In many respects, good historical writing is different from writing in other academic disciplines such as English, for example.  Research and use the following sites as a guide to the process, structure, and style of the historian's craft.

• Great general warehouse of writing resources and instructional materials.  The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Writing the History Paper” – Dartmouth University.
• “Writing for Specific Fields—History” – University of North Carolina Writing Center.
• “Writing Historical Essays” – Rutgers Department of History

Very special thanks must be given to Dr. Glen Gendzel, Professor of History at SJSU, for researching and providing the links listed below for his students in the Masters in History program.  Although we will continue to grow and add to this site, without his hard work it would not be so rebust at its start.

• The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
• The National Archives (Home Page)
• The National Archives: Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
• Library of Congress (Home Page)
• Library of Congress: American Memory
• History Matters
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• Eye Witness to History
• In the First Person
• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
• History Buff
• Make History
• Internet Modern History Source Book
• eHistory
• Words and Deeds in American History (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• AcademicInfo (U.S. History gateway site)

Early America

• Archiving Early America
• The Making of America (Cornell Univresity)
• The Making of America (University of Michigan)
• Early America Digital Archive
• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• The Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Post-Civil War America to 1900

Populism

• Documents on the Populist Movement
• The 1896 Presidential Campaign
• Documenting the American South: Populist Party Links
• List of Gilded Age Documents

The Progressive Era

• The Progressive Era (web portal of sources)
• Organization of American Historians: Progressive Era Resouces
• Theodore Roosevelt Primary Sources (American Experience: The Presidents)
• The Theodore Roosevelt Web Book
• How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
• Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Aadams

Women's Sufferage and Reform

• "Women's Right To Vote" (1872), Susan B. Anthony
• The Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbook, 1897 - 1911 (Library of Congress)
• Votes for Women (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (National Archives)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• "Not For Ourselves Alone" (PBS)
• Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighbors, 1889 - 1963
• Temperance and Prohibition
• Women and the Progressive Era (Columbia American History Online)

The Great Depression and New Deal

• The New Deal Network
• Federal Programs/New Deal (ARC, National Archives)
• FDR Presidential Library
• New Deal Document Library
  
• A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
  
• Fireside Chats of FDR
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Primary Sources (American Experience: The Presidents)
• Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic
  
• Portrait of America: Survey Graphic in the Thirties
  
• The 1930s in Print
• Documenting the American South (Search for "New Deal")
• New Deal Liberalism and Postwar Growth (Columbia American History Online)
• Social Security Online: History
  

The War on Poverty and Great Society

• Lyndon Baines Johnson Historical Documents/Photos (ARC, National Archives)
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Primary Sources (American Experience: The Presidents)
• LBJ White House Tapes on C-SPAN Radio
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

The Rise of the Right

•  Ronald Reagan Historical Documents/Photos (ARC, National Archives)
•  Archives of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
• The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library
• American Experience: Reagan (PBS)

• America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia (Duke University)
• American National Elections Studies
• American Political History Online
  
• American Presidency Project Document Archive (UC Santa Barbara)
• ARC: Government and Social Studies (National Archives; search for government-related topics)
• C-SPAN American Political Archive
• Election Invormation (Office of the Clerk. U.S. House of Representatives)
• Federal Register (National Archives)
• From Revolution to Reconstruction...and Afterward (U.S. History documents with a political emphasis)
• GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office; search by branch of government)
• GPO Access: Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Smithsonian Encyclopedia of Political History
• University of Michigan: Public Papers of the Presidents