Related Websites

Topic Ideas

•   Minnesota History Topics
     http://www.mnhs.org/historytopics 

•   U.S. and World History Topics
     http://www.nhd.org/images/uploads/cc2008SampleTopics.pdf

Starting Places - Online Encyclopedias

•   Encyclopedia.com
     http://www.encylopedia.com

•   Columbia Encyclopedia
     http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Local Libraries

•   Hennepin County Library
     http://www.hclib.org

•   Minneapolis Public Library
     http://www.mplib.org

•   Ramsey County Library
     http://www.ramsey.lib.mn.us

•   St. Paul PublicLibrary
     http://www.stpaul.lib.mn.us

•   Minnesota Library Information Network (MnLINK)
     A statewide virtual library that electronically links major Minnesota libraries.       
     http://www.mnlink.org

Advanced Libraries

•   WebPals
     Gateway to state college libraries as well state agency libraries.        
     http://www.mnpals.net/

•   University of Minnesota Library
    Search the libraries and collections of the University of Minnesota.
    http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/historyday/

Primary Source Archives

Proquest
Provides access to historical newspaper articles, including full-text articles from the New York Times, as well as current periodicals.  In orders to access Proquest you will need to go to the website of your local library and find the link to Proquest and enter your library card barcode.

•   Minnesota Historical Society Library
    On-line collections catalog and a variety of specialized collections. 
    http://www.mnhs.org/collections/index.htm

•   Minnesota Reflections
     Primary source photos and documents on Minnesota topics.
     http://reflections.mndigital.org/

•   Our Documents
     Provides on-line access to 100 milestone documents of American History.
     http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php/flash=true&

•   American Memory Project
     Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. 
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

•   National Archives
     Federal agency that provides ready access to essential goverment records.
     http://www.archives.gov/index.html

•   American Journeys
     More than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration.
     http://www.americanjourneys.org/index.asp

•   Library of Congress
     Largest library in the world with more than 120 million items.
     http://www.loc.gov

•   Bartleby
     Internet publisher with access to historical documents, books and other resources.
     http://www.bartleby.com

•   The African-American Registry
     Database of secondary accounts of African-American history.
     http://www.aaregistry.com

•   Internet History Sourcebooks Project
     Links to a wide variety of historical texts from around the world.
     http://www.fordham.edu/halsall

•   Euro Docs
     Links to sites with full text and translations of documents from European History.
     http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Image Searches

•   Google Image Search
     http://www.google.com/imghp

•   Minnesota Historical Society - Visual Images Database
     http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/

Historic Places

Minnesota

•   Minnesota Historical Society and Historic Sites
     http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/index.html

•   James J. Hill Reference Library
     http://www.jjhill.org/

•   The Bakken Library and Museum
     http://www.thebakken.org/

National

•   Colonial Williamsburg
     http://www.history.org/

•   Edison National Historic Site
     http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/home.htm

•   Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
     http://www.hfmgv.org/

•   Gettysburg National Military Park
     http://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

•   National Park Service
     http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/index.asp

•   Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson
     http://www.monticello.org/

•   Smithsonian
     http://www.si.edu/

•   United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
     http://www.ushmm.org/

Presidential Libraries

•   William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
     http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/

•   George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
     http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

•   Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
     http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/

•   Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
     http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/

•   Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
     http://www.ford.utexas.edu/

•   Richard Nixon LIbrary and Birthplace
     http://www.nixonlibrary.org/

•   Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
     http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/

•   John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
     http://www.jfklibrary.org/

•   Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum
     http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/

•   Truman Presidential Museum and Library
     http://www.trumanlibrary.org/

•   Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
     http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

•   Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
     http://www.hoover.archives.gov/