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| American West (113) | Military History (573) |
| Amistad Revolt (9) | |
| California Gold Rush | Museums( |
| Civil War [185] | Native American |
| Colonial America | New Madrid Earthquake 1811-1812 [12] |
| Denmark Vesey Insurrection (8) | |
| Documents (4) | Nat Turner's Rebellion (4) |
| Fifty Four Forty or five [6] | Old West |
| General [33] | Organizations (17) |
| Gilded Age (15) | Orphan Trains (12) |
| Immigration | People (266) |
| Impeachment | Slavery [7] |
| Independence Day | Stonewall Jackson (6) |
| Texas War of Independence | |
| Imperialism (11) | Whitman Massacre |
| John Brown (12) | William T Sherman (8) |
| Aaron Burr - Alexander Hamilton Duel (6) | |
| African American Journey: Missouri Compromise | plan agreed upon by the United States Congress in 1820 to settle the debate over slavery in the Louisiana Purchase area. |
| American Experience: The Telephone | companion to the PBS/WGBH series program on the history of the telephone |
| Americans in the Egyptian Army: Ismail's Bold Experiment | 50 American officers who served in the Egyptian Army during the 1870s. |
| Black Populists in North Carolina: 1876-1896 | African-American Populism in North Carolina in the late 19th century |
| City Transformed: Railroads and Their Influence on the Growth of Chicago in the 1850s | finalist entry in the 1995 Chicago Metro History Fair. |
| Compromise of 1850 (8) | |
| Department of Dakota | travel back in time to the American frontier of the 1870s and see maps, gazetteer, troop rosters and accounts of military campaigns |
| Documenting the American South | the Southern Experience in 19th-century America. Includes narratives on slavery, memoirs, diaries and autobiographies. |
| Donner Party | |
| Five Points Site | images and artifacts from the archaeological dig of the 19th century New York City slum. |
| Fugitive Slave Act (7) | |
| Fur Trade in Indian Territory | text and pictures of the Fur Trade Period in Oklahoma. |
| Godey's Lady's Book | popular lady's book of the 19th century with articles by well known American authors. |
| Great Chicago Fire 1871 | |
| Hatfields and McCoys (4) | |
| Haymarket Riot | |
| Historic Asylums of 19th Century America | state by state listings, preservation information, historic photos, maps, histories, original plans |
| Historic Latta Plantation | Carolina backcountry living history site, ca. 1800-1840. |
| History of California to Statehood in 1850 | images and links, of Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Yankee California leading up to state ratification in October 1850. |
| History of the First Locomotives in America | original documents and the testimony of the living witnesses. Written by William H. Brown. |
| History of the National Refining Company | Cleveland, Ohio 1882-1950. Produced White Rose Gasoline and EN-AR-CO motor oil. |
| Images of African Americans from the 19th Century | The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection. |
| IRWeb: The Industrial Revolution | Industrial Revolution, and specifically, the American part in it. |
| Jewish-American History on the Web | 19th Century Jewish-American history, poetry and fiction, polemics and philosophy. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 (5) | |
| Klondike Weekly, The | Klondike Gold Rush and its characters to life |
| Leona G. and David A. Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives | Jewish families who settled in Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas during the mid-nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition (19) | |
| Making of America | primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. |
| Maritime Heritage Project | ships, captains, and names of passengers arriving in San Francisco from 1849 through 1870. |
| Minnesota Explorers | Zeb Pike and Stephen Long explored Minnesota and have mountains in Colorado named after them. |
| Missouri Compromise (5) | |
| Molly Maguires | |
| Montana Vigilantes and Sheriff Henry Plummer | Gold Camp Vigilantes in Montana in 1862-64 with an emphasis on Henry Plummer. |
| Mormon Pioneer Story | |
| New Madrid Earthquake, The | documents, accounts, graphics, and links about the earthquakes of 1811-1812. |
| Old Steam Navy, The | men and ships of the US Navy in the late 19th century. |
| Peshtigo Fire | |
| Plessy v Ferguson: 163 U.S. 537 (1896) | |
| Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (6) | |
| Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Tucson | nuns and pioneers who came to the Southwest in the 1870's to start schools, orphanages, and hospitals. |
| Story of a Great Monopoly | the Vanderbilt fortune, first published in the Atlantic Monthly, March 1881. |
| The American Experience: America 1900 | images, information, and documents about American life at the turn of the century, including a timeline, people and events database, and teacher's guide. |
| Trail of Tears | |
| Transcontinental Railroad (16) | |
| U.S. Camel Corps | 19th century Army experiment in which camels were used as pack animals in the American Southwest. |
| USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) | |
| Virtual Antebellum Richmond | Richmond before the Civil War with students and faculty at the College of William and Mary |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842 and Associated Documents | boundaries between Maine and British territories, and settled the final suppression of the African slave trade. |
| Women, Sexuality, and Murder in 19th Century America | sexual scandals and murders that involved women in a significant way: as victims, as perpetrators, or as involved bystanders. |