AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs
A large list of primary source material available at numeous Websites. The list is available via The University of Kansas's Carrie. A Full-Text Electronic Library. The documents cover all of United States History.
American Studies at the University of Virginia
http://xroads.virginia.edu/
This site contains several collections of primary source material. Selecting "Cultural Maps" will access historical maps of the United States and list links to maps at other websites. Select the "30's" will give a menu of of film, radio programs, bibliographies and features of life from the 1930's. Selecting "Hypertext" produces a list of United States literature containing works such as Emerson's "Representative Men" or Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" or the WPA's "American Slave Narratives". All of the literary works have been digitalized and are available in full text.
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 Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources
http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/cndls/asw/
An extensive list of links to historical studies, archival resources and general history resources in the field of American history.
DOUGLASS: Archives of American Public Address
http://douglassarchives.org/
Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents . It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University. Coverage goes from John Winthrop's "On Liberty" in 1625 to George W. Bush''s "The Advance of Freedom" in 2003.
GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
GPO Access is produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office and provides free electronic access important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. GPO Acess allows searching and browsing full-text information from all three branches of the Federal Government including Congressional Bills, the Congressional Record, Public and Private Laws, Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, and a number of Judicial resources including a link to the Supreme Court Web site. The site also gives access to documents produced by the Federal Depository Library Program.
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.
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