The American Heritage Magazine website is packed with information on U.S. history. It also has a Best Of The Web section with links to many other U.S. history sites.

http://www.americanheritage.com/

     View the original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and much more at the National Archives site.

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/

     The People History: fascinating descriptions of how ordinary U.S. life has changed since the 1920s. Includes videos.

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/

     Civil War videos: the site starts with a moving video of “the Civil War in four minutes,” and includes re-enactment videos.

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1119147737

     Photos taken during and after 9-11: Final photos taken by photographer Bill Biggart on 9-11, during the last hour of his life:

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_intro.htm

     Two good 9-11 photo galleries:

http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/gallery/

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/14.html

     Presidential timeline. Here you can access a selection from the collections of the twelve presidential libraries of the National Archives.

http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/

     Presidential Tapes. “Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations.” This site makes them available to scholars.

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/
academic/presidentialrecordings/

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES

     NewspaperArchive.com says, “Search 75.6 Million Pages, 710 Cities, 239 Years, 2,725 Titles.” For most of this material, you have to pay, but they do have some “free special archive collections,” about topics of general interest like AIDS, immigration, and the Kennedy assassination.

http://newspaperarchive.com/

     U.S. News Archives. These are more recent archives, dating from the 1980s. Some newspapers charge a specified amount per article.

http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html

     Google News “presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day, so you will see new stories each time you check the page. Google has developed an automated grouping process for Google News that pulls together related headlines and photos from thousands of sources worldwide - enabling you to see how different news organizations are reporting the same story. You pick the item that interests you, then go directly to the site which published the account you wish to read.”

http://news.google.com/