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United States History, 1864-Present, Dr. Miguda

Focusing specifically on primary sources, this guide is to help students in Dr. Miguda's US History 1864-Present course find the resources they need for their assignments.

Westward Expansion

General Resources

Library of Congress: The American West, 1865--1900

Library of Congress:  Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads

New York Public Library Digital Collections:  Early Landscape Photography of the American West

Teach US History.org: Westward Expansion

University of Washington Libraries: Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries:  Nineteenth Century European-American Views on Life in and the Peoples of the American West

U.S. History Scene: 19th Century: The U. S. West 

Transcontinental Railroad

DocsTeach: Transcontinental Railroad

Library of Congress: Railroads in the Late 19th Century

National Archives: Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

Homestead Act, Great Plains Settlement, and Exodusters

Digital Public Library of America:  The Homestead Acts

Digital Public Library of America:  Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains

DocsTeach: Homestead Act

Mining

Digital Public Library of America:  Boomtimes Again: Twentieth-Century Mining in the Mojave Desert

DocsTeach: Mining

Western Territories Become States

Library of Congress: Territories to Statehood, the West: Topics in Chronicling America (provides selected nespaper articles from Chronicling America Collection as well as tips for searching the full Chronicling America Collection)

 

Indigenous Americans

Digital Public Library of America:  American Indian Boarding Schools

Digital Public Library of America:  Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1900-1940

Digital Public Library of America:  The Wounded Knee Massacre