19th Century Advertising ad from Harper's Weekly
19th Century - Documenting the American South primary sources
1850s Statistical Almanac
1860 Election documents
1895 Test, 8th Grade
19th Century Documents Project abolitionism, sectionalism, secession, and more... all pre-Civil War documents
AAD - Access to Archival Databases 50 million historic electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies on a wide range of topics
Ad*Access "images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955"
Advertisements old American ads
Advertisements - Gallery of Regrettable Food old American ads
Advertising in America, the Emergence of: 1850-1920 over 9000 images
Alaska's Digital Archives
Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth exhaustive historical context for the committee hearings, the two trials, and the American political climate of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s - contains many original documents
American Journeys "more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later"
American Memory primary source materials regarding the history of the United States. Over a million items are available
American Originals from the National Archives
American Sheet Music, 1820-1885 over 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music, searchable by author, subject, or title
American Women's History: A Research Guide "provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections"
Ann Arbor: 1900-1975 African American women are interviewed about the history through which they lived
The Anti-Federalist Papers the arguments against the ratification of the constitution (1787-1789). "They contain warnings of dangers from tyranny that weaknesses in the proposed Constitution did not adequately provide against, and while some of those weaknesses were corrected by adoption of the Bill of Rights, others remained, and some of these dangers are now coming to pass"
Archiving Early America primary source material from 18th Century America
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II : A Collection of Primary Sources
Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars
"Been Here So Long" Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives... includes photo gallery
Bexar County Historic Markers
Black Thought and Culture electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902 digitized newspaper pages
Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher "Anthropologist Alice Fletcher lived with Dakota Sioux women on reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota for six weeks in the fall of 1881 and recorded her experiences in two journals" (Scout Report). Includes drawings and photographs
Civil Rights in Mississippi: Digital Archive "an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi
A Civil War Soldier In the Wild Cat Regiment selections from the paperrs of Tilton C. Reynolds
Classics of American Colonial History original documents
Colonial Charters, Grants, and Related Documents --Avalon Project
Constitution - The Anti-Federalist Papers the arguments against the ratification of the constitution (1787-1789). "They contain warnings of dangers from tyranny that weaknesses in the proposed Constitution did not adequately provide against, and while some of those weaknesses were corrected by adoption of the Bill of Rights, others remained, and some of these dangers are now coming to pass"
Cuba--Castro Speeches, 1950's to Present
Cuban Missile Crisis --documents
Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War 144,000 newspaper clippings from the period
National Archives
National Archives
Diaries of George Washington
Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, 1701-1732 original source materials
Documenting the American South first person narratives, Southern literature, lots of historical information
Documents in Law, History, and Government --the Avalon Project
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement browseable by subject categories and searchable by keyword. Subject categories include General and Theoretical, Medical and Reproductive Rights, Organizations and Activism, Sexuality and Lesbian Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Women of Color, and others. Most documents are offered in transcription, with some limited facsimile versions available
Donner Party, includes pictures and journals
Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss
Drawing the Western Frontier: James E. Taylor Album "Taylor’s newspaper illustrations served to popularize stereotypes of the Western frontier during the post-Civil War years. Like other illustrators and writers of the period, he depicted Indian-White relations in terms of savagery versus civilization and encouraged Americans to visualize the nation’s Westward expansion in heroic terms"
Dred Scott Case, 1857--documents
Dred Scott Case 85 original documents
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 collection of over 9,000 advertising images from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Espionage--Freedom of Information Act --FBI Reading Room of most requested documents
EyeWitness relive history through the eyes and ears of those who were there; plus photo of the week, voices of the 20th Century, It Happened This Month
Famous American Trials tells the story of twenty-two famous American trials with images, primary documents, analyses, and overviews
First-Person Narratives of the American South
Flags Historic and current U.S.
Florilegium Urbanum "selection of primary source texts illustrative of various aspects of medieval urban life" in modern English
Franklin, Benjamin: In His Own Words
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum 10,000 digitized documents, 6,000 of which are pages that had been locked in FDR's White House safe (Safe Files); the remainder come from the Vatican Files and German Diplomatic Files. The documents are offered as both digitized originals and text files; also thousands of copyright-free photos
The Frederick Douglass Papers more than 16,000 images from the Library of Congress
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive the history of student protests at UC Berkeley during the mid-60s
Freedmen and Southern Society Project --original documents
Gammel's The Laws of Texas (Volumes 1-10) published over 100 years ago and never reprinted; invaluable for history researchers; includes documents from the time of colonization through statehood - congressional and legislative sessions, constitutions, selected journals of the constitutional conventions, and early colonization laws
Gangster Era-- Freedom of Information Act --FBI Reading Room of most requested documents
George Washington Papers
Gottingen Digitization Project original documents digitally reproduced, much of it North Americana - all in German
Great Speeches Collection The History Place
Harper's Ferry Raid--documents
Haymarket Affair: Chicago Anarchists on Trial images, chronology, and documents related to the 1886 labor protests in Chicago
Historical Anarchist texts full texts, mostly from the early 20th century
History Matters hundreds of primary documents and audio clips, plus much more
Jay, John - The Papers of John Jay includes biography and background information
Jefferson Digital Archive, Thomas in-depth biography and materials written by him and to him; also includes large annotated bibliographies; University of Virginia Library
JFK Link "archive of material relevant to the life, administration, death and legacy of the 35th President of the United States"
Johnson Library and Museum, Lyndon Baines oral histories, favorite foods and religion, photographs, information about his cabinet, audio and video files
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854--documents
Kennedy - JFK Link "archive of material relevant to the life, administration, death and legacy of the 35th President of the United States"
King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Labadie Collection books, photographs and papers of a Detroit Anarchist, labor activist and printer (1850-1933)
Las Vegas, Early History of images, letters, blueprints
Lawmaking.. U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873
Library of American Broadcasting primary source materials and recordings
Life Magazine classic pictures and magazine covers from 1936-1972
Lincoln Historical Digitization, Abraham images, speeches, music
Making of American digital library of primary sources
Maryland State Archives, Documents for the Classroom
McCarthy Era, Student Voices from World War II and the oral history
Music--Historic American Sheet Music --collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music.. digital images of 3042 pieces
National Archives
New York State Archives
Nixon Tapes, National Security Archive primary documents and audio selections dealing with the relationship between President Richard Nixon and the former president of Mexico, Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
Nuremberg - Nizkor Project one of the largest online repositories of primary documents related to the Holocaust - including the full transcripts from the Nuremberg trial of the major German war criminals
Ohio Memory primary sources which document Ohio's past
Oregan Trail a "complete primer" on the Trail, images and text covering over two dozen historic sites along the trail, a collection of fascinating anecdotes about incidents and (mis)adventures suffered by pioneers along the way, and, last but by no means least, an archive of diaries, memoirs, and period books written during the overland period
The Papers of George Washington
Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark sections on desegregation, school prayer, voting rights, 4th amendment, 5th amendment, communism, and Mexican American Civil Rights
Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies, and Audiotapes the Nixon tapes and the Supreme Court tape, briefs and opinions
The Pentagon's Spies declassified spy documents and history
Pioneer Life Database, Washington State online multimedia collections
Presidential Timeline with archives from Hoover to Clinton
Protest Records play protest songs on MP3
Puritan and Reformed Writings full text of sermons and more
Reagan Library
Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 "We find it remarkable that the electoral record of the world's leading democracy is routinely lost or discarded. Election returns in the U.S. are collected by precinct and passed on to county offices in every state. In these county offices, the official electoral record then gets stuffed under desks, recycled, occasionally put into archives, or most often discarded. For the first time, a substantial piece of the entire electoral record of American democracy has been preserved. We hope someone (or our elected officials) takes on the task of institutionalizing the formal preservation of this record. For now, we hope the scientific community will take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity"
Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 audio timeline, map of activities, slideshow, essays, audio reminiscences, a very thorough introduction to one of the major events in American labor history
Save Our Sounds archive of American Indian music, the oral histories of ex-slaves, and hundreds of thousands of other speeches, poems, songs, and spoken-word projects that recount our country's history (YIL)
Shootdown in Peru primary documents from the Clinton administration on an accidental shooting of a civilian aircraft in 1994
Slave Trade Archives Project original archive materials relating to the slave trade in countries throughout Africa and South America, including Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Brazil, and Nigeria
Slavery and Sectionalism, documents
Slaves and the Courts: 1740-1860 "contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States"
The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College "manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history."
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip includes recordings of fiddle tunes, cowboy songs, field hollers, lullabies, and spirituals
Spy Letters of the American Revolution "stories of spies and letters" from the Clements Library, University of Michigan... articles and pictures about spy networks, Saratoga, Benedict Arnold, women spies, and much more
Student Voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era oral history
Studs Terkel: Conversations with America collection of the interviews he conducted to write his books about America
Sumner Caning, 1856--documents
Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America full text of 163 books published for children in America between 1815 and 1865
Tangled Roots Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage - A collection of primary documents from the 17th century to the present provides portraits of people and events from the history of African and Irish Americans
Tenayuca, Emma: Development of Labor Unions in San Antonio, 1930s interview includes footnotes and audio
Territorial Kansas digital collection of photographs, handwritten letters, and other documents to presenting the turbulent territorial years of Kansas history, 1854 through January 1861, when Kansas joined the Union as a non-slave state
Terrorism and Usama Bin Laden documents from the New York court trial of Usama Bin Laden and others for the August 7, 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar al-Salaam, Tanzania
Thomas A. Edison Papers Edison's patents, company papers, family papers, maps and images, and more
Tiananmen Papers a U.S. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book - reveals U.S. perceptions of the 1989 Chinese crisis
Trails to Utah and The Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 contains 49 diaries of pioneers who made their way westward across America to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific from 1847 to 1869
Travels In America, 1750-1920 collection of 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors
Truth in Advertising vintage cigarette ads
U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Vietnam Project oral histories, archives of documents, photographs
Warletters.com "extraordinary correspondence from American wars"
Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861- 1865 three manuscripts about daily life in Washington, DC
Washington, George, Papers, full text at the Library of Congress
Watergate Tapes recordings in RealAudio
Western Trails thousands of primary documents associated with various aspects of Western US history
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 Library of Congress "collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels"
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience a digital collection of original sources documenting 19th Century Wisconsin history - diaries, letters, personal narratives
Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records
The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives biography, quotes, CDs and memorabilia for sale, database of archives under construction
WPA Life Histories manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
WTO History Project focuses on the 1999 protests in Seattle - collection of interviews with protest leaders and participants
WWI Document Archive