Online resources for history, government, politics, civics, and economics.
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Spanish American War
World War I
​1920's​
​1930's/Great Depression
​World War II

​American Revolution 1                       
​American Revolution 2
Slavery in America
​Civil War
​Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion

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American Revolution                                         
​Slavery in America
Civil War
​Westward Expansion
​Spanish American War
​World War I

eBook: "World War I and the Jazz Age" - ​Diverse collection of information and primary source materials tells the story of America's coming-of-age from an isolationist nation to a world power, tracing the changes in American social relations, politics, and industry during the Progressive Era, World War I, and the Jazz Age.
The Great Depression
​World War II

Civic engagement & primary sources through key moments in history.

More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history.

Millions of newspaper pages from nearly every state and territory in the US published from 1756-1963.

Finding primary sources in the Library of Congress

Library of Congress Digital Collections

Thousands of primary sources from the National Archives--letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types--spanning the course of American history.

Info about gov't agencies, general gov't info.

A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations.

Primary source documents in law, history, & diplomacy. From 4000bc to the 21st century.

Primary sources for European history.

Primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

CIA World Factbook- information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 260+ world entities. Maps, too!

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Archive of LIFE magazines, LIFE photo collection and other primary source photographs from the 1870's-2000s.

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TIME magazines from 1923-present

The University Library Digital Collections feature historically significant documents, photographs, oral histories, artistic works and exhibit materials selected from the University Library's Special Collections and Archives.

Founded by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Provides high-quality, nonpartisan civic education used by 145,000 educators to teach 9 million students in all 50 states.

Over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.

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From educational games and short-form, just-in-time materials to comprehensive inquiry-based curricula, iCivics resources encourage students to interact with complex concepts in ways they can understand and relate to.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Fascinating legal histories for ancient, medieval eras!
Imperial War Museums (WWI to present day conflicts) - Downloadable PDFs profiling people, battles, and issues.
World Digital Library - Developed by Library of Congress team, contains primary materials in
many formats from countries and cultures around the world. Timeline from 8000 B.C. to date.
LA Public Library - Scroll down to HISTORY (past the genealogy section).