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This volume contains historically significant documents, speeches, and letters.

A readable retelling of the critical era of America's founding to the Fall of Quebec.

This book is considered to be a definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War

A brief single volume biography of Lincoln.

An overview of American mobilization and domestic issues during the war, as well as World War I itself.

This book is a narrative history spanning America's major political, social, cultural, and economic events.

According to the website, "These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning." You can browse materials by topic, time period, and region.

The website for The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, features a biography of Jackson and his presidency.

Contains primary source material from 18th Century America.

James M. McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for this single-volume study of the Civil War. It discusses military aspects of the war as well as the economic, political, and social forces behind it.

This is a good starting point for any web-based study or research. It is sponsored by the Center for Teaching History with Technology. It provides links and lesson plans to a multitude of U.S. History topics.

A collection of essays about conflicts, cooperation, and cultural exchange between Europeans and Native Americans in the New World.

This survey site sponsored through “About.com” includes links to essays, photographs and timelines related to the civil rights movement

This site includes an extensive collection of essays on all topics of European exploration and founding.

AP U.S. History study guides are useful reviews that include synopses of each era and key terms.

A solid overview of the period.

Founders Online is a repository of information about twelve of America's Founders. Using audio clips, biographical essays, classroom activities, videos, and even Flash-based games, this section of the BillofRightsInstitute.org site highlights some of the most well-known Founders, and also sheds light on lesser-known ones.

Narrative survey of the era. The author focuses on the years of the Great Depression and the Second World War and how the American people coped with those events.

This volume offers a clear analysis of the Revolutionary Era, and its key events and motivations.

A well-reviewed overview of the Age of Exploration.

This site was created by the City University of New York and George Mason University. It is designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses. It provides links to web resources and offers “unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence,” focusing “on the lives of ordinary Americans.”

A clear and concise political history from the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution. The text focuses on ten key individuals, from Franklin Roosevelt to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Ronald Reagan.

This resource discusses The politics of Jacksonian America, including the spread of democracy.

This book discusses slavery in Colonial America and shows how at different times and at different places, slavery was a very different thing.

This section of Mt. Vernon's website features biographic information on George Washington.