I found the American Memory site to be interesting, but not all that user-friendly. Maybe it’s a work in progress. I tried to browse through the different categories (ex. War and Military, Women’s History) and found myself losing attention – there are so many links on this site bunched together that it is overwhelming. I was most surprised when I tried to research the Vietnam War and found that under "War and Military", there is no specific category for the Vietnam War, although it lists just about every other war that the United States has been involved in. It does, however, pull up some finds under the search engine query, but not too many. I was definitely disappointed to see this, especially since Vietnam is so recent – isn’t it more pertinant to the American history today than say, the Spanish-American War?
While I would probably find this site useful to search information on these various topics, I think that this doesn’t provide me with more, or better, information than I could find by using a Google search. The one good thing about this site is that it presents the information in an organized manner, and the site also provides you with its own search engine.