Research Guides: American History: Websites

Evaluating Websites

You need to take steps to evaluate all of the information that you use in your research. Special care must be taken with websites. Keep these factors in mind when you're thinking about using information from a website:

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Find more detailed information in the "Evaluating Web Sources" document below.

Websites

American Women A gateway to LIbrary of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States
Discovering American Women's History Online This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.
Teaching Hard History This collection includes more than 100 primary sources selected to support teaching and learning about slavery
African American History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
Digital Harlem: Eeryday Life, 1915-1930 The Digital Harlem website presents information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930. Most of the material relates to the years 1920, 1925, and 1930.

American History: Websites

Evaluating Websites

Websites

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