American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections on topics as wide-ranging as agriculture, art & architecture, business & economics, geography, performing arts, religion, sports, and technology. Major collections include Woman Suffrage Movement, American Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project (1936-1940), and Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s.
American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
The American Presidency Project consolidates, codes, and organizes into a single searchable database: The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913); The Public Papers of the Presidents:Hoover to Bush (1929-1993); The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2007). The archive contains over 72,000 searchable documents on the American presidency including Executive Orders; State of the Union Addresses; Proclamations; State of the Union Messages; Press Conferences; Inaugural Addresses; Saturday Radio Addresses; Addresses to Congress; Addresses to Nation and more.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project posts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from the pre-18th century to the present. Major collections include colonial charters, the Constitution, the Cold War, Treaties between the U.S. & Native Americans, and World War II.
Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm
1881 field diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher who lived among the Sioux in Dakota Territory and record their way of life.
First American West: the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html
A part of the Library of Congress's American Memory project, First American West offers over 15,000 pages of material on the history, economy, and social life of the early trans-Appalachian West. The materials include books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal papers, letters, journals and more.
From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/index.html
The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, contains more than 80,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times. The searchable database of rare and important American historical documents contains nearly 400 annotated transcripts from the Collection. Authors include George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln. The documents span the years from Columbus's arrival to the end of the Civil War and represent topics as varied as colonial frontier life, the Boston Massacre, the "Amistad" affair, and the role of African American troops in the Civil War.
Historical Census Browser
Http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/index.html
Information compiled from the US Census from 1790-1960, produced by the University of Virginia Library. The information was compiled from a project by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Immigration to the United States. 1789-1930
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
A web-based collection of selected historical materials that documents
voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the
Constitution to the Great Depression. The materials are from Harvard
University Libraries. Emphasis is on the 19th century and includes a
variety of themes such as acculturation, racism, nativism and
governmental policies.
In the First Person
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx
A comprehensive archive that provides in-depth field and keyword
searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and
autobiographies within Alexander Street Press databases and scholar
materials available for free on the Web. The resources span over 400 years from the 1550s to 2000s.
James Madison Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/
The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of
Congress consist of approximately 12,000 items captured in some 72,000
digital images, including correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography, legal and financial documents, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Lewis & Clark Journals
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/journals.html
The American Studies Department at the University of Virginia has created an on-line version of the journals of the early nineteenth-century Lewis & Clark voyage from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. These rich journals support a number of topics from natural history to native Americans. PBS also has a companion site for the Ken Burn's documentary on Lewis & Clark that contains primary source material as well as historical commentary. http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
Making of America
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ or http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
A collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Michigan collection contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints; the Cornell collection, 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles. Both collections are made up of images of the pages in the books and journals. When you find something you want to look at, you will see a scanned image of the actual pages of the 19th century volume. Searchable by keyword.
Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.masshist.org
The Massachusetts Historical Society has spend over 200 years collecting and preserving material on the history of Massachusetts. The site houses a large collection of the Adams Family papers, including letters between John and Abigail. The site also contains a digital collections of the papers of Thomas Jefferson and the Diaries of John Quincy Adams. Other online document collections include material on slavery in Massachusetts, the experience of African-Americans seeking racial justice in Massachusetts courts, and collections of historic photographs.
Meeting of Frontiers
http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
A bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
The National Archives is the largest repository of federal, regional and local historic documents in the United States. The site contains hundreds of thousands of digitized documents with many different finding aids. The finding aids have been categorized under several headings: Archival Research Catalog (ARC); Access to Archival Databases (AAD); Guide to Federal Records; and more.
19th Century Documents Project
http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
Created by Professor Lloyd Benson of Furman University's history department and sponsored by Furman University, this collection is a work in progress. It includes accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with emphasis on sources dealing with sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity.
The Nineteenth Century in Print
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html
Twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. The longest run is for The North American Review, 1815-1900.
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson
The site includes 2,000 digitized items written by Jefferson, from single page letters to full published volumes. Also included is an online cyclopedia of Jefferson quotes, a comprehensive search engine for the Thomas Jefferson Papers, and links to numerous bibliographies about Jefferson.
University of Oklahoma College of Law. A Chronology of U. S. Historical Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
A listing of important legal documents pertaining to pre-colonial; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; and 20th century United States history. The site includes inaugural addresses of U. S. presidents.
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