Pre-Colonial America (-1607)

• Southwest Indian History
• History of the Cherokee
• A History of the Northwest Coast
• Iroquois History
• Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art
• Discoverers Web
• Vikings in the New World
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery (1492)
• The Columbus Navigation Homepage (1492)
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
• The Lost Colony at Roanoke (1584-1590)

The Colonial Era (1607-1775)

• Virtual Jamestown (1607)
• MayflowerHistory.com (1620)
• The Plymouth Plantation (includes the first Thanksgiving)
• The Wampanoags (the tribe that celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims)
• Colonial USA
• William Penn (Pennsylvania founded in 1681)
• Salem Witch Trials (1692)
• The Salem Witch Museum
• Bacon's Rebellion (1704)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• SpanishFlorida.net (pre-1763)
• The French and Indian War (1755-1763)
• The Proclamation of 1763
• The Boston Tea Party (1773)

The American Revolution (1775-1783)

• Causes of the American Revolution
• King George III
• The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
• The Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1763)
• The American Revolution (1775-1783)
• The American Revolution and Its Era (includes primary sources)
• American Independence (from the Modern History Sourcebook)
• The American Revolution: Lighting Freedom's Flame (from the National Parks Service)
• American Revolution Re-Enactors (1775-1783)
• Re-Enactment Groups
• Common Sense (February 14, 1776)
• Betsy Ross Homepage (sewed the first American flag in the spring of 1776)
• Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia
• The Declaration of Independence (in Congress, July 4, 1776)
• The Price They Paid... (Whatever happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?)
• Benedict Arnold
• Crispus Attucks
• Thaddeus Kosciuszko
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Casimir Pulaski
• Friedrich von Steuben
• The First Fourteen Presidents of the United States (1774-1788)
• The Articles of Confederation (1781)
• Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

The New Republic (1783-1800)

• The Northwest Ordinance (1785)
• The Constitution of the United States (ratifed in 1789)
• The American Constitution: A Documentary Record (from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
• The Constitution Society
• History of the Bill of Rights
• The 27th Amendment to the Constitution
• Mount Vernon
• The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton (Washington's Secretary of the Treasury)
• The Massachusetts Historical Society (founded in 1791)
• Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin (patented on March 14, 1794)
• The Bradford House and the Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
• Washington's Farewell Address (1797)
• The XYZ Affair (1797)

Early Expansion (1800-1840)

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Monticello
• The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• The Burr-Hamilton Duel (1804)
• Aaron Burr's Trial (1807)
• The Lewis and Clark Expidition (1804-1806)
• The Lewis and Clark Expidition (1804-1806)
• The History of Tecumseh and Tippecanoe
• The War of 1812
• The War of 1812 (by UWM Professor Reginald Horsman)
• The War of 1812 (from a Canadian perspective)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• The Missouri Compromise (1820)
• The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• History of the Erie Canal (1825)
• Trancendentalism (began in the 1830s)
• The McCormick Reaper (patented in 1834)
• The Whig Party (1834-1856)
• The Oregon Trail (opened in 1836)
• Remember the Alamo (1836)
• Davy Crockett (died at the Alamo)
• The Trail of Tears (1838-1839)

Manifest Destiny (1840-1862)

• The American West
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (began publishing in the 1840s)
• Edgar Allen Poe (also published in the 1840s)
• The Irish Potato Famine (1845-1851)
• The Donner Party (1846-47)
• The Mexican War (1846-1848)
• California Gold Rush (began 1848)
• Seneca Falls Convention and Early Feminists (1848)
• Compromise of 1850
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (published The Scarlet Letter in 1850)
• Herman Melville (published Moby Dick in 1851)
• American (Know-Nothing) Party
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• The Pony Express (founded in 1860)
• The Homestead Act (1862)

Famous People in Slavery and Abolition

• Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861)
• Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895)
• Dred Scott
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
• Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) and The Underground Railroad
• The Underground Railroad
• Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (1831)

The Civil War (1861-1865)

• The Civil War (1861-1865)
• The American Civil War Homepage
• The Civil War Archive
• The Civil War Page
• Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
• The Valley of the Shadow (has primary sources)
• Battles and Campaigns
• Civil War Medicine and glossary of terms
• Civil War Naval History
• Civil War Women Internet Resources
• The Confederate States of America
• The Emancipation Proclimation (January 1, 1863)
• The Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• The Library of Congress's Civil War Timeline
• The Papers of Jefferson Davis
• Re-Enactment Groups
• William H. Seward (Secretary of State during the war)
• William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
• Opposing Views on Reconstruction

The Gilded Age (1865-1890)

• The Gilded Page at the College of William and Mary
• Professional Baseball (Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first team to pay their players in 1869)
• The Transcontinental Railroad (completed in 1869)
• Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
• The History of the Standard Oil Company (formed in 1870)
• Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone in 1876)
• Andrew Carnegie
• Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)
• The Hatfield-McCoy Feud (1878-1891)
• Thomas Edison (invented the electric light in 1879)
• P.T. Barnum (joined James A. Bailey in 1881 to stage the "Greatest Show on Earth")
• The Gunfight at the OK Corral (1881
• Red Cross (founded in 1881 by Clara Barton)
• The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• The Pendleton Act (1883, reformed the civil service)
• American Federation of Labor (formed in 1886)
• The Dawes Act (1887, took the remaining Indians off their lands)
• Jane Addams and Hull House (founded 1889)
• Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)
• Massacre at Wounded Knee
• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
• Jack London (1876-1916)
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)

America Becomes a World Power (1890-1900)

• The Age of Imperialism (includes expansion in the Pacific, the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Panama Canal, and the Roosevelt Corallary)
• The Election of 1896
• Plessy v.Ferguson (1896)
• The Library of Congess (opened in 1897)
• The Birth of U.S. Imperialism: An Introduction to the Spanish-American War (1898)
• The Spanish American War (1898)
• Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
• "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics (published in 1899)
• The Phillipine-American War (1899-1902)

The Progressive Era (1900-1914)

• Ellis Island
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (published in 1900, explains how it relates to history)
• The Gospel of Wealth (1901)
• The Titanic (sunk on April 14, 1907)
• The "Bull Moose" Progessive Party (1912)
• The Federal Reserve Act (1913)
• The Pulitzer Prizes (first awarded in 1917)
• William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
• Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois
• Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917)
• John Muir (1838- 1913, founder of the Sierra Club)
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• The Wright Brothers

World War I (1914-1918)

• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
• The Internment of Ukranians in Canada
• World War I Document Archive
• World War I: Trenches on the Web
• Propaganda Posters
• The Zimmerman Note (January 19, 1917)
• Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918)
• Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918)
• The Treaty of Versailles

The Roaring Twenties (1918-1929)

• The Flu Epidemic (1918)
• The 1920s Experience
• The 1920s Floor Show
• Flappers
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Red Hot and Cool Jazz
• Prohibition (1919-1933)
• History of the Women's Suffrage Movement (1920)
• Women's Suffrage Time Line
• History of Radio Broadcasting (first commerical broadcast in 1920)
• The Teapot Domes Scandal (1923)
• The Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
• The Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
• The Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1921-1927)
• Al Capone (1899-1940) and Eliot Ness (1903-1957)
• Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888-1951)
• Babe Ruth (1895-1948)

The Great Depression (1929-1941)

• The 1930s Project
• The Causes of the Great Depression
• The Dust Bowl
• The Scottsboro Trials (1931-1937)
• The Bomus Army (1932)
• The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1932)
• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
• The Fireside Chats (listen to them)
• New Deal Network
• The Civilian Conservation Corps (created by the Unemployment Relief Act, March 31, 1933)
• The Tennessee Valley Authority (created on May 18, 1933)
• Bonnie and Clyde (captured in 1934)
• John Dillinger (1903-1934)
• Committee for Industrial Organization (formed in 1935)
• The Works Progress Administration (created on May 6, 1935)
• The National Labor Relations Board (created as a result of the National Labor Realtions (Wagner) Act, July 5, 1935)
• Social Security (created by the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935)
• The Hatch Act (1939)
• The Atlantic Charter (August 1941)

World War II (1939-1945)

• The World War II Page
• World War II Timeline
• World War II archives
• Canada and the Second World War
• Pearl Harbor Remembered (December 7, 1941)
• USS Arizona Memorial
• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill
• General George S. Patton
• Propaganda Posters
• The Luftwaffe
• Women Come to the Front
• Women's Army Corps (WAC)
• Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS)
• The Holocaust
• The Holocaust
• D-Day (July 6, 1944)
• D-Day (from a British perspective)
• The Battle ofthe Bulge (December 16, 1944 - January 28, 1945)
• The Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 - January 28, 1945)
• Pictures from the Homefront
• Rosie the Riveter Memorial
• The Internment of Japaneese-Americans
• The War in the Pacific
• Navajo Code Talkers
• The Manhatten Project
• The Bombing of Hiroshima
• Atomic Bomb WWW Museum (dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later)

The Cold War Begins (1945-1954)

• The Cold War Museum (1945-1991)
• The United Nations (formed in 1945)
• The Nuremburg Trials (1945-1946)
• The Marshall Plan (began in 1947)
• The Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
• The Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, formed in 1949)
• Fifties Web (pop culture)
• The Baby Boom
• The Korean War (1950-1953)
• The Korean War (1950-1953)
• The Rosenbergs (executed in 1951)
• NASA (created in 1958)
• The Hollywood Blacklist
• Senator Joe McCarthy (1909-1957)

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1969)

• Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
• The Montgomary Bus Boycott (December 1, 1955)
• Little Rock Central High School (September 1957)
• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE founded in 1942 but did its most famous work in the 1960s)
• The Freedom Rides (began Spring 1961)
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
• Malcolm X (1925-1965)

The Sixties (1960-1969)

• The Sixties Project (includes primary sources)
• Bay of Pigs Invasion April 17, 1961)
• The Berlin Wall (construction began in August 1961)
• The Cuban Missle Crisis (1962, includes documents)
• The Cuban Missle Crisis (1962)
• Collective Memories of the Cuban Missle Crisis (1962)
• The Kennedy Assassination (1963)
• The Vietnam War (1961-1975)
• The Vietnam Internet Project (1961-1975)
• A Vietnam War Bibliography
• Vietnam Memorials
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
• The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 24, 1964)
• National Organization for Women (founded in 1966)
• The Summer of Love (1967)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1968)
• The 1968 Democratic National Convention
• The First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969)
• The First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969)
• Woodstock (August 15-18, 1969)

Recent History (1970-present)

• -DeeT's 70s Page
• Crackdown at Kent State (May 4, 1970)
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I finalized in 1972)
• Watergate (June 17, 1972)
• Watergate (from the Washington Post)
• Illusion and Delusion: The Watergate Decade (1972-1974)
• The War Powers Act (1973)
• The Helsinki Accords (1975)
• The Camp David Accords (1979)
• Hostage Crisis in Iran (November 1979-January 1981)
• The 80's Server
• Sandra Day O'Connor (the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, 1981)
• The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or "Star Wars" plan announced in 1983)
• The Challenger Explosion (January 28, 1986)
• The Perisan Gulf War (1991)
• The Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution (1993)
• John Glenn's Return to Space (1998)
• 9-11-2001