MARY'S
GENEALOGY TREASURES
United States History
- America's First Families
The 1600s Ancestor Database contains listings of thousands
Colonial Ancestors whose lines have been approved by various Societies and
Organizations through the years. States:
NH - MA - ME - RI - CT - NY - NJ - PA - DE - MD - VA - NC - SC
- Across the Generations - Exploring US History through Family Papers
- Age of Imperialism
- Arkansas - The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 1841-1902
- GenDisasters
This website chronicles the events that touched our
ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes,
earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and
accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books
and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors'
endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s.
- Generations of American History
- Clothing
- Cyndi's List
- eHistory.com
eHistory consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content:
- Hudson Bay Archives
The HBCA offers a wealth of information on the human and natural history of
western and northern Canada and the western USA
- Making of America
The collection is particularly strong in
the subject areas of education, psychology, American
history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over
100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- National Parks Service - Links to the Past
- National Register of Historic Places
- Prairie Settlement - Nebraska Photographers and Family Letters
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- Picture History
- Reading Railroad
500 service records for Reading Company employees ranging from 1883 to
1964. The records include name, photo, birth date, birth place, educational
background, present age and position, complete service records (all positions
held and location), and any examinations they have taken.
- Surviving the Dust Bowl
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School-Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
General Charters, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia
- The First American West - The Ohio River Valley
1750-1820
15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples,
exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the
mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
- The Library of Virginia Digital Collections
- The TimePage - Cycles in U.S. History
- usHistory.org
Created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia.
- U.S. History Research Guilde
- U.S. Postal History
- Utah - Mountain West Digital Library
- Valdez Museum and Historical Archives - Gold Rush
- Virtual Jamestown
- WebChron - The Web Chronology Project
Time Line and Chronology of American History
- Western Waters Digital Library
The Western Waters Digital Library is a
collaborative regional project, currently offering centralized searching
of materials contributed by academic research libraries in six western states.
- Yahoo - U.S. History
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Mary Tollestrup