Media, video/audio, newspapers

Links
* Federal
* Presidential
* Maps/Military
* Internet
* Media
* Associations
* States
* Congressional
* Collectibles

Media

* YouTube
Provides platform for posting video and audio archives from both public and private sources. Channels include those maintained by such government agencies as National Archives; Library of Congress; Smithsonian Institution and others, along with many private sector media channels such as History Channel; PBS; C-SPAN; NPR; National Geographic; museums, private firms and individuals. Videos include newsreels or documentaries featuring historic events such as speeches; campaign debates; military conflicts; and others. Other channels with special political history content include ForgottenHistoryUSA; The Daily Conversation (18 Powerful US Speeches); and That Was History. Some of the more visited educational channels include Stanford History Education Group; YaleCourses; Crash Course; Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel; and HipHughes History.

* PBS
Publishes online videos of many of its history documentaries, some available full-length for online viewing, particularly those in its award-winning American Experience series, on key figures, issues and events in history and politics along with accompanying essays, documents, photographs and images. Program topics have included Death and the Civil War; The Crash of 1929; Last Days in Vietnam; Freedom Riders; JFK; Jimmy Carter; Reagan; Clinton; and several others.

* History Channel
Publishes range of videos and accompanying essays and images from its documentaries and other programming, including profiles of Emancipation Proclamation; Fight for Women's Suffrage; Great Depression; World War II History; Cold War History; Civil Rights Movement; Vietnam War Protests; Speeches and audio Topi

* American History TV, C-SPAN
Online site of history-based programs broadcast on weekends on C-SPAN3. Features extensive range of program videos, particularly on the Presidency and Civil War. Also provides lectures by college professors; archival films and newsreels; oral histories; and talks by authors of history related books.

* Internet Archive
Most relevant collections include its Moving Image Archive with historic newsreels and television news coverage and Audio Archive with radio news coverage along with Presidential Recordings of public speeches made by U.S. Presidents and secret recordings made in White House between 1940 and 1973.

* The Living Room Candidate, Museum of the Moving Image
Posts over 300 campaign commercials from 1952 through 2012 presidential elections. Highlights include 1952 "I Like Ike" animated commercial; 1960 John Kennedy spot on being a Catholic; 1964 "Daisy" nuclear war Lyndon Johnson ad; 1984 Ronald Reagan ad "It's Morning Again in America"; 1988 George Bush "tank ride" ad against Michael Dukakis; 2008 Barack Obama "Yes We Can" Web ad.

* Political Communication Center, University of Oklahoma
Hosts Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive of approximately 95,000 film, audio, and video recordings of commercials from 1936 to the present. These include political television spots from candidates running for offices ranging from the U.S. Presidency, such as the controversial Lyndon Johnson campaign ad "Daisy Girl" from 1964, to state and local offices throughout the United States. Only a few examples online, access to archives requires registration.

* Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
World's most extensive and complete archive of television news. Access to streaming videos restricted only to a limited audience of individuals associated with subscribing colleges and universities.

* American Rhetoric
Provides access either on-site or through links to other sites to over 5,000 full text, and available audio and video recordings, of speeches, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other recorded events. Posts full text transcriptions and many audio and video recordings of the 100 most significant American political speeches, includes Franklin Roosevelt address to Congress following Pearl Harbor attack; President Eisenhower warning of "military-industrial complex" farewell address; President Truman announcement of Japanese surrender; Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream"; Lyndon Johnson announcement on not seeking re-election; President Bush first remarks after 9/11 attacks; and Ronald Reagan in Berlin "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall".

* American Radio Works
National documentary unit of American Public Media public broadcasting network, produces documentaries, podcasts and online content for public radio and the Internet. Documentaries include Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt radio broadcasts; Mississippi resistance to civil rights movement; century of African American speechmaking; 1968 Nixon-Humphrey election; and Vietnam and the presidency.

* Digital History
Developed by Professor Steven Mintz of University of Texas while on faculty at University of Houston, designed for history teachers and students. Publishes wide range of essays and reference sources, audio-visual archive including speeches, book talks and e-lectures by historians, and historical maps, music, newspaper articles, and images.

Newspapers
* Library of Congress-Chronicling America
Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages published between 1836 and 1922. Part of National Digital Newspaper Program partnership between National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress, long-term effort to develop Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.

* Newspapers.com
Site operated by Ancestry.com genealogy site. Access to searches of over 3,500 newspapers with more than 100 million pages dating back to 1700s.
Subscription rates $79.95 per year or $7.95 monthly.

* NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Largest historical newspaper database online, contains over 175 million newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Subscriptions (limited to 25 page views per month) $79.95 annually; $49.95 six months; $29.95 three months. Subscriptions without limits on page views $99.95 for six months or $29.95 per month.

* New York Times Article Archive (from 1851)
Articles for nonsubscribers free for those published before January 1, 1923 or after December 31, 1980, but they count toward monthly limit of 10 free page views. Articles from 1851–1922 are also available as images to digital subscribers (at $8.75 per week) only.

* GenealogyBank.com
Genealogy search site which includes database of over 6,500 newspapers from 1690 to present at $69.95 for annual membership.