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Clio-Guide-Linkliste: USA

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Wilfried Enderle, Clio-Guide-Linkliste: USA, in: Clio Guide – Ein Handbuch zu digitalen Ressourcen für die Geschichtswissenschaften, hrsg. von Silvia Daniel, Wilfried Enderle, Rüdiger Hohls, Thomas Meyer, Jens Prellwitz, Claudia Prinz, Annette Schuhmann, Silke Schwandt, 3. erw. und aktualisierte Aufl., Berlin 2023

Bibliografien

America: History and Life

https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/america-history-and-life

Die umfassendste fachbibliographische Datenbank zur Geschichte der USA. In der Version "full-text" bietet sie zugleich direkten Zugriff auf digitale Versionen von Zeitschriftenaufsätzen. Die Datenbank ist kostenpflichtig und nur an Universitäten nutzbar, deren Bibliotheken einen Zugang erworben haben.

Institutionen

American Association for State and Local History

https://aaslh.org/

"The American Association for State and Local History is a national membership association dedicated to helping the history community thrive. For the better part of a century, AASLH has provided leadership and resources to its members who preserve and interpret state and local history to make the past more meaningful to all people." (https://aaslh.org/about/)

American Historical Association

https://www.historians.org

Die AHA ist der zentrale Fachverband der amerikanischen Historikerinnen und Historikern, der unter anderem mit der American Historical Review eine der renommiertesten Fachzeitschriften herausgibt. Mit dem Online-Journal Perspectives bietet die AHA zudem einen Einblick in aktuelle Entwicklungen der amerikanischen Geschichtswissenschaft. Dazu gibt es auf der Websites Hinweise zu Online-Ressourcen für die Lehre und anderes mehr.

FID AAC: Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

https://libaac.de

"The FID is a cooperation between SUB Göttingen and the JFKI Library at FU Berlin and is currently funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)." (https://libaac.de/about/who-we-are/)

German Historical Institute Washington

https://www.ghi-dc.org

Die Website des Deutschen Historischen Instituts, Washington, informiert vor allem über die Forschungsprojekte und Publikationen am Institut.

National Archives

https://www.archives.gov

"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever." (https://www.archives.gov/about)

National Council on Public History

https://ncph.org/cms

Verband von Historikerinnen und Historikern, die sich der Public History zuordnen, also der Vermittlung von Forschungsergebnissen der Geschichtswissenschaft an eine breitere Öffentlichkeit. Die Website des NCPH bietet neben Neuigkeiten auch Informationen zu Publications & Resources des Verbandes.

National Museum of American History

https://americanhistory.si.edu

"The National Museum of American History is home to more than 1.8 million objects and more than three shelf-miles of archival collections." (https://americanhistory.si.edu/museum/mission-history)

Organization of American Historians

https://www.oah.org

Die OAH ist der Fachverband von Historikerinnen und Historikern, die sich mit der Geschichte der USA beschäftigen, der unter anderem die Fachzeitschrift Journal of American History herausgibt und mit "Process" auch einen "blog for american history". Daneben bietet die Website News sowie Übersichten zu Teaching Tools und Media Resources und anderes mehr.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

https://rrchnm.org

"Since 1994—under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig—the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has worked to create digital history and software that is free and fully available to all" (https://rrchnm.org/our-story/). Aktuell werden über die Website 46 Einzelangebote, Software sowie thematische Websites, angeboten.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

https://www.gilderlehrman.org

"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, visionaries and lifelong supporters of American history education. The Institute is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to K–12 history education while also serving the general public. Its mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources." (https://www.gilderlehrman.org/about/about)

Kataloge

Digital Public Library of America

https://dp.la

Die DPLA ist im Kern eine Suchmaschine, die digitalisierte Quellen, Bücher und Objekte amerikanischer Institutionen erschließt. Aktuell sind es über 46 Mio. digitale Objekte, "images, texts, videos, and sounds".

Umbra Search African American History

https://umbrasearch.org

"Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool … Umbra Search is developed by the Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections, with Penumbra Theatre Company. We are indebted to the Digital Public Library of America, whose corpus provides over half of the content found in Umbra Search. " (https://umbrasearch.org/pages/about)

Kommunikation

History News Network

https://historynewsnetwork.org/

"Our mission is to help put current events into historical perspective. Given how public opinion is shaped today, whipsawed emotionally on talk shows this way and that in response to the egos of the guests, the desire for ratings by the hosts and the search for profits by media companies and sponsors, historians are especially needed now. ... Each week HNN features up to a dozen fresh op eds by prominent historians. Our archives, extending over the past decade, include thousands of well-researched pieces." (http://historynewsnetwork.org/mission-statement.html)

H-Net. Humanities & Social Sciences Online

https://networks.h-net.org

Das H-Net dient als Dach für ca. 180 elektronische Diskussionslisten, darunter mehreren zu Themen der US-amerikanischen Geschichte. Dazu bietet das H-Net weiterer Kommunikations- und Informationsdienste, wie Academic Announcements, Rezensionen, einen Job-Guide und anderes mehr.

Nachschlagewerke

Encyclopedia of Arkansas

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net

"The CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas strives to offer a definitive, comprehensive, and accurate record of America’s twenty-fifth state. The mission of this free online encyclopedia is to collect and disseminate information on all aspects of the state’s history and culture and to provide a comprehensive reference work for historians, teachers, students, and others seeking to understand and appreciate Arkansas’s heritage." (https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/about-the-encyclopedia/)

Encyclopedia of Chicago

https://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org

Digitale Ausgabe der 2004 als Printpublikation bei Chicago University Press erschienenen Encyclopedia of Chicago.

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

https://case.edu/ech/

"Originating in the Case Western Reserve University's Department of History, the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History represents the contributions of hundreds of academic scholars and talented amateur historians to the interpretation and understanding of the history of Greater Cleveland. Its two printed editions (1987 and 1996) and its on-going World Wide Web edition are acknowledged landmarks in the presentation of urban history." (https://case.edu/ech/about)

Encyclopedia Virginia

https://encyclopediavirginia.org

"Encyclopedia Virginia’s mission is to provide a free, reliable, multimedia resource that tells the inclusive story of Virginia for students, teachers, and communities who seek to understand how the past informs the present and the future." (https://encyclopediavirginia.org/about/)

Influenza Encyclopedia. The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919

https://www.influenzaarchive.org/

2012 publiziertes Online-Nachschlagewerk, das 2016 um weitere Artikel und Dokumente zur Geschichte der spanischen Grippe in den USA ergänzt wurde und insgesamt ca. 16.000 Quellendokumente und Fotos enthält.

Kansapedia

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansapedia/19539

"Our encyclopedia of Kansas history offers stories of people, places, and a wide range of topics from our state’s past. Most of the articles are written by the Kansas Historical Society; …"

New Georgia Encyclopedia

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org

"The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is the nation’s first born-digital state encyclopedia. Since 2004 it has provided ready access to authoritative scholarship on a wide variety of topics. All of its entries are written and reviewed by scholars, fact-checked by reference librarians at the University of Georgia, and updated regularly to reflect new information and recent developments." (https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/about#about-nge)

Ohio History Central

https://ohiohistorycentral.org

"Ohio History Central is the Ohio History Connection’s online encyclopedia, a reference source for and about the people of Ohio. It covers topics related to the history, ancient peoples, archaeology, and natural history of Ohio."

South Carolina Encyclopedia

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/

"The digital edition of the South Carolina Encyclopedia builds on the 2006 print volume of the same name, edited by Dr. Walter B. Edgar and with articles by more than 600 authors. Working with our partner institutions, we have enhanced the print version by adding more than 1200 photos, videos, documents, and audio recordings. In addition to the entries from the print version, we work with the University of South Carolina Press to add new entries, though this process may take some time." (https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/about/)

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa

https://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/

"This online edition of The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa is a collaborative project created by the University of Iowa Press and The University of Iowa Libraries. The print version of the Biographical Dictionary of Iowa was published for the State Historical Society of Iowa by the University of Iowa Press."

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/encyclopediaonline

"The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture commemorated Oklahoma’s Centennial of Statehood in 2007. The purpose of this work of reference is to provide a thoughtful, scholarly retrospective of the state’s past, in all of its variety." (https://www.okhistory.org/publications/encabout)

The free online encyclopedia of Washington State history

https://www.historylink.org

"HistoryLink.org is the continually evolving online encyclopedia of Washington state history. We provide a free, authoritative, and easily accessible reference for the benefit of all. With a few noted exceptions, all articles on this site are original works prepared exclusively for HistoryLink.org by staff historians, contract writers, volunteers, and consulting experts." (https://www.historylink.org/File/20001)

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/

"The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Based at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the encyclopedia project builds from a foundation of civic engagement and brings the work of leading and emerging scholars to a wide general audience." (https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/about/)

Utah History Encylopedia

https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/

"The Utah History Encyclopedia is the first complete history of Utah in encyclopedia form, consisting of 575 articles and over 200 historic photographs. Originally published by the University of Utah Press in 1994." (https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/about.shtml)

Portale

71 Digital Portals to State History

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/09/71-digital-portals-to-state-history/

Eine gute Übersicht zu Portalen zu digitalisierten Quellen und Materialien zur Geschichte einzelner Bundesstaaten. Die Liste stammt aus dem Jahr 2013, bietet aber immer noch einen guten Einstieg.

National History Education Clearinghouse

https://teachinghistory.org

"Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible."

Publikationen

Current Research in Digital History

https://crdh.rrchnm.org

"Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. It publishes scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations."

Digital Harlem. Everyday Life 1915-1930

https://digitalharlem.org/

"The Digital Harlem website presents information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930. Most of the material relates to the years 1920, 1925, and 1930."

Digital History Reader. United States History, European History

https://www.dhr.history.vt.edu

"The Digital History Reader (DHR) is comprised of two main content areas, each broken out into modules. The United States History section provides materials covering important themes and issues from the colonial era to the present. … The modules presented on this website are designed for introductory-level survey courses at colleges and universities and for advanced history courses at the secondary level." (https://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/about/index.html)

Digital History. Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

"This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the College of Education at the University of Houston." (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/credits.cfm)

Growing Apart. A Political History of American Inequality

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/growing-apart-a-political-history-of-american-inequality/index

Genuin digitale Publikation, die aktuell in der Version 125 (letztes Update: 6. April 2020) vorliegt.

Investigating U.S. History

https://investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu/index.php

"This website offers a series of interactive laboratory modules for use in college-level introductory U.S. History. Just as science or language courses include laboratory work as an essential component of the learning experience, these history labs challenge students to "do history" by analyzing primary source materials and interpreting them for meaning."

Origins. Current Events in Historical Perspective

https://origins.osu.edu

"Every month since 2007, we’ve provided historical insight on current events that matter to the United States and to the world. The history departments of Ohio State University and Miami University in Oxford produce a main article that appears on the 15th of each month and features an expert who analyzes a pressing issue—whether political, cultural, or social—in a broader, deeper context. Origins’ main articles focus on the long-term trends and patterns, search for the foundations of today’s events, and explore the often complicated nature of a particular current event." (https://origins.osu.edu/about)

The American Yawp

https://www.americanyawp.com

"… The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms." (https://www.americanyawp.com/text/about/)

The History Engine

https://historyengine.richmond.edu

"The History Engine is a collection of thousands of historical “episodes” that paints a wide-ranging portrait of the past that is freely available to scholars, teachers, and the general public. Students from a variety of college and universities write these episodes."

Traces of Mind Control from Cold War America

https://traces.brynmawr.edu/

"The ‘Traces of Mind Control’ project started in 2011 at Erfurt University, Germany. It was organized and headed by Sharon Ullman (Bryn Mawr College), Juergen Martschukat (Erfurt University), and Olaf Stieglitz (University of Cologne)." (http://traces.brynmawr.edu/credits.html) Die Website präsentiert die Ergebnisse des Projektes zum Thema Gehirnwäsche während des Kalten Krieges.

U.S. History Scene

https://ushistoryscene.com

"Founded in 2011 by historians trained at Harvard University, U.S. History Scene is a multimedia history education website composed of historians and educators at over fifty universities dedicated to providing students and teachers with easy access to premier digital resources, live digital curriculum, and cutting-edge history scholarship. Our goal is to use innovative open source technology to democratize learning, narrow the achievement gap by helping history students realize their intellectual potential, and master United States history in a way that is entertaining, relevant, and intuitive." (https://ushistoryscene.com/resources/about-us/)

Quellen

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/about-this-collection/

"The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidency (1861-1865). Roughly half of the collection, more than 20,000 documents, comprising 62,000 images, as well as transcriptions of approximately 10,000 documents, is online."

African American Newspaper: Series 1 and 2

https://www.readex.com/products/african-american-newspapers-series-1-and-2-1827-1998

Die Sammlung bietet in zwei Serien Zugang zu 355 Zeitungen (Erscheinungsjahre 1827-1998), die eine wichtige Quelle für die Geschichte der Afroamerikaner in den USA darstellen. In Deutschland besteht ein freier Zugang über eine Nationallizenz (www.nationallizenzen.de).

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodical Collections

https://search.ebscohost.com

"Die American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection dokumentiert das Leben der amerikanischen Bevölkerung und die amerikanische Perspektive auf das Weltgeschehen und die Wissenschaften von der Kolonialära über den Bürgerkrieg bis zur Zeit des Wiederaufbaus im 19. Jahrhundert." (www.dbis.ur). Sie besteht aus 5 Serien und ist über eine Nationallizenz in Deutschland frei zugänglich (www.nationallizenzen.de).

American Congress Digital Archives Portal

https://congressarchives.lib.wvu.edu

"The American Congress Digital Archives Portal is a collaborative, non-partisan project that makes congressional archives available online, bringing the history of the People’s Branch to the people. We provide open access to archival materials and the descriptive information (metadata) about those materials." (https://congressarchives.lib.wvu.edu/about)

America's Historical Newspapers

https://infoweb.newsbank.com

"Americas Historical Newspapers der Firma Readex ist eine der umfassendsten digitalisierten Sammlungen von in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zwischen 1690 und 1922 publizierten Zeitungen. Sie umfasst neben Zeitungen von überregionaler Bedeutung auch Zeitungen aus 50 Bundesstaaten mit dem Ziel, eine möglichst repräsentative Abdeckung aller amerikanischen Regionen zu erreichen. Darunter sind auch deutsch-amerikanische Periodika des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts." (dbis.ur.de) Freier Zugriff besteht in Deutschland über eine Nationallizenz.

Calisphere

https://calisphere.org

"Calisphere is your gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 2,100,000 images, texts, and recordings."

Chronicling America. Historic American Newspapers

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

"Chronicling America (ISSN 2475-2703) is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages." (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/)

Chronicling Illinois

https://www.chroniclingillinois.org

"Chronicling Illinois provides digital access to collections of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM). These holdings include more than 6,000 individual manuscript collections, hundreds of newspapers, and tens of thousands of photographic and audiovisual materials pertaining to significant aspects of Illinois history." (https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/about)

Colored Conventions Project

https://coloredconventions.org

"The Colored Conventions Project’s Digital Records website features hundreds of primary sources from the long conventions movement. Primary sources include minutes, proceedings, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, transcripts, and images." (https://coloredconventions.org/about-records/)

CSI: Dixie. The View from the American South's County Coroners' Offices, 1800-1900

https://csidixie.org

"Collecting extant coroners' inquests for the state of South Carolina between 1800 and 1900, "CSI: Dixie" provides rare glimpses into Victorian-era suicide, homicide, infanticide, abortion, child abuse, spousal abuse, master-slave murder, and slave on slave violence."

David Rumsey Map Collection

https://www.davidrumsey.com

"The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. ... Digitization of the collection began in 1996 and there are now over 118,000 items online, with new additions added regularly." (https://www.davidrumsey.com/about)

Digital National Security Archive

https://www.proquest.com/dnsa

"Das Digital National Security Archive der U.S.A. ist die umfangreichste Sammlung wesentlicher Primärdokumente zur US-Außen- und Militärpolitik seit 1945. Die aus 20 Teilsammlungen bestehende Datenbank enthält über 50.000 der wichtigsten freigegebenen Dokumente (insgesamt mehr als 380.000 Seiten). Es handelt sich dabei sowohl um politische Schriften wie Direktiven des Präsidenten, Memos, diplomatische Depeschen als auch um Sitzungsnotizen, unabhängige Berichte, Briefings, Mitteilungen aus dem Weißen Haus, E-Mails, vertrauliche Briefe und andere geheime Dokumente. Zu jeder Teilsammlung ist zusätzlich ein erklärender Referenzteil mit Einführung, Chronologie, Glossar und Bibliographie enthalten, der hilft, das Material auch in kontextuelle Zusammenhänge bringen." (dbis.ur.de) Freier Zugriff besteht in Deutschland über eine Nationallizenz.

Discover U.S. Government Information

https://www.govinfo.gov

Das primäre Ziel der Website ist es, über aktuelle "Amtsdruckschriften" zu informieren, doch lassen sich auch ältere Parlamentaria der letzten 30 Jahre darüber finden.

DIY History

https://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu

DIY History ist ein Crowdsourcing-Projekt, über das historische und digitalisierte Quellen aus dem Bestand der University of Iowa Libraries erschlossen und transkribiert werden.

Documenting the American South

https://docsouth.unc.edu

"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs."

Early American Imprints Series I, 1639-1800

https://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/collection/nlh-eai1

Auf der Grundlage der gleichnamigen Mikrofilmsammlung des Verlags Readex retrodigitalisierte, in Amerika erschienene alte Drucke. Series I umfasst über 36.000 Titel, die in Deutschland über eine Nationallizenz frei zugänglich sind.

Early American Imprints Series II, 1801-1819

https://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/collection/nlh-eai2

Auf der Grundlage der gleichnamigen Mikrofilmsammlung des Verlags Readex retrodigitalisierte, in Amerika erschienene alte Drucke. Series II umfasst über 37.000 Titel, die in Deutschland über eine Nationallizenz frei zugänglich sind.

FBI Records: The Vault

https://vault.fbi.gov

"The Vault is our new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office."

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments

"The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the Department of State's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 450 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies." (https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/about-frus)

Founders Online. Correspondence and Other Writings of Seven Major Shapers of the United States

https://founders.archives.gov

Digitale Rechercheplattform für die in gedruckter Form bei University of Virginia Press erschienenen Schriften von George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.

Freedom Narratives

https://freedomnarratives.org

"Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced."

Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room: Historical Collections

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/historical-collections/

"CIA's Historical Review Program, with the exception of several statutorily mandated requirements, is a voluntary declassification program that focuses on records of historical value."

IDA Treaties Explorer

https://digitreaties.org

"The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time with key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of our shared lands."

J. Walter Thompson : Advertising America

https://www.jwtadvertisingamerica.amdigital.co.uk

"Diese Datenbank ist eine Quelle für die amerikanische Konsumgeschichte wie auch für die Geschichte des transnationalen Marketing. Das Firmenarchiv von J. Walther Thompson umfasst das ganze 20. Jahrhundert, der Schwerpunkt der Materialien liegt aber auf der Zeit nach 1945. Die Datenbank bietet Zugriff auf Memoranden, Reports, Sitzungsprotokolle, Briefe, Kontounterlagen, Werbematerialien und anderes mehr." (www.dbis.ur). Die Datenbank ist in Deutschland über eine von der SUB Göttingen organisierte FID-Lizenz frei zugänglich.

Jane Addams Digital Edition

https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/

"Dr. Cathy Moran Hajo re-launched the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey’s School of Humanities and Global Studies (SHGS) in 2015 with a new approach to making the materials available. Her goals are to digitize documents covering the years 1901-1935, making them freely available and searchable, to provide context for the documents by adding identifications of people, places, events, and organizations, to locate additional Addams materials and add them to the edition, and complete the remaining volumes of the Selected Papers of Jane Addams covering 1901-1935." (http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/about/)

Library of Congress: Digital Collection

https://www.loc.gov/collections/

Aus dem American Memory Project (http://memory.loc.gov) hervorgegangene, umfangreiche Sammlung digitalisierter Quellen zu einer großen Bandbreite von Themen, meist aus dem Kontext der Geschichte und Kultur der USA, aber auch von anderen herausragenden Bestandsgruppen der LoC, wie zum Beispiel dem Nachlaß von Hannah Arendt.

Making of America

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." Das Projekt wurde 2007 abgeschlossen.

Making of Modern Law U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978

https://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/collection/nlh-mms

Die Datenbank enthält mehr als 350.000 Dokumente (Records and Briefs) aus 150.000 Fällen, die vor dem Supreme Court verhandelt wurden. Über eine Nationallizenz (www.nationallizenzen.de) ist in Deutschland ein freier Zugriff möglich.

Market Research & American Business, 1935 - 1965

https://www.marketresearch.amdigital.co.uk/

"Diese Datenbank ist eine Quelle für die amerikanische Konsumgeschichte wie auch für die Geschichte des transnationalen Marketing. Market Research & American Business basiert auf dem Firmenarchiv des Institute for Motivational Research, Inc., einer Firma, die 1946 von dem 1938 aus Wien in die USA emigrierten Ernest Dichter (1907 - 1991) gegründet wurde. Der Schwerpunkt der Materialien liegt auf der Zeit nach 1945. Die Datenbank bietet Zugriff auf Memoranden, Reports, Sitzungsprotokolle, Briefe, Kontounterlagen, Werbematerialien und anderes mehr." (www.dbis.ur). Die Datenbank ist in Deutschland über eine von der SUB Göttingen organisierte FID-Lizenz frei zugänglich.

Massachusetts Historical Society: Digital Collections

https://www.masshist.org/digital-collections

Die digitalisierten Sammlungen der MHS enthalten unter anderem Thomas Jefferson Digital Collection, Adams Papers Digital Edition, Adams Digital Collection.

National Archives: Milestone Documents

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/list

"The primary source documents on this page highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government. They are some of the most-viewed and sought-out documents in the holdings of the National Archives."

Newspaper Navigator

https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov

"Welcome to the Newspaper Navigator dataset! This dataset consists of extracted visual content for 16,358,041 historic newspaper pages in Chronicling America."

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

https://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/collection/nlh-ncn

"Die Datenbank enthält ausschließlich englischsprachige Volltexte von ca. 400 Zeitungen aus allen US-amerikanischen Bundesstaaten und Territorien des Erscheinungszeitraums zwischen 1800 und 1900 und umfasst ca. 1,8 Millionen Seiten. Die Digitalisierung beruht auf Beständen der Library of Congress, der Wisconsin Historical Society, der South Carolina Library, der Western Reserve Historical Society, den Scholarly Resources Archives, der Historical Society of Pennsylvania und dem Maryland State Archive. Die Sammlung umfasst Publikationen aller Art, von Parteizeitungen vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zu den großen Tageszeitungen, die die Nation am Ende des Jahrhunderts prägten." (dbis.ur.de) Freier Zugriff besteht in Deutschland über eine Nationallizenz.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

https://search.alexanderstreet.com/imld

"Die Sammlung umfasst über 100.000 Seiten von Ego-Dokumenten (Briefe, Tagebücher, Pamphlete, Autobiographien), welche Berichte und Erfahrungen von Zeitgenossen zur Einwanderung in Nordamerika (USA, Kanada) dokumentierten. Ca. 35.000 Seiten stammen aus den Ellis Island Oral History Interviews. Dokumentiert werden die Erfahrungen von Einwanderen aus den verschiedenen Ländern, von Asien über Russland bis hin zu Mittel- und Südeuropa. Der zeitliche Schwerpunkt der Quellensammlung liegt auf den Jahren 1890-1920." (www.dbis.ur). Über eine Nationallizenz ist die Sammlung in Deutschland frei zugänglich (www.nationallizenzen.de).

Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library

https://papersofabrahamlincoln.org

"The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865)." (https://papersofabrahamlincoln.org/about)

Papers of James Madison

https://pjm.as.virginia.edu

"James Madison was the Virginia statesman best known as the fourth U.S. President and "Father of the U.S. Constitution." The Papers of James Madison is a non-profit documentary editing project established to procure, edit, annotate, and publish the lifetime correspondence of James Madison. Letters to and from Madison and enclosures, nearly 38,000 documents to date, are published in four series reflecting the primary stages of Madison's adult life: Congressional, Secretary of State, Presidential, and Retirement. Both print and digital Editions are available."

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800

https://wardepartmentpapers.org

"Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 presents this collection of more than 42,000 documents in a free, online format with extensive and searchable metadata linked to digitized images of each document, ensuring free access for a wide range of users." (https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/page/about)

Private Voices: The Corpus of American Civil War Letters

https://altchive.org

"Private Voices is the digital offspring of the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL) project." (https://altchive.org/about/introduction)

Proquest Historical Newspaper

https://www.proquest.com/news/index

Sammlung digitalisierter Zeitungen aus dem angloamerikanischen Raum, darunter auch die Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal und Washington Post, allerdings nur bis zum Jahrgang 1922.

Public Papers of the Presidents

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/publications/presidential-papers.html

Die Online-Editions bieten Zugang zu den Public Papers der Präsidenten Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.

Selected Digital Historical Documents from the Collections of the New York State Library

https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs/historical.htm

"Since 1995, the New York State Library (NYSL) has been scanning New York State government documents and providing free access to these digital versions through the State Library online catalog. The State Library has expanded the types of materials being scanned to include historical materials."

The American Presidency Project

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu

"The APP was launched in 1999 when then-graduate student Gerhard Peters joined with John Woolley to develop resources for students taking Political Science 157, The American Presidency. As the resources in the course website expanded, it became obvious that it was being accessed by an array of general users outside the University. Our goal today is to be recognized as the authoritative, non-partisan on-line source for presidential public documents. By providing easy access to useful information, we seek to promote a more informed citizenry of the United States, high quality scholarly and media analysis, and a better understanding of American democracy throughout the world." (https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/about)

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

https://erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu

"The George Washington University’s Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (ERPP) publishes online and print archives of Eleanor Roosevelt’s extensive writings. The collection includes political pieces, speeches, newspaper columns and transcripts from radio and television."

The Henry A. Kissinger Papers, Parts II and III

https://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/kissinger-collection

""The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, photographs and other material that document the career of the diplomat, author and foreign policy expert and scholar Henry A. Kissinger.

The Nation Archive

https://search.ebscohost.com

"The Nation Archive enthält die vollständigen Ausgaben der Zeitschrift The Nation ab der Erstausgabe von 1865 bis 2010 im Volltext. Als erste Wochenzeitschrift ist The Nation eine kritische Politik- und Kulturzeitschrift, die meinungsbildend seit ihrer Gründung die politische und kulturelle Entwicklung der USA und andernorts begleitet hat." (www.dbis.ur). In Deutschland besteht ein freier Zugang über eine Nationallizenz (www.nationallizenzen.de).

The New Republic Archive

https://search.ebscohost.com

"The New Republic Archive enthält die vollständigen Ausgaben der Zeitschrift The New Republic ab der Erstausgabe von 1914 bis 2010 im Volltext. Es handelt sich um eine Politik- und Kulturzeitung, die sich in ihren Aufsätzen, Essays, Kommentaren und Analysen sowohl mit innen- wie außenpolitischen Themen der USA als auch mit Kulturpolitik, Kunst und Literatur befasst. Zu ihren Autoren gehören viele ausgezeichnete Journalisten und Schriftsteller. Innenpolitisch vorwiegend links ausgerichtet, vertritt sie in der Außenpolitik eine eher konservative Haltung." (www.dbis.ur). In Deutschland besteht ein freier Zugang über eine Nationallizenz (www.nationallizenzen.de).

The New York Public Library Digital Collections

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org

Ende 2022 enthielten die kontinuierlich erweiterten digitalisierten Sammlungen über 925.000 items. Das thematische Spektrum ist sehr weit, aber umfasst natürlich auch zahlreiche für die Geschichte New Yorks wie der USA insgesamt relevante collections.

The Papers of John Jay

https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/jay

Digitalisierte Quellen von und zu John Jay, einem der Gründungsväter der USA, der in seiner politischen Karriere Außenminister, oberster Richter der USA und Gouverneur von New York gewesen war.

Theodore Roosevelt Collection

https://library.harvard.edu/collections/theodore-roosevelt-collection

"The Theodore Roosevelt Collection, housed in Harvard’s Houghton and Widener libraries, is a major resource for the study of the life and times of the 26th president of the United States. The collection started as a research library opened in New York City by the Roosevelt Memorial Association in 1923. It was presented by that organization (known since 1953 as the Theodore Roosevelt Association) to Harvard University, Roosevelt's alma mater, in 1943."

U.S. Congressional Serials Set, 1819–1980

https://infoweb.newsbank.com

Die Datensammlung enthält ca. 350.000 Publikationen und 67.000 Karten aus dem Kongress und Regierungsbehörden der USA. Über eine Nationallizenz (www.nationallizenzen.de) ist in Deutschland ein freier Zugriff möglich.

U.S. Declassified Documents Online

https://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/collection/nlh-ddr

"U.S. Declassified Documents Online (USDD) bietet Zugriff auf Dokumente, die von den US-Regierungsstellen freigegeben wurden. Die Datenbank enthält über 85.000 Dokumente mit einem Gesamtumfang von mehr als 525.000 Seiten." (https://dbis.ur.de)

United States Reports (Official opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court)

https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-reports/

"The United States Reports is a series of bound case reporters that are the official reports of decisions for the Supreme Court of the United States. … This digital collection of the U.S. Reports contains volumes 1-570, covering the years 1754-2012." (https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-reports/about-this-collection/)

Wilson Center Digital Archive. International History Declassified

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org

"Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world—much of it in translation and including diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, meeting minutes and more. The historical documents presented in the ever-expanding Digital Archive provide fresh, unprecedented insights into recent international history. By making new sources available and easily accessible, the Digital Archive serves to deepen and enrich international scholarship, history education, and public policy debate on important global issues and challenges." (https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/about-us)

Worlds of Change: Colonial North America at Harvard Library

https://colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu

"Worlds of Change: Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of a multi-year project to make available to the world more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America."

Sonstige

A Journal of the Plague Year

https://covid-19archive.org

"The mission of A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY) is to: Document, curate, and preserve experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the historical record …" (http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive/page/whatwedo)

A New Nation Votes. American Election Returns 1787-1825

https://elections.lib.tufts.edu

"A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy."

Coronavirus Web Archive

https://www.loc.gov/collections/coronavirus-web-archive/about-this-collection

"The Coronavirus Web Archive contains representative web-based content that documents the impact and response to the Covid-19 pandemic on communities across the United States and the world."

Do History. Martha Ballard's Diary Online

https://dohistory.org

"DoHistory invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard. Although DoHistory is centered on the life of Martha Ballard, you can learn basic skills and techniques for interpreting fragments that survive from any period in history." (https://dohistory.org/about/site.html)

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

https://hurricanearchive.org

"Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American History and other partners, organized this project." (https://hurricanearchive.org/about)

Mapping Early American Elections

https://earlyamericanelections.org

"Mapping Early American Elections provides interactive maps and tables of U.S. Congressional elections during the First Party System, contextual essays, open access data, and tutorials."

OldNYC. Mapping historical photos from the NYPL

https://www.oldnyc.org

"This site provides an alternative way of browsing the NYPL's incredible Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection." Diese Sammlung umfasst ca. 80.000 Photographien.

Photogrammar

https://photogrammar.org

"Photogrammar provides a web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photographs taken by the FSA and OWI agencies of the U.S. Federal Government between 1935 and 1943."

Slave Voyages

https://www.slavevoyages.org

"The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas."

The September 11 Digital Archive

https://911digitalarchive.org

"The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them. Initially funded by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and organized by the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University, the Archive is contributing to the on-going effort by historians and archivists to record and preserve the record of 9/11 by collecting and archiving first-hand accounts, emails and other electronic communications, digital photographs and artworks, and a range of other digital materials related to the attacks." (https://911digitalarchive.org/about)

The Valley of the Shadow. Two Communities in the American Civil War

https://valley.lib.virginia.edu

Ein bereits 1993 begonnenes Pionierprojekt der Digital History, das Daten, Quellen wie Briefe, Zeitungen und andere von zwei Counties, einem aus den Nord-, einem aus den Südstaaten aus der Zeit des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs in digitaler Form aufbereitete und als Website publizierte.

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