United States Historical Periods
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American MemoryOver 7 million digital items recording American Life including images, sound recordings, historical documents, maps and films. Sponsored by the Library of Congress.
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Amdocs Documents for the Study of American HistoryIncludes documents from the 800s to the present with access by time period and subject. Created by Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas; maintained by George Laughead Jr., of the Kansas Heritage Group.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryContains materials from all historical periods. You can browse by period, by topic, or check out the Reference Room.
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Library of CongressA wonderful website which includes exhibits, the Library Catalog and digitized historical collections.
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The Avalon Project at the Yale Law SchoolCovers diplomatic and legal documents from all historical periods.
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Documenting the American SouthContains primary source material on Southern history, literature, and culture from colonial times through the early twentieth century. Provided by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Early Americas Digital ArchiveA collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to the 1820s. Sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland.
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Archiving Early AmericaProvides maps, newspapers and other primary source material in the original format. Much advertising on this site but some good content.
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Plymouth Colony Archive ProjectA project of the University of Virginia. Includes court records, legal documents, building structures of the Colony 1620-1691.
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Making of America (Cornell University)Sponsored by Cornell University. Provides 19th century primary sources in American history from after the Civil War through the Reconstruction.
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Making of American (University of Michigan)Sponsored by the University of Michigan. Provides 19th century primary sources in American history from after the Civil War through the Reconstruction.
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A New Deal for the ArtsArtists paid by the federal government recorded American Life during the Depression. This site provides narratives along with the works of many of those artists.