U.S. History Research Toolkit by Kristen Epps

Library of Congress

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The LoC collects primary source material on every period of U.S. history. A small selection of specific collections are separately posted on this Padlet, but most will be found through this, their main website.

National Archives of the United States (NARA)

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As the official archives of the United States, this is an excellent resource for all time periods and topics.

American Journeys

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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.

American Journeys

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A New Nation Votes, 1787-1825

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A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.

Joseph Smith Papers

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Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Digital Archives

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This site includes links to every historical society in the U.S. It is a great resource if you are studying a particular state or region.

Documents for the Study of American History

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Although rather outdated, here you can find links to sources on a wide variety of topics.

Chronicling America

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This is a great starting place for research in U.S. newspapers and does not require a paid subscription.

Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era (Virginia Tech)

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These sources reveal how a wide range of Americans — northern and southern, white and black, male and female, Democrat and Republican, immigrant and native born — all used the Fourth to articulate their deepest beliefs about American identity during the great crisis of the Civil War.

Digital Public Library of America

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DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

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The Avalon Project provides digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government for all time periods and many geographic locations.

LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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Librarians at Christopher Newport University have compiled probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.

Documenting the American South (U. of North Carolina)

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Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Famous Trials

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Welcome to Famous Trials, the Web’s largest and most visited collection of original essays, trial transcripts and exhibits, maps, images, and other materials relating to the greatest trials in world history.

Bancroft Library Digital Collections

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This is a digital repository created by the University of California--Berkeley. It is especially strong on Western history/California and Asian American history.

Harvard Library Digital Collections

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This includes collections on a variety of topics and time periods, not just sources connected to Harvard. There are over 6 million digitized items here, although many are about world history and not just U.S. history.

Huntington Digital Library

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Their collection is strongest in these fields: history of the American West, medicine and technology, the American Civil War, Latin American history, and British history.

Denver Public Library Digital Collections

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This online collection contains a selection of photographs, maps, broadsides, architectural drawings and other documents from the collections of the Western History/Genealogy Department at the library.

Frontier to Heartland

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This includes digitized sources from the Newberry Library in Chicago that address the history of the Midwest/Great Plains.

Native American Manuscripts (U. of Oklahoma)

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The University of Oklahoma has remained a leader in Indigenous studies, and here you can find many primary documents organized by the name of each Indian nation. They focus on the five nations removed to Oklahoma (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek/Muskogee, and Seminole) as well as those indigenous to the area, the Cheyenne and Arapaho.

American Indian History Digital Project

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This site recovers and preserves rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.

Native American Constitution and Law Digital Project

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Created as a cooperative effort between the University of Oklahoma College of Law Library and the National Indian Law Library (NILL), this provides access to tribal constitutions, codes, and other legal documents.

Digital Schomberg (NY Public Library)

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Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Women Working (Harvard)

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The collection is an exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

Center for Jewish History

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The Center Digital Collections catalog provides access to the digital assets of the Center for Jewish History and its five partner organizations, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The combined collections of the five partners constitute a vital resource for the documentation and exploration of the Jewish experience.

Jewish Virtual Library

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The most comprehensive online resource on Jewish history, politics and culture.

Medical Heritage Library

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The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.

Center for the History of Medicine (Harvard)

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The Center for the History of Medicine is one of the world's leading resources for the study of the history of health and medicine. These rare books, manuscript and archival collections, artifacts, and audiovisual materials attract a global audience of researchers. Their mission is to enable the history of medicine and public health to inform healthcare, the health sciences, and the societies in which they are embedded.

South Asian American Digital Archive

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This is the largest publicly accessible archive of South Asian American stories, with over 5,000 items.

Japanese American National Museum

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The over 150,000 objects that comprise the JANM permanent collection chronicle the Japanese American experience in its entirety from early immigration to the present. Artifacts related to early immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, early life in Japanese American communities, and the World War II incarceration experience and military service are strengths of the collection.

Women's and Gender Studies Resources

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This community-sourced GoogleDoc includes links to resources related to women's history, gender studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, etc.

U.S. Army Center of Military History

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The Center provides an extensive archive of both primary and secondary sources from the War of 1812 through to present military conflicts like the war in Afghanistan.

Veterans History Project

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This is a Library of Congress site that collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.

Sanborn Map Collection

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These are large-scale maps (made for fire insurance purposes) dating from 1867 to the present, depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of ~12,000 cities and towns in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. They are incredibly detailed and are an excellent way to study buildings, space, and geography.

American Presidency Project

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Hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, this site contains 155,376 Presidential and non-Presidential records.

Oyez

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Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

Social Welfare History Project

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This includes information about all sorts of social welfare movements, addressing issues like poverty, unemployment, mental illness, disability, old age, public health, etc.

Disability History Museum

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Disability is an aspect of human experience that crosses all boundaries of race, class, and gender, and it leaves a trail in all societies, everywhere. They aim to reveal the rich possibilities and directions disability history offers as a means to study our collective human experience.

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

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The Feeding America project has created an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century.

What's On the Menu? (NY Public Library)

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The New York Public Library is transcribing historical restaurant menus, dish by dish, so that they can be searched by what people were eating back in the day.

Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History

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HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Include titles published between 1850 and 1950.

Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection

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Contains over 30,000 pieces of American popular music from all periods.

Voices Across Time: American History Through Music

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Aimed at teachers, it provides a pretty extensive repertoire of songs and recordings, background and historical context,
song lyrics, teaching strategies, and more.

Sports Illustrated Vault

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Articles published in Sports Illustrated have been archived here. The first issue was released in 1954.

LA84 Digital Sports History Library

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Includes Olympic Games official reports, the IOC’s Olympic Review, oral histories, scholarly sport history journals, conference proceedings, 19th century sports magazines, the archives of the Special Olympics World Games 2015, and 180,000 biographical baseball player cards.

University of Tennessee Sheet Music Collection

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Sheet music published between 1800 and the mid-1900s can be found here. Musical genres include marches, waltzes, and polkas. Common subjects for lyrics and cover illustrations include Tennessee, patriotism, and sailing.

Smith College Digital Collections

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This includes a number of collections, including several related to women's history.

Library Company of Philadelphia

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Since the days of Benjamin Franklin (its founder), the collection has grown to more than half a million rare books, manuscripts, pamphlets, broadsides, prints, and photographs, making the Library Company one of the nation’s largest collections of printed and graphic materials relating to early American history.

Virtual Jamestown

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The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."

Colonial Williamsburg's John D. Rockefeller Library

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As the research center of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library advances knowledge of colonial British America, the American Revolution, the early United States, American decorative arts and folk art, and the Restoration and continuing story of Colonial Williamsburg.

Works of Jonathan Edwards Online

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This is a collection of writings and articles from Jonathan Edwards. The collection contains edited published works and raw manuscripts.

Slave Voyages 2.0

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This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

Freedom Narratives

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Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced.

Freedom Narratives

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Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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This has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. Previously only available on microfilm.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

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Founders Online

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Through this website, you can read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic.

Founders Online

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First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

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This consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project

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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 (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

Freedom Narratives

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Digital Library on American Slavery (UNC--Greensboro)

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This is from the University of North Carolina--Greensboro, consisting of three separate sections: slave deeds, slave notices, and race petitions.

Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition in 1804, the so-called "Corps of Discovery" is documented here; both took scrupulous notes about their journey.

Making of America (U. of Michigan)

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Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. It began as a joint project with Cornell. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Making of America (Cornell)

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This collection, done in concert with the University of Michigan, has largely moved to HathiTrust but is still sometimes referenced by this name. It includes documents about American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Library Company of Philadelphia

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Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869

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This is a collection of the original writings of 49 voyagers on the Mormon, California, Oregon, and Montana trails who wrote while traveling on the trail, discussing everything from bison, to disease, to "gold fever."

Texas Slavery Project

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The Texas Slavery Project examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850.

Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past

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This is a collaboration among various repositories (including LSU, Tulane, the Historical Center at the Louisiana State Museum, etc.) to bring together digitally the personal and family papers of free people of color and public records that relate to the group from the repositories’ collections.

Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition Collection

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These are sources housed at Brown University. The digitized pamphlets were published by various groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.

Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition Collection

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Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition Collection

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These are sources housed at Brown University about the campaign to end alcohol consumption. The digitized pamphlets were published by various groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers

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The papers of farmer, writer, reformer, landscape architect, urban and suburban planner, and conservationist Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). The collection, spanning from 1777 to 1952, with the bulk dating 1838-1903, contains materials on both Olmsted's private and professional life.

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers

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Frederick Law Olmsted Papers

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Schlesinger Library Digital Collections (Harvard)

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They have digitized a number of sources related to women's history, including the papers of Susan B. Anthony, the Beecher-Stowe Family, the Blackwell Family, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Dorothy West.

Black Abolitionist Archive

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The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period.

Colored Conventions Project: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 21:57:31 UTC

From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."

Colored Conventions Project: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

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From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."

Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library Digital Collections

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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant were published in 31 volumes by Southern Illinois University Press between 1967 and 2009. (Not every volume is digitized.)

Papers of Abraham Lincoln

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The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865).

Frances Willard Digital Journals

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This includes the complete transcription of American social reformer Frances Willard's 50-volume, handwritten journals dating from 1855-1896.

Frances Willard Digital Journals

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This includes the complete transcription of American social reformer Frances Willard's 50-volume, handwritten journals dating from 1855-1896.

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities at War

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This site documents life in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, from John Brown's raid through Reconstruction.

United States Sanitary Commission Records (NY Public Library)

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In 1861, the Government officially recognized and empowered the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian organization, to conduct inquiries regarding the sanitary condition of the volunteer troops, and to advise on the means to promote their health, comfort and efficiency.

Civil War Maps

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This site brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia.

Civil War Washington

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Civil War Washington examines the U.S. national capital from multiple perspectives as a case study of social, political, cultural, and medical/scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

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These documents explain how black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867.

Mapping Occupation

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Mapping Occupation captures the regions where the United States Army could effectively act as an occupying force in the Reconstruction South.

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874

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This online collection presents three of the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass: The North Star, Frederick Douglass' Paper, and New National Era.

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874

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This online collection presents three of the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass: The North Star, Frederick Douglass' Paper, and New National Era.

Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides small document sets for different topics, including this one on corruption during the Gilded Age.

Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains (U. of Montana)

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This includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940s.

Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection

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This is a privately owned collection amassed over twenty years. It is comprised of more than 1,200 books, objects, correspondence, periodicals, lobbying materials, postcards, and more.

Anna Julia Cooper Collection (Howard University)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) was a teacher, activist, and author working to advance civil rights for African Americans.

Susan B. Anthony Papers

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The papers of reformer and suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) span the period 1846-1934 with the bulk of the material dating from 1846 to 1906. The collection, consisting of approximately 500 items (6,265 images) on seven recently digitized microfilm reels, includes correspondence, diaries, a daybook, scrapbooks, speeches, and miscellaneous items.

The United States and Its Territories, 1870-1925

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This website, drawn from the University of Michigan Library's Southeast Asia collection, comprises the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925.

Chinese in California Virtual Collection

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This collection illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives special treatment as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States.

Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism

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In the late nineteenth century, the news media war between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal resulted in the rise of yellow journalism, as each newspaper used sensationalism and manipulated facts to increase sales and attract readers. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has digitized a small collection of relevant sources.

Susan B. Anthony Papers

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The United States and Its Territories, 1870-1925

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Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection

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This is a privately owned collection amassed over twenty years. It is comprised of more than 1,200 books, objects, correspondence, periodicals, lobbying materials, postcards, and more.

New Deal Network

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The New Deal Network, an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s, is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

America in the 1930s (U. of Virginia)

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This includes film, audio, and print sources.

The Real Rosie the Riveter Project

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During the World War II years more than six million women entered the workforce. These oral histories with "Rosies" were created on digital video. Most are full life histories describing early family history, education, employment experiences before the war, wartime work, and life after World War II.

Women Veterans Historical Project

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The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I.

World War I Document Archive (Brigham Young University)

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This extensive resource includes everything from diaries and reminiscences, to official papers and treaties, to military records about troop deployments, weaponry, and military medicine.

Combined Arms Research Library (CARL)

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This is largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Ike Skelton CARL collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

FDR Presidential Library

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Their digitized collections include executive orders, correspondence, speeches, etc. in addition to records of the War Refugee Board and correspondence by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Digitized Green Books (NY Public Library)

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These guides, beginning in 1936, helped African Americans travel safely in the era of segregation.

Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" Newspaper Columns

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These columns by the First Lady date from 1936 to 1962.

Influenza Encyclopedia

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This includes primary sources related to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919.

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

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The federal government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) used data and evaluations organized by local real estate professionals—lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers—to assign grades to residential neighborhoods that reflected their "mortgage security." These maps were explicitly used to reinforce racial segregation.

Women Veterans Historical Project

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The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I.

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Digital Collections

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Topics include (but are not limited to) the Cold War with Russia, dropping of the atomic bomb, Communist invasion of Korea, desegregation of the military, Marshall Plan, United Nations, recognition of the Israeli state, development of NATO, and the Nuremberg trials.

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Papers

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The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy was established by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 and existed from 1946 to 1977. It was created to "make continuing studies of the activities of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and of problems relating to the development, use, and control of atomic energy."

International History Declassified (Wilson Center)

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This contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe; it is overseen by the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program and focuses on the interrelated histories of the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation.

Cuban Missile Crisis

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These are declassified documents from the NSA.

Korean War Propaganda Leaflets

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These are from North Dakota State University's holdings.

Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:08:06 UTC

This collection includes more than 1,300 documents consisting of national estimates, intelligence memo, daily updates, and summaries of foreign media concerning developments on the Korean Peninsula during 1947-1954.

Combined Arms Research Library (CARL)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:08:13 UTC

Digitized Green Books (NY Public Library)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:08:33 UTC

These guides, beginning in 1936, helped African Americans travel safely in the era of segregation.

SNCC Digital Gateway

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:02 UTC

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), pronounced "snick," was one of the most influential student-led organizations of the twentieth century, fighting for civil rights. It was founded in 1960.

Snapshots of Asian America

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:09 UTC

This includes sources about Asian American activism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Latino History Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:17 UTC

The Chicano & Latino History Project partners with communities across Colorado to gather, preserve, and incorporate into PreK-12 classrooms the history and culture of local Chicanos and Latinos.

Chicana por mi Raza

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:23 UTC

Chicana por mi Raza began collecting oral histories in 2009. Since then, the CPMR team has interviewed more than 52 women. From these interviews they have collected and processed approximately 5,500 archival items.

Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:29 UTC

The CWLU was the most significant of the socialist feminist women’s unions established during the “second wave” feminist movement.

Women Veterans Historical Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:36 UTC

The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I.

Feminist Theory Archive (Brown University)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:10:43 UTC

Established in 2003, the Feminist Theory Archive documents the lives and work of notable feminist theorists and scholars of difference who examine sex and gender at the center of their theoretical study. They use the following definition of feminist theory: feminist theory is discourse that attempts to explain the systemic causes and effects of inequality among the sexes including how factors such as race, class and sexuality affect these inequalities.

Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection (U. of Washington)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:03 UTC

This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period.

Brown v. Board Digital Archive (U. of Michigan)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:10 UTC

This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.

Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture (Duke University)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:16 UTC

Duke University has manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the women's movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

Chicano/a Movement in Washington State

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:23 UTC

This multi-media special section details and documents a generation of activism by Chicano students and community activists from the mid 1960s to the 1980s.

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:28 UTC

This multimedia web site brings the vital history of Seattle's civil rights movements to life with scores of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies.

Digitized Green Books (NY Public Library)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:35 UTC

These guides, beginning in 1936, helped African Americans travel safely in the era of segregation.

Herrick Digital Collections: Academy Awards Records

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:44 UTC

This has various collections related to the film industry and the Academy Awards (Oscars). Interesting collections include the Alfred Hitchcock Papers, Production Code Administration records, Mary Pickford Papers, and Spotlight on Latino Film Culture (among others).

Social Welfare History Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:11:51 UTC

This includes information about all sorts of social welfare movements, addressing issues like poverty, unemployment, mental illness, disability, old age, public health, etc.

Kansas Memory

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:13:52 UTC

Contains sources related to Kansas history from the pre-contact period through the present. Topics of special interest include Indian removal, Bleeding Kansas, Populism, the Great Depression, the Brown v. Board decision.

Queer Zine Archive Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:15:15 UTC

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest in DIY publishing and underground queer communities.

Queer Newark Oral History Project (Rutgers University)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:15:28 UTC

This project tells the queer community's stories in the words of its trailblazers and legends, by collecting and preserving oral history interviews on audio.

AIDS/Brooklyn Oral History Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:15:36 UTC

This collection includes oral histories and print materials collected and donated for the AIDS/Brooklyn exhibition, undertaken by the Brooklyn Historical Society in the early 1990s. The project was developed to document the impact of the AIDS epidemic on Brooklyn communities.

Women Veterans Historical Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:15:43 UTC

The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I.

End of the Cold War (Wilson Center)

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:15:51 UTC

This is a collection of primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s.

Feminist Theory Archive

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:15:58 UTC

Established in 1982, the Pembroke Center Archives ensures that special collections by and about cis and trans women and non-binary people are included in the University’s library system and broadly available to researchers worldwide. The depth and breadth of the Archives’ two research collections—the Feminist Theory Archive, which documents the lives and work of influential scholars who place sex and gender at the center of their theoretical study and includes the Black Feminist Theory collection, and the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive, which focuses on the history of cis and trans women and non-binary people at Brown and in Rhode Island—make Brown a national research destination for scholars and the general public.

Interviews Following Pearl Harbor

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:19:56 UTC

This contains about 200 interviews demonstrating how Americans responded to the start of war with Japan.

Alan Lomax Ethnography Collection

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:21:18 UTC

The Alan Lomax Collection includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement from around the world.

Alexander Hamilton Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:22:11 UTC

The papers of Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1757-1804), first treasury secretary of the United States, consist of his personal and public correspondence, drafts of his writings (although not his Federalist essays), and correspondence among members of the Hamilton and Schuyler families.

Alexander Hamilton Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:22:19 UTC

American Federation of Labor (AFL) Records

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:23:57 UTC

The records of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) span the years 1883-1925 and consist of letterpress volumes of correspondence of Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) and William Green (1870-1952), presidents of the organization, and by other officials including James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank Keyes Foster, and John McBride.

American Federation of Labor (AFL) Records

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:24:07 UTC

Andrew Jackson Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:25:11 UTC

The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson’s most important papers to the public in easily readable form. PDFs of the volumes are free to download (published volumes go up through 1833). These are based on the Library of Congress's archival collection, which contains more than 26,000 items dating from 1767 to 1874. That is available at https://www.loc.gov/collections/andrew-jackson-papers/about-this-collection/.

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese Internment Camp

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:26:03 UTC

In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II.

Benjamin Harrison Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:29:42 UTC

Spanning the years 1780 to 1948, with the bulk dating from 1853 to 1901, this collection contains correspondence, speeches, articles, notebooks in shorthand, legal papers, financial records, scrapbooks, memorials, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers.

Benjamin Harrison Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:30:22 UTC

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:33:03 UTC

The papers of suffragist, political strategist, and pacifist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) span the years 1848-1950, with the bulk of the material dating from 1890 to 1920. While she served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) from 1900 to 1904, during which time she helped found the International Woman Suffrage Association, she is perhaps best remembered for her second stint as NAWSA president, which began in 1915.

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:33:19 UTC

Clara Barton Papers

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:34:35 UTC

The papers of nurse, educator, philanthropist, and lecturer Clara Barton (1821-1912) consist of 62,000 items (81,608 images), most of which were digitized from 123 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years 1805-1958, with the bulk dating from 1861 to 1912, the collection contains correspondence, diaries and journals, reports, addresses, legal and financial papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, biographical material, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers. They relate primarily to Barton's work providing relief services during the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War in Europe, her founding in 1881 and subsequent leadership of the American National Red Cross, and her establishment in 1905 of the National First Aid Association of America.

Code of Federal Regulations

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:36:55 UTC

The Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) is "the codification of the general and permanent rules by the department and agencies of the Federal Government." This is a historical collection of the Code of Federal Regulations dating from 1938-1995.

Confederate States of America Records

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:37:48 UTC

The collection relates to the formation of the government of the Confederacy and the conduct of its internal, external, and military affairs. With few exceptions, the collection consists of official or semiofficial records generated by departments of the Confederate government and their agents.

Official Records of the War of the Rebellion

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:41:14 UTC

This was published in bound form originally, in dozens of volumes, including official records from the U.S. Army including orders, reports, etc. (Although the files are now on HathiTrust, using this site to navigate the volumes is still easiest.)

DOD Annual Reports and Budget Justification Books

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:43:24 UTC

This collection consists of: Department of Defense Annual Reports (1948-1996) and military service branch Justification of Estimates Books, "J-Books" (1980-1996). The digital collection is based on a large physical reference collection held by the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Section of the Congressional Research Service (CRS). CRS works exclusively for Congress.

DOD Annual Reports and Budget Justification Books

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:43:32 UTC

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies

kristenepps — 2023-07-22 22:45:23 UTC

These were issued under the Secretary of the Navy's direction and originally appeared in bound volumes.

Stars and Stripes

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:07:45 UTC

This online collection includes the complete seventy-one-week run of The Stars and Stripes World War I edition. The Stars and Stripes was published in France by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) of the United States Army from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.

Haymarket Affair Digital Collection

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:10:08 UTC

The Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago's past and a pivotal event in the early history of the American labor movement.

Farmworker Movement Documentation Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:11:35 UTC

Primary source accounts--photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents--from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement. Presented by the University of California-San Diego.

Vietnam Center and Archive (Texas Tech)

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:13:38 UTC

In May 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. That group's immediate decision was to form a Vietnam Archive and begin collecting and preserving materials relating to the American Vietnam experience.

Tet Declassified

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:14:41 UTC

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive—which took place on January 30, 1968—Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats directed intelligence agencies to review their holdings to reveal previously classified details to the public.

Digital Quaker Collection

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:16:23 UTC

Containing over 500 works by Quaker authors--including sermons, memoirs, and other publications--it is both searchable and browse-able (by author and alphabetically by title). Unfortunately the interface is a little outdated.

Sunday School Books in Nineteenth Century America

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:17:52 UTC

Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in Nineteenth Century America was funded by a grant from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. The works digitized for this electronic archive are owned by the Special Collections Division of the Michigan State University Libraries and the Clark Historical Library at Central Michigan University.

John Muir Correspondence

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:20:11 UTC

John Muir was a Scottish-born naturalist and scientist.

Western Waters Digital Project

kristenepps — 2023-07-24 15:21:18 UTC

The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) provides free public access to digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States, mostly west of the Rockies.

Justia

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:14:32 UTC

This site is expansive, but this page directs researchers to state and federal court materials. There are currently 94 District courts and 13 Circuit courts (courts of appeal) in the United States; these are federal courts. Each state also has its own court system including a state Supreme Court. There are also some specialized courts, like tax courts and bankruptcy courts.

U.S. Census Bureau Publications

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:20:31 UTC

The Census Bureau records more than just population statistics--it also reports on agriculture, manufacturing, education, and more. (The most reliable way to cite census data for the twentieth century and earlier is to use the "Publications" section of their website and look at the bound volumes in PDF.)

Cold War in the Heartland

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:21:28 UTC

Created by faculty and graduate students at the University of Kansas, The Cold War in the Heartland brings together primary source documents, landscape case studies, and oral history interviews. It also provides tools for teachers and students to learn more, with guided discussions, activities, and an interactive timeline.

Presidential Libraries Search

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:24:21 UTC

This link from the National Archives (NARA) provides a search engine for all of the official Presidential libraries.

Caselaw Access Project

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:25:53 UTC

This site provides the text of almost 7 million court cases from across the country. They can be accessed online or as PDF downloads.

Congressional Record (1873-present)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:28:27 UTC

This is the official publication of the U.S. Congress, recording speeches, debates, bills, resolutions, etc. in both houses of Congress since 1873. There are PDF scans of bound volumes as well as a search feature. (Be aware that the PDFs are quite large.)

Congressional Record (1873-present)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:28:44 UTC

Congressional Record (1873-present)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:28:57 UTC

Congressional Record (1873-present)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:29:06 UTC

Congressional Record (1873-present)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:29:18 UTC

Congressional Record (1873-present)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:29:31 UTC

Kansas Digital Newspapers

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:30:38 UTC

This site from the Kansas Historical Society links to resources for digitized newspapers.

Archives West

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:33:13 UTC

Archives West provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States, including correspondence, diaries or photographs. Digital reproductions of the materials are available in some cases.

Children and Youth in History (George Mason University)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:34:26 UTC

Here you can access more than 300 annotated primary sources focused on children and youth throughout world history. For U.S. sources, look under "North America."

Historical Publications of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:39:53 UTC

Since its inception in 1957, this commission has been at the forefront of governmental initiatives to examine and resolve issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation. They have published a wide variety of reports.

Smithsonian Digital Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:42:54 UTC

A portion of their enormous collection is digitized here. It includes images from illustrated books, digitized drawings and photos, as well as indexes to special collections such as art and artist vertical files, trade catalogs, and postal history ephemera.

Biodiversity Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:43:39 UTC

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

U.S. Military Academy (West Point) Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:45:14 UTC

The U.S. Military Academy Library maintains extensive documentation of the history of West Point, the U.S. Military Academy, and Academy alumni in its Special Collections and Archives. These rich historical collections include extensive book, manuscript, and photograph holdings among other formats.

Walt Whitman Archive

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:47:43 UTC

The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

Authors and Texts of American Transcendentalism (Virginia Commonwealth University)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:49:25 UTC

In addition to digitized texts, this site also includes other resources connected to transcendentalism.

Yale Medical History Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:51:58 UTC

This includes written texts as well as photographs, drawings, and posters.

Bracero History Archive

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:53:36 UTC

The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.

Center for Migration Studies of New York

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:55:51 UTC

Although the center focuses mostly on policy, they have page dedicated to earlier publications from the 1970s to the present.

Corazón de Dixie

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:58:11 UTC

This site provides primary sources to explore the histories of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South from 1910-2010.

Immigration History Research Center Archives (U. of Minnesota)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 04:59:30 UTC

The University of Minnesota has been dedicated to the study of immigration, ethnicity, and race, and they have extensive digital collections.

Viet Stories

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 05:00:54 UTC

Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project at the University of California--Irvine actively assembles, preserves, and disseminates the life stories of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California.

Kansas Oral History Project

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 05:02:11 UTC

The Kansas Oral History Project's purpose is collecting, transcribing, and making available to researchers and the public, oral histories of various aspects of life in Kansas, particularly public policymaking. Many of these are interviews with political figures.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 18:08:47 UTC

Mary Ann Shadd Cary Papers (Howard University)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 18:19:21 UTC

The Mary Ann Shadd Cary Papers cover the period between 1844 to1884. Included in the papers are correspondence, articles, speeches, editorials, reports, documents, printed material, and programs relating to Cary's activities in the U.S. and Canada as editor of the Provincial Freeman, as a strong supporter of women's suffrage, and as an army recruiter.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary Papers

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 18:19:33 UTC

Susan B. Anthony Papers

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 19:19:10 UTC

War Poster Collection (U. of Washington)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 19:28:10 UTC

Housed at the University of Washington, this archive includes posters designed as propaganda for purchasing war bonds, reinforcement of national security, and to present other political agendas. It includes material from both World War I and World War II, including posters from Allied and Axis powers.

War Poster Collection (U. of Washington)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 19:31:15 UTC

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 19:32:29 UTC

This has thousands of digitized sources from University of Massachusetts-Amherst. DuBois was a Black activist, author, historian, and sociologist and one of the most influential thinkers of the early twentieth century.

Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive (Brown University)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 19:46:11 UTC

Founded in 1986, the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive documents the history of cis and trans women and non-binary people at Brown University and in the state of Rhode Island.

September 11 Digital Archive

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 19:57:39 UTC

The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.

Papers of Andrew Johnson

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:07:16 UTC

The papers of vice president, senator, and representative Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who became the seventeenth president of the Unites States in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, consist of 40,000 items (63,710 images), most of which were digitized from 55 reels of previously produced microfilm.

University of Southern California (USC) Digital Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:13:43 UTC

This includes a wide variety of primary source materials organized into collections including the Gospel Music History Archive, Automobile Club of Southern California Collection, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Filipino American Library Collection, Korean American Digital Archive, and Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive, among many others.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:19:18 UTC

Not all material housed here is digitized, but it includes all of his public papers, some of his staff's papers, as well as documents surrounding specific topics or events, such as the 1981 assassination attempt. The library also contains some documents connected to when he was governor of California.

Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:21:42 UTC

The Congressional Globe is a record of the congressional debates from the 23rd U.S. Congress in 1833 through the 42nd U.S. Congress in 1873. The Globe provides summaries of congressional debates in the early volumes, but in 1851 it started to provide more complete record of the debates. It is preceded by the Annals of Congress and the Register of Debates and succeeded by the Congressional Record.

Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:21:56 UTC

Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archives (U. of Kansas)

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:31:15 UTC

Robert Dole (originally from Russell, Kansas) served in Congress from 1960 to 1996 and ran for President in 1996 against Bill Clinton. His congressional archive is located on KU's campus and is one of the largest such archives outside of the presidential library system. Unfortunately their digitized sources are hard to find, but their topic guides will send you to Sharepoint folders with digitized sources including speeches, memos, pamphlets, photographs, and more. (See for instance this topic guide on the Americans with Disabilities Act, https://dolearchives.ku.edu/research/topic/ada.)

Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition Collection

kristenepps — 2023-08-03 20:52:41 UTC

Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition Collection

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 01:36:50 UTC

Tribal Treaties Database (Oklahoma State)

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 01:38:56 UTC

This database includes agreements between tribal nations and the United States (1778-1886) published in the 1904 work Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Volume II), compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Editorial margin notes are included.

Discovering American Women's History Online

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:41:56 UTC

This extensive database includes detailed descriptions and links to more than 700 digital collections, easily searchable and also browsing by subject, place (including an interactive map), time period, place, and type of source.

Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depression

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:43:59 UTC

This resource includes both primary and secondary sources about the Kansas City metro, especially images and maps, during the era of corrupt bosses, party machines, bootlegging, and jazz. It takes his name from Tom Pendergast, an unelected dealmaker and leader of the "goat" faction of the local Democratic Party who consolidated control of Kansas City's machine politics and ruled Kansas City's government and criminal underworld.

Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depression

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:44:08 UTC

Indigeous Voices of the Colorado Plateau

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:45:39 UTC

Northern Arizona University’s Special Collections has digitized sources about the Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Kaibab Paiute, Navajo/Diné, and White Mountain Apache. Of special interest are collections on the World War II code talkers and the Diné removal from Arizona to New Mexico in 1864, called “the Long Walk.”

National World War I Museum and Memorial

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:46:35 UTC

This museum in Kansas City at the Liberty Memorial has extensive collections and is mostly focusing now on digitizing photographs.

National World War II Museum

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:47:55 UTC

This museum in New Orleans has digitized thousands of photographs and oral histories.

World War II Diaries, Other Operational Records, and Histories

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:49:13 UTC

A subcollection within their larger repository of World War II records, this includes many diaries and departmental reports.

Women and the Homefront

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:49:47 UTC

Some of these sources at Duke University are not available online, but they have digitized collections related to several influential women, including the Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow and Union spy Sarah E. Thompson.

The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:50:23 UTC

Part of the Documenting the American South website, it is worth special attention because it includes over 400 sources ranging from maps to letters.

Remembering the 1911 Triangle Fire (Cornell)

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:52:51 UTC

In addition to some secondary sources, a timeline, etc., this exhibit includes some unique sources like interviews with survivors and records connected to the state’s investigation.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 02:54:05 UTC

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the search tool for print and electronic titles of the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications, made up of publications from across the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. The CGP is a bibliography, not a document repository--it will only provide links to full-text resources that are the official, authoritative copy, so not all sources here are digitized.

Newspapers.com

kristenepps — 2023-08-04 03:01:04 UTC

Numerous newspapers from all 50 states are available through paid subscription, via Ancestry. However, some public libraries, colleges, and universities pay for an institutional subscription, so check out those options first.

Civil War Archive

kristenepps — 2023-08-07 20:55:24 UTC

Though a bit outdated and there are too many ads, you can still find some primary sources here, including diaries, letters, and regimental histories.

Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.

kristenepps — 2023-08-07 20:58:25 UTC

Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.: Select Publications of the 1800s is a digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century. The works in this collection reflect arguments on both sides of the slavery debate and include first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions, anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and early secondary works.

Papers of Jefferson Davis

kristenepps — 2023-08-07 20:59:46 UTC

Best known as president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis was also a Mexican War hero, served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce. After the Civil War he became a symbol of the Lost Cause. The Papers of Jefferson Davis, a documentary editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, has published (1971-2015) a 14 volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be found on this website.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (Harvard)

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 17:55:27 UTC

This digital collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.

Zora Neale Hurston Papers (U. of Florida)

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:01:27 UTC

Zora Neale Hurston, (c. 1891-1960), was an African American anthropologist, folklorist, and author of African American literature. This collection, consisting of manuscripts, documents and photos saved from a burn barrel by a friend after Hurston's death, was given to the University in the 1960s.

Discover LBJ

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:04:45 UTC

DiscoverLBJ is the LBJ Presidential Library's online digital archive. (The site is currently in BETA mode).

Discover LBJ

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:05:12 UTC

DiscoverLBJ is the LBJ Presidential Library's online digital archive. (The site is currently in BETA mode).

A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:07:51 UTC

UT Arlington Library's Special Collections serves as the repository for one of the most comprehensive archives relating to the U.S. - Mexico War in either the United States or Mexico.

Civil Rights Digital Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:10:42 UTC

The CRDL promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources - such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities--to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process.

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:14:57 UTC

A professor in Virginia has compiled court records and documents from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and the Massachusetts State Archives in Boston, along with transcriptions of the Salem Witchcraft Papers, for this resource.

George Whitefield's Publications

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:21:14 UTC

This is a basic list with links to published hymns, sermons, and letters by famed evangelist George Whitefield, who visited the colonies seven times from 1738 to 1770.

Papers of Benjamin Franklin

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:22:36 UTC

All of the papers available on this website were collected and edited by a team of scholars at Yale University beginning in 1954. Yale University Press has so far published thirty-seven volumes of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.

Manuscript Records of the French and Indian War

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:25:03 UTC

HathiTrust has digitized the American Antiquarian Society's 1909 book of sources on this conflict.

Abigail Adams Letters

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:28:48 UTC

The New York Historical Society has digitized some of Abigail Adams's letters from the revolutionary period and Early Republic.

Researching New York's Dutch Heritage

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:31:20 UTC

The official records of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands have been digitized by the New York State Archives, but note that not all have been translated to English.

Black Abolitionist Archive

kristenepps — 2023-08-08 18:39:37 UTC

The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches and approximately 1,000 newspaper editorials written by antebellum African Americans. These important documents provide a portrait of Black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.

Independent Voices

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:11:39 UTC

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the twentieth century.

Independent Voices

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:12:02 UTC

Independent Voices

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:12:09 UTC

Student Activism

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:14:18 UTC

The collection, part of JSTOR's Reveal Digital, will capture the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the twentieth and early-twenty-first century United States. The primary sources intended for inclusion will be broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from the conservative to the anarchist. It has some sources available is not complete.

Student Activism

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:14:33 UTC

American Prison Newspapers

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:16:44 UTC

With the United States incarcerating more individuals than any other nation–-almost 2 million as of 2023-–these publications represent a vast dimension of media history. These publications from JSTOR's Reveal Digital depict and report on all manner of life within the walls of prisons, from the quotidian to the upsetting. Some publications were produced with the sanction of institutional authorities; others were produced underground.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

kristenepps — 2023-08-09 01:20:38 UTC

We are a collaboration between GBH Public Radio and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity.

Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains (U. of Montana)

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:27:56 UTC

This includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's.

Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection (U. of Washington)

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:35:26 UTC

Vietnam Center and Archive (Texas Tech)

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:35:45 UTC

Bill Clinton Presidential Library

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:38:03 UTC

The Clinton Digital Library is a virtual research room and digital repository that provides free and open access to the digitized collections of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum to everyone, anywhere in the world.

Kansas State University Digital Archives

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:44:53 UTC

In addition to sources about Kansas State University, the first operational land-grant university created under the Morrill Act, the archives includes one of the nation's largest collections of cookbooks. They have also digitized several publications related to agriculture.

Kenneth Spencer Research Library Digital Collections (U. of Kansas)

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:50:19 UTC

This digital library contains sources connected to the university (administrators' correspondence, student publications, yearbooks, etc.), but it also has acquired materials from other historical societies like the Nicodemus Historical Society and the Douglas County (KS) Historical Society. Another strength is the Kansas Collection, which is useful for study of Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.

World War II: The African American Experience (U. of Kansas)

kristenepps — 2023-08-16 17:51:40 UTC

The University of Kansas has documented a small collection of oral histories with Black veterans of World War II.

Historic Kansas Statutes

kristenepps — 2023-08-30 20:34:34 UTC

A genealogist has compiled this list of Kansas laws and statutes that are available on HathiTrust, Google Books, etc.

Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention

kristenepps — 2023-09-07 03:45:21 UTC

Here the Library of Congress (LoC) has made available 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.

General Land Office Records

kristenepps — 2023-09-20 15:40:10 UTC

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) holds five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. They also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records. This site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

James K. Polk Project

kristenepps — 2023-11-10 20:02:56 UTC

Since beginning its work in 1958, the project has published thirteen volumes of the Correspondence of James K. Polk. All are held by numerous libraries and are available online. In 2019 the project completed work on volume 14, which covers the last year of Polk’s presidency and his brief retirement.

Papers of Martin Van Buren

kristenepps — 2023-11-10 20:09:39 UTC

This is a joint digital /print documentary editing project focused on the papers of the eighth president, including his letters, speeches, notes, and miscellaneous material. When completed, this website will contain approximately 14,000 transcribed Van Buren papers.

Freedom on the Move

kristenepps — 2023-11-15 05:47:55 UTC

Created to control the movement of enslaved people, runaway ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives--their personality, appearance, and life story. Taken collectively, these ads constitute a detailed, concise, and rare source of information about the experiences of enslaved people. With your help, Freedom on the Move will serve as a research aid, pedagogical tool, and a resource for genealogists.

Freedom on the Move

kristenepps — 2023-11-15 05:48:09 UTC

Genealogy Bank

kristenepps — 2024-06-04 21:08:22 UTC

Newspapers that may not be archived elsewhere are available here, although some sources may require a subscription.

Google News Archive

kristenepps — 2024-06-04 21:10:04 UTC

Not just for modern newspapers! Google News Archives includes many older newspapers as well, organized alphabetically--but, it is not being updated.

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 03:37:45 UTC

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery aims to identify, digitize, transcribe, and publish ads placed in newspapers across the United States (and beyond) by formerly enslaved people searching for family members and loved ones after emancipation. These ads not only document the extensive separation of Black families through the domestic slave trade but also attest to the persistent efforts thousands of people made to reunite with those from whom they had been separated.

South Carolina and the Civil War

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 03:40:51 UTC

South Carolina and the Civil War brings together eyewitness views and accounts of this period of American history, selected from the rich holdings of University of South Carolina Libraries. Books, diaries, sheet music, maps, letters, photographs and illustrations all provide glimpses of everyday life during exceptional times.

Virginia Secession Convention Proceedings

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 03:41:58 UTC

This is a digital version of the four-volume Proceedings of the Virginia Convention of 1861 published by the Library of Virginia in 1965. On February 13, 1861, delegates representing all counties in Virginia met to decide how the state would respond to recent events, especially Abraham Lincoln's election and South Carolina's secession. They voted to remain in the Union and hoped that a compromise could be reached to defuse the situation. Two months later, the same men voted to secede from the United States, sparking a radically different war than might otherwise have taken place.

Virginia Military Institute Digital Materials

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 03:46:06 UTC

Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is the United States's first government-supported military college, founded in 1839. This contains over 1,000 materials stretching from its founding into the 21st century.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 03:48:39 UTC

This Library of Congress database was originally published as a seven-volume set between 1904 and 1905, Senate Document No. 234 of the U.S. Serial Set, 58th Congress, 2nd session.

Worlds of Change

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 03:53:09 UTC

This is a collection of more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America.

Slave Voyages 2.0

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:04:58 UTC

This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

Slave Voyages 2.0

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:05:39 UTC

This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:12:11 UTC

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:15:18 UTC

Latinx History Project

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:22:26 UTC

In 2000, the Latinx History Project, formerly known as the Latino GLBT History Project, was founded to collect, preserve and share Latinx LQBTQ history. LHP was founded by leaders who had been at the front lines of multiple civil rights movements across race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Children in Urban America Project

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:48:28 UTC

The Children in Urban America Project, an online archive funded by Marquette University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, shows the many ways children experienced city life during the last century and a half.

CAT/Air America Oral Histories

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:52:57 UTC

From 1950 to 1975, Air America served alongside U.S. and allied intelligence agents and military personnel in the Far East, often in dangerous combat and combat support roles. Behind a shroud of strict secrecy, many Air America personnel were unaware that they were "shadow people" in counterinsurgency operations.

The C.I.A.'s Vietnam Histories

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:54:22 UTC

The Central Intelligence Agency participated in every aspect of the wars in Indochina, political and military, according to newly declassified CIA histories. The six volumes of formerly secret histories (the Agency's belated response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados) document CIA activities in South and North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in unprecedented detail. The histories contain a great deal of new material and shed light on aspects of the CIA's work that were not well known or were poorly understood.

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:56:23 UTC

In this collection of materials, the National Security Archive publishes the most comprehensive on-line collection to date of declassified U.S. government documents on the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific. Besides material from the files of the Manhattan Project, this collection includes formerly "Top Secret Ultra" summaries and translations of Japanese diplomatic cable traffic intercepted under the "Magic" program. Moreover, the collection includes for the first time translations from Japanese sources of high level meetings and discussions in Tokyo, including the conferences when Emperor Hirohito authorized the final decision to surrender.

Cuban Missile Crisis

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 04:59:17 UTC

This collection comprises over 700 primary source documents from more than 20 countries, providing a global perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, a pivotal Cold War confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.

The Adoption History Project

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 05:03:50 UTC

This site offers a range of primary sources—published and unpublished documents as well as images—that begin to fill in the picture of adoption’s past, illuminating topics, people, organizations, and studies that shaped adoption theory and practice during the twentieth century.

Ad Views

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 05:07:20 UTC

Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s-1980s.

Archives of Women's Political Communication

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 05:09:02 UTC

The Archives of Women's Political Communication is devoted entirely to women's political speech. The archives houses the speeches and campaign advertising of U.S. women senators and representatives, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, governors and lieutenant governors, and first and second ladies; international women leaders; and recipients of the Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics at Iowa State University. It also features the speeches of historically significant women, social activists and women who have used their position of celebrity to advocate for political causes.

James Madison Papers

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:08:03 UTC

James Madison (1751-1836) is one of 23 presidents whose papers are held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The Madison Papers consist of approximately 12,000 items, spanning the period 1723-1859, captured in some 37,714 digital images. They document the life of the man who came to be known as the “Father of the Constitution” through correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography, legal and financial documents, and his notes on the 1787 federal Constitutional Convention.

Thomas Jefferson Papers

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:09:12 UTC

The papers of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), diplomat, architect, scientist, and third president of the United States, held in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, consist of approximately 25,000 items, making it the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world.

Margaret Bayard Smith Papers

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:10:36 UTC

The papers of Margaret Bayard Smith (1778-1844), author and leader in Washington, D.C. social and political circles during the first decades of the nineteenth century, span the years 1789-1874, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1796-1840. They include family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, and commonplace books.

Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:19:27 UTC

The collection contains, among other materials, posters, playbills, songsheets, notices, invitations, proclamations, petitions, timetables, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, ballots, tickets, menus, and business cards. There are more than 28,000 items in the collection with 10,172 available online. The material dates from the seventeenth century to the present day and covers innumerable topics (including President Lincoln as a cat!).

Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:28:30 UTC

These are the records of the hearings of the Dies Committee, set up by the U.S. House of Representatives to monitor "Un-American activities" and foreign propaganda before and during the Second World War.

American Social Health Association Records

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:32:27 UTC

The American Social Health Association (ASHA) records chronicle the association’s efforts to prevent and eradicate venereal disease, prostitution, and drug abuse from 1905 to 1990. The records trace the work of ASHA, which was known as the American Social Hygiene Association until 1960, and its predecessors: the American Federation for Sex Hygiene, the American Vigilance Association, and the American Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis.

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:35:03 UTC

This site includes a wide variety of resources for research in the areas of biomedicine, healthcare, and the history of medicine.

The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:36:20 UTC

Here you can find recorded in-depth video conversations with key figures in television, both in front of and behind the camera.

Vital Statistics of the United States

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:39:09 UTC

Here the National Center for Health Statistics makes available annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage, and divorce.

The Writings of Dorothy Day

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:41:23 UTC

The Dorothy Day Library on the Web includes all of Dorothy Day’s writings in The Catholic Worker newspaper as well as selected articles published elsewhere and many of her books. Day was a journalist and Catholic reformer from New York City.

Catholic News Archive

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:44:18 UTC

The Catholic News Archive is a free, fully searchable digital archive of Catholic newspapers. With participation and support from the Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists (ACDA) and the Catholic Library Association (CLA), they are taking the lead in digitizing historical Catholic newspapers.

Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives

kristenepps — 2025-01-15 21:47:47 UTC

This site provides links to a variety of Baptist digital resources, arranged alphabetically by types of material, including correspondence, newspapers, annual meeting minutes, photographs, etc. It is a great starting place.

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) National Encampment Proceedings

kristenepps — 2025-01-23 04:35:11 UTC

This site includes links to HathiTrust for the national proceedings, and you can also find information on chapters in each state, although many of those records are not digitized.

Combined Arms Research Library

kristenepps — 2025-05-16 18:39:06 UTC

Based on Ft. Leavenworth, this includes resources about the fort specifically, materials from the Combat Studies Institute, the Frontier Army Museum, and other military history materials.

Voyages of New Netherland

kristenepps — 2025-05-27 20:30:29 UTC

This project produced a database of voyages to New Netherland that aims to integrate the activities of ships into the larger story of the colony. It provides an extensive resource for the reconstruction of maritime activity at the foundation of, and essential to, the development of New Netherland.

Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800

kristenepps — 2025-06-06 19:46:46 UTC

On the night of November 8, 1800, fire devastated the War Office, consuming the papers, records, and books stored there. Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 is an innovative digital editorial project which reconstructed these records through a painstaking multi-year research effort and makes them freely available online.

Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800

kristenepps — 2025-06-06 19:47:06 UTC

Billy Yank and Johnny Reb Letters

kristenepps — 2025-06-06 19:54:29 UTC

Since his retirement, an amateur historian has worked to transcribe thousands of Civil War era correspondence and diaries that have remained unpublished until now, with most residing in private collections for decades. He also has a number of other relevant websites.