Articles about colonial history. Learn how our country came to be, including biographies of those that helped make our country what it is today. We bring history to life!

Civil War sites in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia with brief history, description of interpretation and directions. National and state parks, museums, Virginia Civil War Trails, events, photos and historic pictures.

For students, teachers, locals and tourists, exploreDC.org is a one-stop Web site for an illustrative, informative and interactive guide to the history, heritage and culture of the nation's capital.

The directory is broken down into different time periods. Each period is broad and yet reasonably detailed to give the reader the whole story.

America's history in words, pictures, and sounds. The majority of American Memory collections can be seen and read without special viewers. However, in some collections the Libraryprovides sound recordings, films, additional high-resolution images, and text with enhanced navigation. Just as you need special equipmentto play videotapes, cassettes, or CDs at home, you need special viewers to see and hear these historical materials.

Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.

From the presidential libraries, the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and a host of other agencies comes this collection of U.S. government documents. The major domestic and international events of the post-World War II world are covered in information by and for presidents, senators, and congress members. All were classified. Some were top secret. Now you can search every one of them.

Confused about the proper name for the Nation's capital? If so, you're not alone. Pierre L'Enfant, designer of the city, thought of it as the Capital City. Jefferson referred to it as Federal Town. Washington, however, considered this undignified, and instead used the name Federal City...READ MORE

Washington, D.C., was built at the start of the 19th century with more irony than iron. Not only did a Frenchman design the American capital, but a free black man may have secured the construction of the city, which was to take place in the middle of the two largest slave-holding states in the union, Maryland and Virginia...Read More

This site is well organized with concise history and nice pictures of U.S. Diplomacy.

This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Anoteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere.

A guide to the historic neighborhoods and monuments of the Nation's Capital