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U.S. Congressional documents and debates from 1774 to 1875.

Digitized images from the collections of the Minneapolis Public Library and University of Minnesota Library.

This website features 117 primary sources materials from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society that offer a window into the lives of African Americans in Massachusetts from the late 17th century through the 1780s

A treasure trove of full-text primary sources spanning 500 years of American History. Speeches, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, declarations of war, and other key documents are arranged chronologically in a simple list, making it easy to find the primary source you need.

A collection of over 160,000 images from rural America during the Great Depression, as well as the war mobilization effort.

This extensive web page gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War.

"American Journeys contains 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."

Primary sources for seven time periods of United States history are provided at this site covering 1783-1968. Each period is subdivided into various topics and contains an overview.

A gateway site to this organization's resources for teachers and students of American history, including print, visual and multimedia materials.

Searchable digital library of more than 10 billion archived web pages and other cultural artifacts dating back to 1996. The archive also includes texts, movies, live music, and other audio.

A collection of hypertexted primary documents relevant to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government.

Yale University's Project Avalon makes available in digital format full text documents in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. This phenomenal resource includes documents as varied as the ancient Code of Hammurabi, the Communist Manifesto, and the Treaty of Versailles.

This site has a collection of primary source material on slavery as well as a substantial collection of photographs and slave narratives.

This site provides access to the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress.

A collection of oral histories of civil rights activities, as well as a list of repositories of such collections. A timeline of the civil rights era is also included.

This Library of Congress site contains approximately 2,240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks.

A Library of Congress collection of 1,118 Civil War photographs which can be searched by keyword, browsed by subject, or viewed by year.

A collection of historical documents as well as scholarly books and articles on American Colonial history.

a website of maps and tables showing Presidential votes since 1860, state electoral votes, show major and independent presidential and vice presidential candidates. County election data is also available.

Digital Gallery provides access to over 337,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs,

The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history . Items are currently located in two separate databases at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Search each of these databases for "Staten Island" to find the full text of hundreds of books and articles that mention Staten Island. The Cornell database spans the years 1815-1926. Items of interest include: The Huguenots of Staten Island (1862), History of the City of New York (1860), A Spring Jaunt in Staten Island (1878), The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence (1892), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series 3 - Volume 1 (1899) and more.

The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history . Items are currently located in two separate databases at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Search each of these databases for "Staten Island" to find the full text of hundreds of books and articles that mention Staten Island. The Cornell database spans the years 1815-1926. Items of interest include: The Huguenots of Staten Island (1862), History of the City of New York (1860), A Spring Jaunt in Staten Island (1878), The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence (1892), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series 3 - Volume 1 (1899) and more.

Documenting the American South provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

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 "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. All 103 issues have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format."

This collection contains about four hundred pamphlets by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery.

A guide to or websites and repositories of digitized resources on African-American history.

Digitized text of the New York Times for those years. Searchable by date or browsable by topic.

A gateway site to U.S. History material on the web.

An archive/timeline of US interventions, coups, humanitarian incursions, covert actions, freedom fighters/terrorists and multilateral offensives.

This collection provides access to over 400 items relating to the inauguration of every president since Washington.

This site from Cornell University contains a wide range of authoritative information on Abolition.

A digitized collection of books, pamphlets, maps, photographs and historical manuscripts and archives that illustrate the lives of immigrants to the United States as well as the culture they adopted.

The Wayback Machine provides 'snapshots' of older versions of 85 billion webpages

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Cornell University's contributions to the digital library of primary sources in American social history. The MOA is a collaborative effort of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to preserve and provide electronic access to historical texts covering the period from the antebellum through reconstruction. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints from Cornell's collections.

Information from the National Parks Service on historically significant cultural resources such as buildings, landscapes and other sites.

This site from George Washington University includes declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

This site provides an historical overview of migratory movements to and within the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Includes background information on each President and First Lady, election results, cabinet members, and links to historical documents, including inaugural addresses.

Background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents.

A collection of newspaper editorials covering major events in the years preceding the Civil War.

Thousands of digitized images documenting the people, places, and events of Utah and the surrounding states from 1903 through 1980.

This searchable collection contains over a hundred items documenting legal cases concerning slaves in the United States.

A collection of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880.

This site provides access to documents, photographs, recordings and digitized collections from the presidential libraries of last century's presidents.

A searchable full-text collection of the publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.