Historical overviews for family histories 

• An Outline of American History:  from the State Department, http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/history/toc.htm
  
• A History of the United States of America:  A broad overview, http://www.ragz-international.com/united_states_of_america.htm
• Encyclopaedia of USA History.  Extensive information, from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USA.htm
• Digital History of the USA, from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
  
• First Nations: Awesome histories of Native American peoples by Lee Sultzman,  http://www.dickshovel.com/up.html

• Chronology on the History of Slavery: Awesome compilation by Eddie Becker 1999,  http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
• Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938:  Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/
• Encyclopaedia of Slavery in the USA:  including slave accounts, from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm
• TransAtlantic Slave Voyages Database: information about 35,000 voyages, from http://www.slavevoyages.org
  
• Human Slavery and the Southern Baptist Mind, study of the thinking of Basil Manly, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC, after Richard Furman; by Shawn Ritenour, 2002, http://www.mises.org/asc/2002/asc8-ritenour.pdf
• History of the Southern Baptists, Religious Movements Homepage, Univ. of Virginia, http://www.mises.org/asc/2002/asc8-ritenour.pdf
• Slave Revolution in Haiti, by Robert R. Corbett, Webster University, St. Louis, Mo., http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/revolution/revolution1.htm
  

• Immigration to the USA:  All origins, from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm
  
• Swedish Immigration:  from http://www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm.
• Germans in America: from http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/germusa.htm
• French Huguenots in America: from http://www.geocities.com/lydick_1999/huguenot/huguenot.html.