Recommended Websites for Research



Recommended Websites for Research

- Encyclopedia of North Carolina history

- Website of North Carolina Historical Sites

- Tourism website for North Carolina

- UNC site about NC and US history and culture

- Website that presents NC history in a timeline

- Websites about primary documents important to North Carolina

- photo stream of historical pictures about North Carolina

- Website about history of the American South

- Library of Congress: great site for documents, photos, media

- National Archives great site for primary sources for American history

- Site with various coverage of historical events, people and etc.

- Smithsonian’s website with tons of documents and other information

- site about Constitution

- detailed site about U.S. presidents

- Official website of the white house

- Official website of the House of Representatives

- Website that goes in to detail about how congress works

– Find old news articles on google

- find times articles that date back to 1923

- A huge collection of speeches in America

- Interviews of 23 former African American slaves

- Website about American Wars

- Website that animates battles of American Wars

- Website that details battles, people of the Civil War

- Historical interactive maps

- CIA World facts

- Top stories around the world presented by guardian mag.

- photographs by the library of congress

- photographs by Life magazine that go back to 1860s

- Education of money website

- Online encyclopedia about N.C. history

- various articles about N.C. history

- North Carolina History Museum

- Official North Carolina government website

- Official North Carolina governor’s website

- Official government website for Craven County

- Official government website for New Bern, N.C.

– How a bill become a law

- Easy digestible way in understanding how government works

- Stanford’s MLK Jr resources

- PBS Jim Crow website

- Women’s history timeline

- Africans Americans in the American Revolution

Please will free to look for other websites that you may find along the way that will help you in research or better understanding of a certain subject. However, please pay close attention to what you are looking at. If there are a lot of ads on the website or it looks old, odds are that it probably not a good resource.

For the most parts websites that have .gov .edu .org are usually safe. Beware of sites that end in .com a lot of times these aren’t reliable.

Don’t use Wikipedia – Wikipedia isn’t reliable because it can be edited at any time by random people. The information is not always reliable.

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