Here are some useful websites for students of American History
The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html
American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/
White House (Biographies of Presidents) http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents
State Department (Biographies of Secretaries) http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/secretaries
Unite States Senate http://www.senate.gov/
House of Representatives (history of) http://history.house.gov/
United States Navy (history) http://www.history.navy.mil/
National Women’s History Museum http://www.nwhm.org/
America In Class http://americainclass.org/
Famous Trials http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials2printable.htm
Oyez (Supreme Court rulings) http://www.oyez.org/cases
Federal Judicial Center http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/index.html
The Miller Center http://millercenter.org/
History Matters (George Mason University) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
American Presidency Project (election data) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/elections.php
Yale Law Library (good source for documents) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
Yale Open Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/
Documenting the American South (UNC) http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Slave Trade Database (Emory Univ.) http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
American Revolution Timeline http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/am_rev_timeline.htm
PBS (The American Experience) http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/
Independence Hall Association http://www.ushistory.org/
Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SpartacusIndexHistory.htm
Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
The American Yawp http://www.americanyawp.com/
100 Most Influential Americans http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/12/the-100-most-influential-figures-in-american-history/305384/
The Benefits of Inflation http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/315/inflation/inflation-advantages-and-disadvantages/
Evaluating History Websites http://www.oswego.edu/~jnichol1/womenweb.html
Primary Source Analysis http://guides.libraries.psu.edu/c.php?g=536517&p=4273544
50 Primary Sources http://teachingamericanhistory.org/50docs/
My Doctoral Dissertation http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00003610/00001/1j
Campus Conversations 55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXxHgPqv3wg
Listen Liberal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbt8gJ7EW8E&feature=youtu.be
Jelly Doughnut Jellydoughnut
Robert E. Lee and Slavery https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lincoln-and-lees-views-on-slavery/