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American History - General Web Resources

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    Penny Magazine Online
    [New link requested from Rochester University on 6/15/20]
    The Penny Magazine, published every Saturday, was aimed at the working class. It was part of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's program for liberal reform.
     
    History of the National Refining Company
    http://www.enarco.com
     
    Majic Bus: An American Odyssey a Tour Through American History
    http://douglasbrinkley.com/books/the-majic-bus-an-american-odyssey/
    " [This book is available for purchase.] The Majic Bus educational odyssey was started in 1992 by history professor Douglas Brinkley when, frustrated by his students lack of knowledge about their American heritage, he took his class from Hofstra University on a six-week voyage across America to study history, literature and culture."
     
    The Grazian Archive
    http://www.grazian-archive.com/
    In Search of the Americans, "the accumulating avant-garde American history (1400-2000) by Professor Alfred de Grazia ... [including] the largest ... personal correspondence of home front-war front in WWII, and other literary and scientific materials of De Grazia on world governance and natural history of catastrophes."
     
    The Time Page: Cycles in U.S. History
    http://www.timepage.org/
     
    United States Postal Service, History 1775-1993
    https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/
     
    American History
    http://www.u-s-history.com/
    The purpose of this site is to provide a comprehensive history of the United States, providing more detail than would be available from most textbooks, with intensive crosslinking of pages

 

Archives and Databases

 

Societies

 

Presidential Sites

    Presidents of the United States
    http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
    Biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are included
     
    Presidential Elections Statistics
    http://www.multied.com/elections/
    information on each of the US Presidential elections, with electoral votes and popular votes.

 
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