Wikipedia:WikiProject United States History

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Welcome to WikiProject United States History. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of United States history and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

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[edit] Goals

To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of United States history.
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of United States history by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
To address POV issues and tentative edits in articles within the scope of the project.
To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the history of the United States in Wikipedia.

[edit] Scope

The project generally considers any article related to prehistorical, historical or modern-day affairs of America and its territories to be within its scope. As history we regard the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources. In other words, ambition of the project is to cover articles related to:

  • the history of ancient America
  • the history of the native Americans
  • the history of European settlement in America
  • the present day history of America
  • any and all articles relating to important historical Americans

All of these articles should be included in the Category:History of the United States or one of its subcategories.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject United States History: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Requests: Alexander Hamilton: The article for this founding father is surprisingly contentious and POV. It is full of out-of-context material, poorly-sourced material, anti-Hamilton POV material, citations to older or marginal sources whose research has since been amended, superseded, corrected, or discredited, etc. In far too many ways, it does not reflect the current historical consensus, which it absolutely must. I have tried to fix it quite a bit, but there remain long-time editors who are bent on keeping much of its older material, and its anti-Hamilton slant. The earlier parts of the article are, by and large, better. So far, I have drastically shortened the intro. I have also recently tried to improve the structure and content of the sections. In addition, I have tried balance the POV issues somewhat, but much, much work remains to be done, and I simply do not have the time or the energy to undertake such a massive task as this on my own. I also feel the article will benefit greatly from fresh eyes--especially if thy are the eyes of good, fair historians of any stripe. Please help. Thank you. AdRem (talk) 18:31, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Corvus coronoides (founder)
  2. John Carter
  3. Monsieurdl (Specializing in early American history from 1600-1783 with many personal resources)
  4. BradMajors (particulary, New York prior to 1783)
  5. Happyme22 (Specializing in presidencies from FDR to current George W. Bush; focus on Ronald Reagan)
  6. Leobold1 American History from the Civil War through WWII
  7. Sutherland4l (talk) 02:46, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
  8. Darwinek Deep South, race relations, American History from the Civil War to World War II.
  9. Nanten American History from 1750-1865, plus World War II.
  10. Crehberg Civil War, Deep South, Great Depression.
  11. Parkwells (talk) 20:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)]] 19th c., northern and southern tier migrations, also post-Civil War migrations and settlement on MS frontier, 20th c. Great Migration, ethnic and social history

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new United States history-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

[edit] Categories

[–] History of the United States
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[+] History of the United States by location
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[+] Archaeology of the United States
[+] Cultural history of the United States
[+] Disasters in the United States
[+] Economic history of the United States
[+] Forced migrations in the United States
[+] History of the foreign relations of the United States
[+] Geographic history of the United States
[+] Historiography of the United States
[+] Legal history of the United States
[+] Maritime history of the United States
[+] Military history of the United States
[+] Natural history of the United States
[+] Political history of the United States
[+] Social history of the United States
[+] United States history timelines
[+] Violent incidents in the United States
[+] United States history stubs


[edit] Resources

[edit] Related projects


The WikiProject on United States history is a project aimed towards the development and expansion of articles on the History of the United States.

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