Annals of American History
Explore the rich and varied history of the United States with Britannica’s Annals of American History. This valuable online chronicle provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
• Users can read the original words of luminaries who have made history, including Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Coverage dates back from the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus to the inaugural address of Barack Obama. Read A Day on the Oregon Trail, the Diary of a Confederate Spy, and the Camp David Accords.
• Multimedia transports today’s students back in time to hear Franklin D. Roosevelt giving his first inaugural address and John F. Kennedy discussing Soviet missiles in Cuba.