CCD   HISTORY 201 - History of United States 1

U. S. History Resources  Study Aids Student Resources at CCD  Maps Timelines  Images Art, Music  Regions Reform  Ethnicity Government  Exploration Documents     Text Finder   Reference Desk    Map Sources

Study Aids

• Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 5th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987), available in library, suggested only.

• Richard Marius, Writing About History (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1989), suggested only.

• Bibliographical Resources
• Colorado History Standards for Education

 

Student Resources at CCD

Academic Support

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 Career Services

Tune into resources available in Career Services to find out more about various career fields and to obtain career counseling and testing and assistance finding a job. Or check out CCD's Cooperative Education Center where you can earn while you learn and obtain college credit for your job experience.

 

 Child Care

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 Education and Academic Services

 

 Educational Opportunity Center (EOC)

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 Online Writing Lab

 

 Student Life and Activities

Student Life and Activities offers you opportunities to get involved, get acquainted, develop leadership skills, volunteer your services or just plain have fun. Find out more about Student Government, student clubs and activities and student publications.

 

 Student Support Services

CCD offers an array of services to help you stay in school and stay cool, including health, legal, counseling services and more. CCD offers special services for women, parents, dislocated workers, veterans, international and immigrant students.

Maps

The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789

Railroads ~ Maps ~ 1828-1900

Panoramic Maps ~ 1847-1929

Maps ~ 1500-1999

Civil War Maps ~ 1861-1865

Liberia ~ Maps ~ 1830-1870

Revolutionary War Maps
      (U.S. Military Academy, West Point)

Maps on this site

Animated

European Exploration

Native Land Cessions

English Colonies Population to 1775

Images

Advertising ~ Multiformat ~ 1850-1920
   Title: The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920

Broadsides and Printed Ephemera ~ ca. 1600-2000
   Title: An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

Daguerreotype Photographs ~ 1839-1864
   Title: America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862

Panoramic Photographs ~ 1851-1991
   Title: Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991

Civil War Images ~ Multiformat ~ 1861-1865
   Title: Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society

Civil War ~ Brady Studio and Others ~ Photographs ~ 1861-1865
   Title: Selected Civil War Photographs

"The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in that Part of America Now Called Virginia" by John White(?), 1584 & 1588. 
John White's drawings and descriptions of the Indians and the countryside of the Roanoke Island area provide details of the people 
and environment in the settlement called "Virginia." Theodore DeBry's engravings of White's watercolors appear in the 1590 edition 
of Thomas Hariot's account of the exploration. 
For a comparative look at the watercolors and engravings, explore the White/DeBry Images. From the Virtual Jamestown Project

Western U.S. ~ Photographs ~ 1860-1920
   Title: History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

 

California, First-Person Narratives ~ Books ~ 1849-1900
   Title: "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

Chesapeake Bay and Washington, D.C. ~ Books ~ 1600-1925
   Title: The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925

Small Town Life, Mid-Atlantic ~ Stereoscopic Photographs ~ 1850-1920
   Title: Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920

Maritime Westward Expansion ~ Multiformat ~ 1820-1890
   Title: Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion,1820-1890

Ohio River Valley ~ Multiformat ~ 1750-1820
   Title: First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Prairie Settlement, Nebraska ~ Photographs and Letters ~ 1862-1912
   Title: Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912

The Virtual Jamestown Project maps and images, court records, labor contracts, public records, firsthand accounts,
newspapers. Highly recommended

Native  

Pre-colonial Mexico
A good starting point for further study of pre-colonial cultures in Mexico.

Cahokia Mounds
Information about the pre-contact civilization that existed at Cahokia.

                   Northeast

 

Abenaki, Algonkin, Beothuk, Delaware, Erie, Fox, Huron, Illinois, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Mahican, Mascouten, Massachuset, Mattabesic, Menominee, Metoac, Miami, Micmac, Mohegan, Montagnais, Narragansett, Nauset, Neutrals, Niantic, Nipissing, Nipmuc, Ojibwe, Ottawa, Pennacook, Pequot, Pocumtuck, Potawatomi, Sauk, Shawnee, Susquehannock, Tionontati, Wampanoag, Wappinger, Wenro, Winnebago.

Southeast

Acolapissa, Asis, Alibamu, Apalachee, Atakapa, Bayougoula, Biloxi, Calusa, Catawba, Chakchiuma, Cherokee, Chesapeake Algonquin, Chickasaw, Chitamacha, Choctaw, Coushatta, Creek, Cusabo, Gaucata, Guale, Hitchiti, Houma, Jeags, Karankawa, Lumbee, Miccosukee, Mobile, Napochi, Nappissa, Natchez, Ofo, Powhatan, Quapaw, Seminole, Southeastern Siouan, Tekesta, Tidewater Algonquin, Timucua, Tunica, Tuscarora, Yamasee, Yuchi.

Plains

Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Bidai, Blackfoot, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Cree, Crow, Dakota (Sioux), Gros Ventre, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kansa, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Kitsai, Lakota (Sioux), Mandan, Metis, Missouri, Nakota (Sioux), Omaha, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, Sarsi, Sutai, Tonkawa, Wichita.

Great Basin

Bannock, Paiute (Northern), Paiute (Southern), Sheepeater, Shoshone (Northern), Shoshone (Western), Ute, Washo.

Plateau

Carrier, Cayuse, Coeur D'Alene, Colville, Dock-Spus, Eneeshur, Flathead, Kalispel, Kawachkin, Kittitas, Klamath, Klickitat, Kosith, Kutenai, Lakes, Lillooet, Methow, Modac, Nez Perce, Okanogan, Palouse, Sanpoil, Shushwap, Sinkiuse, Spokane, Tenino, Thompson, Tyigh, Umatilla, Wallawalla, Wasco, Wauyukma, Wenatchee, Wishram, Wyampum, Yakima.

Southwest

Apache (Eastern), Apache (Western), Chemehuevi, Coahuiltec, Hopi, Jano, Manso, Maricopa, Mohave, Navaho, Pai, Papago, Pima, Pueblo, Yaqui, Yavapai, Yuman, Zuni. ** Am strongly thinking about breaking the Pueblo into: Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia.

Northwest

Calapuya, Cathlamet, Chehalis, Chemakum, Chetco, Chilluckkittequaw, Chinook, Clackamas, Clatskani, Clatsop, Cowich, Cowlitz, Haida, Hoh, Klallam, Kwalhioqua, Lushootseed, Makah, Molala, Multomah, Oynut, Ozette, Queets, Quileute, Quinault, Rogue River, Siletz, Taidhapam, Tillamook, Tutuni, Yakonan.

California

Achomawi, Atsugewi, Cahuilla, Chimariko, Chumash, Costanoan, Esselen, Hupa, Karuk, Kawaiisu, Maidu, Mission Indians, Miwok, Mono, Patwin, Pomo, Serrano, Shasta, Tolowa, Tubatulabal, Wailaki, Wintu, Wiyot, Yaha, Yokuts, Yuki, Yuman (California).

 

Links to Native Pages that have either been set up by the nations themselves, or are pages devoted to a particular nation

Governor Glen, The Role Of Indians In The Rivalry Between France, Spain, And England, 1761
American Indians were both agents and pawns caught between battling empires in the New World.

The Seminole Indians Of Florida
Before he was President, Andrew Jackson began a war against the Seminole Indians.

Andrew Jackson And Indian Removal
An extremely critical but interesting view of President Jackson's Indian removal policy.

Stand Watie And The Cherokee
Stand Watie was a famous Cherokee Indian whose story gives insight into the people the United States government forced to Indian Territory.

Geronimo
This site contains biographical and autobiographical information about this famous Native American who resisted European American domination.

Manifest Destiny and Western Canada  Book One: Sitting Bull, the Little Bighorn and the North-West Mounted Police Revisited
A Critical Re-evaluation of the Geopolitical Objectives of the United States Government's Northern Plains Indian Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, and their Encompassing Historical Contexts.

Native American Culture, Pacific Northwest ~ Multiformat
   Title: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Omaha Indian Music ~ Multiformat
   Title: Omaha Indian Music

Virginia's Indian Tribes

 

African-American

African Americans ~ Daniel A. P. Murray ~ Pamphlets ~ 1818-1907
   Title: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

 African Americans ~ Ohio ~ Multiformat ~ 1850-1920
   Title: The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society

African Americans ~ Pamphlets ~ 1824-1909
   Title: From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909

African Americans ~ Sheet Music ~ 1850-1920
   Title: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University

African-American Odyssey ~ Exhibit ~ Multiformat
   Title: African American Odyssey

Slave Narratives, Federal Writers' Project ~ Multiformat ~ 1936-1938
   Title: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

 

Spanish

 

Mexican

Polk Asks Congress to declare war on Mexico

Chinese

Chinese Immigrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

The Chinese Exclusion Act:
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=419

Angel Island:
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=418

English

The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
An online edition of David Harris Sack's study of Bristol, England, the port from which most British indentured servants departed.
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/history/sacks

Government

Presidential Inaugurations ~ Multiformat ~ 1789-2001
   Title: "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations

Presidents and First Ladies ~ Portraits
   Title: By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present

 

Conservation Movement ~ Multiformat ~ 1850-1920
   Title: The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

 

Woman Suffrage ~ Photographs and Prints ~ 1850-1920
   Title: By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Art, Architecture, Music

Landscape and Architectural Design ~ Multiformat ~ 1850-1920
   Title: American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Civil War Era ~ Band Music ~ Multiformat
   Title: Band Music from the Civil War Era

Timelines

US Chronology

Native American to 1890 

Landmarks in Immigration

Documents