Internet Resource - History Matters

History Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the Web http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

This history site serves as a gateway to United States history web resources and offers first-person primary documents, guides to analyzing historical evidence and teaching materials.

The feature called "Many Pasts" contains more than 1,000 primary documents that portray the lives of ordinary people throughout U.S. history. The section WWW.History provides annotated guides with links to other sites that can be useful in research and teaching U.S. History.

The entire website is also searchable. This online resource was created by the American Social History Project at City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

For additional history websites view our History Internet Subject Guide webpage