History

Over 7 million digital items recording American Life including images, sound recordings, historical documents, maps and films. Sponsored by the Library of Congress.

Includes 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.

Contains materials from all historical periods. You can browse by period, by topic, or check out the Reference Room.

A wonderful website which includes exhibits, the Library Catalog and digitized historical collections.

Covers diplomatic and legal documents from all historical periods.

Contains 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.

A 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.

Provides maps, newspapers and other primary source material in the original format. Much advertising on this site but some good content.

A project of the University of Virginia. Includes court records, legal documents, building structures of the Colony 1620-1691.

Sponsored by Cornell University. Provides 19th century primary sources in American history from after the Civil War through the Reconstruction.

Sponsored by the University of Michigan. Provides 19th century primary sources in American history from after the Civil War through the Reconstruction.

Artists paid by the federal government recorded American Life during the Depression. This site provides narratives along with the works of many of those artists.