The following information has been taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica's Annals of American History Online site.

Online Access to Original Source Documents in U.S. History

Explore the rich and varied history of the United States with Encyclopaedia Britannica's Annals of American History Online. 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 speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.

Highlights

• 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present.
• Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more.
• Contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe.
• Photos and multimedia that bring the events to life—listen to the first inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy discussing Soviet missiles in Cuba.