History of the Oregon Trail, designed to supplement the PBS Special

Ken Burns New Perspectives on the West

Civil War

The U.S. Civil War CenterSite to help locate Civil War information. An inclusive website that claims to study the Civil War from different perspectives that includes book reviews, virtual exhibits, and much more.

The American Civil War HomepageA Civil War resource that contains Fictional accounts of the war, biographies, battles, campaigns, reasons for the war, and much more

Great American HistoryContains resources from the Civil War and on Abraham Lincoln

CivilWar@SmithsonianSmithsonian Institute site on the Civil War

Selected Civil War Photographs Home PagePhotographs from the Civil War

Civil War Photographs A website totally dedicated to pictures from the Civil War with options to either keyword serach or to search by time period

Abraham Lincoln OnlineSite dedicated to Abraham Lincoln's life which includes speeches, dates, quotes, and books dealing with Lincoln and his life

Abraham Lincoln Online

Post Civil War

American Family Immigration History Center

Coal RegionFocuses on Coal Mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania, includes a Coal Miners Dictionary