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Library United States History: Digital Collections
Freely Available Primary Sources on the Internet




Major Collections

American Memory (Over 100 topically organized collections - Library of Congress)

Making of America (Cornell - 19th century books/articles)

Making of America (U.of Mich. - 19th century books/articles)

NAIL [National Archives]


Advertising

Ad*Access

Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920

African Americans

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archives

The Lives of Slaves

Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South: Charlottesville, VA

American Indians

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest [LC site] UW site

Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian Photographic Images

American Revolution

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

Spy Letters of the American Revolution

Architecture

Built in America: The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)

Asian Americans

Japanese American Relocation Archive

Civil War

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

Civil War Maps (Library of Congress)

Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society

The Robert E. Lee Papers

The Valley of the Shadow

Business/Labor


Childhood

Children in Urban America Project

Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America

Colonial America

The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, 1701-1732

Virtual Jamestown

Depression & New Deal

New Deal Network

Environmental History

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

Foreign Relations

Foreign Relations of the United States

Hispanic Americans [under development]

Law

The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)

Maps

Map Collections: 1500-1999

Music [under development]

Politics

"I Do Solemnly Swear": Presidential Inaugurations

Religion

Early Virginia Religious Petitions

Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America

Science/Technology

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers (Lib. of Congress)

Southern History

First Person Narratives of the American South [1860-1920]

Speeches

[under development]

Sports

By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1949-1972

Tennessee

Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority

Women

American Women's History: Digital Collections

World War II

America from the Great Depression to World War II (Library of Congress)



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