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JACKSONIAN AMERICA: 1820-1850 -- HIS 4525/HIS 4899
WEB RESOURCES

General Sites

• SPU Library History Resources
• Plagiarism--How to Avoid
• Style Manuals

American History

• 19th Century American History
• 19th Century U.S. History Sites Online
• Academic Info: African American History: Slavery
• American Indian History and Related Issues
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Democracy in America
• WWW-VL: History: United States (time periods & topics)

Autobiographies, Diaries, & Letters (also see the “Primary Documents” section)

• Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Diaries & Letters
• Diaries, Memoirs, Letters and Reports Along the Trails West
• Documenting the American South
• Mountain Men

Biographies

• Biographies
• Lives: The Biography Resource

Primary Documents (also see the “Autobiographies, Diaries, & Letters” section)

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
• American History: Jacksonian Era
• Avalon Project: 19th Century Documents
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History
• Historical Text Archive
• Making of America (Cornell U.; includes images of books & periodical articles)
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project
• North American Slave Narratives
• Women in America: 1820-1842

Social History

• Making of America (U. of Michigan; includes images of books & periodical articles)
• United States Historical Census Data Browser

Western Expansion

• American History: Westward Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Mountain Men and the Fur Trade

Handouts

• SPU Library History Handouts
  • Jacksonian America: 1820-1850 (HIS 4525/HIS 4899)
• SPU General Library Handouts
  • CRITIC: Evaluating Information Sources (PDF file)
  • Evaluating Web Pages (plus search strategies)
  • Magazines vs. Journals