Adams Family Papers
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/index.html
AMDOCS
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Also known as Documents for the Study of American History, AMDOCS indexes and links to hundreds of
primary sources in U.S. history from the 15th century to the 21st, most of which reside on the University of
Kansas server.
American Historical Association
http://archiveswiki.historians.org/index.php/Main_Page
Archives Wiki is sponsored by the American Historical Association. It is intended to be a clearinghouse of
information about archival resources throughout the world. While it is primarily designed to be useful to
historians and others doing historical research, we hope that researchers in many disciplines will find it useful.
American History
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm
American History: A Documentary Record, 1492 - 1973 is a searchable collection of charters, constitutions,
declarations, treaties and other documents relating to the topic from Yale Law School's Avalon Project. Primary
sources.
American Presidency Project State of the Union Data
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
“The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized 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)”
Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/medmenu.htm
A searchable collection of declarations, papers, treaties and other documents relating to the topic from the Yale
Law School Avalon Project. Documents range from 700+ BC to the 15th century. Primary sources.
Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/
". . . an attempt to gather all material for the study of the history of economics at one site. This includes both
primary texts, studies of those texts and of their authors."
Asian American History Resources on the World Wide Web
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/asian_voices/asian_resources.cfm
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
“Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300
first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and
assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the
United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the
Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200
photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first
time.”
Buddhanet.net
http://www.buddhanet.net/
Provides a broad range of primary and secondary texts, art works, study guides, an e-book library, a history
time-line, information on ceremonies and rituals, and a global directory of Buddhist organizations.
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886-1887
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html
Cold War
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/coldwar.htm
The Cold War is a collection of documents relating to airplane incidents, the Cuban Missile Crisis, treaties, etc.
from Yale Law School's Avalon Project. Primary sources
Cold War International History Project
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home
Copyright & Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Categories of links include: Primary Materials, Current Legislation, Cases and Issues, Resources on the Internet,
and Overview of Copyright Law .
Daguerreotype Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
“The Library's daguerreotype collection consists of more than 725 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864.
Portrait daguerreotypes produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion of the collection. The
collection also includes early architectural views by John Plumbe, several Philadelphia street scenes, early
portraits by pioneering daguerreotypist Robert Cornelius, studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball
and Francis Grice, and copies of painted portraits.”
Digital History: Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Digitized Primary American History Sources
http://www.library.uni.edu/instruction/digitalhistory.shtml
This is an extensive bibliography of primary sources.
Early Virginia Religious Petitions
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/petitions/
“Early Virginia Religious Petitions presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature
between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's
Legislative Petitions collection, the petitions concern such topics as the historic debate over the separation of
church and state championed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the rights of dissenters such as Quakers
and Baptists, the sale and division of property in the established church, and the dissolution of unpopular
vestries. The collection provides searchable access to the petitions' places of origin and a brief summary of each
petition's contents, as well as summaries of an additional seventy-four petitions that are no longer extant.”
Electronic Reading Room
http://foia.fbi.gov/room.htm
Foreign Relations of the United States
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
“The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S.
foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the
State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing
Office.”
Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968, Volume XXVII
Mainland Southeast Asia; Regional Affairs
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxvii/index.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/online14.html
Free Ebook Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
“About these titles: over 2,100 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major
authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and
much more.”
Freedom of Information (FOI)
http://www.fda.gov/foi/
Freedom of Information Act Program
http://www.doi.gov/foia/
The Friend of Man at Cornell University Library
http://newspapers.library.cornell.edu/collect/FOM/index.php
Friend of Man is one of the most significant and little studied newspapers documenting early anti-slavery and
other reform movements. The periodical is of special significance because with the exception of religion,
scholars know little about the resources of social movements in rural areas such as Central New York, where
Friend of Man was published.
Cornell is truly fortunate to have a close to complete set of Friend of Man , 281 issues, published from 1836 1842.
From Slavery to Freedom
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/rbaapcbibsubjindex1.html
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 is a catalog in 5 parts to a
collection of 397 pamphlets dealing with slavery, abolition, and civil rights.
Government Views of Iraq
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/Iraqbib.html
"The War with Iraq is front-burner news. Here are some online primary resources to help fill in the background.
This site concentrates on Government documents and information about Iraq. While the bulk of the resources
are from the United States, there are resources from Britain, other members of the "Coalition of the Willing"
and the United Nations as well.
Resources include U.S. Congressional Hearings and Resolutions, Federal Agency reports, transcripts of press
conferences and the CENTCOM briefings, USAID Fact Sheets, Legislation, Presidential Communications,
United Nations Security Council Resolutions, etc. Topics covered include general background information, the
Sanctions imposed upon Iraq in 1990, as well as the subsequent Oil-for-Food Programme agreed to by the
United Nations Secretariat and Iraq, the Geneva Conventions and Protocols, Agriculture & Forestry, Captured
Iraqi Documents, Gulf War 1990-1991, Halabja, Health, History, Human Shields, Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988,
No-Fly Zones, Marine & Maritime, People, POWs & MIAs, Refugees & Displaced Persons, Energy Resources,
Human Rights, Legal Resources, Religious Freedom, Reconstruction, Women and examples of the Leaflets
dropped over Iraq by Coalition aircraft.
History at the Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/main.htm
Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/indoch/indoch.htm
A collection of declarations, papers, treaties and other documents relating to the topic; 1950-1964. From Yale
Law School's Avalon Project. Primary sources.
International Military Tribunal
The Nuremberg Trials Collection
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbookfull.html
The table of contents links to hundreds of ancient historical documents and commentary both on Fordham
University's server and elsewhere.
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
Includes an index to hundreds of medieval historical documents and commentary both on Fordham University's
server and elsewhere.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbookfull.html
Links to hundreds of modern historical documents and commentary both on Fordham University's server and
elsewhere.
Liberty Library
http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
The Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics is a list of over 100 classic documents in the public domain
relating to political theory which are stored, or planned to be stored, on the Constitution Society server.
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
Introduction to the American Slave Narratives
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/
Learn About Westward Expansion
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/westward/index.cfm
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web:
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/
Making of America (Cornell)
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_adv.html
A searchable collection of over 250 monographs and 100,000 articles from 1814-1926; particularly strong in the
sciences and social sciences. Viewable as images, pdf, or text. Some are primary sources.
Making of America (Michigan)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently
contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."
Manuscript Reading Room
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
“A collection of twenty-five thousand manuscripts which had accumulated throughout the nineteenth century,
chiefly through the purchase in 1867 of Peter Force's collection of Americana, the gift in 1882 of Joseph M.
Toner's collection relating to George Washington and American medical history, and several small transfers
from the Smithsonian Institution. In 1903, by an act of Congress and an executive order, the State Department
began transferring historical papers, including several presidential collections, which had been acquired by the
federal government.”
Middle East Historical and Peace Process Documents
http://www.mideastweb.org/history.htm
"MidEast Web was started by people active in Middle East dialog and peace education efforts. Our goal is to
weave a world-wide web of Arabs, Jews and others who want to build a new Middle East based on coexistence
and neighborly relations."
Documents are accompanied by explanatory notes. Includes primary source
Miller Center of Public Affairs
http://millercenter.org/academic/presidentialrecordings/
Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000
hours of their meetings and telephone conversations.
Through a combination of historical research and annotated transcripts the Miller Center's Presidential
Recordings Program aims to make these remarkable historical sources more accessible to scholars, teachers,
students, and the public.
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 1842-1921
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage
campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime
president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection
includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller,
Mary A. Livermore.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections:
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
North American Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/
Narratives and biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or books up to
1920 collected by the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and hosted by ibiblio.org.
Primary sources.
Office of the Secretary of Defense/ Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/
Online Videos
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
Oral History Index
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/indexlist.html
Primary Documents in American History
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html
“The initial release of this Web site contains documents from the years 1763 to 1877. Updates will be made on
a regular basis, including the addition of documents from the 20th Century.”
Probing the Past
http://chnm.gmu.edu/probateinventory/
Probate records provide valuable information about the lifestyles of people during the colonial and early
national periods. Such listings of possessions, from a time when household goods were not widely massproduced, illuminate a family’s routines, rituals, and social relations, as well as a region’s economy and
connection to larger markets. They also shed light on attitudes and policies toward slavery. For famous people,
these records enrich our knowledge and understanding of their daily lives and values. For ordinary people, they
offer a rare glimpse into their lived experience. These records also provide an opportunity to engage in
comparative studies with other eras and to analyze how culture changes over time.
Public Record Office of the National Archives
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
Repositories of Primary Sources:
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery and Civil War Collections
http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/
The Cornell University Library owns one of the richest collections of anti-slavery and Civil War materials in
the world, thanks in large part to Cornell's first President, Andrew Dickson White, who developed an early
interest in both fostering, and documenting the abolitionist movement and the Civil War.
Anti-Slavery Resources
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Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
"I Will be Heard!" Abolitionism in America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Library of Congress - American Memory: The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Library of Congress - Born in Slavery Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
The Frederick Douglas Papers - American Memory Library of Congress
http://www.archives.ca/05/0531_e.html
National Archives of Canada - The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
National Geographic - The Underground Railroad
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm
Spartacus Educational - The Anti-Slavery Society
http://www.state.vt.us/vhs/educate/ugrr.htm
The Vermont Historical Society - The Underground Railroad Project
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/index.cfm
"SCETI, a fully integrated digital library, was created in 1996 to publish virtual facsimiles of rare books and
manuscripts in the Penn Library's collections. Its ongoing mission is to make accessible to the global
community of scholars and researchers primary source materials that would otherwise be difficult to access. The
site is free and open to all in the interests of knowledge and learning."
Virtual copies of rare books and manuscripts from the 9th through the 20th centuries in the Library's
collections.
Secession Era Editorials Project
http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py
“Most of the documents found in the FDR Library Digital Archives come from the collection known as the
President's Secretary's File, or PSF. The PSF is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject, and is
divided into five series: The Safe Files, The Confidential Files, The Diplomatic Files, The Departmental Files,
and The Subject Files.”
Special Collections Virtual Reading Room
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/
“This site offers patrons an exciting variety of historical resources ranging from fifteenth-century illuminated
manuscripts to current Mississippiana, primary source materials from the Civil War to Civil Rights, and one of
the leading children's literature collections in the United States, the de Grummond Collection. Archival
collections include papers from such significant Mississippians as Theodore G. Bilbo, William M. Colmer, and
Paul B. Johnson.”
State Department Collections-Declassified State Department & Other Agency Documents
http://foia.state.gov/SearchColls/CollsSearch.asp
The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
“The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than
50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress.
Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all.”
The Rosenberg Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/overhome.html
“incorporates 49 diaries, in 59 volumes, of pioneers trekking westward across America to Utah, Montana, and
the Pacific between 1847 and the meeting of the rails in 1869. In addition to the diaries, the collection includes
43 maps, 82 photographs and illustrations, and 7 published guides for immigrants. Stories of persistence and
pain, birth and death, God and gold, trail dust and debris, learning, love, and laughter, and even trail tedium can
be found in these original "on the trail" accounts. The collection tells the stories of Mormon pioneer families
and others who were part of the national westering movement, sharing trail experiences common to hundreds of
thousands of westward migrants. The source materials are drawn from the collections of Brigham Young
University, members of the Utah Academic Libraries Consortium, and other archival institutions in Utah,
Nevada, and Idaho.”
Vietnam War Bibliography
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/vietnam.html
A bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the Vietnam War in paper and online. Organized into
eighteen sub-groups: Online Resources; Overviews and Reference; Airpower & Navy; Army & Marines; China
and USSR; Ethics, Legality; Fiction, Poetry; Films, Music, Popular Culture; Home Front, Public Opinion, Peace
Movements; North Vietnam, VietCong, Cambodia, Laos; Origins, Personal Accounts, Reporting; Reference and
Historiography; Soldiers, Medical Nursing, POWs & Veterans; South Vietnam, Pacification; US Alies;
Washington Perspective: Pentagon; Washington Perspective: White House, State Department, Diplomacy.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
http://www.asu.edu/lib/resources/db/wsm.htm
“52 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online.
Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the
question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,250 documents, 450 images, and 500 links to
other websites”
Women in American History
http://www.britannica.com/women/
Articles on hundreds of American women from 1600 to modern times. Some primary sources.
Also included are documents, audio clips, and a study guide.
Copyright 1999 Encyclodia Britannica, Inc.
World War I Document Archive
http://www.gwpda.org/
"The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the
Great War." From the Great War Primary Document Archive, a non-profit corporation. Primary sources.
World War II Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm
A searchable collection of declarations, papers, treaties and other primary sources relating to the topic from
Yale Law School's Avalon Project.
WTO Seattle Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb/index.html
Online Collections of historical primary documents are available on the Internet. Examples include:
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AMDOCS: http://www.ukans.edu//carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
American Experience (PBS): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/index.html
(Archives): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/archives.html
American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources: http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/cndls/asw/
America's Story: http://www.americasstory.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
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Archives Online, Singapore: http://www.a2o.com.sg/public/html/index.jsp
Civil War Primary Documents: http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_Documents.htm
EuroDocs: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
Grolier’s WWII Commemoration: http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/
History Matters: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
HistoryNet: http://www.historynet.com/
History On-line: http://www.history.ac.uk/search/
History Place: http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
Historical New York Times Project: http://www.nyt.ulib.org/index.cgi
Historical Text Archive: http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Internet History Sourcebooks Project: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
IPL Presidents of the U.S. (Includes Primary Sources): http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
Making of America: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
National Endowment for the Humanities: EDSITEment: http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp
National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/
NYPL Digital Library: http://digital.nypl.org/
Primary Documents relating to WW II: http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIDocs.htm
Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/women/
SunSITE Digital Collections (Berkeley): http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives: http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/
U.S. National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/
Virtualology Primary Resources:
http://www.virtualology.com/virtualpubliclibrary/hallofthehistoricarchives/PRIMARYSOURCES.NET/
War Page: http://www.thewarpage.com/
World War I Document Archive: http://www.gwpda.org/
World War II Primary Resources: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/