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  AP History Study Resources
 
America's History, 5th Edition -This website offers an online study guide for the Henretta textbook. It features interactive review resources.
 
American Pagent: A History of the Rebublic - This is the link to the American Pageant online quizzes. These true/false and multiple choice questions are the same true/false and multiple choice questions used in the American Pageant Guidebook.
   
American History AP, Quizzes - This thorough site contains over 1,000 multiple choice quiz questions for AP US History.
   
American Past and Present, AP Edition - An excellent set of quizzes and chapter summaries geared to a different AP US History textbook.
   
The American People - These quizzes are geared to a different textbook but are still helpful. Each chapter contains a true/false, multiple- choice, and a fill-in quiz. The quizzes are interactive and answers are explained.
   
Advanced Placement United States History Sample Questions 2001-2002 -A set of 25 multiple choice questions and several essay prompts for each theme in US history.
  Historical Data Web Sites
 
EH.Net - A site that allows comparisons of certain economic data over time.
 
Geostat Center: Collections - Historical census data by decade from 1790-1960. A great source for raw data.
   
US Census Bureau - Historical census abstracts from 1878-2005.
Japanese American Internment Sites
 
Oregon Historical Society - Japanese Removal
 
Smithsonian Multimedia Presentation
 
Japanese-American Internment Camps, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
 
PBS Special on Children in the Camps (good links)
 
Topaz Museum http://www.topazmuseum.org/
 
San Francisco Museum - with D. Lange photographs
 
Japanese American National Museum
 
Ansel Adams photographs at the Library of Congress
 
Digital pictures through University of California
 
Discovering Collection
  Image Sites
   
Ad*Access - Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements from 1911 and 1955.
   
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 - Duke University catalog of print ads.
   
Historical Maps - Annotated links to historical maps from American history.
   
History Buff.com - A limited, but interesting online collection of newspaper front pages from 1700-2005.
   
Images of American Political History - Over 500 political images from all eras of American history.
   
New York Public Library Digital Gallery - A huge database of images. Click on the link to History & Geography.
   
Prints and Photographs On Line Catalog from the Library of Congress - A catalog of over 1 million images from the LOC
  Primary Source Document Web Sites
   
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History - Chronologically ordered links to primary source documents.
   
American Studies Sites - Tennessee Techological University - Department of History - Eras/topics for US History - scroll down for eras.
   
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - A thorough list of American political, diplomatic, and legal documents from all eras.
   
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - A collection of several hundred primary sources avalable.
   
History Matters - Annotated and searchable database of almost 1,000 primary source documents.
   
Library of Congress - This is an annotated list of the online collections of the Library of Congress. Good place to start.
   
The National Archives Home Page - U.S. government document. Excellent, unique sources, may require extra effort to search.
  Regional Document Web Sites
   
Documenting the American South - A large collection of primary sources of Southern history, literature, and culture through the University Library of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   
Online Archive of California - An online collection of 120,000 images and 50 pages of California documents.
  Specific Era Document Sites
   
Archiving Early America - A small collection of cuments, mpas, music, and links focusing on 18th century America.
   
Making of America - Searchable library of books and magazines from the Antebellum to Reconstruction eras.
   
New Deal Network - Documents and photographs relating to the Great Depression and The New Deal
   
Presidential Libraries - Gateway to 12 presidential libraries from Hoover to Clinton - As with all government web sites scroll down to find information.
   
The Valley of The Shadow - Details from two communities during the Civil War - Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia
  Social & Cultural History Document Sites
   
American Cultural History - The 19th Century - A decade by decade guide to American cultural history in the 19th century.
   
American Cultural History - The 20th Century - A decade by decade guide to American cultural history in the 20th century.
   
American Women's History - An exhaustive, categorized list of digital collections of American women's history.
   
The Authentic History Center - Primary sources (images of artifacts, cartoons, letters, diaries) from U.S. popular culture.
   
Popular Songs in American History - A large collection of puplar American historical song lyrics and information.
   
Women and Social Movements in the United States - 1500 documents dealing with social movements and women's history, 1600-2000
   
Women Working - Documents from 18701930 about women working, their changing roles, and its impact.
  Web Sites with Links t Historical Eras and Primary Source Documents
   
AHAP Primary Sources - Research Pages - A thorough set of reserach links crated by an AP US history
   
American History A.P. Unit Topics - Click on "Web Links" for each unit for links to many primary sources.
   
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic - An annotated list of histor web sites by the publisher of The Amerian Pageant.
   
Digital History - Easy to use, comprehensive history site. Don't limit yourself to "primary resources" section.
   
Oz's Table of Contents - An amazing, very comprehensive set of links and docs for all eras of American history.
   
PBS History - Primary source documents, images, and links for topics covered by PBS domentaries.
   
Primary Resources and Real-World Data - A large, briefly described list of websites with primary source documents.

 

 
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