General

• The History Channel -search for your topic from this site.
• From Revolution to Reconstruction a World Wide Web project in collective writing
• The Library Company of Philadelphia
• An Interactive Biographical Dictionary Profiling the Men and Women Portrayed in The West, a PBS research and film project including Kit Carson, Meriwether Lewis, James Polk, John Brown, Sacagawea, Marcus & Narcissa Whitman.

Timelines

• The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln
• Timeline- A Narrative History
• The Major Events in World History in the 19th Century from History Central.com
• Conservation Chronology 1847 - 1871 - from Documentary Chronology of Selected Events in the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920
• An Interactive Timeline Tracing Events in The West across 5 centuries.

News Topics

Government and Politics

• The Presidents of the United States 1789-1850 Washington - Taylor and 1850 -1901 Fillmore - McKinley (from the White House)
• Election Central - A History of Presidential Elections
• The New York City Draft Riots of 1863

Supreme Court Decisions

• FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: Supreme Court
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Marbury vs. Madison

Laws and Legislation

• United States Free/Slave Soil Map 1820 - The Missouri Compromise - The Civil War - Cape Girardeau, Missouri
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850 (Memory): American treasures of the Library of Congress
• African American Journey: Kansas-Nebraska Act

Reform Movements

• Temperance and Prohibition
• Abolition : African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
• The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National Women Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
• The History of the Suffrage Movement - by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler
• The Second Great Awakening: Selected Stories and Teachings from the History of Revival

Exploration - Westward Expansion

• The American West - links from the Mining Co.
• Lewis and Clark
• Lt. Zebulon Pike in Spanish Texas
• The Oregon Trail
• The Donner Party
• All About the Gold Rush
• The Louisiana Purchase by J. T. Lawson
• The Seminole Wars - This site from the State of Florida provides links to the history of the Seminole Tribe and biographies of Seminole Leaders.
• The Trail of Tears - Following is the birthday story of Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, regarding his participation in the Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838-39.
• The Trail of Tears - Links to other accounts of the Trail of Tears.
• Ohio's Historic Inidans in the Northwest Territory (1787-1803) Specific information available by clicking on particular events, people, treaties, etc. Web site compiled by the Ohio Historical Society.

American Foreign Policy

• The War of 1812: Events and Locations
• The Monroe Doctrine Declared: 1823
• The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage
• Key Events in the Mexican-American War

Editorial Section / Political Cartoons

• History of the 19th Century in Political Cartoons has examples of cartoons including Our Political Drama - Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Women's Suffrage in Political Cartoons and Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast
• Special Collections of Cartoons from the Ohio State University (a later time period, but good examples of political cartoons to check out including a link to Frank Beard: An American Illustrator and Caricaturist)

Travel Section

• The History of the New York State Canal System from the New York State Canal System site.
• B&O Railroad Museum
• The Iron Road
• The Erie Canal - The history of the Erie Canal. (History Dept. of the University of Rochester.)
• The History of the Erie Canal - From the New York State Canal System
• National Road Web site by Frank Brusca

Science, Technology, Health Section

• National Inventors Hall of Fame Index to Inventions
• Industrial Revolution
• Lowell Girls - An autobiographical account of a young woman who went to work in the mills in Boston from 1832 until 1848.
• Lowell National Historical Park home page- Provides links to stories and pictures of the Lowell textile mills.  
• The 1832 Cholera Epidemic in New York State

Life and Leisure Section

• Hudson River School and Index of Hudson River School Painters
• Art of the American Indian Frontier - A portfolio of images and information from the Detroit Institue of Arts.
• Industry and Consumerism - check out for information about fashion
• Literature of the Hudson River Valley - Featured authors include Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, and John Burrough.
• Pictures of The Museum of American Frontier Culture - Photos of buildings and workers reinacting the past.
• The History of Public Education in Connecticut by Clifford J. Dudley
• The Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia
• An American Farm - Descriptions of life on an American farm in Virginia in the early 19th century. Includes historical background on the Valley of Virginia, typical farm buildings, furnishings and daily work.