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Robert L. Barber Campus Library

U.S. History

Census (Historical)
1790 to 2000

Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia)
Examine & manipulate data in the censuses from 1790 to 1960.

Historical Census Data on the Foreign-Born Population in the U.S. (1850-2000)
Historical data on the foreign-born population in the United States from 1850 to 2000.

Mapping Immigration  - A series of maps that display the geographic distribution of the Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) flow between the calendar years1980 and 2003.

Selected Historical Decennial Census for Population & Housing
Coverage from 1790 to 2000. 

Historical Documents and Links

American Memory
A massive collection of "written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity." 
    A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: American Memory Project. 
    Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention (1774-89) :  Full-text of documents associated with the Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention.

After Action Report
Military document of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Avalon Project
Yale University project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy; pre-18th century to present

A Chronology of US Historical Documents

CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall Library collection

Final Months of the War with Japan: 
Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision.

Founding Fathers of American Intelligence

Foreign Relations of the United States
Dates from 1861 to present

 bluearrow.gif History Cooperative
The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship

Historical Publications of the US Commission on Civil Rights

Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library

History Abstracts
History Abstracts only via this link....not the easiest to use.

Influenza Epidemic of 1918 

Making of America

National Archives
Provides free web access to a number of digitized primary collections documenting American history.

National Intelligence Estimates on Vietnam - 1948 -1975  This collection of declassified documents is the first such release by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of documents exclusively on the Vietnam war.

U.S. Statutes at Large (1789-1875)
Permanent collection of all laws & resolutions passed by Congress.

World War II documents 
A digital collection of more than 300 U.S. Government publications.

National Security Archive
Oklahoma State University Library, Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

Historical Films from the National Archives:

National Archives Video Sections

NASA History 
250 titles collected by the NASA Office of Public Affairs between 1962 and 1981.

United Newsreel 
(1942-1945) 267 newsclips 10 minutes long shown in public theatres during WWII