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• Also see Cities & Counties for some histories of individual cities and counties
• Historical Overview from the Library of Congress
• State Historical Society of North Dakota Guide to State Historic Sites and Museums and publications and a Historical Overview.
• Pioneer Spirit Contents include Land in Her Own Name, (Sociologist Elaine Lindgren's powerful exhibit on women homesteaders in North Dakota), Then and Now (a photo-essay on Red River Valley life, separated by 100 years, laid side by side), Zezula (Jessamine Slaughter Burgum's diary of frontier life, telling the story of the land from 1863 through 1877), The Rough Rider Awards winners portraits and stories, and Pioneer Camera (Fred Hultstrand's photographs that captured the hard work and everyday courage of the pioneers).
• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award Winners
• Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection Some 550 images documenting the settlement of the northern Great Plains, particularly northeastern North Dakota, from the early 1880s to the 1920s. A Library of Congress American Memory National Digital Library Program project.
• F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collection 119 images taken in the early twentieth century on the family farm near Fullerton, in southeastern North Dakota. A Library of Congress American Memory National Digital Library Program project.
• GhostsOfNorthDakota.com An ongoing pictorial documentary of North Dakota ghost towns.
• Tent of Many Voices A National Signature Event during the Lewis & Clark bicentennial, to be held at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on August 17-20, 2006.
• Lewis and Clark in North Dakota
• Lewis and Clark in North Dakota
• Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Wagon Train
• Dakota Dinosaur Museum Dickinson.
• Pioneer Trails Regional Museum Bowman.
• Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
• Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation
• Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site Stanton.
• State Archives and Historical Research Library The official state archives. Acquires and preserves all types of research materials relating to North Dakota and the Northern Great Plains.
• Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University. Includes some history links.
• North Dakota State University Archives
• North Dakota Biography Index Searchable database that indexes over 138,000 biographical sketches found in some 540 publications.
• Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at North Dakota State University Libraries.
• Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at the University of North Dakota.
• North Dakota GenWeb Project North Dakota Genealogy.
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet for North Dakota
• Sources of Genealogical Information in North Dakota
• Time Passages, Genealogy of the Dakotas A family history research company that specializes in the genealogy of pioneer families who settled the Dakota Territory, North Dakota, and South Dakota.