United States History (Yale-NUS College): Primary Sources

Another source from the U.S. National Archives listing 100 Milestone Documents in U.S. History.

Succinct outline of major U.S. historical documents compiled by the University of Oklahoma.

U.S. Federal government documents provided through the National Archives and Records Administration. Highlights include the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, Lewis's list of purchases, Brown vs. Board of Education, and more.

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.

Access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Project out of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia that provides information about each American president.

Online research guide intended as the starting point for Library of Congress researchers. Developed from print title, American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.

Rice University resource that strives to represent the full range and complexity of the Americas history by bringing together key documents that examine political and cultural relationships from a hemispheric perspective. Includes Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America from the beginning of colonization to the present.

Use this interface to search the U.S. National Archives collections for digital copies, people, organizations and more.

Compilation of key facts and events throughout U.S. History. Includes suggestions for documents, images, books, films and more. Do NOT use the visual menu at the top of the homepage, as all the links are broken.

Access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.

Archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From Duke University's Special Collections Library.

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.

Contains historical documents and primary source material of the presidential campaigns from 1840-1860. Contains text, image, sound and video.

Search for information about the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960.

Gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

Access to digital content developed through IMLS National Leadership Grants, bringing together cultural heritage collections and exhibits from libraries, museums, and archives from across the country.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Access point for archival collections and artifacts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Topics covered include advertising, clothing, music, religion, sports, textiles, transportation and more.

Transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in Southern U.S. history.

American Museum of Natural History collection with over 47,000 catalog entries covering the whole continent from the Arctic, through Plains, Eastern Woodlands, Plateau, Southwest and California to the Southeast.

Full-text database of the personal experiences as reflected in the letters and diaries of 1,325 women who lived in North America before 1960.

Portal to digital collections and primary source materials associated with presidential elections from 1800-1912.

Primary source documents organized by era in American History.

Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. The collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress.

"Allows you to explore American history as documented in the work of some of our country's greatest composers, poets, scholars, and performers. From popular and traditional songs, to poetic art songs and sacred music, the relationship of song to historical events from the nation's founding to the present is highlighted through more than 80,000 online items."

Created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibitions, publications, and training. Includes the Civil Rights History Project.

Library of Congress resource that brings together digital resources of the personal papers and/or publications of the major founders of the American Republic and members of their families (1765 and 1815).

Out of the University of California at Santa Barbara, resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized more than 100,00 presidential papers from Washington to Obama.

Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

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