American History Sources – General
Gilder Lehrman Institute, Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars (conflicts from the Revolution
to the Iraq War)
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
WGBH American Experience: Watch Online www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/onlineFilms/
Internet Moving Images Archive http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Library of Congress American Memory (American history across many areas)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Documenting the South (various collections, incl. North American Slave Narratives; North
Carolinians and the Great War; Oral Histories of the American South – some civil rights material
here; the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865) http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html
The Presidents (film and documentary sources) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/
The American Presidency Project (includes documents, audio and visual archival materials)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States http://www.bartleby.com/124/
George Mason University, Center for History and New Media http://chnm.gmu.edu/ (see also GMU’s History
Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ ).
American History Sources – Up to and including the Nineteenth Century
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (the American Civil War –
before, during and after) http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Crisis at Fort Sumter (causes of the American Civil War) http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/
American Journeys (exploration and settlement) http://www.americanjourneys.org
Africans in America (covers the period from 1450-1865) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (slavery)
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
Lincoln/Net http://teachinghistory.org/history-content
Harper’s Weekly (digitised and searchable; most of this requires a subscription, but there are
some excellent free features)
http://www.harpweek.com/
Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains – Online Image Database
http://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/
The Making of America (primary sources in 19th century American social history)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
American History Sources – Twentieth Century
The Cuban Missile Crisis www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
Avalon Project/Cuban Missile Crisis
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/msc_cubamenu.asp
New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/default.cfm
American Literature, Music and Movies, 1920-1929
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920m.html
Avalon Project/Cold War http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/coldwar.asp
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
Cold War International History Project
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (includes some oral histories, some 1920s material)
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
Documenting the American South: Oral Histories/Civil Rights Movement
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/civil_rights.html
Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida
http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/PhotoAlbum/civil_rights.cfm
Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackierobinson/
Documenting the American South: Oral Histories/Consumerism and Consumer Desire
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/browse/themes.html?theme_id=7&category_id=33&subcategory_id
=273
World War One Document Archive http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/
First World War.com (Multimedia history of World War One) http://www.firstworldwar.com/ - see
also US posters at http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/usa.htm
Photos of the Great War http://www.gwpda.org/photos/
Brief History of World War Two Advertising Campaigns
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/wwad-history.html
Avalon Project: World War Two documents http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp
Pictures of World War Two http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/
Australian History Sources
Picture Australia http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Australian Studies Resources http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/
Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/
South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific http://southseas.nla.gov.au/
Australian War Memorial Online Exhibitions http://www.awm.gov.au/events/online.asp
National Archives of Australia Documenting a Democracy (Federation)
http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/default.asp
Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 (includes cases concerning
aborigines)
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/
Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954 http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
PANDORA (Australian archive of digital publications. Results can be mixed, so this site takes
patience).
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
National Library of Australia Digital Collections http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/
Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/
National Foundation for Australian Women: Women’s History/Australian Women
http://www.womenaustralia.info/browse.htm (Digital documents section)
Australia’s Prime Ministers (biographies without documentary sources, but does offer useful
‘research maps’ that indicate which document collections will be of use in your search)
http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/
Virtual Reading Room (Vrroom) at the National Archives http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/
General History:
H-Net, the Humanities and Social Sciences Online, is a series of bulletin boards run from Michigan State
University. Its ‘edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and
discussion for colleagues and the interested public.’ The lists cover a plethora of history topics: consider
joining (it’s free) at http://www.h-net.org/ .