The Library of Congress' collection of U.S Congressional Documents and Debates spans from the Continental Congress in 1774 to the 43rd Congress in 1875, and they have been digitized for students, scholars, and the interested public. Visitors can browse the collection by category, which includes "Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention", "Journals of Congress", "Debates of...

Designed by Lansing, Michigan area K-12 teachers and faculty at Michigan State University, this handsome and well-organized site is a fine resource for K-12 teachers and students. At the site, users can search for and retrieve a variety of digitized primary sources related to American government and democracy, such as treaties, court decisions, inaugural addresses, maps, paintings, and photos....

The Michigan State University Library Radicalism Collection contains a number of pamphlets published by political and social pressure groups in the US. This website contains the digitized full text of over 100 pamphlets by groups such as the Black Panthers, the Ku Klux Klan, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Students for a Democratic Society. Titles may be browsed by subject or alphabetical...

The National Archives has recently created this valuable online database that contains close to 50 million historical records, culled from 350 archival sources from 20 different federal agencies. Some sources include the Japanese-American Internee File, the Community Action Program Grant Master Files, and the Civil War Sites Database. From the homepage, visitors can learn about the architecture of...

While the annexation of Hawaii by the United States occurred on August 12, 1898, the subject held the attention of the US government for several years, and was fiercely debated in Congress and back on the islands themselves, with many claiming that the annexation was solely to benefit the financial interests of Sanford B. Dole, the legendary "Sugar King." To their credit, the University of Hawaii...