Outline of U.S. History/Bibliography

The Bancroft Prize for American History

 * Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely
 * From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Michael J. Klarman
 * Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 by Michael O’Brien
 * In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 by Edward L. Ayers
 * A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
 * Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden
 * Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks
 * The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay
 * Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
 * In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris
 * Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson
 * The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw

Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States

 * Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
 * A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
 * An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
 * The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
 * Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis

Selected Internet resources

 * American Historical Association (AHA)
 * American History: A Documentary Record 1492 - Present
 * The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Major Collections
 * Biography of America
 * Digital History
 * Documents for the Study of American History
 * Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
 * History Matters
 * The Library of Congress American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
 * The Library of Congress American Memory: Timeline
 * National Archives and Records Administration
 * National Archives and Records Administration: Digital Classroom
 * National Archives and Records Administration: Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service
 * National Park Service: Links to the Past
 * National Park Service: History in the Parks
 * Organization of American Historians (OAH)
 * Smithsonian
 * The Historical Society
 * WWW Virtual Library: History: United States
 * We the People