Original film [1:17:53] published in 1967 covers China's political history including Mao Tse-tung, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Nationalist-Communist victory.
Site provides information on how to best use the vast resources of the National Archives. Teach and study with primary resources, an excellent way to get in touch with history. Just for fun, click on "Sign the Declaration" for a chance to sign your own name to the document!
A site for reading all about the National Industrial Recovery Act and view the complete transcript of the original text.
This great resource gives the history of building interstate highways as far back as the Roosevelt administration. Find out why President Eisenhower thought a system of interstate highways was so important to the U.S. economy and defense.
Explore the original document that established the National Labor Relations Board written in 1935. Also known as the Wagner Act, its intention was to give employees the right to form unions and to engage in collective bargaining.
Original film [52:29] tells the story of the invasion of Normandy.
Information about the North Atlantic Treaty. Scanned pages of the document's preamble and signature page in both English and French. Links to the full text and information about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Learn about this document that charted a government for the Northwest Territory. View the complete text and images of the original document.
Original film [41:32] with declassified information of the testing of nuclear weapons documents the history and development of nuclear weapons.
Internet Archive history video [1:14:41] produced by the Department of Army ca. 1945 on Nuremburg, prosecution and the devestation of WWII.
Contains a copy of the original program for the March on Washington that featured Martin Luther King. Provides a summary of the civil rights movement at that time.
The Compromise of 1850 attempted to settle sectional disagreements about slavery in the volatile pre-Civil War period. The compromise, actually a series of bills, had an enormous impact on the nation's slow march to civil war. See interactive copies of the bills, along with links to larger copies, a typed transcript, and a downloadable PDF file.
Contains images of the original document and a transcript of the complete text of the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 in an easy to read format. Also contains a brief overview on the background behind this act.
Original film [28:34] documents events of Allied intervention to save Paris from destruction by Occupation forces of the Nazi Regime.
Interactive image of Eli Whitney's plans for the cotton gin, accompanied by an explanation of the cotton gin's purpose and significance in relation to the Industrial Revolution.
A nice site about the Pendleton Act allows you to view a large image of the actual document itself, gives the transcript to the document, and provides background information about the Act.
A collection of photographs, posters, newspaper clippings, and other documents telling the stories of American civilians and military personnel during World War II.
Captivating audiovisual look at the role African Americans played during World War II.
Black and white reproductions from famous paintings by the National Archives and Records Administration. There are paintings of battle scenes, famous participants, traitors and even a perspective from the British point of view.
From the National Archives and Records Administration, this online exhibit has galleries of photographs separated by time period showing a history of the United States.