- 1898 Trans Mississippi and International Exposition
 - Showcased the developed West from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Held concurrently with the Indian Congress in Omaha, Nebraska. - 1898 Wilmington Race Riot (3)
- 19th Century American Cultural History
- Helping viewers understand the cultural history of each period of the 19th century, decade by decade.
- Aaron Burr - Alexander Hamilton Duel (6)
- Find sites dedicated to the deadly 1804 duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, which left Hamilton dead after one shot from Burr.
- 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.
- African American Odyssey: The Booker T. Washington Era
- Discusses the progress of blacks in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Covers their military contributions, education, economic, and social progress, crusade against lynching, and organising for civil rights.
- America at Work, America at Leisure
- This Library of Congress American Memory features motion pictures from 1894 to 1915 of a broad range of work, school, and leisure activities in the U.S. at the turn of the century.
- 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.
- American Experience: The Telephone
- Companion web site to the PBS/WGBH series programme on the history of the telephone.
- American Men at Table
- A practical table manners guide for the 19th century American man.
- American Tourists: The Grand Tour Comes Home
- Considers the history of Americans and tourism in the United States.
- Americans in the Egyptian Army: Ismail's Bold Experiment
- Recognises 50 American officers who served in the Egyptian Army during the 1870s.
- Amistad Revolt (10)
- Learn about Amistad Mutiny, the historical rebellion of slaves aboard the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839. Sites feature historical background, the vessel, the U.S. Supreme Court case, trial records and judgment, news accounts, biographical sketches, the legacy, and movie based on the 19th century rebellion at sea which became one of the milestones in the American history of abolition.
- Black Populism in the New South: 1886-1898
- African American Populism in North Carolina in the late 19th century.
- Black Ships & Samurai
- Exhibit from MIT examines the first encounter between Americans and Japanese in 1853.
- Causes of the Civil War
- Presents primary documents from the period of the secession crisis. Includes Republican and Democratic party platforms, The Crittenden Compromise, and political speeches.
- Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection
- Exhibit about the first major World's Fair held in the U.S. Features the Free Library of Philadelphia's collection of photographs and material.
- Children in Urban America Project
- Features documents and images related to the history of children in Milwaukee from 1850 to the present. Also includes suggested student projects and reading lists.
- 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 (7)
- Explore the Compromise of 1850, aka the Pearce Act, a series of U.S. Congressional legislative actions to regulate the spread of slavery in the territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. Sites offer background information, graphic illustrations, historical speeches, and related documents about the legal measures which were anti-slavery milestones in the U.S. history.
- Denmark Vesey Insurrection (7)
- Donner Party@
- Learn about Donner Party, the group of American settlers who, in the 1840s, resorted to cannibalism while emigrating to California. Sites offer background information, chronology, museum archives, pictures, maps of the journey, and film based on the fateful journey across Sierra Nevada.
- E Pluribus Unum: America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s
- Collection of essays, primary texts, artifacts, and other resources that examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life.
- Era of the Clipper Ships
- In-depth homage to the 19th century clipper ships of the USA and Canada. With information about shipbuilding history and famous ships like the Sea Witch.
- First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
- Features letters, maps, artifacts, images, and other materials relating to the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-18th to early 19th century.
- Five Points Site@
- Explore Five Points, the notorious 19th century slum area of Manhattan, New York City through sites featuring archaeological artifacts and photos, history, maps, newspaper clippings, as well as the portrayal of the district in Martin Scorsese's movie, Gangs of New York.
- Freedmen's Bureau (7)
- Explore the Freedmen's Bureau, the federal agency formed during the Reconstruction to aid distressed refugees of the American Civil War. Sites feature history, documents, activities' handbook, lesson plans to explain the sharecropping system, as well as transcriptions of reports and records of the agency also called the 'Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands' since it helped the 'freedmen' or freed slaves.
- Fugitive Slave Act (4)
- Gabriel's Rebellion (2)
- Gadsden Purchase (5)
- Great Chicago Fire (1871)@
- Learn about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the conflagartaion that raged in Chicago, Illinois for two days killing hundreds and destroying miles of the city. Sites offer background information, news archives, articles, pictures, and videos of the fire started by a cow which is considered as one of the largest U.S. disasters of 19th century.
- Great Republic by the Master Historians, Volume III
- Covers the War of 1812 to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
- Great Republic by the Master Historians, Volume II
- Covers the Cherokee wars to the Embargo Act of 1807.
- Hatfields and McCoys (12)
- Learn about the infamous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys in the West Virginia-Kentucky backcountry from 1878-1891. View maps and photographs of family members and read news on the truce and current day family reunions.
- Haymarket Riot@
- Read about Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which is considered to be one of the major influences on the origin of international May Day observances for workers. Sites feature history, articles, manuscripts, pro-labour speeches, photographs, illustrations, and library archives about the historical clash between the business class and working class in late 19th century Chicago.
- Historic Asylums
- State-by-state catalogue of state hospitals founded in the latter half of the 19th Century. Includes histories and photographs, original plans, and information on current preservation efforts.
- Historic Latta Plantation
- Carolina backcountry living history site, ca. 1800-1840.
- History of the First Locomotives in America
- From original documents and the testimony of the living witnesses. Written by William H. Brown.
- Homestead Strike@
- Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
- Digital Schomburg: The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection.
- IRWeb: The Industrial Revolution
- Fun and educational page about the history of the Industrial Revolution, and specifically, the American part in it.
- Jewish-American History on the Web
- Dedicated to 19th Century Jewish-American history, poetry and fiction, polemics and philosophy.
- John Brown's Raid (10)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 (4)
- Klondike Weekly, The
- Weekly online magazine dedicated to bringing the Klondike Gold Rush and its characters to life.
- Legends of America
- A travel site for the nostalgic and historic minded.
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (33)
- Examines the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to chart a path across the western U.S. Includes information on the history of the journey, different exhibitions about the trip, and their Native American guide Sacagawea.
- Louisiana Purchase (10)
- Learn about Louisiana Purchase, the controversial land aquisition by the United States from France in 1803. Sites include history, treaty documents, diplomatic letters, images, domestic opposition and Spanish conflicts, news archives, as well as the exploration and development of the territory purchased during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
- Making of America
- Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Maritime Heritage Project
- News of ships, captains, and names of passengers arriving in San Francisco from 1849 through 1870.
- Missouri Compromise (4)
- Molly Maguires@
- Nat Turner's Rebellion (7)
- Find sites for Nat Turner's rebellion, one of the most remarkable instances of black resistance led by an American slave in 1831. Sites feature history, events details, and sites for Nat Turner who masterminded the slave revolt which became a reference point for the American Civil War.
- New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812@
- Old Steam Navy, The
- Images of the men and ships of the U.S. Navy in the late 19th century.
- Peshtigo Fire (1871)@
- Picturing Modern America: 1880 - 1920
- Historical thinking exercises designed to encourage students to actively read, question, and discuss photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.
- Plessy v Ferguson: 163 U.S. 537 (1896)@
- Learn about Plessy v. Ferguson, the landmark decision which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public accommodations. Sites offer background information, overview, analysis, and text of the verdict that passed the "separate but equal" provision.
- Plough Boy Journals of Lewis Monto, 1827-1834
- Documents aspects of early 19th century American whaling by linking original and third-party documents on topics noted in the two journals kept by Lewis Monto between 1827 and 1834.
- Private Letters of James S. Griffing & J. Augusta Goodrich
- Correspondence exchanged between the two during the period 1841-1871.
- Pullman Strike@
- Learn about Pullman Strike, the wildcat strike by the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois on May 11, 1894. Sites feature historical background, events, consequences, labour related transcripts, museum exhibits, excerpts from the U.S Strike Commission's report, and analysis of the labour strike and its impact on the U.S. history.
- Road through the Wilderness: The Making of the National Road
- Describes the development of the road extending from Cumberland, MD, to St. Louis, MO, and its importance as the highway of Western migration in the early 19th Century.
- Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (2)
- Stand Up And Sing: Music And Our Reform History
- Helps students analyze issues related to American industrialization and reform using sheet music.
- Trail of Tears@
- Transcontinental Railroad (7)
- Explores the history of the Transcontinental Railroad, the 1,756 mile long track laid between Sacramento and Omaha in 1869, and its significance to the development of the Western United States as well as to U.S. history.
- United States Exploring Expedition (10)
- Whitman Massacre@
- Wikipedia: American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)
- Focuses on the early years of the American Civil Rights movement to end discrimination against African Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South.
- Wilmot Proviso (3)
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