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History - United States

Guide to United States History Resources

Emergence of Modern America

Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s - An informative site on cultural tensions, including information on prohibition, immigration, the KKK, the New Woman, and the Scopes Trial. Produced by the Ohio State University History Department.

Illinois During the Gilded Age - Illinois In the Gilded Age is not only useful to Illinoisans learning about their state's history.  It also illuminates larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age. Illinois In the Gilded Age covers important issues of the time such as, labor, politics, society, immigration, law, culture, race, religion, etc.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall. The site and its documents are well organized and the breadth of materials is impressive.  Includes U.S. Immigration and Maturation of U.S. Culture.