American Civil War Resources
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/
Manuscript collections contain letters and diaries from both Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files. The backbone of the printed collection, located in the Special Collections' Rare Book Room, is the Elden E. Josh Billings Collection which consists of approximately 6,000 monographs.
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
The site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, with essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.
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.
American Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
This web site, sponsored by the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia, provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).
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 to name just a few.
Bleeding Kansas
http://www.kancoll.org/galbks.htm
First person accounts of events in Kansas on the eve of the American Civil War from the Kansas Collection.
Causes of the Civil War
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html
Document collection from J.F. Epperson. This site was founded with the intent of collecting copies of or links to as many primary documents from the period of the secession crisis as is reasonably possible, with the goal of shedding light on the causes of secession, hence of the war.
Some especially long documents are offered in both a "short" and "full" version. A few documents are given only in excerpted form.
Colorado Digitization Program: Heritage Collections
http://www.cdpheritage.org
The Collaborative Digitization Program is a collaboration of archives, historical societies, libraries and museums of the West to give digitalized access to the state's cultural, historical and scientific heritage collections. Through the site the people of Colorado can access Heritage Colorado available database of over 150,000 images from 70 museums, libraries, historical societies, and archives in Colorado. The site includes digitized images of 44 Colorado historic newspapers from 1859-1880. Other collections included are Heritage Colorado, a search interface that allows simultaneously search digital collections from cultural heritage institutions in Colorado, and the Western Trails Project Description collaborative digitization project, a mixture of archives, historical societies, libraries and museum digital materials from Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming on the various western trails that passed through the four states.
Digital Librarian: History
http://www.digital-librarian.com/history.html
An eclectic and annotated list of links, organized A-Z by title. The emphasis is on US history with some international sites, and covers all historical periods.
Documents in Military History
http://www.hillsdale.edu/personal/stewart/war/
Hillsdale College's collection of primary sources for military history focusing primarily on European military history before the twentieth century.
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is an electronic collection that provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Five different projects make up the site: Southern literature; first-person narratives; slave narratives; the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; the church in the Southern Black Community.
Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp
The National Endowment for the Humanities maintains this site with links to best history, language arts and social sciences sites. In addition to primary sources, there are online lesson plans and other digital learning materials.
From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
Foreign Relations of the United States, Electronic Facsimile
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. The facsimile consists of an incomplete run from 1863-1958. with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed. The missing volumes are scattered throughout the series. The primary gaps cover the Reconstruction era of 1865-1872, the late 1880's to early 1890's, 1925-1937, and most of the 1950's. Nonetheless, this ongoing project provides access to important documents not available elsewhere on the Web.
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.
The Kansas Collection
http://www.kancoll.org/
A collection of books, letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials related to Kansas and life on the American frontier. Also includes VOICES, the Kancoll online magazine. A rich source of materials on the Midwest in the late 19th century.
Kentuckian digital library
http://www.kyvl.org/kentuckiana/digilibcoll/digilibcoll.shtml
This Web site provides access to digitized materials many Kentucky libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums. It has substantial photo collections and oral histories. It focuses on Kentuckian history.
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
(EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture. Related to the Ad*Access Project.
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.
Native American Documents Project
http://www.csusm.edu/nadp
This site provides documents from the Rogue river War and Siletz Reservations collection, including searchable transcribed, historic documents and correspondence related to the Rogue River war in Oregon and the subsequent relocation of the Native Americans to the Siletz Reservation. Other documents cover the Allotment Act, California treaties with Native Americans; and narrative reports of the commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1871, 1872, 1875, and 1876.
The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection
http://digital.nypl.org/
In addition to finding aids (guides to archival and manuscript collections), the NYPL Digital Library Collections contains texts and images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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.
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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