events & Birth-dates
  • History - American and British (Rutgers Uniiversity Library)
  • History Guide (at the State and University Library at Gottingen, Germany)
  • History Resources (through the University of Kansas)
  • The Holocaust Chronicle
  • HyperHistory Online
  • Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
  • MSARP Virtual Slide Show
    "...a virtual slide show based upon archaeological research carried out in the Canadian High Arctic during the past five years.
  • Normandy: 1944
  • PBS History
  • The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)
  • People's Century
  • Red Files ("Red Files, a four-part documentary series from PBS, utilizes previously unavailable archival sources and interviews to present a fascinating look at the Soviet Union and its Cold War rivalry with the US.")
  • Roman Emperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis Roman HHistory Roman Roman Empire Imperator Basileus De Imperatoribus Romanis Encyclopedia Byzantine
  • The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  • Smithsonian Without Walls - "Revealing Things"
  • Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
    "The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history."
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • The World War I Document Archive
  • Yahoo! Arts: Humanities: History

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