Library of Congress collection consists primarily of material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications.
A hypertext on the history of the United States from the colonial period until modern times
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
The Radicalism Collection includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, economic, and cultural issues and movements in the United States and throughout the world. Topics include: American Indian Movement, Asian America, Birth Control, Black Panthers, Hollywood Ten, I. W. W., Ku Klux Klan, The Rosenberg Case, Sacco-Vanzetti, Scottsboro Boys, Students for a Democratic Society, The Masses, Wounded Knee.
This website contains the journal of Alice Williamson, a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Gallatin, Tennessee. Entries from February to September 1864 chronicle the occupation of this region by Union forces. Civil War-specific vocabulary or names may be clicked on, allowing the reader to go to a webpage giving a more detailed explanation of the word/name.
Primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
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.
Founded in 1841 by Isaac Van Anden and Henry Cruse Murphy, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published as a daily newspaper for 114 consecutive years without missing a single edition.This site provides digitized newspaper and is a project from the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection.
Contains digitized versions of the Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers; the Alison Williamson Diary and the Sarah E. Thompson Papers.
This website offers a wide variety of political cartoons by Thomas Nast. The site contains primary source cartoons from Thomas Nast which deal with historical events and topics such as the Civil War, politics, race, suffrage and much more. The site also gives a brief description of each cartoon and the historical contexts in which they were created.
Presents records and acts of Congress from the Journals of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication with the Forty-second Congress in 1873. Provides a documentary history of the construction of the nation, development of the federal government, and its role in the national life. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) is Cornell's principal repository of rare books, manuscripts and archival materials in history, literature, music, the arts, science, natural history, and technology.
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.
Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. Freedom's Journal provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices.
Friend of Man is one of the most significant and little studied newspapers documenting early anti-slavery and other reform movements. From Cornell University Library.
The Record of Fugitives in its entirety consists of two notebooks and several pages of addenda.
These materials are presented on this website in three different view formats. Using the navigational options to the left, researchers can examine individual pages of the record, with each image accompanied by its transcribed text. To read the record in this way, click on "Book 1" to get started. It is also possible to view and download the entire document in either an image (facsimile) or textual (transcription) version.
Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history. Created by the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University).
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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.
Mary Paul was one of thousands of Lowell mill "girls." She grew up in northern Vermont, one of four children born to Bela and Marry Briggs Paul. She worked in the mills from 1845 through 1848. Twenty-five of her letters, covering the years 1845 through 1862 .
100 milestone documents, is compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum honors antislavery abolitionists, their work to end slavery,and the legacy of that struggle, and strives to complete the second and ongoing abolition – the moral conviction to end racism.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis, a documentary editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is publishing a multi-volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be found on this web site. The site also provides extensive information on Davis and his family and numerous images.
Sources on the history of the 19th-century United States.
The Library of Congress is home to many of the most important documents in American history. This Web site provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement and enhance the study of these crucial documents.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
"Sermons, position papers, offprints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, poetry anthologies, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the abolitionist movement."
(Not everything here is a primary source.)
This guide combines links to the major online collections of Jefferson's writings that have been made accessible by University of Virginia, as well as by other institutions.
A multi-media archive hosted by the University of Virginia. The site contains primary documents dealing with the era from 1830 to 1930, as well as the novel's complete text, critical responses to the book.
Includes Civil War manuscripts, diaries, oral history interviews with Oklahoma Native Americans, and photographs. From the University of Oklahoma.
