History: Web Resources

Humanities and Social Sciences Online, includes discussions, reviews, announcements and jobs.

This digital archive gives unprecedented access to the ideas and stories that shaped American history—from 1857 to today.

The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.

From Yale University Law School, this website contains digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.