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Due to cuts to the Indiana State Library budget, as of August 1, access to several databases made available through the INSPIRE program will be significantly altered or unavailable as we seek access through alternative avenues.

Antebellum America: Special Collections

This guide consists of general sources pertaining to events after the War of 1812 and before the U. S. Civil War.

Libraries

Library of Congress. National Expansion and Reform 1815-1860
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Students at Yale Law School compiled this alphabetical arrangement of documents regarding American history covering the years, 1492-2001.

Museums

Archives and Historical Societies

State Archives

Pictures

Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution provides a portrayal of events and people in American history. Photographs, portraits, essays, and stamps, etc.depict life in the United States prior to the American Revolutionary War until the present.